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LinkMarioSamus posted...

I'm no fan of these films but I feel like the fanbase response towards them is nothing short of detestable.

Maybe the problem is I'm one of the most critical of the sequel trilogy out of the regular users of this board.

You're only as critical as you are because you don't even attempt to enjoy any other stories.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Final two are the best two! Pretty disappointed we didn't have Elroy, Hickey or Frankie in the poll - three excellent characters that I think don't get near enough love.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Threw It on the Ground is my personal face, but Natalie's Rap, Jack Sparrow and I Just Had Sex are all phenomenal. Honestly, I enjoy everything but the creep one.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Yeah I don't have anything like the expertise necessary to make whatever Steiner did. If I had some pointers, maybe I could, but I've never invested time in learning the extent of Google sheets.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

I'm good to go any time.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

That tweet is unavailable.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

XIII_rocks posted...

I wanted to do MCU movies a while back but I don't know anything about spreadsheets

If you want to host, I could make a spreadsheet!

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

LinkMarioSamus posted...

I feel like if Endgame was a Star Wars movie it would have received a lot more criticism.

The most LMS post in the history of LMS.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Just the reigniting of controversy about Ospreay defending some of the accused.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Mr Lasastryke posted...

i agree with this, but i also think rate the user was way more harmful to me than user of the year ever was tbqh.

i still remember how bad i felt when HGR unceremoniously rated me a 0/10.

What makes it difficult is when you see some sort of negative rating ascribed to you and there's really no reason why. "Why did I do wrong?" you ask yourself. In topics where people rate or rank users and there's a little bit of discourse, I can at least learn from my mistakes or understand what I've done wrong. But just getting hit with numeric values and nothing else, for me at least, can be pretty cold and unforgiving. That's why I opted out of later UotY. I don't think I would at this point in my life, but even now I yearn for positive validation even when my life is going great and I don't necessarily need it. Everyone has their quirks, I guess. So I can see where you're coming from.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Maniac64 posted...

If we redo this list in 10 years and Ospreay isn't a top 10 contender, something went horribly wrong.

Oh what a difference a day makes.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Smash is my greater interest than gym leaders to be fair.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Pokmon gym leaders is a pretty decent idea as well.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Raka_Putra posted...

We need a subjct that most people who care about it would know most of them (ideally all of them).

Yeah, that was why my first thought was Smash Bros. characters, since it requires about as much knowledge as Pokemon. Honestly, even less.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Tom Bombadil posted...

and a wrestling one

Yeah, I'm well-aware of the wrestling one, but it's such a niche ranking.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Feels pretty "been there, done that". And, while I'm sure other people might be interested, I definitely don't have interest in running something that kind of belongs to someone else. Maybe someone else would be interested in running it!

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

I have very fond memories of the board's collective Pokemon list, and I was wondering if people would be interested in compiling a new variation on that. Are there any topics that could gain enough traction with the board that could garner a lot of interest? My first thoughts were Smash Bros. characters and MCU films, but I'd love to hear some thoughts.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

On some level, having the opportunity to vote like this can be cathartic, especially on a board that's always been obsessed with polling and numbers. It's a natural extension of where this board started. But it's easy to see the entire UotY affair as a popularity contest, much like a Save-My, where the idea of one vote becomes lost in the shuffle of mob rule. But if you take a step back, is it really mob rule? Or is it just a matter of differentiating between the Haves and the Have-Nots of the board? It can be pretty tough to wrap your head around the idea of being unliked or unpopular, even when you see people with whom you have a contentious relationship posting these concretely negative numbers towards you. It chips away a little bit each time. As long as I've been on the board, I think I've never been good at playing the game of the board. And while I can rationalize that and I can accept it, I still am hit pretty hard by negative feedback. It kind of caused me to develop this early warning detection system of being nasty on the board as a precaution. And that cycles further, causing more and more people to be alienated by me and, in extension, me to feel more outcast by these contests as I try to shield myself from feeling less-than.

Now, I could be entirely alone in the feeling that User of the Year can be harmful to some users, and as someone who has had battles with depression over the years, being able to remove oneself from the balloting was nice. But what it likely did was really put a crimp in the excitement of others, bringing the excitement levels for a popular tradition down. And, in the end, I think people pulling out of UotY was a small but crucial factor in the end of UotY. Because it's hard to look in a mirror at the perception of yourself by others and really accept that you're kind of a shitty person. Just a little bit, and just to some people. But that's all you really need sometimes; just a little validation of those tiny little demons that whisper horrible things in your ears, causing you to doubt yourself.

It's easy to blame the Discord, and it's easy to blame other easy targetable names on the Board - when I arrived on the Board, there was a certain level of cultish behavior surrounding Chris and how his decisions in epop contests were kool-aid to be drunk, for example. It's easy to hate people or to consistently put yourself in situations where you feel demeaned and insulted on this board, because that's a lot of what this board is about - unleashing opinions and gathering a mob of like-minded people in a thread to agree with you. But there's a lot of good to the board as well. And even as something of an outsider, I don't think that Discord can really be blamed for User of the Year dying. Anyone here could start the project up tomorrow. I just don't believe anyone actually will, and that's the real point of this long-winded diatribe. No one wants to feel shitty.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

The allegations are awful, but blocking Bix seems pretty par for the course.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

And of course Sami Callihan and Tessa in the past, Rich Swann, Elgin...

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

NXT UK and Impact are going to have to whether some serious storms here. Mountains of accusations being leveled.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Lmao it's like the people complaining don't realize that one person is vote-stuffing

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Ishii is criminally low.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

The argument COULD be made that he was the best wrestler of the main event scene in WCW at the end, but that's not much.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Well there are Kojima and DDP.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Corrik7 posted...

I think someone said it takes 4 seasons for syndication or something. Idk.

100 episodes is the benchmark for syndication. Boston Legal was cancelled by ABC in spite at 100 exactly.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

The issue with Walking Dead is that every season will have one or two amazing episodes. But everything around it will range in quality from "good" to "awful".

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

I will never not have a hard time divorcing Benoit from his career. I gave Ultimo consideration, along with a ton of the WCW cruiserweight era. Just too many talented guys from that period.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

While I didn't vote for anyone in the bottom ten here, I definitely think it's a decent opening salvo. I would definitely give Takahashi a high spot on a list of active wrestlers, and the Bucks simply suffered the burden of being a tag team; I find it hard to sacrifice two spots to a team on a list like this.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Hey, got your text back and I was super-busy today, but I'm really glad you're okay, and if you need anything, just ask.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

It was the only tenure that matched up.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

damn, some Arn support would have been awesome.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

He received one vote. It could have been +25 points for all we know.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

I guess maybe it's a matter of semantics and it doesn't matter, but that seems leagues better than the original take to me. And it's that kind of nuance that really matters in this sort of discussion which is about arbitrating an entirely new position on how law enforcement should exist.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

FFDragon posted...

(Shouldn't really be a) Hot take: If you do your job so poorly that it kills someone, regardless of what job it is, you should face repercussions up to and including having your life "ruined" with lawsuits and/or jail time.

That becomes a super-murky proposition when you hit the medical field.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

I considered Meng. If this was a shoot list, he would have taken a top spot for me.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Tag

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

I am a proud member of the Mario Monks.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

If you have ever participated in an argument revolving around 1AD negating a millennium ending in a year with 0, this video is actually about you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqylqmDl0Mw

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Going with O

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Hey man, you are loved for you who you are around here, and if you need anyone to talk to about life getting you in the muck, I'm here for you. I may not entirely relate, but I've been through clinical depression in my life, and I know how overwhelming life can be from time to time. You have friends and support here when you need it.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Aural communicative lattice

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

It absolutely does not seem like that is the crux of the entire diatribe. In fact, it seems to me that the original post is fine with the death of Joel but believes it serves no purpose other than to progress a plot to another specific moment the writers wanted to reach.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

From what people are saying, there's a strange disconnect in the dialogue being presented before the death, and it makes the character of Abby come across as ridiculous as a result. It sounds like bad writing more than anything else. The jumps in logic and the jumps in conversation don't seem grounded in the realism that people need to make the scene feel like a scene and less like a necessity to get from Point A to Point B.

That's just my position from what people are saying. I have no horse in the race particularly.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

They don't like anything, so not liking one thing is bound to end up in their domain.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Figured I would essentially highlight two men I consider to be the best at the two most important components of being a professional wrestler. Went with in-ring work first, and now I'm going to compile a few promos from the best storyteller to ever grace the squared circle.

Jake Roberts

Jake Roberts is the greatest promo in the history of wrestling. In a world of shouting and retreading overused catchphrases, Jake Roberts would put on quiet clinics of true psychology, barely whispering his brilliant turns of perspective with cold smiles and dead eyes. In fact, Roberts is the most nuanced storyteller behind a mic of any wrestler I've ever seen. This is especially obvious in a world of 80s and 90s WWF where cartoon characters shout bullhorn platitudes.

Roberts perfected and popularized the DDT as well, and such a commonplace move was, in his time, a devastating - and over - technique. It's rare to see a character who isn't the top babyface getting chants for their finisher, but Jake could turn massive arenas into his personal chorus. From the moment he would hit the ring, heel or face, fans wanted to see that DDT. In fact, it's been said multiple times that Vince wouldn't put Jake against Hogan in a main event feud because his finisher was too over. It would likely diminish the fans' desire to see Hogan win.

These votes are about wrestlers, and I know that Jake's personal life filled with addiction for some reason gets dragged into his wrestling career. For me, voting here is solely about the body of work, and no wrestler has the quality of promo that Jake has. Often imitated, inspiring dozens of your favorites, Jake has never truly been reduplicated. It's in that dark intensity that Jake finds the source of his charisma, and he relishes in it, taking all of us on a thrill-ride into a shadowy place called his soul.

Jake Tells Ultimate Warrior a Story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC9QUUAcMH0

The Cage Promo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf-Lopw3M1E

Jake Roberts on Ricky Steamboat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipU4-Gp7N94

Jake Roberts, A Common Man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEI81DATt5A

Jake Roberts "Gets Off on It":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d_YTsgGTnY

The Best Promo in AEW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqPF5FxCQlw

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Tomohiro Ishii

Naturally, in modern NJPW, it's easy to point out the high caliber of work exemplified by modern legends of the business such as Tanahashi and Okada. It's easy to overlook the hard-hitting action of Tomohiro Ishii, who I think has the ability to pull out a good match from nearly any worker. Gedo has cultivated an extremely gifted roster, one that has developed deep-running chemistry in almost every match-up, but I think it's important to note that of all of the talent in NJPW, one of the hardest workers is Tomohiro Ishii.

Ishii's style is simple, and that tends to belie his actual versatility. His reliability as a workhorse has allowed him to come across as a natural underdog against the giants and main eventers of the company, but he can work on top with young lions or juniors just as easily as the top talent in the company. Ishii's style of selling is built on nuanced no-selling until a particular peak point of a match. His facial expressions do it all. Even Okada doesn't have the range of Ishii when Ishii needs to denote rage or pain. Strong and silent, Ishii is able to rise above the crazy hair styles, flashy outfits and trademarked catchphrases over others in the industry thanks to his ability to convey the realism of his matches.

Here are a few of my personal favorite Ishii matches, and hopefully they help convey why I think, in terms of the best wrestlers in the world, he belongs among their ranks:

Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tomohiro Ishii - G1 Climax 23 Day 4
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Mx411q7Sc

Tomohiro Ishii vs. Taichi - New Japan Cup 2019 Day 5
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1jb411H7zj

Tomohiro Ishii vs. Shingo Takagi - G1 Climax 29 Day 16
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ut411N78v

Tomohiro Ishii vs. Kenny Omega - G1 Climax Day 14
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1As411G7q6

Jon Moxley vs. Tomohiro Ishii - G1 Climax 2019 Day 6
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Bt411n79S

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tomohiro Ishii - G1 Climax 26 Day 11
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1RW41197s2

I admit this isn't close to exhaustive, but if you're looking for someone to add to your list, consider my pick for the best brawler in wrestling history.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Re-watch complete! Us - Rating: 76/100

Jordan Peele has put together some pretty compelling horror pieces over the last few years, and while I'm not a fan of the genre generally speaking, the complexity of his work speaks for itself. Us is honestly a more interesting piece to me than Get Out in terms of its themes - you have to work for them a bit, but when you suss them out, you really find yourself drawn into a story about how privilege comes at a price, and how society is built on classes which have to naturally resent one another. Cool stuff. The only downside, I guess, is that the twist at the end actually completely breaks the concept of the movie. If you give it a moment's thought, you'll realize that it doesn't fit with the function of the movie's major conceit.

Anyways, I've got some errands to run and so on, so I'll be back tomorrow morning.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

ViolentAbacus posted...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

Rating: 82/100

The first Pirates is a fantastic adventure film. While it certainly has its share of dull scenes (generally those focused on people who aren't Sparrow), the entire affair is exactly the sort of live-action adventure romp that Disney is known for creating. A world is established, rules are laid out, and the ocean is populated with a number of unique and interesting characters. It's a baseline for a series, the sort you can't get much better than. If only we could reel back on the amount of Knightley and Bloom, you'd have a nearly perfect comedic adventure.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful