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"Ow"
-Ben Solo, last words

No_U_L7 posted...

which goes against the pick up artist tenants

You should really see about evicting those pick up artists from your apartment.

I thought you were feeling like you had no more goals in life and you'd accomplished everything.

Shouldn't this date with Olivia Rodrigo be your new goal? What you live for?

I'll play everything. My current character is an armorer artificer. This is the first time I've played an artificer and my experience is A+. So much flexibility and customization.

Nyan rawr

Vanilla posted...

I mean yeah, although Im not looking forward to the $1200 Im gonna have to spend on those boots.

To each according to their need, comrade.

Enjoyed by all ages

Universal healthcare

She say hello there to me

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Max damage Vicious Mockery for sure.

Nerf the Sixth Sense

Buff sight

Punished_Blinx posted...

The other stuff makes up for it though so yeah maybe chocolate is just seen differently.

There was some interesting info posted earlier in the topic that I didn't know, about how America deliberately fucked with their chocolate to help with transportation back in the day, and now people are used to the shitty taste and would be upset if they changed it. Which is unfortunate lol.

I tend to have bad luck with supermarket bars even when they're pure chocolate. Maybe it's because they feel like they don't have to work as hard because they're competing with Hershey? So they just fill their bars with cocoa butter to cut down on costs. That's my guess.

Punished_Blinx posted...

Regardless whether you're talking about the standard bars or premium chocolatiers I don't think all that much changes.

In my experience it makes light years of difference. Single origin small batch makers do incredible things with chocolate here (and all over the globe, admittedly). The tricks they use to draw out the natural flavors of the bean give the bars unique flavors that are deliberately stripped out of big company chocolate because they prioritize consistency in taste.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

As an added bonus, this happened the same day that Ukraine released these new postage stamps and envelopes.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/4/AAUFZqAADIbQ.jpg

They're gonna need to issue a new stamp.

Punished_Blinx posted...

Because it's not garbage everywhere? What UK chocolate are you basing it on?

Mars bars, kinder eggs (yeah, not technically a candy bar but chocolate candy), and a couple others whose name I don't remember... my wife got them in random packages from her English friends. We weren't impressed lol.

Punished_Blinx posted...

Like am I supposed to pretend that I haven't seen multiple topics debating about the quality of chicken sandwiches from fast food places in the US? Junk food doesn't mean it tastes like garbage.

Well those debates have set the parameters of the discussion properly.
If you make a thread talking about the best fast food chicken sandwiches, then yeah, people can argue about fast food chicken sandwiches. If this thread was about candy bars, I'd be happy to argue about candy bars. But the thread is about chocolate.

It's like saying America has the shittiest game devs and citing Zynga as your evidence.
Also most fast food is garbage

Punished_Blinx posted...

Not really much of one apparently?

I was speaking hypothetically but if you actually want to talk about this then I'm game.

Belgium definitely sits at the top of the world's chocolate throne (there's a reason most of Ecuador's best cacao gets shipped there), Swiss chocolate is overrated, and America has a thriving single-origin scene if you know where to look. It's not the best (Peru and Denmark are better), but it's up there.

Punished_Blinx posted...

Because the latter is widely more available and universal across the country?

Yeah but there's no reason to talk about it.
American candy bars are trash.
British candy bars are trash.
Candy bars in general are oversweetened cheap crap shoveled out en masse for the lowest common denominator. If you want to have a discussion about chocolate quality, why start by comparing garbage to garbage?

Punished_Blinx posted...

Besides you're then talking about chocolate that's still more acclaimed from countries like Belgium anyway.

Sure.
At least then we're having an actual conversation.

Punished_Blinx posted...

When people say that there is good American chocolate do they just mean the expensive independent brands? That's not really what people mean.

Why shouldn't it be what people mean? That's actual chocolate. Not Snickers or Three Musketeers or whatever.

I wonder how many ideas they will exhaust before hitting on "treat employees a bit better" starts gaining traction.

If you're using candy bars as an example of why American chocolate sucks, I'm not sure you're qualified to have this conversation.

If I was in a position where I needed money, grifting right wingers seems like a very easy way to get some.

Payzmaykr posted...

Where they fucked up was pressuring Johnny Depp to leave. The series would be going strong if they hadnt done that.

The second movie had Depp and it was shit.

The series would still be going strong if they made good movies.

How can you do my man Elan Sleazebaggano like that.

Glad they gave it to Chris Rock then.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/9/7/AANlpfAADH-Z.jpg

He didn't go nearly far enough. No politician is gonna give a shit about that weak-ass blackmail, not compared to their mountains of donorbux.

TyVulpine posted...

You cant be mad at a fictional character.

You'd think, but morons made a mess of Chris Pratt's twitter feed after Infinity War.

Llaeto7 posted...

Holy shit who says it.

Poe.

You can watch Oscar Isaac die a little inside as it comes out.

I enjoyed Rogue One. And since it was Star Wars, I graded it less harshly than I usually would. So the flat characters, stupid deaths, etc. didn't bother me so much.

Thing is, they actually felt like real people with realistic foibles and motivations. Which is a bar that no other Star Wars movie has cleared.

The setting felt grounded and lived-in, which only the OT has managed to do. Jedha? Awesome. Scarif? Great. That space station we meet Cassian on? Fuck yeah. I felt like I was watching an actual story play out rather than contrived nonsense.
The whole thing was just...polished. Thought through. I got the impression that the people involved with the film respected me and my time. The story was weak, but I enjoyed the vibe of it enough that I didn't really care.

And of course the final battle was enjoyable. Only bad part was how every member of the main cast died while smiling at an explosion. That was some dumb YA shit.

Punished_Blinx posted...

From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm with you again... I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you- I can't breathe. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating... hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do?- I will do anything you ask.

https://youtu.be/9C7GuwWovQE

JlM posted...

I would happily watch every film in this thread. The 2011 Muppets is one of my favorite films.

Muppets 2011, keep Jack Black

Wind's howling.

VioletTopics posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.10.user=Pepys+Monster

What did he do that was worse than the DD/LG topic?

It must have been for that thread; it appears to be gone.

The hyphen has all the powers of all the punctuation

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/2/4/AANlpfAADHl0.jpg

Top is me, bottom is her fyi

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/8/2/AANlpfAADHlK.jpg

Conquer the world and then abdicate the throne after naming her as your successor.

bsp77 posted...

Of course most people are replying yes, but if you've actually been in relationships then you know this would be hella annoying AF. It loses its appeal

It sounds like she'd be cool with you just doing your own thing while she gets hers though.

I4NRulez posted...

This is a weird topic to make then tag the women on this board.

Like how is there not a rule against sexual harassment like this lol

Yeah that's creepy as fuck.

AKA vegeta

lilORANG posted...

If it makes sense in the narrative, it's fine.

This is one of the least accurate takes I've seen wrt to narrative.

Is it against the TOS to hope that someone plays a video game such as Call of Duty and loses?

Shitty exposition and nonsensical boring plot.
Character assassination of Queenie
Immediate undoing of consequences from previous movie
Superfluous characters that pad the already excessive runtime
Continuity errors (for the nerds)
Cheapening of emotional stakes by making them artifact based instead/chickening out when it comes to establishing Dumbledore's relationship with Grindelwald
Focus on spectacle over substance
Literal baby swapping plot taken straight from the 1800s but that takes waaaay too long to talk through, oh, also the most barebones romcom misunderstanding that could have been cleared up with 5 seconds of talking but is drawn out over a whole movie for drama bullshit that I thought the industry had managed to move on from

But most importantly, I can't think of any reason to consider it a good movie.

Remember when the GCN version got 8.9 from Gerstmann a few months later despite him saying it wasn't as good as the Wii version?

Dude knew what he was doing.

Fade2black001 posted...

They gone up in price? I got one from a used game store like 3 years ago for 130

Yeah they went up during the pandemic.

I was having trouble finding an affordable one too, until I tried Facebook marketplace. Maybe try there TC

I'm a shy guy who is utterly devoted to the defense of the Mushroom Kingdom.

TheSavageDragon posted...

Oh yeah, there's the FF movies, 5 Spidey movies and the awful 70s Dr Strange movie. It's still nowhere near any of the authors mentioned in this topic and it's still ignoring all the contributions from others that helped these characters even get movies made about them.

Bruh.

It was literally a joke about how fast studios are pumping out superhero content.

Have some tea or something.

TheSavageDragon posted...

The vast majority of hero characters Lee had a hand in creating already are in the MCU. Characters like Dum Dum Dugan or the Kangaroo aren't going to be getting their own projects. Not to mention that movies like Civil War, Infinity War and Thor Ragnarok are (partially) based on stories written long after Lee was actually writing stuff.
Contributing the MCU solely to Stan Lee is shitting on the dozens upon dozens of writers and artists that made the characters what they are today.

Calm down, brotha, Stan Lee's filmography is way bigger than the MCU.

Someone should Photoshop a couch in there.