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Blue_Popo posted...

I agree though in no way home it wasnt bad, no one on the mcu side died

I disagree; death isn't the point. The point of that entire movie was 1) famservice, and 2) to take away everything Peter had built up over his three movies, in order to set him up as a more "traditional" spiderman.

Take away his friends. Take away his girlfriend. Take away his allies. Take away his history. His lab. His resources. His MIT future. His relationship with stark. Now he's perfectly poised to be Nerdy Unpopular Peter Parker, photographer for the Daily Bugle. Basically, MCU spider man was getting too divergent and complicated to write, so just hard reset him back to the standard story. It's lame.

Similar complaints with Thor. We spend three movies and three phases getting him to where he is at the end of Ragnarok, he's there for 15 minutes, then hard swerves straight back into the same purposeless wandering irrwsponsible nomad crap we just got him out of.

I'm still not a fan of one of the key thrusts of the movie.

Character regression is one of those things that really gets under my skin. Gamers had clear character progression, progression that was clearly l8nked with multiple other guardians, and then they kill her. That's fine; what's not fine is that they then hit a big ol' reset button, replaces her with an unprogressed version, and while it makes for interesting concepts, it always feels like a cheap attempt to sidestep characters evolving to a place that's harder to work with. I didn't like it with Loki, I don't like it with Gamora, I don't like it with No Way Home. "One More Day" was a massively unpopular story for a reason.

It's just a generic catch-all advice to not pose, posture, and lie. If the "you" that you're presenting is so disconnected from who you are and what you do in every other circumstance, chances are you're gonna either come off as fake as fuck, or slip up and be seen as a liar.

More pissed that most movie theaters have lost their arcades.

Always loved a good round or two of House of the Dead 2 before a movie.

Medussa posted...

is it really quitting if no one will hire you?

This. Her career was already dead

I4NRulez posted...

whats this boards obsession with a boring and fading youtuber?

It's not this board's obsession.

It's one user's dogged, daily obsession. By now I'm pretty sure he talks to a wallet sized photo of Boogie like Gollum talks to the ring.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/4/1/AAOdzqAAEcMJ.jpg

K181 posted...

And do you forsee a major shift where fear of the GOP returning to power wouldn't be an extremely powerful incentive? If anything, fear of rocking the boat by not wanting too far-left of a candidate might be a stronger desire among mainstream primary Dem voters in '28 than it was in '20 if the GOP is pushing a national abortion ban.

That will only work for so long. "We'll do nothing to fix these problems if we get elected, but look how much worse the other side will make it" is hardly an inspiring message, and is going to have diminishing returns the more often it's used. An unenthusiastic base is absolutely crippling, especially when the opposition is VERY enthused, and shows no signs of running out of steam.

We need a candidate that can inspire the same "Hope and Change" sentiments Obama did, not some milquetoast, owned-by-lobbyists, "don't rock the boat" loser like Biden, Clinton, or Harris.

And the DNC had better recognize that, because every year more and more Gen Z are entering the voter pool, and they are FAR less tolerant of this sort of treading-water establishment shit.

K181 posted...

a successful vice presidency is transformative.

But it's not a successful vice-presidency. Or even a successful presidency, for that matter.

Nobody is enthusiastic about Biden. He coasted into office 100% on people being sick to death of Trump and his bullshit. The democrat voters are at best tolerating him, and he has faced significantly more backlash from the voter base than Obama ever did. And even then, Kamala Harris torpedoed any goodwill she had super early on in the presidency, which is why she's gone basically radio-silent ever since. The voters hate her for her history with the police and decidedly racist policies, and she has many stances that run directly counter to what the modern Democrat base wants. And unlike Biden, she doesn't have any "nice Obama years" to hearken back to; the last three years have been a shitshow with Republicans trampling over everyone in their path, woeful inaction in the senate, and some of the most devastating social policy reversals in the country's history.

Like, unless your definition of "successful" is "didn't get impeached," then I don't know what grounds there are to stand on, here. And even then, it's questionable we'll even get that, if MTG gets her way, which she very well might. See: "Republicans trampling everyone in their path."

K181 posted...

Again, you're confusing what you want with the reality of the situation. If my hypotheticals are the case, a second term Biden that stays about where he is or better in terms of popularity, Harris is getting thr nomination. I'm in no way saying that's good or bad, it'll just be what happens.

It won't, because she will be absolutely crucified in the primaries.

You underestimate how deeply unpopular she is. It doesn't matter how hard the establishment pushes for her, voters will not rally behind her

K181 posted...

You don't think someone effectively running as third Biden term and with eight years of executive experience would have policy and experience benchmarks? Hell, that was basically the Biden campaign, to harken back to the Obama years and more or less offer a return to that.

Considering there is basically 0 enthusiasm for a second term of Biden, I would have to say that no, nobody is going to want a third.

K181 posted...

Sure, and I'm not saying that Harris would be the right candidate in 2028, but barring a catastrophe that likely sinks Dem chances that year anyway, she'll have to be the prohibitive frontrunner for the Dem nomination given how much institutional backing that she'll get from the party and assorted officials that don't want to burn party bridges, even if she's a Hillary 2.0.

And the success of both the runs of Hillary 1.0 highlights why that would be an incredibly poor move on the part of the party.

And before you start with "but the popular vote," it doesn't matter. The popular vote counts for jack shit in the current system, so let's not pretend otherwise. Either win electorally or get the fuck out of the way, because it doesn't matter if 90% of California and New York vote for you

MaxEffingBemis posted...

But how does the rapping bug factor into this

rapping is a lame attempt to try to look cooler than he is. Which is what he's all about.

A bug (namely a fly) because, well... he recognizes that in the grang scheme of things, that's all he is. A fly. A weak insect. So he surrounds himself with stronger people in order to pretend to be strong, himself.

Phantom_Nook posted...

I don't get why the conspiracy needed to hace Kaneshiro on board. Surely they have plenty of "legitimate" methods if making money.

A politician bent on controlling every facet of the country to shape it in his own twisted image would absolutely try to prop up a mob boss and force him up through the ranks. Having the criminal underground in your pocket is a powerful tool to have.

Impossible while Okumura exists.

Everything about that palace sucks. Morgana's pointless 2-week bitchfit leading up to it where the game completely wrests control away from you for days, the palace itself is awful, the boss battle is the worst in the game, and was somehow even worse back in the original P5, and Okumura himself is just "generic scummy CEO."

That whole 2 month segment starting with the Hawaii trip is the worst section of the game by miles.

iPhone_7 posted...

If we want to lose the general election then sure

You're right. Clearly the answer is to keep putting up "marketable" milquetoast, middle-of-the-road doormats who let the fascist party walk all over them.

Agent_Stroud posted...

Dont forget him telling Disney to take that King Charles clause of theirs and stick it where the sun dont shine, as theyre desperately trying to shotgun some sort of lawsuit to try and make the evil Florida Man behave himself.

Yes. Because using the government to try to torpedo the single company that keeps your state economically functioning, just to own the libs, is a smart decision.

I hate that Disney can basically bypass government just as much as the next guy. But let's not pretend what DeSantis is doing is in either good faith, or smart

Sanders
Warren
AOC

Literally any even SLIGHTLY progressive Democrat would at least be something.

What a coincidence. I traveled from the future with the aid of an IBM 5100 and some bananas.

Noname12 posted...

Its a pretty mainstream thing rn

I stand by what I said. You've been obsessed with this man for years.

And it is disturbing.

Your obsession with this man is disturbing.

Many times. Eating them straight is... not fun. But I do keep a few jars of different flavors of Carolina reaper sauces in my fridge. I love cooking some of them into different dishes.

Toriyama forgot.

By the time Goku walent Super Saiyan, the time of tails and oozaru was over, in terms of a power up.

The real question is... could Cell have become an Oozaru? I mean... he had a tail.

Their their, they're is nothing wrong with there grammar.

Chicken Tikka Masala isn't even real Indian food. It was literally completely made up for white people. In England.

"Beginner dish" nothing; it's like ordering chicken nuggets at a seafood place.

You forgot Margaret

What an awful world we live in.

On the one hand, fuck these guys. "Should have reasonably expected to be shot by a 6 year old while on the job" my ass.

On the other hand... shit, I can't even say that statement is incorrect, these days. And that's a fuckin problem.

Mitsuru > Chihiro > Elizabeth > Aigis > Yukari > Yuko > Fuuka > "Maya"

With "journalism" on the level of "We misheard a lyric in a song from Persona 5; atlus TOTALLY USES SLURS GUYS!" I'm surprised anybody DOESNT have Kotaku blacklisted.

So given the title, premise, characters, and the fact it's the 100th anniversary:

"When you wish upon a star" is totally gonna be one of the songs in this movie, right?