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Paragon21XX posted...

What about using forceps?

Those also sound like a good idea if strong enough while being slim enough

So that's why I literally never heard of the sega saturn until I joined the internet... I just read up on that "$299" PS1 announcement and it's crazy that sega even recovered from that enough to make the dreamcast before bowing out of the video game console industry. I thought they went from Genesis to Dreamcast because that's what people around me had

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExaAYIKsDBI

The first one in the polls seems the most historic.

But boy does Nintendo's hate of piracy drive them to make some weird decisions, like the ugly gamecube mini-disc. It still drives them to this day. And I get it, video games are literally their livelihood they're not quite the conglomerate that Microsoft is with several divisions and money out the wazoo.

Ps3's infamous price point basically cost Sony not just 1st place but 2nd, yet it also forced them to reevaluate so that's good. Like Nintendo, if Sony goes unchecked they'll do even more anti-consumer things.

The "ps3 as bluray player" is funny to me because it was true, the console came out right when bluray won over HD DVD and it was the reason that the higher hardware sales were at odds with the lower software sales. But it's extra funny because while bluray did effectively replace DVDs, the move to digital in the 2010s has made it so that most people just stream movies in the 2020s, and bluray is mostly for diehard fans of whatever media it's holding. I've noticed it's mostly the older generation still buy physical media, while the new generation just watch on their phones, for better or worse.

Wish Microsoft was self-owned in raising the game price point, introducing online, and basically all of DLC... but nope all 3 things especially the last 2 succeeded beyond imagination, much to the detriment of gaming as a whole.

Whiterun_Guard_ posted...

*needle nose pliers

So that's what they're called thanks!

eggcorn posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9a76d289.jpg

These look perfect! Have to test them out

Kai_Laguna posted...

They do, they're called pliers.

Need to find a pair with small enough endpoints to be able to latch onto a thorn, but strong enough base to pull it out. Gonna check ace hardware and see if they have what I'm looking for

Someone needs to invent this already.

I go trekking through the woods and bits of thorn and bramble always get stuck under my heel, like the ones that fall from these

https://lampofthelambart.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/thorns_plants_spikes_715792_o.jpg

Once every blue moon I'll be unlucky and end up stepping on a particularly long thorn that ends up really stuck way up my shoe, almost up to the insole. Getting it out with every day tweezers is a chore, sometimes next to impossible especially if I don't want to risk breaking it off while still inside the shoe because at that point I'll have to cut my losses and buy another shoe altogether, and all that that entails.

Pororin posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d915d982.jpg

Having never heard of this show, it really makes me think about how JGL has been steadily working for years but never really seems to seek the limelight. Dude could have been Nightwing, that was the one takeaway that could have been good from tdkr. He was perfect for the role.

Bubbagump posted...

I think you have to put the film in its proper context. In 1989, when most people thought of Batman, they thought of the 1960s campy Adam West version. This Batman was the first one to bring a darker (comparatively) tone to the series and did it quite successfully. It was also one of the first big summer blockbusters that had huge merchandise tie-ins (games, books, toys, etc), and made a big splash within the culture. Everyone was wearing batman shirts, consuming batman media, the stuff was everywhere! There had never been anything like it except for maybe Star Wars.

It definitely was. While Superman 78 was the first big superhero movie, the cultural impact that Batman 89 had was unparalleled, and it is arguably considered the movie that broke barriers and allowed all successive comic book media with complex storylines or characters, be it tv show or movie, to exist in some shape or form. Batman was almost considered a goofball before this movie, on an Aquaman level, due to stuff like the Adam West show and Superfriends.

BroodRyu posted...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_J028VW2Xl8

This was a decent comparison.

Wait, all 3 budokais were part of this controversy? Goddamn, thought it was just the first one. Even earth wind and fire...

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

I honestly credit this game not having the Buu arc as a reason why I like it the least of the main story arcs.

I played this game so much as a kid that saiyan saga to cell saga WAS dragon ball z to me. The Buu saga did not exist and the series ended with cell.

So when i eventually discovered i was missing an entire part of the story, it just felt grafted on and artificial to me. Crazy how your perception of something as a kid can inform some opinions for the rest of your life

Likewise, pretty much the exact same scenario for me

SAlYAN posted...

I'll be honest, I don't really disagree (except for the Danny Elfman score). The film is pretty dull, and while Jack Nicholson is, himself, great, his joker was nothing special. Most jokers feel unique and twisted in their own special way; his was a generic mob boss with maybe a couple jokes, and a catchphrase that could have made him one of the Wet Bandits.

The best part about the movie was that it inspired the Animated Series, which is incredible

Even that accomplishment is shared with Batman Returns

I remember years ago seeing a video comparison of the so called plagiarized music but can't find it now. I don't have an ear for music so I didn't really hear enough of a similarity to warrant the controversy but if I listen to it now I might.

Still have this game on gamecube, that means I can still play/listen to it as is right. It was my primary method of seeing DBZ's story since I rarely got a chance to see it as it aired.

I like how the kid from Cobra Kai is a clear reference to that 90s era, especially since he looks like Shawn

https://i.imgur.com/WRUvN4p.jpeg

Yazarogi posted...

Payback is such a great film. It really channels that old style flick IMO.

watched it just a few months ago. Last time I watched it before then was back when New Vegas released.

I remember liking the movie when I was younger but checking its RT score now and it's much lower than I would have thought.

Bleuets posted...

Tons of movies are good for long flights. I always download a variety of movies and TV shows before a flight. I dont feel like one certain genre of movie or a specific actor makes for a good flight movie necessarily.

I used to watch whatever's on the in-flight entertainment for years, but being able to download movies/shows is such a game changer it made me wonder why I didn't do this sooner; I can listen with my own headphones, guaranteed subtitles, and best of all no pilot interruption:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY3oJh5gW3Q

R1masher posted...

payback is just an inferior remake of Lee Marvins Point Blank movie

No relation to Grosse Point Blank?

I agree with the premise but not with the example provided (a jason statham movie) because I can barely understand him as is with no subtitles, I'm definitely not gonna understand when I'm on a plane and tired and out of focus

I don't know anything about this story but I just wanted to say this means it IS possible. We can get companies to back down and change their ways. Consumers really should unite more to stop companies screwing us over.

I was actually semi-interested in the Pop Tarts movie, as someone who was a fan of the dessert pastry. Real shame they couldn't have made it good/funny/entertaining for a subject matter I'm into.

I haven't seen Payback in 20 years so I didn't even remember Lucy Liu was in this movie. I just remember Mel Gibson being betrayed and lying on the floor.

... Hold up, I wonder if GTA 3 was inspired by Payback. Don't know if I made the connection back then but this just came to me.

The topic title is a reference to The Boys after hours show on amazon prime; it's hosted by aisha tyler (the girlfriend in FRIENDS who Ross and Joey were fighting over) where the cast were hanging out talking about the show, and they joked that Antony Starr wins the contest of "person most like their character in real life"

https://i.redd.it/ulqqzi7b5kkb1.png

I draw the line at the iconic Danny Elfman score. Everything else I can shrug at but that part is just wrong.

boomgetchopped3 posted...

yea her talents are on full display in that video

She's actually even more talented, this video is just more of a product promotion type video that used to be done back in the day

I don't really have much to add if anyone is interested in talking about this show so just leaving this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2vpM-nsyH8

https://youtu.be/1iSqnSxEU4A

https://i.redd.it/9g2th0bhnr231.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTouQVgxR_I

This aged like fine wine

https://youtu.be/BmTfxyoEqAc

Fun fact: each of those main characters is played by an actor who actually auditioned for said role.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZbq1uvc1ik

The answer you find out won't shock you: He had to ask permission from the producers behind 3rd Rock from the sun to get it cut, wasn't allowed to do so otherwise.

Always got annoyed with his long hair when I watched the show as a kid, and I still remember the episode where he gets it cut and I was like "oh my god he looks so much better now!"

boomgetchopped3 posted...

Beyonce Is talented

It shows too; she's now way more rich and famous than her husband Jay Z once was

MI4_REAL posted...

are released on a plane to kill a witness to a crime

Wait that was really the plot? Welp, nearly 20 years later now I know.

Golden_Key33 posted...

Don't worry saspa, I got the joke at the very least.

Oh phew. I was feeling downright crestfallen until seeing your post.

I'm all but convinced companies only update websites to screw with users, and shut down any exploits users might have found to make their viewing experience more comfortable. Like it used to be you could watch youtube videos that required a sign-in by simply adding a couple of slashes in the url. Now youtube has removed that convenient shortcut to force you to sign in.

I just hope they don't get rid of the method we use to turns shorts videos back to regular youtube videos, although it's bound to happen.

MrResetti posted...

My girlfriend listens to this unironically
It hurts

How would you feel if found out people listened to this before they ever heard the original?

boomgetchopped3 posted...

Oh shit the comedian joins the cast

smh I can't believe you associate JDM with The Comedian and not what he's best known for: as katherine heigl's patient on grey's anatomy

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/coMnFRqPRKtFZkTTgac8hN.jpg

https://hips.hearstapps.com/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/43/1508926387-greys-denny-dies.jpg

CassandraCroft posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ubNqkhfVU

I didn't know that this became a running joke, don't know if the scrappy hate was mentioned in the series before the 2002 live action movie.

Since they frequently aired the 60s and 70s cartoons when I was a kid, I'd just watch all of them, from the originals to the ones where it's for some reason just Shaggy and Daphne and Scooby (red shirt Shaggy ever explained?) to finally Pup called Scooby, since the 90s was the apex of "Muppet babies" style cartoons. Some of which were great imo.

And you know what, the cartoons had Scrappy but they also had the equally annoying Scooby Dumb, and while I didn't really care for them, I never really got angry I just watched the show regardless. I once heard that the decision for the plot twist reveal in the 2002 movie was based on the supposed overwhelming fan hate towards Scrappy.

I kept it together until he just started walking away like nothing happened (while the movie's ominous theme music starts playing) and that sent me over the moon

Looking at their game library, I keep forgetting Level 5 were the ones behind nino kuni, a series I really really wanted to like if it was fun to play. The last RPG I played from them was Rogue Galaxy; if they had just fine tuned that battle system (which was in itself already an improvement over Dark Cloud) I would have been all over ninokuni, instead of the weird hybrid turn based battle system they had which was a worse FF 12/Xenoblade 1.

I do miss Layton from the DS era, was gonna see if they ported any of the post DS games on Switch so I can try them but I just found a spinoff with his daughter and it had kinda low reviews, didn't motivate me to get the game.

Feels like Level-5 could have been more prolific when they had a diverse library that ranged from puzzles to rpgs, but they're not really listed as up there with the other big devs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIFH7X63M8

Youtube keeps insisting on suggesting me this video so now you do too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzFXDvC-EwM

https://youtu.be/CHBqaCj7q2w

Makeveli_lives posted...

Theres 11 crossovers between the dc arrowverse and Glee.

https://youtu.be/BEArd1hduVE?si=YYLXwfduhTjCWc7Z

Lol that's great.

This just made me realize that melissa is surprisingly sweet as heck and really adorable.

Why is the poll so heavily skewed towards airforce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBrltBrB14c

The thing is, all 3 have great chemistry and it makes sense when they're closer in age compared to the rest of the cast, just like in the show. But I single those 2 out because at the time Donald Glover just became so much more prolific and had to leave Community for his other shows like Atlanta, plus he had his music, even cameo'd in a spiderman movie in a nod to the initial idea of having him be spiderman 12 years ago (instead of the asm movies that we got)

Purple_Cheetah posted...

Saw it when it aired originally and that epsiode was actually aired literally just before he passed away. I'm talking 1-2 weeks or so, so it was more like an omen/jinx. Though yeah, now that I think about it, since I didn't see the episode afterwards. It's pretty weird.

Lewis was in the finale, so they must have been able to shoot the entire season first before he passed. At least he finally got to have closure

^ ^ The Ducktales scene is literally what made me go "I must watch this show, now"

One single scene with him sold me on an entire show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R92K3Z3TOe0

Sheiky-Baby posted...

That's not a Jackie Chan thing, but basically the whole entire part of Asia thing. Mostly still is today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIEMdQSMEEM

Rush Hour and the Hollywood movies in the early 2000s is what really propelled Jackie Chan into stardom in Western cinema.

Lol'd at the topic title. The tweet even comes across as ominous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv5iWFKXrLs

This interview predates even Rush Hour (1998) that's crazy...

Humble_Novice posted...

Doesn't Aldi allow its cashiers to sit down instead of standing up constantly?

I'm not sure why all the grocery stores don't have the high swivel chair for employees to sit on. It seems like such a simple thing to NOT be an asshole about, and yet...

If a local co-op can have one, surely giant chains like walmart and target have one too right?