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Nukazie posted...

hasnt there been so much mcu stuff after nwh? cant they just go straight to another avengers

IIRC, the next Avengers is in 2027.

Charged151 posted...

Comics are dominated by men. No surprise there.

Yet, more women watched Aquaman.

They've obviously been trying to branch out to others, but have been failing.

The audience turnout is interesting from the article.

65% of the audience was men. Women didn't really show up.

Probably editing out anything that relates to FATWS lol.

Zikten posted...

Because mutants still haven't officially been introduced in the mcu.

Yeah, that was my point. They could have introduced her as a character to later build up to the X-Men and mutants like they originally did with the MCU and the Avengers.

Phase 4 and 5 could have been full of slowly introducing some of the X-Men. Storm could have easily been in Black Panther 2.

I don't get why they didn't include Rogue in this. When this was first announced, that's what I figured would happen.

Damn, that's crazy.

Ivynn posted...

I guess it's time to admit the Disney+ experiment was a failure. They greenlit too much, diluted the brand, and stretched themselves too thin. It doesn't help that the D+ shows were mid with only Wandavision and Loki being the critical standouts.

Yeah, it's crazy how they managed to fumble things in a just a bit over a single phase. They just thought people were gonna eat up whatever shit they threw on the wall.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d53a06c5.jpg

Punished_Blinx posted...

I think maybe she was doing both projects at the same time?

https://collider.com/the-marvels-director-nia-dacosta-exit-post-production/

No idea if this is normal.

I think it's maybe one of those things where context got lost somewhere and it sounds worse than it was. The source might have meant just left the country/workplace and not the movie.

I think it's pretty obvious what happened. She wasn't happy with it and moved on as soon as she could, while still finishing her contractual obligations.

It seems worse because she already complained about how much overall control Feige has several months ago.

I think it's why Disney shit is now full of new directors that have only a movie or two to their name and not even that sometimes. As we saw with Star Wars, damn near every established director eventually left due to creative differences.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Tbf the Marvel's film was delayed multiple times iirc and had multiple reshoots. She most likely had contractual obligations to start production on her next film. Also it's not like the director for these Marvel movies have to be there for post when Feige supposedly runs the show anyway lol

Which just goes back to her complaining about this exact thing and not knowing shit she was filming.

I understand why she would have left, but it still seems like she wasn't happy overall.

Variety has a pretty good track record with this stuff.

If it was some random site claiming this, then sure.

Punished_Blinx posted...

According to Collider the director did post-production from London and didn't leave the project. Might explain why some people assumed she did.

Yeah, she didn't leave the project, but she still left to do another project. I didn't even realize the OP link is same as where I read this from another topic.

Then eyebrows were raised again when DaCosta began working on another film while The Marvels was still in postproduction the filmmaker moved to London earlier this year to begin prepping for her Tessa Thompson drama Hedda. (A representative for DaCosta declined to comment.)

If youre directing a $250 million movie, its kind of weird for the director to leave with a few months to go, says a source familiar with the production.

The more I read about this movie and Marvel's latest stuff, the worse it gets.

Apparently the director left during post-production to work on another movie and people were like "wtf". Same director that was talking about how Feige has so much control, that she didn't even know what was going on in several scenes.

Doesn't seem like anybody gives a fuck about it. I've basically heard nothing about it from anybody. If it's targeting someone, they're certainly not showing it.

I read this could be the biggest drop for a sequel since the two Alice in Wonderland movies.

Doesn't seem to be any market for it. I thought people loved Captain Marvel.

https://youtu.be/jEbl-umsFOM?si=CaIxmhLmcuxCldcu

Error1355 posted...

I have the AC on in Western PA.

World is fucked.

Same here.

SiO4 posted...

Ya, it's weird.
And is going to be cold af soon right after.
I shouldn't complain, but I was liking the good sleeping weather.
But I also hate the long winters.

~I guess just having normal weather is out of the question at this point.

I am in, actual, Upstate, and it's 71 right now.

Yeah, cold weather helps me sleep way better. I woke up around 9 AM sweating and thought I had turned on the heat or something. This is wild.

Takuya_Lee posted...

It's warmer in NYC right now than it is in Las Vegas. That's weird.

This is absolutely wild. I looked it up and you guys are at 70.

Climate change is already so apparent. At this rate, winter will just be January around here, since it already starts getting warm in February now.

How's the rest of the country doing? Above average? Or normal for this time?

83 in October is absolutely insane up in the Northeast. Just last week, we hit about 36 lows.

Gargoyles live action is just Batman and the Ninja Turtles fighting Lex Luthor with Lois sneaking around on Clark.

Torgo posted...

Somebody feed Mufasa Darth Vader into an AI image prompt now!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/8/1/AAUumMAAE79l.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/8/2/AAUumMAAE79m.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/8/3/AAUumMAAE79n.jpg

NYC itself is probably one of the most famous and well known things on Earth and I live here.

The SD Gen 2 is incredibly powerful, but heat and thus throttling is still an issue given the compact nature of smartphones.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Its gimmicky. Even if they run and look well, battery would be drain quickly, you need some peripheral to properly handheld and play well.

If your referring to native games, yeah, they're very power intensive.

But streaming games from the PS5, PC, and Xbox is very efficient and you can easily get 4-6 hours on most modern phones.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I live in Texas now.

I was born and raised in New York and New Jersey up until I graduated High School and went to university in Florida. I'm originally from Harlem

So when was the last time you actually lived in NYC proper and not NJ? Sounds like the 90s?

So you left before it even got better? I've lived here straight since the 80s in every borough except Staten Island. Despite all the issues, I still absolutely love NYC. It can however do much better.

legendary_zell posted...

Fine, it's DC. Not exactly a southern shithole imo, but as a New Yorker, you may have a different view.

The Bronx is worse than DC.

legendary_zell posted...

It matters because people are reacting like these are records rates and their responses are all draconian, involve more surveillance, more police funding, and less civil rights/civil liberties. People have already experienced these rates and didn't react this way before, so things are not being drive by the rates, they're being driven by media and politician created fears. No one is disputing that crime is a bad thing. What we're disputing is the right response based on an accurate reading of what crime is.

No, people are acting like this is a 7.0 earthquake and you're sitting here going "yeah, but 20 years ago, an 8.0 earthquake happened, so please have an appropriate reaction".

People in NYC are not going "this is the worst shit ever". They're just mad it's gotten as bad as before and there isn't really any positive sign it's getting better. Especially with the city facing tons of other issues and budget cuts. There's been tons of random violence on immigrants, the elderly and women. And it's almost always repeat offenders. The crime in the 80s and 90s was different. It was more gang violence and more limited to the people participating.

These are not media fears. I live here and see it and hear it with my own eyes and ears. Like dude, charging someone for stealing is not draconian. Keeping people that continue to do fucked up shit locked up is not draconian. This notion that things will improve if everybody is lifted up ignores that there is all types of crime on every level of society from the top to the bottom.

legendary_zell posted...

I brought up Bragg because he and what he represents have been brought up multiple times in this topic. You seem to be bringing it up in this very post and praising someone taking a contrasting approach. My understanding is that there's no evidence that bail reform is connected to increased crime. Same with the crime unit, where those same cops were still patrolling those same areas. Again, crime increased everywhere, and it happened especially hard in places that were already blighted, regardless of policy. The thing is, people have a very hard time with cause and effect, and their views tend to track their preexisting worldview/political bias. That's why people credit negative changes (but never positive ones) to whatever political change caused them anxiety. They'll blame Biden, Trump, Adams, Bragg, whoever, when the real cause was likely not intentional or localized. And that's why a prosecutor like Bragg or a more lax policy will always be blamed for the negative, but never praised if things stay the same or improve, but people have more rights. I guarantee you that'll happen even if crime rates fall over the next few years.

Because DA Clark realizes that something needs to be done because it directly affect her communities. She started off pretty lax herself. She's a black woman and Bragg is a black man and one is taking a better approach.

I don't get this weird shit some people do where you act like the communities themselves aren't hurt by the criminals living there and preying on them. Tons of bodegas and 7-11s have had to close down because people not only rob them, but sometimes destroy shit as well.

When there's several things going on, they can all contribute to have a larger effect. Rearrests went from 50% to like 75% after the reform. And it's not even bail reform that's the issue. Some of it is just letting people go because they feel bad or something. Things that are supposed to end with mandatory lock up are not being enforced.

There was just a report in Manhattan a few days ago about a couple living in a family shelter, and the husband started punching and then tried to strangle his wife. He was arrested and let right out even though you're not supposed to be let out. Strangling is the highest indicator that he could kill you.

And that was just one of three incidents there last weekend. Two other guys beat up their wives, were arrested and then let out as well. How are these women supposed to feel safe? So yes, Bragg and his team are all too lax on crime. There's an example almost daily. You don't have to turn into fucking Judge Dredd to handle crime properly.

legendary_zell posted...

The viral things go viral because they're sensational and unusual, they're not making up the bulk of crime. If they're stealing large amounts, breaking and entering, burglarizing etc, that's still just as illegal as its always been. The media shows these crimes and presents a narrative that they're not being pursued, even as they're under investigation and crime is falling.

This just sounds like wacky BS. Bro, people talk. I'm from the hood. I know where the best spots to rob are in the city and without any consequences because we talk about it with each other and people let everyone know the lick. Nowadays, people are on TikTok basically advertising it. Like, Target does absolutely nothing to stop you. When the cops were added to the Bronx ones, it was put on the "no good" list.

Regardless, I don't think me and you are gonna agree on how to handle crime. A lot of your approach is experimental and has barely proven successful. I get the spirit of it, but there's just too much hopium there and neglects that some people are just fucked up, even with wealth and privilege.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

As someone who's actually from NYC, I can say that poster is full of shit and "tough on crime" measures did not make things better.

You said the other day you're from Texas...

What part of NYC are you in? How long have you lived here?

We lived under 20 years of tough on crime and we had historic lows.

legendary_zell posted...

I don't like telling strangers on the internet where I live. But I live in an east coast city with higher crime than NYC. Also, I was directly reading from the NYC crime stats from:

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/crime-statistics/historical.page

There's no real indication that NYC tough on crime measures in the 90s/early 200s did anything because the same results were achieved everywhere at that same time, with or without stop and frisk etc. We're not really sure what did it.

I'm not saying that crime rates are acceptable in the Bronx or that they haven't gone up. What I'm saying is that most people are not proceeding based on reality. For example, the historic lows thing is not BS, it's an observable, nationwide fact. And what I'm saying is that what the places like the Bronx and Detroit have in common is extreme neglect and disinvestment from wider society, not lack of police cracking heads and making arrests. That's what needs to be fixed and that's what was worsened by the pandemic, Alvin Bragg is not the problem.

Lol, what? Dude, just name the city or state. Because it sounds like it's some southern shithole because there aren't any east coast cities doing worst than NYC anywhere near the north.

I didn't discount the historic lows thing. I said it's pointless to bring up because it doesn't change anything. I gave raw numbers, not just percentages. These numbers are not good. Not sure what proceeding with reality has to do it. Again, saying it's not as bad as the 80s/90s is dumb as shit. Those were historic highs. It's like constantly saying "that 7.0 earthquake was nothing compared to the 8.0 one 20 years ago". Yeah, 7.0 is still bad.

Not sure why you brought up Bragg since he's Manhattan's DA. At least Bronx's DA is trying her best. The hardest hit Targets in the Bronx now have cops inside and people get arrested immediately. The facts are that two major things did coincide with the pandemic that people ignore. The bail reform and the disbanding of the anti crime unit. Both in 2020.

And I don't get the disinvestment thing. Crime is much higher in Manhattan than Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. Manhattan is one of the centers of the world.

I get your point that there's many factors at play here, but my thing is not that tough on crime necessarily works, rather soft on crime doesn't work either. The thieves aren't even really poor people.

The ones doing the big heists pull up in expensive ass cars, and this is not even a minority thing. Tons of white people are doing this shit too because there's no consequences. It has essentially gone viral. It's pointless to just ignore it like Manhattan does. When all the companies leave, everybody will be worst off, so the city and Bragg need to be tougher than ignoring it. Or acting like it's some type of conspiracy all these stores are closing down.

legendary_zell posted...

I live in a pretty violent east coast city. I give you credit for at least talking in terms of specific time periods and places, that's a lot better than the others, but you're still not seeing the whole picture.

First, you're right, some types of serious violent and property crime have increased in NYC, sometimes even up to early 2000s level.

However, here's some important things to add for context: Other serious crimes have continued to plummet and are half what they were in the early 2000s.

The early 2000s was itself well in the middle of a decades long major drop in crime rates across the board. Crime rates, even at their worst this year and last year are nothing compared to what you likely considered your safe childhood.

Just like the drop in crime we saw from the 80s/90s up to 2020, the rise in crime was universal, it happened everywhere, including conservative areas without progressive laws or prosecutors. It seems to have had something to do with the pandemic, not any specific policies anywhere.

The US already has incredibly aggressive police and we already lock up a greater portion of our population than anywhere else on the planet. All our localities already spend a disproportionate amount on law enforcement, funds that came at the expense of things like education, housing, job training etc. What's the evidence that locking more people up is the solution?

Finally, the crime spike that's happened over the last few years is already leveling off. It appears that it was a two-three year spike in certain crimes that is already heading back towards the historic lows they came from.

All of that paints a very different picture than what's typically painted when this topic is discussed.

Again, this is complete BS. It may be true in other parts of the country, but not NYC. Why not name your city so I can look up the data there?

I grew up in the hood around gang violence from the 80s to the 00s, which is why I don't want things going back to how unsafe they were. Telling people "at least it's not as bad as the 80s and 90s" is dumb as shit. Shit is clearly bad here and those of us that have lived here have clearly seen it get worse and not better, especially since nowadays the violence is completely random. Spare me the historic lows BS.

Staten Island really makes the whole city look safer. These are the stats for violent crime.

744.2 for NYC as a whole in 2022.
520 is the average for the country for 2022
Staten Island 2022: 359.8
The Bronx 2022: 1,290.2

These are also the numbers for 2015 and 2021 to show that they have definitely gone up.

2015
The Bronx 553.2
Staten Island: 137.3

2021
The Bronx: 1,039.0
Staten Island: 265.8

So, while State Island was half the national average in 2021, and it increasing to 359.8 meant a 40% increase, it's really not that serious. Now the Bronx going from 1039.0, already 4x Staten Island, jumping up by 20% to 1290.2 is very serious. That's one of the highest numbers in the country. The only places beating that are places like Detroit.

This is ignoring that Mayor Adams, a former cop, won with the help of the black and Hispanic communities in Brooklyn and the Bronx because they wanted this shit to stop. So he finally started increasing enforcement in the past year and the murder rate mostly has gone down.

Not to mention, cops don't even take down any reports for shit anymore, so any statistics are not really reflective of the reality. Literally the NYPD got caught and is being investigated by the Justice Department for not reporting rape and other sex crimes properly and getting victims to recant or not pursue.

People will point to a national trend for the drop in the 80s to 00s, but Dinkins, Giuliani, and Bloomberg did have a hand in bringing it down in NYC. That's the whole point, their policies were extremely discriminatory, like stop and frisk, but they worked. They definitely had a hand in helping, and I absolutely hated it because I would get stopped just for walking around. It doesn't mean we go back to it, but whatever this is right now isn't working and I haven't seen any real evidence that it's getting any better.

legendary_zell posted...

Crime went up 10%....from historic lows. Crime is 2.5x the national average.....up from historic lows in one of the safest large cities in the world. It's still lower than basically any time in any of our lives. I'm not saying it's fine, any amount of violence or theft against innocent people is not alright, but the reaction is not proportional to the change or the reality of the situation. This is what I mean by perspective. I referenced cutting off hands not because it was actually happening, but because that seems to be the mindset some of you are in.

But the important thing to remember is that brutal societies have brutal levels of crime and societies that take care of people have correspondingly less crime.

This is complete BS. Crime, especially violent crime has not been this bad since the early 2000s.

It's 2023. That's almost 20 years. Do you even live here or are you just quarterbacking from some Midwest shithole?

streamofthesky posted...

https://www.silive.com/news/2023/04/nyc-shoplifting-report-says-327-people-committed-a-third-of-thefts-citywide-mcmahon-blames-reckless-policies.html

Maybe NY should try actually amending their broken laws and actually jailing the thieves? Sure seems a much better AND simpler solution than 95% of the city shrugging their shoulders and defeatedly saying, "I guess this is the new normal"...

It wouldn't be possible for these same criminals to be caught over and over and over again if the law didn't allow them to be released every damn time.

NYPD in Manhattan is basically pointless. DA Bragg doesn't prosecute anything so wasting time arresting them is well, a waste of time.

Meanwhile, DA Clark from the Bronx does prosecute because she's not nearly as dumb as Bragg. She knows how bad the Bronx has gotten (worst in the entire city) and knows that it affects the lower class more than anybody. People at the 2 Targets in the Bronx get arrested right in the store now.

legendary_zell posted...

You people are unironically supporting going back to 80s/90s Republican policies. What's next, bringing back stop and frisk? Cutting off hands for theft? That's not the way as all actual statistics, studies, and evidence shows that doesn't work. We don't really know what reduces crime other than the things we know that actually do like increasing education, reducing poverty, improving housing, investing in communities rather than disinvesting and deindustrializing which is what causes crime.

I understand that you don't feel safe, that you don't like crime, but what you're suggesting is ineffective at best and actively harmful at worst and is not guided by reality. When you see "stores are locking things down and hiring police, so therefore things are awful" that doesn't take into account those people also going on the same skewed sources you are and lacking the same perspective you lack (i.e. not recognizing that the increasing rates may not actually be increasing or may still be significantly lower than a time you surely think of as safe/better)

Crime has increased, especially in the Bronx. Thefts have gone up and violent crime is about 2.5x the national average in the Bronx and went up about 10% just between 2021 and 2022. I don't remember anybody's hands being cut off in the 80s or 90s and I was born here in the 80s. I also lived through stop and frisk and probably encountered the NYPD over a hundred times as a minority.

It doesn't really excuse any of this.

Shit is pretty crazy out here in NYC. More and more shit is being put behind glass, and you basically need to have an employee shopping with you nowadays lol.

People just walk in, load up shit, and walk out. Tons of CVS and Duane Reades are closing down as well along with small businesses because the thieves don't care if it's a corporation or some mom and pop. This is definitely not a Target only thing.

The Target closing here is in East Harlem and was very convenient for lots of people nearby. There's 2 Targets in the Bronx that are even worse than this one and have NYPD inside the stores now.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/5/4/AAUumMAAEiAO.jpg

I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here in NYC, more and more minorities have been floating the idea of voting for him. Especially those against the asylum seekers coming here. It's pretty wild. Crazy thing is that many of the asylum seekers coming here like Venezuelans and Cubans are also right wingers.

NY>California.

Pretty fucked up thread because even though people say this is all just zoomer shit, it's actually mostly AAVE and it's basically poking fun at how AAVE speakers talk.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/2/8/AAUumMAAE0Qk.jpg

"Zoomer language" aka shit cringy idiots stole from AAVE to look cool.

Darude Sandstorm

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Ill try it on my PS5 I guess, but no, my experience with the PS4 using wires was not a local experience or anywhere close to how the WiiU felt despite it being wireless. I guarantee my set up far exceeds yours. Im only talking about latency here. Obviously it can be streamed at a high resolution. The thing that matters most is latency and thats the worst part of PlayStation streaming and stadia etc

I already addressed the latency in my OP. Remote Play wasn't always good with the PS4 as I said. It started getting better around 2018 into 2019. And the PS5 improved it significantly to the point it's a 1:1 experience nowadays. You just need a good router and at least the 865 SoC.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Its absolutely not native-feeling in the same way the WiiU is

It definitely is. I've been using it for several years since the PS4 and it feels like the Switch. I also use Moonlight with the PC, which goes up to 1080@120 FPS.

Either your set up sucks or you haven't tried it since the PS4 around 2018.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Local streaming on Sony devices is not fine even local inside your house via Ethernet. Unless your tolerance is so high that you even consider stadia streaming fine

This is false. As long as your PS5 is hardwired, it works excellently and pretty much no difference between something like playing the Switch.

I'll probably grab it since I pretty much play games through local handheld streaming. Right now I use the Razer Kishi with a dedicated S21 as the screen. Flawless 1080@60 FPS.

It will depend on the performance though. You need at least the Snapdragon 865 (S20) or equivalent to reach near lagless PS5 streaming. If this can't touch that, then it will basically be useless to me.

ZaruenKosai posted...

You also usually have to put the order in by 8-10am to give the driver enough time to pick up the item and make the delivery.

Not anymore. I can order something at 12:30 AM and have it delivered by 3 AM

Tyranthraxus posted...

Same day delivery means someone in their warehouse calls an Uber to deliver it for you. Do you also feel guilty for using any services like those?

Amazon doesn't do that. Walmart does with their grocery delivery service. Amazon uses their own drivers. Amazon Fresh uses their own version of delivery, which is different from regular delivery.

Glob posted...

I dont. Id never choose to live in the US, though if I had to, Id pick SF over NYC. Ive visited both.

I just feel that even just for a visit, there are loads
of places Id rather go than NYC, and most of those Id rather live in too.

I get what you're saying, especially if you take costs into account, but you've never lived here, yet you want me to live elsewhere to see it's not the greatest when I've lived here for over 3 decades? What is the greatest to you?

I've visited all the major cities in the world as well as most big and small cities in the US. Some I've spent a lot of time in.

Nothing really beats the intersection of culture, people, food, attitude, atmosphere, art/architecture, and the overall magnificence of NYC. Chicago and maybe Toronto are the only places that have a similar atmosphereric vibe going around, but otherwise no.

I'm not alone in this since NYC has been regarded as one of the, if not the greatest city on Earth throughout history.

Ricemills posted...

Because you, Ross, ate up the other friends?

action52 posted...

I was going to say you're thinking of a different Ross, but he said he was from New York so you're probably right

Lol, I was definitely referring to the Futurama meme about Friends.

Glob posted...

If you think NYC is the greatest city on earth, Id imagine you havent spent much time in other cities.

How long have you lived in NYC?

Why would I, Ross, leave NYC, the greatest city on Earth, for a shithole like SF?

NYC doesn't have any Walmarts at all lol.

The ones outside the city were never 24/7. Several in Upstate NY were. Now there are none in the entire country.

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I think that's Penn Station the sub store. Not NYC's Penn Station, which you would be right about.

Is this a joke tweet? Weren't they reporting Daveed Diggs was likely The Thing?