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TopicB8's Greatest Wrestlers Ever Ranking
scarletspeed7
07/03/20 3:02:17 PM
#204
WWE is the CSI of wrestling.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/03/20 2:22:59 PM
#55
Great_Paul posted...
Mysterio

Bruce Campbell did nothing except faithfully appear in three Spider-Man cameos. His reward? The cruel engine of Sony's capitalistic crud lurched forward, abandoning the Sam Raimi Experience in favor of hiring a director with the last name Webb. And what did Webb do? Prevent us from experience the Spider-Man endgame - a world where the phenomenal talents of Bruce Campbell would have been concentrated inside of the suit of a special effects guru hellbent on bending reality into Spidey's personal hell. God, what a gift that would have been! Instead, we got Andrew Garfield. Disgusting. And it's a shame, too, because as enjoyable as the Jakie G Mysterio ended up being, a more faithful adaptation to the comics source would actually have catered to my personal interests more. There was a brief moment of perfection where the film captured the whimsical and terrifying magic of special effects on steroids laced with acid, and that encapsulated what Mysterio could have been. After all, as my #2 Spider-Man villain, Mysterio makes it easy to see that I enjoy the small-scale career villains who explore a small but versatile niche in comics. I have less interest in the Andrew Garfield villains of the world, cardboard cut-outs designed to fill an hour while we lurch forward on the slow train to Gwen Stacy dying. And if you can't even make that scene feel satisfying (and really, Gwen's death should always be a moment of triumph for filmgoers), then what good are you, Mark Webb? What good are you?

Rating: Now You Don't

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/03/20 2:17:15 PM
#54
NFUN posted...
John Cooper Hawksmoor

The last time I visited Orlando, I took off my shoes and tried to have a conversation with it. I figured, if my ability to tap into the souls of cities existed, there was no better place to test it out than a town playing home to a powerful magical kingdom, a studio of the universe, and a center of... Epcot. I had nothing for that one. As it turns out, shouting at buildings barefoot in Orlando gets you questioned by overbearing police officers obsessed with quashing the unusual, and said officers weren't interested in hearing a recap of The Authority as an excuse for my behavior. Maybe they would have instead listened to my second favorite member of the team, Jack Hawksmoor, a man who is one part peak-Wildstorm, one part peak-British Invasion and two parts comic book perfection. The best characters are the ones with pragmatic attitudes and blase attitudes in the face of reality-altering threats. The cream of the crop come fully loaded with ridiculous abilities that sound less like superpowers and more like metaphors. Jack Hawksmoor ticks all of the boxes, and I defy you to find a single Marvel character with a power as cool as his.

Rating: 45th Floor

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/03/20 2:13:05 PM
#52
Fastbreak posted...
The Right Honorable Judge Harvey Dent

The fickle finger of fate is actually the thumb that propels the coin in the air, and while chance is all fine and good, destiny is an elusive but controlling mistress. It's fair to call the actions of Harvey Dent crazed ravings of a man obsessed with luck and chaos, but the unified string theory would suggest that Harvey Dent was always meant to flip a coin, and that coin was always meant to land heads or tails. The universe conspires to result in the consequences of any action taken, and therefore Two-Face's entire belief system is structured on inaccuracy. Of course, on the other hand, maybe chaos and chance is meant to be a physical manifestation of the theory of duality, the id and ego at odds with one another, the yin and yang of opposing forces, and nothing more. Chaos is an illusion - the natural laws of physics are at play in Two-Face's mind, and we're just along for the ride.

Rating: Maybe

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/03/20 2:09:50 PM
#51
redrocket posted...
Rip Hunter

This write-up is for the Rip Hunter of right now, which is to say that the Rip Hunter of yesterday, which is the Rip Hunter of tomorrow, will be discounted for the criterion of this ranking since, although we are aware of the actions of said Rip Hunter, he actually has yet to come into existence, and as such, I am incapable of giving him the rating that is due him thanks to my lack of knowledge of his role in a time period which has yet to come to pass, even though, theoretically, I have seen his actions in my personal past, because, quite frankly, that timeline is in his future, and therefore all of my prior actions have not occurred in his own personal timeline, and until I catch up to his past, which is my future, my write-up about his past events which are my past but his future, have never come to pass. And a write-up about the future cannot exist, because the future has yet to occur, and therefore the write-up has not been written, at least in his future, which is my past, which means this write-up as well, which is in my present, is in his further future, and therefore means the present is the future, and only the future is the past, but because it would be my future, and Rip would be aware of that write-up, I would not be, and therefore I cannot share it with you at this time.

Rating: 80/100

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TopicGeorgia Man who had the World's LARGEST CHILD PORN is RELEASED after 7 YEARS!!!!
scarletspeed7
07/02/20 11:00:27 PM
#5
Guys I think it was the largest child, not the largest porn. This kid was so large, the guy had to go to Kinko's to print negatives.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicB8's Greatest Wrestlers Ever Ranking
scarletspeed7
07/02/20 10:59:37 PM
#196
Five lists for Jake? That's amazing!

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicWhat type of topic should Chris work on for the summer?
scarletspeed7
07/02/20 6:17:40 PM
#7
Chris, as fictional characters, apologizes for actions those fictional characters have perpetrated against other fictional characters.

EDIT:

OR, Chris, as the Judge, posts a two-sided debate topic and then determines from the users' posts within the topic which side is correct and why.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
Topicgoing to be making videos
scarletspeed7
07/02/20 5:28:58 PM
#45
Make a video about George Washington and how he fought two hyenas.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicBest MMO Day 1
scarletspeed7
07/02/20 5:26:49 PM
#7
LOTRO on the board? Awesome. Loved that game. FF14 is definitely better, but I have a soft spot for the Streets of Bree.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/02/20 5:16:35 PM
#43
Jesse_Custer posted...
Kyle Rayner

Hey, K-Ray all day, baybay. I dig the tortoise mask. Hell, I practically reared myself on early 2000s comics. Kyle is my Green Lantern spirit animal. Sure, he doesn't have the ability to overcome great fear, but who does? Hal Jordan? They guy who let a fear entity propel him into untold heights of paranoia and destruction? Screw him. Kyle is the sensitive artist type. The kind of guy who has to step out of a nightclub to get some air and recall his existential value in the known universe because he lost out on a gig doing a few strips of Marmaduke. Kyle's unbridled creativity makes him the greatest Lantern. Is there a flood rushing at your house? Hal Jordan would just make a giant wall to divert it. Snoozer! Great, Hal. You saved my house, but you bored me to death. Give me Kyle, a guy who slings his ring with some pizzaz. My house will be saved thanks to a giant emerald head using a gargantuan sippy straw to suck up the excess river overflow cruising for a residential bruising. Now that's the kind of hero I want watching my back.

Rating: Green

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/02/20 5:12:52 PM
#42
Snake5555555555 posted...
That was just too perfect.

Faceless Hunter


The thing about Rainbow Raider is that, while sure, he's got the goggles disguising his eyes, you can still get a bead on the motherfucker. You know what he's thinking. You can get a sense of his feelings. With the Faceless Hunter, Chun Yull (one of the greatest alien names in the history of alien names) just comes across as emotionless. Is it creepy? No. It's low-effort. Onomatopoeia, Deadshot, Deathstroke, lotta folks are well-versed in the full face obfuscation. But it takes a real man, like Rainbow Raider, to step out from behind the masculine notion of hiding one's emotions to lay it all on the line. Chun Yull lives in this antiquated world where men can't be open and honest about their feelings. It leads to toxic bad behavior, like attempting to capture superheroes for bounties. Don't be like Chun Yull. Be like Rainbow Raider.

Rating: Less Out of Face

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/02/20 5:09:44 PM
#41
hellagood16 posted...
Magneto

So there's this guy right? Tall guy, white hair. Our guy spent years in a camp. Not the summer kind where you learn to play French Horn either. Had a rough go of it. Our guy gets out, decides Hey! Let's not do that again. Ever. And for the rest of his life, he crusades against internment camps. Eventually he hits it off with a girl. Nice girl, brown hair, a little peasant-y but hey, pobody's nerfect, right? They squirt out a couple'a kids. Guy decides, you know what? Kids are fine, but I'm really more interested in using these powers I've slowly been amassing to terrorize the governments of the world in order to protect the defenseless. The voiceless. The different. And in the process of that, he ends up, by and large, abandoning his kids, leaving his girl, and essentially becoming the Father of the Year, if the criteria is horrifically screwing up your children and becoming the definition of a career-focused absentee dad. So yeah, from your son Pietro, fuck you Max Eisenhardt.

Rating: Medium Rare

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
Topic(The Winds of) Winter is coming [GRRM] [2021]
scarletspeed7
07/02/20 2:55:31 PM
#43
I remember reading some comments from him that suggested to me he actually might already be done, and just holding off on the publication until the worldwide pandemic had passed. That's probably tinfoil hat parsing of his words, but I could see the pandemic playing a role in his decision to hold back the manuscript.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/01/20 3:46:24 AM
#22
Fastbreak posted...
Jean-Paul Valley

Hey there, cats and kittens. Let me tell you about the hero Gotham deserves. Not the one that it thinks it needs, that pansy-ass Bat flying around with his utility belt comprised of self aggrandizing gadgets sporting his brand in an attempt to commercialize the act of saving lives. No, this is Azrael, the fiery advocate for a burning justice - a man who will gut you for even looking at Jim Gordon the wrong way, all in an effort to bathe the streets with the blood of the impure. Sure, he's a raving madman programmed by a cult to believe he's a newly-arisen messiah-type with a hankering for overly aggressive brutality, but he's OUR raving madman programmed by a cult to believe he's a newly-arisen messiah-type with a hankering for overly aggressive brutality. Hell, Bane might still be practicing unlicensed chiropractics on unsuspecting boomer heroes if Azrael didn't swing into action, putting the mucha lucha steroid abusa on ice for a few years after their final kerfuffle. So what if he stabs, maims and kills a few hundred Gothamites in the process? It's just the price of doing business.

Rating: 84/100

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/01/20 3:43:11 AM
#21
Murphiroth posted...
Rot Lop Fan


Yo, fuck your brightest days and your blackest nights. My boy Rot Lop Fan has got his swinging F-Sharp Bell at the ready, and he's going to rock all your Green Lantern hopes and dreams to smithereens as he bops the hippest tunes and jivest jives imaginable in this, that, or any universe you could ever dream. What? you ask. A Green Lantern that's not a Green Lantern? Listen, you goddamn ableist, blind species need their emerald heroes to swoop in and thwart the extraterrestrial threats that plague our universe too, like Mogo shifting your moon's orbit as a goof. Thankfully, the blind Lantern himself has a bell for all seasons, and we can take heart in the knowledge that if you ever hear any f-sharp, there's likely a sightless alien nearby, defending you from the threats you'd have to see to believe.

Rating: 100%

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/01/20 3:40:13 AM
#20
Snake5555555555 posted...
Punchline

You know what we need to do more often? Sexualize the Joker. The Joker should be the Annie Edison of the Bat-Family. The editing group should endeavor to prevent the rest of the company from ever turning him into this boring blase ho-hum icon of domesticity, keeping every stay-at-home covid nerd occupied with visions of murder and sugar plums dancing in their heads as they fantasize about little Mary Mayhem and her emo-murder clown get-up getting it on with Jared Leto and his try-hard mail-a-dead-dog-to-your-castmates wannabe Clown Prince of Wristslitting. Give us some wholesome villainy, like the Rainbow Raider trying to steal the formula for Skittles. That's the kind of Grade-A excellence that helps keep the world going round.

Rating: Pizza Pie

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/01/20 3:35:00 AM
#19
HanOfTheNekos posted...
Ultimate Jessica Drew


Let's say you clone Peter Parker, but you make him a girl. You've got Ultimate Jessica Drew, a rarely-used Spidery supporting castmate that is somehow better, smarter, and cooler than Peter Parker ever will be. Ever could be. Ever should be, and hopefully the House will pass HR 341, making it illegal to even attempt to make a cooler webhead than the redhead femweb that turned the Clone Saga from bad to rad in about three pages. I'll never get over how much a gender swapped Petey actually worked better for the character than Petey himself ever did, and the bizarre introduction only added to the spicy flavor that turned that bag of dicks into a bag of Doritos. Thanks Ultimate Doc Ock, for making our dreams come true.

Rating: Yes

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/01/20 3:31:06 AM
#17
ChichiriMuyo posted...
Moon Knight


Do you like Marc Spector? Too bad. This post is about Steven Grant. Wait, you thought this post was about Steven Grant? Ha, you jackass, feast your eyes on Jake Lockley. And just when you thought it was safe to expect a post about Jake Lockley, we're back to Marc Spector again. The multiple personality stricken Moon Knight is a testament to how easy it is to make a character so practically perfect in every way that even current Marvel editorial can't fuck him up with the constant title reboots that permeate its line like a persistent, aggressive case of creative herpes. Moon Knight writers come and go, but his character is fine-tuned to precise perfection, able to dive into the heady depths of mental health just as easily as Moon Knight can immerse himself in street level vigilantism, all while dressing like a sexy undead albino.

Rating: 5

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/01/20 3:25:52 AM
#15
Zigzagoon posted...
Mingus


Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Mingus flies like a cat.

In the history of Vertigo, there are cats and dogs, there are lions and tigers, there are abjectly horrific mutant cannibal cows and sensuous hippopotamuses who seduce unsuspecting singing bushes. But there's only one flying feline, and he's a particularly fictitious flying feline at that. From a book within a book comes little Tommy Taylor's Hedwig du jour, the familiar to our dashing faux Potter. And as such, you have to respect Mingus' ability to continue to exist in the face of the consistent knowledge that he's a storybook character from a book within a book. That takes some mojo to really swing his sort of nonexistence. A certain inescapable will to kind of exist. Rainbow Raider would be impressed.

Rating: Flash Gordon.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/01/20 3:22:28 AM
#11
WarThaNemesis2 posted...
Mogo

Mogo is a planet Green Lantern. A frigging planet. That's larger than four billion Rainbow Raiders. It's wider than 23,000 miles of Rainbow Raider's goggles stretched end-to-end. The weight of Mogo is roughly three trillion Rainbow Raider-colored galoshes. This is a big motherfucker. But more importantly, this is a kind planet. A hearty, jovial planet always good for a prank or two, such as altering your local moon's gravitational field, sending it spiraling into your sun, just to ruin your day of surfing fun on the Pacific pipeline. What a ribber, that Mogo. At least, he was until someone lit his ring on fire, burning the only source of oxygen for his ecosystem.

Rating: Texa$

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/01/20 3:19:10 AM
#9
WickIebee posted...
Onomatopoeia

Since I can spell his name right now after some help and I probably would not be able to tomorrow.

A man of many words. Of course, most of them were sired by the editing room of the 1966 Batman series, which makes Onomatopoeia a mixed grab bag of fab vocab. Onomatopoeia has to be the greatest invention ever spawned from the mind of Kevin Smith, partially because it saves us from the terrible scriptwriting sired by Kevin Smith. Imagine if Chasing Amy was comprised entirely of "Biff" and "Pop". Ten out of ten film, mediocre at best, pack up the Oscar cheese wheel baskets, we're taking home an Affleck pity trophy tonight. Onomatopoeia could win all of the awards, make all of the speeches, and still leave us wanting more. More, as in a few verbs, an article or two, maybe a preposition.

Rating: Circles

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/01/20 3:15:52 AM
#8
ScareChan posted...
the mother fucking Riddler

Eddie Nashton carries himself with a certain amount of panache, a certain ineffable je ne sais quoi, that makes him the baddest brain in the building. Incapable of taking Ls, the Riddler rolls and bowls with the best of them, soaring higher than a 2009 Tim Tebow on the back of his adoptive father Urban Meyer. I lived most of my life knowing only two truths: one, that omelettes are bland without seasoning, and two, that Riddler could take Batman in a battle of wits any time, anywhere, no items, one stock, Final Destination. So lube up that domino mask, Eddie, because you are the most brain fuckable god of intellectual ecstasy that ever knotted up a question mark tie. He's like the James Spader of DC Comics. Indomitable, frightening, and perfect.

Rating: A

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/01/20 3:11:34 AM
#6
HanOfTheNekos posted...
Livewire

The reason why Rainbow Raider is better than Livewire is that Livewire never was able to find the kind of comics success that Rainbow Raider lives in. He lives in money every damn day. All he does is win. What does Livewire do? She uses protein gel to spike her hair like Cameron Diaz in There's Something About Mary. And cobalt blue costuming? Are we all just copying Superman Blue? Are we in love with the mid-90s fountain of edge that produced such abominations as Rob Liefeld's Cable, Rob Liefeld's Youngblood, and Rob Liefeld's Rob Liefeld? Lightning and blue streaks, and a V-neck costume. Have you seen that goddamn V-neck? It's the most jaggedy raggedy-ass lightning bolt I've seen this side of stripper Billy Batson. And Billy Batson shouldn't be stripping. Ever. That little boy is a child. He is a child! And because of this desire to court this weird fetish for static cling lightning fuckery, Livewire ranks below Rainbow Raider.

Rating: Below Rainbow Raider

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicName a DC or Marvel character and I will rate them.
scarletspeed7
07/01/20 3:05:16 AM
#1
If you do not name a DC or Marvel character, then we're done. I don't know what else to say. You and I? We're over. You can pack your shit and move the fuck out, posthaste.

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TopicCan't talk now leaves
scarletspeed7
06/29/20 9:58:23 PM
#2
eats shoots and leaves

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Topic**SPOILER TOPIC** The Last of Us Part 2 **SPOILERS** Part II
scarletspeed7
06/28/20 10:20:56 PM
#1
Controversy creates cash. ~Eric Bischoff, 1999

The highly anticipated sequel to the topic that captivated dozens. Will the haters triumph, or will the loyalists ride off into the sunset? And just how angry can Rock get about Leonhart's lack of an informed opinion? Find out in Private Biscuit's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
Topic**SPOILER TOPIC** The Last of Us Part 2 **SPOILERS**
scarletspeed7
06/28/20 3:59:09 PM
#460
There's a difference between having a sympathetic lead and needing to be able to invest yourself in the lead.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicITT, I post excerpts from The Last of Us 2 board. No spoilers.
scarletspeed7
06/26/20 6:42:40 PM
#221
Leonhart4 posted...
Are you capable of talking about something without comparing it to another thing?
The thing about LMS comparison posts is that they are a lot like Dennis Miller jokes, where he ties together two obscure references in an effort to provide insight when he can't articulate his actual thoughts.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicB8's Greatest Wrestlers Ever Ranking
scarletspeed7
06/24/20 7:15:10 PM
#152
My only regret is that I didn't give Asuka a couple more points to get her over Orton.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicWho's ready for Michael Keaton Batman?
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 7:26:59 PM
#12
Definitely makes sense given that the DCEU is already part of the Arrowverse.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicSpider-Man Homecoming is the second best MCU movie
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 6:33:32 PM
#57
I think there are immediate, intimate stakes there that make us empathize, whereas fighting some asshole like Whiplash just feels like standard superhero fare.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicSpider-Man Homecoming is the second best MCU movie
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 6:26:24 PM
#50
Paratroopa1 posted...
Homecoming is also my second favorite MCU movie, I think, if only for the car scene alone which might be one of the most exciting scenes I've ever seen in a film.and that's somehow not even a joke.
I don't know if "exciting" is the right word. It's more like that feeling when your insides just fall out of you because you're stunned by a revelation, and you just can't recover, if that makes sense? In a weird way, it's terrifying. Not scary, but terrifying.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicSpider-Man Homecoming is the second best MCU movie
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 6:21:09 PM
#47
This is such a tangent, but does anyone remember reading Civil War (the comic version) as it came out? I just recall it being so much fun anticipating which heroes would fall on which side over the course of several months. Honestly, it was pretty gripping stuff. There was always animated discussion about who would go Cap or Stark at my local comic shop between the regulars back then - both it and Infinite Crisis really got me into comics at both DC and Marvel, pushing me to actually go buy weekly comics for the first time. I've always thought the one thing Civil War was missing in the movie was that long, extended build. I get they were doing their own thing, but those months of reading titles like Civil War: Front Line and Choosing Sides were a lot fun. I'll admit that I'm sad we never got that on a massive scale with the MCU.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicSpider-Man Homecoming is the second best MCU movie
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 5:50:44 PM
#43
Sorry we'll go back to trying to figure out why there's controversy about The Last Jedi.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicWho's ready for Michael Keaton Batman?
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 5:47:15 PM
#9
Admittedly no one really knows, but he was cast for the Flash movie, so it makes sense that some of the rumors are pointing to Flashpoint given that was the direction the movie was publicly going.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic Part 498 - In Your House
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 5:45:42 PM
#226
HashtagSEP posted...
That's not a case of "not knowing better." That's a case of just knowing you can get away with it.

It's like when you're a teenager and you speak differently around your friends than you would your mother. You don't swear around your mother because you know it's not a good thing to do, but you swear around your friends because nobody cares.

Saying one "doesn't know any better" is taking away accountability a little bit when it shouldn't be.
You can be inured by a culture of a business or industry, and it can warp your perceptions of acceptable behavior. It doesn't absolve Sammy of blame, but it contextualizes it. The jump from high school straight into the independent wrestling scene, I think, shows that there is an environment where the veterans aren't teaching younger people a proper way to behave, but likely endorsing it. Again, none of this says Sammy isn't free from guilt in what he said, but unless something further surfaces about him, I think this is sign that sweeping changes need to start at every level of the wrestling industry.

When I worked in a warehouse the summer after high school graduation before I started college, I saw a culture of male workers that spent time breaking down and discussing the women who worked at our facility and how attractive they were. It never went to the extent that rape came up, but it was very uncomfortable. I found it really difficult to participate, but I had a friend from high school who sort-of just sucked it up and started joining those conversations. He ingratiated himself with those people, and he found cushier work duties on his docket. I was more of an outsider, and I was constantly stuck in the non-air conditioned areas. Because he participated and socialized, did he learn that bad behavior was acceptable? Language like Sammy used can be ingrained into you.

Nothing about it that doesn't suck. Nothing about it that makes Sammy any better. But it's pretty important to not lose the thread that people were sexually assaulted on a large scale in this industry, and if you're going through your early adult years, and even some of your youth, in that environment? It's going to be harder for you to not be sucked into a little bit of that culture.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
TopicBest Rolling Stones song?
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 5:29:15 PM
#4
Not my vote, and not necessarily deserving of a ten-spot here, but shout-out to Can't You Hear Me Knocking?.

Anyways, voted Gimme Shelter.

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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic Part 498 - In Your House
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 5:25:25 PM
#216
A 22-year-old in this industry, after what we've learned about said industry in the last week? I don't find it hard to believe that this sort of language wasn't getting pushback in his circles.

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TopicAll-Purpose Wrestling Topic Part 498 - In Your House
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 5:05:09 PM
#203
Because they're firing Havoc at the end of this and they're not firing Sammy.

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TopicSpider-Man Homecoming is the second best MCU movie
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 4:38:23 PM
#34
Snrkiko posted...
btw civil war is a movie that was very entertaining at first but falls completely apart the moment you start thinking about the villain, Captain America's, motivations


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TopicITT, I post excerpts from The Last of Us 2 board. No spoilers.
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 3:54:56 PM
#119
As funny as it is, it also makes me wonder if some random board on GameFAQs is reading that I like Dragon Age II and mocking me for it.

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TopicSpider-Man Homecoming is the second best MCU movie
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 3:50:08 PM
#6
And when you flip the LMS coin over, you find this.

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TopicWho's ready for Michael Keaton Batman?
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 3:03:45 PM
#7
UshiromiyaEva posted...
I was being sarcastic <_<
Hard to judge given people on Twitter are complaining about his age in some quarters.

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TopicWho's ready for Michael Keaton Batman?
scarletspeed7
06/22/20 2:51:50 PM
#3
There's really nothing difficult to picture here. He's playing the Thomas Wayne Batman in Flashpoint.

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TopicWhere does BotW fit into the timeline?
scarletspeed7
06/21/20 7:47:25 PM
#47
Eddv posted...
who fuckin cares
Me :(


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TopicBest Community Character Day 9 FINALS
scarletspeed7
06/21/20 7:46:45 PM
#15
LiquidOshawott posted...
Its weird because Jeff is basically just Joel McHale, like almost no separation there
Jeff has moments of self-reflection, so there's your difference.

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TopicITT, I post excerpts from The Last of Us 2 board. No spoilers.
scarletspeed7
06/21/20 4:47:23 PM
#67
KamikazePotato posted...
LOU2's success will be the "Karen Mary-Sue" effect all over again.
I can't even figure out what this post means.

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TopicITT, I post excerpts from The Last of Us 2 board. No spoilers.
scarletspeed7
06/21/20 4:16:08 PM
#51
This thread convinced me.

I'm not sure of what yet, but I'm convinced about something.

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TopicITT, I post excerpts from The Last of Us 2 board. No spoilers.
scarletspeed7
06/21/20 1:52:32 PM
#39
XIII_rocks posted...
I feel like there's a twitter account in this
Phenomenal idea.

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