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  1. Wombat

    Star Wars: Starfighter (2027)

    https://www.thecastingdirectorscut.com/terminology-tuesday-first-position/ When actors sign up for multiple productions, one (usually the earliest signed) is assigned as First Position, and gets dibs on the actor if there are scheduling conflicts. As such, actors almost never sign up for...
  2. Wombat

    Star Wars: Starfighter (2027)

    Horniness aside, IIRC Goth was tied to all the iterations of the Blade movie, so if she's free of that contract, we can believe Blade is actually dead.
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    The Packers needed the help, but that's very expensive, in both cash and picks/Clark. It'd be one thing if the Packers were on the cusp of a championship, but I honestly don't expect them to make it out of the divisional round.
  4. Wombat

    Lord of the Rings Online

    Repeating just to be abundantly clear to people: If you have any interest in your existing characters, patch up the game and transfer them to a 64-bit server by August 31st: https://www.lotro.com/guides/lotro-64-bit-transfer-faq-en As far as which server? Unfortunately, I have no advice on...
  5. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Except in the same video he says Rogue One is still bad, offering nothing but nostalgia, when (imo) the only positive of Rogue One is that it has a unique tone (for Star Wars, anyway), while completely missing that the reason why everything in Acolyte is familiar is because its more leftist...
  6. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I thought it was one of the iffiest RLM takes in a while, especially if this is the last Plinkett given the copyright strike issues. Like I literally can't tell if he's mocking people thinking the prequels are 'good' by making the preposterous claim that The Acolyte is mediocre in comparison...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Beyond the Super Bowl, the Chiefs went 10 - 0 (I believe) in one score games last year - they didn't blow many teams out, they did just enough to beat the competition. Your Bill Barnwells of the world would be the first to mention that one score game scenarios are the most likely to regress to...
  8. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    1) This sure feels like another one of these. 2) But part of Blizzard's more aggressive release schedule has been them reusing more and more content in the point releases. Seeing that only two new zones are brand new seems par for the course. (Actually, how do the revamps work? Is literally...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46015804/sources-colts-name-daniel-jones-starting-qb-anthony-richardson I fully expect both of them to start games this year (hell, probably a third QB as well), but this has to be considered significant proof that the Colts are done with Richardson long term.
  10. Wombat

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Most realistic observers don't think Arch will declare for at least another (probably two) seasons. The 'most' plausible scenario I've heard is that when the Saints get the #1 pick, Arch will think it's destiny he could play for the city where his grandfather played and where his dad / uncles...
  11. Wombat

    Fallout

    While I believe virtually every character / companion can be killed if you include Hardcore mode, I'd still love to see some cameos by the voice actors. It's not like Felicia Day, Michael Hogan, or Zachary Levi have anything going on, have them do the narration / explanation of where things went...
  12. Wombat

    Fallout

    Behind the scenes shots show three time periods (Cooper / House pre-war, ~New Vegas, and the already destroyed post-New Vegas we vaguely saw at the end of last season). I will be shocked if they reveal an actual ending, and assume they instead just go with 'And then everything blew up five...
  13. Wombat

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Anyone that doesn't immediately pick 75% levitation has neither read the intro to Way of Kings nor thought about it for even a few seconds - massively reducing your friction has a ton of utility. Actual invisibility in the dark is extremely useful as well, though mostly for questionable aims.
  14. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I would hope they allow player power to scale to the same level as MoP - every max level character in levelling gear can solo any raid mob in Legion in seconds, and there's no Mage Tower, so there is literally zero content any player couldn't do with zero risk in the base game today.
  15. Wombat

    Marvel's Daredevil

    They're merging the apps, I hadn't heard anything definitive about combining the subs into one (hopefully lower) price.
  16. Wombat

    Marvel's Daredevil

    Wasn't Season 2 already the back half of Season 1 that was paused when they changed (really, put in) a showrunner and frankensteined the existing episodes? Obviously, Disney has way, way cut down on their spending for original content on Disney+ - I honestly don't know why people would pay a...
  17. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Keeping in the N-word during that Pulp Fiction clip? The boys really are pushing Youtube's new profanity guidelines.
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Eh, how often is a pinky injury season-ending. Jones will almost certainly start the season now, however.
  19. Wombat

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

    I haven't bothered with a 5 series either - yet - though deep price cuts might make me settle for a 5070 or 5070Ti non-super until we get next-gen. The elephant in the room is I just don't think we're going to major improvements without a process shrink, and even if Nvidia did want to outbid...
  20. Wombat

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    The media story was Bezos said 'We have all the money on earth, where's my Game of Thrones', i.e. a high budget, high prestige genre show, and that he liked the concept of doing a Lord of the Rings show. Obviously, there are a laundry list of reasons for why it is a disaster, from not paying...
  21. Wombat

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    There's behind-the-scenes timings as well, there may be 'Movie must be on VOD for minimum X days prior to streaming' clauses, and WB wants this as their big Christmas HBO release. But realistically, if people haven't bothered to get to the theater for this by now, I'm not sure there's any...
  22. Wombat

    The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

    To be fair, if it didn't overtake Cap Falcon domestically today, it will tomorrow, and will overtake Ant-Man 3 before the weekend is out. It seems inconceivable FF will hit the $340M Thor 4 hit, much less the $360M of GotG 3, however. Internationally, this is no GotG 3 either - FF had 1/5th...
  23. Wombat

    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    As Lanx said, Amazon as a whole has publicly stated they're trying to be environmentally conscious / cut shipping costs by trying to reduce the amount (and cost) of packaging materials orders go out in, or remove them altogether as SIOCs. This does seem like a major initiative of theirs - I was...
  24. Wombat

    The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

    Honestly, GotG 3 is the best yardstick for both of them. Superman is clearly above GotG 3, and may even hit the $370M mark to overtake The Batman as DC's best domestic post-covid performer. FF... is up or down vs GotG 3 on a daily basis, but is still above where GotG 3 was seven days in...
  25. Wombat

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Only an idiot would bet against the Chiefs, given their string of SB appearances. So call me an idiot, because I want (some) new blood, gimme Bills / Ravens and Rams / Eagles for the conference championships.
  26. Wombat

    Avatar 3 (2025)

    If I recall, that's not really the case - instead when Cameron got funding from (then) Fox, it was for a planned set* of four sequels: Avatar 2, 3, and the beginning of 4 all take place in a row, with a time jump before the back chunk of 4 and 5, at which point the kids will all be adults...
  27. Wombat

    The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

    To be clear, Shalla Bal as Silver Surfer's wife has existed since the 60s. Shalla Bal as Silver Surfer herself happened in 2000, and significantly predates the Jonathan Hickman run the movie gets a lot of its inspiration from (like Sue as Super Politician) starting in 2009. (Comic) Shalla Bal...
  28. Wombat

    Avengers: Doomsday (2025)

    Pretty sure there's been press stories that Cap Marvel, Spidey, Cap Falcon, New Widow, and Reed are leading the team in the years and years Endgame. It all seems like empty 'Please be excited for the newest release!' PR nonsense. (Ironically, it sounds like FF's PR has been filled with lies on...
  29. Wombat

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    To be clear, other than hoping that movies made by creatives I like do well enough that they get money for another project, I am not rooting for or against the box office returns of any movie. But at the same time, it's inarguable that the (especially aggregate) data does factor into which...
  30. Wombat

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    Between Covid, the strikes, and the rise of VOD and especially streaming services, the cinema industry has been significantly altered. It's _possible_ all those kids that still go to movies for animated movies _might_ go back to the theatres as adults, but if they do, that's years down the line...
  31. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Josh wasn't credited at the end! I get that he would want to be there if musicians are invited But young, innocent Rich - you were already in an episode where a terrible movie was re-edited and rescored! (Bear is a bit better than Jay at it - though that video also shows why I thought Bear was...
  32. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I hadn't realized Bear was only born in '79, that's smack dab in the middle of the crew. Amusing that they never shoot Jay and Bear next to each other, lest you think one is the evil universe version of the other.
  33. Wombat

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I don't get this meme, obviously Kazaam (1996) ⭐ 3.1 | Comedy, Family, Fantasy exists, this just seems like 'They all look alike!' racism*. *Cross-race effect - Wikipedia is a thing, of course, and the predominant explanation is its not racism at all - until very recently (on the evolutionary...
  34. Wombat

    Alien: Earth

    It's Noah Hawley, you're generally going to get a really good first season (that may take a bit for the plot threads to connect), followed by uneven later seasons. As always, prequels where the threat was known to some all along, are tough to align with the original works, but Hawley's given...
  35. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    I kept it vague, but if you are restarting, you should look up the specific dialogue options you need to pick for "Don't Fear the Reaper" to give yourself that option. (Unless you are playing on PC, where you can just console command the necessary flag, if you can get the console mod working.)
  36. Wombat

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    But as a reminder, GotG 3 didn't have a single character in it not from Gunn's movies - there was no contribution from the MCU. Domestically, Superman's actually been doing very well over the weekdays as well. It probably won't hit the domestic $340M of Thor 4, to say nothing of the $370M of...
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    The game's half a decade old, this shouldn't be considered spoiler territory. But for those who just got it free from PS or whatever: At least until Phantom Liberty, all roads lead to assaulting Arasaka Tower to get to Mikoshi, and everyone doesn't walk out of there alive. (Always available)...
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    Patched, loaded my save (~283 quests completed, Nocturne is only available), two base game sidegigs popped as doable (that should have triggered long ago), but didn't get quests for any other new vehicles, though I could buy the one new vehicle. No new map options. Beyond the display / framegen...
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    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    Chris Evans made just $300K for Captain America 1, and he had way more of a resume going into it (Fantastic Fours, Not Another Teen Movie, Push, Scott Pilgrim) than Corenswet. That's how these used to work - hire the 'nobody' for the low returns first movie and hope enough additional people...
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    2.3 was only supposed to be on the order of 2.2. It's whatever comes after that that is the real mystery, like explaining who these six slots are. I still think it ties into anime, as why else would CDPR not have announced / published whatever it is unless it was a spoiler / tie-in for the...