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iv been listening to Taran's BBCAN6 juror interviews and they've been really good. Gave a lot of insight into why they voted the way they did, and it doesn't seem like anyone was bitter except Ryan. I hope it gives all the people upset about the "bitter" jury a bit of insight... but I'm not hopeful. Johnny carefully and methodically tore Brent's butthurt attitude apart but Brent wasn't actually listening so none of it really stuck, and I'm sure the fanbase is the same.

I'm about to start Paras's interview. Over 3 hours, yikes. I can't wait.
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i am the subreddit
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so you agree it's awesome but you've just gotten tired of it or something k cool i'm glad we agree it's awesome
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davidponte posted...

CoolCly posted...

i'm a pretty huge fan of Offline TV

oh no

im sorry you hate joy?
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i'm a pretty huge fan of Offline TV

i dont think IRL streaming is weird at all
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i am now at trade war with america
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Skies of Arcadia
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luffy fan club meetup at reverie
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I guess I understand the idea that the department of justice reports up to the president so there is a bit of a conflict in how that might work if they decide he needs to be investigated.

But if the department of justice literally cannot investigate the president for any crime or abuse of power, then who can?

Congress can choose to do this vote to remove him, but how can they accumulate the evidence that might be necessary to push a vote like that through if the branch that does all of the investigating has their hands completely tied?

It sounds like a very big hole in the system if that's the case.
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so what's up with this letter from Trump's lawyers stating that he can't be forced to testify because he has absolute authority over any investigation, and can kill any investigation he wants any time. Basically, because he IS the law?

i'm not an american but from what I understood the whole system is predicated on this notion called "checks and balances" so it sounds like a stretch that anybody, even the president, is completely immune from investigation or being involved in an investigation.
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Sorry, I thought from your posts you had already finished from the way you were recommending it, but it sounds like I was wrong. I'll spoiler it out.

But I'm only partway through season 2 anyways, so I don't think I would have posted much about anything you haven't seen yet. You are probably even farther than I am. It was mostly just thoughts about the characters all SUCKING. I'd leave it until you finish to read my post anyways (hopefully you haven't =x)
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I really love the first Agent Carter season. I feel like it's just a perfect little mini series

I've only seen half the second season and haven't really felt like finishing it.

**SPOILERS BELOW***

Season 1 had a really cool structure. Peggy worked with the SSR by day on their cases and we saw her skills being neglected due to the inherent bias of the system, and goes on spy adventures by night working for Stark.

Because of the SSR's stance on Stark as a traitor, and Peggy knowing this stance to be flat out wrong, she helps him out by hunting the mysterious group that stole his bad babies, supported by his weird butler. Jarvis was a lot of fun supporting her, and she got into a lot of fun and cool spy situations while looking for Stark's inventions. She had to walk a dangerous line in avoiding detection by the SSR while working both with them and kind of against them. The cripple guy, Sousa, was on to her at various points which made things interesting. There was a terrific side mission where they left the country and hung out with the Howling Commandos. Stark's disappointment in himself for letting Cap die was explored a little, just like with Peggy. I disliked Dooley to begin wtih, but ended up being pretty sad when he died. Thompson was pretty pathetic until the end but even though I disliked him as a person I liked him as a character.

All around, it was just a great show. I enjoyed it the whole way through.

Season 2 though, has been pretty disappointing. I'm about halfway in. There doesn't feel like there's any structure at all other than "aim Carter at whatever the problem is and send Jarvis along I guess????" I don't like the black guy very much, even now that he's a ghost. Jarvis's wife is weird. Jarvis himself feels very tacked on to have just because we liked him last season. Sousa has a pointless fiancee that was introduced out of nowhere for no reason even though Carter has already said in an overture that she marries him. Which also makes her romance with the black guy pointless. Every romantic scene with the nurse or the black guy feels like a waste of time because we know it doesn't go anywhere.

Red Foreman working Thompson has been very by the numbers. Like at best he's just an annoying bureaucrat that's getting in the way which... is annoying, but more likely he's just a part of the villain group and is pushing Thompson to do what they want. Which is very transparent. I kinda think Thompson has been acting with a bit more forethought than we are supposed to believe though. Like he sent Carter to LA to so Sousa and Carter would finally work out their obvious feelings together or something. I mean he knows her skills better than anybody, so if he really just sent her away because she's annoying and a woman then god damn we have not gone anywhere since season 1. At least he's obviously going to sniff out Red's villainy and help Carter, but it's probably gonna feel a little hamfisted.

Dottie feels kinda annoying too. She was kinda on the line between being too weird and being just eccentric in the first season but she's way too smug in the opening bust and following interrogation.

The senator and his wife that's gaining superpowers are okay I guess. It's interesting seeing his growing unease with how deep into criminal activity and supervillainy they are getting, even though he was the bad guy to begin with. I'm willing to see more of them I guess but I don't love them

I dunno, everything about this season feels off. If they had never made a second season I would have been disappointed for sure, but seeing it makes me wish they hadn't and had just kept it as a pristine one season mini series.
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Denny's just needs to release a diss track to keep their reputation
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i need someone to subtitle this shit for me
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I LOVE Justin Hammer

he's just such a wannabe Tony Stark. he wants to beat Tony Stark, he wants to be Tony Stark's best friend, he wants to BE Tony Stark. Which he obviously isn't. The pathetic desperation oozes out of him in every scene he's in. The movie doesn't try to make him anything but that

It's the best thing about the movie by far
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i'd love to play ark. there's a lot about it that looks really cool

it's too bad actually playing it sucks
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lol

the highlight of that video was the brief moments it showed actual gameplay by showing the combat menu with like, Leech Seed or some shit.

the best thing about this game is a hint of the gameplay i got in a game 20 years ago with no interesting iteration to improve it

hard pass
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I love Greed Island
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how accurate was this
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i didnt mind seabass in general but he looked pretty pathetic in that final tribal. i don't really have a problem with bitter jurors but man he looked dumb. does he even know what game he's playing?
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lol

how is that even allowed
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I just don't see how Laurel flipping on Dom and Wendell doesn't result in Kellyn voting her out the very next week in any of those positions. It's what Laurel was afraid of and I think that's exactly what Kellyn would have done.
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it's interesting that in two close together finales with a tight pair that dominated the second half of the game with comp wins alongwith a floater ended so differently.

Dom and Wendell were much better than Daela though and Paras was much better than Laurel. I guess it goes to show that it's not the kind of game you play, it's how well you play it.

I was personally pulling for Dom and thought he did much better in his speech, but this is how it is I guess. Wendell played Laurel very well recently by backing off of forcing the issue on that immunity win and letting Laurel have it, and by giving her his idol at final 5. I think those two moves really solidified her vote in the end, even though I felt like she worked with Dom a lot more throughout the game.
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I thought it made that fight even cooler. Win condition for the sides weren't the same - assassin's were there to kill him and they were deadly serious about it... which they should, as profefssional assassins. Chrollo was playing his own game, testing himself against them generally without necessarily focused on defeating or killing them in return.

Then when the win condition for the Zoldyecks disappears, they immediately give up and leave. It felt like a real situation at all times.

This was another of my favourite moments in the series.
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Def agree that it's trying to be edgy for being edginess sake at times

KanzarisKelshen posted...

EDIT: It also didn't help that a lot of people sold it to me as an anime with amazing fight scenes and lots of 'clever' combat where the smarter, not stronger character won (in the style of JJBA, for example)

And the fanbase genuinely believes this too, but... I don't think it's true. Because Killua tore out a heart once or because Kurapika supposedly has restrictions on his power, even though he doesn't it's apparently clever.
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skullbone posted...

Didn't the Stormbreaker also have some sort of Bifrost properties so he could get to earth? I seem to remember that being mentioned.

Yeah. Honestly, that was kind of cheap movie logic just so Thor could show up for the climax after completing the weapon. They are just throwing bifrosts out whenever here. But whatevs it was awesome.
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Yeah, i think the difference is that Mjolnr was a weapon designed for Thor to help focus his powers. We never saw it happen in the MCU, but ostensibly the hammer would have also granted the powers of Thor to someone else, were they worthy and tried to wield it.

Stormbreaker is a very powerful weapon that requires someone with powers on the level of Thor to even wield. If someone without the powers of Thor or powers equal to them tried to wield Stormbreaker, it wouldn't have granted them power, it would have destroyed them.

It does kind of feel odd for him to seek a new weapon right after dealing with losing his old one, but it's an interesting distinction in purpose. I'm curious to see what might happen in the future. Thanos almost certainly would not have been able to wield Mjolnr, but I wonder if he could wield Stormbreaker? It sounds like he could, but almost noone else we've seen could.
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i dont have a problem seeing why we are the best so noone should have a problem
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I don't think we've seen Strange open a portal to another planet. Besides, it not like there's a rule saying an infinity stone is the only thing capable of doing what it does - The Power Stone is an obvious example, force is a pretty normal concept. But other forms of telepathic abilities have been shown in the MCU, it's not just the Mind Stone capable of it. I'm sure the Reality Stone also isn't the thing capable of illusions and I'm sure it's not the only thing capable of transforming one object into another.

As for Heimdall, that was clearly him using his last bit of power. Pretty odd thing to question. You might wonder why he didn't use it on his beloved Thor, but the Hulk fought for them and lost even though he didn't really belong there. It makes sense why he used it on him, and it definitely makes sense why he didn't use it on more people.
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pjbasis posted...

I guess some people just want every villain to be freeza.

I guess Perfect Cell wasn't good enough
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it's funny seeing someone complain about the chimera ant arc pacing in # of episodes

if you saw the squiggly finger paintings many of us had to interpret the arc from....
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I think Yorkshin SUCKS
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Some writers write Hulk as two separate personalities that dislike eachother vying for control of one body like Scarlet said, some writers have Hulk as a really dumbed down version of Banner. Hulk becoming more articulate in the first version is the Hulk personality learning over time like a child, while the latter is just Banner becoming more and more in control of himself in that form.

I'm a much bigger fan of the first version so I'm super happy that's what they are doing here.
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

Not only does she get no respect, but nobody is even aware of a reason why she's an agent at the SSR. Her capabilities are basically nil. They answer this later with why she did her own investigation, but even still, it's a bit of a dumb situation.

What exactly do you mean by this? Her superiors know her history, they just don't believe it or give her credit for it because in their minds it's impossible for a woman to do those kinds of things. It must just not be quite as true as it would be if it was a man's history. I thought this was really done well - Duley and Thompson were good characters with their own shit going on but were mostly just agents doing their job. Their bias is just inherent.

The idea that she's viewed as Cap's girlfriend minimizes her further - she was only on the frontlines because of her association with literal Captain America and now that association has had her placed in their division even though she probably doesn't actually deserve it. Obviously *we* know that she was in the war based entirely on her own merits but they don't really have that perspective. Not everyone is as open to the idea of a female soldier as Tommy Lee Jones.... but even then, we saw that hint of bias from him in the movie too (I took a chance on you).

And then obviously people who have seen her capabilities first hand like Dum Dum certainly respect her. Loved seeing the shift in how she can behave when surrounded by like minded colleagues when they went on that overseas mission, and how Thompson slid to the bottom of the totem pole.

Honestly this dynamic is, I think, the entire core of what made this show work so well.
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why?
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im thinking about getting a new phone! my samsung s5 is taking too long to open snapchat lately and then the moment i want to capture is over. this is unacceptable. eww iphone though. I'm thinking either a pixel 2 or an s8. Maybe an s9 but i don't really want to pay anything upfront and I think with my provider I'd have to or trade in my s5, which i want to keep as a bluetooth spotify streamer. s9 might be too new and therefore expensive

as for your situation, it sounds to me like your options are

1) see what providers are willing to give you as a new customer and sign up your own account to begin with. Advantage here is that you can see what all of the providers here offer and not just AT&T, so there might be some good deals. Downside is you might lose your phone number and how many providers do you even have in the US? Like three?

2) Upgrade like you've suggested. You can almost certainly carve out your line onto your own account... it's super common for children to grow up and do this. The upgrade deal AT&T offers to an existing customer that you are eligible for might just beat the offers other providers will give you to sign up with them. Don't take this for granted though - this program is intended to retain you as a customer so it's quite good, but the offers for new customers are intended to steal you as a customer and are probably just as good.

It's just gonna take some research. Look at their websites, see what they offer, maybe go into a couple stores. I'm sure you were hoping board 8 would just tell you what you need to do (thats like half of why I still come here) but unless someone crazy like Digi comes in you probably have to figure it out yourself.
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It really benefited a lot from telling a serialized story over a short season. Many shows suffer from having to fill 22 or even 13 episodes when their story doesn't quite extend that long.
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ka dd
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I saw a post on reddit recently where someone showed each scene that caused him to buy them as real heroes. It was interesting because some were late in the hero's movie and some were early.

Iron Man's was when he tells Pepper to blow the reactor while he's still clearly in the zone that will get vaporized, while Cap's is that grenade scene.
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Agent Carter is very good! The first season at least. Very good use of Peggy, Howard, and Jarvis. Peggy really is excellent for a love interest, and she was a very good choice for a spinoff.

I haven't watched all of the second season but it doesn't seem quite on the level. You can totally watch it if you want, but don't feel compelled to watch it immediately
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i mean everything looks awkward, as a fan of CW shows it looks clearly worse to me

like the guy kidnapping them felt so forced. that's really the take they decided to use?
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yay i live for this

I saw this in theatres, and i remember feeling just as blindsided as Tony was when Obie revealed to him that he was the one behind the board ousting him when they were in front of the press at that party. I couldn't believe it!
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damn that was awkward

also the first two sisters look way too similar, i cannot tell them apart.

I'm sure that would get better with familiarity but that seems kinda bad for promotion
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am i just out of touch?

no.... it's board 8 who is wrong
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in all my years i have always seen unequivocal agreement that Josuke is terrible. i legit don't know what's happening here

i haven't actually watched the anime though. did they somehow make him good? i find this really unlikely
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unironically liking Josuke dafuq
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dafuq is all this part 4 praise

sure Yoshikage Kira and Rohan are the bomb but the rest of that cast is terrible

Obviously Battle Tendency is the best but to say part 4 is better than 3.... heresy
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SeabassDebeste posted...

Episode 37 is incredible. The images of the happy Gon and Killua, unburdened by life, just relaxing and playing and having heart-to-hearts about their lack of peers, in the grass at night by a fire under the unimaginable vastness of the Milky Way... it makes me yearn for something I don't know if I've ever known. One of my favorite parts of the series, even though it's divorced from the action and adventure that define it.

Yeah, some of my previous posts have alluded to this, but if there's one thing I love about HxH, it's this feeling. Well put.
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The extended filler of the 1999 anime has been a bit overstated in this topic - there were a couple extra tests added to the Hunter Exam and a bit more stuff for them to actually get to the Hunter Exam but it's not that different. This fight was in episodes 41 and 42 out of 92 episodes in the 1999 anime versus episodes 35 and 36 out of 148 in the 2011 anime.

The difference in total episodes isn't really due to either anime stretching things out or compressing things - it's just that a major arc and a couple smaller ones were animated in the 2011 anime that weren't part of the manga yet when the 1999 anime was made.

It's too bad GameFAQs embedding of youtube videos is small for some reason.... it makes it just unwatchable enough that you really gotta just click through it to the actual youtube page. I wonder why they did it that way...

Anyway, I don't necessarily think it was the climax of the show - it was just presented in a way that made it feel more epic. That anime made a few stylistic choices in the flow of the fight overall and how that moment was actually presented to make it feel bigger. Any scene can be memorable if it's done really well, even if it's not technically an "important" scene.
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if you wanna watch smartmuffin try to live his life in a slice of life anime and fail at it because his worldview is so stupid then My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU is for you
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