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This was literally in the last episode of it's always sunny in philadelphia this season...

I'm pleasantly surprised and glad that judy blume is still alive, since we lost one of my other childhood authors (beverly cleary) during the pandemic. I just watched are you there god it's me margaret and that was a good movie.

Besides batman, who else knows about the existence of jason todd as a person? Let alone care enough to even take a glance at his area of burial? His criminal dad is dead, and even were he alive he'd care less than a stranger

Compsognathus posted...

Poppy is a peak human being.

There's something about lead engineer Poppy I couldn't quite put my finger on and then it came to me, she's cute as a button and her acting is adorable. Loving her.

lilORANG posted...

Pretty fucked up to scar her, but umbridge was very clearly objectively evil so cooperating with her deserves punishment

But teens are dumb. Even Hermione who was book smart probably wasn't thinking long term about permanently scarring another kid

Nah she knows. She deliberately and cleverly trapped rita skeeter in a jar. She just thinks her way is the right way. Glad she's on our side.

I didn't get a 3ds so I'd like to play Layton again on switch that's gonna be cool.

KajeI posted...

It was Hermione's idea to bring Umbridge to the forest, but I think she wanted to find Gawrp and have him keep her there, but they ran into centaurs first and Umbridge fucked it up. I'm not super confident on that though.

No, Harry notes that Hermione was not leading Umbridge the road they used for Grawp. The fact that her specific intention was to probably "have the centaurs and Umbridge go at it and take each other out" shows just how she thinks about taking care of problems.

codey posted...

This is true, if the consequences for betrayal are only known after the betrayal then those consequences didn't do anything to protect your group.

No, the consequences were already known; the kids would be in trouble and put through horrible pain.

Oh, you meant consequences for the betrayer? Mmmh maybe knowing that your friends and partners being tortured should have been enough of a deterrent not to rat them out? She could have simply not tattled. She could have said to take her name off the list.

Are you really suggesting that people should know of a punishment before thinking about hurting someone else? Seriously?

Zikten posted...

yea thats fucked up.

Let's review what would have happened to the other kids had Hermione not put a spell on the parchment they signed:

- all the kids would have been rounded up by umbridge and her wannabe death eaters

- some of the kids would have been crucio'd, all would have been regular tortured like having to write in a pen that drains their own blood while writing with it (why does this exist again?)

- after being expelled and having their wands broken, they would be targets for the actual death eaters especially the muggle born ones

- potentially sent to azkaban, the place with all the dementors, and as 15 year old kids to boot

And that's just to name the big ones. Still think having boils is too much? If it were an actual resistance group, having a traitor among their ranks would make them shoot the rat or something because endangering them endangers their lives, their family's lives, and their friends lives.

pegusus123456 posted...

Permanently disfiguring her to have "sneak" scarred across her face is kind of fucked up.

Hermione has a history of doing psycho things, even to the people she loves like that time she conjured a flock of birds to attack Ron because she was jealous of his relationship with Lavender Brown.

And besides the Ron thing, she was right almost every time. Trapping Rita Skeeter in a jar is justifiably cruel. But Rita Skeeter was basically J Jonah Jamesoning Harry, so that totally makes it okay to trap another human being in a jar

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KarmicOverkill

Harry Potter fans For anyone who remembers book 5:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Marietta Edgecombe is often viewed more sympathetically than intended. She betrays Dumbledore's Army to Umbridge and gets SNEAK written on her face in boils forever, thanks to Hermione's spell that she put on all the Army's members beforehand. However, many readers found that she didn't deserve this punishment for several reasons. First, Marietta never wanted to join them in the first place and was actually peer-pressured to do so by her friend Cho Chang. Second, her mother works at the Ministry of Magic, so Marietta could've been afraid that her participation in La Rsistance would bring harm to her mother (though she could have cut ties with them without betraying them, implying that she actually wanted to curry favor with the authorities and not just protect her mother's job). Third, Marietta (along with the rest of Dumbledore's Army) was never warned about the consequences of her betrayal: if she had known she'd be revealed at once and scarred permanently, she likely wouldn't have betrayed them. Fourth, she later had her memories of ratting out Dumbledore's Army and her involvement with them erased, so she's permanently disfigured for a crime she doesn't even remember committing.

As a biased teenager I obviously felt no sympathy for her and like Harry thought Hermione was completely in the right, but even now I still don't see how anyone could have viewed her sympathetically.

Of course I blame Cho Chang a lot more because she's the one who dragged her friend to the secret DA meetup and got her to sign up when her friend didn't even want to in the first place, and all because Cho liked Harry/wanted him to be both a replacement to Cedric and final link to Cedric, which was also a BS thing to do to Harry. But still, Marietta going to umbridge to rat out her friends, when umbridge was doing things like literally torturing students and had no qualms about using crucio. And that's not even getting into the legal stuff like getting expelled and having their wand destroyed, their only source of protection against literal death eaters. Even if she "didn't know what would happen to them" fuck that reasoning. Almost as bad as the dark knight with harvey two-face sparing ramirez.

I can't believe it's actually an entry on TVtropes side by side with Jurassic World, the most correct example of this trope. Who are these people that find mere boils too harsh? She got off easy compared to what would have happened had her betrayal been more successful.

BakonBitz posted...

Lol this. A phone is inherently to make calls.

While this topic was made in jest obviously, I do want to comment on this post that smartphones' worst feature is actually the phone feature, or at the very least the speakers. Why is the audio so terrible were it's merely serviceable on its best days and straight up difficult to decipher what the other person is saying on it's worst days and those days are frequent.

It's like the phone part is an afterthought.

I accidentally watched the Quarantine episode thinking it was the first episode, and it's funny that such an episode hooked me into the show without knowing any of the characters. I thought how they did the whole thing was brilliant. Using Rocky theme song ending is pretty much a guaranteed win, that song is scientifically proven to pump you up.

Ok I just watched the jj and cristina Milioti episode and it felt like she was channeling a mix of Morticia and Wednesday Addams and I fricking love Milioti so much she's so fine. She should have been the next jennifer love hewitt or something I don't know why she isn't more popular.

But the episode seems random, doesn't seem like they tied it back to the show at all, weird to have a flashback episode in a show that only just started. Is jake johnson gonna be revealed as Ian's dad or something. And what a downer of an episode as a whole, everything was fine up until they got divorced and he hooks up with someone else what's up with that. And why does she suddenly have kids when she didn't seem like she wanted any of that before, and if so why not have had them with jj.

And why did jj seem like he cared about removing the "death" from dark quiet death when it seemed like he was only pretending to be bothered by the changes in front of his now ex-wife? Just seemed like he was another producer and cared about the bottom line, did having a mascot character really bother him. Great start to the episode, then the rest not so much.

boxoto posted...

wiki is saying that this one is going to be a musical, so I'm assuming it's referring to that.

besides a couple of scenes, the trailer hides that pretty well.

It sure did, but I honestly didn't stick around to watch the whole thing.

Shame that it has all the actors I love like john hamm and tina fey. I even like that young blond actress, she was the daughter in the nice guys and that was a good movie.

Didn't realize tina fey was hard up for cash. This is what she's doing instead of participating in the strike or?

Oh my god. One of the bug testers, she was the sister in everybody hates chris. Boy I feel old.

They really used the "this isn't your mother's ____" line huh

Jagr_68 posted...

Ashley Burch is a cutie patootie

What about dudie?

I love Bayek. I loved this game, it was everything I wanted from the concept of "AC in ancient egypt"

It's also the best one. Odyssey took the wrong direction. I haven't played Valhalla yet but considering it looks like more of Odyssey and less Origins, I know what to expect when I eventually get it on sale for like $20

... I actually thought kirby forgotten land would go on sale so I could be motivated to finally get it. I don't know what I was thinking.

Is tropical freeze any good? Is it super difficult? If I managed to beat the original trilogy would the game be considered around the same level, or even harder?

Is that the movie with John Favreau and Vince Vaughn?

Assistant is also hilarious.

PeteyParker posted...

If you mean that there was a video game company in Free Guy, then yes but otherwise no. It's an office comedy at a video game company. It's pretty funny and heartfelt at times. There was an episode from the first season with Jake Johnson and Cristin Militoi that doesn't even feature the main cast and was a flashback and was fantastic.

I like both those actors and the more I'm hearing about this show the more I like it.

Raikuro posted...

It's just a workplace comedy, it's not shot documentary style with people looking directly at the camera. The Office didn't invent workplace comedies...

It's funny because I actually loathe mockumentary style due to the annoying shaky camera and I'm indifferent to talking heads. I like the single-camera format of Scrubs and Community and malcolm in the middle. I love shows like modern family despite the mockumentary shaky cam format, not because of it.

Ricemills posted...

"The orange color is a trademark owned by Hershey's"

Wtf?

I mean they didn't even say "this shade of orange" they just straight up said "the color orange" so even if you humor the absurd line...

Is there a Tim Burton's version of Batman Forever? His influence is still seen in the movie but I'd like to know just how wacky he would have gotten with it especially with regards to Riddler and 2face.

This show is hitting me a lot with "funny moment happened that I didn't anticipate at all and now I'm laughing hard" type scenes.

Why so many posts claiming they liked the first Creed but haven't bothered to see 2 or even 3? I mean they're pretty consistent, surprisingly so. And also weirdly you actually need to see the past movies to get this one, I completely forgot some of the characters and had to quickly skim through 1 and 2 so I could be like "oh that character right I remember" in 3.

Mormaurd posted...

They have a better chocolate to peanut butter ratio. Thats why the special ones hit different.

That must be it. Feels like they should replace the regular version.

hereforemnant posted...

Elf shouldn't be good after 15 years that's all I'm saying, you've seen it once you're good. You don't notice more about the movie on subsequent viewings

The only thing you may notice about Elf is that Zooey Deschanel is a blonde in it. And that ironically before she was known as a manic pixie dream girl, she was actually doing more of a constant deadpan thing in her older roles when her hair was lighter, further adding to the irony.

Also the movie sucks and has never and will never be remotely charming. I remember watching it as a kid and finding will ferrel super annoying, as he always is (except not entertaining this time)

I do remember liking james caan though. The one thing I'll always remember is the unfunny scene where he mistakes then peter dinklage as an elf haha so funny *rolls eyes* . As a kid that scene really came across as just mean.

Scintillant posted...

Only Murders in the Building (thought it was a fun little background show sitcom style so I was also not paying close enough attention)

Sell me on this show, a work friend mentioned liking this as well so now I'm curious about it.

Butterfiles posted...

Acting is when you cry while delivering the line "that's gonna leave a mark"

No this is:

https://y.yarn.co/5cfa0263-0d0b-48c6-969d-a9d76c4e5d0d.mp4

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

I think trees taste the best with the bats and egg coming in 2nd place.

The regular cups taste great anyway so it is just a great product even better.

Yeah this is pretty correct

On the one hand, I consider the protagonists to be borderline villain protagonists, but at the same time some of the family did show remorse and concern, the mother and daughter even wanted to give food to the old maid and her husband. They actually did show the slightest concern even for the people they got fired, they're not completely heartless. Even the son probably only went down to kill the maid and her husband because he thought that was what a man was "supposed" to do and wanted to make his own dad/family proud and protect them.

I wonder how accurate a portrayal the movie is of current South Korea

I just imagine the detective awkwardly trying to balance like an opened envelope or a glove on a pen

The last show I watched that was "The Office + a certain setting" was Superstore and I liked that show it was comfortable and easy to watch.

Besides instantly liking Danny Pudi in this, both Mac and Rickety Cricket are in this show! Mac is great but sometimes he's totally channeling Mac Its Always sunny vibes and I love it.

LightHawKnight posted...

Flip it over? And dont they typically come in a plastic or whatever sheath to prevent mushing?

Reality talk the seasonal version of Reeses Peanut butter cups like the "bat" shaped ones or christmas tree themed ones are way better than the regular version. Besides no annoying double plastic to unwrap, they put more of that gritty sugar "peanut butter" in into the chocolate than the regular peanut butter cups. Something about them just tastes better

Ok I just watched the first episode... I think I like it. Even if I'm not really into video game culture like that, I still like games and the show is fun.

Are they partnered with... Ubisoft? I know I saw a cutscene snippet of AC Origins, and then the logo straight up showed up in the show credits.

It's unnerving to say the least.

Ah ok. So my other question is, there isn't like a league or tournament to determine fighters, it's literally just if someone challenges the heavy weight champion he automatically gets to fight him and win? No set of mini-bosses to fight before getting to the final form? So as long as you got connections and someone to help you get your foot in the door, you can just make bank?

I thought the 3rd movie would have him fight with the son of Mr T and I was so sure of it but then they went in another direction. I liked it.

I don't really understand how boxing works, does him becoming the champion automatically make him rich and have a penthouse and entire posse and also ladies?

You know exactly what to expect from these movies and they deliver; cool training montages, thrilling boxing fights, and some powerful performances.

Why does the 3rd movie always have the character retire and come out of retirement... skyfall, tdkr, it's like a reoccurring pattern... except this time the movie was actually entertaining.

Creed 3, Loki, he always looks like he's about to cry what's the deal with that.

St0rmFury posted...

Avalanche killed off most of the remaining humans.
Ceaser died from his injuries.

Oh wow, I guess 3 was so forgettable I legit forgot Caesar died. I just remember how ridiculous it was that 2017 was the year of "road movies" where the gruff main character escorts a little girl through a terrain (see: Logan, a much better movie)

I don't care that it wasn't a literal "war" like the title implied, but it was just a bad direction to take the plot/movie. Literally half the movie is like the last castle and a retread of 1, and not in a good way.

I actually feel like the trilogy went on a downward spiral. Rise > Dawn >>> War. I just loved Rise so much, it was insane how much better that movie was than the trailer made it out to be.

*checks cast list* WHAAT no Andy Serkis? I can understand no James Franco from Rise of the planet of the apes, but not even Serkis?

MartavisBryant posted...

I'm currently watching it. It's okay, but there are far better shows out there. I feel like I'm forcing myself to get through it, even though there are only about 30 episodes.

Oh is it not as good as this scene?