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  1. Grizzlebeard

    Star Trek: Picard

    So, the Romulans had 13 years or so to make the largest warfleet ever seen in order to conquer the bejeebus out of the Federation and any allies and then resettle on those planets. Instead, they just waited to be rescued by people they inherently distrust and hate because border-wall refugee...
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    Star Trek: Picard

    Yeah, season 1 was pretty dreadful until halfway through and then it really picks up. Season 2 I enjoyed a great deal. It retained its darkness yet felt more in line with the Star Trek ideology everyone felt it veered away from in the initial episodes of season 1. Also, they fix some of the...
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    Playstation 5

    At the risk of sounding ignorant, are you saying you can hand in an old PS4 and pay a nominal fee to upgrade to a newer one in the US? If so, that's pretty damned awesome.
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    Playstation 5

    Feeling like this is the point I move over to Xbox. My kid will give me no end of shit about that but it's not looking good for the PS5.
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    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    The fuck is with those pictures? The mask looks like something out of Gotham by Gaslight and the gun in his chest-piece? How did he come by a gun used to kill his parents when he was eight? Equally, if by some ridiculously remote chance he did manage to obtain it he'd never break it apart and...
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    Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

    Yeah, I'd forgotten about Shazam, probably too much in the other direction if I'm honest. I haven't really read any of those comics so was it normal for him to create all those other versions? I remember from the animated movies that they all just become the one Shazam so it kind of jarred...
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    Star Trek: Picard

    I honestly enjoyed the Northern Irish accent part of the below at 9.30 more than I have the three episodes so far.
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    Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

    Really wish DC would just stick to the animated stuff. I have yet to see a single DC movie that I could be arsed to watch beyond the initial sitting. Even Wonder Woman I just fast forward through to the trench bit and the Ares smackdown. I mean, am I missing something? Have any of them been...
  9. Grizzlebeard

    Star Trek: Picard

    This week's episode was marginally better than last. Writing is still all over the place though.
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    Star Trek: Picard

    I'm just hoping the next three weeks isn't taken up with old man Picard wheezily recruiting a team to get off planet (although he has zero clue where in space he's going but that's alright because it's not a huge place out there) while we have to sit through unnecessary love scenes with hot...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Where do they get that, "18 million adventurers worldwide" figure from? I mean, especially now, with the Coronavirus outbreak I'm guessing the streets of Ul'dah are pretty silent.
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    Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

    Surely tossing the term misogynist out as marketing for a superhero movie is box office suicide. I mean, it's not like 70% of comic book readers are male.
  13. Grizzlebeard

    Star Trek: Picard

    I can't really disagree with anything he said. He's right though, it isn't a family show anymore. Same way Discovery isn't. If they think they're targeting older, loyal fans they're both choosing to ignore new audiences and missing the point entirely that the older fans fucking hate the fact...
  14. Grizzlebeard

    John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019)

    Probably going to cop a load of flak for this but I honestly didn't enjoy 3 so much. It reminded me of a term that did the rounds when Spartacus: Blood & Sand first released, violent porn. Yeah, I know the first two movies were back to back headshot bonanzas but this one just seemed a little...
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    Dragonlance Series

    Very envious. Loved the hell out of Dragonlance, the novels and the inspired adventures for AD&D. Not sure if any of you have read the Death Gate Cycle by them but I can't recommend it enough.
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    Star Trek: Picard

    I struggled with the latest episode. Felt way too heavy on the info download and very thin on any real adventure. I'd maybe forgive this for a mid-season episode but not really the second of the series.
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    Star Trek: Picard

    And by default, ST: E. Only because the PD didn't exist at that point.
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    Doctor Who

    Completely unrelated but your avatar takes me back Qhue.
  19. Grizzlebeard

    Star Trek: Picard

    Enjoyed it. Was it a great series opener, maybe not. Has any Star Trek series, even the ones I've loved, ever had a great opener, nope. Guardedly optimistic. Also, it's nice to hear an English accent on someone who isn't a hammy villian. Or worse, an English actor putting on a terrible US...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I picked Shadowbringers up the other day and unlocked both Dancer and Gunbreaker. Pretty much tossed the idea of playing DNC initially as I'm missing a shitload of post 50 Dex gear. How does GBR fare against WAR and PLD? I have the latter two at 70 and 50 and was thinking of using a tank for...
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    Doctor Who

    In the past I used to watch the later seasons of this programme and complain bitterly about how utterly shit it was all the while still tuning in and hating myself for my weakness. I think I'm just going to stop and live vicariously through your rage and disdain.
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    Star Trek: Picard

    Don't forget space-Legolas.
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    Doctor Who

    I can't even compare this to the Sylvester McCoy era. Yeah, it's heading the same way but at least he was a watchable Doctor despite the shitty scripts.
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    Star Trek: Picard

    I'm sure I read somewhere they wanted to frame this series in a society that closely mirrors the current populist, right-leaning, less-caring society that allows people like Trump to ascend. From what we've seen so far there definitely appears to be a coldness to the Federation that wasn't...
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    Doctor Who

    Glad it's not just me. I nodded off about 5 minutes after they tipped up in Oz then woke up 5 minutes before the end. Not inclined to rewatch.
  26. Grizzlebeard

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    I don't think Eli has seen the movies besides being unable to spell assassinate. Top marks on confusing Luke with Leia though.
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    Ip Man 4 (2019)

    Donnie Yen is pretty much awesome in anything he appears in and it's a plus he is actually a solid martial artist unlike that guy who played the Iron Fist. Yeah, the history is always massively revisionist in these movies but I take that with a pinch of salt and just delight in him kicking ass.
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    For what it's worth, I really enjoyed it. I can understand knowledgeable Star Wars fans taking issue with it on a number of levels but I'm getting too old to get angry about stuff like that now. Besides, the medal... 'bout fucking time!
  29. Grizzlebeard

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    About to go in and watch it. I have low expectations.
  30. Grizzlebeard

    Borderlands 3

    Yeah, took me a while to get used to it and I still don't always get it right. I'm on the PS4 but when I want to fast travel somewhere I need to hold down on the X and it takes 2-3 seconds to activate represented by a clockwise shading on the outer circle of the button. On some occasions I...
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    Borderlands 3

    I don't remember the previous Borderlands games being so obviously formulaic. Even after multiple playthroughs I could see myself doing it all again on a new character and enjoying it. I honestly can not see myself playing B3 through a second time. The whole trash clear to meet an old...
  32. Grizzlebeard

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Cheers for that and, yeah, typo on XI. Been one of those days. Tempted to resub to XIV once I tire myself of Borderlands 3.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    As someone who used to play a Nin tank almost exclusively on FFVII until Dnc released how does the latter FFXIV version compare to it's counterpart? Did they completely re-envisage it the same way they did with Nin?
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    RIP Rene Auberjonois aka Odo from Deep Space 9

    It's a good tradition.
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    RIP Rene Auberjonois aka Odo from Deep Space 9

    I was getting all twitchy until I realised you typed that in humour.
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    RIP Rene Auberjonois aka Odo from Deep Space 9

    While 79 is a decent enough age to live to it's still a fucker to lose such a legend.
  37. Grizzlebeard

    Everquest - Live Servers

    Is there any way to see a list of your characters without logging in to the game? It's been an age since I last played but my pally was still there after the Drinal-Maelin merger.
  38. Grizzlebeard

    RIP Brad McQuaid

    It's been a while but isn't that a SoulFire? Wish I still had a PC to play this on. Would definitely have logged in.
  39. Grizzlebeard

    Playstation 5

    So, is the shape supposed to be a Roman numeral reference? Going to be ugly as sin when they're up to a PS8.