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HylianFox posted...

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https://c.tenor.com/TgXhKZa_OwsAAAAC/the-office-john-krasinski.gif

With the advancements in technology, ps5 really should have come with 2 TB models instead of just a meager 1 TB especially when games are like, 100 GB per game and only increasing from here on.

Thinking I might get a ps5 earlier than I intended against my better judgment, as early as 2023 if not 2024, with the hope that they'll have a ps5 pro by then with even better performance and no load times and more than 1 TB storage for all the games it's gonna have

It's a fantastic movie that shows how the inner workings of hollywood and politics are connected. Robert Deniro and Dustin hoffman who has some of the best scenes ever with her also star in it

It's a great movie and one of her best roles by far. She will be missed.

NeonOctopus posted...

Here's the censored vs uncensored scenes in that whole movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paUYCdfYEXo

Ok one of the comments convinced me, it's not about the gruesomeness of the death it's the difference between Robin directly killing the joker and joker succumbing to the "disney death" method of being hoisted by his own petard.

pegusus123456 posted...

For what it's worth, there's an episode of JLU where Joker steals Cadmus technology, so it makes sense that he got it from there.

JLU didn't exist yet but... that actually makes perfect sense.

In fact, I just realized they kinda reused DNA re-writing once again in the final episode when they had that controversial reveal about Cadmus re-writing Terry's dad's DNA with Bruce Wayne's DNA so that Terry would actually be biologically Bruce's kid. So they really use Cadmus technology for a whole buncha stuff

itachi15243 posted...

Jokers flag gun has had that for a long time. Plenty of ways it could work, too. Even if it's not super accurate at a distance.

Hmm maybe. In the past the gag gun always lobbed the flag onto the table to scare the mooks and then have joker laugh. It just felt like if you were to try to shoot someone with a flare gun. They literally laughed about that very thing in the breakfast club

pegusus123456 posted...

The plot of this movie involves a tiny, unnoticeable microchip overwriting a person's mind and biology with that of a dead man and the bang gun is what gets you?

I'm not gonna lie. It really got to me when I was younger >__>

Sure, the microchip reveal made me go "that's not possible, when the heck was joker smart enough to even create that" but I moved past it for the sake of the twist.

But I couldn't let this flag pole gun go. Have you ever played with nerf guns or tried to launch projectiles like pencils at each other when you were kids using toy guns or even homemade rubber band slingshots? The force propelling it forward is barely strong enough to break the skin. I just couldn't let it go <__<

I just like the former electrocution death scene way more. I grew up on BTAS and it was a big fan of "show violence or death scene in the silhouette of their shadows" and that always terrified me more than actually seeing it for some reason. Like in that clayface origin episode when gang members forcefed clayface a bunch of clay

For the record the so called "uncensored" scene of joker's death wasn't anywhere near as shocking and nightmare inducing as the misnamed "censored" version where joker is literally electrocuted to death. That one was much more terrifying.

This one never made any sense to me when I finally saw the uncensored version. For one thing it made no sense, the novelty joke gun did not seem like it had enough force to shoot out a flag and impale someone to the point of dying. There's a reason guns have bullets and not long arrows like crossbows. Just seemed silly. It's not even a sharpened pole stick, it's just a blunt mini flag pole.

Used to love spamming the refrigerator by mixing ice and electric powers. The food damages enemies and restores Kirby's health, I love it.

It wasn't until I replayed it on the VC that I finally was able to 100% the game and get the true ending. I grew up constantly rewatching that terrifying ending, you know the scene I'm talking about.

Wait coughing because of sugar? Expand more on that

Obama was on some weird crummy internet webisode show

https://youtu.be/UnW3xkHxIEQ

While he was still president

Foppe posted...

He did some concept art that was never used and got fired.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/0/2/AAA_aCAADjnO.jpg

Huh. Based on that kinda design I'm starting to think we may have gotten Nightmare Before Christmas out of the rubble that was this movie, so maybe there was some good after all

Foppe posted...

First Mega Man game.

agreed, nes and snes era don't count those boxes were out there

You one of those "allergies are just psychosomatic" people?

Proto_Spark posted...

I mean, he isn't clearly a psycho, because its kind of just like the people who support general "anti-SJW" stuff - yeah they're assholes and shit people, but they "say it like it is" and stuff like that. If anything I think its part of how The Boys' satire can be a little too on the nose. And its also an avenue for the show to explain why MM doesn't like the supes and whatnot.

I actually really liked that. Showing that her being alive was one of the few things keeping Homelander from losing his **** and going full-nazi, and then her killing herself because she wants him to go over the edge like that really helped his whole downfall the whole season.

Wait why would her being alive keep homelander from going full-nazi instead of increasing it since that's literally what she was advocating and what her whole deal is?

I thought she killer herself because she was sad that Homelander didn't embrace her nazi master race nonsense and didn't want to live anymore in a world that didn't have racial purity.

But agreed on the whole being on the nose thing, that's pretty classic The Boys behavior

It's frustrating seeing Ryan turn into another psycho... but clearly Ryan and Homelander are gonna have another falling out and it'll just be like season 2 all over again. Homelander will get frustrated with Ryan for whatever reason, get mad and Ryan will be afraid, that's just who Homelander is.

MM's ex dating that white psycho who likes Homelander makes no sense... like what, she can't see that he's clearly a psycho? What would she have seen in him. Seemed incredibly arbitrary just to put MM's daughter in that kinda position. But the show doesn't seem to mind arbitrary like having that random yellow shirt throw a bottle at Ryan so he can get laser blaster by Homelander lol, just a ridiculously contrived scenario. Like superheroes don't have reaction times and could see a dude chucking a bottle a mile away. Also the dude was incredibly far away he would have had to lob the bottle and its trajectory would be super obvious to stop. But whatevs.

Foppe posted...

The story behind The Black Cauldron movie is more interesting than the movie itself.
First not knowing if they are going to do an animated movie or not, trying to push five books into a movie before deciding to only do two, the suits forcing the movie in directions that nobody else wanted, directors leaving to work on the Great Mouse Detective because they felt that nobody listened to them, 3 directors working on different parts of the movie that didnt talk to each others, Tim Burton drawing wonderful concept art that the suits shot down because "it looked like something from the Yellow Submarine", Don Bluth taking half the staff and created his own company (and both created and released Secret of the nimh before Disney released the Black Cauldron), delays after delays, a new CEO that once the movie was done cut away 10 minutes because it was "too dark", and hated by parents because it was too dark.

Tim Burton was involved? I'm super intrigued.

TaylorHeinicke posted...

full honesty this is the only reason i know who he is and his story

hope he makes it

yeah as an arab muslim (at least, according to my birth certificate) I was surprised to find out this whole controversy deal with hilarious satanic verses and fatwas and such but then again it seemed more like an Iran thing since they issued the fatwa than an arabia thing.

I really hope he makes it

I really liked his Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.

Proto_Spark posted...

Given Black Noir is one of the most important parts of the comic-ending, I doubt he's staying dead. Though the comic ending was really dumb and I hope they go elsewhere with it.

I think they did lean a bit too much into the whole season being about Homelander's complete mental collapse, and the relationship between Butcher and Hughie. Those are the main points for sure, but it did leave some other stuff underdeveloped.

My guess is they had a real ending in mind (probably season 4 or maybe 5) and much of this season was basically just to get everything into position to start it

I mean clearly they're going to have Mallory get a team to synthesize an anti compound V cure using Soldier Boy's body radiation right?

And then just apply it to all supes, destroy any remaining compound v, and eliminate that part of vought forever

Sure I did enjoy Maeve bruising Homelander a bit and it felt somewhat cathartic, but this just means that you get what, 10 supes in a room with Homelander and they could probably take him out? A couple speedsters, a couple strongmen, all with durability, they could withstand Homelander's laser attacks and just whale on him until he's down since he's, as Soldier boy would put it, something of a sissy.

I liked jensen ackles but couldn't understand what they intended with soldier boy. Was he a fraud who never saw any action, because he clearly had tactical know-how so what "the legend" said doesn't seem relevant.

And how often are they gonna do the "old previous racist superhero in vought's history" thing because they already had lady liberty who soldier boy claims he hooked up with.

Wait... could stormfront have been the mother? Could she be Homelander's mother if Soldier Boy's the father? Jesus. And even if not, since she was clearly alive all this time she must have had a hand in lab creating during the past 50 years, be it with the "Payback" team or even Homelander's very creation, so either way their relationship is super icky.

I did find it hilarious that they showed us that they kept her alive in the beginning of the season only to kill her off instantly instead of just being dead in the season 2 finale but them's the breaks I guess

One thing I read and really liked and agree with is that Homelander looks as if he cares about Ryan but he only cares about Ryan because he's his son, not about Ryan as a person if that makes sense.

The last episode with making Homelander seem sympathetic like he's trying to protect Ryan was hard to believe or take seriously (especially since, oh I don't know, he was the one who brought him there in the first place). And I mean besides the fact that Homelander is supposed to have super speed isn't he, he got Butcher out of an exploding building in a split second, how did this same guy have any trouble during the awesome Herogasm fight or even the end fight scene?

Just binged the whole season this past week.

Season 1, I was really surprised by how much I liked it. Season 2, also great, made me think Amazon was killing it with their super shows, this the tick invincible...

But then season 3... dropped the ball a bit. It's weird, it simultaneously feels like they're so obviously dragging it out, but also moving too quickly for just a meager 8 episodes. This and Invincible are the kind of shows where 8 episodes are just not nearly enough to flesh out and develop everything. There were so many plot lines that they didn't get into. They didn't do anything with Nueman's whole reveal of being a head popper. The orphanage of supers didn't amount to anything. They never showed Ryan and Mallory again after Butcher acts dickish towards him until Homelander finds him at the end of the season and Ryan (from loneliness I assume) is fine with going back with Homelander.

The Black Noir reveal was very anticlimactic. I don't know why they built him up so much if his whole story was just that he was an old member of a previous superhero team. Really that's it? The Boys Diabolical had a better air of mystery than that.

Yeah it's really weird that Basil the great mouse detective wasn't really popular in america. Or that it wasn't even called Basil, just the great mouse detective for some reason, which besides sounding really impersonal, is really contrary to how they usually market movies. Used to watch that movie on near constant repeat, and it didn't hurt that I was already a sherlock fan and loved any detective fiction type work.

Then again, The Iron Giant underperformed in the box office too and that movie was also our childhood so. Sometimes the best movies don't get the success they deserve.

As for Disney's awful Chronicles of Prydain adaptation... yeah enough said. And kid me was into some of the designs of that movie. But I love the books (they're like lord of the rings for kids) so the movie was not gonna be well liked either way.

PrideOfLion posted...

Filler is pretty common and goes away fairly quickly. 90% of celebrities get work done, you start to notice it really quick when you're looking

Honestly I never look for it. Plastic surgery always sticks out like a sore thumb. It's like the uncanny valley of real life, you just know something isn't right all of a sudden

Tyranthraxus posted...

An American Tail is probably my favorite Western animated movie of all time. If you like Secret of NIMH and haven't seen American Tail yet, get on that as fast as you can.

Yeah I didn't grow up with it like I did Basil the great mouse detective so I missed out on watching it for years, only saw snippets here and there on TV.

CinderLock posted...

Other way around secret of nimh predates Redwall

Holy crap

Anyone else grew up with the Scholastic catalog? That was my childhood for real.

I think it's probably the best one, well it and Land Before Time. But you have to appreciate how unique it is that the protagonist is literally just a mother trying to protect her kids. She doesn't even have powers like the rest of them. I liked some of the other movies as a kid, but this is the one I think really stands the test of time to this day.

What about Loki?

I'm surprised you liked What If that much. I liked it but I expected more from Disney animation... the boys diabolical had more varied interesting animation that Disney, they should be ashamed imo

As for Hawkeye, I think Hailee Steinfeld was perfect casting and I like all the actors in Hawkeye but the plot left something to be desired especially at the end there...

I like to do an Ash run, starters only with Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle.

And Alakazam because why the hell not.

And Mew via the Mew glitch to use as an HM slave (one of the Mews is the HM slave, the other is the real mew)

metallica846 posted...

First you were vegone, now you will be gone!

chicken isn't vegan?

Guide posted...

lmao, felt a bit of Robin Williams in that, might be my own bias.

Absolutely, I was not expecting to laugh so hard

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Think that happened to me one day I ate a lot of shrimps. Someone told me it was due to mercury? I dont know of thats true.

This I'd be more willing to believe, considering the high levels of pollution in the ocean. But also terrifying considering what mercury does to the body.

I also ate a lot of shrimp, it was the only thing I've eaten all day. I mixed it with a salad to make a shrimp salad.

I never thought of myself as a "susceptible to allergies" person >__<

Crap. I didn't want to think that's what it was but I was reading up on shellfish allergy and one of the symptoms is chest pain and I did have mild chest pain after eating it. It went away after a few hours and isn't nearly as bad as heartburn or anything like that but... it did happen.

Like maybe once in a blue moon, I'll have eaten shrimp like today and a few hours later my hands are weirdly itchy. I also have a welt between my knuckles it's weird. Not sure if it's from the oiliness of the shrimp bucket

Shin_Kudo posted...

She even kinda sounds like her too

They even had her sing in the show...

Your guides have helped me through so many games, always know how much we appreciate it

They always make me laugh, I'm never not grinning when they go into a pro vegan/anti meat tirade.

Have a friend that hates that and I don't know why he doesn't see the humor in it. He similarly hates overly philosophical people that are like first year freshmans in college taking their first philosophy course, but I also like these people they're always good for laugh

BakonBitz posted...

Careful guys with potential spoiler talk, TC said he's very early in the game still.

But as for voice acting, it's tons better than in 2. It still has a wide variety of accents though, it's just that voice acting is more believable.

I hope so. I praised Xenoblade 1's voice acting, but it seems like the developers took the wrong takeaway with why I liked it (not just because it's all british accents) and for sequel added ridiculous over the top scottish accents and possible irish accents and whatnot that are the equivalent of bad american dubs of animes

DarkRoast posted...

If we are only comparing it to previous Xenoblade titles, it is much more like the first game than the second. But really, it's much more like Xenogears.

Xenogears eh? That's an interesting comparison... been several years since I played the game so curious why you thought of the very first xeno.

But even xenoblade 1 had references to original xenogears and then an outright big nod to gears/saga at the end

I was more thinking in terms of characterization and story. Not that it's "now dark and gritty" all of a sudden, but it treats its characters and audience with the respect of an ivalice caliber game, with actual proper voice acting, growth and development of characters.

I got the digital version for half off, but still think it's worth it. Went with ps4 since they say it has better performance than the switch version.

I wasn't even gonna get it, but the demo completely sold me on it. I didn't think modern square could do justice to one of the greatest games of all time, and didn't want to soil my memory of the original with a bad sequel. But based on the demo it really seems like they captured the spirit of the original and it looks hella fun, I can't wait to play it for real one day

Is it really like 1 again? Because 2 burned me so hard, just the first 5 minutes of viewing it was like whiplash

It's gonna take a lot to convince me they're back on track with good voice acting and not over the top accents.

FL81 posted...

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

EU:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/5/AAOGRhAADirv.jpg

EU didn't even get the correct story arc with their box art on this one >_>
at least one win for the US ITT

That is so bad, but quite frankly ico is the only time the EU box art was better than the US one. Maybe also that amnesia game in post 3 although I don't know that series.

But otherwise the US boxart tends to be better for majority of games. Especially the FF 10 case posted itt, Tidus standing in the water is fricking iconic and fills me with goosebumps. The EU box is an example of a bad case of minimalism, since the FF 10 logo is still displayed in the US version, just not on a lazy white background.

So Who else remembers angry kirby lol. That was a hilarious era

AlCalavicci posted...

TC- you should watch Ramy on hulu. The actress for Layla is in that too (and I agree she is hella attractive)

Thanks for the rec. She was the only supporting cast of the show I liked. Heck she was the only supporting cast really, the show felt pretty isolated, not just from the mcu but rather the character himself doesn't really have anyone