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  1. Wombat

    American Gods

    To be clear, that is the gayest the book ever got. Although if you think it's slow now, just wait until Shadow is chilling out in Northern Wisconsin for two or three episodes. Hell, I'll put it this way: while I liked AG, I only read it once. Anansi Boys I've gone through three times.
  2. Wombat

    Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

    Like I said, I'm not sure performance like this at EA gets another single player entry anytime soon, if ever. I was going to say that the only surprising thing about this is it seems to rule out DLC, but were any DLC plans ever announced? That alone suggests EA knew this was a debacle months...
  3. Wombat

    American Gods

    I'd have to think that episode was utterly incomprehensible to anyone not familiar with the book. Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I read the book, but doesn't one of the Vikings get hung in the book intro? Not connecting those dots in the TV version just turns the ending into an...
  4. Wombat

    ESPN Layoffs

    Its almost as if in an era when anyone can get scores near instantly on their phones, and most sports have their own networks, the only people that add any value at ESPN are talking heads making inflammatory/moronic statements that draw ratings. Weird. Or in other words, cable sports are now...
  5. Wombat

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    So Osweiler is the Browns starting QB then? That should be fun for him. And I guess the Packers have given up on pretending they can do anything this year other than draft mid-tier CBs en masse and hope things work out (or whenever this pick gets traded to)? Great..
  6. Wombat

    Star Trek: Discovery

    And the worst possible scenario here is that the Writers' Guild goes out on strike and CBS is desperate for material and puts this largely already written show on broadcast, it's a steaming pile of Homeboys from Outer Space, and everyone thinks "Lolz, a Star Trek TV show" for 20 years. Speaking...
  7. Wombat

    Star Trek: Discovery

    If you say one goddamn thing bad about Awake I'll reach through the internet and kill you myself. Not one mention the main character (the black gal they killed off on The Walking Dead) is named Michael? Trans(gender)Porter accident or very special series?
  8. Wombat

    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    As some one whose comic heyday in the 80s/90s rotated around the Avengers-verse (I can tell you off the top of my head that Issue 298's cover was "Edwin Jarvis - the last avenger!", Which had him hitting a robot with an umbrella), I can assure you they always sucked. The weirder thing is how...
  9. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I heard the server farm had a power outage, so they downed the servers cleanly before the backup power ran out. I suspect Blizzard won't/can't care enough on a Holiday to "fix" the Broken shore buildings, and will probably let them stay up until the Tuesday downtime.
  10. Wombat

    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    1) Isn't Odin confirmed dead by the end of Thor 2? She could always have been that powerful, just not powerful enough to handle Odin + the rest of Asgard. 2) Not a Thor lore guy, but didn't Loki swap out a fake hammer at some point? Could see Thor tracks Loki down with Strange in intro, brief...
  11. Wombat

    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    Christ almighty, how could I forget, the correct answer is: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (technically a "sequel" to A Fistful of Dollars & For a Few Dollars More.)
  12. Wombat

    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    The correct answer is Army of Darkness. Common people would go with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Depending on how strictly you define it, Logan would qualify.
  13. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I assume most people knew Distuptor was best in the long run, they just went with Mage Tower first because Flying Rep was a one time thing (before they knew how moronically invasions were designed) and they though the artifact skin was a one time thing (and thought it was something the LFR crowd...
  14. Wombat

    Legion

    That wasn't as bad as Ep. 6, but I should have known that once they humanized the interrorgator, nothing was going to be resolved. The Equinox didn't work for me either.
  15. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah, I did some WQs on my ret, and they borked the z-axis on Divine Storm for sure - if I was on an incline or the mob was tall, it wouldn't hit (though the 10% aftereffect would). #JustBlizzardThings
  16. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    On one hand, it is silly that WQs give ever better rewards while being ever more trivial. On the other hand, if WQ loot still matters to you, you don't need it made any harder. And this argument is doubly stupid when Sentinax portals just devolve into spamming as much AE as you can before the...
  17. Wombat

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    The summary is that Leagues wouldn't let Vegas allow bets on games that occur there because it would be easier for Vegas/people affiliated with Vegas to fix games that were local. That's a faulty idea for two reasons: 1) In the internet era, fixing a game hardly needs to be done in person, and...
  18. Wombat

    Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

    I thought the game ironically goes the other way. You are the colonizing white oppressors invading someone else's land... only to find out no one is native to these planets, so it's all good.
  19. Wombat

    Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

    Because it seems increasingly clear that the game was not hitting the minimum performance numbers at the end of development so they nerfed the hell out of the engine, which played havoc with the already created art. Highlights got yanked which led to the drug-fiend eyes, facial data was...
  20. Wombat

    Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

    2 was already the complete change from 1. 3 was just 2 again, except the choices didn't matter & the ending was terrible. On the positive side, a lot of people had fun with the MP added and there were at least some inventory options. Edit: As someone who's thought each BW game has been worse...
  21. Wombat

    American Gods

    Count me in the "Anansi Boys is a series I both want to watch more and think would work better as a show" camp.
  22. Wombat

    Legion

    I've been pretty accepting about the pace, but that was a long haul to learn his father is his father, yellow is SK, and his secret weapon is the love of his sister.
  23. Wombat

    Legion

    While they haven't conclusively linked Lenny and Yellow, that may just be for practical reasons - the Yellow suit doesn't interact well or doesn't show well on TV for more than a couple seconds. (Seriously, I don't think the suit can even raise its arms.)
  24. Wombat

    Legion

    It all depends on what the end game is. I'm convinced that TV Legion becomes Comic Legion at the end of the season, with Syd/SK/others dead and living in his head at Clockworks, because: 1) David's power level is already off the charts, and needs a hard nerfing. 2) That Clockworks set is too...
  25. Wombat

    Legion

    As far as I can tell: Benny was a real person (a heavier white guy) in the real world that did drugs with David. "Lenny" was a real person, with Aubrey Plaza's physical shape, that was at Clockworks, that Syd-in-David's-body wall-telefragged. I'm not sure she was ever called Lenny by name, other...
  26. Wombat

    Legion

    And The Rainbow Connection was ruined for everyone... Yeah, there's a reason I quoted a FOTC song last week... But if you want to go with old roles, the otherwise abysmal Night at The Museum 3 has both David and Mr Robot in significant parts.
  27. Wombat

    Legion

    Even with a name like (Shadow) King, that loving cinematography still didn't make me suspect the dog. Bra-fucking-vo.
  28. Wombat

    Legion

    Total viewers are meaningless and you are bad at interneting for mentioning them. In the 18-49 demo, this is still hovering around a 0.5. That's worse than all the DC shows on The CW, but was tops for cable on Wed. (Sunny got a .35 & The Expanse a .2 for context.) The comic ties and Hawley's...
  29. Wombat

    The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

    Because it wasn't built for that platform and Nintendo moronically advertises the Switch as a console, and not the portable with a TV out cable it really is. And yet fanboys still think the Switch will get anything other than Nintendo's own titles, indie digital games, and tiny budget Japanese...
  30. Wombat

    American Gods

    As a Wisconsinite I've been to The Rock many a time (I had Floridian relatives that dragged us along everytime they came up, probably because it was the only thing in the whIole state that qualifies as bugnuts), and can confirm it is trashy as hell, a recent revamp has made it waaay too...
  31. Wombat

    Legion

    With your sexy lady bits, and your sexy man bits too, even you must be into you-hoo-hoo...
  32. Wombat

    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    I was thinking Lord of the Rings, personally. (Though I've always assumed Roddenberry straight up stole the races from LOTR and its spinoffs when making Star Trek, with Vulcans = Elves, Klingons = Orcs, Ferengi = Goblins, Romulans = Dark Elves, etc.) But Poe's the thing everyone loved the most...
  33. Wombat

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    Didn't Jerrah "cut" Kyle Orton and let Kitna keep all his bonuses in the last couple years? It may not make sense to cut Romo, but there is precedent.
  34. Wombat

    Legion

    Unfortunately, David has shown his memory is not to be trusted. But I can't express how smitten I am with the Shadow King (or whomever) feeling his power at birth, marrying his mom, and corrupting him in person throughout childhood. Now that's some supervilliany. Though I expect we'll get a...
  35. Wombat

    John Wick: Chapter Two (2017)

    While it has way more kills, that infographic is flat out wrong. None of the chop shop fights are (intended as, anyway) kills - he was trying to make peace with Stormare and pointedly did not go for confirmation headshots like he does everywhere else. And again, both of the knife "kills" aren't...
  36. Wombat

    Legion

    Well the weird (and suggestive of him being a different being that is poisoning David's mind) thing is that Yellow Bastard's height changes - tall when he's attempting suicide or the rookie Syd has taken his body (and has no experience defending against him?), and much shorter otherwise.)
  37. Wombat

    John Wick: Chapter Two (2017)

    I thought it was a significant step back from the original. First you have the shoehorned marker background that drives the plot, then you have the stereotypical five-minutes-with-each-character-from-the-first, then (ironically in a movie with multiple Matrix actors), every named character but...
  38. Wombat

    Legion

    Nah, I am pretty sure everyone is real at the end - the camera goes out of its way to not show David specifically kill the one guard, which wouldn't track with the rest of the guards that get murdered in the escape. Apparently his father is the same as the comics, but I'm not sure anything else...
  39. Wombat

    Legion

    This first episode is borderline fantastic. Which could be a problem. Like all superhero stories, you have the issue of what you do once you are done with their origin. On top of that, it is difficult to imagine future episodes given the time or budget this got. (Hell, if I remember they even...
  40. Wombat

    John Wick: Chapter Two (2017)

    Meh, I thought it was one of the weakest ones they've put out in a quite a while. The complaints were utterly toothless* (I think they spent more time griping about Taken and The Matrix) and didn't point out anything new or funny. Compare it to for legitimately funny "complaints". *Of course...