Poll of the Day > Life After Geeks

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In the year 20xx, Geeks are forced out of their introverted ways, and back into the cold sterile bosom of, "The World." (Soooo Bright!)

Stores, churches, beaches, and other places of gathering, are reopening forcing Geeks everywhere out of their hobbit holes in the shire of our souls, and out into the swamps of Middle Earth, towards Mt. DOOM!

With a vaccine over a year away, and the world needing them, will Geeks be able to rise to the challenge of our rivals, will us Geeks be the last known Survivor. Or will we be stalked in the night leaving us all wondering, will there even be, "Life After Geeks!"

Opening Question: What game do you regret not finishing?? (As the world may be ending it may be time to reflect upon our past.)

Wrap up from H1Geek1 next...

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My oldest incomplete save file (from 2002) is for the original Grandia on PS1. Getting the HD remaster on my Switch is my penance for this.

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does TC have a brother on this board btw?

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No matter how many times I tried to start and then finish Magna Carta on PS2, I grew to hate the game and stop playing it right around the same boss fight every single time. I had this same problem with 2 other games that would eventually turn out to be 2 of my 3 favorite games of all time (SMT:N and Vagrant Story). On those 2, I kept trying and pushed through and eventually adapted and overcame, however with Magna Carta, grindy RPG with vanishingly small returns for actually grinding + Rhythm game mechanics as a battle system was a bridge too far for me.

It's one thing to expect me to pay attention to my equipment and skills as I go, especially when entering new areas. It's another to expect me to wade through a never ending hell of 15 step QTE-type fights, even to heal, and then expect me to somehow have elemental draws left to deal with a boss that otherwise only takes tick damage while dealing out massive damage because it isn't even playing by the established rules.

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I regret not finishing Disgaea Afternoon of Darkness on PSP.

So many hours and I'm on the last freaking chapter

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Post'n for AMP

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I'm a few episodes into Gotham s4. Season 3 lacked direction, but it had some cool moments. The most pleasant surprise in general has been Victor Zsasz, a character to whom I was largely indifferent prior to seeing him depicted here.

A few days ago, the PotD was about cybernetics. I was going to broach the subject here as a result, but I didn't want to rush the last top to its end. If higher-end cybernetics were widely available, would you want them? Would you replace only damaged body parts or would you also be willing to upgrade completely healthy body parts? Are there any parts you'd want to replace? Anything you wouldn't be willing to touch?

I was kind of a cyberpunk fan for a while myself so the general concept interested me. Of course, in many games -- including Shadowrun -- there are always limits placed on how much you can upgrade. Usually they never let you extensively upgrade, let alone get to the level of a nearly-full prosthetic body (a la Motoko Kusanagi). While certain adjustments seemed appealing back then, the fact that so much is hackable means that I'm not sure I could ever trust cybernetics. After all, even implanted devices like pacemakers are prone to hacking nowadays. (While I suppose in theory so long as a device isn't connected to anything, it *should* be a lot harder to somehow hack, I'm not sure any of that shit will feel safe. Ditto for smart cars, since scifi has ruined them for me.)

The Wave Master posted...

Opening Question: What game do you regret not finishing?? (As the world may be ending it may be time to reflect upon our past.)

There's stuff I still want to finish at some point -- and a lot of stuff I want to begin -- but I'm not sure any of it is to the point of regret. There's a lot of shit I regret not buying, though, like the Marvel arcade games when they were on psn (the beat-em-ups and fighters; I only bought MvC2... and stupidly didn't get it via Gamestop first so I'd have the case) and the Scott Pilgrim game, all of which aren't available now.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

No matter how many times I tried to start and then finish Magna Carta on PS2, I grew to hate the game and stop playing it right around the same boss fight every single time.

I really liked Magna Carta, but I... no, wait, I think I'm thinking of something else whose name sounds familiar. The one I'm thinking of is a RPG that kinda has CCG aspects.

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You know, many have argued that the modern conception of generations has become meaningless for a variety of reasons, including a lack of shared experiences and a lack of a delineation. The C-Virus might actually change all that and give us the first distinct generation since WWII considering that a lot of bored couples have been stuck together for months and there's likely going to be a lot of coupling immediately following the full lifting of quarantines.

On the somewhat weird and apocalyptic side, apparently the C-Virus has forced rats to turn to cannibalism:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/05/24/coronavirus-cdc-warns-rats-aggressively-searching-food/5252522002/

tl;dr version - Limited restaurant activity and reduced food waste has curtailed rats' access to food and starving rats are sometimes eating each other to stay alive. Will this result in super-rats? Only time will tell.

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FatalAccident posted...

does TC have a brother on this board btw?

Oreon, though he hasn't really posted regularly in like forever.
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The Wave Master posted...

With a vaccine over a year away

A polish study found that after you are infected you only seem to spread the disease for about 11 more days afterwards... if this is confirmed this is great news because it greatly shortens quarantine requirements.

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Lokarin posted...

A polish study found that after you are infected you only seem to spread the disease for about 11 more days afterwards... if this is confirmed this is great news because it greatly shortens quarantine requirements.

I'm severely immune compromised. If I get covid chances are I die before I get to worry about spreading it to anyone else. Therefore, I have to wait for a vaccine before I venture too far out in the world. The boss lady won't let me go inside anywhere even with mask.


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The Wave Master posted...

I'm severely immune compromised. If I get covid chances are I die before I get to worry about spreading it to anyone else. Therefore, I have to wait for a vaccine before I venture too far out in the world. The boss lady won't let me go inside anywhere even with mask.

Ah, makes sense.

I just mean for the normies the spread period is now suspected (need more confirmations) to max out at about 3 weeks as opposed to indefinitely.

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Lokarin posted...

I just mean for the normies the spread period is now suspected (need more confirmations) to max out at about 3 weeks as opposed to indefinitely.

It's never been assumed to be "indefinitely", though.

We've known almost from the beginning of things that the timescale seemed somewhere between two to three weeks, with the first week or so potentially being an asymptomatic period where someone could show no symptoms yet still be infected enough to be contagious (which is the main reason why the rate of infection is so high for this virus - people who are sick spend something like 1/3rd to 1/2 the time completely unaware they're contagious and likely making no real effort to avoid people or prevent spread).

The standard advice from doctors has always been for people who are confirmed infected to self-isolate for about two weeks after they stop showing symptoms, just to be safe. After that, the assumption is that you're non-infectious.

The long quarantine period overall has never been because of how long we assume the infectious period to be as much as it was meant to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by a massive spike of infections all at one. Which we've generally succeeded at.

Ironically, the quarantine was potentially too effective - after two months, we've still only got about 1-2% of the population as confirmed cases (and infection rates have actually been dropping for a while now). The problem is, you need somewhere around 70% to develop effective herd immunity. Essentially, at the current rate, we'd have to stay in self-isolation for something like 7 years (at which point, the economy would be a smoking crater and most of us would be pretty much fucked anyway).

It's why so many people are pointing out just how necessary a vaccine is for this - it's pretty much the only thing that's going to allow everyone to get back to normal functioning without just shrugging and accepting a few million elderly/health-impaired are just going to die. Until a vaccine exists, pretty much everything we do causes problems.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's never been assumed to be "indefinitely", though.

If there's a better word for unknown period of time than "indefinite" I'll hear it

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Magna Carta and its sequel both came out at a time of market saturation for JRPGs (despite being KRPGs), so I'm surprised anybody remembers that they exist. The timing-based battles are a little frustrating, but Legend of Dragoon helped me prep for that, at least a little bit.

Zeus posted...

I was kind of a cyberpunk fan for a while myself so the general concept interested me. Of course, in many games -- including Shadowrun -- there are always limits placed on how much you can upgrade. Usually they never let you extensively upgrade, let alone get to the level of a nearly-full prosthetic body (a la Motoko Kusanagi).

This is going to earn me another raspberry from PO, but going full cyborg is one reason to play Rifts.

I really liked Magna Carta, but I... no, wait, I think I'm thinking of something else whose name sounds familiar. The one I'm thinking of is a RPG that kinda has CCG aspects.

You might be thinking of Kartia, if not Culdcept or Lost Kingdoms.

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Name is good. See ya!

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Lokarin posted...

If there's a better word for unknown period of time than "indefinite" I'll hear it

An indefinite period of time implies a period of time with no specified end. At no point has anyone suggested that people who catch this would be contagious for the rest of their lives, or for years at a time, which is what "indefinite" implies.

If you're just looking for something to describe "Well, we're not quite sure if you're contagious for a week, or 10 days, or 14 days, but somewhere in that range", you're probably looking more for a word like "indeterminate" or even "uncertain", maybe something like "non-specific".

We've always had a pretty good idea of how long this thing tends to last. The margin of error has always been just a few days, not someone shrugging and going "Well, you could be contagious for anything from two days to 17 years."
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There likely won't be a vaccine like the prior coronavirus back in '03 (SARS) or the ones back in '15 and '18 (MERS). Enjoy this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c

I can't say I regret not finishing any games because I usually try to finish them unless that game gets way too far under my skin to care any longer, like FVIII should have (and yet I finished that one out of spite).

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Korruptor posted...

There likely won't be a vaccine like the prior coronavirus back in '03 (SARS) or the ones back in '15 and '18 (MERS). Enjoy this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

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Lokarin posted...

If there's a better word for unknown period of time than "indefinite" I'll hear it

Indeterminate. And you're welcome.

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I agree with my choices, that's all that matters!

Also everybody should officially forget about the Snyder cut of Justice League because apparently there's a Paul Feig cut of Ghostbusters >_>

https://bleedingcool.com/movies/ghostbusters-2016-three-hour-cut-feig-snyder-cut/

It's 3.5 hours long! Think of everything they compromised and cut to get it down to the 2hr14 theatrical run!

Sweet Jesus, no. Also, cute of that article to call the movie a "moderate success." It was a box office bomb that cost the studio at least $75M, according to Wikipedia. Pretty much everyone has moved on and agreed that the movie was trash at this point. Absolutely no one is demanding an extended cut of Ghostbusters 2016.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The problem is, you need somewhere around 70% to develop effective herd immunity. Essentially, at the current rate, we'd have to stay in self-isolation for something like 7 years (at which point, the economy would be a smoking crater and most of us would be pretty much fucked anyway).

Herd immunity is likely moot, anyways, due to the number of people that had COVID, only to get it again. In some cases, just weeks after getting over it. Anti-bodies have to work for herd immunity to even occur, and so far, the virus' ability to rapidly mutate has left that in doubt. That, and the last possibly permanent damage (mostly to the lungs) means the idea if exposure for herd immunity likely doesn't pass a cost-benefit check.

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I've been so buy with this moving stuff that I have not gotten a chance to finish the Final Fantasy VII remake. I'm on the last chapter, and I just need to take the time to finish the game, but it won't happen until we finish moving mid next week.

Bank Robber is wanting me to download and play Streets of Rage 4 with him once I do finish moving into the new house. The reviews have been stellar and beat em ups hit that nostalgia button for me as I use to play with Oreon and Uzi all the time as kids. The Final Fight games come to mind and all the old Ninja Turtle games bring back memories too. Just one more week once the floors go in, and we have our house. One week!

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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Also, cute of that article to call the movie a "moderate success."

Websites walk on eggshells to avoid being called misogynistic for insulting a bad movie with an all-female leading cast. That and editors for sites like BleedingCool tend to be fucking awful at their jobs.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Herd immunity is likely moot, anyways, due to the number of people that had COVID, only to get it again. In some cases, just weeks after getting over it. Anti-bodies have to work for herd immunity to even occur, and so far, the virus' ability to rapidly mutate has left that in doubt. That, and the last possibly permanent damage (mostly to the lungs) means the idea if exposure for herd immunity likely doesn't pass a cost-benefit check.

If people are getting reinfected that quickly, would a vaccine even work?

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Korruptor posted...

There likely won't be a vaccine like the prior coronavirus back in '03 (SARS) or the ones back in '15 and '18 (MERS). Enjoy this song.

To be fair, in the end there wasn't much need for one, while this time around there very much is. And they've already done a lot of the work necessary to produce one - they're already in the human trial phase for a number of potential vaccines.

It'll still probably be another year or so before we actually see one, so it's lot like we all get shots come June and this is over forever, but odds are we won't have to hide in our houses until the 22nd century, either.
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Zeus posted...

If people are getting reinfected that quickly, would a vaccine even work?

Say hello to basic influenza! this is why this particular disease has had such a hubbub about it...

Can you imagine if we tried to eradicate small pox NOW? Despite our superior technology to the 1980s/late 70s, our increase in travel reliance would make it almost impossible.

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I finally watched Joker. Yeah, it wasn't that good in my opinion. Joaquin Phoenix was great and deserved his Oscar, but every other aspect of the film felt shallow. It was as if a freshman psychology major decided to write a film, and add a few comic book elements to please the fanboys.

Spoilers.... just in case.

So Arthur is on 7 different medications, and has a laughing disorder. The funding for his therapy dries up because they need to pay the sanitation workers because of the garbage strike. (Which was never hinted at or resolved.) He can't get his medication through other means? Then he was clearly going crazy before he stopped taking his meds. We also never actually see what medication he's on for all his issues. Don't tell me what he's taking for what's ailing him isn't important if you bring it up a dozen times, and it's the motivation for the final act. It was just a mess. My wife felt the same way, and she's got a masters degree in clinical psychology. It was just surface level crap to justify the big Crime Alley reveal at the end.

End spoilers...

It was a mess. How did the rest of you feel?

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His medication didn't do anything. His laughing condition was actually his fucked up sense of humor but he didn't want to admit it to himself

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Everything after the moment his coworker hands him the gun in a paper bag is a hallucination.

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The Wave Master posted...

Spoilers.... just in case.

...use the damn spoiler tag when spoiling.

The Wave Master posted...

He can't get his medication through other means? Then he was clearly going crazy before he stopped taking his meds. We also never actually see what medication he's on for all his issues. Don't tell me what he's taking for what's ailing him isn't important if you bring it up a dozen times, and it's the motivation for the final act.

Apparently he can't. And the name of his medications is largely irrelevant and doesn't add anything to the story so I'm not sure why you're so fixated on it.

The Wave Master posted...

My wife felt the same way, and she's got a masters degree in clinical psychology.

For some reason I thought you mentioned she worked at a casino? >_< Not sure with whom I'm conflating you.

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Oh, my wife does work at a casino. She makes more money dealing with the high roller clients than trying to fix people through a broken system. Plus, she would need her PHD to really make decent money in clinical psychology. Therefore, she deals with rich jerks who pay her very well for minimal contact. (That takes a lot of mental gymnastics too.)

Think of Molly Flynn in Molly's game, but with hotel rooms instead of drugs and high stakes poker games. She books bus tours, flights, and special rooms for the rich guest and the entertainers that come to the casino.

You want Pepsi in your room instead of coke, she is your lady.

Movie was still trash.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

His medication didn't do anything. His laughing condition was actually his fucked up sense of humor but he didn't want to admit it to himself

What makes you think that? I must have missed something.


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Agree, I didn't think Joker was anything special, and felt rather it robbed Joker of his agency by making him just an actual mental loony, rather than someone who acts like one but has methods to their madness.

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I was offered to do some manual labor at a casino once, the pay was good and everyone was actually really polite. It felt... morally wrong and I made some lame excuse and didn't show up later.

I don't really regret turning it down as well.

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shadowsword87 posted...

I was offered to do some manual labor at a casino once, the pay was good and everyone was actually really polite. It felt... morally wrong and I made some lame excuse and didn't show up later.

Yeah, I'm not sure I could stomach working for an industry that so directly profits off human stupidity and suffering. I like to have at least a few degrees of separation.

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I finished Gotham last night. Apparently the last season was only 12 episodes instead of the usual 22.

Although the show was broadcast by Fox, it really felt like a CW production. There were elements that reminded me a lot of Smallville, partly because the chick playing Lee reminded me of Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang, Smallville).

Season 1 felt a lot more episodic with some running character storylines, whereas the seasons that followed seemed to try to have more continuity. While character personalities were pretty inconsistent, Barbara's was the absolute worst since she seemed to have at least one major personality change each season in addition to a new look.

Besides the inconsistent writing, there was a decidedly inconsistent tone. Occasionally things got very grimdark and other times it felt campy and cartoonish, with things that would have felt at home in the Adam West Batman (such as goons reading comic books while holding somebody hostage. And the pice de rsistance? One of those times it was a book labeled Detective Comics!)

Season 1 was great. Season 2 was a mess, although the Maniax were a nice touch. Season 3 started off stupid, but things really picked up later on. Season 4 was pretty fun; although it had some glaring problems, it might be my favorite season. Season 5 was just something of a waste, although the final episode was awesome. (One complaint about the penultimate episode is the fucking submarine. Riddler claims it can only be operated by two people yet Nyssa -- who doesn't seem particularly capable -- uses it to escape alone. I'm not sure whether we're supposed to write that off as the Riddler just making an excuse to come back or it's a straight-up plot hole, although everything involving Nyssa kinda sucked.)


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Rating the rogues in Gotham:
Joker stole the show. Gotham was neat in that we had *multiple* depictions of Joker and they worked in a lot of fucking shit for him. I'm not sure whether I preferred Jerome or Jeremiah, but the combination puts them well ahead of everybody else. I also loved Ecco, but I'm not sure where to put her on this list (especially since she had a relatively small role) so I'm just giving her a nod here.

Riddler took a while to really get going. The whole Miss Kringle build-up was as predictable as it was painful to watch. After that, we had to briefly suffer through a cliche mental breakdown involving schizophrenic delusions but the payoff was great, considering that he hatches a whole plot because he suspects Gordon is onto him which involves repeatedly misinterpreting Gordon's actions in hilarious fashion. The frame-up was great, because the initial stunt felt like such an Adam West series homage and the scheme was so well executed (it was frame-up in the show I enjoyed). And on the whole, Cory Michael Smith's performance was a delightful. He was involved in most of the season's high points.

Professor Pyg was an unexpected pleasure. I have to give Gotham a lot of credit for making me like a character who I absolutely detested in the comics and supporting media up until now. He had a great mix of goofy and creepy even before the really big payoff with the twist (which was kinda predictable with the dinner scene). My only criticisms are that they had him slip out of character and we *already* had a cannibal dinner scene.

It took a while for the show to bring in Scarecrow, but we finally had nearly everything I could hope for (a good costume, a decent origin story, and storyline relevance) even if he was kept a little less developed and influential than some of the others. Having the two Cranes was a plus, although they probably could have worked both storylines into the same character. I expect that the only reason they didn't is that the main rogues gallery had to be age-appropriate for Bruce so nobody could be more than 25 or 30 years older than him. "The Fearsome Doctor Crane" worked as a standalone story and I liked how they introduced Jonathan Crane as the Scarecrow after.

Victor Zsasz was a character I hadn't cared about in the comics, but he was great for comic relief and random badassry. However, his betrayal of Penguin was kinda flaky and they didn't really do much with him after that. I'll mention that Headhunter was also fun, but he doesn't really deserve a spot on the list because he was only in *maybe* 2-3 episodes and seemed to exist so that Penguin's top henchman could fall into a trap that Zsasz would have been too smart for.

Jarvis Tetch was something of a surprise. While I hated the character at first (and didn't like him much in other media), he kinda grew on me and he was definitely one of the show's most sinister villains. I imagine part of the reason I disliked him at first was the stupid facial hair, which kinda made him look like he was a woman pretending to be a man

Prior to her first death, Fish Mooney was great. And Jada Pinkett Smith reminded me a bit of Eartha Kitt in the Adam West Batman. While she was more of a supporting player who served to build up Penguin, she shone in her own right. Season 2 didn't really do her that many favors and then she played a somewhat minor role after her revival (vanishing completely for a while then only showing up to die). Had she been written off at the end of season 1, she would have had a better overall character arc.

The Penguin was all over the fucking place. He had great moments and absolutely terrible moments. And the fact that he constantly yo-yo'd between being in favor and out of favor, being in power and out of power, is largely why I rate him lower than a lot of the others. The Pax Penguina was fucking awesome and gave new meaning to "organized crime." On the downside, the Peguin's look was never quite there, no umbrella gun (or umbrella weapons period outside of the knife-handle), he had so many dropped story threads, and his character was wildly inconsistent. The decision to try to pair him with Ed was weird and a little out of nowhere, but it's more a symptom of the weird writing rather than a larger issue.

Mr Freeze and Firefly were both good in their respective roles. The one problem with Freeze is that his Nora dies early (also, oddly enough, the actress who played Nora in Gotham also played Nora in Being Human, which was the only other role I knew her for) and consequently his whole character motivation seemed a little flaky afterward since, up until his change, everything he did was for his wife. Despite knowing that the dead could be revived, he never seemed to even broach the subject with Hugo Strange.

As for Hugo Strange himself, I'm kinda iffy on the character. BD Wong was a weird choice for the role and we never saw much depth to the character. While he was in a mastermind role at first, we quickly see that he answered to the Court of Owls and then he just had a minor supporting role throughout the rest.

Ivy was just flat-out bad. There were 3 actresses and 3 separate performances -- mope-y child, airheaded twenty-something, and evil eco-terrorist in her thirties -- and not one really jived with me. The personality shift from child to twenties Ivy feels out of place and she was more used for comic relief than anything. Twenties to thirties at least had more of a logical mood swing, although her awakening in the sweater (which I didn't remember her wearing for a long time previous) was weird.

Theo and Tabitha Galavan were pretty lousy. Theo was insufferable for most of his run (although he made a neat Azrael) and Tabitha frequently lacked discernible personality, even after

The Court of Owls was terrible. Part of the problem is that they were were just serving the League of Shadows, who were also awful. Everything about that was terrible. You had a criminal mastermind (Strange) revealed as simply serving a secret society (the Court) and then, on top of that, you have ANOTHER group controlling the Court. Who the fuck that thinks that's a good idea?

Ra's was also terrible. Other than wanting to die, he had no real discernible character movie and the Bruce as an heir thing was never all that established. He goes under everybody else simply because I'm still not sure what the fuck he was doing there.


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Apparently I hit the cap on spoiler blocks in a post (despite it being one long spoiler), but here are the last bits:
The worst of the bunch were Bane and Nyssa al Ghul... although technically the worst would be Barbara Keane, if you counted her as a rogue. She was just all over the place in the series. Arguably Selina could be listed as a rogue as well -- since she repeatedly allied herself with rogue groups -- but doing so seems a little weird within the greater context of the series.

There are a few others I'm not even going to bother listing. They didn't really do anything with Grundy as Grundy and prior to that he was just a supporting character. Ventriloquist was neat for all of the ten minutes he was Ventriloquist but, again, what's the point? While I enjoyed his appearance, he was a complete throwaway reference. Most of the mobsters I don't really count as rogues, although Sofia Falcone is a bit of an exception because she was a bit more actively engaged whereas the others felt like they were setting up other characters. Of course, while Sofia was neat, the resolution to her storyline was an absolute mess and -- because she wound up in a coma rather than being killed -- it felt like she was an abandoned plot thread. Barnes/Executioner legitimately fits the role of rogue, but I'm not even sure how to rank him considering his long run as Barnes and brief role as Executioner.

Noticeably absent was Two-Face despite the fact we repeatedly saw Harvey Dent throughout the series. While it would have been neat to see him in No Man's Land/s5, they couldn't really use the characters they had.


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So far this month, I've knocked out:
-5 films I've never seen before
-4 video games (including the entire Banner Saga)
-2 books
-3 TV shows/seasons

Even that somehow seems low with all the time I have. From what I've done earlier in the year, I'm on pace for by years end:
-72 new movies
-23 video games
-7 books
-24 TV seasons

Going top up the book count a lot, and I very much doubt I hit that TV mark. Also, The Banner Saga games were pretty entertaining. Oregon Trail type gameplay, with permanent causes and effects from your choices, that carry over from each game. Fire Emblem style TBS for the combat.

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Still on the subject of Joker, saw this meme earlier (with a typo) earlier:

https://i.imgur.com/QuFN3dj.jpg

tbh, people are awful nowadays. It's enough to drive anybody crazy!

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

So far this month, I've knocked out:
-5 films I've never seen before
-4 video games (including the entire Banner Saga)
-2 books
-3 TV shows/seasons

Even that somehow seems low with all the time I have. From what I've done earlier in the year, I'm on pace for by years end:
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I haven't really gamed at all, but I did watch a few tv series while furloughed. One of these days I'll turn on my ps3 or hook up that ps4 I bought during Black Friday/Cyber Monday. I find I have time, but not the drive or follow-through for a good many things.

I should probably try to binge as much as possible because I won't have this much time for a while. It's one reason why I watched Gotham finally. A shorter show or something with a self-contained season (ie, American Horror Story) I could watch in a weekend, but a longer, continuous show I usually put off until I have vacation time to burn up. Speaking of American Horror Story, kinda debating whether to finish Hotel, restart it because I'll have forgotten some of it, or just jump to a season that doesn't suck this hard.

Oh, and which films and shows did you watch?

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Hasbro is currently live-streaming old episodes of GI Joe on YouTube. They're showing the first episode of the Pyramid of Darkness miniseries right now.

This makes me oddly happy. Which doesn't even make all that much sense, considering I already own the entire original series on DVD, so I could watch it whenever I want.

And yet, I'm probably going to binge watch the fuck out of this for the rest of today (at least until I have to go out later).
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OH SHIT.

Now they're showing The Mass Device miniseries.

Truly, today is a good day.
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Did y'all know that it's relatively easy to destroy the world if one were so inclined?

All it'd take is a rocket capable of getting into orbit and dropping a small radioactive payload... the Van Allen Belt is ruined and all global sattelites are gone for good.

The simplest way would be with a small nuclear weapon, but ain't nobody got permits for that! But the cheapest way would be with a multistage hobby rocket you can get at hobby stores and a 2lb load of processed potassium... $500 to destroy the world.

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Lokarin posted...

The simplest way would be with a small nuclear weapon, but ain't nobody got permits for that! But the cheapest way would be with a multistage hobby rocket you can get at hobby stores and a 2lb load of processed potassium... $500 to destroy the world.

Kim Jon Un thanks you for the advice.

Korruptor posted...

Kim Jon Un thanks you for the advice.

You don't have to "drop" anything. Arthur C Clarke figured out decades ago that if you wanted to kill every living thing on the planet in one go, the most efficient method would be launching a 60MT neutron bomb to the right altitude over one of the Earth's magnetic poles and lighting it off. The magnetosphere would do the rest of the work.

Aside from cartoonist supervilliany, this isn't really a risk until billionaires can live off-world comfortably. We're keeping an eye on you Elon Musk!

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

This makes me oddly happy. Which doesn't even make all that much sense, considering I already own the entire original series on DVD, so I could watch it whenever I want.

Pretty much how I've always rolled.

Lokarin posted...

Did y'all know that it's relatively easy to destroy the world if one were so inclined?

All it'd take is a rocket capable of getting into orbit and dropping a small radioactive payload... the Van Allen Belt is ruined and all global sattelites are gone for good.

The simplest way would be with a small nuclear weapon, but ain't nobody got permits for that! But the cheapest way would be with a multistage hobby rocket you can get at hobby stores and a 2lb load of processed potassium... $500 to destroy the world.

That doesn't really destroy the world, does it?


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ParanoidObsessive posted...

OH SHIT.

Now they're showing The Mass Device miniseries.

Truly, today is a good day.

Never heard of that one. Am I the only one that remembers Exosquad?
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I've always felt bad for getting halfway through xenoblade Chronicles and then quitting and watching the cutscenes on YouTube

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CarefreeDude posted...

I've always felt bad for getting halfway through xenoblade Chronicles and then quitting and watching the cutscenes on YouTube

Can you skip them in the game?
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Revelation34 posted...

Never heard of that one. Am I the only one that remembers Exosquad?

Exosquad wasn't part of GI Joe afaik, it was its own thing.

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