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Remember when Hollywood made kind of middling fare? I remember in the 80's growing up there were all of these movies that weren't blockbusters or competing in the blockbuster space that were just kind of mid-budget "good" movies. National Treasure seems like it would fall into that rank for...

I made the mistake of not getting my own Switch early on and as a result the number of Nintendo games I have completed in the last few years is in the single digits; I want another now so my kids don't have to share with **each other**. I always expected them to have another "console" out by...

Sorry, one of each for my kids and one of each for me.

When are they going to be back in stock is the bigger question. I would have bought another one at the beginning of the lockdown had I known they were going to be so unavailable. For NextGen, my purchasing strategy is: Two of each. I long ago got over being choosy. MS exclusives, though...

Arson investigators found they started in three different places almost simultaneously. Its a far more neat narrative if the government set the fires but that's not what I believe happened in this case. I think the Davidians thought they were being overwhelmed by the APCs, which were modified...

Well, of course; do we really need to talk about how horrible it is that they senselessly murdered almost a hundred people, including 25 (fake edit: Google says 26) children (IIRC? I get the number of kids between Waco and OKC mixed up, its eerie how close they were to each other, among other...

The Davidians weren't a suicidal group. I don't think they didn't set the fires to burn themselves to death; I believe they set the fires defensively to keep the APCs back. There is reportedly audio snippets captured from the Davidians about "pouring the gasoline" etc. and with the holes...

In that documentary, they think that there are sharpshooters behind the compound shooting down into Mount Carmel on the side from which the press was kept away. Many of those died in the fire actually died of bullet wounds rather than smoke inhalation or burns. The coroner decided in these...

So I haven't watched this for a variety of reasons but I spent the middle to late 90's working as a research assistant to one of the nation's leading academic authorities about what happened at Waco, Dr. Stuart Wright. Dr. Wright's area of specialty was New Religious Movements, more...

I don't know about that. Galaxy's Edge was sucking at the parks even before COVID; the toys, which made more money than the movies (7b vs. 4b) haven't sold a damn thing, and TLJ and ROS made Far, Far away less money than they were hoping for; it hasn't lost money but it didn't make very much in...

My kids, big OT and Prequel Trilogy fans, can't be assed to put the new movies on at all. For the record, I don't hate the Force Awakens but its a "soft reboot"/shot-for shot remake with lots of poor choices and wasted opportunity, in hindsight, particular after the Last Jedi, which can DIAF...

It's almost like Nostalgia + China=Box Office. That plus one great scene with Darth Vader is the whole movie. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like that they brought back the original Rebel fleet, it's got some good scenes but it isn't a good movie at all. It's tied for 3rd best of the KK movies...

You should listen to Billy Corrigan's JRE; I have way more appreciation of him as a person and Smashing Pumpkins as a band after hearing that. I don't think that anything they did is overrated but sometimes, people are more excited about an artist's first work, or the first work in which they...

But let's be real: Those later Herbert books aren't going to make it to the big screen without major, MAJOR changes. Going from [Edited for stupid mistake] Max von Synow to what will probably be a lesbian black woman, though? I bow to no one in my love of Dennis' movie making but this change...

I am here to read about how they are killing one franchise, (again) not to spill over into how they ended another so poorly.

Now show me pictures of the other ~3,499,995 other registered voters in Wisconsin and we might have a deal.

I have it as 1 as well.

I was well and truly shocked by The King in a good way, all I knew about Chalamet was the Italian gay lover movie; and after watching the King, I think he is going to be good in this. He does need to fill out a little bit but I don't think that will be an issue for the movie.

These three movies should have been the easiest 7 billion that Disney ever made. Instead we got "Reskinned Memberberries", "Fuck You The Star Wars edition" and finally "Who Gives a FUCK, A Starwars Story". Now a whole division of IP is a smoldering ruin and we need 3-5 years off from it to...

This was meh/ok to good, I'm sorry they skipped another book in the series to go right to the end of the books. I should put this on my list to read, as the world seems great. The actor playing Poe and the character are amazing; The "side" cast and Kinneman was my favorite bit about the first...

It's amazing that they made something that was so good on the surface and such a nothing long term. Danger of the Small team/Kickstarter Syndrome? It seems, and I haven't played it long enough to experience this myself but I hear ok things about it that No Man's Sky made a comeback later on...

HAHAHA I am one of those people who has to be worried about surviving, a diabetic with a compromised immune system and two kids; do I get to be worried about being culled?

Exactly! "Woke" isn't making a female-lead superhero movie. These are the same "women-haters" who made Ripley, Sarah Conner, Blade, Trinity, etc. icons for decades. These money people in Hollywood, though, are tied to formula, and pattern of hits, and if they haven't seen something like "X" in...

So I have been playing, and love the moment to moment playing, the gameplay "loop" as it were but OMG even in offline, the bugs are eating into enjoyment considerably. I just can't stop playing the fucking thing until I finish the campaign, and then I might not play it again until it hits REAL...

So, I have just been looking for something I enjoy playing at all lately, honestly. I tried this out and its fun, hey. Eventually for games where the gameplay is fun but they have released too soon in the current dev cycle, or haven't tested the architecture for scalability, or any number of...

You don't *neeeeeeed* more than two; I don't know what this game wants/needs, or what I will want for alts, etc. or how the game will play out. Some times items are the best/only way to transfer currency. So, to answer your question, its the latter. ;) It does speak to their DB issues...

I get so sick of people comparing launch Games to kings of a genre. It killed MMOs trying and failing to compete with WoW for a decade when WoW at launch couldn't compete with WoW at it was in 2010 or whenever. This game is fun but it does have an amazing shit ton of issues. Lots and lots...

First listen take, "No Time to Die" isn't my favorite bond song (looking at you Chris Cornell and You Know My Name) but wow, that's amazing.

Man, I was almost about to bite on the Imperial Edition at full price last weekend, and now they are sold out. I may just wait and see if they come back into stock, and if not go for the kickstarter deal.

I love love love my Dexcom. It's easily the best thing in my diabetic life since the preloaded insulin pens. Just being able to watch the ebb and flow, the late rise, etc. is such a huge game changer: Every five minutes I get a reading that changes how I understand how my body is working, how...

We got these for our Xboxes when Anthem came out, will never go back to spinning disks for anything on the console (or anything else for that matter) again. This is still kind of pricey at $160 but as indicated above, this will last beyond the current gen. Samsung T5 Portable SSD - 1TB - USB...

An drummer of such almost unparalleled skill , in one of the best/classiest bands in Rock. I was always amazed at how effortless he made his displays of virtuosity appear. RIP.

This had to be sold to WB as the Female SJW Deadpool and it looks like it is going to A) be bad B) do poorly. Here's to hoping it scares off Marvel's coming SJW phase.

I also finally got around to watching this today and for me it was a mixed bag: better than 2 in some ways, worse in others and both are much worse than 1, which is one of those "lightning in a bottle" almost perfect movies where more isn't necessarily better ala The Matrix. Really ironic that...

They all do if you do it right...What were we talking about again? I think I would prefer Russell Crowe for Vesemir; He has a better frame for it, plus he and Henry Cavill have a real-life relationship that works for the role. I mean, I love Luke Skywalker like every kid born in the 1970's...

Take a queue from Henry Cavill himself: I could give two shits about someone's race in the walking world but many people have a long existing relationship with these characters and don't want to see that changed, in many changes just to satisfy some craven PC virtue signaling. On your point...