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  1. rhinohelix

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    You're right, its the first MIB:
  2. rhinohelix

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    It's not Star Wars; this is what I realized with the Last Jedi. It's the hollowed-out husk of Star Wars walking and talking, the MIB2 "Edgar Suit" version of Star Wars. At least Rogue One was fan service, and not trying to make the things that we loved into something that it wasn't. Rey might...
  3. rhinohelix

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    It's trying to thread the needle of "The force is female/Grrl Pwr!@!" and "how can we not have people complain that Rey is a Mary Sue?" Either Disney A) doesn't understand the thing they bought or B) don't care in pursuit of an agenda; C) Outguessed themselves trying to "update" the story for...
  4. rhinohelix

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Den of Nerds has a spoiler video up which may or may not have been discussed that if true will mean that whomever is in charge of this shitshow deserves whatever fate they get. Seriously can't believe they would go so far out of their way to divide the fanbase and leave money on the table like...
  5. rhinohelix

    The Outer Worlds

    Well, apparently anyone who believes in capitalism is the devil according Obsidian. It seemed less tiresome a decade ago in Bioshock when there weren't real Socialists running for office in the US.
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    The Outer Worlds

    Its been so long since I made a character for a game like this (I think the last FO game I played was FO3 with DLC?) and I had (have?) no clear concept I have probably already borked my character. I thought I would go all melee but then, its in outer space, with no Jedi so, no? So now I have a...
  7. rhinohelix

    The Outer Worlds

    I can't decide if I want to get this for PC (1080Ti/2080Ti build coming along)or Xbox One X. No GamePass yet, I still like to own stuff, such that you do these days. edit: Xbox One X for now.
  8. rhinohelix

    Watchmen

    Almost no chance this isn't woke dogshit. And I really enjoy opportunities to look at Regina King.
  9. rhinohelix

    South Park

    If you think that was a real apology, I have some quid pro quo to sell you.
  10. rhinohelix

    Ad Astra (2019)

    I thought Jonathan Nolan's original script was awesome but I get what Christopher Nolan's movie was going for as well, and while I understand the chagrin at the somewhat Deus ex Machina at the end, it bothers me that people take such umbrage at Nolan's message in that movie. I guess it was too...
  11. rhinohelix

    Dave Chappelle

    Let me explain to you the Mulford Act in 1967: I am not saying the Mulford Act was the correct reaction, nor am I going to say that there wasn't a complicated mess that led to creation of the Black Panthers but it was a reaction to cop killings and not racism.
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    Dave Chappelle

    This is just run-of-the-mill standard stuff for the 80's but its been so long since someone delivered it without flinching, ala Trump, that it looks like Stunning and Brave Above Average Genius. And maybe for today, it is. That should tell you just how far down the road we are toward...
  13. rhinohelix

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Almost every MMO was some variant of WoW; the big problem was that no one had the polish Blizzard did, especially after WoW had been around for the 3+ years of that it took to get anything out into the market. Lots of games, WAR, Rift, everything but EQ2 was a WoW clone but all of them...
  14. rhinohelix

    The Boys

    There is a lot of "Irreemable"/the Plutonian to Homelander, it feels like. The changes are so big, though, its really almost more inspired by than an adaptation of, given the way they ended the season. Don't get me wrong, I liked it! Its good, and they use the characters and some/much of the...
  15. rhinohelix

    Watchmen

    I really liked the watchmen movie (other than the ending) and was exciting to see the series. Until, you know, I found out that Lindelof decided to skull-fuck the property to make it about something almost completely unrelated to anything addressed in the original continuity. Bat Man is a...
  16. rhinohelix

    Marvel Universe stuff

    They are going to have Thor want to go off with on an adventure with the Guardians, and Eitri reforge a version of Mjolnir to leave a Thunder God/Protector on Earth. New Mjolnir get put in New Asgard to find whomever is worthy ala Captain America, with his wielding the old hammer giving Thor...
  17. rhinohelix

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Female Thor kicked all that off, didn't it? Or was Jane Foster thor done at the same time as ANAD? In any event, its a distinction without a difference. It doesn't matter if SuperFem Caption Marvel went first, or Thor's a Title and everyone gets a hammer because GIRL POWER CANCER STYLE...
  18. rhinohelix

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Blade was where Feige got his Marvel movie start, IIRC. So happy to see this come back. I was a big fan of the Wesley Snipes movies (until you get to them phoning in #3) I have become a huge Mahershala Ali fan over the last couple of years, between him and Feige I can put my faith in them...
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Female Thor is one of the worst things in the whole fucking world, including fire ants and flat soda. It doesn't matter who plays her. Thor isn't a title and anyone who thinks so is retarded SJW trash. Feige can go fuck himself on this particular point. Mahershala Ali as Blade fucking kicks...
  20. rhinohelix

    Alita: Battle Angel (2018)

    Really? Different Opinions?? 2019??? Come on. I wasn't trying to be directly insulting to you; your review reads so far over the top I can't tell if its serious or done for comedic effect. Alita is supposed to vary between 13 and 16-17; how else am I to take a review that includes as the...
  21. rhinohelix

    Poll VOTE: The Top 10 All-Time Greatest FoH Drama/Incidents

    So many excellent moments. I also missed voting for Gravy/Mrs. Gravy.
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    Alita: Battle Angel (2018)

    This is one of few big anime for which I hadn't ever seen the OVA; I intended to see this in the theater but that never worked out such that today I finally got to watch this. I am shocked by the comments here that the reception is as mixed as it is: Boozecube seems to be entirely correct in...
  23. rhinohelix

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    You know what else is "cannon"? Force baby immamculater conceptions, mother*ucker, that's what! Chris Terrio and J.J. is all up in here writing this thang. Did you even *see* the Last Jedi, Hyperspace Kamikaze? All "cannon" now. We can only hope, and will most likely not be narratively saved...
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    Shazam! (2019)

    It really is on me; all my fault. I had read any number of people taking 8ish year olds, I think even in this thread, and didn't give it too much thought, honestly. Its marketed, as someone else put it, like Superhero Big, and so I didn't think there would be too much stuff to worry about...
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    Shazam! (2019)

    I started to watch this with my 7 year old daughter, and in the first 5-10 min you have the villain abused by his dad and older brother, then the dad dies graphically in a car crash, then you have protagonist Billy Batson "orphaned" by become separated from his mother? Or something. My wife...
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    Deadwood

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    Chernobyl

    This captures part of the brilliance of Chernobyl in a way I haven't thought about it, in that it spans genres; forgive me if I am aping someone else in this thread. It is a monster movie, and its a disaster movie, its a murder mystery, and its a 70's political action thriller (because the...
  29. rhinohelix

    Chernobyl

    Watched this. Utterly amazing TV. I remember when this happened; I was 15. It's been covered in a number of books, I think the term I first encountered the term "failure cascade" in 2001 in a book called "Inviting Disaster". Watching it happen like this, knowing what they were dealing with...
  30. rhinohelix

    Midsommar (2019)

    If you go look around on Reddit in the sub for this movie you can find a 2017 script which matches up pretty closely. Based upon Hereditary, I expect this is going to blow a lot of Wicker Man doors off. On the page, it doesn't necessarily jump out at you but then if you apply what the director...
  31. rhinohelix

    Deadwood

    I binge-rewatched all three seasons and then the movie again. While I stated above that you don't need to rewatch and that holds true, its even that much better having all the events fresh in my mind. Overall, the show is just so fucking good and such a great palate cleanser after the last...
  32. rhinohelix

    Deadwood

    I watched it "live" as the seasons aired and several things that I had forgotten (how did she get rich, who is that girl, etc) either came back to me or were referenced in a flashback. A rewatch wouldn't hurt, though, as others indicated but so much of that detail is left out, it's only the...
  33. rhinohelix

    Deadwood

    This is how you end a fucking series, you star wars making san fransisco cocksuckers. I forgot what excellence with an American accent sounds like. "What, we don't have a whole season? I can do it in a two hour movie." #watchthis #micdrop You really have to have seen the series but its just...
  34. rhinohelix

    Keyboards & Mice

    I had a full Razer Chroma setup going: the Ornata, the Naga Chroma (my forever mouse) and the Firefly Chroma mousepad. I hated to break up the band but I finally took the leap and got a Roccat Vulcan 100 and I love the hell out of this KB. ROCCAT Vulcan 100 - Mechanical RGB Gaming Keyboard...
  35. rhinohelix

    Guild Wars 2

    I don't know if "long" is the right term; I just logged in and showed my daughter GW1, as we had been playing GW2 and she wanted to see what the original looked like. Given that it takes years to build, that we don't know about GW3 is telling, though. GW2 at launch might be my favorite non-EQ...
  36. rhinohelix

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I wouldn't disagree with that, although Lucas is also guilty of getting high on his own supply. The thing that is going to haunt D&D is that I and many others won't forget the sting of this travesty for a long time, though, and the funk of this will follow them for the rest of their careers...
  37. rhinohelix

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    As seen elsewhere, Speaking of shit that didn't mean anything, "There must always been a Starbucks in Winterfell".
  38. rhinohelix

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    r/freefolk I don't know if that's the way its going to turn out but it surely seems that all signs are pointing that way. I think that is part of why GRRM won't ever finish the series: He can't stand the reaction that people will have to the end he has in mind for these characters, or maybe...
  39. rhinohelix

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Spoilers for the last three episodes are up in the usual GOT places on reddit from last week. They were previously unbelieved and dismissed but tonight's episode was 100% predicted and people are going batshit over what that probably means for the end of the show. Normally I don't care about...
  40. rhinohelix

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    It certainly was.