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  1. Wombat

    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    The downside to my first job being in a video store is my brain still is wasting neurons remembering things like P.S.: That's Monty Python's John Cleese singing!
  2. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I absolutely loved Mystery Men when it came out. I finally rewatched it recently and got nothing out of it. It may just be the (now fully revealed) politics of everyone involved, it may just be the sheer number of deconstructionist comic properties out there, but the charm is lost (for me, anyway).
  3. Wombat

    2026-2027 NFL Season - The Vikings Are Looking For Their Sam Darnold

    You forgot MVP runnerup. As for AJ, that's better than an Achilles, but that looked like a lot of pain / high severity. I would guess more like half a season before he's back / anything like normal. Good luck with Doubs as a #1.
  4. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Exactly what Classic+ is _is_ the big question. Is it just a couple Season of Discovery seasons wrapped together that Blizz has the gall to charge a box price for? Or are some of the more extreme rumors accurate, and its closer to a completely new storyline for Kalimdor and the Eastern...
  5. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I can see a 'pre-purchase' beta starting in the next month or so, but launching to production with the changes this appears to have vs live (given the number of Blizzcon presentation slots apparently assigned to it) seems very risky.
  6. Wombat

    2026-2027 NFL Season - The Vikings Are Looking For Their Sam Darnold

    Yeah, even if its not a serious injury, him missing (or even being limited) for a couple of games might be enough to give the Rams the division.
  7. Wombat

    2026-2027 NFL Season - The Vikings Are Looking For Their Sam Darnold

    As someone who thought 2026 was also going to turn into the NFC Westoff, the odds on The Rams just rose big time. We'll see if the Drew Lock passing game is enough to give us any real info on if the Patriots are improved.
  8. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Is anyone actually calling it WoW 2, beyond an html reference? Because Wow _Branch 2_ is way more likely than WoW _The Sequel_.
  9. Wombat

    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    I have to assume that actor's getting CGI replaced. Or is the issue the ridiculousness of the premise? Next thing you know, they'll try to launch a franchise involving a talking tree that says one word!
  10. Wombat

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Eh, it's not a positive sign, but its not a death knell either. Bungie's Chicago based, the Bellevue branch only started when MS bought them. And if you're not familiar with Bellevue, in a two block radius, off the top of my head, there's Valve, Pokemon, Sucker Punch, Tencent, and a dozen MS &...
  11. Wombat

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Eh, I fully expect to spend my retirement playing multi-emulated games (both from console to PC, and from X86 to ARM or whatever they have at the time), that are then further modified with elderly mods to accommodate our old-age vision, reflexes, carpal tunnel, etc. I will survive without a...
  12. Wombat

    2026-2027 NFL Season - The Vikings Are Looking For Their Sam Darnold

    This is almost certainly the last year of Watson _playing_ with the Browns, but this isn't the last year _his salary_ hits the Browns' cap. Edit: He currently has a clause in his contract that if he's on the team on the third day of the 2027 season, he has a guaranteed $200 Million salary in...
  13. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Obviously Alt-Classic will not be the continuation of the _World of_ Warcraft storyline. (Though I could see them eventually reusing prior expansions' landmasses, presumably with a new storyline.) But when Blizz effectively has two MMOs, one of which is: Recognizable Warcraft 3 Horde and...
  14. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Err, to clarify, I don't think 14.0 is Alt-Classic - 14.0 will be the state of the world however Last Titan wraps up, whereas Alt-Classic will be out looong before then, possibly even before The Last Titan launches. My question is, if Blizz has two ongoing branches of the WoW timeline, which of...
  15. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Seems too early for Last Titan material. While Blizzcon has occurred before the final patch launched - I'm virtually positive Shadowlands was announced before the N'Zoth raid for Battle For Azeroth was actually released - that we haven't even heard about 12.1.5 or 12.1.7 material, much less...
  16. Wombat

    2026-2027 NFL Season - The Vikings Are Looking For Their Sam Darnold

    If they have hard evidence, it seems weird they haven't charged him already, unless 'negotiations' with the missus (aka paying her to drop the allegations) fell through.
  17. Wombat

    Reacher

    I said I was done with this after Season 3 barring an upswing, and it sounds like that opinion shouldn't change. I would point out that (pre-release) PR photos for both Season 2 and 3 had scenes from their final episodes, so I am not sure anyone involved really considers this something that can...
  18. Wombat

    2026-2027 NFL Season - The Vikings Are Looking For Their Sam Darnold

    Good? It's been flag football for years, and when Shedeur Sanders - statistically one of the three worst QBs in the league last year under nearly all overall metric systems - makes the field for it, the system is over. I do think it muddies the water between the All-Pro and Pro-Bowl rosters now...
  19. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Eh, 12.2 is Feb/March-ish, 13.0 is Septemberish, they gotta have something to cover Summer '27. And unlike last time, they can't even spackle over the gap with setting up / finding parts for Barbie houses. Blizz have painted themselves into a corner, however, as the least recently touched...
  20. Wombat

    2026-2027 NFL Season - The Vikings Are Looking For Their Sam Darnold

    The Electrical Substation has grown so powerful Jed York won't even use his junk by it?
  21. Wombat

    2026-2027 NFL Season - The Vikings Are Looking For Their Sam Darnold

    What the hell are criminal tools for prostitution - a burner phone? Also, while I expected both to start due to injuries, unless they just want Watson to get killed by the Jags, I don't get this...
  22. Wombat

    Lanterns

    I... think this is fine, so far? I get why this would trigger people's woke radar - with the exhausted established white man who's about to be shown up by the new minority replacement... if you weren't familiar with the 90s+ lore with Parallax. And boy, is there a lot of yellow in the greens in...
  23. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Actually, thanks - Noiselund's releases are so sporadic I missed this one
  24. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Given how much he took over the original X-Men movies, you should remember how much screentime he had in the First Class timeline. (The one exception being Days of Future Past, but that was really original timeline Wolverine). I still think its weird that they brought back the original cast for...
  25. Wombat

    2026-2027 NFL Season - The Vikings Are Looking For Their Sam Darnold

    Just a reminder, the 2025 Vikings went 9-8 (although the Packers rested everyone in the finale). The NFC North is anyone's game.
  26. Wombat

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

    I don't believe the MCU has said if Heaven exists. Thor: Love and Thunder definitively said Valhalla exists in the MCU.
  27. Wombat

    Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo (2026)

    So it'll be 17 years between the Ferrara / Harvey Keitel original (NY) and the Herzog / Cage New Orleans, and 17 years between that and this Miike / Oguri Tokyo entry? Bad Lieutenant is not the first 'franchise' that comes to mind for once-a-generation entries.
  28. Wombat

    Project Hail Mary

    Oh yeah, since you mentioned magnetic fields, in case you didn't know, the Earth's magnetic field (which direction is magnetic north) has flipped hundreds of times - Geomagnetic reversal - Wikipedia - though the effect is probably caused by the outer liquid core, not the solid center. We're...
  29. Wombat

    Project Hail Mary

    Yes, the book explains that Erid's atmosphere and magnetic field are thick / strong enough that no radiation, including light, gets to the surface, hence why his species is blind. Rocky's ship is basically the first extra-planetary vessel the Eridians made period. Presumably (though the book...
  30. Wombat

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Lots of contracts have 'Conduct Unbecoming' language that allows that person to be suspended, fired, or at least have their pay diminished if they do anything illegal (or even just embarrassing). Personally, I say heavy, continuous drinking is a perfectly rational response to being in Milwaukee.
  31. Wombat

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

    There have been rumors of pitches for exactly that for years, but afaik Gale and Zemeckis have decreed no one is remaking it while they're alive. They're both ~75, so it is not impossible someone more amenable could inherit the rights in the next half decade, I dont think Holland can pass as a...
  32. Wombat

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

    To be fair to theaters, just about everything else in July flopped hard. Supergirl, despite having action movies to itself for multiple weeks, was rejected immediately and completely. Moana and Minions, despite getting over $100Million each, didn't hit half of expectations. Evil Dead Burn had a...
  33. Wombat

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

    Might have been with the key? I will say that contrary to my worries before the film, I do like that 'The Power Of Love' between MJ and Peter doesn't overpower the memory wipe spell; that said, I can't shake the feeling that we're getting the Alt-Gamora plotline that Gunn's separation from...
  34. Wombat

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

    Let's be honest, the entire conversation is going to be about one character. I think everyone on earth already knows who that character and actor is, but to keep it vague: I think it's weird to reboot that character before the very next Marvel product brings all their original cast back. I...
  35. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Apparently they hadn't even started work on Season 2 yet. I also have to assume Disney figured Cretton's giant check for the points on Spider-Man 4 would cover any hurt feelings.
  36. Wombat

    Avengers: Doomsday (2025)

    Yep, the positive side of multuverses is you can get nostalgia bumps whenever you want by bringing back character x. The much, much larger downside is that you remove all stakes because there are an ininite number of replacement characters from universes identical to yours other than some guy...
  37. Wombat

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Considering that game is one of the major deciders in who gets the #1 pick, A LOT of people will care about the outcome (not the game itself, mind you).
  38. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Cage's love interest in 07's Ghost Rider... was Eva Mendes. Ryan's Gosling's real-life wife... is Eva Mendes. Weird. Maybe Gosling can get Leitch or Stahelski involved and play up the stuntman part of Johnny Blaze.
  39. Wombat

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Yeah, as someone with an LG monitor I was annoyed with both LG and Microsoft for forcibly installing / allowing to be installed and running an advertising app without my authorization, because, what, an LG driver was on my computer? Not cool