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    What did you just read?

    I did one Hunger Games and one Mortal Engines and they were...fine? Got a look around but didn't see any reason to continue.
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    The Video Thread

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    What did you just read?

    A few summers ago I gave France's edgiest man, the Marquis de Sade, a try with his unfinished work 100 Days of Sodom and it was just not written all that well. I get it was unfinished and that there's a translation to English probably fucking things up but it did not impress. I have to think...
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    Path of Exile

    Adding some of Tukohama's TotA units to the campaign might indicate TotA is finally coming back. Jade Hulk spectre is go!
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    Path of Exile

    These are nice. I'm not sure lumping them together for one video was the way to go but they're nice.
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    Path of Exile

    We'll get content video tomorrow and then the full trailer Thursday. Personally I think the daily teaser is going to do a better job building hype than getting hardly any information and a GGG employee having to post on reddit explaining why there's no teasers but maybe I'll feel differently...
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    The X-Files

    Yep, that's about what I'm looking for or an equivalent substitute. I know a couple nerds I can count on to not steer me wrong but I'm not showing up for the premiere on my own.
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    The X-Files

    I'm willing to give it a try but first I'm going to need to hear some good things about it from people whose opinions I find trustworthy. New shows typically fail to meet this requirement.
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    Evil Dead Burn (2026)

    The new ones are fine but that's all they are.
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I don't remember if he said where the other films ended up and I'm not going back to look. I'm going to have a hard time believing Jay would rather watch The Gift than Evil Dead 1, The Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, Send Help, the other Spidermens, etc.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Caught for the first time. It's something I really should have caught on basic cable and somehow never did. Ivan Reitman came a long fucking way from this to Ghostbusters in only five years with Stripes in the middle. I know Meatballs was well liked in it's time but this is more like a work...
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    I'm not saying that they're equal. I'm saying that George R R Martin's writings were informed by Lord of the Rings (and it's innumerable ripoffs). Which they were. Martin's been asked about and compared to Tolkien a bajillion times. This is my take on what he's said and what we've received.
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    With Game of Thrones functioning in part as a response to and a subversion of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings I must say that never finishing the story fits perfectly. Instead of your son protecting your most important literary contribution and stewarding it through the decades you instead don't...
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Hey, Rich quit reading Spiderman the same time I did with One More Day. Spiderman makes a deal with the devil to nuke his marriage so his elderly aunt can live a little bit longer. This nukes a bunch of character development and shreds several currently running plots all at the same time...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    Boner comedy about nerds driving across country for the best deal on computer parts
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    Growing up raised by humans he became a total weeb (for Klingon stuff). His idealism runs head first in to the reality of the Klingon Empire on numerous occasions across both TNG and DS9 adding depth to the character and conflict for the writers to explore. Hell, towards the end of DS9 he...
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    There's more than you might think
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    I've got it in the "like" category but it can be a challenge. The distance between the cool parts gets pretty fucking wide. I caught the sequel for the first time last year and actually really liked it. Hal gets a character arc even. It shares nothing in terms of aesthetic with Kubrick's film...
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    Pacing? I've got your pacing right here. I was in to sci fi and horror at an irresponsibly early age so I was willing to give a lot of stuff a chance. When I first saw Planet of the Apes it was 25 years old it wasn't even as old then as The Matrix is now. It made a fucking mountain of cash...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Didn't Tuco play all those games and report on them?
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    I caught a ton of movies when I was a 90s kid that were from the 60s and 70s because of basic cable combined with nothing else going on. Given all of the available options today I can't see how young people would choose to sit down and watch any particular movie of 20/30/40/whatever years ago...
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    Path of Exile

    They tweeted no Trial of the Sekhema as soon as people saw the hourglass and freaked out.
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    Path of Exile

    I'm a little more interested in seeing if Trial of the Ancients or Mercenaries make it back in than how the new mechanic works.
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    Path of Exile

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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Band of Brothers

    I like Flags of Our Fathers and the book as well but something about the film comes off a little corny. It's off in some way. Iwo Jima doesn't have that problem. At all.
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    Band of Brothers

    You put in Chatterbox, you get a talking vagina, all is well in the world. Deep Throat? The Devil in Miss Jones? They delivered. You know with Mondo Topless that you're in Russ Meyer's safe hands. Then someone unscrupulous producer decides to take advantage of porn's good name and fleece honest...
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    Band of Brothers

    It's time to explain the birds, the bees and that Debbie never actually goes to the city of Dallas Texas.
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    Path of Exile

    There's enough meat on that tree that you could nerf it quite a lot and have it still be good for early atlas progression. We've had Rog for a while now and if they dial the tree in to somewhere around where Expedition is at that would be fine.
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    Path of Exile

    Expected but still nice to see. Having another early game atlas option is going to be nice assuming the tree isn't fucked with too much.
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    Path of Exile

    I'm a sucker for the scion so I'm all for them getting access to their Phrecia ascendancy. The only drawback I could think of for core Scavenger was it would add a lot of junky Flame/Flesh combos and dilute the overall pool for everyone a bit. I expected more people in Keepers to hop on the...
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    The Fighting Game Community Thread

    A bold design decision.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    They had been married since '91 with the eventual divorce in '99. I know it was a time before the smartphone but "fuck me in public in this leather bar" is some real dumb shit for someone with political aspirations. Bro had to know her tastes by then and pushed anyway.
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    The Fighting Game Community Thread

    Is it as accessible as League of Legends was in comparison to DotA? If the inputs and timing are mechanically demanding then I'm not sure how the free to play microtransaction model was ever going to work.
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    The odds that it does not eventually end up in the hands of someone willing to dig up the corpse and make it dance for cash are zero. He's fucked. He knows he's fucked. Dying with it undone might be optimal.
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    The Fighting Game Community Thread

    2KXO is a three versus three Japanese style tag fighter. Those games are incredibly complex. It was never going to have mass appeal.
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    "There’s supposed to be another Fire and Blood book" Martin, Fire and Blood fucking sucked.
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    Path of Exile

    There are striking similarities but I always thought pornhub was a meme
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    I finished up A Stitch in Time and for someone who regards DS9 as their favorite Star Trek series it exceeded all expectations. As Garak's memoirs and gift of sorts to Bashir it's both prequel and epilogue taking place along different times in his Garak's life through childhood to the end of the...