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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    Not that I was going to be watching it anyway, but refresh my memory, this is the show where the fat chick from Discovery who somehow gained a dozen ranks over two years time is their main instructor? That said, SHOULD Paramount give a shit if I'm going to watch it? 1. Will less of our age...
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    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    The WB buyout is also a regulatory mess - all the players have their own services (Netflix, Paramount+, etc.), so whoever 'wins' still has to fight the US government as size of the new combined entity will be sizable. (Between Amazon, Paramount with Daddy Oracle's money, Netflix, etc...
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    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    There is zero evidence any corp has any interest in Snyder at the moment, and note that Netflix has exclusive rights to a final agreement to buy WB (Netflix has to pay WB $5 Billion even if the deal falls through) - considering that Rebel Moon and everything else Snyder appears to be dead at...
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    One Battle After Another (2025)

    For Accident, I should say Oscar bait in terms of getting nominations. In terms of quality, sight unseen, it sounds like it's objectively the best film of the year.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    To be clear, Micron will just stop selling finished products under their own brand (Crucial), component sales to others (like a G-skill or whomever) will continue... ... at least, until their contracts are up, then we'll see. Now, if you want to talk about secondary effects of AI bubbles...
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    One Battle After Another (2025)

    I haven't seen any of them either (like a lot of the population, with so many damn streaming services, it has to be special for me to pay an additional fee and make time in my schedule to see in person), but even I know: The Phoenician Scheme - Wes Anderson does another Wes Anderson, diminishing...
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    One Battle After Another (2025)

    The arguable frontrunner for this year's Oscar, from Chloe Zhao, who's Nomadland won Best Picture / Director in the irregular 2021 Oscars... ... who also directed The Eternals. lolz. But as you can probably guess from what the title sounds like, this is another Shakespeare movie, but do not...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Given how mediocre everyone is in the AFC, the Pats getting the one seed, barely squeaking by two teams and getting into the Super Bowl is way more plausoble than I could have imagined even a month ago.
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    Supposedly CDPR has a 'bridge' DLC in the works for Witcher 3, but that seems way too early for Cyberpunk. My vote is still on anime tie-in. Note that I have no idea if its pay-for or not..
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah, got some green Housing item doing something in Undermine, click on it and retroactively given another ~180 items, presumably from past Achievements. Which is nice. What's not nice is then trying to figure out from the UI what I don't have (not that I give a shit about housing itself, but...
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Some of those are real but are very deep cuts, like Mrs Columbo - Mrs. Columbo (TV Series 1979–1980) ⭐ 5.7 | Crime, Drama, Mystery That said, probably everything has been optioned at one point or another, even if no one actually came up with a real plotline, much less a script for it.
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    So as of right now, the Bears and Patriots have the #1 seeds in their conferences. If anything, this just encourages coach churn, when there's really only so much a coach can do if their roster is bad enough.
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    Pluribus

    As mentioned in the movie thread for it, the thing you think is a plot twist happens 25% of the way through the book, and that is really just introducing the second lead character in the movie, as well as distinguishing the plot from the otherwise very similar The Martian. Going back to the...
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    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    What Spronk said: Ahsoka wasn't bad (well, maybe the last episode was), it just wasn't worth your time, unless you have a preposterous amount of free time / nothing else to watch. Nothing about Thrawn was executed well; like usual for Disney Star Wars, the only interesting character was the...
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    We still don't even have any hints on the calendar. I still think a pack of missions explicitly tied into the second anime season (probably with some of the same characters / voice actors) is the most likely scenario - why would CDPR not announce this formally, unless it was tied to the anime...