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  1. OU Ariakas

    Let's build some pools!

    Go make the market!
  2. OU Ariakas

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I think hindsight on things brings a ton of clarity, but it is also speculation on my part since I don't know exactly why she feels the way she does. She came from a quiet family with just one sister; I am loud and my family is loud. We had 4 boys and, even though they have some of her...
  3. OU Ariakas

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I have had some time to think about it since we technically filed intent more than 2 months ago due to the Texas 60 day cooling off period. My mom and dad are divorced and my Mom found another life partner while my dad didn't even try. Now, he is struggling with loneliness and she is enjoying...
  4. OU Ariakas

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Yeah, that was the bummer about it for me, too. I think that we could have figured it out, but she seemed pretty adamant that she had the ick and it wasn't going to be fixed. I'm a dude and I'm going to date because that is what I need to do; but from a life standpoint, I think I am pretty...
  5. OU Ariakas

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I think that we both care so much about the kids turning out OK that we are being very pragmatic about it. We have done quite well for ourselves so splitting it down the middle leaves both of us in a very good situation. We both agree that the other is a great parent and we agree on how our...
  6. OU Ariakas

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    It was weird, I told her that I wanted to make it work and I think I really meant it. But when she started opening up just a little bit it just seemed like she had internalized every single negative thing I had done and made me into a person that she did not want to be around as anything more...
  7. OU Ariakas

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    There were probably warning signs, but she bottled things up and would never talk to me. Before our conversation in October she had never, not once, said "this is something that is affecting our marriage and could end it," or something to that effect. When I look back it seems like it was...
  8. OU Ariakas

    Dating

    Ok my dude, it is time to liven up this thread a little. I know it is not the same, but I my divorce was finalized yesterday and I am going to be dating again at 44. I am sure that I am going to come up against some of the same things that you have faced and in a different way; but, let's face...
  9. OU Ariakas

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Well guys, I have officially entered the world of middle aged divorcee. We started talking about it in October of last year and decided it was the right decision a few months ago. We have gradually become friends living together and not really sharing our lives together outside of the kids...
  10. OU Ariakas

    The Long Walk (2025)

    The book is super short, go pick it up from wherever. It is weird but good; I have no idea how you draw it out into a feature length film. It probably should have been part of a collection of short films like Love, Death, and Robots.
  11. OU Ariakas

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    This is absolutely correct; it is the reason they will have Magento pull out Wolverine's metal skeleton when the plot demands it, but not the very first time they meet as adversaries.
  12. OU Ariakas

    Twitch.tv

    I think people like him because he is viewed as an everyman. His fans may not have the same issues, but they see him being mostly reasonable and making something of himself despite his issues. It endears him to them. It is painfully obvious that you are jealous that his streaming career took...
  13. OU Ariakas

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    I know I said this a few pages back; but there are more Supers in that picture than non-Supers. Its this kind of lack of care that makes people think they really don't give a shit about the MCU story.
  14. OU Ariakas

    The Last of Us

    Honestly, the comic book is pretty soap opera-ish so it isn't a total departure. The crimes of the show, however, was the constant deus-ex-zombie and the totally implausible scenarios they made happen all the time.
  15. OU Ariakas

    The Last of Us

    Bro..... The Walking Dead did this worse than any show, but it got a pass by a TON of people for some reason. It became just a soap opera about midway through the Negan story line and never recovered.
  16. OU Ariakas

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    You are random guy on the internet with a shitty take. I don't know if his book is good or not, but I do know is that your shitty take was based on your friends reviews which makes it worthless. I was simply pointing out that your friends probably have terrible taste in books so their second...
  17. OU Ariakas

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    It really seemed this way from the trailers as well. I was hesitant that they could have been showing the neutral parts and then bait-and-switching us into a girl/diversity power fetish, but even the negative reviews don't mention that at all. Once I saw that I knew that I was going to see it...
  18. OU Ariakas

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    His books aren't considered good writing by your friends. This is second hand information from someone who has no history of good takes. So why should anyone in this thread believe that your friends can tell good writing from bad writing? Again, who the fuck are you?
  19. OU Ariakas

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    Wow, it is amazing that people have different tastes. You do know that you can agree with some things a person says and disagree with others? That you can have opinions of people that are not just "amazing" or "utter trash?" I like Drinker and I think (remember, we all have our own opinions)...
  20. OU Ariakas

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Why remake a perfect game? Don't fuck with it.
  21. OU Ariakas

    The Last of Us

    Bro, you are doing the exact thing I pointed out this morning; you are focusing on the few trolls (that do the same thing EVERYWHERE) and then using their dipshit responses to deflect away from valid criticism. Then, when someone points out something that is tangentially related to a troll...
  22. OU Ariakas

    The Last of Us

    Yes, but that isn't even their main problem with her. The show, not the game, needs her to be a sympathetic character that people connect with in order for them to want to watch her more. We know they understand this because they changed the unlikeable, ugly Abby from the game into a more...
  23. OU Ariakas

    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    Does anyone have an IPTV provider that work well with the Plex Pass?
  24. OU Ariakas

    The Last of Us

    Have you ever considered, and stay with me here, that there is a fuck ton of bad writing out there?
  25. OU Ariakas

    The Last of Us

    Good. No one forces you to read the goddamn threads. There are always trolls in every thread, you and a few others just cannot help yourselves from treating them as the norm rather than the exception. Then, you and @Xevy ignore every single thoughtful comment to focus on the trolls and then...
  26. OU Ariakas

    Predator: Badlands

    Maybe this will be like the Sonic movie and they will go back to fix it in post. We can always hope.
  27. OU Ariakas

    Borderlands 4

    That video makes the combat seem slow; like everything is moving and firing through molasses. It also looks uninteresting and the exact same as BL3.
  28. OU Ariakas

    Path of Exile

    How the ever living fuck was anyone supposed to know that is the game he wanted when every single league they put out increased skill and item power and introduced league mechanics that vomited more and more loot onto the ground? It wasn't the players who decided on those things, it was the...
  29. OU Ariakas

    Wills and Estate Planning....

    Haus, I know that we are both in IT sales so your company may have similar benefits to mine. Mine offers a MetLife legal plan for less than 10 bucks a paycheck that allows you access to lawyer services for free. I have now used it a few times, one to do have them create a trust AND will, that...
  30. OU Ariakas

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Nexon - Hey Blizzard, what if you allow us to make Starcraft into a gacha style cash grab while you retain the rights to bury the nonsensical story into the ground with ham-fisted metaphors about modern political topics? Blizzard - You son of a bitch, I'm in.
  31. OU Ariakas

    Predator: Badlands

    I have no idea how you can watch movies from the last 30 years and think that CGI is superior for characters in any way. Outside of Gollum in LOTR, every single CGI insert has felt like a poorly placed compromise because they just didn't want to put in the effort of finding a way to do it...
  32. OU Ariakas

    Predator: Badlands

    I am not gatekeeping what a predator should look like; I am flat out stating that this one's face done in complete CGI looks like dogshit.
  33. OU Ariakas

    Marathon (Bungie)

    I was right as fuck when I said that this looked exactly like the Love/Death/Robot short with the water dancer and deaf guy. The L/D/R short is called Jibaro; it has almost no spoken words, which makes it infinitely better than the shitty Marathon trailer.
  34. OU Ariakas

    Predator: Badlands

    Hahaha, really? I think this looks better than that garbage. This one was one practical effect mask away from being a damn good teaser; that one looks like trash.
  35. OU Ariakas

    Predator: Badlands

    I like that it is different. I fucking hate the CGI Predator face. Why can we not just have the tried and true prosthetics that they have used for every good version of the predator ever? Also, if that is Elle Fanning....damn she got older.
  36. OU Ariakas

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Bro. It was a great game. It had leveling, quests, magic, gear, and a party system. The story was great as well. It is a Western RPG that stands tall in the category for its time period. I am sure a ton of people would put FF IV (III) from the SNES on their list of all timers, and this one...
  37. OU Ariakas

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I really think that Disco is top 3. Fallout NV, Torment, and Witcher 3 should all be higher, and I think Witcher 3 would be my #1. KOTOR 1 was better than KOTOR 2 and ME 2 over ME 3. I would also have to see how they categorize games like Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines and Shadowrun for...
  38. OU Ariakas

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    It sure is nice to have Western leaders whose morality is grounded in legal precedent over deeply held convictions.
  39. OU Ariakas

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    None of those combat what I quoted you on. I don't give a shit about helping the poor, poor, pitiful poor. I care that the goddamn Pope said that there were other ways to God; specifically against the religious teachings he was the goddamn living avatar of. You are wrong here and being retarded...
  40. OU Ariakas

    The Last of Us

    It takes a special kind of retard to see the reaction to the second game, then see that your most popular show character BY FAR is the one that is going to die controversially in season 2, and kill them in the second episode instead of finding a way to delay it until the season finale. The...