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  1. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    Not at all; I even read the one he wrote after the fact years later. But you're missing my point about them making Yennefer an equal part of the story POV when the books are told from Cirilla's POV and Geralt's POV and most of the books are Geralt (and everyone else) chasing after Ciri and her...
  2. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    We'll see how it works out. We know what the story is. DV isn't Marvel and this IP isn't the MCU; if he actually makes Chani the protagonist, which isn't apparent from everything we have seen so far, then the movie will fail and then it will be time to get GOT final season mad. Was that...
  3. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    She's fucking Tom Holland but everyone thinks its gives them Extra Virtue Signal Points plus plus whatever. I think she isn't a bad actress but there has to be someone better for this then Zendaya. Who knows? If it gets the movie made, who gives a damn in the end. All she does in this is...
  4. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    When part 2 comes out we are going to have a 6ish hour Dune epic and still you are going to be bleating about "STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE" and "BIG BOOM BOOM ON SCREENY THING". Is it the way I would have done it? Maybe not. Is it the way you would have done it? Obviously not. But the guy who has...
  5. rhinohelix

    New World

    All forms of player trading, including the Trade House, are currently disabled. I have never seen a Live Game in this state, and getting worse with each patch.
  6. rhinohelix

    New World

    It's kind of sad: Just imagine if they hadn't fucking spackled over all of this BS and had a solid release. So much about this game is good. They just needed not more time but better people making better decisions. The three Es: Economy/endgame/Exploits. As it is:
  7. rhinohelix

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I mean, Gavidmad is 100% correct: They were about to lose to an even earlier version of Thanos who was going to not just wipe out half the life as the more seasoned version did but per his speech, this slightly younger version was going to wipe everything and start over. Consider stakes raised...
  8. rhinohelix

    New World

    Tell me you know you're fucked without actually telling me you know you're fucked. I think this has to be a design decision from when the game was a survival horror Valheim game and no one went back and revisited it. Hearing that its client side authoritative though has got to be the Horn...
  9. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I have never seen new ram at the start of a gen surpass fast older gen ram.
  10. rhinohelix

    Guild Wars 2

    This sounds exactly the kind of Bullshit Anet has done over the years that makes me want to fucking scream. How have they had so many second rate blue haired SJW asshat devs and still be open as a game studio? This kind of subpar asshattery makes me want to scream. No wonder video games are...
  11. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Sincerely hope it works out, man. It's tough to live up to FOH and sometimes our own bar at times.
  12. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    Anyone who thinks of Timothee Chalamet as frail needs to go to Netflix right now and watch "The King" with Joel Edgerton. Chalamet is thin but after seeing his performance as "Hal"/Henry V in that, with his version of the St. Crispin's Day speech, I don't think of him as frail in the slightest...
  13. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Finally a video card that might be worth the price scalpers are asking for them.
  14. rhinohelix

    New World

    No one said it was good, it just saved FF14 from the hunk of junk of that was 1.0; that's it. Barely breathing and fighting chance is better than dead. And believe me, NW is cruising for WAR levels of dead sooner rather than later. What will be NW's second chance? There is no dress up, there...
  15. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    Yes Yes Indeed Yes.
  16. rhinohelix

    New World

    Yeah, I'm upset because my oatmeal's not warm enough in the morning. /rolleyes Let me ask you this: Is this *your* first launch, Capt. Optimism? You think if they don't think the economy is super broken, tons of bugs they don't think are happening, and all the other shit that is wrong that...
  17. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    Yep. Sardaukar are super tough, essentially proto-Fremen because Salusa Secundus, the Emperor's prison planet, is so tough.
  18. rhinohelix

    New World

    I was super busy at times this week but I haven't logged in for 4 or 5 days. I just hit 40 and my drive push past that is just not there. I don't have any desire to grind tradeskills when I know there isn't going to be any market, its cheaper to buy ore than it is to mine it, its practically...
  19. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Look, its your money. People do less than optimum things with their money all the time. FOH can tell you what might be the objectively best thing to do, but we aren't the people you need to satisfy: It's you. Do you feed good about the transaction now? I know, you talked shit here and wah...
  20. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    Herbert went Herbert. Never go full Herbert.
  21. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Three choices: 1)If you feel like you spent too much, indeed, just take this opportunity to get your money back. You haven't taken possession of it yet and they are already doing warranty work, FFS. 2) Don't accept anything that isn't new. Have a sit-down the store manager, which will...
  22. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    If you want out, now is the time to assemble a metaphorical Brass Karen Band and go down there playing 21 Asshole Trombones. Demand the machine right now or your money back. Also talk about how you were pressured to buy stuff you didn't want. Raise hell. Don't put up with this BS.
  23. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    First thing I thought when the Herald got off his ship. The HAR-konnen vs. Har-KOE-nen pronunciations. Herbert pronounced it the former way, while Lynch (who worked closely with Herbert on the movie) and many Americans seem inclined to use the second pronunciation. DV in his movie seems to...
  24. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    I watched this at home in my office on my 43" 4K Sony TV I use as a Monitor. I sit about 30" away from it. So basically it fills the center part of my vision but I am not going to get the movie theater effect I get watching on my 70" TV out in the living room with a chair 6-8 feet away just...
  25. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    I realize you are a purist but if you don't exclude the next two sentences, I am aware of Kynes book-accurate fate. The details not withstanding, what I meant was, in the broad scope of the story, that overall fate remains the same. The place and the fate.
  26. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    Oh that's right. I totally forgot about the differences in Kynes' deaths, although they try to at least get it in the ball park, don't they? I may be conflating Lynch movie and book but I thought Lynch was book accurate. Fenring is who I was thinking of that gets introduced later, rather...
  27. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    If they are going to announce part 2 on Monday, just spend an extra $100 million, make another 3 hour Part 2 movie and then Justice League this bitch into an 8 hour limited series for HBO Max for 2023. You'll have the whole cast there, just film the other 6 hours you need, give us the full...
  28. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    So rather than wonder, I just watched it on HBO Max in 4K. It's pretty fucking great. I can be wrong about such things without taking time to digest them because the artistry can overwhelm the art at times (cough). I have a number of critiques on this but overall I like it. - wow DV makes...
  29. rhinohelix

    Dune (2020)

    Holy crap. Its been a long time since I read the book but these are all things vital to the story that come up in the first 100 pages. How could they not be in Part 1 at all?
  30. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    If everyone held off til later, manufacturers and legitimate resellers would have to find a way to not let scalpers hoover up every card coming down the pike, rather than get on board the Scalper Express. "Someone has to fix broken windows. Let's break windows to improve the economy!!!"
  31. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Look and I will admit its my personal feelings. I love microcenter, or did; they had great prices and good service I appreciate what they normally do but scalpers are the devil. They don't keep the economy going; they drain the economy of productive funds, in the same way that corruption...
  32. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Look, homeslice spent 5k on a PC. That is 1990 money. Who is going to gouge him over a $350 power supply? I mean, Other than MicroCenter, but come on. You splurged out man, and if you have it, good on you. That RAM price is baller, 32GB for 160 bucks? Awesome. This time last year any...
  33. rhinohelix

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Microcenter's 1500 dollars for a 6800XT is bullshit. I don't care if that is what scalpers are charging for them.
  34. rhinohelix

    Playstation 5

    I actually have Walmart+ because with grocery shortages there are some things that my autistic son wants that cause us major headaches if we can't get. The W+ guarantees extra deliveries, good times, no delivery minimums and no fees. Worth the $15 bucks a month for us, and the cost of two...
  35. rhinohelix

    New World

    Yeah, they are careening towards a cliff they won't be able to walk back from. I can't believe they didn't see this coming. Like Eve without the A-Splode. Let's Go Brandon Bezos We're fucked.
  36. rhinohelix

    Black Adam (2021)

    Punisher: 1. The Punisher (2004) 2. Punisher War Zone (2008) · TV: All episodes of the first season were released on November 17, 2017. A month later, the series was renewed for a second season, which was released on January 18, 2019. Wolverine: X-Men: First Class (2011) X-Men: Days of Future...
  37. rhinohelix

    Black Adam (2021)

    You mean like Blade or Wolverine or Magneto or Punisher or... And hey, bonus points this one has "Black" in his name. No wonder they won't do another "Superman" movie.
  38. rhinohelix

    New World

    Nothing about this game is designed to be PVP only. You will block off huge chucks of the leveling and the narrative/MQS on a PVP only server. **I guess** you could do that stuff, just make some of those areas non-PVP or agree to truces in those areas, or just have pure Free-for-alls. But its...
  39. rhinohelix

    New World

    I don't normally have much to say on mechanical design of the quests themselves but "Dogshit design" needs to be the tagline of AGS at this point. Where did they get these fucking people? So many quests are ridiculous and stupid and repetitive. I can't think of an MMO with worse quests. I...
  40. rhinohelix

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    She's an actress, Gillian Bellinger; whether she was boning Jay I have no idea. Gillian Bellinger