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  1. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    While the upcoming-underground-bullet-train-to-Chicago ads were everywhere in 2077, I'm worried that 'the Fallout problem' is becoming universal: In games where our choices narratively leave the world in irreconcilable states, the only way to avoid having _some_ players having made the 'wrong'...
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    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    That's a really long chart to say 'Unless your QB is still on his rookie deal (Panthers, 49ers (when this was made), Titans, Colts, Commies, Vikings, Bears, Broncos, New England) or you're fishing through the cutrate free agent QB castoffs (Jets, Steelers, Colts again), your highest paid player...
  3. Wombat

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    James Earl Jones sold his 'voice rights' to Disney before he died, and presumably Epic got access to that library as part of their content licensing. I guess SAG/AFTRA is saying that if Epic is a Union production house, then all voice actors, not just _human_ voice actors, have to go through...
  4. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They needed a carrot (when many of them were already doing the raid for rep, etc. and would complete the quest automatically)? Or finally got to eat their carrots, as they could dump their hundreds (or more) of lower level crests into Gildeds and could upgrade existing gear further?
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    Andor

    That is the general consensus, but discounting memberberries (Ahsoka! Boba Fett!) season 2 boils down to about two positives: Diana Lee Inosanto (Elsbeth) has real martial arts skills, and Bill Burr gives a good monologue. And just to join the chorus, the best (/only acceptable) episode of...
  6. Wombat

    Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

    Cruise is 62. Considering the lukewarm reaction to the last one, and this one is even longer, slower, and more expensive, I think its out of his hands if he didn't want this to be the last one he starred in. Hell, Pegg has even aged out to tech support mentor. All I have to say is Ferguson had...
  7. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    Why are you taking the Bengals' job away from them?
  8. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    As the old adage goes, the opposite of love isn't hate - it 's complete disinterest. Many of us (probably more than the general audience, given our more-comics-than-average backgrounds) did 'love' the MCU, and would like to see it pull out of its tailspin, while we also acknowledge that at this...
  9. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Everything I hear is that the tools are extremely robust if you want to customize your Barbie dollhouse, but I do not care. Hell, unless they have portals to old expansions or crafting tables, I won't bother. And given that (to avoid Garrison loneliness) it sounds like you have to travel to...
  10. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    Cut from the Browns completely? Unlikely. Doing a stint on the practice squad until one (or maybe even two) of Pickett and Flacco go on IR? Entirely plausible.
  11. Wombat

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    That's my biggest ding on this movie, that there are so many new characters (at least for the general audience) to keep track of. Yeah, there were 'a lot' of new characters in GotG, but it was just really the five heroes, the most underwritten villain in Marvel history, a handful of Xandar...
  12. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    Steelers / Packers is also a SNF game, though admittedly both teams do have wide-ranging fanbases.
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    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    The NFC South is the easiest NFC draw... but the AFC North is not. I'd expect 7-10 or 8-9* with a lot of optimism for next season when the OLine gets one or two more people for the rotation and more experience together. *Depending on how Tua holds up, that could be #2 in the division.
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    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    Honestly, all the national game schedules (TNF, MNF, SNF) look far better than they have been - they're almost all at least playoff or near-playoff vs playoff teams, or divisional games. Edit: Packers, like the rest of the NFC North, have much tougher divisions than last year, but also get a...
  15. Wombat

    WarnerMedia launching HBO Max Spring 2020

    I thought much of that was due to some HBO content not also being released on Max. Has that been changed, and can consumers realistically expect to be able to watch HBO's content on a streaming service with HBO in the name?
  16. Wombat

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Whoa, someone found the Ringworld?
  17. Wombat

    Andor

    I honestly wish we had spent more time with the ISB crew. Dedra appears in more episodes than anyone other than Andor, but it's unclear what her motivations are at the end. My impression was, with Ghorman completed and no Syril, she's gone back to obsessively hunting down Axis (your choice...
  18. Wombat

    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    Even if availability was fixed, I think the power supply issues /standard for the higher end cards would push me off. A 5070Ti (or maybe, maybe, a 16GB 5070 Super) are the only cards I'd buy as emergency fill-ins if my current card dies until we get more details on next gen, at least 18 months...
  19. Wombat

    Andor

    The more I think about it, the more Andor stating that "The Empire caused all its biggest problems!" sticks in my craw. I get why writers want to say "Being Evil is bad!", but the show is stating that without Death Star development, Ghorman doesn't get forcibly relocated and the Rebellion stays...
  20. Wombat

    Andor

    I think that last arc could have been structured better. I get they want their callbacks in the final episode, but you could have had (more of) the rescue at the beginning of the final episode and then the dialogue heavy parts. And again, having the three rescuers all be alive for Rogue One...
  21. Wombat

    Andor

    I don't think these last three episodes will be as memorable because there frankly isn't much that _has to_ wrap up - sure, we all would like Luthen's backstory (secret Jedi? Dead Jedi kid? Dead Jedi wife?) or see why Saw just gave up in Rogue One, but Wilmon's or Vel's fates aren't going to...
  22. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    Good to see Cowboys delusion is already in playoff form. And for fuck's sake, why is there not a 2025 season thread?
  23. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    So what, the Saints will have Shough vs Rattler, with *checks Spotrac* Haener as emergency backup? Gonna be honest, this is the sort of situation I expect Cousins to get moved to... if it wasn't in the division. *Note that Spotrac only lists _signed_ players, and not all rookies have done so.
  24. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    The Batman 2 has been plagued with issues from the get-go, such as not being under Gunn's master plan. Beyond that though, Reeves has effectively been on leave (supposedly medical, but no firm details) and the project is in limbo, with a new batch of hearsay rumors over the last couple days...
  25. Wombat

    Andor

    IIRC, for Leia, Rogue One Bail assigned her the job of getting the evidence of the Death Star to the Senate, in the hopes it would get more systems to break away. But then Rogue One had the Death Star blow up shit (but not the entire planet) on both Scarif and Jedha, so its preposterous there...
  26. Wombat

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    Yeah, Ironheart is a six episode TV show, that as others mentioned was finished (at least the first version) years ago. Cheadle's Armor Wars was a planned TV show that was then converted into a planned movie that was converted into 'indefinite hiatus'. Last I heard Ironheart was still coming...
  27. Wombat

    Andor

    Episode 9 would have had more tension if it was more than just Andor and Mothma (who we both know get out of there just fine) together trying to make it out of the Senate. Going to be honest, I'm having a hard time guessing what the last arc is. I'm not familiar with the cartoons / Jedi...
  28. Wombat

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    Having an entire expansion be themed on someone else's IP feels really odd to me. Sure, Vampire Survivors has done it (grab the free Romancing Saga pack if you haven't), and Fortnite has a Star Wars season going on right now (including, of all things, Darth Jar Jar - that's a meta joke I can...
  29. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Yeah, that article's been making the rounds on Youtube. Personally, I can't see it as anything other than preemptive PR establishing that Disney (the huge giant corporation) is the villain, not Feige and his people, when they kill all the Marvel TV shows (other than maybe vigilante budget...
  30. Wombat

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    I could literally load up my choice of hundreds if not thousands of hours of shows or movies I haven't seen before in under a minute from Peacock / Max / Paramount /D+ / Amazon / etc., to say nothing of Youtube's near endless archive of videos I may or may not have any interest in, plus...
  31. Wombat

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    That is unfortunately where I thought it would end up. Straight dollar comparisons are potentially misleading given that The Incredible Hulk was nearly two decades ago, and inflation isn't flat between industries. Throwing their values into the CPI Inflation Calculator , and you get in March...
  32. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    1) If Hawkeye had a Season 2, Renner would have been limited to a mentor role, both because Kate is now the lead and because Renner is still physically limited - why would you pay a supporting actor lead actor rates? 2) There's definitely some severe penny-pinching going on at D+. Think about...
  33. Wombat

    Andor

    Andor is an espionage show, not an action movie. (Much like The Mandalorian, especially early on, was a western.) Even modern FX is much too expensive to make a weekly action/ war movie plausible. If you didn't find episode 6 tense as hell, I would advise you not have it on your TV while you're...
  34. Wombat

    Andor

    Real talk, wasn't rape one of, if not the, original safespace word? I don't think I was even aware of the concept of trigger words until The Sixth Slave - Penny Arcade of all things became a internet flashfire. It's always been my belief that rape was such a banned word solely because it was...
  35. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    Packers: B+ The general consensus at the end of the season was the Packers needed a real legitimate #1 WR, and Golden gives us that while also giving us the room to not burn through our 2026+ salary resigning at market prices all the WRs whose rookie deals are about to expire...
  36. Wombat

    Andor

    Am I the only one annoyed with Dedra's backstory? I think it's very unclear how old Dedra is supposed to be - she's 45 in real life, but the show seems to be portraying her as a young up and comer - but unless she's supposed to be in her early 20s, the orphanage line makes no sense. Because of...
  37. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    Watson may never see the field again for the Browns, and Flacco's falling off the QB cliff. Unless you're pinning all your hopes on Kenny Pickett, they can't afford anyone else and might as well go in bulk with the rookies.
  38. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    I think there's some split between 'Superstars in the NIL era only after the fame of starting (since they already have their college cash)' and specifically 'Sanders being from the Sanders household'. I expect to see more self-inflated superstars get their draft day comeuppance in the future...
  39. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    Come on third day! (Not sure how Shedeur hate became _the_ topic of the draft, but it doesn't seem like anyone is talking about anything else.)
  40. Wombat

    2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2

    Not seeing the TV feeds, but wasn't Jalen Milroe also in GB? The league really whiffed as well as to when they thought these QBs would be drafted.