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Ghosts (US) is amazing. The show is hilarious, the ghosts have great chemistry with each other, and it has a lot of heart. For a comedy, the show can get surprisingly dark (especially when learning the backstories of the characters and how they died). If it weren't a comedy, you'd be really depressed at seeing what they went through. Thor's backstory in particular was depressing.

But I just love all the antics the ghosts get into. I like how many of them have powers that get cleverly used throughout the show (but they dont go overboard with them). And Rose's character and her husband are adorable together.

Eat_More_Beef posted...

I'm caught up on the US version. I find it pretty damn good. My favorite ghost is the guy without a head.

Lol, since the pilot episode, I'm like "where the heck did the headless guy go"? He simply disappeared from the show after that. Once I thought they wrote him up, his headless body appears again randomly for just one scene. And then we don't see him again for a whole season until a recent episode where they finally find his head. I hope that means he will come back more. I like him and could see a fun dynamic with him and the cast. He's just as quirky as the rest of them.

I'll strategically place them at specific points of my rivals' life in order to defeat him earlier on and hope that I don't accidentally inspire his genius dad to cybernetically enhance him to eventually usurp me.

More often than not, it's a waste of food. For every person who will eat what gets put on the table endlessly, there will be three people who are full and won't finish it.

On average, two refills are enough to placate most customers. For the occasional customer who wants more, they can simply ask.

In Olive Garden and every Mexican place that offers chips, I have rarely ever needed more than two refills. Had they just kept putting the food there after I didn't want anymore, I would have just left it there and it would have gone to waste.

I always found it strange how both sets of clothing can vary so drastically in appropriateness. We have pool parties every once in a while at work and coworkers will show up in bikinis, which is quite the extreme opposite from the work attire I'm used to seeing. If they show up in underwear they would be dealing with HR but because it's a swimsuit it's fine, even though they both cover just as much.

hyperskate65 posted...

I love Sonic Adventure 2.

Came in to say this.

pegusus123456 posted...

Agents of SHIELD has a good take on a speedster hero, I think. She has the traditional superspeed, but she can only do it for the span of one heartbeat before she snaps back to her original position. So she can disarm a room full of people, but she isn't completely broken.

She had some of the best scenes in the show. I remember one episode when she had to run into a room laced with motion sensor bombs to either save someone or retrieve something and barely got out with her life. But the scene was amazing to watch.

She also had some of the darkest plotlines (like getting both of her arms cut off and having to get cybernetic arm replacements).

Punished_Blinx posted...

I think the unique thing that a lot of people are missing here is that those rival characters listed (other than Knuckles because no one cares about Knuckles Chaotix) became popular enough to become lead characters of their things. Which I don't think has really happened with a similar Superman character. The spin-offs tend to be stuff like Supergirl and Superboy right?

While the topic title is a bit confusing, I think this is the focus of the topic.

The question is if Superman has a rival/nemesis who has become popular enough to spawn their own spinoff series. As far as I can tell, there isn't any.

Iamdepressed posted...

Can someone show me an actual funny meme that requires some thought process?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/8/7/AAHdjXAAETKv.jpg

In our area, most of our seniors are fully dual enrolled with the local college. So they are basically taking full time college classes their senior year of high school and finish high school with their diploma and Associate's degree at the same time. All for free, too.

loafy013 posted...

Let's just say that season 4 is the "gas leak" season, where all the really weird shit went down. It's OK though, they figured out later that there was a gas leak and the whole thing was a hallucination. Season 5 quality swings back up.

I hear people say this a lot but honestly, season 4 was less zany than season 3. In a recent rewatch of the whole series, I actually found season 4 more in line with Community seasons 1-3 than seasons 5 and 6.

For each "zany" episode like the puppet episode, season 4 had more "normal" episodes like the Inspector Spacetime convention (and I use the term normal loosely, normal for Community standards).

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Is Shrek in it?

Well... Gingy makes a cameo and Shrek is in a flashback, and then there's the after-credit scene...

Prestoff posted...

I agree with others saying The Last Wish had no right to be as good as it was. The first movie was very run on the mill that didn't really "subvert" fairy tale tropes, in fact it played it very straight. The second movie is leaps bound a better film in general. I really like the fact that the movie was able to include 3 different villain achetypes and for the most part worked. I think the 3 bears and Godilock story arc could've been fleshed out a little better (and that's really just a nitpick on my end), but Jack Horner and Wolf Death more than makes up for it. I really enjoy the fact that they made Perrito an actual likable character. Normally, the sidekick cute achetypes like him piss me the fuck off, but they manage to make him very likable in a funny and emotional way. I think I was the only one in the audience that laughed at this backstory. It was so mean spirited that it caught me off guard.

Have the same creative team who made this movie make the next Shrek film. Honestly, Dreamworks really needs to take advantage of this while Disney and Pixar films have been fairly lackluster lately.

Absolutely agree with you on the archetypes. Outside of the general mature theme of the movie that people like to praise, it's really cool how the movie deconstructed movie trope villains as represented through three characters. You have the comically evil villain who's evil for the sake of it (and enjoys every bit of it), the potentially-redeemable villain with a tragic backstory that's doing what they perceive is right, and then the force of nature villain who isn't really good or bad but just following a code and sticks to that code.

Really, every character gets a decent amount of development in that film, and to an extent subverts common tropes of that character type. The "tough female lead" isn't a Mary Sue, and ends up getting hurt and humiliated as often as the male lead. The "funny sidekick" is not as stupid as you expect him to be, just kind and sometimes naive but overall a very clever and wise character with a surprisingly depressing backstory.

Amazing, amazing movie that had no right to be as good as it was.

Also, outside of just recognizing one or two characters, you do not need to see the Shrek movies to understand this movie. Heck, you could probably get away with skipping Puss in Boots 1 and still be alright. This is a pretty self-contained story.

MuscleRobo posted...

Everyone won't shut up about it what are you talking about? I'm supposed to care about an American cartoon because a cat hyperventilates or whatever.

You can make anything sound stupid when you grossly oversimplify it like this.

"I'm supposed to care about a ship tragedy movie because a rich girl fell in love or whatever."
"I'm supposed to care about an absurdist comedy-drama film because an Asian woman is having a mid-life crisis or whatever."

The Good Place

ToadallyAwesome posted...

Depends on your credit score at the end of the day. Co-signing for a loan will affect that as they will do a hard check on it. If you do it right you would need to wait 6 months or more before you get a new car yourself. You dont want multiple checks within a short time frame.

The checks aren't as bad on a credit score as most people believe. It's a few points deducted tops.

TC, what you'll want to look at is your debt-to-income ratio. Anytime you apply for a secured loan like a car or house they will look at your income left over after debt. Co-signing on a car loan adds to your monthly debt payment. It can make it harder to qualify for another car loan if over 50% of your monthly payment goes to debt payments.

As long as you make decent money and the monthly payments for the car are on the lower end, you should be fine.

Echoes does this much better. There are multiple ways to and from each area, so the backtracking isn't as bad (with the exception of a few poorly-placed Dark World portals). Plus Echoes introduces Fast Travel in the Metroid series.

I'll give the show credit for tackling subjects that very few shows have been able to do effectively. Sure, many shows have covered periods, voice changing, crushes, and masturbation. But this one goes further and talks about insecurities regarding shape of vagina, yeast infections, societal standards with pubic hair, asexuality, and even topics like divorce-triggered depression, self-hate/shame, and the physical effects of heartbreak.

DrizztLink posted...

You can ride that faster current the fuck on out of here.

I've been to a few lazy rivers the last few months, and I don't know. They don't have the same flair that they used to. I don't know if post-covid has made people restless or whatever, but the lazy rivers I've been in is full of kids beating each other with the floatie tubes and others crowding the flow of traffic. I've found the action rivers to be emptier and overall more enjoyable.

Every time the discussion of remote work comes along I think about top level leadership of companies and what they'll look like in a few years.

Will CEOs and other C-level executives at companies consist of virtual workers who rose up the ranks, or will there still be a bias towards in-person workers to get to that level? Remote work is changing the culture of what a good employee means, but I wonder if the culture will change enough where it would be common for someone who worked their entire career remotely would achieve the VP or President level at their company.

And if they do make it to that level, I'm curious how much more remote-friendly jobs will be when leadership came from a remote environment.

Spy Kids 2 is the best one. Great mix of action and humor imo.

Noumas posted...

I did cringe a little bit at them trying to include a bit about 13 year old Carmen being a pop star but it was the early 2000s and musical numbers at the end of movies was huge

At least that was an after-credit scene. I'd rather they do that than halt the plot of the movie with a forced, unrelated setpiece *coughSonic2cough*

Action Rivers are the new lazy rivers. They move faster and they also provide great travel throughout the parks. Also you arent required to have a tube for them.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

I don't even remember what was the most mainstream thing before Marvel movies. Bad horror movies?

Those have always been around.

I think disaster/post-apocalyptic movies were big for a while (including, but not limited to, zombies).

Before that, parody movies were huge (until the ____ Movie series killed it). And before that, I remember American sex comedies and stoner comedies were being released almost monthly.

Sandslash would have a kickass Spikey mega form if he got one. I'm thinking like some souped up echidna.

SHRlKE posted...

To me the only difference here is whether you put a set amount into savings at the start of the month or wait until the end and put in what you have left over.

I imagine putting the money in at the start of the month is much better so you can make long term plans more effectively.

Correct. You treat your savings (and emergency fund by extension) as an "expense" you need to budget for at the beginning of the month. You basically decide how much you want to save, then work the rest of your budget based on what's left over, instead of the other way around.
It makes wealth-building the focal point of your budgeting, not an afterthought.

This is the main concept of the YNAB app (You Need a Budget). This budgeting app has you budget our your monthly income to the most granular level (including savings, investments, and contributions towards vacation and your emergency fund).

You are given a monthly budget (which is your total monthly income linked to your money accounts). You need to make sure everything is allocated so that topline amount is 0.

By that point, you are paying your bills, giving yourself some wiggle room for entertainment, building up your savings and investments, and keeping an emergency fund you add into every month.

I've been doing this for years and it has saved me tons of money. It's really how most budgeting should happen but requires some discipline to do and it does take some getting used to. If I didn't allocate for it this month, I cant spend money on it.

The first one was decent, but I don't think it really stood out. The plot was pretty normal for a family movie, and the twist was very predictable.

But the second movie, that's something else entirely. I don't think I've seen such a quality jump between two movies in a long time. Everything from the movie's pacing, the character development, the villains, and the animation are top quality. It even takes common movie tropes and fully subvert them. I also love how it continues the "reference other fairy tales" schtick of the Shrek series but in a way that is fresh and not played out.

But I think the strongest point to this movie is how dark it is. It doesn't shy away from deep philosophical topics that actually warrant discussion after the movie. You usually only see this from Pixar films so I was impressed.

The_Critic posted...

https://www.amazon.com/Squad-Hero-Rechargeable-Laser-Innovative/dp/B082XJRTMG/

how much worse is a set like this compared to professional or commercial grade stuff? Ive got a bunch of nieces and nephews 5-10 years old, would this work for them?

I remember the kid grade stuff from the 80s/90s and it straight up sucked, but it seems like it has to have gotten a lot better.

Modern ones are great for kids. Just not as durable so wouldn't be good for commercial use.

Norman_Smiley posted...

Do you think a mobile / rental only operation would be feasible? I have access to retail space at near $0 but its only about 800 square feet, so not enough for actual laser tag. Like are the commercial grade guns easy enough to use anyone can figure it out or do you need to be trained as a game master to get them working right?

how seasonal was yours? Were rentals more of a summer thing or were they year round?

We did year-round, but stuck to more indoor parties in the winter. So churches and schools and stuff. We did do the occasional outdoor party in the dead of winter, depending how cold we were willing to get. The kids didn't care. They ran around and kept themselves warm.

For mobile, you need to buy tactical gear, not the infrared ones. Those only work indoors in the dark. They are relatively easy to operate as long as you are comfortable running through the menus and setting up the game software. If you play video games it shouldn't be a problem.

The real challenge is maintenance. Used commercially, guns break down all the time. Unless you teach yourself to make minor repairs, you'll be sending your guns for repair a lot for minor things, like the trigger breaking or the sound speaker going out. With a little patience, you can learn to fix these yourself and save yourself money and time. Always have more guns than you need so you have backups when things break down.

Hey! Yeah, thats me.

I used the Battle Company brand of laser tag equipment. The guns cost us about $12k (financed) to get a set of 16. We had both a mobile and indoor arena setup.

The mobile was cheaper as we just bought inflatable bunkers at $150 a piece which we could set up and tear down. The fixed arena used a combination of wood, chloroplast, and paint to create intricate wall designs. That ran us about $15k, but only because we hired an artist to paint some neat designs. We could have done it for much cheaper if we just painted it ourselves.

There are commercial laser tag arenas out there you can buy and that they can install for you, but they are much more costly and not worth it imo. They'll just look like any other generic laser tag place. Ours at least was unique, which was part of the attraction to our community.

Having just watched the movie, he was absolutely justified in most of his actions. He was managing a hotel and had the suspicion that a child was staying using a stolen credit card. He didn't actually act on anything until he had proof that a crime was committed.

Was he a jerk about it? Yes. But straight up evil? No.

Though I will say he and his hotel staff is what makes me like HA2 more than HA1. That side plot was completely unnecessary but truly added to the movie. It really made Kevin out to seem to be in over his head.

So what's his comedy like live?

Red and Kitty make this show. Every scene with them is gold.

The kids are alright, but I think what weighs them down is the overeliance on teen love drama. They are leaning on the will they/won't they way too early, and is the focus of too many episodes in such a short season.

My memory of 70s show is hazy, but did they have so many episodes focused on crushes and dating so early on? I coupd have sworn the early seasons was more about them just being zany kids in the 70s.

I feel like the strongest scenes with the kids are ones where they get involved in random wacky antics (like the "smoked ham" scene, the hot tub scene, and even the kiss practice scenes). If they tone down the relationship stuff, I feel like it would give them more of a chance to shine comedically.

I do appreciate the 90s references. Not just the obvious ones like AOL or Blockbuster, but the more subtle ones, like the pacifiers at parties or girls snapping each other's bra straps. Nice attention to detail.

I have to add to the praise to that show's series finale.

The entire show had some of the best pacing of any serialized sitcom and I am glad they kept it to four seasons. There was prqctically no filler and the ending really hit you hard in the feels.

I agree with the other posters in that it was the most comforting non-religious depiction of the afterlife I've ever seen in media.

Do you mean outside as in around other people or outside in general? My favorite thing to do is go hiking, either with a group or by myself. Sometimes just being out in nature is relaxing and helps you center yourself. That might be a way to clear your head sometimes, just go to the nearest park or trail that doesn't during times when people are less likely to go to it. It might be a way to pull yourself out of your comfort zone without going all in.

Gwynevere posted...

Sandslash with earthquake is the goat

In Sword/Shield I had a full Sandslash team (both normal and Alolan) and they synergize surprisingly well. Their typing differences generally cover each others' weaknesses and their move coverage is varied enough that I can have a sweeper of each plus sandstorm/hail support and utility.

PowerOats posted...

Is there a Ice Slash move?

Like a 70 bp, high crit physical move

I am of the opinion that Sandslash should have access to slashes in just about every type (kinda like the elemental punches). He already knows Slash and Night Slash. Give him Leaf Slash, Metal Slash, Aqua Slash, Ice Slash, Sand Slash, etc.

I always thought that having a spiny pokemon literally named after a move should have more opportunities to capitalize on it.

Wow, this is the first time I've seen a topic about Sandslash. Diggin' it.

But yeah, stick with physical attacks and you'd be fine. I'm particularly fond of Triple Axel. It's so elegant!

HBOSS posted...

https://youtu.be/AS1smp-s-hE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R6SBRfsDIw&ab_channel=SceneGenie

The craziest part of that request is that the facts they use for their reasoning is actually true (students of color tend to do better in predominant/exclusive settings), and that they tend to underperform in integrated settings due to being more likely to be placed in special Ed, remedial Ed, or otherwise underserved.

But instead of pushing for more inclusionary practices where the students don't fall behind at predominantly White schools through proper teacher training and inclusive policies, it makes much more sense for them to just separate them apparently.

Posting in legendary topic.

Kudos, TC. This is a great reminder that there are good people in the world despite what the media wants us to believe.

Drumiester posted...

There's also a restaurant that puts Hooters to shame. It's called Twin Peaks. The waitresses literally wear lingerie.
https://mobile.twitter.com/twinpeakslodge
https://twitter.com/TwinPeaksLodge/status/1596239070513987584?s=20&t=I-kRrDiOTw5WjT2lvL7UcQ

I actually know a guy IRL who took his kids (<10 yo) to one of these and posted pics on Facebook. Literally has a pic of his 8 year old son surrounded by like 6 servers in lingerie.

Also, do they come dressed like that to work, or do they have to strip down once they arrive?

I really did not enjoy Wednesday.

I was already wary when they named the show after her character, and I figured they'd take some liberties with the Addams Family structure, but what we got wasn't Addams Fanily... like at all.

This was some Harry Potter/Chilling Sabrina/generic supernatural high school tween crap that they casually put the Addams Family IP on. Outside of Wednesday's phenomenal acting, the show just sucked. The side characters sucked, the plot sucked, and the general universe being full of supernatural beings is just too much.

Ricemills posted...

would it be a plot twist if that it was the original personality all along?

No idea, but her meeting an organic Rose definitely awakened something in her that will likely play out next season.

Ricemills posted...

Rusty Rose is the best Sonic villain in years.
Nine is pretty awesome.

The implication of her dark past makes Rusty even more interesting. Like they literally took Rose and forced robotic implants on her, which included removing her free will to reprogram her into a robot slave. That's dark.

I imagine Season 2 will go into more detail as to how exactly it happened, as we havent seen her exact origin story yet like the others.