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I should probably @ mention everyone who signed up

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Anime spoilers I guess

https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/watch-ashs-greatest-triumphs-in-pokemon-the-series-on-pokemon-tv/
This article is actually hilarious

Following on from the previous one where they made fun of all his League losses

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Good news (actually terrible news but go figure)

My parents are delayed until next week. They were coming to Doha on the way to a far east cruise but cruise was cancelled due to Coronavirus. So they're still coming and they're going to Jordan instead. Next week, though.

So that means the Rumble can happen THIS WEEKEND

FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY MORNING

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I mean I did say "make me cringe", which I thought conveyed the physical action of it rather than the other use of it, but whatever, you might sadly be right

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scarletspeed7 posted...

Using the word 'cringe' makes me cringe, so different strokes!

In all honesty, I tend to ignore anyone's opinion that is founded upon "I cringed." Maybe you don't mean it this way, but it tends to be a lazy umbrella word people use when they don't really want to provide substance to their thoughts.

I don't want to provide substance to my thoughts, you're right, because I've been on the internet long enough and know myself well enough to know that if I do, a) those "more substantial" thoughts will be argued with point-by-point by someone or other (you, apparently!) and b) I, being stubborn and argumentative, will engage in a very long discussion about a movie I really don't care enough about to justify such a lengthy debate.

With that said, I didn't actually use that word to "avoid" giving substance somehow, it is physically what happened. I really dislike the word "cringe" when it is somehow used as an adjective for a ton of reasons, the laziness of it being one of them. But I literally cringed at times during Shazam. Like, the verb. Not in the idiotic, overused way people describe something as somehow being cringe. I physically cringed several times. It was...uncomfortable? Embarrassing? Whatever word you want to use (and no, me not being able to pin down a word for this still does not justify the use of the word "cringe" in that way). It is a physical reaction that some people have to things, fairly often, and its stupid conversion into an adjective doesn't change that.

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Sure

You can do it in ways that don't make me cringe in the cinema though

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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Yeah, Luthor is voiced by the actor who played Gustavo Fring in Breaking Bad, and he's outstanding.

What? I love everything about this

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Shazam is better than like 90% of the MCU don't @ me

I liked Shazam fine but, I dunno, it leaned a bit much on very syrupy sentimentality. Like way more than average.

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Oh yeah. Didn't read properly. Are they still out there?

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Ah right

Weird tourist destination! Hope you enjoyed it tho

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Wait what, when were you in Qatar?

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Many

Ace Attorney, Katamari, Final Fantasy 5, Life is Strange, Journey, Hotline Miami, EarthBound, Ocarina of Time (seriously), Sonic Adventure 2 and even Smash Bros.

Very wide spectrum there when it comes to personal enjoyment, but mostly good.

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Decent chance of Sinn Fein winning the Irish elections which would be crazy

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Man I've been so busy that I haven't really had time to think hard about Bojack actually being over. It hit me tonight. I'm pretty down about it honestly.

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Drakeryn posted...

Jolteon / Quilava / Absol / Luxray / Joltik / Pangoro / Zeraora / Obstagoon

I forgot how stacked gen 4 is, sorry Empoleon and Gastrodon

Gen 4 is crazy top heavy

There's like 20 absolute sure fire hits and then a lot of forgettable garbage like Lumineon

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Technically the Rumble you won was not an Official UCA Event

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Damn Toxtricity seems pretty popular here

Cool

@Steiner so much respect for your Sigilyph love btw

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Charizard
Ampharos
Camerupt
Garchomp
Themanitan
Greninja
Incineroar
Toxtricity

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Same but GOAT and also you know it'd be hilarious if I had to pay myself 50 usd

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5 is where it morphed into what it is now I think. That's when the escalation began. And it's by far my favourite of them tbh.

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I stayed here when my Dad ran the marathon
https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/england/greater-london/london/london-county-hall.html

It's unspectacular but...you know, fine, and it's right in the middle of everything. The eye is like, right there. So is the Shard, Big Ben, National Theatre, etc. 20m walk to Covent Garden or there's the tube ofc.

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I don't visit London often but the public transport etc is good enough that it doesn't really matter

It also depends what you're looking for. The big man touristy stuff is in central I think.

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Keep alive for a few weeks

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Ugh.

Yeah. No chance of this happening.

So provisionally looking at a little under 3 weeks time right now. Apologies again, this all came up pretty quickly.

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

which was it

I just broke at PBs mask reference

Elefino and PB saying "wow that means so much"

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I think there was some genuine thoughtfulness about how Bojack's descent into "horny unicorn" was handled too. Because, yeah, Bojack is absolutely a dirtbag and should have gone to jail and yeah, all the stuff he did is terrible. He deserved what he got.

But a guy's got to make a living, and an actor - especially one like Bojack who likes (hungers for, really) the applause and adulation - needs an audience. I think it spoke volumes when he teamed up with someone even scummier and found a new audience...college dudes who were totally on his side for the whole thing and see him as somebody fighting against "#metoo" (even though he's not, not deliberately anyway). So of course Bojack, who I don't think really wants to be associated with that kind of person, ends up being an icon for them because he was so shunned, so rejected by society that he did a deal with the devil (Vance Waggoner) and made a stupid movie that would probably piss off an awful lot of people just by existing.

I'm not saying that we should like, coddle somebody like Bojack after all the shit he did. And I don't think that's what the show was saying either - it was more of a cautionary tale, how a man can become something like that if you insist on dogpiling. You can do it if you want, and he probably deserves every last bit of it, but it does have consequences; the final few episodes seemed to be saying that if you viciously reject a guy en masse, he's still going to find an audience of people who defend him and there's a good chance he'll then abandon any attempt to even appear "good" and simply lean in to all the stuff you hate him for (because that's what his new fans love him for), rendering the whole exercise of hating him a bit counterproductive. It's like the show commits to "#metoo culture" but doesn't fully commit to "#cancel culture" - by acknowleding Bojack deserves what he gets but by showing the downsides of #cancelling somebody in that way.

I dunno. I thought that was a particularly interesting avenue to go down and one I didn't expect.

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I feel really sad that Hollyhock apparently severed ties with him completely. Totally understandable but it was a huge gutpunch. And it was a bit under-served - I think it might have gone almost/totally unmentioned in the finale.

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Well I just had the choice between Asahi and Corona and ordered Asahi, so I think that says it all

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UPDATE

Hi guys.

So I have to move apartments this weekend. I'm making the announcement quite last minute here because I thought I might still be able to do this, but honestly given how busy I am going to be and how big a timesink the Rumble is I'm not going to be able to do it today.

All being well I should be able to start it tomorrow.

Next week I'm on vacation and the weekend after my parents are visiting, so if it doesn't happen tomorrow there'll likely be a 2/3 week delay on this for which I apologize profusely.

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Die Hard but I have a soft spot for The Thomas Crown Affair

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This was on the whole a little rushed

But really good

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5m into the finale I had to pause it because one of the wordplay jokes cracked me up so much

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Jesus christ this is vicious

I love it

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Zazi you're in

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It's up

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I'm happy to do 31 btw, even though it's not exactly a round number

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That was brutal

But generally good. Good show all-round really. Well done.

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Well since Bojack isn't up yet I guess I'll watch this

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Alright we're ready to go tonight!

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Getting closer

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Damn

Alright
Bioshock then

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Why they haven't already done 2-night Mania I have no idea, btw. The shows are so, so long

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Yeah I realized later that prick was kind of the wrong word to use

Just generally posting things I was either disinterested in or actively disliked

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NBIceman posted...

My take is irrespective of whether Riddle's coming off like a tryhard. Like I said earlier, I don't have much of an opinion on that.

But I think if I wanted a push I would rather be a Twitter tryhard than just do what, oh, Finn Balor's done and hope that if I work really hard and don't rock the boat Senpai Vince will arbitrarily decide one day that I've grabbed the brass ring and deserve it.

Sure, I get what he's trying to do and I respect the hustle in a way

It's just the posts he's made don't amuse me at all. They're not funny. They don't entertain me, or really interest me, I don't think they were...I dunno, witty in any way. I think if you do what Riddle did right - and "right" in this case is entirely subjective - then maybe Strife and I and others would think differently about it, and him.

And I don't think I disliked it purely because he's going against the grain or against Goldberg or against WWE or some shit like that.

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I've found his posts irritating and tryhard, I must admit. I don't think that makes me a "cop", and if it works and he gets the match out of it then more power to him, the hustle worked.

Maybe prick is the wrong word, and kind of strong, but I think it's perfectly valid to look at Riddle's posts and be turned off to him. With that said, it was mostly the Goldberg stuff that I found annoying, the Lesnar stuff less so. But the Goldberg stuff was first, so that was my first impression.

People are not fucking bootlicking "cops" because they don't like the way Matt Riddle has gone about things on twitter, calm the fuck down

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Steiner posted...

"everyone should just march in line and do what they're told, regardless of the proven success rate of that" - extreme cop mentality

I think there is a lot of middle ground between this and "Riddle is being kind of a prick"

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idk it just says January 31st

It'll be Friday morning for me for sure

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MGS2 is what brought me here I think (I couldn't find the last bomb), and that's still my favourite game

Probably also Pokemon, Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil 2, the Spyro games, Tomb Raider

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Spoilers for Bojack Horseman in this topic obviously

It and The Good Place end later this week and while I like TGP fine, Bojack is incredible and I'm so sad it's ending. Everything is worse now.

https://filmschoolrejects.com/bojack-horseman-finale-review/

First review I've read, which is basically spoiler free. And glowing.

Anyway making the topic in anticipation so we can talk about it on Friday.

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