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  1. rhinohelix

    Shazam! (2019)

    I started to watch this with my 7 year old daughter, and in the first 5-10 min you have the villain abused by his dad and older brother, then the dad dies graphically in a car crash, then you have protagonist Billy Batson "orphaned" by become separated from his mother? Or something. My wife...
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    Deadwood

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    Chernobyl

    This captures part of the brilliance of Chernobyl in a way I haven't thought about it, in that it spans genres; forgive me if I am aping someone else in this thread. It is a monster movie, and its a disaster movie, its a murder mystery, and its a 70's political action thriller (because the...
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    Chernobyl

    Watched this. Utterly amazing TV. I remember when this happened; I was 15. It's been covered in a number of books, I think the term I first encountered the term "failure cascade" in 2001 in a book called "Inviting Disaster". Watching it happen like this, knowing what they were dealing with...
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    Midsommar (2019)

    If you go look around on Reddit in the sub for this movie you can find a 2017 script which matches up pretty closely. Based upon Hereditary, I expect this is going to blow a lot of Wicker Man doors off. On the page, it doesn't necessarily jump out at you but then if you apply what the director...
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    Deadwood

    I binge-rewatched all three seasons and then the movie again. While I stated above that you don't need to rewatch and that holds true, its even that much better having all the events fresh in my mind. Overall, the show is just so fucking good and such a great palate cleanser after the last...
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    Deadwood

    I watched it "live" as the seasons aired and several things that I had forgotten (how did she get rich, who is that girl, etc) either came back to me or were referenced in a flashback. A rewatch wouldn't hurt, though, as others indicated but so much of that detail is left out, it's only the...
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    Deadwood

    This is how you end a fucking series, you star wars making san fransisco cocksuckers. I forgot what excellence with an American accent sounds like. "What, we don't have a whole season? I can do it in a two hour movie." #watchthis #micdrop You really have to have seen the series but its just...
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    Keyboards & Mice

    I had a full Razer Chroma setup going: the Ornata, the Naga Chroma (my forever mouse) and the Firefly Chroma mousepad. I hated to break up the band but I finally took the leap and got a Roccat Vulcan 100 and I love the hell out of this KB. ROCCAT Vulcan 100 - Mechanical RGB Gaming Keyboard...
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    Guild Wars 2

    I don't know if "long" is the right term; I just logged in and showed my daughter GW1, as we had been playing GW2 and she wanted to see what the original looked like. Given that it takes years to build, that we don't know about GW3 is telling, though. GW2 at launch might be my favorite non-EQ...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I wouldn't disagree with that, although Lucas is also guilty of getting high on his own supply. The thing that is going to haunt D&D is that I and many others won't forget the sting of this travesty for a long time, though, and the funk of this will follow them for the rest of their careers...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    As seen elsewhere, Speaking of shit that didn't mean anything, "There must always been a Starbucks in Winterfell".
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    r/freefolk I don't know if that's the way its going to turn out but it surely seems that all signs are pointing that way. I think that is part of why GRRM won't ever finish the series: He can't stand the reaction that people will have to the end he has in mind for these characters, or maybe...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Spoilers for the last three episodes are up in the usual GOT places on reddit from last week. They were previously unbelieved and dismissed but tonight's episode was 100% predicted and people are going batshit over what that probably means for the end of the show. Normally I don't care about...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    It certainly was.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Nostalgia post from 2018? Keep hope alive, I guess. I get the frustration with the strategic plan; but in one respect, the Dothraki don't exactly have a prime use in a battle like this; they are fast attack close combat cavalry that use fear and mobility against human armies; when do you use...
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    Avengers: Endgame (2019)

    Who the hell is on the march about "representation"? Who artificially sets up a scene on the battlefield where just women happen to be around the character portrayed by the most outspoken far-left radical actress in the movie? Its not the people complaining who needs to keep their "dicks" out...
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    Avengers: Endgame (2019)

    What everyone else said.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    As they went from printed material to Show-only, Tyrion went from awesome hero of the blackwater to failure of Mereen to stupid Hand.
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    Avengers: Endgame (2019)

    This is where we are going to see Avengers: Endgame. So choice, I highly recommend them. Its the only place we go on opening days. IPIC theaters Another 360 Degree view of theater
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    This April fool's internet bullshit was so cool (gag) in 2001 but now that it has become my primary source of information and entertainment, 1-Apr just sucks and blows at the same time. This forum is just the early warning system that reminds me I am going to avoid everything tomorrow, ffs.
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    Bioware's "Anthem"

    The aggravating/frustrating thing about Anthem is that the bones of a good/great game is there, behind the broken math, the shit UI, constant load screens, the poorly paced story, etc, etc, etc, etc. Its the crippling effect of a thousand poor decisions. The gameplay is enjoyable I really...
  23. rhinohelix

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    So I finished the main story last night..and just like the rest of game, it was a kernel of good/great with so much wasted potential. The game's coda was patently insulting in its understatement. All of that wasted money and time for something half as good as it should have been. The...
  24. rhinohelix

    The Division 2

    I have an X1X but also have a PS4Pro, and ended up on Team Sony for Division 2. After playing through the Theater District opening rescue, all I can say is this is how you looter shooter. When did Ubisoft become the best publisher in gaming?
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    The Division 2

    Why are so few people playing the Xbox One version? I have a buddy trying to coordinate versions with but I can't get him to get a PS4
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    Bioware's "Anthem"

    Destiny was in 100x better shape than this, the only drawback being you didn't get to fly around in cool armor.
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    Hate to tell some of you little bits of sunshine but if you don't act now, the culture war is coming for something you love. It may not be today or tomorrow but its happened or will happen to everything. Science Fiction via the Saturn Awards? Check. Gamergate/PC games? Check. MtG? Check...
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    Its the best line: "The last time I trusted someone *I lost an eye*".
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    Openings are one things but movies don't make huge box office on openings. BvS had a monster opening and died without crossing the $1B mark for two of the most iconic heroes of all time because the movie just had so many issues. Black Panther, Infinity War etc had legs for various reasons, not...
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    No offense but if want to live your life as a beta cuck, so be it. If she isn't going to fuck you because you don't kowtow to her stupid opinions about movies, she isn't going to fuck you about a lot of things. Hopefully her boyfriend likes the same sports teams you do.
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    Forget GRRRLPWWRRR!! This is the most son I am disappoint thing about the movie.
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    Bioware's "Anthem"

    This. They will need a 1.5/Gold Edition launch to recover, and even then it may not do it. The core is so much fun but there are only so many times you can shoot yourself in the foot and still march on.
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    Linda Hamilton's delts vs. Brie Larson's face is the difference between being a badass and a SJW's idea of playing a badass. Edit: Linda Hamilton's look in T2 was so choice back in the day.
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    She posted it though. Did she go from "I can't hang on to the bar" to "5 barely passable pull-ups" as a mark of success? Charlize Theron she ain't.
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    Captain Marvel (2019)

    Sadly it appears that Black Panther has tricked Feige into thinking that getting Woke will be the new Path™ to Phase4 riches. He has seemingly started with Captain Marvel to bet the MCU farm on this asshole and her ultra-radical intersectional feminist agenda. Are there no movies announced...
  36. rhinohelix

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    My daughter loves the game but has a bug where she can't get access to the Tomb of Cariff; she can't get that last Multikill for some reason. I got on after she logged off and with her Storm killed 20+ skorps by myself in under a min at a world event and still no joy. We are just going to...
  37. rhinohelix

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    I am enjoying the game but certainly taking my time, only playing when my RL crew is on; 18 now, mostly playing as Colossus. Actual play is still fun but as the Subreddit and this thread show, so many changes needed, to the UI, the Freeplay map, the overheat mechanic, etc. A shame they didn't...
  38. rhinohelix

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    And it can start out with a crash as a sequel because it did highly effective world building in the original. I have played a lot more Anthem and softened on it in a number of ways. The core competencies remain good and big issues remain but with time, more of the world makes sense and what...
  39. rhinohelix

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    So, having played it for a few hours now, part of me says, "This is really cool" the combat is really good. This is what it seems like they were working towards with ME:A. The rest of the game, the parts of the game built around getting to the combat, are by themselves not terrible but the...
  40. rhinohelix

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    Ut might be over the top at times but rarely do I find him to be wrong, even when I want him to be. I can't remember what game he started in on here (whereever "here" was at the time" but even in this case, I have multiple copies coming, so I will be proffering my opinion this weekend. I want...