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    Black Widow (2020)

    I'm sure someone's tried to analyze it, but I'm not sure you can directly compare streaming profit to theaters. They may get close to 100% but I'd wager there are more than 2 viewings per subscription which for the consumer is the break even point. Family of 4-5 would be same profit disney+ vs...
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    Black Widow (2020)

    Despite the title, I'm pretty sure, coming as it does after we know scarjo dies, that this was always intended to be a Yelena origin story. Not even despite the title since all the chicks are technically "black widows."
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    Black Widow (2020)

    Well the plot is almost identical to any of the Bournes and the scene where she reunites with Yelena could have been any of the Bourne apartment ambush fights. They just took it up to 11 with the amount of damage dished out and all there is to show for it is a couple bruises and a small cut on...
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    Black Widow (2020)

    Ok, one other thing put me off too. If they spent 3 years living undetected as Americans why do they have the shitty trope Russian accent later on. I've spent the last 15 months watching everything with subtitles on that I forgot how to listen to conversations in theaters and the accents...
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    Black Widow (2020)

    I was entertained. Not sure where I'd put it yet but it's definitely higher than bottom tier for me. The only thing that really put me off was the amount of damage BW takes in the various fights. I was expecting/hoping that this would be the Marvel Jason Bourne and you can tell it wanted to...
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    Soccer 2021/2022

    That was difficult to watch
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    Loki

    I was discussing with my daughter how they were going to handle Loki's character development since he evolved into a much more complex character in Dark World and Ragnarok/Infinity War. I guess watching the highlight reel will be the explanation. Kind of weak imo but what else could they do...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Except the market keeps owners in check from easily making super teams. In hindsight the McHale/Parish trade was lopsided but the Celtics still needed the Warriors to agree to it. When players form super teams there's no checks and balances. Super stars are already in fuck off money territory...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Ratings were going to be down these playoffs no matter who made it. Now they'll just use the lack of tent-pole teams as an excuse rather than address why they've lost marginal bball fans.
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    NHL 2021 Irregular Season and Plagueoffs

    Player safety office will earn their money deciding this one. If you call that a charge because of distance traveled then you need to call charging on every waved off icing. I'm not claiming I was coached correctly, but I was always coached on breakaways and plays like that to play the body.
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    Stellaris

    debugtooltip also works and shows system precursors in-game. I think you can still enable debugtooltip prior to starting ironman and it will be on once the game starts.
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    Cruella (2021)

    Family saw this last night. Girls wanted to see it and I used it as an excuse to all-you-can-eat theater popcorn for the first time in 18 months. I actually enjoyed it. I thought both Emma's did an excellent job. There's no dog skinning or anything, just one joke where Cruella very...
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    No Man's Sky

    I started the season maybe 5 days after it opened and didn't have really any troubles. After I got off planet I just visited a bunch of public bases and "borrowed" enough indium to buy all the fuel I needed for every phase. When warping to the next milestone, instead of following the line the...
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    No Man's Sky

    Has anyone let their Normandy fail a mission and break yet? Is there a unique structure for the repair stuff?
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    No Man's Sky

    I like the concept, but to me it has a different feel than normal game modes since everyone is in the same space. You don't get the same "lone traveler" feel when every rendezvous point has a hundred beacons and bases surrounding them. It is pretty handy though when there are public activated...
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    Subnautica

    Same. Separate from the story and exploration, I thought the game mechanics and engine were great in the original. It doesn't sound like that part went backwards so I'd say they've earned a play through from me.
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    Just Dance series & Unlimited - Ubisoft Wrist Wanking Tendonitis

    My daughters play this on xbone with their phones. I think the latest they have is 2020 but I'm not sure since the live playlist has almost everything from all editions. Funny story: my youngest digs the Rasputin song and is fairly good at the russian squat kick move. I do announcements and...
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    NHL 2021 Irregular Season and Plagueoffs

    Not my screenshot, but I laughed
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    The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

    The super soldier power just comes across as inconsistent to me. Cap and Bucky are jumping out of planes without parachutes and taking Thanos/IM/Thor punches yet a gutshot kills one in 10 seconds. At least the mercury vapor death got the "how'd you do that" treatment. The funniest for me was...
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    The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

    One thing I don't get with power broker is her timeline. Sharon doesn't go underground until civil war, which is also when Zemo gets imprisoned. It's implied though that Zemo is familiar with PB being in Madripor. When would he have learned about PB? Is Sharon just the latest person to have the...
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    The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

    Yea, Wyatt is getting into Jack Gleeson/Joffrey territory. This is, of course, assuming the show wants him to come across as a hot headed douche. There's potential for a more satisfying conclusion specifically because of the "hate" he's generating. Even if it was nepotism that got him the...
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    The Witcher

    Isn't part of the whole "graduation" from Aretuza getting turned into a beauty worthy of standing beside a king? Yen's was accelerated in the show, and perhaps more extreme due to her hunchback, but I though all the witches got a makeover when they graduated.
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    The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

    I'm sure it was their intention. But even my liberal, blm supporting coworkers were upset that it was the black guy that was having money troubles. Both sides thought the scene was dumb.
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    The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

    The bank scene was just so unnecessary. You could literally keep all the dock/boat scenes the same and just have Sam say he doesn't want to cash in on his celebrity but he'll figure something out. Reinforces his reluctance to wear the Cap mantle, gives a glimpse to how the economy is kinda...
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    I suppose one reason for a "forge world" is it potentially smooths out any irregularities in planetary and interplanetary ingot supply. One thing I've never been sure about is how the game chooses where to ask for/send materials. You may think your smelters next door are providing locally, but...
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    12k smelters on his forge world. Says he did it without blueprint mods too. Insane.
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    What are you researching, and have you hit the point where one miner fully saturates a Mk3 belt?
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    I only play now when I see a new idea on youtube or here and look what I did for comparison. Thoroughly enjoyed my time but once you find a "solution" to production it just gets repetitive scaling everything up for no reason other than scaling up. Almost the same timeline of interest as I had...
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    Are you talking about the ray receiver part, or the particle colliders? The ray receivers are easy since you can't space them all that close so there's plenty of room for both lens and photons. Hardest part for me is finding good locations to maximize efficiency. Particle colliders I make a...
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    WandaVision

    Would have been fairly easy, and logical given the power origin of the black girl, to say the combination of the Hex along with Agatha's manipulation altered his DNA and turned him into the new quicksilver. Can even continue to call him Pietro. He would have as much or as little relationship...
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    I think a good starting point, with options for more or less aggressive bugs would be to tie them to rare resource nodes. Start easy around fire ice and work your way up. Want those unipolar magnets, better bring a BFG. Maybe move organic crystals to a bug drop instead of the raw crystal...
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    Yea, some form of combat or defense would be a welcome addition imo. Really though it's just Factorio's version of the endgame. DSP you build a rockets/sails to make a sphere, Factorio you build weapons/ammo to secure enough territory for a rocket. Problem is DSP there's no negative outcomes...
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    WandaVision

    Interesting theory, but one problem I always have with these "alternate reality" bubbles is who's to say what is really a superpower and what's not. I think it's reasonable to think someone who can alter minds and create illusions can make the "illusion" of someone moving fast. You would think...
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    You don't technically need railguns since just the frame pieces generate power. You need sail production anyway for the rockets though, and sails are pretty easy to make so it's much more efficient from a materials to power ratio to fill in the framework with sails. There's a bunch of math out...
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    It's pretty common, at least in the factory production games I've played, for people to challenge themselves like this once you've finished normally. A couple that I've seen mentioned include: No hand production other than the bare minimum to get the first assembler (copied from an original...
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    Separate from the belt limitation, that setup needs like 400 magnet smelters to run anywhere near mk3 assembly levels, not to mention all the other basic components.
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    I haven't really looked to see if any mods do it, but along the lines of having multi-use belts I would like multi-use storage. If I only want a couple stack of something, set the max storage for just that item. Right now I have a bunch of half empty storage units as I can't automatically dump...
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    That is pretty slick. I think the trick to circuits like that not getting backed up is making sure the recycle is prioritized over the new inputs, so in this setup the upper lines get used first. There may be backups for individual plates and whatnot, but they will occur before entering the...
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    I'm not sure how exactly solar sails go from launch to swarm to sphere but I spent far too much time watching sails and rockets join the swarm once I got everything running. Sails do this weird thing where they join the swarm first at some arbitrary insertion point, then a short time later...
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    Dyson Sphere Program

    I should add, that seed (28570582) is as near to perfect overpowered sandbox as I've seen for anyone who likes to focus on optimization rather than hunting rare resources or making due without. The chertan system, in addition to having a bright star with tidal locked planet also has every rare...