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Certainly the surprise of E3.... 's corpse to me. Not sure what it is with sci-fi games where "Fuck it, I'll do it myself" (Starfield to Outer Worlds, Mass Effect to this) is the predominant theme, but I'm cool with it. Not sure about the 'alternate history?' angle of it - I thought the...

That hoped for or confirmed? Because that casting would work pretty well.

We should remember that nearly everyone on this thread is a middle-aged man, which means by pop culture terms, we're all old dead fossils. Even a decade+ ago I would run into twenty-somethings that preferred the prequels over the OT due to their pacing. Hell, I will reiterate that even out of...

Its directed by Len Wiseman (Underworld, that utterly forgotten Total Recall reboot), so I would calibrate your enthusiasm regardless. (Though I have to admit, I didn't think his Die Hard 4 was terrible.)

What's amusing to me is Johnny was never mentioned - apparently even potentially bi- white men are still unacceptable. And yes, Womyn Power! has been the concern since the first trailer.

Yeah, I'm not sure I buy that projection, GotG 3 only did $118M its first weekend, and everyone knows who, say, Rocket Raccoon is by the third movie. How much of the general audience knows who Mister Terrific is? Hell, if we are talking DC specifically, The Batman only did $134M, and Superman...

FanFourStick made just $26M opening weekend and $56M total (in 2015 dollars). Add in uncertainty if 'the kids' will want the 60s setting, and I think this will be Marvel's clear second worst opening (after The Marvels' $46M / $84M), but it probably won't be the worst.

I would argue with that conclusion, just because there's more competition with the summer release schedule, both in terms of audience split and theatre counts. I'm thinking Thunderbolts ends up just under $185M.

Now that I think about it, this may be less due to Doomsday itself than Disney as a whole. To be clear, the movie was going to be a struggle for May - the Russos had publicly said trying to get it done on time might literally kill them. The FX are a problem, but not for the reason you'd...

Just like Infinity War, Doomsday will only be half a movie. But no, there's been no buildup for it, because they are of course desperately rewriting their Kang plans. Presumably there will be some minor linkage to Doom in Fantastic Four, but that movie already has enough to cover on its own...

I suppose if we are talking references to sci-fi set in Chicago, I, Robot would be one of the biggies. I believe the Divergent movies are also in future Chicago. Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code is running around Chicago, though I don't recall where the military base his body is at actually is...

As Spronk said, Dedra just serves as a secondary/confirmation source - Galen sends the pilot and message to Saw on his own, but that both Luthen and Saw independently align on the details (such as Galen being involved) make the intel plausible.

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'...

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...

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...

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?

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

Steelers / Packers is also a SNF game, though admittedly both teams do have wide-ranging fanbases.

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.

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...

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?

Whoa, someone found the Ringworld?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...