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    The Marvels (2023)

    Eternals was in that first wave of theater releases after Endgame and covid before people saw the downward trajectory. It's hard to compare Eternals and Hulk because of their position in the MCU enthusiasm timeline.
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    Napoleon (2023)

    I have. The show, and the books are underrated. I was reminded of them the other day when lazy fuck GRRM said he can't write as fast as Cornwell. No one can, but there's plenty of room between multiple books a year and none for a decade.
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    Napoleon (2023)

    We can joke about this but I'd bet over 97% of Americans have no clue about anything Waterloo and 2% think it's an ABBA song. European history education was already on the decline 30 years ago and it was all but gone from my kids curriculum except when they voluntarily took AP Euro and...
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    The Marvels (2023)

    I honestly couldn't tell you what Momoa's politics are but that's a good thing. He's a perfectly acceptable Aquaman who won't get accused of brown washing a character. Women love him. No matter how crazy you know Amber is she's nice to look at in a skin tight suit. If Aquaman 2 fails it will be...
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    Satisfactory

    If you pretend the last space elevator shipment is you leaving the planet it's basically the same. Before I quit, which was before native blueprinting, I ended up using a save editor a bunch since it was much easier to scale up in an editor than in game. If I fire it up again I'm probably most...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I like fresh cranberry sauce but when it comes to thanksgiving dinner I prefer the canned jelly. I think the flavor is correct and it's much easier to get the right amount of tart vs whole berry chunks. Take a little with the knife, spread it on the bite like butter, and enjoy. That said, I'm...
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    Loki

    I thought it was fairly obvious they solved the "ran out of pym particles" otherwise how did Quantumania happen. And even if not, just steal them from the 70s like they did in the first place.
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    Loki

    Along those lines, did the ability to time loop using antman tech go away? What's to stop the avengers from pulling a Loki and looping a million times until they "win"? I guess that's why they have to push multiversal threats so you can't just prune them before they're born.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Casting director was told hire a yellow superman and took it literally.
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    Satisfactory

    It's been a long time since I've played and every time I see an update here or on Steam I'm tempted to fire it back up since I really enjoyed it the first time. For me the decision to use trains vs belts came down to scaling. Even if you think you're making your belt network big enough it won't...
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    Loki

    They could have a Deadpool 4th wall break recap of overarching plot stuff in whatever PG movie follows it to catch everyone up if they're worried about it. Honestly though, whatever viewers they lose from the R rating seems negligible to the numbers they lose from the overload of mediocre film...
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    The Marvels (2023)

    I didn't particularly like IM3 but I never felt like it was a poorly produced film. I don't like what they did to the Mandarin but change his name to Bin-Laden or something and the concept of a puppet social media bad guy is mostly sound. Extremis fits the formula for IM bad guy; disgruntled...
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    You're probably half right. Falcon will fail but instead of Bucky he'll give the shield to the Korean War super soldier's grandson creating Patriot for the Young Avengers.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Bucky got the Soviet super serum plus his iron man tier arm. He wasn't powerless. If anything black cap is less power than falcon cause he gave up his tech suit/wings and drone.
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    The Marvels (2023)

    Completely unrelated; family was playing trivia and I got "name of Hogwarts janitor." A little bit of stress as I tried to remember if he really was Filch or I was going to embarrass myself.
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    The Marvels (2023)

    Do the animated ones count? I though the 2nd Miles Morales movie was good, queer flags and speculations on Gwen having a dick not withstanding. Plus it was less than 12 months ago so rounds to singular year.
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    I'm not saying it's the same thing but those of you bitching about singing and dancing in a theater, have you never been to a Rocky Horror Picture Show?
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    I'll echo what Vorph said. I ran a 2.0 netrunner for a couple hours but it gets pretty repetitive and requires much more buttons than just guns or melee. Zero cooldown sandevistan with the Errata Katana has been my go to, but there are definitely times when it's just easier to shoot/range...
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    I know this isn't only a Cyberpunk CDPR problem but 13.7 GB for what little is claimed in the patch notes seems excessive.
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    The DLC also isn't at the end like Witcher or other RPGs. On a fresh playthrough it prompts you to start Phantom Liberty after the Voodoo Boys missions so you can get to new content pretty quick if you don't get side tracked.
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    I haven't hit them yet but I believe the caps now are level 60, 81 attribute, 80 perk, and 50 street cred.
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    Grown ass men dance to "Party in the USA" when it plays at ball games.
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    You could also compare her to Miley and Demi Lovato. The Disney molester trauma ruined those two but I'm sure there were similar pressures on Taylor that she managed to apparently survive. Miley's one of those who's Daddy's name for sure got her in the door but she had the chops to sustain...
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    I think some of that is her country background. If you listen to basically any female country artist from any era they are writing about bad breakups. Even the successfully married ones still write/sing about it. I don't think it's worth trying to apply any past precedent for concert movies to...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Somewhere along the way a teacher or somebody once explained it as; blue collar showers after work, white collar showers before work.
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    As the father of two daughters I've had Taylor playing in the background of my life since 2006. Her early country stuff is as good of country pop as there's been. I still remember first seeing her sing "Tim McGraw" to Tim McGraw on some awards show when she was still unknown. I would put "Our...
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    Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

    There's probably plenty of room still beyond 4 seasons but it was already suffering from the same problem the books did. Every book/season ends with Jack getting some kind of promotion where eventually it's unrealistic for him to be in the field anymore. It's one of the reasons Chavez even...
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    Oppenheimer (2023)

    I've got a pretty good FSO on my program. A rare one with a sense of humor. He sends out monthly bulletins about various security issues and this month's headline was "Don't be an Oppenheimer: why sleeping with hot communists is a bad thing"
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    Oppenheimer (2023)

    Yes. Anti-nuclear war. Oppenheimer's opposition to the hydrogen bomb (the "super" they call it) and the inevitable arms race it would cause is a major theme.
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    Oppenheimer (2023)

    Just got back from this. It was good but not mind blowing. Pretty straight forward film for Nolan. A very little bit of non-linear storytelling but only because the security review and senate hearings 10 years later serve as narrative. Acting was excellent with lots of recognizable faces in...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I understand the meme just fine. I just think it's stupid because 50f is shorts weather anywhere. In any case:
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    Games You Regret Spending Time On?

    There's a lot of games I probably spent too much time on relative to the enjoyment derived but my only regrets are MMORPGs that go under. When you consider one of the main goals in RPGs is progression over time, having a game shut down makes all the grinding feel completely wasted. Even if I...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The Americas have been populated plenty long enough to have ruins comparable to Europe but the natives here were less dense so it's more spread out and not as advanced from less competing tribe pressures.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Fuck your high class coffee
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    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) (2022)

    I'm not complaining, but that had to be one of the longest cold opens ever too. I completely forgot that we hadn't had the opening credits by the time they popped up.
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    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) (2022)

    I know there's almost no use trying to apply logic to continuity to multi-dimensional time travel stuff but I'm curious. In any case, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was not distracted by any BLM posters or anything. You had black villains portrayed as typical black thugs. When the guidance...
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Yea, it was free a few months back when they accidentally made the Director's Cut free for a day. Lots of QoL improvements in the DC if you are interested and it's only $5 after you claim the free base version.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Zegler, who got the part, is South American brown. She's also in the upcoming Hunger Games prequel so within a couple months she'll single handedly account for the muddying of Snow White and President Snow.
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    Rabbit Hole

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    Rabbit Hole

    The show runner is definitely red pilled but this is one of those shows that both sides will claim represents them. Lefties are gonna claim Crowley represents Elon or Putin with Trump being the Manchurian candidate while the right will view this as a Biden documentary where the only thing...