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20 minutes ago, Wallstreet said:
Thanks. I'm looking up books that I submitted. On many, 'Notes are not available'. Do I have to call in?
How long ago were they submitted, and what were the grades? They don't do notes on all comics, especially the higher grades. 9.6s for example. I'm pretty sure that the notes go on the system as soon as the grades are posted, so if the notes are not available, I would imagine they weren't done for the books in question.
There would be others here more knowledgable than me about this, so hopefully they'll chime in with better info. Calling them wouldn't hurt, but they may just tell you there are no notes.
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Grader notes are free for your own submissions. There's a fee of $5 if you want to see the notes for comics you didn't personally submit. See link below:
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9 minutes ago, zhamlau said:
A. Palpatine said that he needs Rey to end his life so he can inhabit her and live on as all Sith Lords do in the current living Master.
B. Rey kills him as Palpatine ordered.
C. So now he and all who came before him live in her as she is Rey Skywalker: Sith Lord.
Anyone else notice that? Didn’t say how he had to die just she needed to kill him and she would assume his role and legacy. All hail the new Empress I guess.
For an evil mastermind, Palpatine is incredibly stupid. You would have thought after his run-in with Mace Windu, he would have learned to simply stop shooting force lightning when it’s being deflected back at him
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51 minutes ago, @therealsilvermane said:
I wasn’t Sunday school preaching. I merely stated in a previous post how the main theme of Star Wars is an archetype that can even be found in the Christian bible. Somebody contradicted it I guessed comparing how the Rebellion won yet Jesus was killed and thus lost. In response, I simply retorted that on paper, there was a lot more to the biblical story than Jesus simply being killed. I was trying to be academic about it.
George Lucas, I believe, is on record for inserting religious references in his movies. Every Indiana Jones movie is about some different quest for a religious artifact before the spiritual aspect of said object takes over.
That's fair enough, perhaps I misinterpreted your post. Just felt it strayed a bit into the "personal belief" realm and therefore off topic. Reading back I understand how it ended up where it did though.
54 minutes ago, @therealsilvermane said:If religion applies to a movie being discussed, as long as one doesn’t try to preach, I don’t think we should simply leave that discussion off the table for fear of offending somebody.
I agree with you here, as long as we're mindful of keeping it related to the film.
No harm done, and my apologies for singling out your post.
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10 hours ago, @therealsilvermane said:Meant more Jesus' saying "the meek shall inherit the Earth." But Jesus did conquer death when he arose three days later on Easter, ascended to heaven to be seated next to God the Father, and now presides over a religion that rules the Western World which began when it conquered the Roman Empire, the same institution that crucified him. Historically and spiritually, Jesus absolutely won.
I'd like to kindly request that we not discuss religion on here please.
Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and opinions on the matter, but it's a slippery slope.
If we are allowed to make posts such as the above, then they should also be open to being challenged.
That's a problem however, because challenging beliefs that are as deep seated as religion, no matter how ridiculous they are (virgin births, rising from the dead), is often taken as a personal affront.
Maybe we should stick to Star Wars.
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This movie failed on so many levels for me, but let's start with the good: It was visually appealing. It was fairly well acted. It may have been good to a casual Star Wars fan.
Now the bad, and yes, I realise some of this is nitpicking.
- The opening crawl. Palpatine's reveal relegated to a sentence. "Guess what guys? He's back." Ok fine, how? Why? And not only is he back, but he's broadcasting his presence to the whole galaxy. Why would he do that? Just stupid IMO. It seemed obvious to me that the Emperor was never meant to appear in this trilogy and added in last minute.
- The Sith way finder McGuffins
- The Emperor had a son - why was he never mentioned before? Why was he not powerful in the force? Why was he even needed in the first place. Palps could have just created Rey like it's implied he did with Anakin.
- The editing and cuts are obvious. Who was the slug looking guy (Claude?) fixing the falcon? Why was he only shown once with no explanation? The scenes with Leia were forced. They built them around the footage they had (obviously) but they didn't fit well and seemed out of place. The scene at the end with Lando and what was at one point rumoured to be his daughter. Their dialogue made no sense and was creepy as a result.
- Retroactively making Leia very powerful in the force.
- All the sudden light speed skipping is a thing.
- Force healing. Why was this never shown in the OT or the PT? It could have changed so much if it was. Who taught Rey how to do it? Who taught Ben how to do it? Why couldn't anyone else ever do it?
- Discrepancies for the sake of fan service. All the sudden Luke says that a lightsaber needs to be treated with respect despite what he did in episode 8. Rose is all the sudden a background character. Yeah, I didn't like her but still, it's inconsistent.
- More planet killing weapons.
- What happened to Luke's green lightsaber? We see it in flashbacks in this trilogy but never in real time, and it's never explained what happened to it.
- Ships that are old as shít just fire right up and work. Luke's X-wing and that one that dropped off Rey.
- The whole thing felt forced, sloppy and thrown together last minute.
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You wouldn't happen to have an affordable one of these, would you?
(Sorry for the krap)
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On 12/19/2019 at 10:59 PM, Gaard said:
This fact blew my mind when I first heard it...
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is an average sized galaxy. Contained in our galaxy are, as my good buddy Carl used to say, "billions and billions" of stars. In the known universe, there are more galaxies than there are stars in our galaxy (each containing the aforementioned "billions and billions" of stars.
Yeah, there's no life out there.
That's what makes the Fermi paradox so intriguing.
It makes me think there may be some validity to Nick Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis.
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Saw it today.
Didn't like it.
Glad the sequel trilogy is over.
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10 minutes ago, Gatsby77 said:
And Luke's *long* understood that violence is simply the way to the Dark Side. Hence why he throws away his lightsaber during the final battle with Vader in Jedi - just as he again throws it away when presented it by Rey.
Except for when he was going to murder his nephew in his sleep.
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14 minutes ago, bane said:
Solo was boring, I turned it off.
But where would you place it on the terrible - horrible continuum?
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4 hours ago, IkewithMike said:
Solo was terrible. It wasn't horrible though.
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Baby Yoda is a Gary Stu
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Hey guys
Long time thread lurker, but have a question I'm hoping someone here can help with.
I'm looking for a cover gallery or checklist of some sort for the "Quarter Books" novels and am having a hard time. All my searches get overwhelmed with those books for collecting numismatic quarters
Even if I add key words like "paperback", "romance" and "sleaze", I still end up with a bunch of junk results.
Are there any good online resources for Quarter Books, and vintage paperbacks of this sort in general.
Any help is appreciated!
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2 hours ago, MGsimba77 said:
short sided way of looking at it.
*short sighted
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8 hours ago, Crowzilla said:
So do we get to wait until February now to say the sky is falling, (or that there is a new record)? First glance says this might be the most pressed 9.4 there is, but hey - buy the label.
If it sets a new record, it'll be definitive proof that value is continuing to rise. If it doesn't, it'll be definitive proof that only the miswrap kept if from reaching its full potential.
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11 minutes ago, theCapraAegagrus said:
Okay, Buzz Killington.
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23 minutes ago, eastcoaster said:
My issue with this thread was the notion that the spine ticks must be OK in 9.8 because CGC is applying it's own mysterious grading criteria.
I'm pretty sure no one said this except for you.
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A huge thank you to @DR.X for some great craic! We appreciate your effort and generosity
go raibh maith agat!
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2 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:
5.0-6.0
You're supposed to guess before he posts the result
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Long time thread lurker, but have a question I'm hoping someone here can help with.
CGC help *UPDATE*
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What do the grader notes say Slym? Did you get them when it was first submitted? It’s definitely possible the grade is correct and the flaws are on the interior.