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well the winner of the game is gonna come from level 6 and i like winners
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i love these people

this is what reality television is all about
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

Luis is pretty lame.

this is by far the hottest take you've made in this entire watchthrough series

Luis is very loved, AND his scenes are one of the legacy items that REMAIN from Wright. It's very his style.

Overall I like the humour in this too.

I completely agree with Darren Cross. There's something to him with his relationship to Pym. He has this cast off apprentice feel to him where he wants to surpass Pym but even more desperately he wants Pym's approval. It was good enough motivation for a sociopath to become a supervillain.

But... why do that brain chemistry stuff? It just makes his motivation pointless... A somewhat decently done villain that's just made worse for no reason.
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Eternal Servitude always only shows you one of a given card, but the likelihood that it shows you that card is based on how many deaths it had.
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havent been in here for a while so i popped in to see if there's any boomsday discussion

every fifth post is *still* Ulti ranting about how skill is not a part of hearthstone. damn. that honestly makes me feel sad.

anyways the point is that resurrect definitely pulls multiple copies. If you keep resurrecting the same minion over and over and it keeps dying it will take over your rez pool and become pretty much the only thing you are likely to resurrect, and will show up in Eternal Servitude as one of your options almost guaranteed. These means spellstone can resurrect 4 Velen's, and that Witching Hour is way more likely to resurrect one of the three raptors than it is the one beast they needed.

Also of note Tess Greymane's Scavenge ability in Monster Hunt works the same way. It's basically Eternal Servitude for spells. If you keep scavenging the same spell it's more likely to show up in Scavenge, until you get to the point where one of your options is always gonna be that spell. I always end up with something like Jade Shuriken or Greater Emerald Spellstone taking over my pool.
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He's awesome.

The attacks on him for this Thai cave thing are pretty pathetic

He went to the cave, consulted with the divers, and developed a submarine to help pull the youngest children out of the cave.

He literally built a submarine out of rocket parts to help save a child.

How is that something trolls come out of the wood work for?

SupremeZero posted...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/10/elon-musk-queries-expertise-of-thai-cave-rescue-officials?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

Dingus

This article directly references the proof Elon posted of his correspondence with the dive team where they asked him to keep working on the sub and they would need it if initial attempts didn't work.

The governer that said Elon's technology wouldn't help is the dingus since he didn't actually know what was going on....
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It may seem counter intuitive to look at this way, but it completely applies in novels too.

Think about one of the things Seabass said -

SeabassDebeste posted...

Pitou is denied inner monologue here (a recurring theme) as the narrator drones f***ing endlessly about what she's thinking and how she's reacting.

Either way, we'd be hearing the same things described by somebody - whether it's Pitou or the Narrator, why does it matter?

Well, it matters because if Pitou tells us, we are seeing her perspective and how she feels about it. The narrator is instead telling us how she feels about it. It's a fundamentally removed perspective.

In a novel, it may be hard to tell the difference at times since everything is conveyed by "telling us" about it, like describing scenery or what a person is wearing. But the difference between a bad author and a good author is generally that the bad author will tell you everything in the scene while a good author will introduce things in the scene through action or by the point of view characters perception.

Is it better to just tell us that a person is angry, or to show the person exhibiting angry characteristics?

It's just as relevant in novels.

edit: lol i referred to pitou as a her. TRAPPED
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RyoCaliente posted...

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Band camp season is about to pick up, so I need to find time to smash through Ant Man and then get started on AoS s3.

I have a feeling I'm going to put the Netflix shows (and Inhumans) on the backburner and just go through the rest of the movies and AoS...

I'd advise watching one of the Netflix shows or Inhumans though. It'll be easier if you know there's some good stuff coming. If you're like most people, Inhumans and S1 of LC and IF and Defenders might be a slog to get through. If you're really planning on watching all of the MCU, I'd advise you to get through Inhumans or LC now.

uh, this doesn't make much sense....

if he's worried about lack of time or burnout... why would he force himself to go through both some of the biggest time commitments and worst content of all?

Defer that shit till the end and if you still have it in you, watch it, and if you don't, you had a great run
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everyone slam talks the level 6 but aside from Winston I think they are all pretty solid

everyones just jelly cause they so good looking
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lights knocked out this is an outrage
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Cal is kinda awkward and cringe and low budget but goddamn if I don't love him
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This is backing up a bit, but I really liked when the OG 6 invaded that HYDRA base, Skye has a single take fight scene where she takes out a ton of dudes. Not quite on the level of the Daredevil hallway scene in Ep 2 but the same kind of deal. Really showed how far she's come as an agent.
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also how dare you all not have the same opinions as i do
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Thor 2, Iron Man 2, and Incredible Hulk make up a meh tier for me as well!

I'll just fill it out with the movies you've seen so far. I don't really rank within the tiers.

GREAT TIER - a bunch of movies that just blew me away in basically all aspects

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Avengers

you must be this tall to be great tier

Iron Man

GOOD TIER- a bunch of movies that I really liked but maybe had a couple things holding them back

Avengers: Age of Ultron
Captain America: The First Avenger
Iron Man 3
Thor

Mediocre tier
Thor: the Dark World
Iron Man 2
Hulk

Basically, I think Iron Man 1 is just such an excellent movie that's only held back by just being a bit rough around the edges as the first movie they made, and the final act devolving into a generic Iron Man vs Bigger Iron Man fight where Obie, who I really liked, kinda stopped being a character. But I love the charisma of Tony, and the development he undergoes in the cave is really top notch. It's just a really great movie.

I have a hard time ranking the GREAT movies against eachother, but my litmus test of deciding if a movie can rank alongside them is "did this come together better than Iron Man did?". Often, I liked a movie, but they didn't necessarily excel beyond Iron Man 1. I really like the First Avenger, but maybe they had too many laser beams for being set in WWII? I liked Thor, but maybe they didn't develope him being worthy of the hammer quite as much as I wanted? I liked Iron Man 3, but maybe Killian was a little weak as the focal villain? These aren't even really worse than Iron Man, they just don't surpass it.
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By miss I mean less that they don't get it and more that they just don't like it. But I love Ultron in this movie!

Really, the biggest downfall is that they didn't make an "Ultron Prime" that could really mess up the avengers. They did give him a slightly stronger form for the climax but it was still pretty weak. There's that scene where Iron Man, Vision, and Thor cross the streams or whatever to take him out, but it was like, what's the point? Pretty much everybody could take him on. I don't mind the flood of disposable robots for everyone to smash but not having a really strong Ultron made the fighting all feel a bit lacking.

The Vision was supposed to be his Ultron Prime but that got taken away, which is fine. I just wish his backup was stronger. Like maybe just as strong from vibranium reinforcement, just lacking the extra specialty the mind stone gives.

Anyways, the thing people often complain about this movie is that it was "too much" which I agree with to an extent, and I feel it more and more every rewatch. There's just a lot they are trying to do so every scene feels a little too quick. There's not enough room to breathe. The farm scene is good but that doesn't slow down the pace of everything else.

But I don't think this hurts the movie *that* much. Everything that's happening is still awesome. Ultron, the Vision, Tony and Bruce being mad scientists, the farm, the party at the start, the floating fucking city, the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Klawe.... it's all great. I don't see how having it makes it a "bad' movie... it just makes it not a top notch one.

Personally, I have a tier listing of how I like the movies, and most of them are split into a GREAT movie tier and most of the others are in a GOOD movie tier, and because of the pacing issues, I have in the GOOD movie tier. But I still thoroughly enjoy the whole thing. I can't comprehend thinking it was a terrible movie.

I haven't posted my tier list since I think you'd probably prefer to experience the movies with as few prior expectations as possible... but SOME DAY when you see infinity war I'll post it. All I'll say is that the GREAT tier used to be pretty small and only gets bigger and bigger as time goes on....
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Ultron's personality is a reflection of Tony's, as he's his creator

This is a miss with a lot of people...

But a hit for me! I love it!

Thor: Nobody has to break anything
Ultron: Clearly you've never made an omelette
Tony: He beat me by like one second
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New SHIELD vs Coulson Hunter and Fitz aka the best three characters on the show

RIP new SHIELD
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ZeldaTPLink posted...

I feel like the writers of this movie didn't watch the first Thor. I feel like Odin has been misrepresented this entire movie so far. At least Loki is sad now.

That's kind of the fault of the actor. He hates super-hero films and everything they represent.

well that doesn't really make sense considering he's excellent in the other Thor movies...
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To be honest, I thought season 1 was mediocre leaning to bad up until the twist and it was a decently cool, but the execution of everything was still bad. Like Ward fighting all those guys at the hub while Skye was hiding in the closet looked like shit. I thought the plot overall ramped up but the show still wasn't very good... it was just okay. I always thought Ward was a bad actor from the beginning too, tbh

I had high hopes going into season 2 and I thought the premiere was a giant mess topped off with a *really* stupid scene at the end where Coulson does a voice over about how they had to take a risk and they could have failed that day, but they needed an edge, as it shows them steal the cloaking quinjet with May riding off on a motorcycle popping wheelies while guards shot at her. i thougt that scene was stupid as hell. I thought "oh god they havent improved at all, this scene is gonna suck too"

Then Simmons was undercover and Mockingbird showed up and Hunter turned out to be awesome and the Inhuman plotline began and I WAS ALL IN. I love season 2.

show just gets better and better from there.
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it would be best if you left this alone

compliance will be rewarded
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I'm pretty sure the mind control technique is called Faustus.... because it's based on the work of Dr Faustus

its a reference
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Also, in the way only Corrik can, I share with him a moment I really enjoy of Flash history just because he was talking about the Flash. And Corrik, instead of reading it or saying something about the content, or even noticing that Wally is offering up his own reverent thoughts on Barry and saying, "You know, that's sweet and very honorable," decides to rudely dismiss me sharing something out of the goodness of my heart. It was an opportunity to strengthen the bond of two Board 8ers, and it was clearly a community-building moment. Yet Corrik chose to be terse and curt, clearly making a conscious decision to divide rather than create.

And\\Corrik posted...

I don't read comics dude... Or at least don't remember from any comics I read as a young kid.

Then don't bring up an article to me and then when I comment on it, immediately switch mediums in an effort to remain superior. We're not playing that game today.

this actually is a good description of what Corrik is like all of the time
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looks like bbus was taking notes when they watched bbcan this season

love the robot
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bbcan is full of muslims
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it's on parchment and uses really official sounding language so obviously that makes it respectful regardless of content
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I think Sam is my winner pick.

I like Tyler, Scottie and Kaycee as well. Steve seems pretty solid for being the oldest guy, and he's not even that old. But being the oldest is automatically a bad thing!

Winston/Brett/Faysal and Angela/Rachel/Haleigh are all kinda blending together to me but I like things about all of them. I'm not too bad on Bayleigh either but she seems a little more airheaded than the other girls so I think I have her a little lower, but I like all these people.

JC/Kaitlyn/Angie Rockstar/Swaggy C are my bottom four by far. Where the hell did they find these people?
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leia flying to the ship was awesome
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gotg2 right away?

man i dont get the appeal for this chronological order thing

things are referenced out of order and it makes you watch things in weird positions

release order or bust imo
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the really hilarious thing is that the 1999 anime ends with Gon using accompany and them finding Kite, and a silhouette of Kite looking over at them

like it genuinely feels like it ended with Gon finally finding Ging.

But it didn't.
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thank god
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There are a couple things they point to that have an extra meaning, like a scene at the academy where he's looking at the wall of the fallen kinda feels different when you know he's Hydra

But it's always from direction, and not from acting, because they didn't tell the actor he was Hydra until the episode of so that he'd play the season as genuine as possible as if he's part of the team
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

They've really tried hard to say "Agent of SHIELD" this episode. Three times so far?

Four times. Five.

Six.

WE ARE THE SHIELD
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

Are you asking me that? Or is that a reference to something? Hydra was in Cap 1, but most Marvel fans know about Hydra anyway.

I was wondering about these predictions - it sure sounds like you already knew about Hydra. How else would you randomly guess that Hydra, the Red Skulls WWII supernazi organization, had taken over SHIELD? =O

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Here are predictions: PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ON THESE UNTIL AFTER THEY COME TO PASS

1. f*** Centipede, it's always been HYDRA.
2. HYDRA has compromised SHIELD at one of the highest levels. Fury has been offgrid... to find the mole?
3. Winter Soldier is going to have a lot to do with this schism at SHIELD. Which is why I have to watch it first - before being spoiled on the events of the movie, which will have more of an effect on the show than anything before.
4. Skye is named Skye because she came from the sky? IS SHE AN ALIEN

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The thing about saying Stephen Strange is that I don't think he was Doctor Strange the superhero yet. He was still a normal doctor.

Zola's algorithm just identified him as a highly competent person who could become a problem for Hydra in the right set of circumstances. that's why it was kinda neat. Like Zola saw this guy coming.

Also you knew about Hydra before the movie already. How did that happen?
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Great movie. By far my favourite scene is Cap's speech and then the follow up where that nerd refuses to follow Rumlow's commands. Captain's orders.
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i used to play on hardest difficulties but i guess i've lost my stuff because i usually just play on easier difficulties. id rather just play through the game and have a good time than have to continuously retry over and over

unless its dark souls of course

i prefer my serious gameplay to be in multiplayer games like overwatch, pubg, dota etc

it's not about winning. it's about someone else losing
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dont worry bro i got you

1. Heroes vs Villains
2. Samoa
3. Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers
4. Ghost Island

peace out
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yeah may what the fuck

Fitz totally woulda pulled that guy back if you'd just like, asked him
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just watched Heroes vs Villains Ep 6

Russel and Boston Rob's back and forth, constantly seeing through eachothers plans is great. Russell got the last laugh in this tribal with that really daring idol play for Parvati. This is a really awesome clash of the titans.
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Man of Steel was not inspiring
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superman sucks
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it wouldn't have been so bad if he wasn't acting petty and condescending *before* the dark elf invasion. genuine grief is a good reason to behave out of character.

i think the whole "torn between two worlds" plot was done pretty weakly overall and Odin was a victim to it
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There's a lot that's weak in this movie, but the misrepresentation of Odin is a good call out. I mostly felt annoyed at him for being an annoying old man. Didn't feel like a wise ancient king at all.

also i feel like 90% sure that there were subtitles for the dark elves in theatres but iv never seen them in any reviewings since
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Lopen posted...

Speaking of disingenuous arguments...

What's disingenuous? Your argument is that since Civil War was an above average movie take (which yes, CW isn't a typical story, it's basically an Avengers movie and got an Avengers bump),it must be responsible for BP being better than an average movie too. Except BP made way more money than CW did.

Using the CW gross to claim it affect BP's gross doesn't make sense. That would only make sense if BP was a bit higher than say, Antman by giving a bit of a publicity boost. Then you could say debuting in CW gave it a bump. BP being higher than CW implies it's successful for a reason other than CW.
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Lopen posted...

I think you are severely underestimating the overlap between people who saw Black Panther and people who saw him in Civil War first.

Civil War was very little to do with the success of Black Panther. It was a great introduction for him to the franchise but you are very detached from what happened with that movie if you think that.

I was meaning to engage you but never got around to it in that one Avengers topic where you kept saying stuff like "i'd like to think this movie earned it's box office on it's story telling rather than sjw pandering but i guess not" whenever any body mentioned the significance of it as a black cast which is a really disingenuous argument. It's basically congratulating yourself for being smarter than the movie while not attempting to understand why this movie struck a chord with so many people. It's not successful just because it has a black cast, or because BP was in Civil War. It's about what the themes in the story meant to people



Watch this discussion and maybe you will glean some insight

It actually comes back to why the MCU is successful - some movies mean a lot more to certain people than others, and for good reason. Black Panther is basically the perfect example of it.
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And yeah as for gross - small indie films that were made for $5-15 million would love to make what Solo is making but it would be disappointing for any tentpole movie.
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