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I think I enjoyed both films equally.

I think the pacing weirdness is just a signature quirk of the series.

Yes, this movie had that weird exposition break in the middle, but Kives Out did it too, just at the beginning. Having Blanc "solve" the crime 15 minutes into the movie was a bizarre choice and I remember people complaining about the pacing.

I actually liked how it was done in both movies, as it makes it different than your traditional mystery. As much as I enjoy those traditional "Murder she wrote" or "Sherlock" mysteries with predictable 1st, 2nd, and 3rd acts, my favorite thing about this series os how they change up the storytelling structure. It allows for more creative ways to tell the story and set up the clues.

For example, I love how the twist of the billionaire being an idiot was lampshaded throughout the whole movie, from his use of vocabulary, to his revelation that everything from the puzzle box to the mystery dinner was done through paid experts, his nonsense ideas he would send to the scientist that was questioned by investors, and even in the flashback when Andy's sister asked if Miles could have been the killer and Blanc was even like "it would be too stupid for him to do it, too obvious".

Honestly, Blanc's own personal reaction to the twist is one of the funniest things I've ever seen and made the whole movie worth it.

MetroidGamer666 posted...

Im watching it too!

Seems like Knuckles voice is a little off but otherwise the show is pretty good.

I enjoy that they change his accent with each multiverse incarnation. Like his regular voice is very Knuckles-like, his sci-fi future voice has a Brooklyn accent, his pirate voice is obviously piratey, etc.

Then I looked it up and he actually gets entirely different voice actors in each universe!

Also, the creators gave hints that other crossovers aren't out of the question in the next season with the multiverse gimmick (including with other Sonic shows or even other Sega properties). That could be amazing if done right.

https://mynintendonews.com/2021/02/03/sonic-prime-is-set-in-sonic-teams-game-universe-and-possible-sega-crossovers-not-ruled-out/

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Yes, it's on Netflix.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

How does it compare to Arcane and Cyberpunk?

Haven't seen Cyberpunk, only Arcane. It's definitely not as serious as Arcane, though they both have that "gotta save the world in a sci-fi future" vibe, along with the flashbacks.

Delta_Force posted...

I hate the flashbacks to fill in the gaps left by the beginning of the first episode.

Other than that, it's ok.

Also I miss Sonic Boom Knuckles.

I like the flashbacks. They tell the story like a puzzle, with each flashback fitting into the theme of the episode. Reminds me of Arrow that way. I honestly prefer this Knuckles over Sonic Boom Knuckles. I wasn't really a fan of the heavy comedy in Boom. I like more of an adventure aspect.

The flashbacks are also thr only way we could keep seeing the original side characters and not just their dopplegangers.

Tenaku posted...

Not liking the frequent flashbacks, and I can't remember anything important about the jungle arc, it just felt like filler. And I wish we got to see more of the main cast more often, not just their shatterverse selves.

Yeah, the jungle are didn't do anything for me. The sci-fi arc seems to be the dominant arc. I also think the pirate arc has potential with how it ended. I'm sure we'll be seeing Pirate Knuckles again.

No one? K then.

This show does the characters really well. I love their portrayals of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge, and especially Amy. The voice acting is pretty good as are their mannerisms seem faithful to the games. Love seeing Knuckles using his climbing and gliding abilities, Tails carrying Sonic, and the retro 16-bit flashbacks that allude to the games. And although he hadn't had much screentime yet, Shadow has also been great. "They're Air Shoes."

I love that the show is set in the games' official continuity, and the multiverse plot allows for some fresh new takes on the characters, including a badass Tails, Android Amy, and Pirate Knuckles.

The only downside so far is how short the first season is. I look forward to Seasons 2 and 3 (24 episodes have been confirmed)

Anyone else watching it?

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Why are you blaming us for something your company does to you? If anything you're arguing for Android since we're not subjected to it. You're trying to make your problem our problem. We're chillin.

Lol true

dioxxys posted...

As someone else said, their location does do X, so locations probably vary. My cousin is/was a member at Planet Fitness and said they didnt allow him to have his large water bottle.

While its definitely a stretch to assume ALL locations have a tryrannical rule and enforce stupid rules, the fact stands that no other gym gets this much complaints.

I dont HATE it because I have no personal involvement with this gym, I just thought it was amusing that they are like this.

The best thing you can do is just look at their website for a factual answer. Their published rules allow just about anything to be worn (heck, they even explicitly say bras as tops are okay), they have no restrictions on water bottles, they don't mention the lunk alarm anywhere I could find, and nowhere does it mention pizza or free food giveaways.

I'm not saying any of these things don't happen anywhere, but these are not (at least nowadays) official stances of the company.

dioxxys posted...

Y'all are entitled to your opinions but a lot of this are basic gym things. Just not being allowed to workout at a gym because you are too big? Can't wear doorags? "Your water bottle is too big?". Gimme a break that's ridiculous.

None of these have ever been a thing at my PF gym and I have in fact seen all of these brought in with no problem. In fact, their own website only restricts open-toed shoes and baggy clothing due to safety reasons. Everything else is fine:
https://www.planetfitness.com/about-planet-fitness/customer-service/club-faqs

Nowhere does it prevent any of the things you claimed in your post.

I pay $10 a month for Planet Fitness and most of your post is not true.

- They don't serve pizza or bagels... ever
- I have never heard the lunk alarm in the entire time I've been there
- Yes there are free weights and the weights go pretty high
- The judgment free zone is true. I take fitness classes there and if I go a while without coming to class due to work or whatever, the trainer won't give me a hard time about it (unlike other gyms where the trainer is like "where you been" or "consistency is key")
- My gym ranges from fitness newbies to "lunks" to Instagram models (who sometimes are filming while at the gym). Everyone is pretty chill and no one really cares what anyone else is doing as long as they're respectful
- the gym is an amazing deal for the price... the price even includes a free personal trainer which I utilize

Planet Fitness is only a meme because of its commercials back in the day. People keep trying to stir up drama for no reason and either exaggerate any lone incidents on individual gyms or fabricate stories entirely.

D Z!

The Discovery Zone!

https://youtu.be/33QpqR-fN0c

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*smacks dryer*

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Pay high prices?

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The recent Christmas movie based on this song with Emilia Clark was actually pretty amazing.

Generally, when people make these types of comments, I feel it is more nostalgia talking than an objective statement. Like, nostalgia is a hell of a drug for a reason. It makes us see mundane things with rose colored glasses because we associate it with happier times. It's easy to assume that things were better as a kid because we didn't have the level of responsibilities we donas adults, and it's easy to conflate that to the lack of technology.

Technology has not made people less social. It just gave both social and unsocial people new avenues to communicate. I am involved in my community and our local parks are filled with kids playing basketball and volleyball. Our mall (yes, we still have a mall) has teens walking around and watching movies at the theater.

And interestingly, technology has given some kids even more opportunity for engagement. I have served as a judge for robotics and drone competitions. Those things are a blast, man. These school gyms fill up with kids and families and The atmosphere is truly amazing, especially as these kids break out these cool contraptions and share with everyone about them.

I also teach Minecraft coding classes, and we get classrooms full of kids who normally stick to themselves in their room excitedly talking about their builds with each other.

We even teach social media influencing classes and all the social kids come together to share ideas about how to act on camera.

Technology is only a tool, not an outcome. If anything, Ibwoupd argue we have become more social since technology, not less.

Doom_Art posted...

In fairness, Crist was a shit candidate and the Florida Democratic Party is largely incompetent

I didn't even know who the Democratic governor candidate was until early October. And then every mailing from their campaign had a picture of Ron Desantis and talking about all the horrible things he's done for the state (which were mostly generic comments and nothing actually substantial or with actual data).

When you spend your whole campaign talking about your opponent and don't do squat to talk about your own policies and priorities, you messed up. To this day, I still don't know what he stood for as a candidate (I'm aware he was a previous governor, but still, he's running fresh now. He needs to tell us what he's about).

BB_mofo posted...

It draws a lot form the 90s movies. Even the 90s movies, they left it up in the air if they were murderers or just had a dark sense of humor. The ending for the 2nd movie, the movie ends without knowing if Wednesday's new boyfriend was truly scared to death or survived.

Not only that, but in the second movie they accidentally cook a stripper alive at Fester's bachelor party. Lurch accidentally put the stripper in before baking the cake. Upon realizing this, and a moment of awkward silence, they just shrug it off and continue partying.

I completely missed that when I was a kid and only noticed it in a recent watchthrough.

_Krave_ posted...

Watching it with my wife right now.

Massively tween-y

This. It just feels like your generic "magical high school where things keep going wrong but the kids care more about relationship drama than their lives".

The only positive I'll say is that the character of Wednesday is acted phenomenally. She was perfectly cast and her writing and characterization was pretty good.

But the rest of the cast and setting felt more like Harry Potter than Addam's Family.

deanshow posted...

You're not wrong. I work for public safety in my job and the way the cops handle rape/stalking/harassment is appalling with how they victim blame and hand wave things.

Interestingly enough, colleges are much more prepared to deal with sexual assault cases than the police because they actually have trained Title IX investigators who are crosstrained in law, counseling, trauma response, investigations, and evidence analysis. They take rape cases much more seriously than cops usually do (because oftentimes the people that apply for those jobs were sexually assaulted themselves or have a family member who was).

They tend to be so pro-victim that the federal government stepped in during the Trump era and created rules that gave alleged rapists more rights at college campuses than they had before, claiming that current college investigations were stacked against them since the standard for being held guilty in a college investigation was much lower than in a criminal one.

Prismsblade posted...

It's kind of odd how often colleges either tend to under react to crimes as severe or overreact.

And almost never seem to handle these things appropriately. Just let the police handle it and avoid the outcome of either everytime.

As someone who has worked at several colleges for many years, what you see in the news are a drop in the bucket of the number of cases like these colleges deal with.

The actual rate of successful investigations is much higher than you likely think. It's just that those don't get reported in the news because what's the point?

Colleges are required, by law, to publish their crime statistics every year. You can go to any college website and find them. You would be surprised just how much crap goes on at colleges, especially when you put all these young adults living together as they are still learning who they are (plus crap college party culture).

College conduct and investigation offices are working 24/7 dealing with issues, and most of the time they all get resolved satisfactorily. It's the few high profile cases that end badly that only show up on the news, so that's what people tend to see.

With that being said, I do see a trend of more issues at the high profile schools like Sanford and Harvard. Not sure if they truly have more unresolved issues, or if the media just focuses on them more due to their status.

Young Justice also did this kind of stuff. It was cool to see the different perspectives from the adult heroes and the young heroes.

I find that most onion rings just tasted like batter/breading. I don't really taste the onion. Does the onion inside really add that much flavor vs. just eating the fried batter sans onion?

Five years???

I named my new puppy Emmi, so there's that.

Having TSA Precheck makes the experience even better. The airport security line is never more than 5 minutes, and no having to remove shoes, belt, or laptop. Then I get to enjoy the airport amenities you stated above.

Another cool thing at the airports is people-watching. You have people wearing all kinds of outfits, from full suits and evening wear to swimsuits and pajamas, and everything in between. It's fun trying to piece together their story, like why they are wearing what they are wearing, or why they are rushing to the next gate.

I had to upgrade to the Fold 4 when my Fold 3 went caput. It was honestly cheaper to just upgrade to the Fold 4 with the trade-in credit than it was to get the Fold 3 repaired.

Overall, it's only a modest upgrade to Fold 3 (barely noticeable), but the Fold 3 was already amazing so this is still a good thing. Honestly, I can never go back to a non-foldable phone after this. I'm addicted to the size of the screen and everything else just feels lacking in comparison.

This was my favorite Bond game and my top 3 Gamecube games. The multiplayer in this was amazing. My favorite level is still that snow level with the skyrails. Half the team would be killing each other on the rail carts and the other half would go hunting each other using the RC tanks and helicopters.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Scenario A: It happens
Scenario B: It doesn't

Seems pretty clear cut to me

It's from a sitcom, but I think it explains it well.
https://youtu.be/uME4m1lD0f4

Generally speaking, I find time loop episodes to be a lot of fun, even though they usually end in a reset and rarely advance the plot (with some exceptions).

Examples include:
Legends of Tomorrow
Stargate SG1
The Librarians
Supernatural (kinda, I guess this does somewhat advance the plot later on)

Community kinda fits. It has entire episodes where the characters are cartoons or claymation characters. I think it was done really well.

This one is even more of a stretch but Shining Time Station. The live action parts were in a train station with real trains and people and then it switched to cartoon form with Thomas the Tank Engine and friends.

I wanted to like the show. As you said, it had all the pieces for another hit like Superstore. Heck, Melissa Fumero's character is basically a blend of Jonah and Amy.

But the actual Blockbuster store takes a backseat to the obligatory forced romance/shipping plot that sitcoms have to have. Even in the pilot episode they are trying to get the two leads together in a will they/won't they plot. They rushed too quickly into that. They don't have any chemistry and I have no reason to root for them.

And the background character lines feel too forced, like they are just waiting to deliver them cause the script calls for it. The first scene of the show is a customer dealing with a breakup and every character has to get their two cents in within those first two minutes. It's not funny, just cringey.

I'm hopeful this show pulls a Parks and Rec and finds their groove after a lame first season. It really just needs some plotlines that better use the actual setting of the store instead of generic crap no one cares about. The only laugh I've gotten so far was the quadruple date.

I was a foster parent. The worst part about the system is that they put in these unreasonably high standards for foster parents to prevent things like this from happening, but they still happen anyways. And then all foster parents suffer due to the big brother style monitoring.

For example, we were written up in our monthly check-in visit because our house smelled like dogs. Well, we had three fluffy dogs, which every case worker knew about when we first applied to be foster parents. Our house is kept clean, but every dog owner knows that smell doesn't fully go away unless you are cleaning 24/7. And their visits are usually unscheduled, yet we got written up because of the smell of the dogs. And two writeups under this system meant you had to take a remedial parenting class, three writeups they take your kids, no other chances.

Meanwhile, biological parents are given second, third, and fourth chances that they don't take advantage of. The girls we were fostering were all abused (with the oldest sexually abused), yet it took more than a year for the dad to lose his rights to them and the mother still had an opening to take them back if she just attended a parenting class she refused to take. Yet we almost lost them for good because we had dogs.

Kakapo posted...

My life is pretty much better each day, in many respects

This. Peak hasn't happened yet.

When people screenshare on Zoom but forget to click "share audio" and the video plays with no sound. Then they have to unshare and start the process again.

The fact that this fake trailer fooled some people just goes to show you how generic modern trailers have become that you could just take random shots from other existing movies and pass it off as something new. Just slap in some hype music and you're golden.

Scrubs Musical episode is definitely up there. It used to be my favorite, but on a rewatch, it didn't hold up as much so I'll just call it Top 5.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7hjdC8-jbw&ab_channel=RatoTF

The most memorable one to me is Even Stevens. To this day my siblings and I will still start singing whenever someone mentions either the moon launch or 1969.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qswd5cCblAg&ab_channel=Ajdouble1

Runner up goes to the Arthur musical episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcFUpq8FItY&ab_channel=jdbcakeman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyxEDSnegTU&ab_channel=ArthurRead

Error1355 posted...

...How long does PSA Pre-check last?

It lasts for five years.

TaylorHeinicke posted...

Everything in your post is accurate except this. Yeah you can at the airport but as long as you're in even a modest sized town, you should be able to find some ID stations in small buildings throughout the area. No need to go to the airport in most cases.

Interesting, I got mine in Orlando and wasn't aware of this. The website only listed the airport as the location to apply.

Irony posted...

Salt?

I remember reading somewhere that originally the movie was written for a male lead which is why the movie broke a lot of tropes for the female lead (including torture scenes).

TSA Precheck is absolutely worth it for $85. My wife and I got it three years ago and it has made flying a breeze. Since we regularly fly out of airports like Orlando, Atlanta, and Dallas, shortening the line wait to 5 minutes or less takes away so much stress from flying.

As others have mentioned, another perk is you don't need to take off your shoes or belt, and you can leave your laptop in your bag. You can also go through the regular metal detector, not the full body scan machine. The process is less invasive due to the advanced background check you go through when you initially sign up (basically when you enroll, they do a full check on you to ensure you are a low risk flyer and don't need the additional hurdles, or a "precheck" if you will).

One way this has really helped is during layovers. When stuck on a 4-hour layover, we used to get stuck in the airport since we didn't want to leave and get stuck with the hassle of going through TSA again. Now we get out at the layover, go to a local restaurant or museum, then go back in time for the next flight, again only a <5 minute precheck line.

I think the three biggest obstacles for people not getting precheck are:
1) They have no idea what it is or how cheap it is to get
2) They don't travel enough for it to be worth it
3) You have to go to an airport in person to enroll. For a lot of people, taking a whole day to make an appointment, drive to the airport, pay for parking, find the TSA office, go through the full enrollment/background check process, and then wait several days to several weeks to receive approval is too much of a headache for people.

pegusus123456 posted...

I think ya'll have to understand that She-Hulk is a sitcom. It's like seriously arguing that Zack Morris is a god because he can freeze time in Saved By the Bell or that Will Smith can alter reality because he occasionally points out things like the Banks' mansion having no ceiling.

They're not going to have She-Hulk punch through the movie screen and erase Kang out of Avengers: Postgame

Welp, there goes Lizzy Maguire's chances of joining the Avengers with her ability to turn 2D.

If it counts, my house. It's located in a preserve, so it's hidden behind the woods away from everything, yet I'm only one mile from the downtown area. It's just nice to be away from it all but still be close enough to buy groceries.

If houses don't count, my guitar. It's a Taylor acoustic/electric that was given to me when I was 17 from the Make a Wish Foundation. I've only learned to play a few songs with it using basic chords, but I appreciate the significance of it.

Another thing I'll add is that I loved that back and forth legal banter between the two of them in the courtroom. I love courtroom dramas and those types of scenes are where the show shines imo. I love the "what if" legal scenarios that could apply when superheroes are involved in the mix. They actually seem like reasonable arguments.

Chicken posted...

I love that they were building up to yet another Daredevil hallway fight scene only to have Jen smoosh them all at once

I was just telling my wife this during that scene. Even though I expected that to happen, it was still a hilarious swerve.

Due to a condition in my blood, I qualified for those free camps for sick and terminally ill children. I went for like 5 years. Was a surprisingly fun experience. We'd do fishing, derby car racing, scavenger hunts, cabin rivalries, talent shows, mountain hiking, etc. It was basically a normal camp like you see on TV except they would have occasional medicine breaks for the campers. I always felt out of place there since I was the healthiest kid there but I enjoyed the activities so I brushed it off.

Now our church hosts VBS every summer so we get campers from the community for weeks of activities with different themes.