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I guess its not spoilers to say Yelena is in the movie. Good Lord she is the least likable character currently showing up in the MCU. Just nails on a chalkboard with no redeeming qualities. Some of these writers completely don't understand how to give a woman any "attitude" without making her...

I don't see how you can pin this on "we didn't know anything". I agree with that sentiment, if we're discussing the early days. But people were still talking about taking ivermectin in like 2022. Hell, I bet theres somebody whos posted about it even since then. Its a blatant contradiction...

Saw it this weekend. Very good, one of the top Spiderman movies, among the better MCU movies. The power creep/girlboss objection is dumb. Until the event, literally all she does is This is obviously well within the comic book abilities of a standard mutant telepath. After the event, Its...

Yeah. I called it a rorshach test earlier but that was wrong. Its simpler than that. Its "do you understand the friendzone phenomenon or not?" This was blatant, obvious, crystal clear friendzone behavior. And its necessary. People who somehow misread that scene miss something fundamental...

Ah, we're back to Schrodingers COVID! Simultaneously so fake it didn't kill anyone, anywhere. BUT also so dangerous it was reasonable to take veterinary or Indian deworming medicine to prevent its terrible effects.

End of last season and beginning of this one were both really weak and weird. And the hairdresser on this show has way too much creative control. The captain and first mate increasingly look like something from the Capitol in Hunger Games. Its right on the edge of too much girl power, and...

Good thing no one around here ever complains about or criticizes women or those of us whose wives are women might leave (In case its not clear: Sanrith. I'm making fun of Sanrith here)

No, its the retconned explanation shoehorned onto him after the fact. The central disagreement between him and Charles stands on its own regardless of this dumb add on.

would be great to get a non-holocaust magneto. It was always the least interesting part about him and distracted from the much more interesting side of his philosophical disagreement with professor X.

Pretty wild how this board went from "covid is just the flu" (which kills people every year) to "your loved ones didnt die of covid" The danger of a disease can be wildly overblown and it still kills some people, especially the old and sick. Sorry to hear about your parents.

Yeah but they need record profits. Do Americans need regular profits? I mean Americans don't even have shareholders!

you've read this rant before. you'll read it again. because apparently fucking Microsoft will never figure this shit out. I've been using Windows what, at least 30+ years? A shitload of different versions across an asston of different machines. And every so often, perhaps a few times a year...

On radiation: as I recall, it worked like this. Their planet had an extremely strong magnetic field that protected them completely from radiation. They never left the planets magnetic field until the trip to Tau.

This is just unwatchably bad, and thats coming from someone who actually liked the dumb premise and watched the whole original series. I'm not sure if the writers have ever watched BBT. Or understand how humor works on Earth.

It really is a little annoying. I don't think theres a single science question asked in this thread that wasnt directly addressed in the short, accessible book.

Eh. Women say shes hot, but women literally said Michelle Obama was pretty. (I know this sounds insane but really, its a widely held opinion among women). Volumes have been written on this phenomenon. They arent saying shes hot because they think shes hot. Beta Gen Z males say they agree...

I'll admit it sounds like a reasonable way to work around it.

Oh, if they *explain* it thats alright. It surely wont lead to a decade or two of raceswapped casting.

Wat? That scene was crystal clear. 1000% friendzone. This is an interesting Rorschach test. I watched part of your clip. I see that the director intends ambiguity on this point. But what I'm saying is, watching that scene, it didnt seem even a little bit ambiguous to me.

The movie was every bit as good as the thread says it is, and the books even a little better. Although its such a faithful adaptation and the book is pretty short, so there isnt even a big difference.

Yes. It was obviously a "what if you could wish your way out of the friend zone" scenario. Which made it much more interesting, because it tempers the sympathy you'd otherwise feel for Nikki. Crystal clear that she knew he liked her but was just doing the "make you my servant and pretend I...

Just a great movie. Its really hard to find anything to criticize. Pretty amazing what they can pull off with a budget of this size with the right story. Not much of a horror movie, but a great movie nonetheless.

The guy writing this tweet is exactly right.

I don't see how you make a second season after that "infinite jasons but not infinite every other traveler" twist. Retcon the ending and it could work, but I don't see how you multiverse retcon that away. Guess I'll be tuning in to see how they handle it anyway. First season really was great.

Imagine being that ignorant about the culture you grew up in, and then logging onto the internet to brag about your ignorance.

Eh, doesnt really seem like the same thing. Bill Murray wasnt playing Ebenezer Scrooge, inhabitant of 19th century London. He was playing a modern (80s) TV executive. Depp is cast as Ebenezer Scrooge, inhabitant of 19th century London. The reservation I am expressing is that I fear he'll play...

Yes. Completely aside from the IT subject itself, I've noticed this too since LLMs became a thing. An awful lot of people are just like LLMs (except not as eloquent). What I mean is they have an "understanding" of the world that is entirely based on language models. Something they read...

Depp s schtick only works in cases where hes playing a character you don't already know. He always plays the same weird, creepy, awkward thing. It works for novel characters like Edward Scissorhands or Jack Sparrow. It doesnt work when he signs up to play an existing character because he...

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/5-laws-of-stupidity/ Quick and good read. A concise field guide to dealing with humans.

In all of cinema history there has never been a time when they ignored the source material for casting, but then followed the source material for the rest of the production. Never. Zero times.

Don't bother https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/15/netflixs-little-house-on-the-prairie-is-a-betrayal/

I mean if you're not prepared to jump through hoops of arbitrary made up bullshit are you really ready for what happens in the pol thread? I'm not saying the system makes sense, I'm just saying maybe it has a silver lining

I can feel the rageshaking through my monitor. Deep breaths bro. After the breathing exercises maybe you could try reading and addressing literally anything thats actually been said on the subject But first, breathe.

No, you do, just like literally everyone else. Nolan. Nolan's casting director. Everyone else on the set. Every person who encounters her on the street. Thats what fascinating about this emperor has no clothes phenomenon. In the affected part of the population, this psyop has overcome forces...

Havent seen it, don't know or care about movie industry financing details or rottentomatoes algorithms There is no fucking way thats a real 96% audience score. Zero fucking chance. Not even a possibility worth considering.

At the current rate, it will be about 3 years before society's literacy has degraded to the point that firesofheaven.org will be considered fine literature - kind of like Shakespear; the average person won't even be able to comprehend such old-fashioned language written in "text".

Like I said, its at least 3. Not "one 15 second stinger". I don't know why a few of you are so fixated on this point. Look, most of the MCU post endgame has sucked. Doom is just as likely to suck. Modern MCU sucks at building up a good story. All of that is true. None of that means that X-men...

Theres no way they're actually addressing this. Helen being black isnt the problem. Helen being hideously, repulsively ugly is the problem. Now granted, she's ugly cause shes black. But the race isnt directly the problem, its the ugliness. Did they address the ugly problem or just address...

Thats fair but its how they've always done it. Starting with Thanos and just about everything since. Honestly I've never been a fan of the post credits scene as preview, but its as much as signature of the MCU as rapid fire witty banter.