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InfestedAdam posted...

Is it usually the Best Man who organizes the bachelor party?

Yes.



InfestedAdam posted...

Or the Maiden of Honor organizing the bachelorette party.

Yes.



InfestedAdam posted...

Was this never a "tradition" of sort or it really just depends on the individual?

It's absolutely the tradition and the expectation. But obviously, some people won't want big pre-wedding parties, so they may tell their Best Man/Maid of Honor not to do anything. Or in some cases the Best Man/Maid of Honor may be too lazy or stupid to do it, and may defer to someone else in the wedding party, another family member, or just another friend who is willing to set it up. Or in some cases, the Best Man/Maid of Honor may know someone who is just SO much better at organizing and setting up parties that they just defer to that person because they know it will make for a way better party.

When I was Best Man for my friend, I had to organize everything, but I asked him in advance what he wanted to do so I could set stuff up for him, and not just assume what he wanted to do or do the usual Hollywood version where the groomsmen are kind of assholes and drag the somewhat unwilling groom off to a strip club or get him a hooker or something. We wound up doing a whole day trip thing, where we went golfing, went to a casino and gambled for a bit, and went to the obligatory strip club (and we rented a party limo bus for the day to road trip from place to place while we were drinking heavily in the back). But every groom (and bride) is going to have their own interests and expectations, so different people will do different things for parties.


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helIy posted...

too late po

By 5 seconds, you thrice-damned son of a biscuit barrel. ~shakes fist~


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It's probably new game code added via forced updates to accommodate the Creation Club making the game buggier.

I know when I logged back into the game two years after the last time I played it (I've literally just finished playing it again to get the platinum trophy), I noticed a few things having been added, though it hasn't been particularly buggy for me.


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It's known as the Duckbear Effect.


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InfestedAdam posted...

Hell, even simply having a solid job and/or a solid relationship with someone is enough for some folks to hate you.

http://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/armed-intruder-breaks-youtube-couple-213009494.html


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TheCyborgNinja posted...

Kim is playing Trump like a fiddle because he's stupid and emotional, making it easy.

Which one, Kim or Trump?

(he said, setting up the extreme softball political humor punchline)


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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I was going to question how you just now noticed this, since it was pointed out almost INSTANTLY online after the first showing, but then I remembered you just saw it recently, and thus would have missed the rants/analysis.

Yeah, I avoided spoilers like the plague.

Honestly, I'm kind of surprised how well I managed to do so. Sure, I kind of put two and two together from a few nebulous hints that Luke died, but I honestly expected that anyway. And other than that, I had no real idea of anything else going in.

I actually waited a month before seeing Infinity War as well. And that one got slightly more spoiled for me (I knew Thanos succeeded, but honesty, I expected that going in as well, and I was able to sort of piece together that Spider-Man died in the end because of a couple of hints and implications, but no one ever outright said it in anything I heard or saw), but I was mostly able to dodge any real major spoilers online.

And to be honest, these days, just watching trailers tends to spoil movies more than people talking about them after the fact does.



CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Rian clearly had no clue what to do with any character not named Luke, Rey, or Kylo (and even then he only hit a few elements right, in my opinion)

To be fair, though, nearly every one of their scenes basically boil down to "Remake the Luke/Yoda relationship from Empire, but Yoda is a broken, cynical asshole" and "Remake the Luke/Vader/Emperor interaction from RotJ, but turn it into a twist/swerve to screw with the audience." While I generally enjoyed those scenes (a large part of which stemming from the fact that I enjoyed the original versions of those scenes as well), it didn't take a ton of creativity to come up with them.


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keyblader1985 posted...

Well I mean, nukes getting dropped on my head will definitely affect me.

But to be fair, there's literally nothing you can do to influence that, so up-to-the-minute knowledge of events is almost completely useless to you.


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MacrossSpecial posted...

Want a massive world? Play ff11.

Want a massive world? Go tour the one you live on.


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I often have moments where I kind of look around the current state of the industry in disgust and bemoan the lost Good Old Days when games were designed to be fun or narratively interesting and/or fulfilling in some way, rather than developers trying to find new ways to incentivize addiction and turn the entire process into a money farm.

But then I remember that video games went through a very long span where they were deliberately coded to be hard as fuck and twice as bullshit, because the idea was to repeatedly kick the player in the dick so they'd have to keep pumping quarters into the machine (and most of the reason "Nintendo Hard" is a concept in the first place is because developers kept making games that way even after they stopped release them in arcades and started pushing them on consoles - it took a while for the idea that games could actually be about player ENJOYMENT rather than players' willingness to spend their entire allowance). And when I remember that, it gets a bit harder to really call the game industry out on its bullshit, because in some ways, it feels like it's just going back to doing what it used to do all the time, only on a much grander scale.

To be fair, though, it still annoys the piss out of me, and those developers can still go fuck themselves with a rusty fork.


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BlackScythe0 posted...

Are you saying you want us walking for weeks in between any destination?

Some people do want that. They're the same sorts of people who whine that being able to fast travel breaks immersion, and rather than simply just not using it, they don't want it in games at all so the rest of us are forced to conform to their perception of what the "correct" way to play games is.


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I'm getting it on Cuneiform tablets.


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Metalsonic66 posted...

The Wave Master posted...

Then we get to Killmonger. Finally a villain who wasn't wrong at all, and called T'Chalia out on the garbage hyprocracy of Wakanda and their isolation from the world.

He was right about Wakanda staying out of world conflicts, but wrong about the methods he used to try and solve that problem.

To fall back on Marvel's favorite cliche when it comes to race politics, he was basically filling the Malcolm X role when what we all really want is Martin Luther King Jr.


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MICHALECOLE posted...

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

SkynyrdRocker posted...

I feel like I'm missing something. Is this a reference to something

It's a reference to a terrible song by a terrible band.

Worst PO post of all time

Second

I'm sorry that you like bad and annoying music. I can only assume it has been a great source of embarrassment and shame throughout the course of your life.


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Questionmarktarius posted...

Krow_Incarnate posted...

With some respectable quality control, absolutely.

Up until last week or so, "quality control" was essentially "no naughty bits! also no AO games except for that one time" - now it's essentially "lol, i dunno"

Basically, everyone shouted at Valve that they needed to exert more quality control over their own platform, because it had basically become a massive septic tank of asset flips and shovelware that drowns out far worthier games and has become an incredibly corrupt system. So Valve actually started taking (incredibly hesitant and inept) steps to try and do that.

Then they decided to yank "adult" games for PR reasons, and it backfired spectacularly. So now they're gun-shy and are basically saying "Ehh, fuck it - it's easier and more profitable for us to not give a shit, so it's your problem now."

It's an attitude that is starting to hurt Steam, and one that is leading a lot of more legitimate devs to consider potential alternatives. Steam is in no way the golden child it was a few years ago.


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DirtBasedSoap posted...

that was one of the biggest fan complaints since halo 4

I've honestly never heard a single person complain about it. Nearly every disillusioned Halo fan I've ever talked to are far more apt to complain about the gameplay and story.

"Trying to make it more like Call of Duty" is a comment that came up fairly often.


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yourDaddie posted...

They have the largest populations and had the largest economies until about 500 years ago when Asia entered their equivalent of Europe's daark ages...so its normal for them to become the biggest again now.

Europe unnaturally leapfrogged ahead due to agricultural advances that allowed for industrialization. During the 20th century farming techniques and fertilization were globalized, thus allowing the natural state to reassert itself.

Under normal conditions, nations with massive population superiority would by their very nature be economic powerhouses.

The only reason India took so long post-colonial era and isn't quite as strong as it could be is mainly because it's been a bit more politically fractious than China's overall government.


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DirtBasedSoap posted...

but they fixed the art style which is huge imo

It's about the least important of all the things wrong with the new games.


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Zareth posted...

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ernieforss posted...

Microsoft buying 5 companies is scary, since look what happen to rare after the acquisition. I'm really scared for ninja theory. I really like that stuido.

It could be worse. They could have been acquired by Activision or EA instead.

That's like saying that death is worse than existing in a persistent vegetative state.

No, it's more like saying that death is preferable to dying, but also having your murderer fuck your corpse for a while, then make zombie puppets out of your remains to horrify your friends and loved ones.


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Because Russia was invited in while the USSR was collapsing, and the idea was that pulling them into stronger ties with the heavily capitalist powers of the West might help accelerate their own transformation and keep them from backsliding.

China wasn't invited in because it's not just about economics.

But even if it was, China wasn't the global economic powerhouse you think of it being today in the 80s/early 90s. A lot of its stratospheric growth took place in the mid-90s and into the 2000s. And at the time Russia joined the G8, it actually did "outrank" China in terms of economy as judged by most common metrics.


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Considering what happens when people in this country vote, perhaps we should purge more of them.


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papercup posted...

Well, I suppose if it IS Akavir, we might find out what happened to the Nerevarine.

You will never find out what happened to the Nerevarine.

Unless it involves being told in a random book you find in like one place in the world that he died 20 minutes after getting there, because they LOVE completely ignoring or outright killing off/ruining their former heroes in the lore.

It's the same reason why I expect the Dragonborn's contribution to history to be minimal at best, no matter where the game is set.


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knivesX2004 posted...

I've been waiting for KH3 for so long!!
I won't argue the writing is incredible or that it's even a good game, but damn do I have an absolute blast just hanging out with Disney and final fantasy characters while fighting the forces of evil.

I enjoyed the first two games, but after all the spin-offs and side-stories etc kept going harder and harder into most of the JRPG cliches I tend to dislike, while leaning harder into original character donut steels instead of straight Disney/FF for the most part, my enthusiasm has slowly seeped away more and more. And after 12 years, I can't even remotely muster up anything resembling a single shit about the franchise anymore.

The fact that the new game is apparently going all-in on Pixar and newer stuff like Tangled and Frozen just exacerbates things for me, because I have zero nostalgia for those movies and honestly couldn't give a fuck about them. The first two games went hard on a lot of my actual childhood Disney memories, but they've sort of tapped that well dry, and I am very much not the target audience demographic for these games anymore, so I'm not surprised they're working in more and more popular newer characters that I have no interest in.

You damned 90s kids ruin everything!


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A better question might be, how many cases were actual, legitmate LOVE, and not things like lust or obsessive crushes or idolizing or any of the other dozen things people usually mistake for love?


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DirtBasedSoap posted...

LeetCheet posted...

So what kind of game was it?

343i said its a direct follow up to Halo 5 about the Master Chief.

So the campaign is going to suck by default, because they've basically painted themselves into a corner narratively.

Presumably they'll continue their new business model of requiring players to read at least 7 supplementary novels to actually get anything out of the plot.


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SkynyrdRocker posted...

I feel like I'm missing something. Is this a reference to something

It's a reference to a terrible song by a terrible band.


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Not really a fan.


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I've never played any of them, but everyone I know says they're all great, so I'd say yes, go back and play it.

If you care about the plot, that DOES carry over from the first game into the second, so you'll definitely get more out of the experience if you play both.


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It's clearly Akavir.


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Super_Thug44 posted...

no one excited for cyberpunk 2077?

Most of us will probably be dead from old age before it actually gets released.


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AllstarSniper32 posted...

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AllstarSniper32 posted...

Hmm, going through the Bethesda conference and I think I can safely say I've never played a Bethesda game before.

My sympathies.

Thinking about the games I've not played, I'm ok with having not played them.

Contrary to how much the Internet tends to masturbate over Skyrim, and the old-school grognards won't shut up about how awesome Morrowind was and how everything since will never live up to it, you're not really missing much.

And I say that as someone who doesn't necessarily dislike Bethesda games (I'm literally perfecting one right now, actually). They just tend to be the height of absolute mediocrity.

They're usually pretty-looking time-wasters. If you're actually looking for something deeper either in terms of narrative or gameplay, you're probably better off looking elsewhere.


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ernieforss posted...

Microsoft buying 5 companies is scary, since look what happen to rare after the acquisition. I'm really scared for ninja theory. I really like that stuido.

It could be worse. They could have been acquired by Activision or EA instead.


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TigerTycoon posted...

Why does Ubisoft keep making multiplayer demo vids sound like military personal are playing it?

Because it's the sort of thing that the type of people playing those types of games tend to wish they sounded like.



Red_Frog posted...

Better than a pack of squeakers.

At least that would be a more accurate representation of the actual gameplay experience.


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ernieforss posted...

I find it odd that we have 3 different conferences so far and they all showed off a mobile game.

In spite of having been opened to the public and developing such a strong online presence, E3 is and always was an industry trade show - which means the goal isn't necessarily to show games to the general public that they're likely to like/enjoy/want, as much as it is to show off your current projects to other developers, reviewers, and press (and, to some extent, to your own stockholders). Which means you aren't necessarily going to run presentations the same way you'd run a pure PR campaign directed at your target consumers.

About a decade or so ago, Triple-A developers discovered they can make more money in mobile games than almost any other alternative - on an almost obscene scale. Which is part of why their development plans for the last couple of years have increasingly been to shoehorn manipulative mobile game-style microtransactions into full-priced games, so they can double dip on profit while fucking the consumer from both ends.

So that mentality is reflected in which games they're going to show. Even if that's likely to engender something of a negative response from the average hardcore gamer nerd watching presentations online. Because it's not really FOR us, in any way. It's for the millions of casual gamers who may not even know what E3 is, and certainly wouldn't care enough to pay attention to it even if they did.


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BlazeAndBlade posted...

yellow go to vault 68 where it's 999 men and 1 woman

No, the best Vault is 77, where it's 1 man and a crate full of puppets.

http://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/c/cc/One_man_and_a_crate_of_puppets_a_web_comic.png


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dragon504 posted...

I highly doubt that. Think it'll be out sooner than expected tbh.

It wasn't that long ago that they said flat-out they hadn't even started it yet, because they were working on other projects.

If it IS in active production, it can't be THAT far into the development cycle.


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helIy posted...

you know the skyrim theme actually has lyrics about the dovakhin right

They only added those for Skyrim. The music itself has basically been the "default" Elder Scrolls theme for years.

In Oblivion it sounds more orchestral, in Skyrim it's supposed to feel more guttural and primal, and in ESO they tried to make it sound more epic.

Presumably they'll use it again for ES6, and change the instrumentation to sound more like whatever region it's set in (more flutelike and ethereal for Summerset, Hammerfall would probably use more "Arabic" or African sounding instruments, etc).


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Kimbos_Egg posted...

Also only i may breed in vault 69

The canon Vault 69 was deliberately stocked with 999 women and one man.


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Dynalo posted...

GanglyKhan posted...

Okay, he saved it lmao Solo mode

You can play WoW or FFXIV solo as well, but it's not ideal.

Same for ESO, for that matter. You can play alone (which is how I played 99% of the time), but you're going to be stone-cold fucked when it comes to higher-level content without a dedicated group and relatively optimized character builds.

Destiny was more or less the same. You could solo the main story, but Strikes and Raids were pretty much off the table for any purely solo player.


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Dynalo posted...

I don't even count Starfield or ES6. Nothing was shown, and we already knew they'd be coming. In fact, I'd almost they'd not have mentioned ES6, cause the way they did it just shows how little progress they've made on it.

They probably put that out there because a lot of people recently have been floating the idea that they might not want to make an Elder Scrolls 6 at all, because it would be hard to top the hype that Skyrim created, and because they can make more money farming out microtransactions in ESO than they can producing single-player games.

After all, it's easier to just mock up maps and landscapes in an existing engine, then slap minimalistic questlines and fetch quests in to justify the purchase price than it is to build an entire game and setting from scratch.

That's also part of why some people were annoyed when the Summerset expansion came out, because they took that to mean that, even if ES6 became a thing, Summerset coming out now meant it probably wouldn't be set there (and conversely, some people think the new focus on Summerset might mean that ES6 absolutely IS going to be set there, just thousands of years later, probably hundreds of years post-Skyrim.

But yeah, they might have wanted to put the brakes on speculation along those lines by at least officially saying "Yes, it's coming eventually, once we get other stuff out of the way."


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Whoever created that account, I give them kudos for being clever.


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BTB posted...

Oh, her. Yeah, that's been in my porn folder for ages.

Really? Odd, that picture doesn't strike me as a porn actress. It looks more like the sort of picture you'd pull off someone's Facebook or Instagram because you went to college with her and had a creepy Internet stalker sort of crush.

Unless she's like a softcore camwhore or something. Or if you and I have vastly different definitions of the word "porn".


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Sahuagin posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Neither.

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The Wave Master posted...

I feel like e very game is going to have a Battle Royale mode.

Some pundits have pointed out recently that this always happens, and it seems like, whenever a smaller indie game breaks out huge and starts a trend, and the wave of copycats follows, it usually takes triple-A developers a few years to catch up. So basically, a lot of larger mainstream games now are basically survival based, because that was a hugely popular genre a few years ago (and most people are burned out on it now). Before that, it was MOBAs, and crafting mechanics, horde modes, and so on.

Battle Royale is basically the flavor of the month, so over the next few years we can expect a lot of existing games to bolt on similar mechanics, and for major publishers to start pushing out titles in a desperate attempt to cash in (maybe we'll get Metal Gear Royale in a year or two?).


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DirtBasedSoap posted...

@ParanoidObsessive but halo

When the time came for me to decide whether I wanted to buy a PS3 or Xbox 360, the choice literally boiled down to "Halo or Uncharted?" That was IT. There wasn't a single other exclusive on either console I gave a shit about, so the only thing that really mattered was whether or not I wanted to play Halo (which was a franchise I loved from the original Xbox), or Uncharted (which was a franchise I didn't give a shit about).

So I bought the 360, loved it, and to this day I still consider it the best of the last gen consoles.

When the time came for me to decide whether I wanted to buy a PS4 or Xbox One, the choice once again mostly boiled down to "Halo or Uncharted?" There were other factors (like Microsoft's terrible pre-launch marketing and the mandatory Kinect BS), but in terms of games, the only real distinction was once again those two. There really wasn't a single other exclusive on either console I gave a shit about, so the only thing that really mattered was whether or not I wanted to play Halo (which was a franchise 343 has essentially ruined since taking over the brand), or Uncharted (which was a franchise I never had a chance to play but which I've consistent heard good things about). A choice only really underlined by Sony releasing the Uncharted collection (so that people like me could play Uncharted 1-3 in spite of never owning a PS3), while Microsoft came out with the Master Chief collection, which was a broken mess that they STILL haven't fixed years later.

So I bought the PS4, loved it, and to this day I still consider it the best of this gen's consoles. Especially in the wake of exclusives like Horizon: Zero Dawn and God of War coming out after I already owned it. Whereas Microsoft has come out with... hmm... err... ...yeah.

There was a time when Halo was one of my top franchises in all of gaming. Now I probably wouldn't even bother playing a new Halo game if you gave it to me free on a free console.


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Ogurisama posted...

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dragon504 posted...

Ogurisama posted...

Not much explanation on how Hulk got to Sakaar. They could have done the Planet Hulk movie that lead into Ragnarok

He's been needing a new movie, maybe they can do that.

They can not.

I agree, they cant really do it anymore, missed their window of opportunity. They like to keep the movie releases in order of continuity

No, they literally CAN NOT.

It's a rights issue. The Hulk rights are tied up with Universal, who apparently have full rights to be the distributor for any future Hulk movie. Disney/Marvel will absolutely not accept that premise, because it means they'd have to split profits with Universal (keep in mind, this is the same company that basically cancelled the Fantastic Four comic and de-pushed the entire X-Men line in spite of being the most popular franchise they've ever had, simply to fuck with Fox). So Disney refuses to greenlight (no pun intended) any Hulk movie, ever, and will just keep shoehorning him into other movies (which is why Thor: Ragnarok was basically 1/2 the plot of Planet Hulk).

The problem is compounded by the relative critical failure of the last two movies, which leaves Disney unwilling to take the risk - if they were ABSOLUTELY SURE a Hulk movie would do huge business, they might be willing to take the profit hit (or at least try to negotiate out of the previous deal in exchange for payoffs). But as is, they assume it would be a losing money scenario, and thus would rather stick with the sure things they already have.

The problem is also compounded by the fact that, as far as I know, the deal with Universal isn't tied to any time limit (the way the Fox and Sony deals were), so Disney can't simply wait for the prior agreement to expire. Universal will hold these rights for pretty much forever until Marvel makes a set number of Hulk movies for Universal to distribute, and since Marvel isn't going to make those movies, Universal will never be able to distribute them, and they'll retain the rights in perpetuity.

(Incidentally, this sort of deal is what fucked the DVD distribution and airing rights for the Doctor Who made-for-TV movie in the 90s, because Fox had control over the rights until a specific requirement was met, and Fox had zero motivation to complete that requirement. The BBC was essentially helpless to force them to comply or forfeit, and at the time the property wasn't seen as being popular enough to be worth renegotiating over - especially since that almost certainly would have involved the BBC having to pay Fox a considerate amount of money - so both sides were perfectly content to let it sit in limbo pretty much forever. It wasn't until the new version of the show skyrocketed in popularity that the BBC considered it worth negotiating over, with an eye towards releasing it to capitalize on the new audience.)

But that's basically why you're never going to see another Hulk movie.


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I find this topic odd, because almost every opinion I've seen on the press conference was that Microsoft pretty much failed to impress in every single way. Not EA levels of failure, certainly, but more in a "Why should I give a fuck about anything you're telling me?" sort of way. Yet here's someone clearly praising it, and other people supporting that view.

I haven't actually watched their conference (and I have no real reason to, since I have zero intention of buying an Xbox this generation), but now I'm kind of curious exactly what you think they offered that was so groundbreaking or appealing, as opposed to standard boilerplate and empty promises, or "announcements" of stuff we already knew about that keeps getting delayed *cough*Crackdown 3*cough*.

Exactly what WAS it they said that won you over so thoroughly?


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yourDaddie posted...

For some reason every now and then we get some costumers who don't want to speak to them on over the phone pretending they do not understand them...which is obviously false because everyone has heard their calls because we record them, and everyone can understand them perfectly...

You might be acting on false assumptions here.

Just because YOU can understand them doesn't mean that everyone can. I know from my experience in retail forever and a day ago, there were people whose accents I couldn't understand over the phone, and I had to pass them over to someone else in the store (who COULD understand them). But then, if I spoke to those same people in person (which I did occasionally), I could understand them much better. There was something about the way phones distort sound that made the difference between my being able to understand them or not. And the fact that my coworker COULD understand them illustrates pretty clearly that it wasn't a universal issue.



yourDaddie posted...

What is hilarious is that those costumers are always someone whit a heavy ''redneck'' or ''Ebonics'' accent...

And this might be even more proof of that theory. It's entirely possible that they have more trouble understanding the accent than you do because their own accents are so thick, and they're more used to talking to people with the same accent. It's possible you have an easier time understanding their accents because you're more used to dealing with "neutral"-sounding English, whereas two people who both have accents are effectively trying to communicate across an even wider gulf.

To be fair, it's entirely possible that you're just dealing with ignorant hick racists to whom any hint of an accent triggers "Dey took our jerbs!" knee-jerk antipathy, but it's also possible they sincerely DON'T understand, no matter how clearly you think the person is being.


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Bacon_Pancakes posted...

Food like foo-d

But good is guh-d

Why isn't it fuh-d or goo-d

For the same reason that vowels in general can be pronounced "long" or "short" (and consonants can be "hard" or "soft"). Because there are more phonemes in language than we currently have symbols to accurately represent (especially since we don't want to have to remember 50,000 different characters the way Chinese/Japanese handle it).


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