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  1. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    This is why I am not going to crown the Cowboys - way too easy to imagine the Giants /Redskins handling the Lions / Falcons and then coming to town to upset a Cowboys team out of rhythm from the bye and starting off slow (not to mention the Seahawks afterward for all the NFC marbles). I can't...
  2. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    No offense, but if it is taking you this long to finish us (I think I might be the dime CB next week), you're not going anywhere either. Sure, someone has to get the second NFC wildcard, and your only opposition is, what, whomever doesn't win the North out of Lions/Vikings? But let's be...
  3. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    I don't pay attention to the College ranks, but I thought their were no sure-thing QBs this year? It's just the Browns luck they have #1 totally on lock and have the likes of this Trubisky to pick from. Also note that I am spending more attention on QB prospects for some other team than...
  4. Wombat

    Hell or High Water: neo-western from the writer of Sicario

    I've said it before, it's been a borderline bad year for movies, and while I can immediately rattle off a Top 4 of Cap / Deadpool / Nice Guys / Hell of High Water, I can't even come up with a #5 that doesn't make me immediately go "Wait, seriously?" Now that this thread has turned into 'Movies...
  5. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    That Rams/Jets game was everything you expected it to be, wasn't it? Also, the Packers suck again. Crown the... Lions? Man this year is confusing.
  6. Wombat

    Doctor Strange (2016)

    I finally got around to seeing this. "Did you think Ant-Man wasn't formulaic enough? Well, we've made all the humor terrible while bumping the 60's LSD psychadelia to 13." I'd still put it at a 7/10 or so, but that's mostly because it's been a terrible year for movies. Edit: I forgot to...
  7. Wombat

    Hell or High Water: neo-western from the writer of Sicario

    Just to reiterate: This movie's pretty good, it's a bummer it didn't get more coverage, and you should watch when you have a chance. (I'd put it in spot 3 or 4 for me for the year: Definitely below Cap America 3 and Deadpool, fighting with The Nice Guys for #3.)
  8. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    Apparently Norv's kid (Scott) is staying the QB coach. Which means there's a limited amount of bad blood there, and now makes me think it was just Norv saying "I am too damn old to deal with this mess of no offensive players I planned on".
  9. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    What the fiddily fuck? Yeah, they were downright bad on Monday, but they're still the #2 seed in the NFC, without their #1 QB, #1 RB, and half their O-Line. Like unless Turner came to blows with Zimmer/Ownership over how bad their situation is, I don't get this.
  10. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    So does Cleveland just pretend the Browns don't exist? The city is on the edge of winning two championships in a year, but with today's loss vs. the Jets, 0-16 is now more likely than 1-15. (Maybe the Ravens? Or Bills? Maaaybe?)
  11. Wombat

    Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

    You could certainly view this movie through a SJW prism, where the first movie had just two women, one an apparently very pregnant* Rosamund Pike who just sat there and was two steps behind him to deliver exposition, and the other a borderline whore, and the one black guy turns out evil. Hence...
  12. Wombat

    Star Trek: Discovery

    Bryan Fuller is stepping back from Star Trek: Discovery Sure, they couch it in "He's real busy!", but even the article references that they are nowhere with casting on this. I try to stay out of the SJW fights on the internet, but even I have to admit they seem to be more concerned with...
  13. Wombat

    Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

    There have been a lot of mediocre sequels through the years, but I am struggling to come up with a worse drop between entries in recent memory. Maybe X2 to X-men 3? If that sentence doesn't tell you to wait for DVD, I don't know what would.
  14. Wombat

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

    Some of those are just DC published as opposed to DCU; in that case you'd have to add things like The Losers (probably Tier 3) and the Reds (via Wildstorm) - and I'd put the original Red in Tier 2. Edit: Not to mention actual DCU entries like the old Batman and Superman movies, their spinoffs...
  15. Wombat

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    This is a Sony PSP, except with a formal dock and not a TV out cable. 12 years of massive technology advances have allowed Nintendo to... add removable side controllers? Again, the interesting part isn't the mobile technology pretending to be a console. It's Nintendo's still pretty great...
  16. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    I'm wondering if the Eagle, Giants, and Redskins will all make the playoffs... and wondering if that would be the better outcome for the Packers in the long run.
  17. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    Thank god the Packers are now facing Chicago's 3rd string QB - we might actually get a victory.
  18. Wombat

    The Accountant (2016)

    It's Rain Wick! Conceptually, it's pretty unique - the after-school-special action movie. But like most hybrids, I don't see it making either camp happy. There's really only three sequences for the action crowd, and the special interest crowd won't get this to major profitability. It'll...
  19. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    The Packers might luck into an NFC Championship appearance at some point, but their period as a real Super Bowl contender is probably over :\
  20. Wombat

    The Magnificent Seven (2016)

    Utterly unmemorable, though I don't remember the original either. In a Western mood? Go see Hell or High Water instead.
  21. Wombat

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    I could use some recommendations for new material. I borderline adore Niven and own a copy of everything from Stephenson, Scalzi, Bear, & Banks as well. I appear to enjoy logic puzzle world building over all else.
  22. Wombat

    Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

    I'm kind of surprised Mel Gibson got work. Note that the trailer is too: it just mentions "The Director of Braveheart", and his name is nowhere. Frankly, I haven't heard of most of those production companies either.
  23. Wombat

    Ghostbusters (2016)

    I can't believe that much internet ire was generated over this unfunny, unmemorable, unnecessary remake. This isn't some anti-women or anti-Feig sentiment - go watch Spy, which was probably 2015's best comedy (depending on how you classify Ant-Man) - it's the bizarre choices to cast McCarthy...
  24. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    Real talk: I honestly don't know if anyone is better than the Vikings in the NFC right now (I'm still hesitant on the Eagles and Falcons' defenses).
  25. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    I hope the Steelers suffer a major injury for being assholes. And if the Patriots had anyone at QB today, they woulda won.
  26. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    Lemme rephrase... The Dolphins will draft a QB and start phasing Tannehill out next season?
  27. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    Am I overreacting to say that after this game, the Tannehill era is over, and the Bengals aren't a playoff team without Eifert?
  28. Wombat

    Mr. Robot

    They almost certainly have evidence Tyrell knows Elliot, they know Elliot knows Darlene, and they know FSociety was involved. They shouldn't have any evidence linking Tyrell with any other FSociety member, other than through Elliot (though Mobley worked in an E-Corp bank branch). The...
  29. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    Christ, the Patriots are going 19-0, aren't they?
  30. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You want to hear bugs: I'm part of the crew that's stuck at 4/5 class missions, where it never hands out the 5th, and thus can't complete my Order Campaign. So I can't get my third relic slot unlocked, despite having a 46 ilevel world boss drop sitting in my bank for it. You have any idea how...
  31. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    Again, most losses (as opposed to loss %) is a marker of mediocrity, not terribleness. The truly terrible get fired instantly; you have to be good enough to stay employed (e.g. mediocre) to have a chance to rack up that many losses. That said, I don't think anyone on Earth can explain why the...
  32. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    The Packers were stuck between Mediocre and Flat Out Bad for nearly three decades. Everyone simplifies that changing to Favre coming to town, but it was really the combination of him and the Free Agency Era beginning, specifically Reggie White signing and luring other good (and to be honest...
  33. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    How is it that in a year where the Browns are even more hopeless than usual, the Rams still looked worse than them? And how will the Bills handle things? Do they really wait all the way to November 8th to fire Rex? And I can't imagine Rob stays, so they have to get rid of both of them? Has...
  34. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    Honestly, if you do know who's winning the NFC East, you should be sprinting to Vegas: the Cowboys are Romoless for weeks (though AFAIK they haven't put him on the IR Boomerang yet, which suggests it could be shorter rather than later), the Redskins got an easy schedule last year yet still have...
  35. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    I hate to have anything in the way of our (nearly yearly) pre-Super Bowl loss in the playoffs, but I admit Bridgewater is a bummer - Zimmer frankly seems awesome, they had a nice rebuild going, and I hate to see AP's swan song be with some replacement-level mess. Especially if the injury is bad...
  36. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Took too many invasions, but I finally finished off my 12th class for 100 across the board. We know when the fel shards have to be turned in by?
  37. Wombat

    NFL 2016 - <whatever Tony is doing>

    If you listened to today's Bill Barnwell Podcast (and if not, why not), he will walk into whatever city he likes, the most likely outcomes being the Jets (if they can scrape up the money), Bears (if Catler finally goes), and then Texans/Broncos* (if their QBs fail out the gate). *Now there's...
  38. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    God damn it. During invasions I'm been alt-tabbing to the latest edition of the lolore, and as best as I can figure out: Earlier this year, Blizzard released a book called Chronicle (co-written by Metzen). In it, Blizz retcons the history to a simplistic Void/Chaos vs. Light/Order, with the...
  39. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm not familiar with the theories, but blowing up the Legion is kind of the logical end-game, isn't it? Other than slaughtering the Titans for creating / not creating you (I forget which way the last Klaxxi bit went on that), and I certainly can't imagine what you do after that.
  40. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Actually, Turbine finally caught on and created "Imbued" Legendaries at 100, that you keep from patch to patch (the caps on each sub-ability just go up by X every expansion). If anything, LOTRO's system is still better than WOW's. AFAIK, these weapons won't be used past Legion, and there are no...