Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Bedrockgames]

I liked Return of the Jedi more than Empire Strikes Back, and it maybe edges out A New Hope, but mainly because of the one Revel fighter, on fire and almost totally out of control, that manages to crash into the bridge of the Executor. The guy remains nameless, but he arguably turned a point in the battle, taking out Imperial command while Vader, and Luke were having family therapy with Dr. Palpatine. Even as a teen, I loved that.

When I was a kid this was not an uncommon opinion. I feel like I always heard people say they loved Jedi until I started talking on forums on the internet about Star Wars.

 

[RealAlHazred]

When I was a kid this was not an uncommon opinion. I feel like I always heard people say they loved Jedi until I started talking on forums on the internet about Star Wars.

I was definitely an outlier among my friends. True Star Wars fans, they couldn't conceive anyone liking RotJ better than ESB, and argued with me endlessly.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Considering how much you love to light things on fire, I'm surprised you didn't fit Song of the South in there, before Attack of the Clones.

 

[Squared]

Considering how much you love to light things on fire, I'm surprised you didn't fit Song of the South in there, before Attack of the Clones.

I liked Return of the Jedi more than Empire Strikes Back, and it maybe edges out A New Hope, but mainly because of the one Revel fighter, on fire and almost totally out of control, that manages to crash into the bridge of the Executor. The guy remains nameless, but he arguably turned a point in the battle, taking out Imperial command while Vader, and Luke were having family therapy with Dr. Palpatine. Even as a teen, I loved that.

I always liked Zipadeedoodah, I still find myself humming or whistling it from time to time.

I also think that RotJ is better than people make it out to be. In my opinion it is the third best Star Wars movie. Followed by Rogue One, Revenge of the Sith, Attack of the Clones, and then the two Ewok movies. The rest might as well not exist as far as I am concerned.

^2

 

[Meech17]

Metal lunch boxes are now banned in many states (starting with Florida in 1972). My kids' elementary school didn't even allow hard plastic lunch boxes. Have to be the soft, insulated fabric bags/boxes. Plastic thermoses were still allowed and I'm not sure why plastic boxes are worse. I'd rather be hit in the head with plastic lunch box than a thermos.

You know... As a kid in the late 90's I remember branded, hard plastic lunch boxes being a thing. I owned a few. I think maybe with Peanuts Characters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on them.. I think they were even Thermos brand, because they usually came with matching plastic Thermoses that took up half the lunch box.

But I don't remember anyone ever actually using them. Like I played with mine.. Stored toys and stuff in it. Use it to take action figures and cool rocks to Grandma's house and stuff. I wasn't really a packed lunch kid.. Ate the school lunches. But on the rare occasions I did pack a lunch, it was usually paper bags or in a pinch, plastic grocery sacks. All the kids I knew that were packed lunch kids usually had the soft shelled insulated lunch bags too.

I think they were probably marketed more towards parents who were nostalgic for their metal lunchboxes of old, and wanted to live vicariously through us.

Now that I'm a "Responsible Adult" who packs his lunch everyday.. I'm kind of tempted to go find and buy one on ebay. I have a fridge at work so I don't need the insulation. Just the street cred.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

When I was a kid this was not an uncommon opinion. I feel like I always heard people say they loved Jedi until I started talking on forums on the internet about Star Wars.

True fact-

There were a lot of kids that, um, overvalued the cinematic excellence of Princess Leia in the gold bikini.

 

[Reynard]

True fact-

There were a lot of kids that, um, overvalued the cinematic excellence of Princess Leia in the gold bikini.

Impossible.

 

[Reynard]

As a broad rule for interacting online: sometimes it is okay to say your piece and then step away. You don't HAVE to go round and round with folks.

 

[prabe]

On active pickups @prabe, I had one guitar with them. I remember the guy on the floor really sold their advantages, and the guitar itself (which was a Schecter) was real nice. But I found them so glitchy (which was probably just those particular pickups) and the sound not quite to my liking, I went right back to passive.

Can't speak to the pickups on that Schecter, but I was playing basses with active pickups through the 1990s and 2000s, and never had any problems like what you're describing. Doesn't mean you didn't have those problems, of course, but the advantages were--and I presume are even more so now--real.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Can't speak to the pickups on that Schecter, but I was playing basses with active pickups through the 1990s and 2000s, and never had any problems like what you're describing. Doesn't mean you didn't have those problems, of course, but the advantages were--and I presume are even more so now--real.

I think in the case of my schecter, it was a connection on the pickups (but I will say it really helped turn me off to them). The other issues were just more practical: while I got why some people prefer the sound of an active pickup, I didn't like it----I ended up selling the guitar but because the guitar itself was nice my game plan had been to get different pickups. The other issue was I didn't like having a battery involved (just an extra thing to deal with that can die).