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  1. rhinohelix

    Overrated Albums of the 90s.

    You should listen to Billy Corrigan's JRE; I have way more appreciation of him as a person and Smashing Pumpkins as a band after hearing that. I don't think that anything they did is overrated but sometimes, people are more excited about an artist's first work, or the first work in which they...
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    Dune (2020)

    But let's be real: Those later Herbert books aren't going to make it to the big screen without major, MAJOR changes. Going from [Edited for stupid mistake] Max von Synow to what will probably be a lesbian black woman, though? I bow to no one in my love of Dennis' movie making but this change...
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    Star Trek: Picard

    I am here to read about how they are killing one franchise, (again) not to spill over into how they ended another so poorly.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Now show me pictures of the other ~3,499,995 other registered voters in Wisconsin and we might have a deal.
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    The Animated GIF Thread

    I have it as 1 as well.
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    Dune (2020)

    I was well and truly shocked by The King in a good way, all I knew about Chalamet was the Italian gay lover movie; and after watching the King, I think he is going to be good in this. He does need to fill out a little bit but I don't think that will be an issue for the movie.
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    These three movies should have been the easiest 7 billion that Disney ever made. Instead we got "Reskinned Memberberries", "Fuck You The Star Wars edition" and finally "Who Gives a FUCK, A Starwars Story". Now a whole division of IP is a smoldering ruin and we need 3-5 years off from it to...
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    Altered Carbon

    This was meh/ok to good, I'm sorry they skipped another book in the series to go right to the end of the books. I should put this on my list to read, as the world seems great. The actor playing Poe and the character are amazing; The "side" cast and Kinneman was my favorite bit about the first...
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    Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

    It's amazing that they made something that was so good on the surface and such a nothing long term. Danger of the Small team/Kickstarter Syndrome? It seems, and I haven't played it long enough to experience this myself but I hear ok things about it that No Man's Sky made a comeback later on...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    HAHAHA I am one of those people who has to be worried about surviving, a diabetic with a compromised immune system and two kids; do I get to be worried about being culled?
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Exactly! "Woke" isn't making a female-lead superhero movie. These are the same "women-haters" who made Ripley, Sarah Conner, Blade, Trinity, etc. icons for decades. These money people in Hollywood, though, are tied to formula, and pattern of hits, and if they haven't seen something like "X" in...
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    Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

    So I have been playing, and love the moment to moment playing, the gameplay "loop" as it were but OMG even in offline, the bugs are eating into enjoyment considerably. I just can't stop playing the fucking thing until I finish the campaign, and then I might not play it again until it hits REAL...
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    Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

    So, I have just been looking for something I enjoy playing at all lately, honestly. I tried this out and its fun, hey. Eventually for games where the gameplay is fun but they have released too soon in the current dev cycle, or haven't tested the architecture for scalability, or any number of...
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    Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

    You don't *neeeeeeed* more than two; I don't know what this game wants/needs, or what I will want for alts, etc. or how the game will play out. Some times items are the best/only way to transfer currency. So, to answer your question, its the latter. ;) It does speak to their DB issues...
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    Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

    I get so sick of people comparing launch Games to kings of a genre. It killed MMOs trying and failing to compete with WoW for a decade when WoW at launch couldn't compete with WoW at it was in 2010 or whenever. This game is fun but it does have an amazing shit ton of issues. Lots and lots...
  16. rhinohelix

    No Time to Die (007 Bond)

    First listen take, "No Time to Die" isn't my favorite bond song (looking at you Chris Cornell and You Know My Name) but wow, that's amazing.
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Man, I was almost about to bite on the Imperial Edition at full price last weekend, and now they are sold out. I may just wait and see if they come back into stock, and if not go for the kickstarter deal.
  18. rhinohelix

    Health Problems

    I love love love my Dexcom. It's easily the best thing in my diabetic life since the preloaded insulin pens. Just being able to watch the ebb and flow, the late rise, etc. is such a huge game changer: Every five minutes I get a reading that changes how I understand how my body is working, how...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    We got these for our Xboxes when Anthem came out, will never go back to spinning disks for anything on the console (or anything else for that matter) again. This is still kind of pricey at $160 but as indicated above, this will last beyond the current gen. Samsung T5 Portable SSD - 1TB - USB...
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    Neil Peart - RIP

    An drummer of such almost unparalleled skill , in one of the best/classiest bands in Rock. I was always amazed at how effortless he made his displays of virtuosity appear. RIP.
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    Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

    This had to be sold to WB as the Female SJW Deadpool and it looks like it is going to A) be bad B) do poorly. Here's to hoping it scares off Marvel's coming SJW phase.
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    John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019)

    I also finally got around to watching this today and for me it was a mixed bag: better than 2 in some ways, worse in others and both are much worse than 1, which is one of those "lightning in a bottle" almost perfect movies where more isn't necessarily better ala The Matrix. Really ironic that...
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    The Witcher

    They all do if you do it right...What were we talking about again? I think I would prefer Russell Crowe for Vesemir; He has a better frame for it, plus he and Henry Cavill have a real-life relationship that works for the role. I mean, I love Luke Skywalker like every kid born in the 1970's...
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    The Witcher

    Take a queue from Henry Cavill himself: I could give two shits about someone's race in the walking world but many people have a long existing relationship with these characters and don't want to see that changed, in many changes just to satisfy some craven PC virtue signaling. On your point...
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    The Witcher

    Supposedly the 2nd season will drop the staggered timeline format, which the showrunner got from Nolan's Dunkirk, since all of the 'main' characters are together.
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    The Witcher

    So I binged this tonight. It was kind of a roller coaster. They get a lot of things right and its cool, and for everyone saying there isn't much SJWing happening, you have just gotten used to <current year>. I haven't read the stories but if Yennefer and Ciri get equal screen time to Geralt...
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    They explain it/retcon it in ROS as such: More erasure of TLJ which happens early in the movie. I think that works in the context of the movie but Fuck You Rian Johnson for shitting on Star Wars. I almost understand the people, critics especially, who in 2017 wanted something different...
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    This dude's TLJ review was awesome and knows the score:
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    So here I am with the contrary opinion: I liked it. I loved that they retconned everything that was shitty and SJW about The Last Jedi into the ether. The movie was crammed full but that's what you get when you essentially waste a middle chapter of a trilogy shitting on your fans "subverting...
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Seeing this in a few hours, so I will come back and tell tales. All I know is hate hate hated TLJ for what they did both to the characters and to the narrative overall for the franchise. I have never seen a movie that so actively hated its own fans and the overall franchise, like the British...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Forgive me if this is repetitive, but to answer the question, you can indeed; there are a however, number of advantages to playing on the Xbox over the PC that make it a compelling platform for a number of functions. I am going to own all three, Xbox Series X, PS5, and Upper end Gaming PC lord...
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    There are several people that are giving mixed or negative first social media reviews. What I can glean is this: While it seems like Rian Johnson went out of his way to shit on OT Star Wars, I think JJ will try to overstuff this movie with both the SJWisms the Disney demands to cater to the...
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    The thing is, Lucas only became Lucas because of other people: A large chuck of "his" creation was the actually the input of other people i.e the trench scene being created in the editing room, Coppola and Spielberg's influence on the final cut, etc. so that when you removed all of that feedback...
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    This; Everything outside of Feige's purview, like the Netflix stuff, Agents of Shield, animated stuff/series, anything sold outside of the Marvel Studios' announced series, all of that is gone and the part of Marvel that makes it is no more. All of the Feige announced Series from Marvel...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    There is no doubt that PS has the best exclusives this gen. I am constantly telling my friends who are XBOX-only about the really long list of games that they can't play that are top-tier gaming experiences: Horizon Zero Dawn, Death Stranding, God of War, Spider Man, and the list goes on (I...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    yeah, my Project Scorpio XBO X and launch PS4 Pro were two of my best gaming purchases ever. Now? Wait for the next gen.
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    Desktop Computers

    OMG yes. Monitor/Keyboard+mouse/desk/Chair should be the things you spend the most money because they are the things with which you spend the most time interacting. Regardless of the PC/console you are working with, these things remain your interface into the gamespace. Keep in mind I also...