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  1. Wombat

    Citadel

    This seems aggressively mediocre, and oddly put together all around. The episodes (at least the first three) are short for streaming (~42 minutes), but standard length for ad-run television. But the profanity (and violence, depending on the country) seem like they'd be a tough sell for any...
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Just a reminder that most of the worst written movies of our lives (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Transformers 2) were due to the last writer's strike, as the strike also covered rewrites when they ran into problems onset. Technically, the actors can adlib/ write their own dialogue, so your late...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Ergonomics have come a long way.
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    2023 NFL Offseason Thread - Now with less QB sneaks!

    Like most teams that aren't sure about their QB, I would expect them to be heavy OL and DL this year, and if things go hideously sideways, draft a QB very early next year.
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    2023 NFL Offseason Thread - Now with less QB sneaks!

    The kind required to not have constant questions about game fixing / insider knowledge, given potentially shared trainers, medical staffs, and surgeons between sports in a market. Yes, there's no difference in reality from a player making bets in the building vs in the car on the street, but you...
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    Star Trek: Picard

    I think Season 3 salvaged Picard (the character) from the gutter where Season 1 and 2 had left him. I also think the writing on Season 3 did not hold up as the season went on - look at that finale from an objective perspective, and the vast majority of the writing wasn't materially different...
  7. Wombat

    The Venture Bros.

    Am I glad to be wrong! Still going to be tough to top 'All This and Gargantua-2', but I assume Hammer and Publick and will be throwing in the kitchen sink for this.
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    Star Trek: Picard

    To be clear, Transporters as murder xeroxes goes back decades - the Hyperion sequels deal with very similar territory. Man in the middle attacks during that process though are far more novel.
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    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    What do you mean sexless, Rey and Poe gave each other googly eyes at the end of The Last Jedi.... because apparently the end of the second movie in a trilogy was when two of the three main protagonists actually met? Those scripts had much bigger problems than not having a Leia / Han analog.
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    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    Going to be honest, I am fine with them Legends-conning Thrawn (in Ahsoka) into the reason the Empire stayed together before The Force Awakens, then having the Yuuzhan Vong level threat Thrawn was keeping the Empire together for be the actual enemy in the Rey sequel.
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    Malazan Book Of The Fallen

    Return of the Crimson Guard is the only ICE book I would ever consider worth rereading, and that would be very low relative to Erikson's overall list.
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    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Uhhh... The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (TV Series 1992–1993) - IMDb
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    Lord of the Rings Online

    That's not really true. First off, the daily login bonus will give you some amount of Virtue Exp. Secondly, once you get to higher levels, many of the weekly wrapper quests (Complete 15 missions anywhere, 45 missions anywhere, 20 gundabad daily quests, etc.) will all give you virtue exp every...
  14. Wombat

    Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2022)

    The 2023 release schedule is packed, but its very unclear that the mass narket has returned to their prior attendance rates. I think we're going to see quite a few films have okay launches and, only if good reviews, strong legs, but otherwise will wither instantly, with a mountain of films...
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    2023 NFL Offseason Thread - Now with less QB sneaks!

    I've always been a slight anti-homer though, acknowledging that even at their peak they had weaknesses some team comps could take advantage of. If anything, the Packers are a prime example of the classic conundrum - is it better to have a team that is consistently good (winning the division)...
  16. Wombat

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I'm on the Ben Folds since of the fence, with , and also . Apparently I just want my Shatner villainous ("You're right, I can't commit... _to you_"), the timeline where he took all of Alan Rickman's roles in the late 80s / early 90s is probably pretty great.
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    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    Last long term schedule I saw still had Disney alternating Star Wars and Avatars until the 2030s. Everyone would much rather have Star Wars' long term plans run by Feige than Taika. The elephant being how much of Marvel Phase Four being Feige rather than his lieutenants. That they've killed his...
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    Lord of the Rings Online

    Minas Morgul, the corrupted version of Minas Ithil, a sister city to Minas Tirith that served as the final zone of the Minas Morgul expansion. The map / storyline gets a bit wonky, as you visit Mordor in the second age in the 120s and then Dimril Dale earlier in the Third Age at level 130.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    That's Mitty, the cat of one of the developers. A number of the original zones had GM rooms / Out of Bounds rooms with him adorning the walls. Also the name origin of Khonza Mitty of Kerra
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    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    I would say this is a win only if Feige was pulled back to clean up the MCU from whomever was running it for Phase Four. (Taika clearly could use someone reining him in.) Frankly, Feige properly starting up a ten year plan for Star Wars movies would have been a good thing.
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    2023 NFL Offseason Thread - Now with less QB sneaks!

    Weren't the Saints already a fair bit over the cap? I get the Saints pushing while the division is wide open, but will Carr just be a massive cap hit in year 3/4?
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    Lord of the Rings Online

    There is so much god damn geography in the game at this point, and yes, there's a lot of Gondor and Rohan. To be accurate, there's a lot of time of (especially) Gondor and Rohan, as there were (in WoW speak) point releases for Minas Tirith pre, during, and post battle. (If anything, it sounds...
  23. Wombat

    Warner Bros acquires rights to Middle-earth/Lotr, several movies planned

    Are we finally going to get our Bret McKenzie sexy elf cinematic universe?
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    2023 NFL Offseason Thread - Now with less QB sneaks!

    I thought Hot Take season was after the draft / free agency, but going with: Lions win the NFC North.
  25. Wombat

    Smoking Causes Coughing (2022)

    Dupieux is musician Mr Oizo (that one song on Lambs Anger - Wikipedia) will be true much sooner than I thought); his most well known film (for US audiences) is the absurdist Rubber (2010) - IMDb
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    SJW issues aside, frankly the old scheduling didn't make much sense in general - Marvel was going to have movies in Feb / May / July this year and then nothing until Captain Falcon in May 2024? Even if they aren't tinkering, delaying The Marvels gives the schedule more room to breathe. (And more...
  27. Wombat

    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    Now that Brady's retired, the are only two (potentially) starting QBs with two Super Bowl rings in the league - Mahomes and Jimmy Garoppolo. I would like the Bills to finally win one, but I question how long their window is.
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    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    That should end it.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Not to be morbid, but including in your long term plans someone as old as Ford seems like a bad move.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Star Trek: Picard

    Yeah, bad enough they've scorched the earth on TNG, don't bring DS9 into this. You’ve ruined your own lands, you’ll not ruin mine!.jpg
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    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    Can the 49ers injure Hurts enough to ruin the Eagles' chances in the Super Bowl? Let's find out!
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    2023 Academy Awards. No Baldies allowed!

    I'm really out of touch, but at first glance, I see a lot of the standard 'blocks' fighting with each other: Instead of a single prestige sci-fi movie (Dune, Inception) that racks up nominations but just sweeps the technical categories, you have Everything Everywhere and Avatar fighting each...
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    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    Eagles keep playing like this and I might actually have hope for them vs the Bills.
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    Andor

    I know we aren't supposed to enjoy any part of Obi-Wan, but them retconning the story to 'Of course everyone knows who the Jedi are, but the Empire thought policed anyone who mentioned them / engaged in mass propaganda to discredit them' makes way more sense than any former part of the Republic...
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    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    Even if the Chiefs can somehow hang on, I would have to massively downgrade their chances for next week.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I was going to say that joke's a bit advanced for American audiences until I saw the .de
  38. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah, while every recipe is craftable at 50 (some recipes are locked behind tradeskill talent purchases), the results have 5 quality (ilevel) levels, and you will not hit the highest ilevel on endgame crafts without maxing out those tradeskill talent trees, burning consumables, and possibly...
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    New movies that dont deserve their own thread.

    Considering how few trailers I've seen recently (I expect a ton of trailers during the NFL playoffs), I had no idea how stacked the calendar was. John Wick, Mission Impossible, Nolan, and Villaneuve? That would be a top tier year, Covid or not, then add Marvel lines that haven't fallen apart...
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    2022-23 NFL Season : Herbert's march to Glendale

    The better match is softball / baseball hits, though moat of those are youth