Lurker > man101

Mead posted...

BotW was bright, exciting, and innovative. I have no idea how you could view that game as dull.

First, let's be real, it was not innovative. It did nothing that many previous games had not done before. All it did was transplant the Zelda series into a different subgenre of adventure game.

And I'm not trying to hate on it because it's different. I played it and found it extremely boring. I find watching it boring. That's not me trying to find reasons to not like it. That is my genuine physiological response to the game. It prompts no endorphin release in my body. It does not excite me in any way. It just feels incredibly generic and I imagine if it were a new IP that played exactly the same and had no Zelda assets it would have gotten markedly lower reviews scores.
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Mead posted...

This game did something new and interesting and did not follow the same decades old formula I have come to know. How can anyone like it???

New, yes. Interesting or not is what I'm arguing. I feel they made the game incredibly dull as a result of what they did. Link Between Worlds did something new also while still adhering very strongly to the formula and I enjoyed that one quite a lot.
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aDirtyShisno posted...

Ill take that as you dont even want to give it a try.

What you described essentially sounds like they're making it really tedious to move around, and since I am not in the least bit excited to do any of the little one room puzzle dungeons, that means I'm working even harder to explore a game world where I'm not interested in any of the things I'm going to find. Also from what I understand the hard mode is a DLC and not a default option in the game, so now I need to pay above MSRP in order to even potentially make the game interesting for me.

I mean if you like the game, great. I don't want to take that away from you. But it just doesn't make any sense to me why any of it was done the way it was.
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aDirtyShisno posted...

man101 posted...

MNTwins1991 posted...

Did you play it? It's one of the best open world games of all time

Yes I have played it a bit. I got massively bored. A lot of running around with nothing to do, enemies are easy as hell, nothing whatsoever to challenge me as a player. The only thing that really struck me as being well done was the physics engine. Otherwise it's just empty. It looks good, for sure, but it feels really hollow. Like they built a game world but forgot to populate it with actual meaningful content.

Play it on hard mode. Walk up to that easy as hell bokoblin right at the start of the game and tell me how many times it kills you.

Well I play no-death runs on Souls games for fun so I don't imagine anything BotW has to throw at me will be overly challenging combat-wise. But I was never expecting it to do so. (And even when it is 'challenging', it's because the enemies are simply made to be more powerful than you in traditional RPG style, not because they have very difficult strategies to read and learn. Big difference)
I'm more just bored at the lack of variety or incentive to explore. Because the game never felt like it had any more tricks up its sleeve or any secrets waiting just around the corner.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

For the record, Nintendo has already said the next Zelda game won't be like BotW.

Praise Santa.

Now to hope against hope that it's on the Switch, because I have no other incentive to buy the next Nintendo console and I already bought a Switch for only 2 games.
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DrCidd posted...

LinkPizza posted...

The Divine Beast were basically small dungeons. And the shrines were basically Dungeon Rooms...

That's the problem. Small dungeons, and a bunch of dungeon rooms spread out across the whole map.

I'm sure just about everyone would have been happier with fully realized dungeons in place of all that shrine nonsense. The "ancient tech" aesthetic got pretty boring after a while. And it was especially grating when the DLC dungeon looked the same.

Mild alterations to the color scheme don't count, either.

Exactly. One of the best parts of a Zelda game was finding a new area and exploring a new theme. Dungeons were always thematic. They had different atmospheres, different styles. Every puzzle room in BotW felt like a single room from one large dungeon. No particular variation in aesthetic. No different atmosphere.

RoboXgp89 posted...

anyone who says BotW is mediocre shouldn't be taken seriously anywhere, it won like a million game awards

That means nothing. Game awards and most professional reviews in general are a complete joke. Gamespot will give any game at least 7/10 as long as it has a functioning start button. And the game that wins GoTY on any big site is almost always the most popular AAA game of the year, not a game that was actually innovative or interesting.
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RoboXgp89 posted...

please people stop spreading this garbage that BotW is a mediocre open world game it's easily the best one of all time.

I've played a lot of open world games and I think BoTW easily ranks as the most boring of them, so I take issue with your categorical declaration.
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Smarkil posted...

It was fine. But not what I'm looking for in a Zelda game.

I think that's my fundamental hangup. You see all these reviews calling it "The best Zelda game." Or at the very least, "The best Zelda game since (XYZ)." Except that it isn't. It doesn't meet the clearly established formula that is Zelda. It uses the assets and proper nouns from the franchise but it does not include a significant portion of the content that is associated with the brand. It'd be like if the next Call of Duty game did away with gunplay and focused more on paperwork and mission debriefings. Even if it were the best military office job simulator ever and it included characters from previous games, it's not really a Call of Duty game, because it does not include the elements that everyone expects from the series.

Or that's how I feel about it anyway. Obviously I'm in the minority.
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Zareth posted...

MNTwins1991 posted...

It's one of the best open world games of all time

But it's still an open world game. With all the problems that open world games always have.

And at least to my objective eye, it's not even a great open world game. Sure it looks good and it has climate systems and whatnot but honestly there never was much incentive for me to explore. Even Bethesda games, as troublesome as they can be, have silly random and scripted NPC encounters, a variety of dungeons and caves and cities and whatnot to find, bizarre easter eggs, etc.

In BoTW it felt like I was just aimlessly wandering through barren landscapes looking for another of the same enemy I'd already fought a bunch of times or a little dungeon with the same general visual aesthetic and a puzzle involving an orb or something. I never reached the top of a hill and was in awe of something I saw on the other side, which I have done in most other 3D open world games at least once.
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Sefrig posted...

man101 posted...

I played it for 2 or so.

oh lmao you haven't even played it then. go back and play it

I picked it up and played it from a file that was already started. Some really long, story heavy games can get away with not being super interesting for the first two hours. NO game should ever be boring for two hours in the middle.

xjayguyx posted...

I liked it quite a bit and I'm a huge legend of Zelda fan.. so iunno? Move on?

I'm not losing any sleep over it. It just baffles me. And if this is the direction it's going now I'm kinda sad because essentially that means the Zelda series is dead and they're just pasting the assets on a new kind of game. Which actually happens a lot I guess so I don't know why I'm surprised. Devs never want to risk a new IP, they'd rather just redirect an existing series.
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Sarcasthma posted...

When you say you played it a bit, about how many hours is that?

I played it for 2 or so. I've watched it being played for considerably more than that. I've never seen anything interesting happen. Even fighting the big ogres is repetitive and simple.
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guy12345 posted...

t's not that great. Not a true Zelda game.

Don't give in to the hype

Yeah but for reasons I can't fathom it was so successful they probably will use it as the template for all the games going forward.
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faramir77 posted...

Easily the best Zelda game yet, finally dethroning Ocarina of Time in my opinion. Hopefully this is where the series heads from here on.

This must be how people who loved the original Fallout games felt when Bethesda took over. They've literally changed the entire thing and it's essentially only still "Zelda" because it keeps the same characters and general story outline. If this is the new direction for the series then I guess I'm done playing them because it's not really the same game at all.
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Sefrig posted...

if youre approaching it looking for a zelda game like the others youll be disappointed because it is very highly an exploration game

That answers my question then I guess. Also explains why my one friend who never played any of the others bought and loved it.
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Lokarin posted...

man101 posted...

Skyward Sword ditched a portion of that formula and got a lot of backlash for it.

Ha! No. Skyward Sword's problem is how exactly the Zelda formula it was that you could predict every last thing that happens.

Oh, a bow? let me guess - the boss is going to have a big glowing eye

I was referring to the fact that it ditched the connected, progressive overworld and instead just gave you a warp point to a new area whenever you beat the previous one.

Can't comment on the game as a whole because I only beat about 1/3 of it maybe. Didn't care for it. Maybe because it was also just a sub par uninspired Zelda game in general as you're suggesting.
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MNTwins1991 posted...

Did you play it? It's one of the best open world games of all time

Yes I have played it a bit. I got massively bored. A lot of running around with nothing to do, enemies are easy as hell, nothing whatsoever to challenge me as a player. The only thing that really struck me as being well done was the physics engine. Otherwise it's just empty. It looks good, for sure, but it feels really hollow. Like they built a game world but forgot to populate it with actual meaningful content.
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Blighboy posted...

man101 posted...

I can't speak from experience but I imagine having an immediate family member and the father of your kids diagnosed with terminal cancer is sort of a major fucking psychological stressor. That and Walt is a terrible liar so she knew he was lying constantly long before she figured out why.

Walt was a kickass liar tbh. Or at least he became one later on. I don't remember if it was different at the beginning.

He always takes on the same cadence and demeanor when telling a bullshit story. He always goes way into unnecessary detail. He avoids eye contact. It's actually a testament to Cranston's acting that it's so consistent. From the first time he does it Skylar sees right through it as you would expect of a couple that's been married a long time.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Skylar was a total bitch throughout. She did some really dumb shit even before she knew what was going on with Walt (and when he had a perfectly good excuse to be acting strangely)

I can't speak from experience but I imagine having an immediate family member and the father of your kids diagnosed with terminal cancer is sort of a major fucking psychological stressor. That and Walt is a terrible liar so she knew he was lying constantly long before she figured out why.
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As a long time fan of the series, Zelda games to me have a clear formula: Solve puzzles/quests in the overworld to gain access to temple, complete part of temple, get new item, complete rest of temple, beat boss with new item strategies, gain access to new part of overworld, and so on.

Skyward Sword ditched a portion of that formula and got a lot of backlash for it. BoTW discards the formula almost entirely and. . . is one of the highest rated games in the series? To me it just looks incredibly bland and repetitive and simple. Plus degrading items. Ew.

What's so awesome about the game that I'm completely missing? Or is it really just a massive case of blind fanboyism/baby's first open world game?
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Oops_All_Berrys posted...

She's such a bitch why won't she let Walt ruin his life and family?

Right? She's trapped in a horrendous situation from all sides and she starts to break down emotionally. Her behavior always struck me as totally normal.

Since the whole point of Walt's character arc is to slowly make him a terrible person and an antagonist rather than a protagonist, it makes sense that his wife would do things that run counter to his plans. That does sort of present issues from a viewing standpoint since the viewer is meant to identify with Walt and thus anything that foils him is 'bad' or 'ruins the progression', but I really don't see any other way to have her act that would make any sense.
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The problem with the hobbit films is the book was written before the lord of the rings books, before Tolkien had even conceived of all that stuff. The Hobbiy is a kid's book. The lord of the rings is much darker and more complex. But since they made the LoTR films first, and they used the same characters/actors where applicable in the "prequels", they had to tie the stories together. So what you've got is this children's story with occasional horrific tonal inconsistencies and characters who hadn't been written yet thrown in for recognition and unneeded continuity. Not to mention that the characters in the hobbit films who were not in the books are stealing screen time from characters who were, and so we're left with like half the company of dwarves having fewer than 5 lines of dialogue each in the entire trilogy. They have no personalities and are completely unmemorable because they literally don't do anything worth mentioning.

I'm not even going into the shit lazy CGI or Legolas and his bullshit magic elf phsyics. Literally the jarring tonal shifts and under developed characters are enough to ruin the film.
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darkknight109 posted...

man101 posted...

Also the bombing run in the beginning is a bigger physics clusterfuck than the hyperspeed bomb. Why do the bombs fall out without gravity?

Apparently they're "magnetically charged" to "fall" away from the bomber. I don't really like that explanation myself, but it isn't even Star Wars's worst abuse of space-gravity physics (that title goes to Episode III's opening battle, where a tilting ship somehow causes gravity to shift, despite the fact that "down" on a ship is always relative to the ship itself)..

That battle was taking place in the airspace above Coruscant, well within the planet's gravitational field. I have not seen the film recently enough to remember if there was ever some mention of artificial gravity being disabled or destroyed, but the ship certainly should have tilted and affected everyone on board.
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I think what you're trying to accomplish is sort of not physically possible so you're either going to need to make it more fantasy oriented or change some aspect of what you're building.
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I got about 2/3 of the way through the first episode of Arrow and couldn't handle the number of stupid cliches and non-realisms, even for a comic book thing.

He was on an island for years and broke a bunch of his bones but somehow he's even stronger and faster than normal, and not a complete invalid due to dozens of improperly healed bones?

He set up his secret base in the somehow still-abandoned-after-several-years but totally secure previous location of his family's business.

And the final straw: He planted money in some guy's account and his phone actually showed a gradual $0 to $whatever colored progress bar of the money moving from A to B as if money transfers aren't instantaneous and just give you an all-text confirmation screen. I hate when movies and tv make mundane digital events into "dramatic hacking progress drama!"
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CK's Shameless routine is still one of the funniest things I've ever heard and it still makes me laugh no matter how many times I go back to it. And I don't laugh at a lot of stand-up.

Burr does good stand-up but he's at his best when he's off script or just ranting about something during an interview. I don't even remember what it was but I was giggling furiously at work for a good ten minutes over something he said on his podcast once.
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I don't even care about the greater implications of the physics inconsistencies brought up by the Holdo maneuver. I'm just irritated she waited until like 2/3 of the escape pods had been shot to shit to pull it off, especially since she knew she was effectively boned anyway. She just started out the viewing window for a long time. Should've done it the second the last escape pod was launched. But movie drama.

Also Leia and Holdo refusing to tell anyoe on the ship their plan was just stupid movie logic to give the audience the idea that Holdo may be a villain or inept, and so they could have the big heroic revelation followed shortly by a sacrifice. There is zero reason Holdo could not have told Poe immediately what Leia ended up telling him anyway after they had abandoned ship.

Also who is Snoke, really? He's clearly very old and this movie only takes place about 30 years after the first one. He would have been alive at the time of the previous films and possibly the prequels as well, so why are we just now learning he exists? Someone that powerful surely should have been a prevalent character in the world before, even if he wasn't shown on screen in any other films.

Also the bombing run in the beginning is a bigger physics clusterfuck than the hyperspeed bomb. Why do the bombs fall out without gravity? There's no mechanism forcing them out. Why do they explode when hit? Why can't space movies ever learn that there is no fire in space? And even if there is magical sci fi fire, why are all the bombers so close that one of them blowing up causes a chain reaction which blows most of them up? What kind of idiotic formation are they flying?

I could keep rambling but basically the whole movie reeks of lack of script editing. It's like the first idea that anyone came up with was storyboarded and put on film without ever checking with anyone else if it was a good idea or even made sense.
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Sahuagin posted...

I've heard that a friend of mine apparently named his daughter Anakin. no idea how he convinced his wife to do that. (maybe it was the middle name or something).

"What should we name our child?"

"How about we name it after a character who slowly lost his mind because he couldn't cope after leaving home and missing his mom and eventually murdered a lot of children became the intimidating figurehead of a fascist space empire?"
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LeetCheet posted...

The Last Jedi made me lose my interest in the Star Wars franchise : /

Yeah actually even though TFA was extremely derivative it was still a well made and entertaining film. I at least looked forward to what they would do with it in the sequels. Now honestly I only want to see episode 9 to see how Abrams tries to pull the trilogy out of the pit it dug itself into. I have no emotional investment in it.
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Lokarin posted...

I could go on a big spiel, but I won't ... so here's the highlights

1. They waste the main villain, all the build up gone
2. They waste Luke, all the build up gone
3. Almost half an hour is wasted on Luke being a doink explaining all the different points of view about Kylo
4. The moral learned on the pleasure planet is wasted and immediately subverted
5. I don't think Rey and Finn even interact once in the movie...
6. They waste the secondary villain, all the build up gone
7. THE ENTIRE C-PLOT ABOUT THE MAIN REBEL SHIP
8. The First Order as a whole, except for one scene, wasted

Basically the whole movie is "how can we waste everything we set up"

Don't forget about Space Mary Poppins. They could have had that be the end, but they had her live instead and now have to write around her character being absent next film.
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Character contest has never been about good characters. People just vote for characters who are in their favorite games. Link, Mario, Ganondorf, Pikachu, Samus, Bowser, etc. are not 'good characters'. Most of them speak very little or not at all in the majority of their games, or have extremely one dimensional personalities. If it were actually about well developed, likeable characters 3/4 of the nominations in the current bracket would have gotten no votes.
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Monopoman posted...

would bore most 7 year old kids I know.

Mostly this. Apart from a couple scenes where characters are murdered most of the film is not graphic violence or swearing or anything that would warrant a modern R rating. But it's a slow gangster drama. Kids would be bored to tears.
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rexcrk posted...

The true correct ranking is:

Empire Strikes Back > A New Hope > Return of the Jedi > Revenge of the Sith > The Force Awakens > Phantom Menace > Solo > Attack of the Clones > The Last Jedi > Rogue One

See this can't be a real opinion. I get not loving Rogue One because it's not a "true, full Star Wars film" but thinking that somehow episode 2 is better by any metric? Or Solo? Neither of those two are anywhere near as interesting to watch. Hell, the final act alone of Rogue One has more dramatic tension than the entirety of Episodes 1 and 2 and most of 3, even when you already know exactly how they're going to end.
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ReturnOfFa posted...

I worked at a ramen place for 2 years and never gained weight. I'm sure that'll change when I'm 40/50, but it was fine with my metabolism. Such heavy pork broth...such thick confit pork belly.

Just because you're not fat does not mean you're not unhealthy. You can keep your calorie intake lower than your metabolism easily enough but if you're only eating salt and carbs you're gonna be dying on the inside.
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Damn, that first lady could have gotten away without paying rent for 42 years.
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rexcrk posted...

This movie is literally the only movie Ive heard of that gets praise for being all about action and splosions. Bleh.

Because most movies are standalone and sacrifice any sense of coherent plot or good acting. The reason Rogue One gets away with it is because Star Wars is so ingrained in pop culture that you already know the stakes and the major players/factions in the film before you buy the tickets. The constant action works because the plot is already established. It's not something most movies could do.
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Mead posted...

Rogue One > Empire > New Hope > Force Awakens > RotJ > TLJ > Ep3 > Ep2 > Ep1

I agree with this except 2 belongs at the bottom. 1 was pretty bad in many respects but at least it gave us Darth Maul, Duel of the Fates, and the pod racing section was pretty cool. Episode 2 had a lot of boring politics, an R2D2 and C3PO action scene that no one asked for, and an extremely underwhelming CGI gladiator finale.

Also Solo belongs somewhere in with the prequels there. It wasn't awful so much as just really forgettable, which is a different kind of bad. I legitimately forgot I had seen it or that it had even been released until I saw the Honest Trailers video pop up in my suggested feed on Youtube.
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wolfy42 posted...

I mean...how big are your freaking feat? i'm 11 1/2 extra wide and normal socks work just fine for me. I guess if you were like 13+ you might need special socks?

Length they're about 12-12.5 long depending on brand and 6E wide. So normal socks are just a little too small. They fit, but they wear out fast because they're being constantly stretched.
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Also sometimes they list the shoe size and sometimes they list the sock size, because apparently if your shoe size is 6-12 then you wear size 10-13 socks? The hell. So I don't even know if the size of the socks I've been buying is 6-12 or if they were advertised by the corresponding shoe size.

This is worse than trying to get the same number of hotdogs and buns at the same time.
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GanglyKhan posted...

Usually, there's a size selector on the page, despite what the item's title is. Sorry if I'm speaking down to you, just trying to troubleshoot effectively lol

If you haven't yet, I would view that item's page and see if there's an option for selecting a different size.

Wow, I accidentally deleted my last message by fumbling with my phone and pressing multiple buttons. That's a new one. Yeah I've noticed some of them have that but even then the sizes are vague or the handful that are specifically listed as size 10-13 or thereabouts have crap reviews.
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Where do you buy socks? I just realized pushing 30 that I'm getting tired of spending 100 bucks on socks every year because they wear out and develop holes in the bottoms. I have size ~12/12.5 but really wide feet. Most socks are sold in bundles that are just broadly labelled as 'sizes 6-12' and so I'm always stretching them beyond what they were intended. I've never seen packs of socks in any department store that go higher and I'm trying to avoid walking into a specialty shop and spending an outrageous amount on individual pairs. Any tips?
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In my case I think I didn't remember how much of a grind a lot of older games were. A lot of them--especially platformers--required crazy timing with garbage mechanics and hit detection that could only be acquired through repetition. A tolerance which most people lose gradually with age. You look back and you only remember that you played it and that you won. You probably don't remember that you failed a hundred times or more. Modern games by comparison now follow some established rules and so are more intuitive. Old games just did whatever they wanted, logic be damned.
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On topic, Kavanaugh is clearly qualified on paper. But, even assuming for the sake of argument that the allegations against him are 100% fabricated, he still has the temperament of a 12 year old so I don't think he's level headed and objective enough to be good at the job.
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shadowsword87 posted...

man101 posted...

You can tell Trump supporters are a******s because rather than actually caring about whether or not something is good for humanity they just relish 'winning' and 'seeing the other side cry' above all else. Textbook overly testosterone fueled douchebags.

People have gotten less and less focused on what they feel would be the best for the country and just what the other people hate.

And Trump himself is stoking the fires of animosity every day so that he can ride on top of it and present himself as the best, the best, the best, with no regard for what the fallout will be. The antagonism he's perpetrating will outlive him by decades but he doesn't give a shit because he's an extreme narcissist.
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GreenKnight127 posted...

And that was the Democrat's game all along. Convince the entire world to doubt his character, and carefully watch his reactions to his interrogation *cough* "job interview" to see why they think he's unqualified for the job and pretend it has nothing to the sexual assault accusations.

Right, it was all made up as a partisan ploy to keep him from sitting on the court. You know, the same way they made up a bunch of stuff about Gorsuch to try to do the same thing. You know, the guy who was totally legitimately nominated in the first place and not the result of an actual, objective unprecedented partisan stonewalling for a year. Oh wait.

But, alas, he got confirmed today. He won. The crybabies lost.

*big ol' grin*

You can tell Trump supporters are assholes because rather than actually caring about whether or not something is good for humanity they just relish 'winning' and 'seeing the other side cry' above all else. Textbook overly testosterone fueled douchebags.

Oh and before you try to deflect by bringing up Clinton for some reason, I didn't vote for her and I'm not a Democrat, so there goes your only counter argument.
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The_tall_midget posted...

Probably accused of touching a woman he saved by carrying her in his arms against her will.

She didn't say anything at the time, of course, but 25 years later, she's totally offended and realized she's a victim.

As long as you're being that one obnoxious guy who has to compulsively turn every single conversation into a contemporary political debate, don't forget to bring up Clinton's emails and something about Obama's birth certificate.
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If this story is fake you're sad for thinking it makes you look cool.

If this story is true you're a piece of shit for knowingly letting someone raise your kid without your help.

Either way doesn't play out very well for you.
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Zeus posted...

man101 posted...

He's by far my favorite villain of the entire MCU franchise, comic or film.

Considering the other villains, it doesn't mean as much as you might think =p My second favorite MCU villain would probably be either Loki or Jigsaw, although I haven't seen IW, AoU, BP, and a bunch of others.

That's why I said by far. His current portrayal may not rank high among the history of cinematic antagonists but D'onofrio plays him very well and he's the best we've got by many miles. So personally I hope they keep him around, front and center for as long as the show runs.
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Andromicus posted...

He was a great villain for the first season but I don't know how much more they can do with him as a character

If he takes inspiration from the source material, he could be one of the best super hero villains in Marvel history. I am not even kidding, Kingpin is evil in the best way possible.

He's by far my favorite villain of the entire MCU franchise, comic or film. He's strong and he's smart but he's also deeply flawed and they don't shy away from depicting him having trouble or losing his shit. And the fact that he's so socially awkward in public is great. Every other Marvel villain is horribly two dimensional at best. And then there's the Thor 2 villain. Eck.
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JanwayDaahl posted...

No, it's pretty unhealthy. It's literally just a load of simple carbs with a tad pit of protein from an egg. It's dessert, what did you expect?

Correct.

LustyBustyLaura posted...

I think if you use good organic ingredients you could make it healthy.

Something being organic has nothing to do with its nutritional content and this misconception is why a lot of hippie vegans and vegetarians are actually fat.

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LustyBustyLaura posted...

I think if you use good organic ingredients you could make it healthy.

The word "organic" is often a buzzword these days, and it's more relevant to farming practices' effects on the environment than anything else. This is the sort of reasoning behind why so many soccer moms who shop at Whole's Foods are kind of fat- they just eat sugar dressed up as something "natural"

I noticed this after I already wrote the rest of this post. You beat me to it.
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IIRC somewhere toward the end of season two he asks to review the Murdock files, or something to that effect, and in the context of the scene it was clearly implied he was suspicious of Daredevil's identity. I can't remember enough specific detail to explain but I do remember that was the obvious implication.
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