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I cared even less of a shit than I do about the Oscars than other years, for obvious reasons. Although a local sound mixer I've worked with won for Sound of Metal, so that's cool. That's incidentally the only "Oscar Movie" I really care about seeing.

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The Wave Master posted...

Me - Donatello
Scarlett - Michaelangelo

The redhead favors the one that wears orange...imagine that!

Admittedly, Michelangelo was always my favorite, but that was largely because orange is my favorite color. And his goofy nature (although sometimes they try and make him out as too dumb).

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kind9 posted...

CyborgSage00x0 posted...
Considering black rap is marketed and sold primarily to white kids, that'd be a bit of a mixed message.
Is this a troll job?

Oh man, someone is in for a rude awakening on how the music industry works.

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Zeus posted...

The opening looked kinda crappy, the tattoo thing was interesting, and then it got crappy towards the end. Personally I'm not sure how they keep making the movies suck. Although the franchise's story is unnecessarily convoluted, the bullet point is that it's a fighting tournament with superhuman contenders. Simplest shit in the world. How the fuck do you mess that up?

That looks exactly like what the trailer is advertising, though. The story seems pretty straight-forward.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJHY4ggYCk4&ab_channel=ONEMedia

Most of us have likely seen it, but trailer for the new Mortal Kombat movie due in April. Looks actually pretty good, in terms of the action and whatnot. Scorpion/Sub-Zero scene was pretty neat. Wonder how straight-laced vs. unintentional campy it will be, al la the first film.

As for the direct, it was pretty meh for me. There were a LOT of games shown, but to too many I was interested in/details of. I'll be getting NMH3, so it was nice seeing more of that. The Triangle Project game looks pretty solid, the combat looks interesting there. It's Square Enix, so it'll be a slog. Neon White and a few others, like the dodgeball game looked promising. Splatoon 3 seems...too soon? I'll get it, but haven't had time for multiplayer games very much.

No big AAA announcement was a let down, but BotW2 will be shown later. I would expect some Metroid Prime 4 news, too, seeing as how it's also the 35th anniversary of Metroid.

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Considering black rap is marketed and sold primarily to white kids, that'd be a bit of a mixed message.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Woohoo pyra/mythra in smash. Kinda surprised how much salt I'm seeing for them but I guess it is another anime swordfighter. I love anime swordfighters though and xenoblade 2 is an amazing game. Samurai warriors 5 is pretty cool too.

Depends on the source of said "salt". It's Smash, literally every reveal is going to have people whining because their dream pick of whatever source didn't make it in. Hell, Sephiroth was as safe as a pick you could get, and people still bitched.

The sword fighter complaint has been around, but I'm not sure what people expect: sword fighters are kinda present in a shit ton of video games, and are easily adaptable into a game like Smash.

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JoanOfArcade posted...

FF7R and Yakuza LAD disagree with you

"Tend to be" is a key combination of words, there.

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Revelation34 posted...

No it won't. There's no such thing as a wish coming true since wishes are magical by nature and magic doesn't exist.

Joke's on you, I'm so powerful that my mere desires and whims alone are strong enough to alter space-time.

Fine, you got me.

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JoanOfArcade posted...

If it wasn't for the shitty ass UK VA Xenoblade might actually be good

This is one of it's saving graces, since American VA in JRPGs tend to be terrible anymore.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

But wishing death upon him, those like him or those that agree with him will not create that better place.

Uh, yeah. It factually will. That's like saying removing cancer from your body won't make it better.

Jesus, spare me this pearl clutching shit.

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Looks like I'm busting out a good cigar tonight.

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Meh overall. No big AAA announcements, and pretty surprised there was no real Zelda/Metroid/Pokemon bundles or news aside from SS, since the former 2 turn 35 this year, and Pokemon turns 25. Year is young and we may likely hear more, but the only "big" news was Splatoon 3. I like the Splatoon games (although I don't play them enough), but it kinda feels early for another?

Triangle, Neon White look interesting. I'll be getting NMH3, so it was nice to see more. Pyra/Mythra I like in Smash. Never cared about the Mario Golf games, but it looks fine.

A decent amount of games were show cased, but not very much caught my eye.

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No BotW2 news yet? Bummer. Least it will be this year.

And SS port, as we all thought.

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Mead posted...

I wanna try the No More Heroes games. They look like Video Games: The Video Game

They pretty much are. I mean, the plot of the first game is you play as a otaku weeb literally named Travis Touchdown who buys a lightsaber (beam katana) off of the internet and sets to become the #1 ranked assassin. It's kooky fun from start to finish.

Also, this Project triangle seems FE-esque, seems pretty cool. It's Square though, so make me feel it will be cliche as hell.

Neon White looked interesting.

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Ah, so Outer Wilds has been out on Steam since 2019. Probably will just get it there, unless this is like, an updated edition.


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Outer Wilds, a sci-fi rogue-like? Seems cool. IS this already on Steam?

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Sweet Xenoblade stuff.

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Mead posted...

and hes gonna be in the only former president to have no real political influence or activity in diplomacy.

The fact that they didn't convict him shows just how much influence he still has. McCarthy flew down to Mar-A-Lago just to kiss the ring recently, as it were.

Then again, since it was 30 years of Republican bullshit that allowed Trump to be possible, saying he has "influence" is a bit misleading: Trump is just the quiet parts the GOP normally says blasted through a megaphone. He's Frankenstein's monster of decades of racist bull shit dogwhistling, slavish devotion to the rich, and an impressive amount of moral bankruptcy.

They didn't convict Trump because it would be like smashing the mirror you were staring at.

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SpeedDemon20 posted...

Edelgard for Smash! PLEASE!

Byleth already ahs her moves, so that would be pointless. Give a slot to Lloyd Irving or Viewtiful Joe or someone actually worthy.

Also, people don't like Dimitri? Shit, I didn't even play his route, and still found it cool that his whole arc is to go batshit insane with PTSD until he can't even see his friends as anything more than pawns to fulfill his goals. It's refreshing to see a game take a plucking youth protagonist and show them shattered and beaten instead of "the power of friendship will save us!"

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Mead posted...

Why is The Daily Wire making films? That is just bizarre

Most of the Right functions as a way to grift simpletons these days, so that's why.

Sell them movies about the bubble culture you helped create, reap the rewards. It's why it's become a known theme to pick out which people running at the GOP national convention are clearly there just to score a Fox News gig or book deal.

Hell, I'm 99% sure that was the entire point of Trump's 2016 run, but then he accidentally won due to America's broke political system and voters being worse than anyone thought.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-02-12/gina-carano-project-daily-wire-ben-shapiro

A good way to show you didn't deserve to be canned for peddling bigotry and conspiracy theories is to immediately sign the Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro.

LOL

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Having worked for Disney before, they are definitely hyper-focused on covering their asses, trying not to get sued, and maintaining a squeaky-clean image. Makes sense, when you're that big of an entity. They weren't going to tolerate Gina's shit, especially when you remember this is just one of her many social media transgressions. It's almost certain they tried to talk to her first, and after she kept up the shit, they dropped her.

Pretty open and shut.

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BADoglick posted...

I find it funny when Republicans cry about cancel culture. They canceled Anne Heche for outing herself as lesbian twenty years ago and now they think they shouldn't be canceled for their bigotry and ignorance. The tables have turned and suddenly it's an issue

The "P" in GOP stands for "projection."

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I meant to say "no one over the age of 10", but you all understood by dumb typo. :P

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Fam_Fam posted...

looks like crap. good job

Kinda appropriate, since it's an insult to even call that stuff "syrup" in the first place.

It's 2021, even big-box groceries carry real, quality syrup offerings now. No one under 10 should be eating this swill.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Hammer is my #2 most played weapon, after SnS. Switch Axe is my number 3, speaking of axes lol

SnS is pretty fun. I still hate how the hammer can accidentally send allies flying, though (although I've used it intentionally strategically a few times).

Zeus posted...

MH is one of those franchises where on paper it sounds like I'd love it, but I've never cared for the gameplay or mechanics. I think the camera angle (and iirc you couldn't really jump or something?) were two of the bigger turnoffs.

You should try MH World. I started off playing MH3 on the Wii, and did the 3DS game. It'd start off really fun, but I would always hit a wall around the mid-way point (after you start running into color variations of past monsters, like Pink Rathian), because the ratio of grindiness needed for armor to how effective it was was way off, and it would turn into a boring slog. Like, the armor and gear you would spend hours farming would be useless by basically the very next monster, especially since those games had a bad habit of making the armor sets prior to the next monster presented having weakness to that very element type.

MHW MASSIVELY streamlines the entire process, and gets you into the action way faster. The collection of resources, the requirements and lasting effectiveness of armor, everything just runs more smoothly and feels so much more rewarding. No more airlocks, a massive variety of monsters, and gorgeous graphic and new combat mechanics basically turns the series into what it always should have been.

I haven't touched it in months, only because I decided to try and make a dent to my 1st player Steam games, but it does a good job of giving me a reason to come back.

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Is this one of those topics that makes it sounds like QBs play directly opposite of each other?

'Cause I totally don't remember when Brady picked off Mahomes, but maybe that's me.

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Hospy posted...

The film industry is not in direct competition with the film industries of other countries, whereas the auto industry is. Your union is against management, theirs is against management while simultaneously having to compete abroad.

A union worker in America wants to support his fellow union workers by buying domestic.

Edit: I mean someone who buys a car in most cases isnt gonna buy another one unless they need another one, whereas you can watch any number of movies.

Ah, I see what you're getting at.

That said, like I said, this applies almost exclusively the Teamsters (aka, the Transportation Dept., aka, the people who deal with automobiles in film), so it tracks. No other department in film cares and generally owns whatever. So, it's definitely more of a "yeehaw, America!" sort of thing, and less of a "Go Unions!" thing. It helps that most drivers in film come from farm/rural backgrounds, meaning the "yeehaw, America!" attitude runs deep.

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Hospy posted...

The film industry probably isnt as cut throat competition wise. Someone who watches a movie can watch a whole bunch of different movies while being a normal consumer. Someone who buys a car means he isnt buying a different one.

I'm not sure I follow how that relates.

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Hospy posted...

Why would it particularly shocking that union members support another union industry.

I didn't say it was, just funny. And I'm pretty sure the America aspect is more important than the union aspect to them. No one else in the film business gives a shit, despite being all unionized.

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Nah, Bernie is much more effective at his role he is in right now. He's a one-trick pony who never had the range of expertise to cut it as President.

Besides, Biden is basically doing his best Bernie impression since he got elected, so I'm not sure what more is wanted.

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The funniest is when it comes to cars. I work with a lot of Teamsters, who more or less refuse to buy anything but American cars, even though they tend to be shittier than Japanese/German ones.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

My instinctive go-to is dual-wielding. Preferably with curved single-edge slashing weapons (scimitar, saber, cutlass, falchion, dao, katana, tachi, etc).

It also tends to favor my normal playstyle - in a lot of games where combat style choices actually matter, dual-handing tends to be all about weaker quick strikes instead of stronger power strikes (especially in games where the dual-hander is basically forced to use daggers instead of swords), and I tend to prefer speed spamming and stun-locks over precision impact hits. It's part of why most of my go-to fighters in Fighting games were usually the female characters (like Chun Li or Talim).

That also goes sort of hand-in-hand with the battle axe thing - the last time I made a Viking-flavored Barbarian character in D&D, I gave them twin handaxes (one of which did extra fire damage, and the other of which did extra cold damage).

Same. I gravitated towards Cervantes and Voldo in the SC series for this very reason (well, that an, undead pirate and, um, S&M gimp thing that is Voldo). Hell, I picked up and mained Pit in Smash Brawl due to his unique dual-wielding and ranged combos.

The lone exception is Monster Hunter, where I like the hammer - extremely slow, hard hitting, and easy to land stuns with,

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I'm trash, I've been AWOL for a bit now. Went from one very difficult and hard film project, to my best friend's wedding in CA, now onto a nicer, much better film project (Jesse Eisenberg is an extremely nice human).

Also, my account is now 17 years old. Insane.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I just finished playing KotOR and started playing KotOR2, so at the moment I'm technically 16 years behind.

Those both have been staring at me from my Steam when I bought them on sale like 6 years ago, and I've never played either. So....

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I finished Wolfenstein: New Colossus, and started Darkest Dungeon (liking it a lot).

Yes, I know I'm like 4 years behind the times.

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Zangulus posted...

The three people who died of medical emergencies...

Overweight guy with heart problems that tasered himself in the balls.
Woman with a Dont tread on me flag who got trampled
Guy who attempted to climb a wall and fell off when there were stairs right next to him.

These are the superior people who felt they were right with no evidence.

We have evidence of the taser event, but can I have links to the other 2? Because that's the best thing I've read all week.

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ANTIFA is just their version to the Red Scare.

All the Right knows how to do is fear monger and project.

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PyroBlade1985 posted...

I really really really really REALLY hate to say it. But I rather listen to teen pop than edgelord communist punk rock.

LOL at thinking what Rage is. Even if you hate the lyrics or genre, Tom Morello's accomplishments in furthering what can be done with the guitar *alone* is worth more than Bieber's entire career. And it isn't even up for debate.

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The fun part is, we don't have to play the "what if game" - we already SAW the capital go on a armed lockdown in preparation for a BLM protest a year ago. For a peaceful protest that amount of nothing.

In comparison, it was KNOWN this riot would happen, and not only were the police unprepared, they LET THEM INSIDE the capital.

Which makes a lot more sense when you remember that the police and domestic terrorists are on the same side.

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adjl posted...

For starters, regardless of any questions about the morality of protesting violently, it's generally a lot more acceptable to protest police brutality, systemic racism, and a lack of accountability for law enforcement than it is to protest with the aim of undermining the entire democratic process by overturning election results that are - by every available measure - perfectly legitimate. Straight out of the gate, one protest is for a justifiable cause, the other is not (a subjective assessment, to be sure, but one which most reasonable people will agree with).

More significantly, though, calling last summer's unrest "acceptable" is grossly oversimplifying the situation and misrepresenting people's positions on it. The vast majority of people in support of BLM do not condone the looting, rioting, and other violence that has been attached to the protests, as much as far-right pundits would like to suggest they do. For the most part, the only time you'll see people being sympathetic toward violent BLM protests is when that violence has been instigated by police (and there's no shortage of videos out there of police assaulting obviously peaceful protesters), but even then the general consensus is "looting and rioting is bad, but I agree with the cause." The vast majority of BLM protests were in fact peaceful, as much as the media liked to fixate on the exciting violent ones. Many have been very quick to latch onto the violence for the sake of discrediting the movement as a whole, but those perpetrating the violence represent a very small portion of those protesting, many of which were only there for the sake of causing trouble and not because they feel any sort of affiliation with the cause.

Basically, BLM protests=good, BLM riots=bad, conflating riots with all of BLM=also bad.

To add, it has been *proven* that nearly all the looting and riot were NOT done by the actual BLM protestors, but random opportunists, taking advantage of the chaos.

Plus, the amount of crocodile tears is ridiculous. None of these people actually cared about looting and rioting. The Target CEO literally didn't give a fuck one of his stores burned down, and supported BLM all the same. Why should anyone give more of a fuck than the damn CEO?

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In case you are wondering why the police aren't indiscriminately firing into the crowd, when this is the one time they would 100% in right to, it's because it's hard to claim that you "feared for your life" when you agree with the very terrorists storming the Capital.

It's like a showcase of every Right wing talking point all at once.

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It's refreshing, in a way. You can now say, without guilty or hyperbole, that anyone supporting Trump/the GOP at this point are worthless, unAmerican traitors that should be treated like second-class citizens with utmost prejudice and discrimination.

I kinda don't know what else to call people who support naked fascism and blatant attempts to steal an election.

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Tagging. Sorry all, like has been busy. Juggling 2 shows, 1 is almost done and was a horrifying hellscape, best friend got married, blah blah blah.

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I've been here since 2004, and I definitely don't remember her until like, 2010 at the earliest. Or whenever I started to pay attention to PotD again.

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Krow_Incarnate posted...

The new movie looks like a joke, but this is cool.

There's no.promotiomal material for it even released?

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aka, The Immortals, who did the original MK theme song for the 1994 movie.

Reminder that a new MK film is out on April 16.

https://twitter.com/WriterRusso/status/1338654225794908160/photo/1

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I mean, he's not wrong, but pot, kettle, etc. And Trump hired him. The best people.

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Revelation34 posted...

No this is stupid. Nobody cared before about there being no term limit so it would be hypocrisy to care now.

The SC wasn't turned into a blatantly partisan ordeal before. It is now. So adjustments must be made.

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