Poll of the Day > Geekacea: Dose One Edition

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LuciferSage posted...

when i say "crazy", i don't mean Brittney Spears Crazy, the implication was more "Charlie WILDCARD BITCHES! Crazy.

My impression is more like anger management/dementia issues crazy.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

My impression is more like anger management/dementia issues crazy.

so we're in agreement then.

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I let my WWE Network subscription lapse a few months ago. (Basically since Summerslam last August.) And I haven't watched a Pay Per View since. The Royal Rumble is the best PPV of the year because of the surprises, and I'm thinking of renewing my subscription for the vent. It is 10 bucks for a PPV. My dad use to pay 50 to 60 for a Wrestlemania back in the mid 90's. Those were not the days. Well; content wise it was, but price wise... No.

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Shit Wave, I remember people paying like $100 in late 80's early 90's money for Mike Tyson fights when you could go to take a piss just before the title card and miss the knockout.

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The Wave Master posted...

My dad use to pay 50 to 60 for a Wrestlemania back in the mid 90's. Those were not the days.

That's where having a "black box" came in handy.
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Yeah but why not make the whole plane outta that shit

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Yeah but why not make the whole plane outta that shit

Funny thing that. Turns out if you go and make an airplane out of Vibranium, it needs a Starfleet-style deflector dish and bussard ramscoops in front of the engines or atmospheric dust alone is enough to turn it into the most fearsome weapon on the planet on a quick hop from Philly to Detroit when the whole thing tries to land and ends up leaving a crater the size of Alaska when it touches down...

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Yeah but whattabout nanomachines

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Yeah but whattabout nanomachines

Ask the Borg collective about that one...I hear it hasn't panned out as well as they'd hoped in fluidic space.

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Scarlett and I are shopping, and it's not as fun as you would think. Let me explain.

We go on a tes drive yesterday. It's a Chevy Equinox, and it's a nice SUV. It's blacked out, leather interior, back up camera, built in navigation, etc. But the trunk is on the small side. That's a deal breaker for us because of my wheelchair. I can walk short distances, but for restaurants and other unfamiliar or large places we take my chair as it's easier.

The sales person just slams the trunk door on my wheelchair and looks at my wife and tells her, "See, it fits." For 15,000 grand it better do more than "Just fit" with half of the four pressing my chair into uncomfortable spaces.

Therefore, the search continues. We've been looking for a week and we're already exhausted.

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The Wave Master posted...

Scarlett and I are shopping, and it's not as fun as you would think. Let me explain.

We go on a tes drive yesterday. It's a Chevy Equinox, and it's a nice SUV. It's blacked out, leather interior, back up camera, built in navigation, etc. But the trunk is on the small side. That's a deal breaker for us because of my wheelchair. I can walk short distances, but for restaurants and other unfamiliar or large places we take my chair as it's easier.

The sales person just slams the trunk door on my wheelchair and looks at my wife and tells her, "See, it fits." For 15,000 grand it better do more than "Just fit" with half of the four pressing my chair into uncomfortable spaces.

Therefore, the search continues. We've been looking for a week and we're already exhausted.

Have you considered an external mount for the chair, like the trailer hitch mount bike racks? Surely a solution for your chair exists not unlike the spare tire mount for a jeep...

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The Wave Master posted...

But the trunk is on the small side. That's a deal breaker for us because of my wheelchair.

My mother has to use a walker, and it doesn't fit in the trunk of her car. So we wind up having to shove it in the back seat, which works but isn't all that convenient.
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The Wave Master posted...

Scarlett and I are shopping, and it's not as fun as you would think. Let me explain.

Did you really need to explain? A lot of people don't find shopping in general fun, and then you mention it's car shopping. The only time somebody might find car shopping fun is if they're a teenager whose parents are buying them a car. For almost everybody else (except maybe people who came into a lot of money), it's not a great experience.


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The Wave Master posted...

I let my WWE Network subscription lapse a few months ago.

And then Peacock bought it.


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Royal Rble is tonight. My predictions are...

Men Winner: Bray Wyatt (The Fiend) or CM Punk ( I guess this every year )

Women: Bayley.

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Spoilers imply that the ending of the men's Rumble is going to be something "absolutely horrifying". So smart money's on Goldberg winning.
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The benefits and perils of invisibility:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHgki_0ZME0

It's 50+ fucking minutes long, with an absurd number of considerations including invisibility-related clumsiness >_> It's probably the most thorough deep-dive into the power that I've seen, and I'm only 15 minutes in.

The Wave Master posted...

Royal Rimble is tonight. My predictions are...

Men Winner: Bray Wyatt (The Fiend) or CM Punk ( I guess this every year )

Women: Bayley.

tbh, it's been so long since I've watched the Wubya Wubya E that I'm not even sure who's on the roster any more.

The Wave Master posted...

CM Punk ( I guess this every year )

He's never coming back. Even if Vince and "the idiotic son-in-law" both died, I'm not sure he'd ever consider it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Spoilers imply that the ending of the men's Rumble is going to be something "absolutely horrifying".

Kenny Omega surprise entrance and win?!

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Zeus posted...

He's never coming back. Even if Vince and "the idiotic son-in-law" both died, I'm not sure he'd ever consider it.

He's basically said he'd wrestle for WWE again even if Vince or "Paul" were still in charge, if they offered him a large enough paycheck.

The real problem is, the value Punk thinks he's worth and the value he's actually worth at this point are two very different numbers, and I don't see any existing company realistically being willing to offer enough to appeal to him. And I don't see him scaling back his own ego enough to come up with a more realistic number.

No matter how much a very vocal segment of the fanbase still clamor for him to come back, I'm not sure a Punk return actually helps either AEW or WWE all that much right now. And no one else is really in a position to afford him.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

He's basically said he'd wrestle for WWE again even if Vince or "Paul" were still in charge, if they offered him a large enough paycheck.

When was this?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The real problem is, the value Punk thinks he's worth and the value he's actually worth at this point are two very different numbers, and I don't see any existing company realistically being willing to offer enough to appeal to him. And I don't see him scaling back his own ego enough to come up with a more realistic number.

CM Punk is a far bigger draw than anybody in the company today. Otherwise it's not a matter of "what he thinks he's worth" as it is a matter of it being enough to make it enticing to him because, as he pointed out, as Colt Cabana pointed out, as Jim Cornette pointed out, as others have pointed out, he doesn't need the money. He's not a Brock Lesnar who wants an easy paycheck to cover his lifestyle.

And I'm not sure what kind of money you're even talking about. I could understand not paying him Rock money, but he's at least worth Lesnar or Goldberg money.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

No matter how much a very vocal segment of the fanbase still clamor for him to come back, I'm not sure a Punk return actually helps either AEW or WWE all that much right now. And no one else is really in a position to afford him.

As long as AEW's leadership is what it is, literally nobody can help AEW. The only way anybody could help AEW is if they fired almost everybody and started from scratch, including renaming it.

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Going to respectfully disagree on that, Zeus. AEW has been so much fun (IMO) to watch that it got both my wife and myself back into wrestling for good. That being said, no wrestling is botch-free, and AEW is no exception.

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Listened to Cornette's commentary on the Rumble, who noted JBL's reaction to the Rumble... which Cornette feels he spun to being a reaction to the last match. (Ignore the shit at the end, this was the only clip I could find on YT.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh2GWC5nufw

Exactly how bad was the Rumble this year?


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this topic about geek shit right

which spiderman villain has a big spindly hand claw thing that's very easily broken/shattered

i remember reading a spiderman comic years ago, and spidey beat up some dude who had a hand like this, and i don't remember if it was regular spiderman, or some alternate spiderman comic run

all i remember is a weird hand that had long spindly fingers, and spidey broke them
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Smythe maybe?

Doppelganger?

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Adam_Savage posted...

this topic about geek shit right

which spiderman villain has a big spindly hand claw thing that's very easily broken/shattered

i remember reading a spiderman comic years ago, and spidey beat up some dude who had a hand like this, and i don't remember if it was regular spiderman, or some alternate spiderman comic run

all i remember is a weird hand that had long spindly fingers, and spidey broke them

Might not even be a Spider-Man villain. They occasionally had crossovers for villains in the comics.
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I'm trash, I've been AWOL for a bit now. Went from one very difficult and hard film project, to my best friend's wedding in CA, now onto a nicer, much better film project (Jesse Eisenberg is an extremely nice human).

Also, my account is now 17 years old. Insane.

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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Also, my account is now 17 years old. Insane.

My account turns 20 next year. Crazy times.

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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

(Jesse Eisenberg is an extremely nice human).

I'm not surprised he is. Not much range as an actor, but good to know he is a nice guy. I could have easily imagined he's a jerk like Topher Grace...

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I would say Klaw, but Klaw's claw wasn't actually a, y'know, claw.

Revelation34 posted...

Might not even be a Spider-Man villain. They occasionally had crossovers for villains in the comics.

Spider-Man was the crossover king before Wolverine became a thing. Good times.

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I'm always happy whenever I hear about a celebrity being a super nice person.

Revelation34 posted...

Might not even be a Spider-Man villain. They occasionally had crossovers for villains in the comics.

I was trying to think of an answer, but wasn't really coming up with anything. Though Spider-Man was never my main field of expertise - that's more Wave's jam.

Now on the other hand, name an issue number of X-Men from 1975 or so to 1990 and I can tell you exactly what happened in that issue.

I also tend to be pretty strong on a lot of the more major storylines of the 80s in other books (Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, etc), along with a lot of outliers both before and after, but Spider-Man and DC were generally outside of my wheelhouse.



I_Abibde posted...

Spider-Man was the crossover king before Wolverine became a thing. Good times.

It's funny when you realize that the Marvel Team Up and Marvel Two-in-One titles from the 70s/early 80s that were explicitly about two random heroes teaming up together almost always centered around either Spider-Man or Thing.

(And sometimes both!)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Marveltwoine22.png

If they were publishing those titles today, it would probably be Wolverine in every issue. And it definitely would have been in the late 80s/early 90s, when Wolverine basically appeared in every series ever at least once, usually when sales were flagging a bit (so much so that they've made multiple jokes about it in the comics themselves since then, like Wolverine joking that he's not even sure which team meeting he's at in one issue of Avengers because he's on like every team in the world).

But back in the day, Spider-Man was pretty much THE Marvel character, and Thing was huge. It's kind of funny to see just how much both of them have sort of dropped off since then (even if Spider-Man's still a pretty big deal).
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Wolverine isn't as big as he used to be. I think Deadpool might be the king of cameos now.

Or Batman lol

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's funny when you realize that the Marvel Team Up and Marvel Two-in-One titles from the 70s/early 80s that were explicitly about two random heroes teaming up together almost always centered around either Spider-Man or Thing.

(And sometimes both!)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Marveltwoine22.png

If they were publishing those titles today, it would probably be Wolverine in every issue.

What a revoltin' development!

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I have a decent amount of the old Marvel Team-Ups and I'm pretty sure Spider-Man is in every single one.

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Zeus posted...

What a revoltin' development!

*cue yet another tease of Hulk versus Thing that never happens*

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Apparently TRU closed all of its stores... again >_>
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/business/toys-r-us-closures/index.html

They picked a bad time to try to relaunch the company.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Awesome art, but kinda weird that Hulk doesn't seem to be casting a reflection (unless that's supposed to be Banner in the window? idk)

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Yeah.

Ross has gotten a lot of work over the last few years

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Video extolling the virtue of battle axes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGy5fUZoNlI

tbh, compared to other weapons, I've never tended to view them all that highly. I've generally seen them as more of a themed weapon for dwarves, vikings, and the such.

From a practicality standpoint, they have many of the same disadvantages as spears (in that they're larger weapons that often have to be held), while not being as OP as spears and polearms.

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I always favored them in video games.

Got through most of Dark Souls that way

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heavy melee weapons speak to me on a spiritual level

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Ross has gotten a lot of work over the last few years

I still remember when he did the insert artwork for the old Rhino box sets of the Masters of the Universe DVDs. Very classy stuff.

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I'm still alive. I've just been super busy with life stuff. We did get a new car, which was an ordeal, we did get our fence finished, less of an ordeal, but the rest of our house is still not finished; as the giant hole in the south side of my house still persist.

The contractor was supposed to start tomorrow morning, but we don't have enough money from the insurance claim to fully pay off the materials and the labor. Therefore, I have to call our insurance adjustor tomorrow morning and explain we need another 4 to 7 grand to finish the work. That should go over well. Because insurance companies love writing checks.

Anyway, lots of stressful stuff and it'll get done, but it's exhausting.

I have The Chiefs winning tonight 38 to 27. I don't like or trust Tom Brady and he could somehow win this game, and while my gut is saying Bucs, my heart and brain yell me Chiefs.

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Zeus posted...

Video extolling the virtue of battle axes.

I've generally seen them as more of a themed weapon for dwarves, vikings, and the such.

These are pretty much the only character types I ever use those weapons with.

Though they still outrank hammers/clubs for me. I shun blunt weapons like the plague.



Metalsonic66 posted...

I always favored them in video games.

Naruto_fan_42 posted...

heavy melee weapons speak to me on a spiritual level

My instinctive go-to is dual-wielding. Preferably with curved single-edge slashing weapons (scimitar, saber, cutlass, falchion, dao, katana, tachi, etc).

It also tends to favor my normal playstyle - in a lot of games where combat style choices actually matter, dual-handing tends to be all about weaker quick strikes instead of stronger power strikes (especially in games where the dual-hander is basically forced to use daggers instead of swords), and I tend to prefer speed spamming and stun-locks over precision impact hits. It's part of why most of my go-to fighters in Fighting games were usually the female characters (like Chun Li or Talim).

That also goes sort of hand-in-hand with the battle axe thing - the last time I made a Viking-flavored Barbarian character in D&D, I gave them twin handaxes (one of which did extra fire damage, and the other of which did extra cold damage).
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

My instinctive go-to is dual-wielding. Preferably with curved single-edge slashing weapons (scimitar, saber, cutlass, falchion, dao, katana, tachi, etc).

It also tends to favor my normal playstyle - in a lot of games where combat style choices actually matter, dual-handing tends to be all about weaker quick strikes instead of stronger power strikes (especially in games where the dual-hander is basically forced to use daggers instead of swords), and I tend to prefer speed spamming and stun-locks over precision impact hits. It's part of why most of my go-to fighters in Fighting games were usually the female characters (like Chun Li or Talim).

That also goes sort of hand-in-hand with the battle axe thing - the last time I made a Viking-flavored Barbarian character in D&D, I gave them twin handaxes (one of which did extra fire damage, and the other of which did extra cold damage).

Same. I gravitated towards Cervantes and Voldo in the SC series for this very reason (well, that an, undead pirate and, um, S&M gimp thing that is Voldo). Hell, I picked up and mained Pit in Smash Brawl due to his unique dual-wielding and ranged combos.

The lone exception is Monster Hunter, where I like the hammer - extremely slow, hard hitting, and easy to land stuns with,

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

My instinctive go-to is dual-wielding. Preferably with curved single-edge slashing weapons (scimitar, saber, cutlass, falchion, dao, katana, tachi, etc).

It also tends to favor my normal playstyle - in a lot of games where combat style choices actually matter, dual-handing tends to be all about weaker quick strikes instead of stronger power strikes (especially in games where the dual-hander is basically forced to use daggers instead of swords), and I tend to prefer speed spamming and stun-locks over precision impact hits. It's part of why most of my go-to fighters in Fighting games were usually the female characters (like Chun Li or Talim).

That also goes sort of hand-in-hand with the battle axe thing - the last time I made a Viking-flavored Barbarian character in D&D, I gave them twin handaxes (one of which did extra fire damage, and the other of which did extra cold damage).

When picking weapons in a fantasy setting like that, I'd rather just go with a bow or magic and avoid all of that melee altogether (and, on top of that, I favor stealth). Otherwise a spear, staff, etc, that would give me a reach advantage. However, that reach advantage generally isn't represented to the same extent in fighting games, so it's more of a stylistic choice. All the same, it's why I instantly gravitated towards Killik in SC (and Seung-Mina, although I'll mention that I also enjoyed using Talim partly because iirc her shorter height meant that she was less likely to get hit by some attacks)

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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

The lone exception is Monster Hunter, where I like the hammer - extremely slow, hard hitting, and easy to land stuns with,

Hammer is my #2 most played weapon, after SnS. Switch Axe is my number 3, speaking of axes lol

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MH is one of those franchises where on paper it sounds like I'd love it, but I've never cared for the gameplay or mechanics. I think the camera angle (and iirc you couldn't really jump or something?) were two of the bigger turnoffs.

Then again, I played one of the Wii ones and I own a 3DS one, so maybe the games are better on the other consoles.

The core repeating mission concept for gear parts is something I've always kinda enjoyed. I like FF Explorers, for instance.

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It's a big time sink but it can be very tense and exciting and rewarding

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The Wave Master posted...

I don't like or trust Tom Brady and he could somehow win this game, and while my gut is saying Bucs, my heart and brain yell me Chiefs.

Looks like your gut had the right idea, Wave. Disappointing game, IMO, but my father's chili and wings were well worth it.

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I_Abibde posted...

Looks like your gut had the right idea, Wave. Disappointing game, IMO, but my father's chili and wings were well worth it.

Oh, I started playing Final Fantasy VII Remake after the halftime show. I still have some Hard mode simulator battles to finish, and that was a better use of my time than watching the second half of that game.

I blame a lot of this loss on Andy Reid for not knowing how to call a run play or how to call a pass play shorter than 30 yards. Clearly the Bucs were blitzing on nearly every play, and having Mahomes sit back there and hold the ball for 5 to 7 seconds was a stupid game plan after the first quarter, and yet he didn't change it at all. He did this same kind of crap in Philadelphia with McNabb and that game too.

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