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Hela was awesome, she just didn't have a good place in the story. I think it would have all been better off focused on junk planet.
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people have been saying this about killmonger since the movie came out, but i don't really get it

killmonger had to die. he was a phenomenal villain but this was really the only outcome for him.

keeping him alive would have cheapened everything about him and the movie itself. people would be complaining that "noone ever dies" or something too.
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I really liked what happened with LMD May. LMD Coulson is just like "I don't understand why you are doing this, you're one of us" and she's just like "Naw dawg, I'm one of them" BOOOOOOOOOOM

Such a great scene.
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they're not robots

THEY ARE SHEEP

WAKE UP PEOPLE
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ZeldaTPLink posted...

Don't quote me on that, my memory is hazy. But I think it's pretty much a middle tier film on most lists.

well that's because most of the higher tier movies are about to come!
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The rating doesn't seem unusual to me. I like it a lot but I rate it the "good" tier with other origin stories while not scratching the great tier that includes the really awesome stuff like GotG and the Winter Soldier.

And that's where he has it. the way I see it, he's just put it at the top of the Good tier.
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Peridiams summary is accurate - Rachel believed Bayleigh that Tyler was working against her and tried to flip Angela over it. She was freaking out because she believed Tyler was betraying her and started acting very erratically. She realized she was wrong later in the week, but she'd already left a trail of paranoid crying and hints of betrayal.

At that point, Angela and Kaycee had a choice - do we want to keep Rachel, who we like and have worked really closely with, but at the very first sign of pressure and being targeted began doubting her alliance and freaking out, or Brett, who has been on the block twice and is the very definition of Cool Calm and Collected, and executes misdirection speeches brilliantly with a straight face? And who all of FOUTTE desperately wants to evict and will target before us?

Not to mention, it was extremely bad gameplay of Rachel to accept going on the block as a pawn calmly and THEN start freaking out to Bayleigh about it after the noms. If she had freaked out before the noms, Bayleigh woulda backed off and put Scottie up. Instead she got herself put up and then when it was too late made things more erratic and difficult to control. She really evicted herself this week.

The only bit of misplay of Angela's is that she believes Rachel was lying to her, when Rachel was just manipulated and panicking. Either way, the read of "she may be close to me, but I cant depend on her when things are serious" seems pretty on point. They flipped on her seemingly on drop of a hat, but it does make sense.
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man i would have loved to see peridiam insight throughout bbcan6
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yeah but they played it off with that fucking sick scene with the flaming chain where ghost rider catches it

fanservice overload
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im surprised you glossed over the fire inhuman guy
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a team that trusts is a team that triumphs
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i love that when Radcliffe sees the Darkhold he's like "whoa easy there I know a road to supervillainy when I see one"
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well that's a lot farther than i expected
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Inviso posted...

After thinking about it a little...Rockstar's really not wrong about Brett and the show kinda proved it.

In reality, the flip to take out Kaitlyn was mainly on Angela, pushing to keep Rockstar around since Rockstar could be trusted more to go after the guys than after the girls. On the show however, they had that cringeworthy scene of Rockstar trying to strategize with Brett, followed by them making it look like Brett was calling the shots in terms of switching the vote to Kaitlyn. Keep in mind that Angela has gotten almost NO edit thus far this season, and this could've been a breakout moment, yet the editors still felt it necessary to give all discussion to Brett, and then Tyler in opposition to the vote.

I'm just sayin'...guys like him DO have a tendency to "win" in the eyes of society.

Inviso posted...

Peridiam posted...

Right, but this is the issue, and why she isnt right. Rockstar resented Brett for his archetype, not for his character. Hes a straight while male and thus needs to be eradicated for being as such. He was winning because his alliance held the power, and she blamed his archetype for it.

That said since then theyre actually both pretty cordial. Kiss and made up.

The editors are a different story. Thats not Bretts fault and the need to take him out for an example such as that is a seemingly ugly rationale.

Brett, a bland, generic white alpha male, is given credit by the editors for an event that was instigated by Angela, a similarly bland, generic white alpha female. This is but one example of such an occurrence, and it's part of an ongoing trend of men getting credit for women's actions. This creates a feedback loop where men are automatically perceived as bigger threats, leading to positive and negative consequences: positive in that they get a ton of credit and less blowback should they make the endgame, negative in that they're viewed as bigger targets for elimination even if they're less threatening in reality than their female counterparts. So Rockstar, while an obnoxious caricature of what conservatives view all liberals to be, is not wrong about Brett, and the edit of last week's boot is just an example of how society reaffirms her claims.

and man here we are with these posts. you guys just can't help yourselves

if someone entertaining like Brett can't amuse you then what are you even looking for
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Underleveled posted...

CoolCly posted...

Peridiam posted...

I believe she thinks Brett represents an archetype of a person she loathes, instead of actually being that person.

Just like the people in this topic!

I haven't watched any of what's happened since the episode but it does sound consistent with her attitude in the past. She's always looking for a reason outside of herself to blame for her poor position in the game. It's like when she complained to Kaitlyn for siding against Swaggy that "I don't talk to anyone on the other side of the house like you do!!" as a reason why Kaitlyn is screwing her over by working with the other side. Except... you could just try talking to the other side Rockstar. Go talk to Rachel. She'll talk with you back. I promise.

But unfortunately Rachel is one cool kids so that means Rockstar can't be friends with her.

Let's be clear, I never said Brett was a bully, I said he was a boring douchbag.

That being said, it is very telling that he is only socializing with the pretty, popular people, and that he is choosing to be especially harsh on the eccentrics/outcasts, borderline threatening Scottie, and then trying to scapegoat Rockstar, the weirdo of FOUTTE, instead of Bayleigh, who the other alliance has already had issues with, Haleigh, who has already been under suspicion of flipping before, or Faysal, who could beat him up.

Falls in line with his intro where he labels his coworkers as nerds who he would never socialize with despite never even giving them a chance.

So, the interesting thing about this post is that it's responding directly to the conversation where Peridiam talks extensively about how Rockstar doesn't know Brett at all. She hates him because of this idea she has in her head about a person she knows in her life, or a type of person she believes exists. She doesn't really have any reason to believe Brett is that person. Brett doesn't do any of the things she says he does or says he is. he's just A) White B) Young C) Very Fit and D) On the other side of the house from her. That means he must be the horrible person she's familiar with.

But that's not really Brett. He's not a bully or winning because of privilige. I mean he was on the block with his best ally who went home, who shares all of his characteristics. How is that winning?

And we have all these posts doing the same thing Rockstar is. It doesn't even matter when Brett does something hilarious or entertaining or even *clever*, he's so judged that he must be part of this archetype that you guys can't even bring yourselves to admit it.
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Kaitlyn is pretty close to Rockstar
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https://www.reddit.com/r/BigBrother/comments/927t6f/peridiam_almost_predicted_the_brett_vs_rockstar/
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Anyways, overall for Doctor Strange, I thought it was fine. It was a fine origin story. Benedict was good as Doctor Strange. The visuals were all cool.

But it didn't make me *love* Doctor Strange. He's the magic guy I guess. He's alright.

I also thought magic as a whole wasn't very explored. I wasn't left feeling wonder at the things they can do. It felt really... basic. Aside from the acid trip meant to impress us. I feel like there's this whole new avenue to tease us with but I don't feel like there's a ton I'm interested in seeing in future Doctor Strange movies.

"Dormammu, I've come to bargain" was excellent though.

Overall I put this in the lower end of the MCU in the "good" movie tier alongside most of the other good origin stories.
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ZeldaTPLink posted...

I liked it, it wasn't outsdaing since it was just a standard origin story but it had some creative visuals and the Bargain thing was great.

I'm not very hyped for Mordo though since it's the same sequel hook they use in the Green Lantern film and also Iron Fist. Granted GL2 will never happen but thats still the same villain origin story happening 3 times.

New guy joins order, learns it too fast, beats ancient villain that order fears by using modern methods, and veteran member is mad at how the old ways are being broken and turns evil because of that.

i think this is a bit of a stretch. The motivations of each of these guys was quite different.

Doctor Strange: Mordo is definitely unbending in his belief that certain lines can't be crossed - using the dark dimension or the Eye of Agamotto is unnatural and is sure to have horrible and unforeseen consequences.

Iron Fist: Davos is *ostensibly* serious about the mysticism of K'un-lun the order he's from, but with him it's all personal. He wanted to be the Iron Fist, and Danny, an interloper, took it from this. He struggled to look past this and accept Danny is the rightful Iron Fist and be his support... and then Danny left. He feels betrayed by Danny, and the fact that Danny stole his destiny makes it 100x worse. He has a personal grudge against Danny. The order of the crane or the duty of the Iron Fist or whatever may be something he brings up, but they aren't the real reason he's going on a vendetta against Danny.

Green Lantern: Sinestro has no motivation. It's not even what you suggest about it being mad at the new guy for breaking the rules. Putting on the yellow ring makes no sense. It's just a poorly written hook for the next movie with no thought behind it. To compare it to the other two, regardless of how well or poorly written their execution was, is an insult.

Tying these all together as the same thing happening 3 times is just flimsy IMO.
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Nice. You're pretty caught up to me.

i thought the Coulson's haunting of his murder of Ward was great. He has tons of scenes where he's just so disappointed in himself

I especially love the scene where he talks to Fitz about it and Fitz is just like "okay Coulson, I was there, he fuckin deserved it, I'm glad you did it, everyone is better off because of it. stop overthinking it"

It doesn't really assuage Coulson's feelings but it was a neat persepctive from someone who actually saw it happen

I dislike the intelligent design of Inhumans. every time Lincoln said "every inhuman has a purpose" i seriously rolled my eyes because they are just a bunch of kree experiments and who knows how long any of these idiots will live for to "complete their purpose" anyways

I don't really like Yo Yo. I feel like she has no character other then "I DONT TRUST THE GOVERNMENT" and "I LIKE MACK BUT HE KEEPS PLAYING HARD TO GET" and "I HAVE A SPANISH ACCENT". She feels so one dimensional so I don't really like it whenever she shows up. I feel like Mack is one dimensional too so since she's just just a hanger on of him that makes it even worse.

I thought Malik was used exactly enough. Hive started to take over about exactly when I started to get tired of having this guy with unlimited resources lurking in the shadows with political immunity around. I liked him a lot but he would get kinda old having ominous phone calls with Coulson eventually. I thought he died a little too quickly after deciding to help SHIELD but eh.

I LOVE BOBBI AND HUNTER I MISS THEM SOOOO MUCH
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Lothar

4 (Yshaarj, YoggSaron, C'Thun, and N'Zoth)

ez tbh
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This is just a ranking of characters you like....
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malyg posted...

Anagram posted...

The first appearance of Mario was in 1981.

This was actually an answer to a question.

They asked what was mario's first appearance and when it happened.

Thank you anagram.

oh man it would be funny if you answered Mario Bros 1981 and got it wrong.
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I could also answer any Warcraft lore question though so hit me up
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I think SMG is a weak actress in general but she OWNED the Buffy role. To say she was weak in that role is just really out to lunch. She's why the show is so great.

Giles is also a great actor. What strange opinions we have here.

I think this will probably suck but who knows, maybe it'll turn out to be a gem. I expect it to try to blaze it's own trail and do something unique rather than just retread the original though. It's nice to have Joss attached to add some of his charm but I hope he's not too involved. He made a lot of seasons of this show in his prime and I don't think something new would benefit by being "his vision"
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lol esports questions

i am 100% dialed into dota esports and could answer probably any question that could ever come up but thats such a small part of esports. Any other game I'd have no clue, including Starcraft which I actually did attempt to follow
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I thought this trailer was looking really good... but Zachari Levi didn't really sell me on anything. A bit skeptical about him. He just looks so... odd being that bulky, and I'm not sure I think his humour is 100% on point. It's *close* but feels kinda cringy.
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RIP James Gunn

this is pretty dumb
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X_Dante_X posted...

s38:

they mentioned there could theoretically be a full cast jury; but if literally every single person quit, would we have a jury of 1? The final guy to get voted out?

according to the article, once you make it to postmerge you are in the jury no matter when you give up on EI. That's the recent update Peridiam is talking about.
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this season 38 stuff is kinda interesting

I feel like it will result in a sad ending for a lot of players. I can't imagine anybody will say no to a second chance so every player will go to Extinction Island. So a few things will happen. They will give a bit too much food so it's not that hard and *everyone* sticks around, which sounds like a bit of a failure of a concept. Or they give barely any food and things become quite desperate for everyone, as people eventually start "dying off" due to hunger and quitting. If the intention is to have most players quit because of this,then those players will always have that disappointment that they gave up. They didn't lose the game by getting outplayed at a competition or were socially voted out - they just didn't have the fortitude to keep going and quit. That's pretty sad for those players... because it's not really true.
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I really liked Hive's final scene. He's just like "yep, you got me. let's just chill I guess."

I started off kinda liking Lincoln, as he really added to the wholesome vibe of Afterlife along with Gordo, but he was a little too whitebread. I eventually began not liking him because they were being so.... drawn out with him. They took SOOO long to actually have him join the team when that's clearly what they were driving at with him.

I did like the back and forth relationship he had with Coulson where the boss man is trying to get Lincoln to really understand what it means to be in SHIELD and if that's what he really wants.

I just wasn't too crazy about the Skye/Lincoln pairing either. It just felt like Skye was less interesting whenever he was around her.

His final scene was great though.... as I started the post with!
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Peridiam posted...

I believe she thinks Brett represents an archetype of a person she loathes, instead of actually being that person.

Just like the people in this topic!

I haven't watched any of what's happened since the episode but it does sound consistent with her attitude in the past. She's always looking for a reason outside of herself to blame for her poor position in the game. It's like when she complained to Kaitlyn for siding against Swaggy that "I don't talk to anyone on the other side of the house like you do!!" as a reason why Kaitlyn is screwing her over by working with the other side. Except... you could just try talking to the other side Rockstar. Go talk to Rachel. She'll talk with you back. I promise.

But unfortunately Rachel is one cool kids so that means Rockstar can't be friends with her.
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just saw the episode

man Brett is incredible

his speeches are great, but wow was that awesome after the eviction. Rockstar is losing her mind on Tyler and Brett just calmly looks at her and says "oh, you aren't gonna own it????"

it took me a second to realize that he is actually acting like the "Rockstar is gonna flip the vote" plan was real. he's asking if she's gonna own her vote to evict Winston. completely straightfaced.

she looked like an absolute crazy person.

A+ see you next time brett
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backdooring is definitely when you leave someone off the block on purpose so that they don't automatically get to play in the veto

the entire purpose of the strategy is to get out somebody who's good at comps. if they can't play veto, they can't use their comp ability to save themselves.

it's been super overrused lately because people want to back door everyone, but if they aren't that good at comps its not really that needed. backdooring is risky because you might not get the chance to renominate your backdoor target

if someone gets to play veto through chance though, i wouldn't be that strict about saying WELL NOW ITS NOT A BACKDOOR. i mean if that was the plan and they got to play through chance then the backdoor plan kinda lost out to the odds but it's still a backdoor plan

one interesting twist on backdooring outside of just having the chance to win veto, is that if you plan to backdoor someone and they get into the veto comp through chance, they might think they are completely safe and throw the veto. that's still kind of a backdoor. they got nominated and evicted without realizing they needed to play to win.

you could be super nitpicky and say that's not a backdoor because they had a chance to win still but it's just a more socially strategic backdoor.
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"we can't afford to have our hands tied by the accords right now"

may literally handwaved it away for you
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it's really interesting how many people say civil war sucked because there was no debate since Iron Man was so obviously correct but... I think Iron Man was wrong!

Both sides were done pretty well.
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what are the sick deals
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I feel the same way.

It was really weird to me seeing this topic rally around the foutte group and hate the level 6 so much.... one of these groups is a bunch of petty weirdos with a jealous psychopath and one is just a group of chill friends with a hysterical psychopath

and the hysterical psychopath is so much fun to watch
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that was a lot of fun. fillion's age kinda showed though, no way could he play a full movie of this

i just learned tom holland has been cast- that's awesome. he could totally pull off the charm of the role just as well as fillion and be way better at the action. Can he pull off that dirty grizzled look though??? i guess we'll get to find out.
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The Pedo comment seems really dumb unless there's something I'm missing

But literally any person attached to the project who criticizes Elon for even trying to make the sub and says that they never wanted it is wrong - he visited the site, consulted with people on the scene, and they continuously asked him to help in the way that he is able to help - by coming up with an alternative tech solution. So he did it.

There is no way to spin that as him doing something wrong yet somehow people keep trying. The only thing Elon has possibly done wrong here is respond to the people insulting him. As if that makes him helping come up with a solution to get these kids out of the cave a bad thing???
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Jakyl25 posted...

Why do they need goals beyond that though?

Because, like, why do they even exist? Why are the still around doing *anything* that they do? I mean it's fun to have them but why would anyone devote their life to a secret organization with no real goal in particular?

Even the Red Skull's Hydra army is a bit too large and pushes the edges of believability. I really like that movie but if there's one thing that kinda bugs me it's that he apparently has TONS of bases alongside this REALLY advanced Tessaract tech. For being a splinter off of the Nazi's it's too much....

But this retcon actually makes it possible!
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Kaitlyn is a dreamwreck
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StealThisSheen posted...

CoolCly posted...

The governer that said Elon's technology wouldn't help is the dingus since he didn't actually know what was going on....

More than one expert there said the submarine wasn't going to work

it literally does not matter how many experts say the sub would or would not work as long as there was one diver at the scene who was continuously asking Elon to keep working on the sub as a backup measure when Elon was tweeting out his progress on the sub. which there was.
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I actually think it makes Hydra make a whole lot more sense as a long lasting organization with goals beyond the Red Skulls megalomania.
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I really don't see anything wrong or bad about Will and Simmons

I mean damn they were isolated on an alien world without much hope of ever returning home. Finding something in eachother was really well done.
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that episode is quality television
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who?
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except in all other instances human technology sucks against nen. regular people are but mere ants to nen users. so something shows up that the nen users can't beat... and human technology is king?

i thought it was a copout here
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