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Binged to finish off the season this weekend and yeah I'm very sad we won't get to see the payoff for all the things they set up... I know Netflix is the primary 'broadcaster' in the UK, perhaps they would be willing to fund a 3rd season?

Well yes that is a persistent issue. There's four basic categories of self-checkout morons: 1) Time Traveller. Has seemingly never seen a self-checkout kiosk before, has no idea how the card reader works, uses cash and tries to pay with exact change into the machine. Either this person is...

I will say that something is clearly up with the chip-reader tech as I got a new card a month ago (thanks to an attempted ID theft) which is now lightning fast when used in a chip reader. I put the card in after I've scanned the last item, the card reader overrides the "choose your payment...

I totally forgot that this existed until it popped up today on Netflix. Gonna have to.reciew what was going on at the end of season 1

US mall operators must buy into e-retail and new use of space Toys R Us Teetering on the Brink of Collapse, UK Retail Sector Crisis Perfect Storm :: The Market Oracle :: Sears Strikes Second Deal With Amazon as Core Business Continues to Collapse As we exit the holiday season I can't help...

So "Music of the Spheres" got leaked as an Xmas present. This was the 'prequel' music composed for Destiny which was never released due to one of the many levels of fuckery that got wrapped up in the original release of Destiny and the abortion of the original storyline. It is more clear by...

They have a Story Group that serves as an executive council of sorts when it comes to Star Wars canon. All the writers / directors of various products in the franchise work with them to review and refine their material. Rian Johnson mentioned in interviews being with the Group for weeks...

We watched it in a group and overall we liked it. We fully intended to rip into the movie MST3k style but spent most of the time quiet and actually enjoying the film aside from the occasional "damn elves are badasses" comment. The overall story of cop + partner that encounters macguffin is...

They do need a time jump of somekind (that they can put an animated series in to cover ala Clone Wars). At this point the entirety of Episode 7 and Episode 8 have taken place over a week, week and a half at most.

Based on the terrible reviews we decided to do a group watch of this tomorrow evening. Seems like it may be riff-tastic.

Nick Carraway, the point of view character for the whole damn book, is literally Gatsby's neighbor. No character development? Lets just look at one character : Poe

Without spoilers I feel that some people are fixating on the wrong things. It is as if you are watching the Great Gatsby and coming away with the idea that its the tale of a guy who lives on Long Island and has a really annoying neighbor. On a very fundamental level that is exactly what...

I kept racking my brain trying to figure out why the woman on the First Order bridge seemed so damn familiar... its Lysa Arryn from Game of Thrones. One of those faces you instantly recognize but can't quite place.

Apparently they went to Frank Oz and asked him to do Yoda for the film and he offered to do the puppet as well. When Frank Oz offers to do the puppetry then you say YES

So we know why it wasn't on BBC America... its airing tonight on HBO so apparently a co-production between the BBC and HBO

Rian Johnson employed the age-old technique of 'show don't tell' to good effect. This is why he got his own trilogy. I love Star Wars but the movie series has been absolutely crap at communicating with the audience other than blatant exposition. Take Vader for example. How do we know he...

Their QA on this whole 'Fated Engram' business must have been craptacular...

Starkiller Base comments spoilered for reasons of Last Jedi context

As the day goes on and I talk to more people about the film I find myself liking it more and more, even when talking to a close friend who loathed it. Even with other movies that there was a division of opinion it is usually : "I liked it because X" "Really? I hated it because Y" "Eh I can...

Heir to the Empire has an important role in the meta-fiction of Star Wars in that it launched the books which kept much of the saga alive during the 'dark times' after ROTJ. It is, however, not good. Thrawn is a great character, but otherwise the story is garbage and set the stage for a whole...

When people use the exact same points to explain why they loved / hated the movie then you know its gonna be a bumpy ride in terms of social media.

Most of you were likely not alive when The Empire Strikes Back came out and it was a radical massive departure from the first movie to the extent that many people did not like it. It didn't adhere to what they thought Star Wars was and rubbed them the wrong way. This movie is very much in...

I enjoyed the movie. It was certainly longer than the others and had quite a bit more actual plotline / character development within it as a result. To be honest it felt like a 4-5 episode sequence from Clone Wars or Rebels in that there were several thematic movements in the whole movie which...

I wonder if they will sneak the X-Men, or even the Fantastic Four, into a post-credit sequence of Infinity War....

For a person who has never played a Monster Hunter game but who really liked Horizon Zero Dawn (which seemed similar-ish except the monsters were robots) is this a good thing to play co-op with buds? Winter is coming and it'd be nice to have a vegging-out game to play on the PS4.

Casting is certainly on point for this. Chris Meloni was Detective Stabler for so long that he is imprinted on the public conscience as "ex good cop" with just the barest hint. Certainly fucked up, but in a fun way.

Eh Horizon is still winner in my book. Mario and Zelda are fun but they are Mario and Zelda... in many ways largely unchanged for the past 20+ years.

So the premise is that it's a couple years later and the island that they spent serious bank turning into a massive theme park is so volcanically unstable the whole place is gonna go up in a matter of days? I mean sure yeah natural disaster and all that, but magma hardly sneaks up in people...

Okay Frank needs to stop getting shot/stabbed/etc. In the last few episodes he leaked out at least a small elephant's worth of blood and still manages to not die.

The Last Jedi "seasonal" content looks visually interesting and they seem to have implemented scenes from the movie quite well. They are also continuing the single player campaign which bridges the gap between ROTJ and Force Awakens so I feel the need to play that at the very least

This implementation of Kid Flash has been a waste to be honest. He's just not that interesting a character. I can understand it since they took Wally's personality from the comics and grafted it onto Barry...but still very underwhelming.

Renarin is on his own special plane of existence. I know Sanderson has stated that Renarin exists somewhere 'on the spectrum' but even still he's got all kinds of weirdness going on. Personally I was let down that there really wasn't a lot of new Radiant stuff going on. Lots of 'lashing'...

So looks like they dumped the entirety of Firestorm now... I thought maybe they would replace Victor Garber (who honestly stayed around a lot longer than I expected someone of his caliber to) with the younger version played by the other guy... But instead they just dumped Jax as well. I guess...

I thought it was funny that Russian officials threatened to boycott if the results were too damning... I can only imagine someone chuckling to themselves "go ahead and 'boycott' after we banned yer cheating ass" Full disclosure : I don't consider what they did to necessarily be bad, I think...

Well they do talk about their history being more than Swiss cheesed. I would think it more likely this was Thanos related if the show was more tied to the Infinity Gems plotline.

I genuinely have a hard time keeping track of all the Cosmere stuff. This is normally the sort of thing I'm all crazy about in other genres but for some reason I can't get a clear mental picture of what is going on and who is what

Cengage is one of the major college textbook publishers. They are like number two behind Pearson. I teach a class that uses a Cengage textbook (with WebAssign) and I know they use a Cengage textbook for Calculus (also with WebAssign) so between those two and especially including the costs of...

https://www.cengage.com/unlimited I've seen a bunch of those 'pay what you can to learn Javascript' etc. bundles from various entities before, but this is the first time I've seen a major textbook publisher offer up an all-you-can-learn package. Thoughts?