Poll of the Day > PotdMon: Nerd/Geek

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Zeus posted...

Goddamn Disney killed so much continuity.

It was a mercy killing.



Zeus posted...

Thanos might have wiped out half the universe, but Mickey took out 99% of the SW canon. Who's the real villain there?!

Thanos killed innocent people entirely at random. Mickey killed the Yuuzhan Vong. For that alone, I praise the Mouse.

And honestly, the (very) few glistening pearls of the EU were fished out of the endless ocean of shit and salvaged anyway (like Thrawn being re-canonized or Kylo basically being budget-version Jacen).

The real problem isn't so much flushing the EU out the airlock and into space, the real problem is that Disney hasn't been producing anything better to replace the old canon with. So we're basically left with two parallel universes, both of which are made entirely out of feces.



Zeus posted...

And please don't let it be a pun on Spider-Man: Far from Home like "Spider-Geek: Far from the Theaters" or "Far from the Boards" or some rot.

I usually don't recommend anything that recent, and try to look forward to future geek-flavored references, but now I kind of just want to recommend Spider-Geek: Geek From Geek just to spite you.

"Once Upon a Time... in Geek Topic" (or "Once Upon a Geek... in PotD")
"Geek Stories to Tell in the Dark"
"Dora and the Lost City of Geek"
"Geek: Ultimate Alliance"

I'd recommend "Geek & Furious Presents: _____ & _____", but that might be awkward because we'd have to pick two people's names from the topics to be in it, and that might make people sad who don't get picked. It's not like we have only two people who've been here from the beginning - quite a few people here have been regulars in these topics for more than a decade.


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My queue floweth over. Too much shit to watch now, too little time. Had been meaning to get to Jessica Jones s3, but I keep finding other things that grab my attention, especially random anime because apparently a lot of anime has happened since I stopped paying that much attention to it about a decade ago.

Game-wise, I'm getting pretty future-queued for when I get a ps4.... despite still having a massive ps3 queue.

Additional random suggestions:

For Whom the Geek Tolls
Valley of the Geeks
The Obscure Geek Reference Only We'll Get and Have a Private Laugh About

The Young and the Geekless
As the Geek Turns
Geek Hospital

ParanoidObsessive posted...

And honestly, the (very) few glistening pearls of the EU were fished out of the endless ocean of shit and salvaged anyway (like Thrawn being re-canonized or Kylo basically being budget-version Jacen).

Yes, but Thrawn was re-canonized in the terribly-animated Rebels and Kylo is not only awful, but we also don't have a true budget Jayna... unless they're going with a super-obvious major twist that they kept insisting they aren't doing. (aka Rocksteady's Arkham Knight gambit)

ParanoidObsessive posted...

"Geek Stories to Tell in the Dark"

tbh, I'm kinda looking forward to that film even though I know it's going to suck especially since it's going with the magic book gimmick that Goosebumps used.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

"Geek: Ultimate Alliance"

Or Geek Ultimate Alliance 3: The Geek Order
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Zeus posted...

Yes, but Thrawn was re-canonized in the terribly-animated Rebels and Kylo is not only awful, but we also don't have a true budget Jayna... unless they're going with a super-obvious major twist that they kept insisting they aren't doing. (aka Rocksteady's Arkham Knight gambit)

Yeah, but like I said, that's less about killing the EU and more about doing a poor job of replacing it. If they'd just firebombed the EU into ash and then replaced it with awesome alternative plot and characters, that's a 100% positive. But if you throw out the trash and then replace it with an equal amount of trash, you really haven't accomplished anything.

Honestly, if I was Disney, I probably would have kept most of the backstory and setting details from the Thrawn books (some of the only solidly good material in the EU... except for the clone-y bits), then lifted Jacen and Jaina and dropped Kylo and Rey directly into their roles. But they might actually have been unwilling to do that for two reasons - 1) using that framework locks the future screenwriters into a lot of dead ends they can't write their way out of , like having Luke's life plotted out for him if you keep Mara Jade (which you should, because she's cool - though admittedly troublesome as a post-insert character), and 2) it might require paying Timothy Zahn a lot of money for licensing rights using his characters in cinematic form.

I occasionally get the urge to just sit down and "re-write" the prequels the way I would have done them if Lucas had hired me to screenwrite a first draft of their plots back in 1998 (though I wouldn't do much more than outline them - I definitely wouldn't go so granular that I'm scripting dialogue or storyboarding scenes), but I usually resist it. Maybe I should do a similar write-up on how I'd brainstorm the sequels as well.

(I'd probably do it for these topics, though I'm self-aware enough to know almost no one would care, and most of you probably wouldn't bother reading it. I'm not sure I'd be able to read anyone else's treatment along those lines if someone else did it either, so I can see why others might feel the same way about my ideas.)

And whether Rey turns out to be the secret love-child of Han/Leia or not, I think there were absolutely shades of that in the original intent. Either that, or she's the gender-swapped Ben Skywalker. I see the whole "Oh no, your parents were nobodies" as more Rian Johnson bullshit. She was almost certainly influenced to at least some degree by Jaina, imo.



Zeus posted...

tbh, I'm kinda looking forward to that film even though I know it's going to suck especially since it's going with the magic book gimmick that Goosebumps used.

I never had the nostalgia for those books that some people did (the scary books I had as a kid were the Tales for the Midnight Hour series - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_for_the_Midnight_Hour ), but my understanding is that 90% of the appeal was the batshit crazy art that was borderline terrifying.

So I guess if you make a movie like that with Guillermo Del Toro involved you might be able to capture some of that aesthetic... but the more G-rated and "kid friendly" you make it, the worse it would be. A large part of the appeal of those sorts of stories and books was that they weren't entirely kid friendly, and it scared kids in ways we don't necessarily consider acceptable in these overprotective times. But it seems like they rated it PG-13 and clearly made it for teens, which sort of defeats the entire point of it.

And I don't mind a "magic book" motif if they use it as a framing device for short stories (like Yuzna's Necronomicon film). But this doesn't seem to be that, so I assume it's going to suck.


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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yeah, but like I said, that's less about killing the EU and more about doing a poor job of replacing it. If they'd just firebombed the EU into ash and then replaced it with awesome alternative plot and characters, that's a 100% positive. But if you throw out the trash and then replace it with an equal amount of trash, you really haven't accomplished anything.

The EU had enough cool stuff in it that the whole thing didn't need to be burned down for the insurance money, especially when that money was going to be squandered anyway.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Honestly, if I was Disney, I probably would have kept most of the backstory and setting details from the Thrawn books (some of the only solidly good material in the EU... except for the clone-y bits), then lifted Jacen and Jaina and dropped Kylo and Rey directly into their roles. But they might actually have been unwilling to do that for two reasons - 1) using that framework locks the future screenwriters into a lot of dead ends they can't write their way out of , like having Luke's life plotted out for him if you keep Mara Jade (which you should, because she's cool - though admittedly troublesome as a post-insert character), and 2) it might require paying Timothy Zahn a lot of money for licensing rights using his characters in cinematic form.

The lack of Mara Jade was one of the biggest disappointments with the new franchise. Somebody at Disney *really* hates redheads.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I never had the nostalgia for those books that some people did (the scary books I had as a kid were the Tales for the Midnight Hour series - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_for_the_Midnight_Hour ), but my understanding is that 90% of the appeal was the batshit crazy art that was borderline terrifying.

For the most part, they were mediocre, family-friendly-ish retellings of urban legends with largely unrelated, borderline gross-out art... which made it all the funnier when the re-releases removed the iconic art in favor of things that, iirc, more closely matched the stories.

Given that there were a few good stories in there, it makes the prospect of a film interesting.... although the fact that it's not going to be an anthology film (which are nearly impossible to market these days, excluding a few ensemble-cast anthologies like Valentines Day, New Years Eve, etc) is a bit of a turnoff, even though the stories themselves (and most major urban legends are in general) are well-known enough to hurt any attempt at a straight telling in an anthology. Granted, I would have loved to have to seen the story about the two old men with the window in the nursing home done in a film... even if there are some fundamental logical issues that make for massive plotholes.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

(the scary books I had as a kid were the Tales for the Midnight Hour series - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_for_the_Midnight_Hour )

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

(or "Once Upon a Geek... in PotD")

This.
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Broken_Zeus posted...

The EU had enough cool stuff in it that the whole thing didn't need to be burned down for the insurance money, especially when that money was going to be squandered anyway.

I'm pretty sure I can count on two hands the number of things in the EU worth saving - and again, most of them were written by Zahn. And depending on how you view these sorts of things, most of the rest might just be Karen Traviss' stuff (though that's more divisive).

Keeping 200+ books worth of plot (mostly garbage) to retain a couple cool new characters and a few story elements really isn't a worthwhile trade. Especially since that limits what future writers can do, and forces you into certain paths for new movies ("Luke can't run away for 20 years, such-and-such book says he was on such-and-such planet at such-and-such time! Can't use Chewbacca, he died in this book."). Far better to just lift the good ideas, then weave them organically into a new framework. Killing the EU didn't make the new movies suck. Not having a cohesive vision (and letting Rian Johnson in the door) made the new movies suck. And as is, they would have sucked even if the EU was preserved, pristine and unchanged (and they likely would have sucked worse).

The real trick is, when most people mourn stuff from the EU, most of what they're mourning wasn't even really entirely canon in the first place. Stuff like Knights of the Old Republic, while cool, was basically tangential at best even when the EU was still considered canon. Most of Lucasfilm's "multi-tier canon model" was a marketing tool used to lie to nerds to pretend like these books/comics/games/etc mattered in some when they really, really didn't, in an attempt to encourage them to spend more money.



Broken_Zeus posted...

The lack of Mara Jade was one of the biggest disappointments with the new franchise. Somebody at Disney *really* hates redheads.

I would have liked to see her, but the problem is that she makes it harder to justify Luke as a hermit without killing her prior to the start of the movie (and I do like that take on his character from a narrative and thematic sense - the whole idea of the New Jedi Order as presented is kind of lame, and has too much prequel stink on it). And with the movies starting 30 years after RotJ (which is almost a necessity due to real life limitations with your cast), anything cool or worthwhile she could possibly do would have to be presented as backstory anyway.

It also doesn't help that her entire history prior to the Thrawn books is as a secret insert character who was always doing really super-important stuff behind the scenes except no one ever knew about it and the audience never got to see it. Like she was in Jabba's palace during the RotJ scenes. That can come across REALLY Mary Sue-ish to an audience unless handled almost perfectly. So you'd probably have to drop those, and just make her an agent of the Emperor who comes after Luke after the Emperor dies... but then lacking the actual ability to TELL the story of how they interact and how she eventually overcomes her hate and marries him, you'd basically be left just having Luke have a redhead wife in the sequels who is little more than an easter egg. Or you'd have to establish that she died years ago, which is what prompted him into self-exile.

I don't think you could ever really get her as a canon character in the current movies and have her live up to her own potential. At that point we might be better off not having her at all.


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The only way I honestly see keeping the entirety of the EU canon working in the new movies would be if they skipped ahead like a thousand years. Every single character we've ever known is long dead and little more than a historical figure in textbooks, or forgotten entirely. The New Republic still stands (though maybe with a name change to the Second Republic, or something else entirely, because it's not all that new anymore), but the Jedi are long dead, gone, and completely forgotten. So you can say "Yeah, all the EU stuff actually happened and is canon, but none of it matters because it was so long ago we can do whatever we want with the new films and not have to constantly reference the EU or slavishly follow what it established."

We might want to avoid the Sith/Emperor motif because it's been done and doing it again feels repetitive, but having a Republic where the Senate itself has become a sort of corrupt oligarchy, or otherwise creating a threat from within while not rehashing the same old shit, could work. I'd also want to avoid ham-fisted political commentary meant to evoke current events (like everyone's groaning at the prequels' bullshit), but it's not as if pre-Imperial Rome or Athens or Venice (or other historical Republics) were always shining beacons of truth, justice, and the American way. Republics usually wind up being corrupt as fuck by the end of their lifespans.

For bonus points (and with a nod to the Thomas Covenant series, which I love), it turns out the new Jedi have slowly become corrupted themselves over the centuries, and are nothing more than an autocratic and totalitarian secret police for a corrupt oligarchical government. Senators scheme against each other, dissenters "disappear" or are publicly tried and executed, and the public is both cowed by fear and placated by ostentatious games and bribes ("bread and circuses" - the term post-dates Roman emperors, but the concept does not, as the entire pre-imperial Roman system of patron/client relationships and "mos maiorum" basically encourages pandering to the public, and can easily be subverted by the selfish or wicked). Peace is maintained, order is the prime virtue. Excessive emotion and sentimentality is discouraged, the needs of society always outweigh the needs of the individual - the Jedi Code at its most logical (but Dark Side) extreme. But even within the system, Senators indulge in the worst excesses, the Sith Code given free reign. Passion, gluttony, power - those with authority revel in the Dark Side without even understanding that it exists.

Then have a new protagonist discover some ancient ruins where they find a broken Jedi or Sith holocron or something, setting things in motion again. You can have Mark Hamill (the only actor from the original movies who seemed to enjoy being in them in the first place) come back and be a Force Ghost, and he can teach a new apprentice, maybe with some sort of "The galaxy needs the Jedi again. TRUE Jedi" sort of line to justify it. And a bit of "These new Jedi grew from a seed I planted. It's up to me to help cut down their tainted tree."

The problem with all that is that most of the audience would HATE it. And you'd be pissing off 95% of your potential fanbase to cater to a tiny sliver of a niche of it.

The other alternative would be to just do the time-skip and then redo the entirety of the plot of the first six movies in microcosm - Republic corrupted, rise of an Emperor, new Sith, Jedi cast down, lone survivor (or last few survivors) have to fight back, etc. Cue Third Republic and Even Newer Jedi Order. Which sadly WOULD please a lot of people, but which would feel so pandering and unnecessary (if people complained about The Force Awakens as being too nostalgia-driven, something like this would get savaged).


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While walking earlier, I was thinking about fantasy and the public domain. Specifically, there's a lot of shit that D&D out on the map that other things kinda use and I was curious at what point things reach infringement levels. For example, afaik the concept of slimes as a monster basically came from D&D as did the common conceptions of a lich. Yet a lot of non-D&D sanctioned fantasy tends to use them.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It also doesn't help that her entire history prior to the Thrawn books is as a secret insert character who was always doing really super-important stuff behind the scenes except no one ever knew about it and the audience never got to see it. Like she was in Jabba's palace during the RotJ scenes. That can come across REALLY Mary Sue-ish to an audience unless handled almost perfectly. So you'd probably have to drop those, and just make her an agent of the Emperor who comes after Luke after the Emperor dies... but then lacking the actual ability to TELL the story of how they interact and how she eventually overcomes her hate and marries him, you'd basically be left just having Luke have a redhead wife in the sequels who is little more than an easter egg. Or you'd have to establish that she died years ago, which is what prompted him into self-exile.

...or you could trim down on some of the behind the scene shit that directly intersected with major events seen in the film, unless they could reuse outfits shown in the film to make it look like she was always there.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I don't think you could ever really get her as a canon character in the current movies and have her live up to her own potential. At that point we might be better off not having her at all.

She could have a solo feature. Keep in mind that the more something ties into the OT, the more fans like it. Case-in-point would be Rogue One, which was the only passable SW film Disney has done.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The only way I honestly see keeping the entirety of the EU canon working in the new movies would be if they skipped ahead like a thousand years. Every single character we've ever known is long dead and little more than a historical figure in textbooks, or forgotten entirely. The New Republic still stands (though maybe with a name change to the Second Republic, or something else entirely, because it's not all that new anymore), but the Jedi are long dead, gone, and completely forgotten. So you can say "Yeah, all the EU stuff actually happened and is canon, but none of it matters because it was so long ago we can do whatever we want with the new films and not have to constantly reference the EU or slavishly follow what it established."

What's the point, though? If you take it too far out, there's nothing that's going to jive with fans.
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Finally tried that new Gauntlet. Really not liking it much so far. Unlike Legends & Dark Legacy, the playstyles/mechanics for each character seems dramatically different.

I started by playing as the Elven Archer whose dialogue annoyed me enough in the early minutes that I had already considered changing characters. Me being me, I decided to skip the instructions because I figured I'd played other titles in the series and things *should* be similar. To my immediate annoyance, I couldn't figure out how to attack. Apparently the Elf doesn't have a melee attack so you just use the right stick to shoot. Out of the four heroes, he and the Wizard seem to be the only ones with real ranged attacks (other than potions). He was really easy to play with at first, since I'd just strafe while running circles around enemies (or forcing them through choke points where I could range them in a row), but as soon as I got into tighter areas I began to quickly die.

Next up, I gave the Valkyrie a try. The Valkyrie apparently has several melee attacks and the right stick controls a shield effect (I kept trying to attack with it before realizing that it was just a defensive move). The shield was useful for some larger enemies and for protection when I got swarmed (and the shield throw was useful for when I had a cluster of enemies). I think I struggled through the first stage with her, although I died a few times. One of the big things I disliked was how hard it was to take down generators with her.

The Wizard I straight-up couldn't figure out. That I'm going to need to go back on. Apparently he has an array of elemental spells which are triggered via the face buttons and/or combos of the face buttons, after which you use the right stick for some attacks. Unlike the others, his play-style seems fairly complex, which brings us to... the Warrior.

I had been tempted to play as the Warrior from the get-go, given that he and the Archer were my go-to classes in Legends (or their alt forms, the Minotaur and Tigress). As soon as I started playing as the Warrior, things seemed a bit easier. He has no ranged attacks or defensive abilities (although he has this weird dash I still don't have a hang of), but his spinning special attack was good for breaking through mobs when I started to get swarmed. Even then, the game didn't feel like a cakewalk. The first few levels of Legends were absurdly easy, but I was still quickly dying if I got careless.

I also don't like the look of the game. Legends had a cooler, cartoonish style to things with larger, most distinct-looking characters. Gauntlet 2014 has a drastically different look although, when I googled an image, it doesn't look quite as bad. Maybe it's because the light under your character isn't there in the solo campaign so they look less distinct?

Also, risking spoilers, I wound up looking up the boss list... and apparently there are only 3-4 bosses (assuming that the sword is a separate boss fight), which is pretty lame. The giant bosses were my favorite part of Legends/Dark Legacy.
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I've not tried the 2014 Gauntlet, but Seven Sorrows, the one before it, wasn't so bad, IMO.
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You geeks better decide a topic title, or I choose and no one is happy.

Future proofing the topic is always been the way to do it though.
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We never choose. We always just toss out tons of ideas and force you to choose. This is our time-honored tradition!

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The only consolation on Gauntlet 2014 is even if I do wind up hating it overall, I only paid $5 (which is another reason why I can't see paying $5 for the DLC... especially when the DLC is just *one* extra character). Granted, unless it's absolutely terrible, I'll likely wind up buying it on the ps4 after I get the system and once it goes on sale there.

I_Abibde posted...

I've not tried the 2014 Gauntlet, but Seven Sorrows, the one before it, wasn't so bad, IMO.

Never played Seven Sorrows, and not sure whether I own it. I remember complaints about it trying to give Gauntlet an actual story and the story sucking, among other things. Will someday play it, once I confirm whether or not I own it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

We never choose. We always just toss out tons of ideas and force you to choose. This is our time-honored tradition!

Perhaps we should call it the Midsommar Geek Topic! After all, our proud traditions also involve human sacrifice and psychedelic drugs.
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Zeus posted...

Perhaps we should call it the Midsommar Geek Topic! After all, our proud traditions also involve human sacrifice and psychedelic drugs.

I'd go "A Midsummer Geek's Dream" (or "A Midsummer Night's Geek"), but I feel like I may have suggested that one before.


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I'm pretty sure that's been the title at least once before, based on my vague recollections from being around this forum for ages.

Looks like AEW is streaming an event on B / R Live this weekend. Might be my excuse to check it out.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Zeus posted...

Perhaps we should call it the Midsommar Geek Topic! After all, our proud traditions also involve human sacrifice and psychedelic drugs.

I'd go "A Midsummer Geek's Dream" (or "A Midsummer Night's Geek"), but I feel like I may have suggested that one before.

But that's a Shakespeare reference. I'm referencing *this*

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Zeus posted...

But that's a Shakespeare reference. I'm referencing *this*

I knew what you were referencing (I've seen ads for it on Youtube), but I prefer Shakespeare to that.


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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Zeus posted...

But that's a Shakespeare reference. I'm referencing *this*

I knew what you were referencing (I've seen ads for it on Youtube), but I prefer Shakespeare to that.

Ari Aster is the Shakespeare of our age! Not really.
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So yeah, taking a break from Gauntlet. The mechanics are kinda annoying and kinda add to a lot of the difficulty.

Most recently, I kept botching spell switching for the wizard (since you have to tap two face buttons quickly and it only registering one tap at times, either because I went to use a spell too quickly or need to click a combo faster) which kinda killed the one really promising character. Because his good spells have a long cooldown, you have to constantly flip between stuff (and, of course, somehow keep track of the cooldown despite the visual display vanishing when you switch spells. Other than that, his attacks seem pretty useful other than not having a great way to deal with mobs (as far I can tell, I think you're supposed to switch to a dashing flame teleport but... I could never get the timing down well enough to switch to the spell and then aim it right).

Granted, when I go back I *could* try playing at a lower difficulty and after the fact I learned how relics work which will likely help as well. Neither thing which resolves the fact that facing large groups running at you isn't really fun. Plus, in general, I never like gaming on a laptop as much as a console.
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"Elysium Shining" is now available on Amazon. It is my first publication. Now to get back to trying to support myself and working on other projects while I hope for some money from this one.

Still, it's fairly exciting. I have a published work to my name.
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Entity13 posted...

Still, it's fairly exciting. I have a published work to my name.

Congratulations! I'll track it down the next time I boot up my Kindle, as promised.
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Tropical Storm Barry is going to hit west of here. I suppose P.O. moved it away from me again. I would thank him, but his ego doesn't need any more boosting.
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The Wave Master posted...

I would thank him, but his ego doesn't need any more boosting.

I kinda do, though, albeit nowhere as much as my wallet needs a boost. Lol
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The Wave Master posted...

Tropical Storm Barry is going to hit west of here. I suppose P.O. moved it away from me again.

Nah, the Ion Corrolator burned out on my Weather Dominator years ago.


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You better get that weather machine back up and running as I have 3 months more of hurricane season. I have palates of water and peanut butter in my pantry just in case something nasty does come this way from the tropics.

Speaking of which, I do have a question.

Smooth peanut butter or chunky peanut butter,which is better, which do you prefer?
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Chunky peanut butter is the devil's feces.

Smooth is the only acceptable answer for non-communists.


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Crunchy, you mean?

I like both. I choose creamy more often but once in a while I crave a change of texture
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Crunchy, you mean?

He probably meant "chunky":

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...though I can understand why it might be confusing:

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I honestly can't tell you what the difference between the two is, though. ie, if there's actually different consistency, or if it's the exact same thing only with different branding.

("Chunky" was the original name for that particular type of peanut butter when it was first invented, though. And what I've always heard it called for my entire life. Maybe someone in marketing decided that "chunky" sounds too awkward and pushed to have it changed to "crunchy" instead, because they think it sounds more appetizing? That sounds like the sort of asinine things marketing people tend to do to justify keeping their jobs.)


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I've only ever seen it written as crunchy here in Georgia, I think
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Chunky peanut butter is the devil's feces.

Smooth is the only acceptable answer for non-communists.

This. If I wanted to destroy my bread I'd just do that by hand rather than involve peanut butter and a knife or spoon.
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I liked chunky as a kid, but I prefer smooth as an old man.
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I prefer crunchy, myself, unless I'm making cookies with it.
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Yeah, chunky often makes more sense. It's somewhat closer to true peanut butter as well.
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I'm content with nutella.

Korruptor posted...

I'm content with nutella.

This guy gets it
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Korruptor posted...

I'm content with nutella.

That shit tastes like tree bark.
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Korruptor posted...

I'm content with nutella.

That shit tastes like tree bark.

What did you say about tree bark?!
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Eh, Nutella is fine, but bI feel like it's mpre for a Pre K kid eating it with his or her banana slices and their juice box. It's not a bad thing, but it's not for a person past ten years old.

As in look at the peanut butter on the counter I guess it is Extra Crunchy versus Smooth. I was wrong. Also, Jof is the only accepatavle peanut butter.

My wife likes Crunchy, and I didn't know that until a few weeks ago. She also doesn't like blackberries, which I love. Texture in her food really throws her off. Water chestnuts, black berries, nuts in brownies, beans in chilli. She's weird like that.

What about you guys? What foods do you dislike?
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The Wave Master posted...

What about you guys? What foods do you dislike?

I can't stand mayo. I dislike most cheeses. Licorice in its natural flavor disgusts me. I don't like Cool Whip. I don't like either the taste or texture of scallops.
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Mayo, beef or most pork, soda, beets, a couple cheeses including Limburger, "french vanilla," lime, and cilantro. Keep every last one of those away from me.

That's right, I actually dislike the taste of beef and (most times) pork. Cilantro has also contaminated some foods to where picking it off isn't enough.
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Mint. Root beer. Horseradish. Chocolate chips in ice cream.
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I don't like Salmon. It has this overwhelming fishy taste that no amount of quality cooking van make go away. Don't talk to me about a Soy/Ginger glaze or honey because I am good.

I know this next one is Unamerican, but I don't like ketchup on hamburgers. It's fine if it is there, but I would rather not eat them with ketchup at all. (Too sweet and throws off the taste balance for me.)
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I need to replace one of my laptops (not sure whether to go with a desktop instead), which is going to be a pain in the ass.
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Love the taste of salmon, especially grilled.

Mahi-Mahi is best fish
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Love the taste of salmon, especially grilled.

I like it when it's prepared right. I imagine 90% of the salmon complaints involve shittily prepared salmon, since it's easy to prepare it badly.
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I hate seafood, except for sardines and swordfish.

Korruptor posted...

sardines

An unusual preference. Oo
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Seems like Marvel continues to have a plan when it comes to their movie and television universes, including a new Blade film.

DC has a new R rated Harley Quinn cartoon, and Wonder Woman next year.

I wish DC would step their game up, but I know I'm asking too much.
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I thought about getting Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, bit I was feel extra tited last night, and went to bed a little early. While falling asleep in the bedroom I put on a stream of the game being played.

First, the game looked like pure ass. The art style aand graphics looked like an early ps3 cel shaded game. I can deal with that as I not a graphics snob, but... it led to the second issue.

2nd... This is buggy as hell. The camera gets lost more than hikers in the mountain this summer. Then the game just kind of glitched out for a few chapters, floating enemies, no collision detection, textures not loading. I know it is a Switch game, but it should not be this bad.

I'm going to wait for a severe price drop to around 20 bucks, and hopefully patches to fix the rest of the game.
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