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Vision wasn't active either, he was off the grid for two years with Wanda.
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There was actually nobody there in Infinity War when Cap and everyone show up and Rhodey is having a hologram meeting with Ross.
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I don't think it's a for sure that those different missions created different timelines - they could still be the same timeline. Like if you keep messing up the same timeline, it could just be that timeline that's been messed with a few times, rather than splitting out on each mess.
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I thought this would make sense to take place before Infinity War for sure - the lighthearted tone of a school trip to Europe, with all of the same kids, just doesn't seem like something that would happen relatively soon after Endgame.

The idea of a trickster trying to portray himself as a superhero (which is what Mysterio's plot looked to be shaping up as from the first trailer), made more sense pre Infinity War too. A guy like that showing up trying to look cool AFTER every hero in the world had the showdown with Thanos would seem a lot less impressive to the world. But the multiverse spin kinda turns this story into something else anyways.
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noting the chameleon is in the movie sounds like the wrong thing to do... his entire purpose would be to go as unnoticed as possible. guessing which character he is because you know he was cast or something likely makes the movie worse.

basically, if they didn't want me to know ahead of time the chameleon is in this, it's a dick move to make sure to point out
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his later tweets are pretty defensive about the idea that he's "mean to all castaways, regardless of gender", so it does seem like it's the direct insult everyone thinks it is

But being mean is only really acceptable when it accompanies another positive attribute, like comedy or effectiveness. this is just meanness for no reason other than to hurt Christy. pretty damn stupid that he's proud of himself.
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But it's not just Thanos... it's Thanos + the children of Thanos + the full force of his army all together. I don't see why this would not be intimidating. It's an imposing force whether he has the stones or not. I don't see any reason they need to escalate his threat level.... their threat has already been well established.
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The Hulk's strength might be a bit higher than Thanos's, I guess. Thanos's defeat of the Hulk actually isn't a display of overwhelming power. It's a display of power around the Hulks level combined with an overwhelming amount of skill. He tears the Hulk apart because he's much better at fighting than the Hulk, not because he's much stronger.
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I've seen people complain about Thanos being too weak in this movie and too strong.

I think he's consistent with Infinity War - he's the same level of strength he was there. And I don't think Infinity War ever indicates that he's physically stronger because he possesses the gems. They just grant him very powerful abilities he can activate (one of which is to become stronger).

That's one of the brilliant things about Infinity War; how it utilizes the gauntlet. When a gem is glowing, that means he's activated it's ability. When he opens a portal, the blue gem glows. When he turns Quill's shots and Gamoras dagger to bubbles, the red gem glows. When he needs to make himself stronger, the purple gem glows. They don't ever explain it, it's just something that occurs naturally as he uses the gauntlets powers throughout the movie and is very consistent. If no gem is glowing, I don't think he's utilizing the gauntlets power.

When he beats down the Hulk, no gems are glowing. It's just his own strength. He's not that strong because the gems are powering him up; it's because he's that strong that he can utilize the gems power with no repercussions.

Edit: damn you for making my post sooner in much less words
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Sorry, you do say it earned it pretty thoroughly, I just wanted to comment on the "just fanservice" phrasing in general I've seen a lot of people do, and I've seen it used disparagingly, as if this film just wanted to do a bunch of stuff for it's fanbase without accomplishing anything of value on it's own. Which I could not disagree with more.
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TheRock1525 posted...

Snrkiko posted...

that would have required each stone's location to get a bunch of exposition and some sort of conflict or something to make each stone worth finding.

So basically what we got minus time travel plus the possibility of new characters and interactions.

this is an extremely short sighted idea - so an overstuffed movie with a million characters needed more characters, which would all require more time to set up to not feel shoehorned in, instead of visiting familiar and well liked characters for interesting new interactions with no necessary set up?

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

I think the thing about Endgame is that it is pretty much 100% just pure fan service, and while in most cases that's a not great thing it actually works here. After 21 movies it fully justifies and earns its place in reveling in such fan service.

I dislike comments like this - "100% just pure fanservice."

What does that even mean? Does this mean it's no substance, intended to pander to a fanbase?

Cap picking up the hammer was amazing. It's a payoff to all these movies where we've seen his strength of character, combined with the lore and history of Thor's Hammer and those who are worthy.

The elevator scene recreates a scene we already liked from Winter Soldier - and references a comic book story that everyone was upset about where Cap was revealed to be a member of Hydra.

Tony has a conversation with his dad about fatherhood - something he's been experiencing in this film with his daughter, and his own strained relationship with his dad has been a part of several movies in the MCU before this.

All of these can be called "fanservice".... but does that mean it doesn't have substance? Or are these the payoff of long well developed character arcs and scenes?

I've seen a lot of people say Endgame is "Just a bunch of fanservice" and it boggles my mind. They are showing tons of awesome scenes that we'd love to see... but they don't do any of it just out of nowhere just to have it in there. It's all the natural result of everything they've done so far in the MCU.

It could be "fanservice" in addition to everything else it is, but calling it "just fanservice" triggers the hell out of me.
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SeabassDebeste posted...

related q about mythology - what's the deal with "hail hydra"?

This is a fun one, and BIG spoilers but it turns out that SHIELD has been infiltrated by Hydra all along and many SHIELD agents are Hydra agents (which is a group of bad people, to put it simply). There's several times when Hydra agents need to identify themselves to eachother, so they'll whisper Hail Hydra and allow eachother to carry on with their business.

In the Winter Soldier, Cap is working for SHIELD and ends up getting burned by Hydra - there's an elevator scene where Cap gets into an elevator and as it's going down the building it stops on several floors as more and more people get in. They are all Hydra agents with orders to take down Cap. It's very tense until the fighting starts. The guys in the elevator scene in Endgame were all of the same guys - it's practically a shot for shot remake. Then when the tension is about to boil over and the fight starts exactly like in Winter soldier.... Cap leans over and says Hail Hydra, indicating to them all that he's in on it. So they let him take the staff.

Goddamn that was good.
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Raka_Putra posted...

It's super easy to tell a Squirtle from a Bulbasaur though.
Should've went with Cascoon and Silcoon at least.

but imagine if you couldn't tell a squirtle from a bulbasaur

how could such a person possibly enjoy detective pikachu
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i just went to rotten tomatoes

code geass: lelouch of the resurrection
wtf

is this opening in theatres?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYNDssdsVnM#t=3m30s
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Safer_777 posted...

Still seems strange to have a big bad without Iron Man, Black Widow and Captain America around.

Safer_777 posted...

@mnkboy907 Still who will lead? Captain Marvel? You do know that most people dislike her right? Thor? No because he doesn't want to be in charge. Seems strange. Guess we shall see if we go that far ahead.

What bizarre posts

Seems strange? In what context? You can't imagine a world where leading stars who have their own successful movies like Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Spider Man, Captain Marvel etc lead a movie?

Sounds like the problem is a lack of imagination on your part.
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oh yeah, i just remembered operation tree idol

phenomenal stealth play by Rick Devens
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I'm not a big Rick Devens fan but man this was a great episode for him. The 'awkward' comments after catching Aurora going through his bag combined with his tribal performance were highly entertaining.

I'm not sure who can even win besides him now tbh. Everyone feels like a goat to me. I'm rooting for Lauren, but I don't know that she has gotten much credit for all of the Lesu victories. Victoria is the only person from Kama I've ever thought seems smart enough to pull of the win, but everyone has said, man is she in the background edit wise.
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But how could a prequel set up a replacement? If Widow had a protege on deck, why would she not have brought her in at any point?
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I like the Scarlet Witch a lot. She's great in Age of Ultron (her scene with Hawkeye during the battle is one of the highlights of the entire MCU), shes good in Civil War, and shes's great in Infinity War with the Vision (Thanos' Walk is one of the best parts of the movie, and it's just as much because of her as it is him)
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

Cap goes to a timeline where Peggy already loves him, but says "I'm that guy but from 80 years in the future but only 10 years older and also I boinked your granddaughter.

Man, why are people so confused by this. H3H3 podcast review also brought up "but he hooked up with Peggy's daughter, isn't weird?"

Agent 13 AKA Sharon Carter is Peggy's niece, not her daughter or granddaughter. She mentions Aunt Peggy several times throughout the movies.

Snrkiko posted...

was agent carter worth watching?

Season 1 is very worth watching

Season 2.... eh. You can treat it as a one season work of art IMO.
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Seems likely the Loki series in particular will be based entirely around the What If Loki escaped from New York with the Tessaract scenario.
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my single timeline headcanon has been officially destroyed
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And the clown jumped over the moon.
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How do you plan to actually play? Over chat? Over voice? Webcams? Would there be some kind of gameboard like in roll 20 or just imagining what's happening?
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So it's 5 TAR teams, 3 survivor, 3 BB?

Maybe they felt since it's TAR they should be more represented, but I wish they'd gone 4 Survivor / 4 BB.... Those are what I'm here to see!

RIP Rob/Stephen
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i also agree they have the power to know. If they think it's worthwhile, they can just do it. They had Russell play before Samoa finale aired his FTC performance, and while I don't think he knew the result when he played HvV, this does set precedent they are willing to be flexible on this. Dunno if there are other examples of this.
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Where?
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thanks to peridiam for explaining the full murphy in a video so i knew what they were talking about in the know it alls
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lmfao

every single week lauren and kelly don't play their idols and i think "they are definitely getting voted out"

and then they don't get voted out

great tribal. that idol play was pretty bad though
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i actually recently learned that the show went until 2008... i thought it was off the air WAY before then. They were playing with xbox 360's and shit. on the same set. blows my mind.

but yeah this show is a definitive piece of the 90ies for me. it was so good.
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I mean, they did continue the challenge, which is fine, but talking to the other contestants about her place in the game, making deals, and talking about trust is an inherently emotional plea for reassurance which is about more than just the challenge. To make that kind of emotional plea when peoples emotions are extremely tied up in the literal medical emergency happening right in front of her is callous and shortsighted.

Lauren just collapsed off her stand and right now is when you want us to talk to you about how you feel left out of the tribe? You are going to make right now about you? I would be really annoyed with Aurora then too.
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i actually think that was crazy of Aurora to make that offer to Victoria when Lauren might literally have just died or suffered something very serious. If it had been a few moments and it was clear Lauren was okay and they were still just checking her out, then it's fine I guess, they are just continuing with the challenge while this Lauren stuff continues nearby.

But it looks like she went for it immediately after Lauren fell and people were still figuring out wtf was going on. Which is really short sighted, it both makes her look completely uncaring towards Lauren's situation and actually IS completely uncaring towards her, so in addition to being shitty, it hurts image with the rest of the tribe. Like, right NOW is when you want to bring up your insecurity in the tribe? Well, you should be insecure, because now everyone hates you. Very bad move by Aurora on all fronts.
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Underleveled posted...

Rick owning Wardog.

Inviso posted...

Okay, THAT was the first time I've liked Rick all season.

what strange takes

Ricks implosion as a player began here, i'm surprised anybody could have interpreted this scene as "owning" wardog

maybe there's some cathartic release in someone not taking wardog's shit, but this was seriously bad gameplay from rick and it only got worse from there. he burned relationships with a significant portion of the game and his closest ally for literally no reason

the eye rolls he was giving in tribal were especially dumb. eoe must have broken him because he's letting attitude take the wheel
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So I wanted to talk about Aubry's vote off a bit but never got around to it. I might as well do it before tonights episode!

I thought it was really neat how they portrayed Aubry's vote off, falling for her alliance's lies like that and making it clear she was the target. They tell her that they want to work with her and she's super receptive to it. We plainly see them talking to eachother about how it's a lie and they are just going to vote her out. Then there's no ambiguity on whether it will be her or Wendy like in a typical episode. We know it's Aubry. But then the episode follows Aubry around and shows us her perspective, on everything, like whether or not she feels like she can trust Wendy or work with her in the future. But from our perspective, we know this line of logic is pointless because she's getting voted out and that logic will never be relevant - it's not up to her if she can work with Wendy or not and that will never come to fruition.

It makes Aubry look really stupid. Like she couldn't notice these people are lying to her, or that Wendy isn't trying to come up with an alternate plan? Why is she making plans for down the line when she needs to solve the situation right in front of her? I'm sure a LOT of people came away from that episode thinking Aubry is dumb.

But I'm not sure that's a fair take. I think that in the vast majority of vote offs, they could edit the person who got voted off exactly like they did here - the person talks to people, makes a plan with them, chooses to believe them, and then gives confessionals strategizing on where they could go with their game from here. They have a plan and they think it will work. Then the get voted off... and realize they had committed to a fake plan. I think this is what happens to most vote offs - they've committed to a plan that they hope is legit and it turns out they were the one being lied to. It seems like most votes don't have a clear outcast that everyone including the person going home knows what's going to happen - it sounds like both players get promises to vote with them but one is being lied to.

It's really cool when someone makes the read that someone is lying to them and comes up with a way to turn the tables, but you can't just always suspect the people you are working with are lying. Other wise, you'll never build trust and pull off a plan because you'll always be turning on each other. So there are points where you just have to believe somebody when they tell you that they will vote with you, even if it might turn out to be a mistake.

I've talked about this before (like with Paras, I think?) where players don't have perfect information and can only act on what what they see, and I think the thing that is most relevant for that is trusting other players - they can only judge whether to trust someone based on their personal relationship with that player and what that player has done to earn trust (like voting with you in previous tribals). Aubry hadn't been to tribal yet with these people, so she could only trust what they were saying. And yeah,in order to "be the best" and win you have to make it through these situations, but I don't think everyone falls for them must be dumb... otherwise that'd be almost every Survivor player.

Peridiam, you asked for video ideas a while ago, and I'd love to see a video exploring this concept in some way - how Survivors (or Big Brother) players have to make choices from their limited information in the moment. They don't necessarily have a lot of time to ponder things before making a move - they just have to make a call and go with it. How do players even make decisions like this? It'd be a hard concept to make a video about I think.... it's not a top 10 list of players with an attribute or something. But it could be really interesting.

You also asked about topics you could talk with Rob C about.... well, I'm sure he'd have some real perspective on this!
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yeah shes a little kid who had an experience she didnt understand

your perspective on this is all wrong

its not like she's been thinking that moment and going "oh i wonder why he made me tell vanya she was ordinary, seems weird", it's "oh i have this memory from when i was a kid that i've never really thought about, this must have been what the crazy old man was doing."

you are attributing intent here that does not exist
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she didn't keep it a secret

she didnt remember it. the events happening brought those memories to her mind, and she shared it with Vanya as soon as she herself had that information

you are being really obtuse about this
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It never seemed that weird to me. I'm sure calling a spirit is a more intensive process than just talking to a spirit that's already following you around all the time. Any time Klaus is becoming anywhere close to sober, Ben is just already there.
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It does kinda seem that way, but I think even though they are in worse positions now, they are in positions to be better later?

Playin that late game strat
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Oh, that's really historically accurate, I guess!).

Holy fuck at that episode 6 ending though. A string of events I've been dying to see happen all happening in a row. Vanya manifesting her powers AND finding that book so she'll be on to this obvious weirdo. Hazel making his break from the organization, and massively outplaying Cha Cha while doing it. Luther realizing what an asshole dad was. Allison and Luther working out this tension. Mom coming clean with Diego on shit. Klaus getting sober.

Literally all the things I wanted. AND THEN THEY JUST TOOK IT ALL AWAY

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Ep 6 question

Klaus taking a tour in Vietnam is a great way to give this piece of garbage some backbone. But how come he needs help sobering up? He just spent 10 months in another time... he shouldn't have an immediate addiction problem anymore?
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I'm 3 or 4 episodes in. Halfway through episode 4 I think?

Move Vanya to the bottom of my list but keep the rest the same.

Vanya: I find her story about being mediocre in every way pretty compelling, but she's just so dumb, like a bit too unbelievably dumb for the plot. Completely dismissing Five's apocalypse story? Walking into the middle of a shootout at the house with no way to help? Annoyingly dumb.

Klaus: He's had a few entertaining moments like messing with that eyeball manufacturer with Five and his torture at the hands of Hazel and Cha Cha, but overall.... I find him very pathetic. He doesn't seem to be a secret badass pretending to be a useless idiot - he just is a useless idiot. Possible upside for his character though - he uses drugs to run away from the spirits of the dead he doesn't want to see? This hasn't been explored though.

How much I personally like or respect a character has a big impact on how I view them. I can really respect a character I don't particularly like for being well done, especially when it comes to villains, but these two cross too much into "I don't really want to see you that often" territory.

I'd put Hazel and Cha-Cha above them for sure.
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My episode one rankings

Five
Luther
Diego
Vanya
Allison
Ben
Klaus

I don't even have anything to go on with Ben and I still like him more than Klaus!

My takes on Luther and Diego:

Luther knows what he wants to do and he's trying to take the lead, but just like his bumbling size makes him a bit clumsy physically, he isn't really socially savvy enough to get across what he's trying to say or get people to do what he needs them to do. He's kinda like a Steve Rogers that just isn't sure how he can accomplish what he knows he needs to do. Which I guess you could say isn't Steve Rogers, but if you applied this layer to Chris Evans I think Luther is what you would get. I like him a lot.

Diego is a bit too "FUCK BATMAN" so far. He's cool though.
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I opened Netflix today to find something to watch and the trailer for this auto played. What a pleasant surprise - it looks excellent.

Watched the first episode and I'm very into his

Where did this monkey come from?

Five is interesting for a lot of reasons, but the most interesting to me is that his actor is in both the childhood scenes and the adult scenes, guess he had to play double duty.
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_ FD TAKE MY ENERGY _

caps
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