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Bad_Mojo posted...

What about Buffy? I wasn't watching it while it was on, what did they think of that show?

Buffy was like 20 years ago, so it doesn't count as "political"

She-Hulk had that one scene where she rants about how poorly men treat women. Its very on-the-nose.

that's all it needs to be completely unsalvageable as a program these days.

Putting absolutely zero effort into the cost-effective option, and maybe feeding him, his wife, and some kids.

I have no idea how you could spend $28 for one person though.

I think I'll probably wait until they inevitably go on sale.

my Galaxy s10e is well into its 4th year and starting to show its age, but I'm also not really in a position to drop $800 (CDN) or more on a phone right now. Was interested in the 6A until I learned they cut out the headphone jack, and now its just what's the point of it?

Maybe wait until the new Samsung's also come out before I decide which one to get, though the Samsung's will also be way more expensive.

Is that the whole thing, or is she also really obnoxiously an atheist who will get all high and might if you say "bless you" or something around her?

Ginger Snaps 2 (2004)

Holy **** She-Hulk is in this.

So after being infected with Werewolf-ism in the previous movie, Brigette accidentally is brought into a youth rehab centre, who mistakes her Monksweed dependence (acting similar to wolfsbane - helping her keep not werewolfing) for like, real drugs. Little odd how they immediately noticed she wasn't on any actual drugs and was still like "ehh okay", or how Monksweed was a cure in the first movie and a depressant in this movie, but probably just needing to make a sequel.

She makes unlikely friends with a quirky insane baby She-Hulk while a male werewolf stalks them, looking to probably make some werewolf babies, but the male werewolf never actually says anything.

Not as good as the first movie, and Tatiana Maslany hasn't really learned how to act yet, but still. Worth a watch I think.

The new seasons are going all trying trying crazy experimental stuff because when its season 34, you gotta do something different.

ngl its was overall pretty good in season 33, so I'm all for 21 jump street Martin Prince. They did a really aggressive Fargo parody last year that was way better than it needed to be. And a couple of crazy episodes where like Bart (or Homer/Marge) are stuck in the wilderness the whole episodes that somehow really deliver.

Legit Simpsons might actually get good again with how wild they're getting.

Its this weeks "Lisa the Boy Scout" if anyone wants to check it out, god damn does it go off the rails. Its like 22 Short Films About Springfield.

Flint and his Minimize-Baton Pass Drifblim can go **** himself.

It took me like 15 tries to beat Cynthia because I was too proud to go back and grind (and also had a ****-tier team)

Once or twice. Its kind of fun in a "blow your money with some flashing lights and bright colours" kind of thing, but I don't really feel much of a need to go back.

Otherwise its like, yeah that was a fun way to waste $40-$100

AloneIBreak posted...

I feel like Im the only person who likes Safari. What am I missing that other browsers provide?

Working on Windows/Linux/Anything besides MacOS.

Safari running exclusively for Apple means its the best choice if you have a Mac/iPhone, whatever, but its also not an option if you run literally anything else.
K181 posted...

Whoa, I thought Chrome was significantly more popular than Firefox. I assumed I was going to be in the minority as a Mozilla simp.

Chrome is still the most popular, but a lot of that is just memory from it being the best browser like a decade ago. Now that competitors are much better its losing some steam, but there are still tons of people who will just use Chrome because its Chrome.

If you are like, a super casual computer-person and don't care about your browser beyond "works" you probably just immediately download Chrome and never go elsewhere.

Treasure Planet wasn't that bad. It was... fine. It certainly wasn't bad.

Since I got a Mac its 100% Safari, but on Windows I'll use Firefox or Edge.

Movie... 8? I don't think I'm hitting 31 this month.

Ginger Snaps (2001)

Classic Halloween movie about two sisters, Bridgette and Ginger, some teens with a fancy for the macabre, and the latter of whom is attacked by a werewolf. Some very obvious links to puberty and the like, and the crux of the movie is definitely based on the relationship between the two sisters. Nothing incredible or anything, but I would consider it a halloween classic. Top tier B movie.

Movie is totally carried by the two leads, bit of a shame neither has really done much noteworthy since.

Also, its not a movie, but since its basically a movie, Instead of another movie yesterday I played Oxenfree - a game about a couple teens going on a coming of age party on the nearby island, while accidentally waking up the horde of ghosts that live on the island. They threaten to take the kids souls, and you and a radio are the only things that can save the day while messing with some added time loop shenanigans.

Its definitely a weird fetish for someone making the show. Like it happens so much its not just being edgy.

At this point, Incel is a state of mind, anyone can be an Incel.

There are questions there about what woman would want you as a spouse, but whatever.

Dead Space is honestly one of the games I think least needs a remake. It does everything its trying to so well and the crazy space setting makes the outdated graphics really not stand out. I played it on my Xbox Series S earlier this year and felt like it easily could've come out today.

And ITS NOT EVEN WITH 2 OR 3? Even Activision included all 3 Crash/Spyro games in one.

They do show up in the dumb Hunger Games one.

https://youtu.be/sSh1HW5kblw?t=126

But really, have you seen one of these movies? There's been like, one that wasn't terrible.

The people who hate Star Wars the most is always Star Wars fans.

But also because the ST was a disjointed awkward mess that showed Disney saw Star Wars as another Marvel and didn't actually care about a cohesive story in any way shape or form.

TFA was actually a pretty good start - it retread a lot of ground from a New Hope, but was still enough of its own movie and very directly set up a platform for the rest of the trilogy to go in a different direction.

TLJ went in that new direction and at the very least, had an interesting and different set up for the final movie and could have led to a really good finale. I'm just gonna leave it there because I Don't care if you didn't like TLJ.

But then TRoS threw everything away in an attempt to pander to the crowd that would hate the movie regardless. Threw away literally everything that could have been used to make a decent story from the previous 2 movies, randomly brought Palpatine back because they wanted our little Incel school shooter to get a redemption he didn't deserve, and the single most awkward kiss in the entire series (which let me remind you, has a kiss between 2 siblings), and speaking of pandering to incel shit, downgrading Rose from "secondary supporting character to give Finn something to do that isn't try to **** Rey" to "rebel with a line of dialogue".

Poe and Finn both get downgraded to paling around with Rey while she goes on a scavenger hunt, stupid BS like pretending Rey killed Chewie and then immediately saying lol nvm, and FUCKING PALPATINE

If TRoS at least tried to continue from TLJ instead of ignore it, I think the whole thing would be remembered more fondly.

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

As the T-virus sends the whole world into disarray, Alice reunites with some old friends to try and find a safe haven for them. Apparently the world starts to desertify, but I think Alice just doesn't know what a desert is considering they're around Las Vegas. Also superpowers. idk why, they just are. Didn't want to make Milla Jokovich look like Nemesis I guess.

Really, I don't need to talk about how the RE movies are bad. We all know they are. But I think this one could fall under the "still worth watching" category. Its got a couple cool scenes with the zombie attack in Vegas, the crow zombies, and the opening scene in the hotel has probably my favourite Zombie scare scene ever. Where they start clearing a hotel out fr supplies, and one of our characters sees a zombie distracted by something else, so we sneak up on him just as the zombie stands up and BOOM ITS A MIRROR THE ZOMBIE IS RIGHT BEHIND YOU!

idk, I haven't really gotten to the "actual horror movies" part of the month yet I guess.

"Hey I'll give you back the things I stole if you trade for the stuff I actually wanted to take that probably isn't real"

Like, dude.

Instead of making moves with something like renewables or other kinds of energy, we're just gonna blow up the whole planet over the last bit of fossil fuels that will remain in like the arctic or wherever.

If we have to live without fossil fuels, we're gonna blow the whole thing up instead.

One Cut of the Dead (2019) (Note: Japanese Movie - be prepared for subs)

Its not really a good scary movie, but its one of those movies where that isn't really the point. But I don't think I can really get away with telling you basically anything about it.

All of the reviews have told me the movie is so much better going in basically as blind as possible, and I really have to agree. The very basic summary is a film crew is making a zombie movie - which then gets attacked by zombies. Its also a single cut too - hence the title.

Just, its such a good movie, I can't recommend it enough.

Probably because $1100 for a phone is kind of bonkers.

Heck here in Canada its $1550. No ****ing way am I spending more than I did for my MacBook for an iPhone.

GameGodOfAll posted...

Nothing reaches that season 1 of the Walking Dead though. Wolf Among Us and the second Batman game are up there though.

Season 2 of the Walking Dead is also pretty top tier.

Also Oxenfree is at least top 3 IMO.

LiS(1) is really good, but the ending will either really make the ending for you or really hurt it, depending on how involved you get in the whole story. I can easily see how the ending would make you hate it tho.

I thought it was great. Easily a classic "story based" game.

I haven't played the others.

Yeah this episode was a while ago.

Though I'm always up for YGTOAS. At this point, I'm just watching out of loyalty. If he's gonna still do it 10 minutes in, I can at least support him finishing the series. Even if at this point it'll probably take another decade.

Especially because he totally could have just... not done the filler arc. But he wants to do everything. Good for him.

You guys had a ton of classes every day? or alternated days?

I had 5 classes every day for a semester, and then 5 different classes every day for the next semester. Every single day for the whole semester was the same schedule unless it was like, a 1/2 day.

FigureOfSpeech posted...

They/Them - Very interesting. I saw the low ratings and I knew why they were what they were. I enjoyed it overall. A lot of uncomfortable stuff, but the message was on point and overall I think it did exactly what it meant to do and did so very well.

Think the problem with this movie was that it was pushed as like, a slasher movie, the trailer was 100% pushing the horror bit, when the movie is actually a coming of age drama focused on LGBT-youth with a slasher thrown in at the end to cause excitement.

I thought the movie was decent, but if it was advertised as the kind of movie it actually was, I think it'd have been much better received.

Swarmed (2006)

As a town tries to get rid of their wasp problem before their big hamburger cook-off, they try a untested pesticide that accidentally makes the wasps louder, angrier, and gives them access to a time machine, and any time they're off screen everyone has to say "where's the wasps?". No but they start wanting to kill people.

Surprisingly enough, this movie was terrible. I feel like it had to have started as like, at least 1/2 of a comedy, since a major point is something just called "tasty sauce" and its about bees killing people. Like its trying to lean in and wink like Shark-nado, but nobody involved is talented enough to pull something that basic off. Don't watch it.

Two scenes did make me laugh in its dumb awkwardness though:

Dumb reporter character: So is your husbands hamburgers the best you've ever tasted?
Wife: *Cries in vegetarian*

Secretary: Finds boss murdered by bee
Also Secretary: Chases Bee with a Rifle

And not like, a recent gun either. Like something out of Gunsmoke.

g0ldie posted...

Thoroughbreds and the Fright Night remake are also good, IMO.

Don't forget Odd Thomas.

The Moist Scrolls: Oblivion
Moist Moon: A Wonderful Life
Moist2k14

Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3

... I was on a bit of a kick over the weekend. The first one definitely is the brightest part of the series, but at least 2 and 3 still have some good scares in there. Don't have any of the later ones to re-watch tho.

My Best Friend's Excorcism

• Amazon movie that released this past weekend. If you go in expecting a kind of like, a Halloween episode of Degrassi or something with some B-movie schlock, it might be more enjoyable. But its based off a dope book that really suffers because the movie rushes through all the foundations the book is based on to make the story work. Still like a 5/10. If you want a dumb movie you can chow on Popcorn through and not think about after it ends, maybe worth it, but I wouldn't recommend otherwise.

Moist Creed
Pokemon: Moist Version
Pokemon: Let's Go Moist!
Moist Tag Tournament
Moist 22: The Show
Spongebob: Battle for Moist Bottom
Mario and Sonic at the Moist Games

whitelytning posted...

Explain the big picture that Im missing please.

people *****ing about "annoying woke virtue signallers" are the biggest snowflakes on the planet, and now if they're running the show, instead of "you have freedom to say whatever" its going to be "you have the freedom to completely agree with me, and you aren't allowed to say otherwise"

Add in that Twitter is for better or worse, the most significant communication platform on the planet, so someone with as obviously poor intentions like Musk will do incredible damage to anything from worker's rights to anti-fascism.

And even in the best case scenario and it actually becomes a "free speech haven" - anyone who's spent more than 5 minutes on 4Chan should understand the problems there.

Its almost like with the authority and power given to Police Officers, they need to be held to a higher standard, not a lower one...

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1577337791532486657

What happened yesterday to Musk? All the Musk news I can see is mostly drowned out by his garbage Russia/Ukraine take and now this story of him actually buying it.

Idk how well I remember it, but it was something along these lines:

Fall Semester:
Study Hall
Geography
Math
<Lunch Break>
Science
Gym

Winter:
French
*Legitimately have zero recollection what my other class here was*
English
<Lunch Break>
Study Hall
Band/Music

I guess he couldn't actually get out of it. I mean, I guess good on Twitter for calling his bluff, but I don't think anyone wants an Elon Musk-run Twitter.

So Musk's idea to solve The Russia/Ukraine war is "Ukraine stop fighting back jeez"

Crimsoness posted...

A better deal;

-Launch Elon into the sun
-We make the day an international holiday

What a day that would be. I'm in favour.

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Varys, Tyrion, and Little Finger are the most interesting characters in the series, unfortunately the show runners had no idea what to do with them once they ran out of book material

They had no idea what to do with a lot of characters once they ran out of book material. At least Bran and Arya had some crazy **** going on to justify the "wtf do we go with this?"

AsucaHayashi posted...

nah it's called slapping a brand new price tag on an old product.

also, i can pinpoint the exact moment when it went wrong:
when people thought it was a good idea to remaster tlou for ps4 literally a year after ps3 release.

At least you couldn't play TLOU on PS4 before it was remastered. Horizon has no excuse.