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_PandaMaster_ posted...

https://www.deltaplexnews.com/white-hall-head-football-coach-ryan-mallett-drowns-in-florida/

by a riptide? damn. rip.

free LMS in MCU General 14

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Sure is cold, did someone leave the fridge open?

it's either this or first shot of next episode is her corpse turning into a skrull

also in non-spoiler news the art in the opening for secret invasion is AI generated, so that sucks. they've already come out with the statement about it being artistically and thematically intentional but still sucks.

big spoilers for secret invasion, so be careful if you're like me and tend to wait until a whole series is out to binge

MCU is done-skis

Enervating Slash can be absolutely busted in terms of damage but yeah

I think FF7 is still the best of the PSX FF's. I know that's probably not a controversial opinion anywhere besides Board 8 but it just is.

Yeah FFVI is a perfect game to me.

Nice to see FFXII: Radiant Wings got first place though!

Yeah, it's really not easy to break off the sphere grid path. Maybe the Blitzball thing works but I hated Blitzball. There's something inherently fun about the sphere grid anyway though, even though there's a lot of illusion of choice there. There's a reason it gets copied all the time.

Tactics's last act is a bummer. Even if you don't use one of the extremely broken NPC's the last few maps are cake compared to the earlier ones.

But yes, absolutely classic game for sure.

FFX is probably the best in the series at relationships and themes. It isn't the best overall FF story but it has extremely high peaks.

Imagine if they actually did something interesting with Kimahri though

The influence FFIV had on me as a sixth grader can't be understated. If I hadn't gotten into this game/series then, I'd probably be a fully functional member of society currently.

In hindsight I think all of FFIX's main cast is good even though I had problems with Quina, Freya and Amarant at first.

Never had issues with Eiko. She's always been good.

I agree about the back half of IX's plot. It's not bad, and the twist re: Zidane and Kuja stands up to replays. It's just kind of cheesy.

poor josette

I actually thought MODOK's appearance/backstory in Quantumania was fine. At the very least it didn't offend me. I think it made sense to try and provide some kind of tie-in to the first movie. I know serious comic stans probably don't like MODOK being a gag character, but he's always been kind of a gag to me and I think the larger casual comic fanbase. Again the writing itself was the main issue there.

Hopefully Loki S2 makes Kang interesting again. The last ep of S1 felt genuinely exciting. Quantumania unfortunately really did not do a good job building on it.

I feel like this is an interesting parallel with Wandavision and Dr Strange MOM. I also think Wanda was far more interesting at the end of that show than how the character developed into the movie.

Aou is probably the top of low tier MCU. But it deserves its place down there with the rest of the trash.

Another thing about Quantumania is I just did not like the actor for Cassie. Just like completely average and nondescript. "We have Natalia Dyer from Stranger Things at home."

lordjers posted...

At least it's the best Ant-Man yet.

yeah this is completely wrong. first one is great, second one is good for what they were aiming for (basically a cheesy action romcom). This one was straight garbo that took previously interesting characters and made them boring. The point about this not having an arc is dead on. Things just happen in this movie because they remind us of things that happened in other movies. Like I could not have given less of a **** about any of the quantum realm people.

yep quantumania is pretty bad. I thought people were exaggerating, but yeesh. makes me want them to completely throw out the kang plan, not even considering any of the real-life stuff with majors.

i'm surprised there hasn't been more talk about crankin it

My first real challenge wall didn't happen until I started getting to most character's chapter 3's

you'll definitely want to avoid overleveling though, which sucks because the battle system is so good!

the new heroes / ascencion quests were... not good

I hear good things about the challenge battles though

yeah this is probably the best example of how DLC can be a worthwhile practice

As someone who liked She-Hulk a fair amount, I think it is symptomatic of a larger problem with the MCU, which is that it is stretching itself too thin trying to expand what it means to be an "MCU production." All the Disney plus shows seem to be playing around with different genres (sitcom / hard sci-fi/ animation / young adult / parody). There's so much experimentation in Phase 4 that it feels like the franchise's identity is a bit lost.

I feel like She-Hulk is basically middle of the pack in terms of D+ shows, better than Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, and FaWS. If you want to discuss character assassination, FaWS is by far the worst culprit of that.

Let us know if they get traumatized.

edit: the kids, of course

GoTG 3 opened with "only" 114 million, which doesn't make it a bomb, but it does seem to affirm that the MCU is in a bit of trouble. I doubt it will have as bad of a drop off as Quantumania, and hopefully positive word of mouth will give it some legs.

I mean Ulti has Iron Man 2 as the best Iron Man movie. he's got some wild opinions on there.

still, being so wrong brings diversity to life's rich tapestry

It's the best Guardians movie and top tier Marvel for sure. Marvel will regret letting James Gunn get away.

I appreciate how this film seemed to take chances and didn't care about alienating its audience. Like I'm sure if it were any other director they would've said "no thanks" to this much simulated animal abuse. I appreciate how pet owners will be traumatized. But also I appreciate how this might give kids nightmares. People were walking out of the Saturday matinee with their kids crying. The MCU has been entirely too safe... the entire time basically, and we finally have one that's willing to push some boundaries.

I could make an argument for this being THE best Marvel film, but I don't actually believe this, and the major reason is Adam Warlock - he just kind of sucks. Like he feels leftover from an earlier idea or something.

But everything else is well done. I really appreciated how they didn't kill any of the crew. Pretty sure everybody expected Drax and maybe Rocket himself to go out in a very stereotypically Whedon-esque way. The idea of Drax becoming a teacher is so extraordinary good and so much better than just having them die for cheap tears (although this movie had plenty of cheap tears).

It sucks that we had to wait so long after IW for an MCU movie to actually push the envelope even a tiny bit, and just when we get this one, Gunn's headed to DC and we've got a full two phase slate off mediocrity / writer's strike delays / real-life actor litigation to look forward to. If this ends up being the last great MCU movie then it couldn't have asked for a better final note. I will miss all of these characters even more than the core Avengers group.

I always felt like the reunion was a bit unearned; like joshua essentially goes back to "normal" too quickly

but also tears for joshette shippers. there are dozens of us. DOZENS!

It took a while for me, but FF8 is pretty good. The vibes are immaculate. I feel like the plot itself is overly confusing/unbelievable and any character not Squall or Laguna is badly written.

Finished at around 25 hours. There are a few super bosses I could beat but I'm good.

All in all a great time, better than the main game in some respects. The story is pretty confusing to me, who only partially cares about the "lore." But if I just enjoy it as fanservice it's great.

they won by curry scoring 50 points. like this whole "trusting in curry" stuff is nice fodder for sports journalists but they won because he's really really good at basketball, not because of some inspirational speech. I bet he'd rather have won by him, klay, and poole each scoring 30 each night and closing it out in fewer than 7 games.

yeah but... they have to get on the bus anyway

I'm sure it's a fine speech but staying home isn't an actual option

I played SC on the PSP and it doesn't have the chest flavor-text. shame

The worst thing I can say about Throne's final boss (and Temenos's) is that I basically one-shotted them and missed the coolest parts of the fights.

I enjoyed Throne's chapter 4 for how outright creepy it is; I also thought it was a subversive twist to the "femme fatale revenge story". Chapter 3 is basically Kill Bill. Chapter 4 is something new. Totally get the complaints though, because it does feel a bit out there.

ulti's right, time has come for the warriors. winning last year was bad for them in a way because it made them have to pay jordan poole.maybe draymond had the right idea bout this guy.

Xiahou_Shake posted...

Just finished Throne's story and lmao wtf was that trash. I've generally been very positive towards this game's writing so far after doing Temenos, Osvald and Ochette, but I legit can't believe they just threw out an actually interesting character like Father in Chapter 3 so they could have completely-random-immortal-dude who sperm banked his way into a stupid FF8 plot twist. What a mess.

keep playing

Yeah I'm in Chapter 5 now and the story makes sense about 40% of the time, so that's to be expected. I'm still having fun. I've never actually enjoyed any of the "high sci-fi" xeno stuff like caring about who Alvis is, etc.To me the series has always been at its best when it comes to character dynamics (which says a lot about why I hated Xenoblade 2 I suppose).