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TotallyNotMI posted...

scarletspeed7 posted...

TotallyNotMI posted...

I also didn't like how helpless Spider-Man seems in trying to contact the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and X-Men. And how convenient it was that all of those groupers were unavailable so Spider-Man had to find a way to deal with it himself!

I think this is one of the best aspects of the story, honestly.

I see Peter as the guy who steps up because he has to. Great power, great responsibility.

By trying to pass the buck to three other groups first it seems like he is being forced to step up.

That's what "because he has to" means
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were you on it
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Finished Year One

I love how even in this, the question of "who is Batman???" comes up and Gordon is just immediately like "Is it Bruce Wayne?". And then never gets disproven or shown a reason not to believe it. I guess it he just decides to stop pushing. Is he even actually "practically blind" without his glasses? Missed opportunity to say "blind as a bat" there IMO.

I really enjoy these comics. Slayride is a perfect one shot slice of adventure. Trinity was a pretty good barebones introduction to the Trinity and just show each person in their element. Year One works pretty well as a starting point for Batman,seeing him reacting to early failures and how hard he is on himself is pretty neat. But the real highlight is the city of Gotham itself, primarily focusing on the police department. Gordon made this story really something special.
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i want to but it sounds scary and im afraid of scary things
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Just read the bats scene

https://preview.redd.it/6ed6fcw1jady.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d938fe325269e69d68391af9b03a2831015391bd

Batman can now do this with absolute credibility backing him up
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scarletspeed7 posted...

I will try to fuel more conservation next time.

As for conversation on this particular topic, I'm surprised people didn't talk about how this Gotham compares to the TV show Gotham. I think, given that FOX is a regular TV network, you can still see a significant amount of Miller's vision for Gotham in the show.

More obviously, I think the Gotham of Batman Begins plays heavily off of Year One. Gordon also feels a lot more like Miller's interpretation of Gordon.

There's also the entire sequence of the sonar in Batman's costume attracting the bats of Gotham's cave system to his location cribbed straight out of the comic and placed into the movie.

I'm not finished Year One yet but I was gearing up to make a post about this. Fox Gotham is pretty much exactly like Year One.... except that Bruce is much younger and going to take awhile to show up and help Gordon clean up this cursed city. I really see the influence. I honestly didn't think the show made sense as a concept before it aired but it's drawing from a really strong source, so no wonder it turned out so well. Gordon himself isn't really exactly like the Gordon of Year One but he's in the same situation.

And the entire Dark Knight trilogy seems to draw from this. Dent's public image as the sole person trying to clean up the city, Selina Kyle protecting young street women, the state of Gotham PD. Maybe these are all found in many different versions of Batman comics but I feel like the impact is felt in all three Nolan movies.
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I really liked the narration in Trinity. I mentioned earlier how it added to Superman's character a lot, but it was good for all of them. I wish they had made it a little more distinct who's thoughts we were seeing, perhaps but colouring the borders or something so you could tell easily when a transition happened, but overall it was fun.

It wasn't until the very end when it showed all three's thoughts on what happened that I even realized Batman's was the only one in third person... Which I thought worked out well.
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Corrik posted...

I read Trinity. I was surprised by how utterly smashed Wonder Woman was by Bizarro.

Bizarro #1
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I like Superman's internal monologues where it gives his thoughts on what's going on. In Trinity, at least, he's not the type that says everything he's thinking. I've read little to no Superman outside of this, I'm almost entirely familiar with him from the animated shows, so I'm not used to seeing this side of him.

I also like the recurring joke where Batman does something unexpected and Superman is always "Like I couldn't see the sub following us." Like he's always just letting Batman enjoy his tricks or something.
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not sure if people just want to be good citizens or if they are more clueless than gamefaqs mods
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I made a friend in an UMS Starcraft map (Obzuko's D&D) when I was in the 7th grade, around 2001, who I played games with every day for probably 8 years. He was possibly my best friend. We are still in touch but not as close as we used to be. I'm gonna meet him at Blizzcon in a few weeks for the first time.
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I'm not familiar at all with Bizarro but he's one of the best parts. Is his simplistic relationship with Racer Cool inconsistent as well or is it just the way he talks?
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this was a fun topic to read through

my round 1 mirrored your picks almost exactly

my losers bracket could not look any more different, the competitors in each match are so different i couldn't keep straight what match to even compare
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2 chapters into Trinity and this seems like a pretty good barebones display of just who these characters quintessentially are.
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I liked how Davie and Elizabeth were totally openly throwing eachother under the bus while also keeping the idea that they wanted to get Natalia out, which left the door open for Alec to make that move.

If they had worked together and pushed for Natalia this might actually not have happened. Or if they just both kept throwing eachother under the bus without mentioning Alec, even just one of them, then maybe Alec wouldn't have been comfortable going after Natalia.

Kind of a perfect storm where things worked out for them despite this probably breaking them apart.

I saw Eaed mention Alec is in a decent 4 person alliance last topic though and I'm not sure what he's talking about. Alec, Davie, Elizabeth, and Kara going forward is possibly the most fractured and distrustful group of 4 people I think I've ever seen.

Kara was just blindsided and had no idea her ally was getting voted out, Alec proved himself to be very unreliable, Davie and Elizabeth just spent a segment campaigning to get eachother out.

I guess Davie/Alec and Kara/Elizabeth might happen as pairs just because they bonded socially but I really don't see how this group trusts eachother as a group of 4. They could not be more divided. And now Carl is going to be joining the tribe and making things strange. Will he join Davie/Alec? Will he bridge the gap between Davie/Elizabeth?
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o_o
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did we ever get an infinity war write up
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BetrayedTangy posted...

Ugh was going to read some of these on the DC Universe app, but it only has the first issue of Year One. I didnt expect it to be on the level of Marvel Unlimited yet, but this is pretty sad.

I'm heading to the comic store tomorrow anyway for my issues, I'll probably see if they have them, if not I dont mind dropping a few bucks on digital comics so I can help Scarlet save on postage lol

lol

i'm sure if you hit scarlet up on the board 8 discord you guys can work something out
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I could hear Mark Hamill during Slayride, especially when he started arguing about the line
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Anyways Tom, if you are interested about learning more about what happened through the book that maybe you didn't pick up on, you might want to listen to Comic Book Girl 19's Dune Club sessions. It was kind of a book club.

I followed along with this as I read the book (in fact, it's why I first read it a year ago), and it was really insightful. There's a lot going on in this book, and it's very easy to see why Dune is considered such a classic, like a LotR of the sci fi genre.

She would assign a group of pages and then do a session summarizing and explaining what happened, then did a Q&A video where people asked questions and delved a little deeper into what was going on.

First session:



First session Q&A:


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I'm.... glad you agree that what happened was not the Bene Gesserit's doing by sending a teacher there.
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tageroni
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I don't accept the Bene Gesserit's influence as an explanation for everything happening as ordained. I accept it as a useful tool that Jessica definitely exploited. It makes sense when Jessica just "happens" to say exactly the thing they are expecting, because she's intentionally manipulating them and knows all about the previously implanted legends by Bene Gesserit who have visited the Fremen in the past.

But it's very clear that this isn't what's happening with Paul. He isn't saying things because Jessica told him to - he very clearly observes the reaction the common Fremen have to offhand comments he makes. It even kind of annoys him.

You might make the argument that Jessica manipulated Paul into unknowingly saying these things, but I don't agree with that. Paul is very aware of Jessica's manipulative nature and can usually tell when she's trying to subtly influence him.

Plus there's the fact that what happens with the Fremen isn't actually what the Bene Gesserit as an organization intended - Jessica just utilized them with her knowledge because of her love for her son, not for the aims of her organization or for the realization of the Kwisatz Hadarach. The Mother Superior was not pleased when Paul faced the Emperor.
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Hmmmmm

I definitely felt things fell too easily in Paul's favour in the desert. There were many times where he'd just say some random shit and it would just *happen* to be exactly what the people around him needed to hear to believe he was the chosen one. Sometimes it was genuine stuff like "I didn't want to kill him" and that resonated with the people present, but sometimes it'd just be some random shit like "I wish I had some salt" and they'd be like "oh man salt is poison to us, only the chosen one would willingly want salt!!!" and then theyd tell everyone and it would spread to all the Fremen.

That stuff kinda annoyed me. It was interesting when he could see the future and felt that he was in a crucial moment where saying the right thing would win him everything and saying the wrong thing would cost him everything, but at times it felt like no matter what he did, it was the right thing. At times it felt like Paul was forging his own fate and at other times he was on a track until the end no matter what.

There is that plot point about the inevitable galactic jihad that he cannot prevent, but I don't think that's the same thing as what I'm talking about. I'm not sure where that goes later anyways as I've only read the first book.

But besides that everything was fucking awesome.
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1) I touched on this earlier, but yeah I've read some stuff. Favourites included Thor's God Butcher arc, The Superior Spider-Man, Runaways, Sandman, Fables, and Y The Last Man.

2) I've heard about a lot of classic creators I'd love to learn more about, but none of them in particular. I'd be happy with pretty much anything.

3) I'm definitely a Marvel but I'm interested in reading anything. I've read dozens of manga and I see non super hero comic books as pretty similar to that.

4) I'm not really adverse to any of these things, but I'm not too fond of gratuitous use of them for the sake of having them. If they enhance the story being told though, then by all means. I'm not a fan of lots of gore or killing characters off for no particular reason. For reference, the crazy guy in the diner in Sandman with the gem kinda pushed me to my limit on this. I think his name was John Dee.
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i'm interested

i tried to really get into comics a few years ago and bought a ton, but i found the monthly expense of trying to keep up with more than a couple titles was immense, and the result was that i have a giant pile of single issue comics that are impossible to organize or revisit easily. pretty disappointed with the logistical experience, even though i did enjoy the comics themselves. Trades are a bit more manageable in this regard and look nice on a bookshelf, but I haven't tried too hard to get into buying those.

i've pirated some digital comics to enjoy as well and have had good experiences with those, though I tend to bite off more than I can chew like "read every Deadpool comic from the beginning" or "everything related to Annihilation in cosmic Marvel"
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i compare my life to the friends all the time so yeah i've definitely realized this

to be honest, i've spent my entire life trying to be chandler, but it turns out i'm really just a ross

feelsbadman
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I see Honest Trailers, CinemaSins, and How It Should Have Ended as different sides of the same coin. They point out really ridiculous things that happen in movies that maybe you wouldn't have thought of as a way of fun criticism.

But I think very poorly of Honest Trailers and CinemaSins. It's just so low effort. They REALLY scrounge the bottom of the barrel of nitpicking in order to come up with stuff to say. There are often legit plotholes or editing errors or whatever for them to point out, but it's drowned out by 100 other petty nitpicks that aren't legit. They'll point out an inconsistency and I'll just think "uh, did you watch the movie? that ties in later, what are you even talking about???" or sometimes they'll just point a normal character trait or set piece as if it's a Sin but it's just.....a normal choice in the movie.

I find them really annoying to watch. It's becomes less a fun unravelling of weird stuff in movies and more just an annoyingly toxic way to shit on every single movie that ever comes out. I enjoy breaking down why a piece of content messed up certain things (like Red Letter Media does) but I really dislike approaching it from a place of negativity to begin with. It's just a killer of joy.

Meanwhile, i LOVE HISHE. I feel like fundamentally it's the same idea of the other two channels - let's identify where the movie went wrong and poke fun at it, but obviously their execution is way different. Instead of playing footage from the movie and throwing out a hundred small criticisms, HISHE picks out just a few big things they thought were silly and then animates a segment around it.

Even if I disagree with the point they are making, it's usually fun anyways, because they are putting themselves out there too, just like the movie did. They've made a choice on what they think could have been fixed and committed to it. They are being creative and making their own piece of content, and you can criticize it or love it just like the original movie. You can respect that and go along for the ride.

Plus the superhero cafe is god tier.

In short:

HISHE >>>>>>>> Cinema Sins/Honest Trailers
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LapisLazuli posted...

CoolCly posted...

How could you possibly claim that was accidental? He clearly takes aim, lines up the shot, and then fires?

And after he's clearly not faced. There's no "OH SHIT".

Yeah, he's looking exactly where he just fired to see if he hit the target.
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How could you possibly claim that was accidental? He clearly takes aim, lines up the shot, and then fires?
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pjbasis posted...

I played the original and advance for about the same amount of hours.

The only difference was like, tone and story? That's everything for some people, but otherwise they were basically the same. Advance might have had nicer quality of life improvements too like not locking you out when you try new missions.

Lost like half my party when I tried to advance the story in tactics until I was gonna unlock that city again or something.

I don't agree that gameplay feels the same in FFTA
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one of those Deku's looks pretty tough

the other one needs to find a quirk i guess
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That's interesting, the average person is fine with it, yet the federal government is so hard line against it.. I wonder how much Session's hard stance on marijuana impacts all of the regulatory agencies also being hostile towards the Canadian marijuana industry. Does he have influence over them? Is Trump against it too?
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I thought I offered something interesting to talk about but it didn't really go anywhere.
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i remember feeling bad that i thought FFTA wasn't very good since I loved FFT and TO so goddamn much. like there must have been something wrong with me.

Then I went on the internet and found out everyone agreed with me. thank god.
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okay Natalie
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what did he do, tell you that your paranoid rambling about misogyny was not unbiased?
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goddamn i miss peridiam
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Eddv posted...

CoolCly posted...

what does the pot smoking population need to be controlled for?

You would need to survey people who smoked pot in Colorado not just survey accidents in Colorado and see if there was an increase of any kind. It would probably have to be a longer term study.

Correlation isn't causation after all. Accidents might have gone up for any number of reasons

Correlation isn't causation, but that doesn't mean that studies that examine results after a change are useless. they just aren't definitive.

this is repeated way too often on board 8
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what does the pot smoking population need to be controlled for?
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Good point SEP. I know a lot of dudes who think driving high is normal. To be honest, it's one of my biggest reasons for supporting legalization, so that driving high can be come more of a public discussion point like driving drunk is. It's not something people talk about because "you aren't supposed to smoke weed to begin with"
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Nominated by: Xeybozen

Much like Howard the Duck, this entire film needs to be scrapped and repurposed. The technology of 1990 isn't really ready to make a TMNT film that doesn't look like B-Movie garbage. And perhaps that's okay. Maybe we have to more fully embrace the B-movie nature of the film in this regard because attempting to animate the movie is not going to set the world on fire. I think I would probably but I larger focus on making the turtles look aerodynamic and built for fighting, and I would probably keep the voices already in use for the movie.

I would probably seek out Robert Zemeckis to helm the project, at least as an executive producer. I he has a sense of comedic timing that is more timeless and ageless, and that sort of measured vision would prevent the script from diving in the trash too often. I'd also recast the human roles of the film completely. April O'Neal? Winona Ryder. Casey Jones? Emilio Estevez. Shredder? Hiroyuki Sanada.

Past that, I'm bringing in Zemeckis and letting him attempt to make this corny origin story into an endearing look at classic B-List movies, kung fu movies, all while being an early 90s children's film.

Thank god no one nominated more TMNT crap.

i have seen this movie dozens if not hundreds of times and i am EXTREMELY offended by your writeup
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https://globalnews.ca/news/4536509/u-s-wont-ban-canadian-pot-workers/

phew

as a canadian pot worker going to blizzcon in a few weeks, i was legitimately concerned about this ban

So I posted this in the last topic

i'm actually curious, how do americans generally view the fact that cannabis is legal in Canada next week?

Brief background on me: I'm an accountant for a large chain of liquor stores in Canada. With marijuana legalization happening, it seemed obvious to us to expand into that market as the regulations are very similar and we already have relationships with the government agencies that will be controlling the market.

We've actually had a lot of red tape issues with the US Government being rather hostile to companies associating with the business, as it's viewed as "international criminal activity". My company has holdings in US liquor companies, so there's issues with us moving money between our operations. If we take money from our US operations, they see it as "funding international criminal activity". If we move money down, then those operations are now "funded by international criminal activity." And we've had issues working with big vendors like banks that don't want to work with us because they are worried about getting heat from the US government too.

And then there's been this thing where we could get banned or even detained when entering the US because of our ties to cannabis.

So how does the average American view this stuff? Do you guys think it's weird Canada is legalizing weed? Do you see the companies in that industry as criminals? Am I the bad guy?

I'm sure a lot of people here are pro legalization, but I know there's some staunch anti weed legalization advocates around here like Sephg.
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scarlet hittin us with some mainstream historical knowledge

he's not just about comic books, folks
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https://globalnews.ca/news/4536509/u-s-wont-ban-canadian-pot-workers/

phew

as a canadian pot worker going to blizzcon in a few weeks, i was legitimately concerned about this ban
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is the symbiote evil in this movie?

that's always kinda bugged me about venom, in every story I've read about him he seem's so close to being interesting, but it's always tinged with the fact that the symbiote itself is evil and wants bad things

the eddie / venom relationship in this movie actually kinda sounds like what I've always hoped they'd accomplish with the symbiote
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my coworker swears by it so I've been meaning to get one

I think I wanna get an Instant Pot first though
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charmander6000 posted...

You act as if the bracket is always perfectly seeded.

I feel like it's usually relatively well seeded with some upsets on the seeds that are close together. But generally a low seed vs high seed goes the way you expect

i think this year is going to be tons of high seeds defeating the low seed in a blow out
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this seeding is MESSED UP
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Han just did a watchthrough of the entire MCU. He might be a good indicator of what he thinks might be skippable.

But personally I think you should just watch everything or not worry about it much at all and just watch any movie you want.
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