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  1. Wombat

    The Running Man

    Even the most positive reviews I've seen say it falls apart in the third act, and even the leftists find the social 'commentary' unimpressive. It's honestly kind of impressive that the combination of Edgar Wright and what's probably Arnold's fourth most entertaining movie (doesn't top Predator...
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    Project Hail Mary

    It looks like the movie ship has that long central section separate from _in between_ the fuel pylons (without hitting them, even when the ship is thrusting at an angle), feed differential lengths of spool (since in docked configuration, those two attachment points arent equidistant from the...
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    Project Hail Mary

    The book explicitly mentions that in a flatscreen era, any display can report anything and thus can all be interchangeable, and points out that he only has mission jumpsuits to wear. 1/10 slop adaptation, do not watch. But seriously, Grace runs into Rocky's ship only 25% of the way into the...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    To be fair, the consensus before the season was that the Chiefs were unlikely to continue to win close games at the % they did last year, and would regress to the mean with a more 'expected' winning %. I would say that the Chiefs being in 11 one-score games _already_ marked them as not nearly...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Patriots / Bills / North Winner / Colts / Broncos. That leaves two slots, between the AFC North loser, Jaguars, Chargers, and Chiefs. The Chargers _had_ a great record, but their offense is not doing well. Though the Broncos potentially resting people in Week 18 (if the first seed is out of...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Denver's defense is very, very good. If their offense was even average they'd probably be the prohibitive SB favorite at this point. How far can NE and Denver take their high playoff seeds, defensive excellence, and rough January home conditions? We shall see.
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    Fallout

    Ever since we saw the electricity-less New Vegas at the end of Season 1 (and the ruined NCR vehicles in the credits, if they're canonical), the assumption was Bethesda had wimped out and said "Whoever you picked won in New Vegas! - and then everything got blown up five minutes later, so it...
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    Fallout

    Set photos highly suggested filming in multiple time periods (pre-war, New Vegas, and show era), so Mr House scene is probably New Vegas (given the elevation, probably Lucky 38), but a personality copy like a Yes Man in show era is also possible. Voice almost certainly is a Super Mutant (we...
  9. Wombat

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Considering how volatile component pricing (especially RAM) is right now, I doubt they'll list any prices until pre-orders (if any) just before launch. Most estimates are in the $800-$900 range, but made with no actual knowledge of Valve's bulk rates with AMD, nor continued component price...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Yeah, 4k with only 8GB ram kinda requires FSR even if the video chips could handle it natively. To be clear, the mass market does not have great hardware - the most common video cards on Steam are still 3060 and 4060 families - but depending on when this comes out in 2026, this could look...
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    Malazan Book Of The Fallen

    Unless I am forgetting someone, the only repeating character
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    As someone who played Vampire Survivors this weekend (the free Balatro DLC and the free addition to the previous paid-for Castlevania DLC), I am always up for more Vampire Survivors. Somewhat odd it is its own executable - the assumption will be James Workshop wanted more than DLC pricing for...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Steelers defense can't even handle the 5th and 6th backup Oline the Chargers are throwing out. I really think its the Chiefs again for the AFC. The Broncos have no offense, the Bills have no consistency and lose to mediocre teams, the Patriots have been beating up on chumps and how they handle...
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    Pluribus

    Well, yeah, but then its not just ~13 characters anymore. The show explicitly mentioned people in orbit as well - both Y: The Last Man and Last Man on Earth added characters through astronauts returning from orbit. I _think_ we're headed into ugly philosophical dilemma territory. I highly...
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    Pluribus

    It's tough to bet against Gilligan's track record, but I don't see how you can have a longrunning show with only ~13 characters (the 12 immune and The Hive Mind). Especially if most of those other characters have indeed internalized that the world they knew is effectively over, so why not enjoy...
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    Mass Effect

    I actually hope they don't redo the original trilogy We've covered that material, and other than the ending, its hard to imagine they'll do a better job. Give us the Human / Turian war, then the biotic revolution and you have more than enough material for a couple seasons.
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    The LEGO thread - or how to step on bricks in the dark

    I think even modern Lego is too angular to ever make that saucer look good. Given that I'd never spend $400 on nostalgia items, I admit I am weirdly triggered by the minifigs(?) - Wesley is clearly Season 1, but Riker's beard is Season 2. I guess they are aiming for the most memeable /...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    The chronology seems kinda fuzzy to me - why would the cops do the welfare check if they knew he was the target of their canvas. Seems more likely to me he made comments to someone about killing himself, starts driving (probably north out of the city to do that), is distracted and commits...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah, the limitations on which bonuses scale or not limit the wackiness compared to Mists Remix. The biggest sticking point to me is movement speed. Your warband doesn't inherit it and you don't get bonuses to it from thread drops. The only source is via armor mods, which are capped at 49% to...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah, Remix is only like 25% over, AND the number of (daily clearable) raids increases each phase, AND there's some unknown catchup mechanic starting three weeks after Argus opens.There's still more than enough time to do everything before it ends. Hell, given that you can convert these...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    GB / Carolina was a windy, offensive injury mess on both sides. Only GB was possessed by the ghost of Favre, however.
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    MLB 2025: Year of Ohtani, on the doorstep of an Empire

    Like most things, delaying the money due for years if not decades into the future depends on your perspective: Option 1: Much like the NFL with Void Years, MLB is just baking inflationary pressure into their contract structure. If players are willing to take inflationary haircuts for guaranteed...
  23. Wombat

    Companion (2025)

    I watched it on a plane and forgot it by the time I landed. It's yet another "Marketing spoils the 'twist'" movie (which itself is indicative there's not much going for the movie), along with a "Emotions overpower computer memory" movie. (You can make the argument one robot was jailbroken, but...
  24. Wombat

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    No sign McDaniel is edit: immediately getting fired, so presumably they want the GM hired to pick up the new coach once they know who to go after at the end of the season. Three words for you: Jim Bob Cooter. Tua can't realistically be bounced until 2027, but lord knows The Dolphins need quite...
  25. Wombat

    Malazan Book Of The Fallen

    Finished reading. It's fine, I guess - neither exceptional nor a drudge. Erikson is taking his sweet time getting to the Karsa Firework Factory. I was honestly wondering how he was going to wrap this up - as far as I recall, only one character appears in both books, and they weren't even named...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Let's be blunt, the Patriots lucked out getting the 2025 AFC North, NFC South (hell, even the Bucs are beat to hell), and four total games vs the Dolphins and Jets*. But their only quality win so far was vs the Bills - and they didn't even manage to beat the Steelers. They're absolutely in the...
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    Malazan Book Of The Fallen

    Open app. Seven Cities. Assassins of assassins of assassins. Meh. Gonna be honest, Seven Cities is my least interesting landmass in the setting (especially since Chain of Dogs is mostly in the nameless wastes outside of the cities), but here's hoping Mallick's fat traitorous ass gets shanked.
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    We've had one game so far this week that wasn't decided by less than 11 points, and most by way more than that. Odds are the Chiefs and Steelers win by that much as well, so what a wet fart of a week.
  29. Wombat

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    The 49ers have been beat to shit but cobbling together wins for weeks, the Texans are not the first team I suspected would break that trend. Not getting that game in my area, did the Texans' D just decide to show up today? Speaking of showing up, will the Dolphins get a second win this year today?!
  30. Wombat

    WarnerMedia launching HBO Max Spring 2020

    As usual, Community had the last word in in-show product placements, as they took Subway's money... and then made a storyline where 'brand ambassadors' legally changed their name to their corporation's name and shilled on campus.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah, getting to mythic raid pickup group power level is the elbow in the progression curve, because a Mythic Trial Of Valor takes 15 minutes but nets you 100k Infinite Power. Heroic ToV might be worth your time, but otherwise just doing a daily run of pickup Mythic raids and then mythic...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Yeah, the Browns might claim two coaches this season. Which has to be pretty insulting to the Browns - "If we can beat your team, you should fire everyone!"
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    MLB 2025: Year of Ohtani, on the doorstep of an Empire

    I didn't think the Brewers honestly had much of a chance to win the series, but I hoped we'd put up a little more resistance than that. Good luck American League.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Fucking lol. Blizz actually did it again, and nerfed players with too much Infinite Power in Legion. They didn't even pretend like players had used an 'exploit' (not that spawn rates that hadn't changed in a decade were an exploit) this time around, it's just "If you have more stuff than we...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can un-Timewalking chars at any time in Legion (the square hourglass next to the character at the char select screen), just make an Alliance Legion alt, get them to 50, un-Timewalking them, then the dark irons _should_ unlock on both modes.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you are asking about the racial armor set quests, Pandaria remix (and I would assume Legion) absolutely let you level a char up to 50 to unlock that _once the characters transferred to non-Timewalking state_. I have a collection of characters, one of each race, all from Pandaria remix, all...
  37. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Movies about making movies has been a genre for longer than any of us have been alive, why not have a Marvel entry. That said, everything in that trailer is probably in just the first episode. Also, what is the point of making this a Wonder Man _revival_, if you give the new guy the Simon...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Ugh, do I really have to watch Flacco Strikes Again in person?
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's definitely some weirdness with phasing / World quests. I didn't get any new world quests for a day and a half, then once they did start repopulating, you may have to progress in that region's questline far enough for that faction to NPC to populate. And yes, the content is phased, but...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    I don't want to jinx it, but are we really going to get two complete Eagles collapses in three years?