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    Summer 2023 Anime Thread

    I watched vending machine out of horrified curiosity. It's... not bad actually. +1 bonus points for the 'fight' with EQ frogloks and how completely pointless it was. Rurounin Kenshin e1 did nothing for me. Blah blah my ancient sword skill is all powerful, lets have people stop midfight to gush...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    As with anything - if a headline is posed as a question, the answer is no.
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    The Idol

    No, it's just terrible in general.
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    Indiana Jones 5 (2020)

    I thought this one was ok - not amazing, but it was very Indiana Jones all through for good and for bad. If it came out a few years after Temple of Doom, people wouldn't have batted an eye. It did showcase that the zombie apocalypse is coming, and it's not going to be walking monsters, it's...
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    Summer 2023 Anime Thread

    If rape threats from a boss to their subordinates is presented as light-hearted teasing between friends, you may be watching an anime ;p Also - what was with the sunglasses ? That seems like the least plausible disguise since Clark Kent.
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    Silo

    The heat tape isn't killing anyone directly, the shitty heat tape just doesn't make an airtight seal.
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    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

    Hell, just look at his name, how many white men do you know named Singh ? It's totally irrelevant to the character in any case, for reasons that should be fucking obvious.
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    Silo

    Yeah, pretty much. It doesn't even make any real sense with the way it's shown in the show
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    Silo

    I'm very happy with how that turned out. Best adaptation of a book series since GoT season 1 I think. ( Not saying anything on relatively quality of book/show - just that show managed to capture all the good of the book, while adding compelling acting and a fantastic set design. ) Thumbs up...
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    Solar Opposites

    That's pretty shit - “lack of sufficient evidence to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt as a result of additional information that came to light in the investigation.” is the most weasel version of 'we actually looked into the allegations and they were bullshit' that I have run across recently.
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    Tenet (2020)

    I mean, that's like the entire premise of the movie. Your complaints are kind of like watching Dracula and then complaining about how it sucks because vampires aren't real. Any time travel at all is a causality violation. This one was interesting mostly for a different take on that and how it...
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    Will Wight

    Waybound was a bit of a disappointment for me - there was nothing wrong with it, but it was very workmanlike, kind of felt a bit like filling out a checklist of things to resolve before ending the series, not much of any surprise there. The timelines for the Abidan don't really make any sense...
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    Tenet (2020)

    It's a tricky question - it was a true masterpiece of film-making, but at the same time it wasn't a very good movie. It is like when you can appreciate the amount of work and artistry that's gone into a meal, but still not like the taste.
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Speech synthesis has come a loong way in the last few years, seems like an easy win, especially given the in-game speaker is a robot anyway.
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    True, but it's still a bit of a balance - the other end of the scale you have elite style multi-week flights. That works for some people, but definitely not for everyone.
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    Avowed

    The trailer is a bit meh - the only thing I thought looked cool was the black hole spell. Still, I've liked all their games except Outer Worlds, and even that wasn't *that* bad.
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    Web Serials

    I'll also give a recommendation on 'Super Supportive' - after an interesting beginning it has kind of reversed the usual trajectory by just becoming better as it goes. I think I value this one mostly for an intriguing and very unpredictable plot. That's not to say there's anything wrong with...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I liked everything I saw in that video except the art guy's nose bar - I flinched just looking at that, surely the ends are in his field of vision ? How would that not drive you insane within a couple of hours ?! Oh and the xbox merch - lol. I have to admit, the adoring fan was pretty funny.
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    Fast X (2023)

    I suspect that had nothing do with any acting or content, and was more focused on most people not realizing it was only a third of a movie and then being presented with a giant 'haha, come back later suckers' after a bunch of cliffhangers.
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    The Idol

    Not enough boob, ep1 strongly suggests the show is 50 shades of mediocrity.
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    He's on strike until people like season 8.
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    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

    Yes, but in a more literal fashion that I think you mean - the plural of phenomenon is phenomena.
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    White House Plumbers

    The first ep was pretty boring, I don't think I'll watch the rest.
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    Wheel of Time

    It wasn't, and that's not what that article says either, despite the desperately clickbait title.
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    Succession

    I like the way it thinks though - making Logan CEO was definitely the way to go ;p
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    From

    Yeah, it still has most of what made season 1 good, but the bus is kind of like a soft reset making everything they did in s1 pointless. It's a great point on the info too - they get enough people that you'd think they would at least write up a FAQ even if they couldn't be bothered to explain...
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    Powerpuff

    While this would probably have been bland mediocrity that I didn't watch, I'm still a little sad to see a new exec showing how powerful and in charge they are by cancelling everything the previous one did.
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    Web Serials

    'All the Dust that Falls' has been surprisingly consistent fun given the nonsensical premise. ( Bunch of wizards attempting to summon an arch-demon accidentally fuck it up and summon a roomba instead - when it rolls through their most powerful anti-demon wards like they aren't even there, and...
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    Silo

    I gotta say young Jules obviously has terminal ADHD - a fried egg on cast iron is one of the fastest possible things to cook and she still gets bored after less than 4 seconds. I wonder why they didn't use something like boiling pasta - people get bored and fuck that up all the damn time.
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    The Ark

    I am pretty sure by the last episode of this, that the writers were just trolling. They find an tidal locked planet, and make it spin by planting huge magnets on the surface ( fucking magnets, how do they work ? ) These magnets are so strong they pull spaceships, not even out of orbit, but out...
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    Songs of Conquest

    I think he means more that it isn't very good.
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    Legends of Idleon

    This is surprisingly entertaining, and fits a perfect niche for me, of something you can play while watching TV without requiring much attention. Technically it's FTP, but I'm going to assert it actually costs $5 because you would need to be a true masochist to play without autoloot.
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    Silo

    They went into a bit in in the first episode - the official line is that they lost almost all of their records, tech manuals and the like in a worker uprising. Coupled with rising class warfare making working in 'Mechanical' less desirable, the engineers are all woefully under-qualified and...
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    Chat GPT AI

    I mean, an awful lot of mainstream media reporting is summarizing primary sources, which they usually reference. You can just go to that source and read it. The reason it doesn't work in practice is the reason you were checking the news in the first place - people want quick, easy to digest...
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    Chat GPT AI

    This one is some chat-gpt comedy gold - OpenAI peeks into the “black box” of neural networks with new research The OpenAI devs are troubled by having no idea what the fuck chat-gpt is doing or how it works. The solution ? Get Chat-GPT4 to analyze Chat-GPT2 and then explain what it is doing ;p...
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    Chat GPT AI

    Sure, it'll probably end up shit eventually, but for now, Microsoft isn't an advertising company like Google is - they currently have no incentive to shit up the search results to make more money. This is impossible for Google - as you pointed out, anything they do to make search less biased...
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    Citadel

    It's a bland campy sitcom that gives zero fucks about continuity or anything making sense, while still taking itself too seriously to be even remotely funny.
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    Star Trek: Picard

    What, you mean you didn't watch TNG for the gritty, nihilistic, broken-person character drama and moral relativism ? Next you'll be complaining that an emo grimdark superman is 'against the spirit of the character' or something.
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    Citadel

    It's got high production values, good effects, decent acting - plot wise though it seems like it's just various scenes from spy movies pasted together. I'd say it's bad, but True Lies is also on, and it's hard to call anything in the same genre bad with that to compare to.
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    Rabbit Hole

    This was pretty fun without getting completely crazy. I thought that the idea of the government having Facebook's data being sinister was hilarious though, like Facebook wouldn't sell it to them without the slightest bit of hesitation.