Lurker > Mr Lasastryke

Lopen posted...

Infinity War is really the only one I think might be a bit much but even that one if you've seen like any of the Avengers movies or Civil War you're probably fine.

agreed, plus infinity war was both the third movie in a series and the first major crossover superhero movie in history. if you're going into that without having seen anything else MCU-related, you kinda know that you're going to not understand some of the stuff that's going on. but when you're watching an original movie about a superhero like black widow, i think you should be able to watch it without knowledge of the other MCU stuff.

in general, i think superhero movies sometimes leave stuff unexplained that you won't get if you haven't read the comics. for instance, in x-men 1, you don't know the history of the professor x/magneto relationship if you're unfamiliar with the comics (they eventually explain it in first class). again, though, you can follow the movie fine without being a comics buff.

Waluigi1 posted...

Oof.

his ranking is totally correct.

scarletspeed7 posted...

There is absolutely no reason to not assume people haven't seen Civil War. That's just objectively ridiculous.

assuming you meant to say "to assume"... why?

i'm sure there's a decent number of people who have seen black widow but not civil war. not everyone on the planet is a diehard MCU fan who watches every single movie.

what exactly constitutes russia "winning" or "being victorious"? annexing the entirety of ukraine? that's going to take an extremely long time, given how huge ukraine is.

i'm fine with the concept of the MCU movies usually having humor but i don't find MCU humor as hilarious as most people seem to find it.

no way home is a good example of an MCU movie where i thought the humor was 50/50. some of the jokes worked, others were just cringe.

i'll give this a bump

red sox 777 posted...

Are we really supposed to believe Biden is the worst president ever and Obama was the second worst and Clinton was the third worst?

yes.

long before the election, many republicans were whining that biden is "waaayyy to the left of obama."

KokoroAkechi posted...

I never took a lot of time to memorize game states and such, which I know is basically what you have to do to really become good at the game.

that and knowledge of opening theory. one of the (many) reasons i'm not good at the game is that my knowledge of openings is terrible. i'm pretty decent at the king's gambit (both white and black) and that's about it. i think that if i would study the basics of all the major openings for a week, i'd improve drastically.

i'm mediocre to bad at chess. my rating is 1300-ish over the board. don't play on chess.com so i'm not sure what my rating would be there.

can't play poker. someone explained the rules to me once but i don't really remember.

probably not, he's a pretty emblematic example of a republican in 2022.

really nice to see right-wing people talk about how awesome putin is while i'm in constant "has putin used nuclear weapons/started WWIII yet" mode

if you want non-arthur conan doyle sherlock holmes stuff, i'd recommend the new adventures of sherlock holmes short story collection by stephen king et al. it's hit-or-miss but some of the stories are really good.

jazz fusion

i think batman returns on DVD. bought it last year.

gmunbro posting about politics on b8 was something!

Mac Arrowny posted...

a famous violinist.

no

of course

not sure if there's any classical music fans in here but it's wild to me that valery gergiev took russia's side (he seemed like an ok guy to me in documentaries i've seen).

rip his career in the western world lol

red sox 777 posted...

Trump has jumped the shark.

just now, eh?

i was wondering who on youtube was saying "the new batman is too grimdark" because i've only seen hype and universal praise by people who've already seen the movie. but i probably don't watch the same obscure people LMS watches.

Waluigi1 posted...

And watching Toby be Peter Parker is painful.

maguire was a better peter parker than holland. there, i said it.

spider-verse > 2 > no way home > homecoming > the rest

IfGodCouldDie posted...

there wasn't enough humour,

uh... did she watch the wrong movie? i just saw no way home and i recall there being a ton of humor in it.

good movie, btw, though i don't quite get the "one of the best movies of all time" hype.

i think some of the '60s batman comics were really goofy (which was reflected in the TV show). most of the batman comics have been pretty "grimdark," though, sure.

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Putin might be the biggest monster of a politician since Hitler.

putin is terrible but he's not as bad as, say, mao.

bump

Kenri posted...

FYI no one was trying to refute your point (before Chris decided to indulge you) because you have a history of being dense and annoying.

Hope this helps!

i like how it's always the same kind of people who post this shit (black turtle, sephyg). "the only possible explanation in the world for why nobody wants to argue with me is that nobody is able to refute my point!"

Very good album and one of the pioneering albums of the indie rock explosion of the zeroes, along with Franz Ferdinand's self-titled debut. Comparing Silent Alarm to albums by other indie rock bands, it sounds fairly unique. This is partially because Matt Tong is a far more competent drummer than many other indie rock drummers, and also because this is actually a more ambitious and diverse album than some people give it credit for (particularly the reviewer at Pitchfork). Bloc Party switches from soundscapes ("Blue Light") to multi-layered vocal rock ("This Modern Love") to ambient ("So Here We Are") to hard rock ("Plans" - nice use of the dual guitars) to shoegazing ("Compliments"). "Like Eating Glass" and "Banquet" are 10/10 songs for me. I don't care for the bottom three songs and my ranking of those is somewhat arbitrary.

For the record, "Two More Years" would be #8 on this list.

1. Like Eating Glass
2. Banquet
3. This Modern Love
4. So Here We Are
5. Blue Light
6. Little Thoughts
7. Helicopter
8. Plans
9. Pioneers
10. Compliments
11. She's Hearing Voices
12. Luno
13. Positive Tension
14. Price of Gas

DoomTheGyarados posted...

But to be told for six years running "you have to outreach and this and that" it's like, it doesn't really solve the problem. The problem is our education system failing us (among other systems) and as long as that is true then no amount of outreach will matter.

yeah, this. i don't get how inviso can elaborately explain how america is a deeply conservative country and then conclude that "the problem is that progressives don't treat their opponents nicely enough!"

my country has a vibrant, longstanding tradition of socialism that simply does not exist in the US, and never has. THAT'S the problem. if true socialism can even exist in the country at all, it's going to take a ton more to get there than "being more nice to lib dems."

Espeon posted...

Yup. You guys got me. Im completely defending Hillary and Biden as perfect and without flaws. Youre totally not acting like the kinds of progressive strawmen I would otherwise have to conjure up from the ether.

perhaps you could post what your point is instead of contentless bullshit.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

On one hand, you say "I am on your side, I just disagree with your methods",

he's not even saying that, actually. he just said "you guys [i.e. progressives] fail."

apparently, progressives are the bad guys and liberals like hillary and biden truly make the world better!

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Gee I wonder if Hillary Clinton had a point in taking a hardline stance against Russia?

no, she didn't.

the situation with russia is very difficult but starting world war III isn't the solution.

red sox 777 posted...

Tulsi seems to have jumped the shark. She went on Tucker Carlson to call for just giving in to Putin's demands.

tulsi jumped the shark years ago

LeonhartFour posted...

Wait, how does Gohan have the Flying Nimbus? I feel like I haven't seen this thing since the original Dragon Ball!

this makes me wonder: i'm pretty sure gohan learns how to fly during the saiyan saga (presumably during his training with piccolo), so why would he still need flying nimbus to fly that much later?

don't remember if they do explain this or if the explanation is that this was just an anime-only filler episode (the fillers often contain tons of coninuity errors).

LeonhartFour posted...

I'm not sure which was the bigger shock in this episode: That Krillin has been willingly bald this whole time or that he somehow managed to have a child with an android.

i mean, i'm pretty sure krillin being a buddhist monk was already established in the original dragon ball.

also, the spider-man movies weren't the first "good" superhero movies - x-men 1 was good and that came out before spider-man 1. you could also make a case for the first blade movie and, yes, the burton batman movies (though i personally don't get into those as much).

spider-man 2 is legitimately good because of alfred molina - he is to that movie what heath ledger is to the dark knight. spider-man 1 has obvious flaws but i still think it's ok.

oh for sure, it's going to drop significantly in the coming months. it will be interesting to see at what position it stabilizes.

no way home is the second highest rated superhero movie on the IMDb top 250 right now, second only to the dark knight.

i get that you're not saying that literally 100% of leftists have that stance, but i don't see the benefit in claiming that "the left" thinks something when it's not clear that even a majority of leftists think said thing and you're just basing your claim on anecdotal evidence.

also, one thing i've noticed is that people who constantly generalize "the left" (steven crowder, ben shapiro, stefan molyneux) absolutely never generalize "the right." they'll never say something like "the right thinks homosexuality is a sin," even though that's a perfectly valid thing to say, going by your logic. not saying this applies to you but it is a trend i've noticed.

maybe "what you often hear" is anecdotal and you shouldn't base blanket statements about what "the left" thinks on it!

red sox 777 posted...

That's a lot more thought out than what I keep hearing from the left though. I'm concerned they'll actually try to give colleges a blank check.

spoilers: chris is part of the left.

acting like "the left" is a homogeneous group is something assholes like ben shapiro do. stop doing it.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/5/1/AAGQPmAAC3zT.jpg

seems like he's really trying to be in pictures with every single well known garbage human being in politics

red sox 777 posted...

They're doing exactly what they accuse Democrats of doing. That's the problem with the GOP - once elected they do exactly what they were supposed to protect us from.

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namor appearing is cool, i always like seeing the OG golden age marvel characters in these movies. i thought we were never going to see the character because he was in limbo because of copyright issues but apparently disney does own him now.

well, according to vlado, it was also fine because "historically, crimea has always been part of russia."

by the same token, i'm still waiting for spain to invade my country.

lol @ there literally being four articles at the top of the fox news homepage about this non-story. anyone still want to defend the "oh the fox site is a good site for adequate journalism, it's just the TV channel that sucks!" stance?

secret invasion is a different thing than secret wars, yeah. secret wars was the first super big crossover event in marvel comics history. don't know much about secret invasion but apparently that was a different crossover event that took place several decades later.

i like how all of the responses to that tweet are "covid in 2017 wut"

i wouldn't say cheering/applauding is the same thing as laughing. cheering/applauding is psychotic sephyg-ish "i'm glad that this person i hate is suffering" behavior. laughing can be as innocuous as thinking the irony of the situation is funny.

that being said, herman cain is dead and mark milley isn't, so it's not really the same thing anyway.