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  1. Phazael

    Star Trek: Picard

    If you want to look at it that way. But the fact is DS9 was slow and the Bajoran stuff was simply not very interesting. The moment Gene croaked, the show really took off. Most of what went wrong with Voyager and after can be directly attributed to Rick Berman. I wonder what trek would be...
  2. Phazael

    Dark Alliance (Drizzt and co in Icewind Dale)

    Many games of this genre offer couch coop. The recent warhammer ones did, Don't Starve, and some other remakes do (Dragons Crown, Secret of Mana, ect), as an example. ITs just tripple A titles want sales numbers and there is no money in spending the effort to make a decent couch play...
  3. Phazael

    Star Trek: Picard

    Aside from TOS, DS9 is probably the most rewatched trek in history. There have been articles on it being a syndication power house, even compared to TNG. I credit Ron Moore and his ability to adjust to the talent at his disposal (Andrew Robinson and Jeffery Combs being the best examples) and...
  4. Phazael

    Mongolian Deep Throating

    The only part of this I believe is that you spent your time off deep throatting.
  5. Phazael

    Black Widow (2020)

    Did you watch any movies in the 80s and 90s?
  6. Phazael

    Vanessa's Tranny AMA Blog Thread

    So wait, after Fucker body slammed him over his photoshopping, he ran off to get validation on Facebook?
  7. Phazael

    Black Widow (2020)

    In the pre soy era, back when bush was still a thing.
  8. Phazael

    Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy GOTG from Square Enix

    Not totally terrible, but one would think with Squeenix's deep pockets, their relationship with Disney, and the corona lockdowns they could have gotten the actual cast to do the voicework for this.
  9. Phazael

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    Yeah I am using Morinth on my current run and she is good in combat, but a walking cliche worse than her mom in terms of character design/development. If you use her you lose some readiness and end up having an extra Banshee with her name to fight at the Ardat-Yakshi temple in ME3. In terms of...
  10. Phazael

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    ME1 had better storytelling and a more epic feel to it. ME2 was basically "get the band back together" the video game, in terms of plot. And it felt much smaller in scope and influence (collectors picking on humans from behind a single gate vs direct reaper threat to entire galaxy) which was...
  11. Phazael

    Mass effect Remastered - Legendary Edition - 2021

    Wife got this for me as a surprise gift (was not going to toss money at EA myself) and I am chewing it fairly fast. Doing the Infiltrator Renegade on Insanity thing, playing on a PS4 pro. The performance is vastly better (ME1 was amazingly improved), but there are some bugs with the way...
  12. Phazael

    Cruella (2021)

    There is no way that movie made numbers to justify a sequel. Even the leftist POSes I know avoided this shitshow. I literally know no one who has seen this thing.
  13. Phazael

    The Mandalorian

    Maybe, but in that LARP she probably has photos of Iger, Lucas, and Speilberg boning kids on Epstein's island ready to be released via deadman switch.
  14. Phazael

    The Mandalorian

    They have been gradually clipping her wings after she shit up the franchise with the latest trilogy and Soylo movie. This is compounded by her alienating every single director she has worked with who is not a complete yes man. She had lots of social pressure, because the mouse is trying to...
  15. Phazael

    Vanessa's Tranny AMA Blog Thread

    A lot of classic military acronyms and terms have made into the popular vernacular. AWOL, SNAFU, BOHICA, Catch-22, and Frag being among my favorites. Also, pretty sure Manessa will keep circling back once he dries up whatever his alternate attention whoring community is. But I agree with...
  16. Phazael

    Mental Exercise: Games where the plot is primarily exposed via found recordings.

    If you are super old, Starflight 1 and 2 was a lot of finding history on dead worlds (including earth itself) to piece together what was going on. That is really the first one I can remember doling out the plot that way. Both are excellent games, but dated of course.
  17. Phazael

    Mental Exercise: Games where the plot is primarily exposed via found recordings.

    Same with Bloodborne. Back in the day System Shock 2 was mostly told through computer/journal entries. Neir 1 and 2 had a fair amount of its story and lore tucked away in notes and item descriptions as well.
  18. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    I wanted to come back to this after taking some time to think about a reasonable response. But I think it basically comes down to your age and environment influencing your opinions on this topic. Remember the primary argument several of us are making is not about success or relative popularity...
  19. Phazael

    Board Games

    Today is crunchy euro game day at our house. Hans Tutanica, Scythe, and Birmingham Brass are all on the menu.
  20. Phazael

    Vanessa's Tranny AMA Blog Thread

    Best part of this photoshop derail is he clearly knows the truth about himself or he would not have to photoshop the fuck out of stuff. Nothing I could come up with would be as brutal as the mental gymnastics warm up he must go through every morning when he walks up to the mirror in the...
  21. Phazael

    Blaster Master (What the &#%& am I looking at?)

    I run this game on an emulator PC and its still pretty fucking fun.
  22. Phazael

    The Green Knight (2020)

    Basic Rathbone was specifically cast because he looked like Sherlock Holmes. That was in the first era of talking movies. This is not a new thing.
  23. Phazael

    The Green Knight (2020)

    I honestly didn't either..... until the Witcher cast the ugliest hook nosed uggo as Triss, after putting the slurpy slinger in the role of Yennifer. I was already full on rustled by the time we got a member of a race notorious for not being able to swim being cast as Ariel in the LA little mermaid.
  24. Phazael

    The Green Knight (2020)

    I was speaking more to characters that are specifically red head in their source material. I think the drugged out townie ginger from GoT playing phoenix was the last time they cast an actual red head in a role where that was the case.
  25. Phazael

    The Green Knight (2020)

    I think you misspelled Immigrant or Invader, because those are the only two options for that last case. Guess which one Lennindoritos is....
  26. Phazael

    The Green Knight (2020)

    Plus its anime, so every character ends up as an old businessman reincarnated into the body of a 13 year old girl.
  27. Phazael

    The Green Knight (2020)

    Lots of ethnic Germans, but they are mostly drawn from neighboring (read white) regions that originated from the same people in the distant past. Jews on the other hand, are the vaguest group as it can refer to race, culture, or religion. It can refer to any combination of the three. And it...
  28. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    PS- Ozzy, Plant, and Daltry also were phenomenal writers with strong voices. That's a better barometer for greatness as a singer, I think. But again, some of the most prolific lead singers in music history were also instrumentalists (even Freddy was a great keyboardist) so there is something...
  29. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    There are clearly some rappers/hip hoppers who are better than others (usually the white ones LOL), but unless you want to roll funk in there (and again Chilli Peppers were as good as anyone despite being honkies), I would put the most talented hip hop/rap person ever to exist up against the...
  30. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    Yeah a condition that makes you interpret reality incorrectly....... on a tranny. Actually one of his more plausible claims.
  31. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    So yeah I do like Queen. The band, not Manessa.
  32. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    They were also white...
  33. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    I maintain that rap/hip hop are shit because any one (black white straight gay whatever) with a fucking electronic music creation software setup and a chip on their shoulder can craft that shit. I again refer to Rockin the Suburbs as a biting commentary on this. The idea that blacks created...
  34. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    Are we already to the part where you jerk yourself off and declare you owned someone? Because trying to have a reasonable discussion with you is boring the shit out of me. Spamming out musical expressions like buzzwords might impress your YouTube manhands bass channel's dozen followers, but it...
  35. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    @Manessa Asians had a five note scale until they did what asians do, namely copy what the round eyes did and made vast technical improvements on it, particularly when it comes to orchestration. And yes, Mars IS the most boring piece from the standpoint of being a musician performing it. Three...
  36. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    Not to take the bait, but Mars is arguably the most boring movement. Saturn is my favorite because of the ethereal style of it being unique, especially for the era it was composed. But if you want to talk Mars, the part with the third motiff (starts in the Euphonium and French Horns)...
  37. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    No one alive is going to defend Disco or MC Hammer style rap. Not even black people. I agree with a lot of your points but a lot of the good music you cite is by groups that have been around a long ass time. There is no new blow the doors off people groups coming out today revolutionizing...
  38. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    No he was an actual talented black musician. But the reality is once you master an instrument, its pretty easy to be competent at the variants. If you can play a double reed instrument, you can pretty much do well with any reed based woodwind (flute is another animal). Brass instruments, if...
  39. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    Your contention is that blacks invented jazz, blues, and gospel music whole cloth without any prior influences? The magic dirt just taught them how to blow a horn and do four part harmony? Or are you saying that modern black music is equal or superior to all prior forms of music? I just...
  40. Phazael

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    Fuck off attention whore. Let this be an object lesson of what happens when someone gives you any ground. And yeah I was a music major with intentions of being a band director educator at one point. At my peak I was constantly composing and arranging for groups, as well as playing over a...