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They did get off to a strong start though. Just because Thor 1 isn't as good as Thor Ragnarok doesn't mean it wasn't a strong movie to introduce Thor and lead into the Avengers with.
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this is pretty revisionist

films like thor are only looked poorly upon compared to such films as everything awesome that came later in the MCU

they improved upon their successes. that doesn't take away from the success of the early films. and Iron Man 1, Thor 1, and Cap 1 were all definitely successes.
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Like my general belief is - instead of focusing on making these main trilogy movies as good as they can possibly be, they said "lets make them and also try to push out some side stories at the same time"

So the result is that the side movies are half baked, AND that they put less love into the main movies than they could or should have.

I think TFA wasn't too hurt by this as it actually was their focus at the time, but was hurt a little, and TLJ was hurt a LOT.
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I liked it. The more distance I have from it, the more issues I have though. I guess the biggest ones I have are weak characterization. Cassian was really bland and generic, but I did kinda like Jyn Erso. She needed a bit more though. The other friends were cool but also could have used just a touch more personality.

Saw Gerrara needed to be a bit more thought out and he could have been a really iconic character. Instead hes just a a weirdo who is in the movie for 5 minutes.

Also this was billed as more of a heist movie to steal the death star plans... but it turns into a giant big budget space battle at the end. Even though the last act is the best part, I'm not a fan of this. Every big budget movie feels like it needs to be a giant action scene at the end, but they could have done something a lot more interesting. Especially since they had a core group of 6 specialists to base a heist around.

Lastly, where were the bothans?

All in all, I think this movie would have been better if they had taken more time to develope it, instead of rushing to produce something as soon as they got the rights. They said recently they are going to slow down on releasing more movies, so hopefully that improves their approach. The problem they have isn't that they are making too many Star Wars movies, the problem is that hey are pushing out movies without really fully thinking them through or why the movie should even be made.
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Peridiam did a review of BB20

A+ imo

Really like the new intro graphic
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it's as far ahead as it's ever going to get

and has been for like 10 years
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The thing is the FOUTTE voters are so erratic you really can't tell what they would do. They might just turn around and say "well Angela was the one running things and manipulating Tyler so we gotta respect her game and give her the win"

Who the fuck knows what is going through Bayleigh or Rockstars head.

The only voter for Kaycee that actually makes any sense is Fessy because she won the comps that sent him home. He's a simple guy and respects strength, so he sees the person that sent him home by beating him in a comp as the strongest. Kaycee won the veto and got that respect, but Angela won the HoH that week so he'd probably use the same logic and vote for Angela.
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i dont think shigaraki has grown or developed ever

and he has zero competence. that anybody follows him makes noooooo sense

capitalizing on Stain's influence doesn't make sense either. he's recruited a bunch of dudes based on Stain's ideals but he is VERY obvious about the fact that he thinks that Stain was stupid as hell
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i cant possibly understand what anybody could like about shigaraki

i mean i guess you could find his design interesting at a glance. but hten you go a ton of story and it's never even really utilized or explained

lame
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Inviso posted...

wg64Z posted...

People on Twitter attacking Tyler supporters as bigots is insane...

That being said I think weve fully entered the realm of boring gameplay being rewarded over blood stained entertainment. And it's really unfortunate for the audience.

No, Tyler lost. Boring gameplay wasn't rewarded.

just fyi

you're wrong
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The only person in my top 5 I didn't get was Natalia, so woooo

#1 hotcop

I guess Kara is fine as my last pick.
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i thought it was really sweet how he was touched that America loves him, when he thought they probably hate him (believing he's the Paul of the game)

Tyler too pure for this game
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It's astounding to me that this was only 13 episodes. I feel like I watched it all the time. I guess I just watched the same episodes over and over and didn't really feel that way.

It's also interesting that I watched it so much, but I'm pretty sure I never saw it again after I actually went to college. So I only saw it in a time when I was imagining what college might be like.

It'd be neat to watch it again now that I've experienced it. I'm pretty sure it exactly reflects my experiences in college.

Nitz is intended to be the point of view character that you identify with.... and I identify as Nitz so hard in those years. I knew Cals, I knew Rockos. Objectively I should probably be a Gimpy, but I definitely also had Gimpy's to my Nitz.

This show was awesome.
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but anyway
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Sent my picks in

I find First One Out to be pretty boring, so my picks are based on very little. Just looking at the profiles + Rob & Nicole's preview podcast. Man I wish there was video! I find it so hard to form an opinion without it.
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watch every animated short and fall in love with the cast and have no choice but to play it






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the content looked good but man that was a poorly put together trailer. cuts literally every 0.5 second. I hate that.
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Heroic Bigpun posted...

Okay that's enough, anagram. You need to take it down a peg, Predator was never the height of Cinema. It was nothing more than a dumbass Ahnold movie with meat headed action and slasher elements. Believe me, I love me some Predator, but you are Holding it to some weird high pedestal that it shouldn't be on

i think Predator deserves a lot of credit imo


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teachers armed with guns
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just saw the trailer for this, looks pretty cool

but shit when did john cho turn into an old man
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It's definitely worth it. Very emotionally satisfying, cool fights, funny humour. It's got it all.

Quality is basically always consistently very high throughout it's entire length. In fact, I thought to myself while reading the most recent few chapters that have come out "this is One Piece. This is what it's all about. Oda's still got it after all these years." It's just so good.

The anime does have pacing problems after like 300 episodes, so like people have said, you could switch to the manga to retain excellent quality.

It's also the kind of show that tends to get better and better every arc. Though there's lots of good stuff early on. Personally, I think episode 37 is one of the best in the series.

Watchthrough topic go.
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TheRock1525 posted...

ExThaNemesis posted...

I think he should be re-hired, but I just think it's ironic that James Gunn got fired using the same exact playbook that the left established and they're really upset that it happened to one of them.

I'm not upset at all. I think Disney had every right to fire him. What I find hilarious, though, is that Disney hired a guy who directed movies where little kids get mouth-raped by zombie slugs and Ellen Page rapes Rainn Wilson and they're shocked that dude made offensive tweets in the past.

Like, you didn't need to vet his Twitter to know the type of shit this dude does. Being surprised at all is ridiculous.

it sounds like Disney, or at the very least Marvel, knew all about this stuff and were fine with it

But Alan Horn must not have known about it when he made his snap decision. And now he looks like an idiot.
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asking for a friend
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UltimaterializerX posted...

Anagram posted...

https://www.cosmicbooknews.com/guardians-galaxy-3-permanent-hold

We knew before that the production was halted, but now it's on an even harsher hold.

I don't really understand why Disney has chosen this hill to die on. Firing James Gunn and refusing to rehire him has been an almost universally opposed decision.

It isnt at all universally opposed or they wouldnt have fired him.

Know how not to get fired for joking about child rape? Not joking about child rape.

how do you not get fired for regularly calling for the sterilization of entire groups of people?
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Oh, you are actually talking about actual mashup songs - you have to get set up as an Artist to be allowed to upload music.

Don't do that unless you are actually creating original content. Uploading someone else's songs will likely get in you in trouble.

If you actually are creating content like covers or remixes and think it's okay, you can get approved as an artist.

https://artists.spotify.com/faq/popular#how-do-i-verify-my-artist-profile-on-spotify
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You can make a playlist of songs you like or think go together in some way, like "Eminem's Greatest Hits" or "Workout songs" or whatever you want, and you can make it public so anybody who finds it can listen to that playlist. So that functionality is definitely there. The mashups you find are probably playlists.

But it sounds like you want to import the list of songs you have downloaded to make it quick and easy, and there's no official spotify support for that as far as I know. There are third party work arounds, but they often involve giving them your account data so their tool can log into your account and do what you are trying to do. My experience with those were somewhat spotty, so I'm not sure they are worth it.

So basically you'll have to search for these songs all individually and add them to your playlist.
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Finally watched this

It was pretty damn good. I didn't think the other recent Plinkett reviews really needed to be made, but this one did a really good job deconstructing the movie.

I think the best point was the "comedy of errors" thing. The Vacation movie is exactly what some of these plotlines were like. Basically everything that happens in Finn and Poe's plots (which are the majority of the movie) resulted from their own inept decision making. The last remaining vestiges of the rebellion are being chased by a bunch of Star Destroyers (which I find to be a pretty silly situation to even set this movie in), but somehow the biggest issues are the dumb mistakes Finn and Poe keep making

"A series of mistakes and errors is not a series of obstacles." This is really hits home. Finn and Poe never did a single thing to contribute anything to the situation, they just actively made things worse for everyone and got the rest of the rebellion killed. There was a couple obstacles for them to overcome, but they never really had anything to do with them and just chased their own tails around for the entire movie. The only net result is that Finn gets a girlfriend and... Poe learns a lesson about leadership or something and apparently we are supposed to love him for being a troublemaking scamp.

Personally, I really love everything to do with Luke, Rey, and Kylo Ren, and Plinkett seems to be at least intrigued by the stuff going on with them. It's the Finn and Poe stuff that really just suck.

Also I loved the Star Trek montage of the crew discussing how to solve problems. Goddamn I need to watch some TNG.
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woooo thanos quest
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Well James Gunn wrote most of the Guardians dialogue in Infinity War sooooo
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this is interesting. i read the manga and haven't seen much of the anime, and I don't think there's any particular focus on Froppy. Kirishima and Todoroki are the only characters I'd say get any focus outside of Deku, Uravity, Ieda, and Bakugo.

Is there a bunch of Froppy filler in the anime? I think she's exploded as a fan favourite due to.... well, fanservice..... so I guess I could see that putting her more into focus.

I would say I've always thought Froppy's ability to remain level headed in tense situations and her general physical competence puts her at a higher level than the rest of the class, despite her relatively weak and gimicky quirk.
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the quality of heroes are pretty high in this show, so that does really hurt Stain's ideas

the series makes some small efforts to show some heroes just want fame like Ms Mountain or whatever but for most part they all seem pretty heroic. If they want to make them look bad then they actually need to make them look bad

Ingenium isn't the highest quality of hero, because he personally doesn't feel that strongly about helping people. It isn't his first instinct. But he sees thats the way Ieda is and he wants to live up to what Ieda would be like and how Ieda sees him, so he tries his hardest to live up to what a hero should be, even if being a hero isn't his first instinct.

So.... that makes him pretty heroic. If his actions are heroic, and he's doing it because he wants to live up to the standard of hero, then it doesn't really matter that his base instinct isn't to be heroic. How would Stain even know that?
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Stain was cool af but his philosphy didn't really make sense and wasn't really saying anything interesting. The show definitely wants to think it was profound though, and most of the fanbase wants to believe it too.
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Mineta's quirk is complete garbage on top of a really horrible character design (and personality)

how is this kid even in the class
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why are people still debating foolmo about this. are you guys actually trying to convince him to watch the show more?

he didn't like it. whatever dumb reason he has doesn't matter. the show doesn't intrinsically change what it's doing - it just continues along the path it started on with "you can become a hero"

convincing him to watch it is just going to result in him being like "everyone told me it got better but it continued to be about superheroes what a bad recommendation"
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all might is awesome because PLUS ULTRA
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MHA doesn't ask "Interesting questions" or really do anything crazy, it's just a well written show about superheroes doing super hero things. It doesn't invert any expectations. They are just superheroes. They fight villains and learn how to be better heroes. It has a lot of great hype moments, but it just comes down to if you want to see superheroes be awesome. I do, so it's awesome. If you are looking for something to set it apart, it's not going to do that. It's just a fairly well executed shounen.

I think some people believe that some of the villains really break the mold and ask profound questions, like Stain, All for One, Shigaraki or Chisaki, but I don't really think so. The world they've built isn't actually that interesting, so challenging the concepts the world is built on aren't that interesting either. They are just cool villains. (well, except Shigaraki. I think he sucks).

I think it's really funny people compare it to One Punch Man in that regard, like it operates on a deeper level. The best thing about One Punch Man is that it's somehow convinced people like foolmo that it actually has good character development or is saying anything profound. They have taken the joke so deep that people are actually forgetting the joke.
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i feel like this isn't the first time I've seen someone say "hey scarlet what's your opinion on this niche topic" and then he gives a detailed response and the person says "perfect this will definitely help me win an argument"
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i really love this brand of chocolate almond milk called Almond SoFresh. It's honestly one of the best parts about my day. It's way better than any chocolate milk I've ever had before, and I fuckin love my chocolate milk

They changed their formula across all of their almond milks a couple months ago and they don't make it that way any more. This affected the chocolate milk too. The new formula is creamier, but it's not the same. I still like the new chocolate milk..... but it isn't the omgwtfamazing consistency of what it was before. I'm never going to get to drink that again.

I'm really upset about this and noone seems to understand my pain.
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I don't think JC is a reliable vote in that case. There was discussion earlier about how people view Sam and JC as level 6, and I think it's reasonable to just say Sam was Level 6 as she was in their pocket, just like it was probably fine to say Bayleigh or Scottie was FOUTTE even though they technically weren't in that alliance, but it's important to understand that JC is most definitely not part of level 6. He's worked with them closely, but he doesn't actually know the alliance exists, and he's working with FOUTTE almost as much. He's definitively in the middle. He hasn't just been working with Level 6 to destabilize FOUTTE (which he has done brilliantly) he's also maintaining his allies in the FOUTTE side and making sure the rest of the house takes just as much damage as FOUTTE does. Level 6 is due to lose another member after Bayleigh went home to keep things even for him, since he doesn't want one side to become more powerful than the other. If he's the swing vote to keep an L6, that person is in trouble.

That said, if the "L6" member on the line is Sam, he will probably be perfectly happy evening the sides by cutting her.

I think L6 wants to keep noms the same if they win veto, but I think the best thing to do is for Kaycee to win veto, take Angela down, Tyler clouds himself so he can't be backdoored, and Sam (or maybe even someone better) gets put up because Brett has somehow misted FOUTTE into thinking he's on an island. Then they clearly control the vote, and hopefully win next HoH.
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Sam also isn't really that nice. She just has a sunny disposition with that southern charm. She thinks she's really nice, so that makes you believe it too. She has a very "holier than thou" attitude about her mindset on the game - she thinks that she's above the petty actions the rest of the players engage in (IE, playing Big Brother) and because of that she's an objectively superior person and player. But she's just somebody who doesn't care about winning, so she's a really bad game player in addition to being a jerk.

And that's ignoring her actual holier than thou attitude towards Haleigh in regards to the flirting (even though she does the same things with Fessy, but doesn't realize that's what she's doing)

She regularly blows up about what other people are doing in the house and how they are all such terrible people, but Tyler always reels her back in and keeps her from actually doing something on the level of the house meeting. In some ways it's kinda similar to his relationship with Kaitlyn, how she would always do stupid shit until he'd show up and lay down some commmon sense again. Then when he left her alone long enough she'd start making bad moves again. Sam's like that except instead of making bad moves she's just a judgemental jerk.

Just like with Kaitlyn, I think the length of time Tyler will continue bothering to do this has an expiration date. And it's coming up soon.

I say this as someone who's pregame winner pick was Sam and was a huge fan of hers in the first few weeks. She's not the person she wants to believe she is.
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Yet another great episode. Bayleigh really brought the drama. This season has been pretty damn good.

But yeah, she was a pretty bad person who treated her own alliance like garbage and saw herself as the queen. If anyone showed her the slightest disrespect (real, or imagined) she would fly off the handle, but she would regularly treat people horribly, much worse than how she thought people were treating her. Reddit isn't "overreacting" to her or whatever. The only redeeming factor to her was that she actually was self interested and played for her game (after Swaggy was evicted, at least). But overall she was annoying because while she demanded loyalty from her allies and acted extremely upset and personally betrayed when she perceived they werent loyal (even though they were), she had no loyalty to them at all. This is fine as game strategy, but she always made it completely personal. That's the most frustrating kind of player.
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I cancelled it a long time ago and I honestly kind of missed it. It's awesome having everything you want at your fingertips with Netflix or Crunchyroll or whatever, but I always feel like I need to pay attention and watch things in order when I do that stuff, and sometimes that's just not really what I want. I like just channel surfing and finding something cool and watching that. Sometimes it's an out of order episode of Friends or Big Bang or Pawn Stars or some shit that I've seen before but it's all that I want.

I especially like this when I'm reading or playing on my 3DS or something. I like to have something I'm only half paying attention to on, and I would NEVER do that with something I specifically chose to watch on Netflix. If I've chosen to watch a show in order, then I gotta pay attention or I'll be annoyed for missing stuff. With channel surfing, there's no guilt!

One of the people I live with needs his sports channels so we got cable back for that, and I'm glad to have it. I'd miss it if I didn't have it. I don't use it on a daily basis, but I like having it when I want it.

Is it worth the price just for that? I dunno. If sports guy moved out, I can't say for sure if we'd keep it going.

I'm curious to see what happens when the inevitable day comes where channels as we know it no longer exist. Will everything be on demand netflix style? Will random queue channels become a thing? Will channel surfing completely become a thing of the past? Who knows.
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Nice writeups about the different books. It's nice to see your profound enjoyment of everything Brandon does. Even the very bottom of your list is just full of praise.

Honestly Shadows for Self is super high up for me, the ending really affected me too. Bands of Mourning was great but felt like another adventure like Alley of Law compared the emotional trials of Shadows for Self.
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Anagram posted...

What exactly happens in Secret History of Mistborn that undoes Kelsier's death? I haven't read it.

Nothing. He's dead.

He's a dead spooky ghost.
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Just watched the Floater vs Coaster video, it was pretty good

I was a little surprised you used Tyler from the current season. I kinda see why since he definitely maintains strong relationships with both sides, but I feel like "the middle" of the house of JC and Sam are perfect examples of both a floater and a coaster.

Also no mention of my girl Paras =(
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he has a very strong reputation for pumping out books at an absurd speed and being a lot faster than his peers who write of a similar quality

Stormlight books take longer though and he likes to write other series in between Stormlight books to avoid burnout. It refreshes and relaxes him to write Wax and Wayne or White Sand or Shadows for Silence or Steelheart or Legion or whatever the hell else he comes up with before diving back into Stormlight

Every year he does a "State of the Sanderson" blog post where he reviews everything he did that year, all of his ongoing projects, everything he has on his radar for the future, and what he intends to accomplish in the next one year period

https://brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2017/

I love reading these

Unfortunately, he doesn't think book four will come out until 2020 or 2021. I think he plans for book five to be worked on relatively sooner after book four though.
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they accidentally went to fishes for a second during the live HoH comp too last night

somebody is getting fired
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This is really well done and all, but I have a hard time enjoying it. I find the narrative they are pushing with Jaina and Sylvanas to be.... really dumb. They are just having them go crazier and crazier and do dumb shit. It ends in one of two ways - 1) they realize they've been acting fucking crazy and atone for their shit, admitting that all of their character development lately was stupid as hell, or 2) we kill them.

Which sucks because they are two of my favourite characters.

This is damn good though:


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AquaArcane posted...

He also apparently showed up at the end of Elantris in the 10th anniversary edition. For some reason that's not the version I got, so I didn't get to read about his antics. Apparently he tried to become an Elantrian? How would he even consider that as a possibility though...

well that definitely makes sense - he's always attempting to gain other power systems.

Spoilers as of the end of Oathbringer: He's displayed perfect pitch showing he's attained the Second Heightening from the Warbreaker world, and we've seen him drink a vial of metal flakes. We don't know exactly what Allomancy he has but he's probably a full Mistborn the same way Elend was. At the end of Oathbringer, he appears to have bonded a Cryptic, so he'll have a shardblade. He has other abilities as well. He's gathering and combining abilities, so attempting to become Elantrian makes a lot of sense.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn the scepter he betrayed Shai for has some magical value.
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