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Mead posted...

ReginaldClovis posted...

^ The MOTU movie is awesome. Frank Langella is incredible as Skeletor.

This

I remember someone asking him why he played Skeletor, and he said he'd never had the chance to play what he termed "a cape-swirling villain" before.

He was the best part of that movie.
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Unfrosted strawberry.
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bevan306 posted...

I have the bluray universe collection + high quality rips, if it makes you feel any better

The blurays are terrible, unfortunately. They're just upscales from the DVD source. Apparently, someone "misplaced" the film masters, so we can't get real high-def. It's not quite as bad as Buffy HD, but almost.
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It ought to be against the law for her to look this good at goddamn 55.
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Monolith1676 posted...

Owner of Imgtc is now probably going to be under investigation and could possibly face prison time.

Unless they can prove he was the one who uploaded it, I don't see how.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

People have claimed over the years that Tom Neyman (The Master) was supposedly a pretty good actor. Not that you could tell from Manos, of course.

then based on what? that's literally the only acting credit he has to his name, except for "Manos Returns" from this year:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412492/

He did community theater.
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Darkinsanity1 posted...

The_Scarecrow posted...

There is no way we can avoid spoilers over a month early unless we leave the internet completely. The game was ready for a 2018 release but since Square is incompetent, they opted for late January due to strategic purposes. The game should have came out this month.

It could have come out this month for Japan, but they wanted as close to a simultaneous as possible, and the dubbing of English Kingdom Hearts 3 took longer than expected, so they delayed it to end of January so everyone would get it at nearly the same time.

I don't know if it's that the English dubbing took longer, but that they got behind. I saw on Twitter a few months back where Jessica DiCicco (Olette) was talking about she hadn't even been called in to start recording yet.
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Figures the guy is from Gastonia. Lot of shady shit goes down over there.

Yeah, I used to work at an IGA (independent grocery store chain) and one of our drivers said he was pulling out of a store there one night, someone stepped out from beside the building and shot his trailer five times for no reason whatsoever.
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Vyrulisse posted...

"Someone in my Twitter mentions is going on about having talked to the person. Apparently they work in some distribution and may have stolen the game from his work. With his Facebook profile on the sales page, it shouldn't be hard for SE and wherever he works to take action."

Saw this on another forum. Unsure if it's true or not but the leak is definitely true so be alert.

I hope I don't get modded for this but I know people have been waiting for years for this so I just wanted to warn everyone that there are copies in the wild now.

So if they do catch him, he's probably going to get fired. I love it.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Vyrulisse posted...

DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

I suppose it's possible that a random schmo in Gastonia (which is in my state) somehow got his hands on a copy of this game, but having worked retail for most of the last 20 years, I can tell you that it has been a long, long time since game companies sent out their product more than a few days in advance. Hell, sometimes the big box retailers (Walmart, Target, Best Buy) don't even get their copies until actual release day.

This guy got it somehow. Various pictures and videos already out there from him and it's pretty concrete proof.

In that case I hope he's dumb enough to play it on his own gamertag and MS perma-bans him.
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For those who wanted to know the plot, a friend of mine found this once.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-9wgOSEG0sqWl9ZQjFrQXpXaEU/view

It's 42 pages LOL.
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I suppose it's possible that a random schmo in Gastonia (which is in my state) somehow got his hands on a copy of this game, but having worked retail for most of the last 20 years, I can tell you that it has been a long, long time since game companies sent out their product more than a few days in advance. Hell, sometimes the big box retailers (Walmart, Target, Best Buy) don't even get their copies until actual release day.
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People have claimed over the years that Tom Neyman (The Master) was supposedly a pretty good actor. Not that you could tell from Manos, of course.
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They need to come clean.
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blablablax17 posted...

Reminds me of those bad infomercials where they overreact to the simplest things.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!!
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Kinda sad that TC used his own knowledge, time, and money to try and help GF users out, and now so many people are like "LOL fuck him and fuck you idiots for using his site".

Talk about crab bucket syndrome.
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This makes me a sad panda.
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Yes, 4.

#1 - Passenger, my mom was driving (I was 12). She was turning left, guy gave her the OK to go sign, but just as we began the turn a woman left her work up the street and floored it for some reason (it was a red light, IDK why she did it). We got t-boned, it literally broke the frame on my side of the car. And when her husband gets there, he says, in full hearing of the cop, "Who'd you hit this time?"

#2 - I was in my 20s, snuck under the red light by getting right on this woman's rear bumper, then was revving my engine and my left foot slipped off the brake pedal. Didn't really do any damage to either car, but it was ruled my fault, and I got a point on my license.

#3 - Driving to work in a snowstorm, doing 70 on bad tires. Started to skid, turned into the skid and recovered, but forgot to turn back OUT of the skid and ended up in a ditch. Had to walk 7 miles back home in the snow, did $600 damage to the wheel and axel. My (dumb) fault, but at least it only affected me.

#4 - About to pull out into the right lane of a 4-lane highway, green light, only one car coming, in the leftmost (furthest from where I was) lane. Woman in front of me starts to turn, I follow but then check left one more time, when was the exact moment she decided to stop for literally no fucking reason. I slammed into her (Accord vs. Grand Cherokee); buckled my hood, knocked my radiator from its mount, killed my bumper, and destroyed a headlight assembly. Her rear bumper had a scuff mark. -_- 3K in repairs to my poor Honda. Took a bunch of pictures right afterward and my insurance company was able to use them to deny her ridiculous claims and get it ruled no-fault.
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Space_Man posted...

Kk so guitars are
Fender Mustang
Mexico Strat
Eastwood Hi-Flyer
Thomann Mustang with a jaguar tremolo
Revelation Bass VI
Strat with jaguar tremolo that my old bandmate built for me


Gear (on board): proco rat > fulltone dejavibe > tremolo > ehx canyon delay > tc Hall of Fame reverb > catalinbread DLS mkII > 7band eq > Yamaha magicstomp > looper > amp
I have a bin of pedals and a handful of racks too

Amps are Roland Jazz Chorus 77 and Fender Princeton

LOL, I love the 'real Fender' sticker.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

TheRealDill2000 posted...

monkmith posted...

people hated spider-man 2? that was the only good one. you sure you dont mean 3?

Joke post? 2 is the worst of the series.

Which 2 are we talking about?

I reeally hope it's ASM 2.
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My 3 closest friends don't (they are, respectively, an investment advisor, and two animal control officers).
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Forgettable posted...

Alucard188 posted...

All right, who made Thanos a loli?

Thank you for this. So, so much. \(^o^)/
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Tupacrulez posted...

All YouTube channels these days are 100% centered around making money.

Wait, hold on. You're saying the people who produce these videos are trying to - to get paid for it? That's the craziest thing I've ever heard. *sarcasm*
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Joenage posted...

HylianFox posted...

I love how we love in an age where nobody enjoys anything.

Imagine literally taking CinemaSins seriously

I think the only thing they've ever done which legit made me LOL was in their one for The Avengers, about Nick on the Helicarrier: "Fires a rocket at an American to keep him from firing a rocket at Americans." Something about that just struck me as funny.
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KogaSteelfang posted...

I was honest about what I wanted from life, and told my therapist that my ultimate goal in life was to become a father. He told me I shouldn't have children, because he thinks I'd be a horrible father and abuse them like my father did me

Fuck dude, I would have snapped on that guy.
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Sign that woman to a MLS team, now.
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treewojima posted...

Turians are fine, it's krogans I have a problem with

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

that was a cool read, thanks for sharing

Anytime. Warren's probably my favorite-ever comic writer. Top 3, definitely.
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Doom_Art posted...

DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

Literally the only thing I think the show has differently that I think is a good choice is the Rick & Michonne relationship. In the comics, it would never work, because they're too different. But Andrew & Danai have incredible chemistry.

And even then in the comics Rick/Andrea is superior to Rick/Michonne in the show

Though I will agree the actors have great chemistry

Oh, not denying that. But I pretty much gave up on the show when they massacred Andrea's character.
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(cont)

November 4 - On Halloween, Netflix officially announced CASTLEVANIA's renewal for Season 3.

Season 3 is ten episodes. Put another way, that's five hours of hand-drawn animation. So don't bug me about when that's coming out.


December 2 - VARIETY did a feature on CASTLEVANIA including parts of an interview with me. They couldn't use everything I said, of course, but I'd like to reproduce this bit that they couldn't incude:

What was done to give the script such an organic feeling? It feels far more natural and realistic than many other products.

"That's actually kind of hard to answer beyond "thank you," I think? I write without act breaks, to try and give the episodes a different kind of flow. But I suspect the more important part of this is actually our production process, where the actors work from script and storyboards rather than matching their voices to animation. The actors get to create their performances first, and that was important to us. We often use the takes where the actors are just having fun with it. I'm in as many of the recording sessions as I can be, and I've rewritten lines in the room when they turn out not to work, worked with the actors to give them the space to breathe life into it. If anything about my writing on the show works, it's very probably because of our fantastic cast, and Meredith Layne, who leads the recording phase."

Thanks to all who watched our second season. It's been a long, strange career, and just when I think I can't be surprised any more, it turns out I'm the co-producer and sole writer on a tv show that's recently got its third season.

Also, check this lovely thing I found.


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Warren Ellis's notes on Season 2 (from his weekly mailing list)

October 21 - It is, in many ways, not like season 1. There is, for instance, space for people to have conversations. There is more than one plotline. The last two episodes are so visually complex that they almost killed all the animators, and they did not love me for a long time. I expect there will be a lot of bad reviews because it's not as breathless as season 1. It's a different thing.

Also it's made a lot of people cry. (Leila, I am so sorry you watched it on the plane without me warning you first. The director almost dehydrated himself twice that I know of. Hi, Sam. Sorry, man.)

The animators have knocked it out of the park, Trevor Morris has produced a wonderful score, and the actors have not only surprised and amazed me but also made me sound ten times better than I actually am. This obviously includes our core cast of Richard Armitage, Alejandra Reynoso, James Callis and Graham McTavish.

But also, since IMDB have released the cast list, Jaime Murray, Ade M'Cormack, Theo James and Peter Stormare. And I wrote that part with Peter's voice in my head and if he hadn't agreed to do it I would have been fucked.

I'm the sole writer on the show, but I'm also the co-producer, so I'm in all the voice recording sessions with our brilliant casting and voice director Meredith Layne, working with the actors. (And occasionally rewriting lines on the fly when they don't sound good as written -- that's a whole craft thing I should get into sometime.) I have learned many things about writing from working with my actors. Also, that after an hour or so of being made to swear constantly, something in Richard Armitage's brain breaks and he starts ad-libbing new additional swears. Also, that I really like working with actors.

Anyway. I'll talk about it more next week. October 26. Please watch to the end. Netflix's robot spies know if you don't complete the whole season and if you don't I will have an "accident" resulting in the sort of injuries that news services usually describe as "life-changing."


October 28 - I had all my social media on for twelve hours during the launch of CASTLEVANIA season 2, because Netflix likes it when we're around for that. And then I switched it all off and it's not going back on until next year.

We won't hear from Netflix for a little while as to whether we launched okay or not, but the internet chatter I saw suggested things aren't too bad. The Powerhouse people watch it all a lot more closely -- I'm not sure if Sam and Adam actually slept -- and they seem to think people are generally happy.

My abiding memory of recording season 2 was getting Jaime Murray to giggle during one particular action scene, which she made into the creepiest, wrongest, most funny-horrible thing, to the point where I had to mute my mic because I was cracking up.

The weirdest part of doing this show is that I've discovered that I really enjoy working with actors.

Little known fact: the original plan was for season two to be four episodes, like season 1's order. I was partway through working it all out when everyone decided I was packing too much in, and then Netflix got on the phone and doubled the episode count to give me more room. Netflix have been absolutely amazing to work with.

This is where I should actually apologise to everyone at Powerhouse and MUA for episode 6. That episode almost killed everyone on the art and animation side.

I also apologise to all the people who tweeted things like, and I quote, "CASTLEVANIA GAVE ME DEPRESSION" and "Castlevania had no right to do that to me I didNT ASK FOR THIS"

All those comments led me to a beautiful and terrifying realisation: this is what it's like to be Kieron Gillen.
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Literally the only thing I think the show has differently that I think is a good choice is the Rick & Michonne relationship. In the comics, it would never work, because they're too different. But Andrew & Danai have incredible chemistry.
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pinky0926 posted...

Why are all tech giants such fucking whackos

It amuses me when people complain about someone like CliffyB while ignoring Notch. Maybe Cliff is somewhat of a douche, but at least he made more than one hit game. Notch is just (and always has been) a jackass.
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Romulox28 posted...

awesome bass, i love how thin the neck is & the black inlays between some of the frets. my only complaint is that it has Geddy's signature on the back of the headstock because Rush fucking sucks. however that's the only thing that would make you thing it's a "signature" instrument so I can deal with it.

Why not just sand it off or something?
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Southernfatman posted...

Were_Wyrm posted...

Dude looks straight outta Portland.

Racist motherfucker named Gavin...

"Straight outta Portland, racist motherfucker named Gavin
Got a radio show where I'm gabbin'
Saying use of violence solves problems
But then whinin' like a bitch when I got 'em."
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My bass



My electric guitar



My acoustic guitar (misspoke earlier, it's actually a Gemini 3)



My amp. The little 'Stage' logo fell off the upper left corner of the grill, that's what the little white dots are (I still have it, in a box with other misc. hardware). The brown stains on the grill are from beer.



And the hardware, such as it is LOL


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Ilove4chan posted...

and gamefaqs is just a nintendo fanboy website. why is anyone surprised all nintendo characters are winning

I thought GF was a Sony fanboy website.
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MARKINGRAM22 posted...

He's not a Nazi. He is a closeted edge lord.

Closeted. Right.
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HenryAllbright posted...

No acoustic players?

Well, I also have a Fender Gemini 2.
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Kineth posted...

My gear is all put up atm, but I'm a guitarist.

Same, but I play guitar and bass. Guitar is an Epiphone S-310 (a Strat copy, but with the angled back headstock), bass is a Fender (Squier) P-Bass (you wanna talk weird; in high school we cleaned out the drum room, and there was an instruction manual for this exact model from back when my band marched with a bass. Years later I ended up buying one like it).

Amp is a Univox Stage 450B bass amp that my grandpa used when he played in a bar band. From what I've been able to find, it's only 20W, but this thing is fucking powerful. If I put the master volume up above 4 it literally starts to get uncomfortably loud.
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Pikazard1 posted...

my sister asked what I wanted, showed her a wolf lamp from the Bradford exchange, so I might be getting that, whatever else I receive that day will be fine.

but I recently started a collection of them for nostalgia, Battle Beasts are something i'd enjoy getting for gifts (with rub and weapon). but i'm probably better off getting a few at a time from ebay

Oh shit, I haven't thought about Battle Beasts in years.

I just looked them up on a website; I know for a fact I had Triple Threat Snake, Killer Carp, and Harrier Hawk, but those are the only ones I remember.
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kingdrake2 posted...

DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

Just went out and cleared off my car, but it doesn't look like I'll be making into work tonight (I was off last night). First off, it's only 37F (with a scheduled high of 39), and second, my landlord is too cheap to hire a snowplow, so while the roads up here are more or less good, once the sun goes down I won't be able to get out of my parking lot because everything will refreeze. -_-

fun fact: he's no longer your landlord. he's a slumlord. slumlords refuse to fix any goddamn thing or help tenants get out of the driveway.

now there's no chance of getting to work and we're all going to lose pay.

Where I work at least, the manager doesn't count it against you if schools are shut down, which they were yesterday.
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spudger posted...

https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/women-guns-red-army-female-snipers-world-war-ii/

They were Russian.

I don't think the US had any females in combat roles. Though we did have some female operatives who conducted ops for the OSS.

Yeah, it was mainly just the U.S./British/Free French who didn't let women serve in combat. Russia, the Finns, the Maquis, they cared if you could kill Germans, not if you had breasts.
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I'm usually good with some books. Movies, clothes, that kind of thing.
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I mean...if you want to give a kid a weird name, make it their middle name, so they can ignore it. This wouldn't have blown up if it was "Sebastian Squire Senator".
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solosnake posted...

bump

WTF are you bumping it for? We're still waiting for you to make sense.
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s0nicfan posted...

Musk vs Zuckerberg.

I could have sworn the channel was dead, but apparently the next season is coming early next year and they dropped this as a preview of sorts.

It's not the best video they've done, but I always found them pretty entertaining so I'm just glad to have them back.

They took an extended break because Peter's girlfriend was having their first kid.
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^
Yeah, I'm right on the orange/yellow borderline. I think it was about 10 or 11.
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Just went out and cleared off my car, but it doesn't look like I'll be making into work tonight (I was off last night). First off, it's only 37F (with a scheduled high of 39), and second, my landlord is too cheap to hire a snowplow, so while the roads up here are more or less good, once the sun goes down I won't be able to get out of my parking lot because everything will refreeze. -_-
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Most sports. Never really been interested in basketball or football, though I was a baseball fan when I was younger. Now the only sport I watch is MMA, and while I'm passionate about it, it's not to the degree that some people who watch mainstream sports are.
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