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  1. Wombat

    The Outer Worlds

    On one hand, there just aren't many Scrolls/Fallout-likes that aren't from Bethesda. On the other hand, there just wasn't any spark to anything in the first game. Admittedly, the budget wasn't massive, but I have a hard time remembering anything about the game, and I played both DLCs when the...
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    The E3 2021 Thread

    ... creepily possible, and uncomfortably prescient.... Death's Door looked like it would have been fun if we weren't burnt out by Hades. Wizard with a Gun reminded me far more of FF9 than Ralph Bakshi...
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    The E3 2021 Thread

    The only show worth watching (as opposed to skimming the summary) starts in 45 minutes.
  4. Wombat

    Loki

    The shoulders of the opponent seemed feminine to me (e.g. Lady Loki), but Richard E Grant is also in this, and I can't imagine who he would be other than Old Loki. What order any of those three are in the timeline, I couldn't tell you. And yeah, you would have to think the show ends with (some)...
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    The E3 2021 Thread

    Personally, I just want to know what everyone's up to. Even before Covid, the realities of modern AAA game production were getting to everyone, with Ass Creed no longer yearly and Modern Warfare cutting entire game modes out of some of their yearly releases. I don't expect much, possibly...
  6. Wombat

    The Mandalorian

    Not that we really need to rehash that the Disney sequels ranged from mediocre remake (TFA) to actively bad (TLJ, ROS), and that was almost entirely due to the (re)writing, not the acting, but we need to be very clear here: The reason Kylo Ren was the only interesting new character in the...
  7. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I'm pretty embarrassed by how many of those I knew, but it was heavily weighted towards TNG and DS9 (aka good Star Trek).
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    Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy

    They paid 'in advances' - Epic gave them $146 Million, but the first $146 Million in sales goes back to Epic. In effect, they guaranteed them $146 Million in sales (what, 2.5 million copies), not that Epic gave them an _extra_ $146 Million plus sales. The 'One-Off Fee' and marketing spend at a...
  9. Wombat

    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    Cute way to keep (an) A. Rodgers in GB.
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    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    Love not even being active last year was a bad sign for the next half decade, but if we don't lose Rodgers this year he's gone next year, so we may as well get something for him. Sure, the Packers still will be competitive this year, but I would take Garop and picks in a heartbeat for Rodgers'...
  11. Wombat

    Invincible

    In this very episode TV Eve said she'd been with Rex for longer than she was with the Teen Titans, so at least middle school for thwm meeting up, with probably the same general storyline Much like the Boys, the characters will have the same names and mostly looks, and the general* arcs will be...
  12. Wombat

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    "Jack, did you do something funny?"
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    Invincible

    This smelled like the payoff episode, next week will just be the infodump on what the Viltrumites have truly been up to, though it wouldn't surprise me if the final scene matches what happens when comic Mark finds out the truth.
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    Invincible

    So, is this the best media (TV/movie) to come out since Covid started?
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Don't most/all covenants have the 'good' stuff (aka mounts, etc.) tied to the level 4/5 covenant feature? It seems like mathematically it will still be better to get that to 4+ than to fiddle with getting everything to level three first. (The again, my main is Venthyr, and I haven't bothered to...
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    To this day, I remember that the end credits blasted Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up', and the little old ladies walking by in the hallway being appalled by the lyrics as everyone left the theater. As far as the movie goes, even at the time I thought it was relentlessly mediocre and cribbing off...
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    Invincible

    That was the point of the post-credits scene, Omni-Man thinks himself and Invincible are functionally unkillable. We also don't know if he was still hovering outside, he may have waiting to prevent any deathblows if the new Guardians couldn't cut it. But getting the wife off his case may be...
  18. Wombat

    Invincible

    Yeah, I was a bit worried about the dust cloud fights in the last episode, but they were just saving their budget for this one. I'm still fuzzy on how durable everyone is in this world, apparent humans can survive being crushed two feet into cement, yet civilians die instantaneously.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Yeah, mineral oil isnt conductive, and one offs submerging their system in mineral oil have been around since the 90s. That said, the cost / difficulty in scaling lithography further means you will probably see more of this sort of thing in the future. While I can't see Corsair aquarium kits on...
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    Invincible

    I checked if there was a new episode of this before I checked on Falcon & Winter Soldier...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's almost like the absurd amount of anima need to complete just _one_ covenant and the covenant specific drops are there just to pad out the amount of time before you finish collecting all the 9.0 mounts/pets/etc., or something. Weird! And I have to think that whatever 10.0 is was already...
  22. Wombat

    Invincible

    This show has a hell of a voice cast, which makes it extra weird that the, what, 40 year old Gillian Jacobs and Steven Yeun are playing teenagers. And yeah, the pilot plays the long game before admitting that this is the tone of the comic. (The episode where they show what the Vilrumites were...
  23. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Wasn't Eternals supposed to come out long before Shang Chi? Then again at this point Marvel is probably scheduling the plague movies just so they lead into the Disney+ shows properly. And yeah, I sure as hell won't be paying $30 to watch a prequel that (as far as anyone knows) just sets up...
  24. Wombat

    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    I honestly think one gets traded / cut before the preseason is over. I'd be very interested in seeing how much of their contracts are signing bonuses (which apply to the cap now) vs. per game salaries (iirc, those apply on a by weekly* basis), vs end of season performance bonuses (which would...
  25. Wombat

    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    I can see the Patriots concluding they can't draft one of the top QBs without burning too many draft picks to move up, but $14Mil for that level of performance? That just doesn't seem wise, unless Darth Bill is using whatever he has available to make one last try before retirement. To be clear...
  26. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hey, I logged on yesterday. I haven't today and didn't even summon the mount, but I am sure I will one of these weeks!
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    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    The TV rights deals are weird, networks like CBS get a significant percentage of their total ad sales from the ads that air during NFL games... but also send a significant percentage of their operating revenue to the NFL for the rights to broadcast those games. It's more a sign of the continued...
  28. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    To be clear, the covenant 'content' ended weeks ago. Blizz has finally become mercenary enough to acknowledge that pets, mounts, appearances, etc. are the only thing with any longterm 'value' and have locked them behind timegates or covenant specific drops (to artificially cut the number of...
  29. Wombat

    WandaVision

    Some the special effects were very dodgy in this episode specifically. The question being, did this episode just not get finalized pre-covid, or is this already exceeding the budget for the Marvel TV shows? Using Evan Peters for Quicksilver and having him just be "Some Guy" that exists in the...
  30. Wombat

    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    Just so everyone is clear, game 17 was agreed to in last year's CBA. Game 18 would need the next CBA in 2030.
  31. Wombat

    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    Every professional observer on Earth thought the Texans would release him, as his salary wasn't worth it without a paycut, which Watt clearly has too much pride to take, hence his 'forcing' a release prior to being cut. The Cards have to hope they get a good run of health out of Watt, as his...
  32. Wombat

    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    Well, yeah, it was assumed it would be cross-conference and based on last season's rankings, the only question is which of the three other cross-conference divisions (since you play one of the divisions naturally every year) would be the one your division gets this year. Kaines, it won't be...
  33. Wombat

    WandaVision

    I will point out that if Sword dude could locate Fake Vision with his Vibranium tracker a couple episodes back, then that implies Fake Vision's body is real enough to have atomic decay?!? I am assuming Vision, the kids, etc. are all real matter, but only while they are in the Hex.
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    WandaVision

    Bettany's reference could be to whatever mutant collects Pietro and brings him home, or we get a sneak peek of the Dr Strange 2 villain and they've just kept the casting under wraps. Has Bettany worked with either Magneto before? Mahes, that was the Sword headquarters, not the (levelled in...
  35. Wombat

    WandaVision

    Retconning their powers from 'Created by Mind Stone' to 'Awakened by Mind Stone' isn't much of a surprise, though technically, MCU Quicksilver may have just been given his powers by Wanda. Only one episode left, yes? And we have to get White Vision, grown kids, Photon using powers, likely a...
  36. Wombat

    WandaVision

    This episode was a wet fart, salvaged only by the 60 seconds of 'Agatha All Along'. Then again, I couldn't care less about Modern Family.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Nah, we can kick this up a notch: flying is account wide, but flight for each zone is tied to completing the covenant for that zone.
  38. Wombat

    Blizzcon Online 2021

    If you could talk to our Community 5 years ago, and find out we havent done a single goddamn thing in that time!
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    Blizzcon Online 2021

    Just started watching this now, but the auditorium they are doing this in being empty sounds very odd.
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    WandaVision

    I can't tell you how amused I am that the show's way of telling us we're done with TV shows is to break out the MCU credit stingers. Still don't know what role Mailman and Anya from Buffy play. Still think Mailman is the witness protection guy that still remembers reality (which will be helpful...