Lurker > SeabassDebeste

danny didn't really fuck up by making or not making trades - he and brad together fucked up by letting all of their free agents walk

kyrie leaving was bad. we got kemba back who's a lot worse, but whatever. al horford left. we let theis fill the gap and brown/hayward/tatum got bigger roles, whatever. terry rozier and marcus morris left. good, we needed the shots to go around to the jays anyway. but hayward leaving and the theis trade kind of drove a nail into our coffin.
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and stevens is going to the front office now

what the fuck
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

brutal end to this season

pls come back healthy jaylen brown
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

midgar is awesome. it's kind of audacious that they built this full-scale RPG world... and then happily confine you to this one sprawling but claustrophobic city for like 1/3 of the game straight. and leaving feels so weird, especially because you don't really turn back at all to "home."
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ain't nothin but a mistake
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

yew/shih na's breakdown is the best part of the game hands down
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

it's been ten years since lost ended and in some ways it feels like longer - by like 2013 it felt absolutely ancient

i greatly dislike this series's reliance on passing out and amnesia or whatever to advance its mysteries. i'm not sure it's always necessary.
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LeonhartFour posted...

what do you mean by "gimmick"

the "stuck" part seemed to imply there was some sort of trick you needed to figure it out

i lucked into it though
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Aecioo posted...

biggest garbage on this board is SOMEONE not finishing his ranking of quarantine shows faster

blocked
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KingButz posted...

Ignoring someone without blocking them seems weird

i mean i don't care if anyone can see my posts personally! it only lessens my enjoyment to read garbage
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LeonhartFour posted...

Ignore means you can't see their posts but they can still see yours. Block means they can't see your posts either.

gotcha

i probably only have ignore
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what's the difference between block and ignore?
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wait so is there a gimmick to the final courage trial
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azuarc posted...

In terms of nominations, I have to ask a stupid question: How, if at all, are people differentiating between the story and the writing? I could see nominating something like Portal, but Portal doesn't really have a story. What it has is lots of witty dialogue built around a premise.

yeah i'm gonna avoid rating this game solely because i can't really separate the execution from whatever the "story" itself means
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also i guess i kind of have to acknowledge tatum's 50. this is becoming insanely common from him.
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LiquidOshawott posted...

Huh, why do I remember that being a sweep then

the game they won was in OT iirc
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man and now i'm getting power, wisdom, and courage

love it!
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haha what paper mario just went full wind waker
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think i like the first gavin one most. the food rising is pretty amazing.
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Series 32. The Haunting of Bly Manor (8-episode miniseries, 2020)
Series 31. The Haunting of Hill House (8-episode miniseries, 2018)

So starting here, there's genuinely a lot of stuff I did like about these shows, even if they're not entirely up my alley.

This is an anthology-style series, so like True Detective or whatever, they would make sense to be ranked separately. That said, they wound up ranking right next to each other because they did so many things similarly. Notably, both stories are about haunted houses, but more specifically look at the trauma that haunted-house survivors face.

As I mentioned in the Poltergeist writeup, I'm not that big into horror movies and horror tropes. These Haunting shows are like love letters to the genre. I'm also not into overly slow and artsy stuff, but the Haunting shows clearly have prestige-TV ambitions (there's like a ten-minute shot full of characters walking in and out of a room in one of the middle episodes - a neat camera trick/difficult stunt, but not a particularly interesting scene).

Hill House, the first season, sticks out way more in my memory. Decades after surviving a haunted house, five siblings find themselves drawn to it once again. There are unresolved mysteries about the past and there's lots of ill will between how the characters have ended up. Drug addiction, media exploitation, and fixation with dead people feature a lot, and the arguments can be pretty unfun to watch.

And yet there's something quite powerful about how it all comes together. The horror they experienced as children is what split up the family, so when they find themselves drawn back together, they wind up confronting it together. The most interesting hook about the story (and a surefire gimmick to please me) is the point-of-view structure. Like in LOST, each of the first five episodes centers on one of the siblings' entire story. Watching them in this order reveals truths about interactions that we've previously only seen from another sibling's POV. The final of these POV episodes feels like a true climax, resolving a major mystery and giving the most powerful emotional torque.

Season 2 isn't as memorable in my mind, but while S1's story sticks out to me a lot, both share the same melancholy yet somewhat hopeful tone. Both also lean into some of the worse tropes that they could have chosen, but overall, while I may be somewhat unhappy that I wasted entire days to watch these in a row, I'm glad I watched both of these. Other than the fact that my fiancee now refuses to sleep without a night light.
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aloha!
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does this include great ace attorney characters?
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caught-up hype!

colliding posted...

All of these can be juxtaposed with the healthy relationship between Edgeworth and Gregory that was cut short.

just goes to show you how great gregory is
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Johnbobb posted...

Queen - Fat Bottom Girls

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i saw all the bond movies up til casino royale, and only skyfall since. that's by far the most of any on this list, so i've seen the most meh entries of it as well (other than harry potter i guess, which has like 3-4

i guess when you get this big there's always just gonna be a lot that you don't care about though. i think i've greatly enjoyed almost every marvel movie i've seen outside of maybe iron man 2, but i've only seen 6 or so of them

star wars has like 5ish hits in the 9 mainline movies i've seen, and i'd be more inclined to rewatch most of those than most james bonds

i kind of want to go with LOTR simply because i refuse to watch the hobbit movies and that means all i know is three of the best on this list
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i was thinking about this really hard before reading winston payne
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as far as i know, yeah

(edit) aw fuck forgot the prequel trilogy
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Movie 26. The Little Things (2021)

We watched this on HBO Max - Denzel Washington is an old cop returning to work a case that reminds him of a string of unsolved cases from way back when, helping Rami Malek along the way.

This movie kind of hits all sorts of boring notes to me. It's relentlessly grim in tone, lionizes the cop experience as struggling to do the right thing, features little actual action (as opposed to the "suspense moments"), ends relatively unsolved. Movies like this can really redeem themselves with something really great in their ending, but this was definitely not up my alley.

It ranks slightly above Nocturnal Animals, the most similar movie on my list, and that's because it had slightly fewer things that bothered me - Jared Leto being unhinged is somewhat more bearable than the violence against innocents in Nocturnal Animals. So it was less uncomfortable to watch, but it says even less, so maybe it should rank lower, in hindsight.
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Series 33. The Flight Attendant (HBO MAX 8-episode miniseries, 2020)

I don't buy the hype in a lot of these "event shows" - my favorite series tend to have long seasons, plot arcs that take 20+ episodes to unroll, characters that you follow for years. But I'm willing to give event shows a shot, simply because - as we all know - they're low-commitment. And in mid-late 2020, with TV running out, there was a lot of hype around HBO Max's show.

The Flight Attendant follows Kaley Cuoco's titular flight attendant who becomes mixed up in a complex murder during a one-night stand. It then tackles her struggles with alcoholism, her relationship with her family, asks of us why we think she hates herself so much.

There's some fun stuff to this. It's occasionally humorous and I do kinda like the protagonist's lawyer friend. But overall, it really feels like material that I'm rather tired of - substance abuse problem storylines have always bored me; using substance abuse/past trauma to explain a character's bad decisions is boring; I don't really see there being a lot of redemption for our heroine. In the end she does make strides toward being a better person, but it's really not the type of story that interests me much without the humor.

I guess I shouldn't begrudge the feminist power fantasy that much since I think I probably like some male power fantasy shows, but this just didn't really capture my attention. Maybe that's simply because it didn't give itself long enough to endear itself to me, but more likely it's because I found the heroine's motivations uninspiring and her self-destructive behavior dull.
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defendants don't usually have breakdowns like that
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voted engarde but man phoenix's is so good, kinda wish i'd gone his way!
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gant's damage animation >>> his actual breakdown
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colliding posted...

This is a weird anime trope that I've seen a few times now - cute girl with a big syringe

probably phallic-related

Leonhart4 posted...

Kay's freaking out animation might be the most unsettling one in the series.

agreed. this case does a good job with using kay as "stakes," better than aa main series extending maya as victim way too long
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tsukihime, maybe

or aa4 i guess
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i mean it's bad, but this level of bad is really common for young-adult targeted stuff

i guess it also doesn't catch me off guard since a lot of the premise led me to expect this
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is FDC a PW-like game? for comparison i love ghost trick and enjoyed 999 but couldn't get into hotel dusk at all.
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well, how'd ya like the ramen??
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well he's already started with getting injured
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congrats + good luck!
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yeah aa6 is just superlong which can make nahyuta grindy. on the other hand some of y'all need to LIGAMO
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colliding posted...

I like Nahyuta more than most. This is largely due to his theme

yeah nahyuta's music is chill affffff
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yeah, AAI1 mostly just tests out a format and says "hey you guys like edgeworth, right?"

AAI2 actually gives edgeworth some cool opponents and some interesting stakes. i'm not sure every personal stakes beat hits since you kinda know nothing that dramatic happens in a gaiden series, but it just does everything better than AAI1

well other than music i guess
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i love e2-3. that said case 3s are traditionally super strong, not weak, imo. 2-3 and 4-3 are bad, but only those.
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enjoying some tropical weather?
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76ers
knicks
bucks
nets

76ers
nets

76ers

jazz
clippers
nuggets
lakers

jazz
lakers

lakers > 76ers
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StartTheMachine posted...

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hard to Concentrate

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aa3 definitely smashes aa2 in music, but i just like 2-4 more than 3-5
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wait i didn't know that paper mario contained the bobomb sacrificing himself what the hell
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think i've played 10 for more than like 1 hour, but i've probably beaten one or more games in four

nearly beat twewy, phantasy star 4, and suikoden, but never closed them out
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yesss
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