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I mean, that doesn't necessarily have to be terrible as it was in the show. The books stopped at Bran having just met the old man in the tree. His leadup to the throne could go vastly differently than it did in the show, assuming Tubs actually writes it.

It was a full-on Cara Dune still the last I saw - no idea when it was changed.

I'm not defending Disney, but it's not a personal account when your profile picture is literally you dressed in your company-provided work outfit and your employer owns the picture.

This isn't simply a left vs right thing. Humanity is simply too stupid to deal with social media, full stop.

I recall an interview with GRRM that was given probably around S2 of the show or perhaps just before it. He clearly stated that he gave D&D the ending of the books, including who ends up on the Iron Throne, but there was no elaborate blueprint of how the story would get there (likely because he...

That was fucking tremendous. But why is it that some random dude in a basement can still make better deep fakes than a multi billion dollar company?

I'm maybe 5-6 hours in. I've only completed a handful of main story missions and have mostly explored and done some side stuff. I'm having a really difficult time getting into this game. It feels backwards and strangely shallow in a lot of aspects that are surprising. I love the shit out of The...

Nobody: Bill Burr would be great in Star Wars Bill Burr: Hold my beer

I'm not sure if the PS5 has a quality / performance option, but if so you may want to try switching to quality to see if it looks better without sacrificing too much framerate. I need to give it a shot myself - maybe that's what I'm missing.

I wasn't expecting the game to look phenomenal on the Series X, as the promised next-gen graphics update is not due until next year, but boy is it rather disappointing to look at in its current state. Whoever said before that the PS5 version looks worse than some last gen games, yeah, that's...

Amazon now says my pre-order won't arrive until next week, so there goes the 7 minutes this weekend that I could have snuck in some time to play it. A local Wal-Mart says it's in stock now for local pickup and it's actually $10 cheaper. Any chance they'll actually pull it before release date...

Season one does drag in the middle for a while, then gets good at the end. It's not bad per say, it's just sort of disposable and relies too much on having a Star Wars skin. Despite a few clunky moments, I'm enjoying the shit out of this season. It's worth the mild slog.

Yeah thankfully they're done with all of that by the last three episodes.

I finally watched this today. Here's some AV nerd shit before I get to the movie...I decided to give a Dolby Cinema theater a try for the first time. It's definitely better than any other large screen format I've seen in terms of contrast and image quality, besting IMAX and RDX and whatever...

That was a lightsaber? I took it to be a big vibroblade. Or was it supposed to be the Darksaber? I never watched the cartoons. Anyway, very solid show. I'm glad that the season eventually settled into being legitimately good without the automatic bonus points for being Star Wars.

Oh for fuck's sake, put down the karaoke and finish The Winds of Winter already.

I haven't seen this one yet, but every Star Wars movie that comes along is good for at least one ticket from me, no matter how large of a shit pile it's purported to be. I was obsessed with the OT as a kid, and even after giving due consideration to the parade of mediocrity and nonsense that has...

Hey, you leave Legos out of this.

In JJ's defense, Rian set him up for the ninth inning with bases loaded and the meat of the order coming up. He panicked, tried his damnedest to impress with his best 98MPH fastball, but it shot straight down the middle for a grand slam. I mean, the guy's not a good closer to begin with. No one...

I haven't really dug in completely on any reviews yet, but so far I'm seeing two consistent takeaways... This works hard to pull off a 180 from TLJ, and....is somehow just as bad, or worse. Of course some of these same people were effusive in their praise of TLJ, so, grains of salt, etc...

I just assumed that LGJ was being fed some sort of advanced longevity drugs while under Trieu's "care". Anyway, impressive show. They could have royally fucked it up at a variety of points, but it managed to be satisfyingly unpredictable, compelling throughout, and the ending didn't suck...

He was clearly in his comfort zone for kicking peoples' shit in this time.

That was great. More like that one, please. I legit lol'd at "That's not saying much".

I pay almost no attention to YouTube and Twitter movie reviewers, but if that list resembles anyone's genuine opinion, it's the most bizarre example I've ever seen. You could throw each of those movies into an RNG for a full day and you might not get anything that jumbled.

Hanks is both a great and a bad choice. Out of the current crop of actors, I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone as close to Fred in terms of the right combination of warmth, genuineness, likability, etc as Hanks. The problem is he's a super-recognizable actor playing a super-recognizable...

Why should the existence of a documentary preclude a drama? I'm all for anything that gets today's kids interested in Mr. Rogers. It seems like the vast majority of children's programming is produced under the assumption that 100% of its audience has ADD.

The entire episode should have been Tyrion continuing to slowly make his way around the smoldering ruins of King's Landing, the crunch of each footstep becoming continually more intolerable as they work to avoid the charred corpses of children, mothers, fathers... It would have been far less...

Sometimes I get my vowels confused. They are saying Bronn, right?

Is this where Martin says "JUST KIDDING!" and suddenly belts out the last two books? That would be quite the marketing campaign.

If anything, "Best Buy" settings would help bring out low-light detail as they are way overcooked with Contrast / Brightness cranked to stupid levels. In this case it's definitely more of a combination of shitty quality source and director intent. As you said, which is more of a factor will...

You're getting old. Just wait until slowly spinning in your desk chair to retrieve something out of a drawer requires a full minute of recovery to settle your stomach.

Lighting? Sure. Settings? Fuck that. I have a calibrated dark room and light room mode, and that's as much as I'm willing to mess with settings on a show by show basis. Both the streams and the broadcast are shit for quality. I watched a bit of the Battle on the Blackwater on Blu-Ray...

Four and five would have been pretty good if they were trimmed and combined. He added so many new characters and weird, meandering plotlines. It was his way of stalling for time because he clearly had little clue where to take this thing after the insanity of A Storm of Swords

I know this is just a shitpost, but she's very much the anti-Mary Sue given the 4 million episodes where we are treated to Arya regularly getting beaten to shit, kidnapped, blinded, brutally trained by the Faceless Men so she can be counted among the most elite association of murderers on the...

OLEDs generally can do well with near black, but it usually requires an experienced hand to properly tweak without messing up other things. Out of the box they tend to crush out a lot of dark detail. The stream I watched was pretty hopeless regardless. Issues with the plot aside, I do look...

The difference is that when GRRM did it, it (usually) resulted in an improvement.

Probably related to how you watched it. I streamed it over Amazon Prime and it was clearly compressed into oblivion and whenever there was a lot of action on screen it devolved into a blurry mess. Throw minimal lighting on top of that and it was a challenge to watch to say the least. GoT has...

Yeah, that was distracting the shit out of me the entire time. The 4K HDR Blu-Ray will be something to see I’m sure, but the broadcast quality was awful. So, all that backstory with Bran and the Night King, and his entire purpose there was to cast that fucking bee spell from Bioshock?

Ed. :(