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  1. Wombat

    The Animated GIF Thread

    I'm not a farmer and don't know crop growing seasons vs weed growth, but some regions burn weeds at various points in the year, though that looks like a hideously inefficient delivery method. https://deltaliquidenergy.com/flame-weeding-with-propane/
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Not going to lie, at this point I get a significant percent of my RLM enjoyment from whatever Noiselund has banged out this time, e.g.
  3. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    It _should_ sting Feige when the only good MCU movie between GotG 3 in May of 2023 (which, now that I think about it, doesn't have a single character appear in it that isn't from Gunn's movies) and whatever theoretical movie in 2025+ might be good (maybe Thunderbolts in Summer 2025? Maybe?) is...
  4. Wombat

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Eh, as that Thor clip just above shows (which clearly had a very different Valhalla arc, and no Korg or Valkyrie around), Marvel has basically been operating in a 'first draft' mode before they go in and rewrite huge chunks for a while now. But unless Thunderbolts can somehow still make...
  5. Wombat

    The Marvels (2023)

    The spoiler is that characters we found out exist in other timelines in Dr Strange 2... exist in other timelines? And at this point it looks like the only 2024 movies will be Deadpool (which, like GOTG 3, will be huge regardless of the Marvel affiliation), and Captain Falcon, which will be mid...
  6. Wombat

    The Marvels (2023)

    Let me guess, they're a POC and/or woman with no track record of making action movies? Because that may not matter. Everyone involved has admitted that the action scenes are pre-vised to death and basically the directors aren't involved, with the directors just doing the talky bits. That's why...
  7. Wombat

    The Marvels (2023)

    While I personally wish more films were shorter (John Wick 1's only 1 hour 40 minutes, and frankly that could have been trimmed at the end), in general nowadays a super short blockbuster means they kept the action bits and the barest connective tissue between them, because everything that wasn't...
  8. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah, this just strikes me as the current X.Y.5s will be the new point releases, and the current point releases will just be slightly inflated into new 'expansions'. Even worse, the quick blurb has them reusing Quel'Thalas for 'expansion' 2 and Northrend for 'expansion' 3, so who knows how much...
  9. Wombat

    Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

    You've got a while to catch up - ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ Delayed to Summer 2025, ‘A Quiet Place’ Prequel Moves to Summer 2024 (Again, not having 2024 inventory is the reason so many movies were delayed out of 2023, not the 'huge' box office hits for actors not doing publicity with people you've...
  10. Wombat

    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    Packers losing to the Broncos and their (passing for a) #1 WR is clutching his knee? Save some booze for me.
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    AFAIK, there wasn't even a mention. The year ticker in one of the Phantom Liberty trailers lists 2079, which made many of us assume Orion would be set then, but now that we know the epilogue is set in 2079, I don't believe there's even any hints as to Orion's setting.
  12. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    I finally got around to finishing this myself. 1) I thought the espionage feel (including the Bond-ian credit sequence) really differentiated it from the main game. The level of tech the setting has should make spoofing identities very easy, and no one should be sure who they're actually working...
  13. Wombat

    Ahsoka

    Spoilers, if you've only seen the first five, you've mostly been dealing with the slow (but necessary) setup - episode 6 in particular is pretty great as it starts to show just how competent (and therefore how much of a threat) the empire really is. That said, I think I prefer the setting of...
  14. Wombat

    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    This is one hell of a costly game for the Bills.
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    Ahsoka

    This wasn't the worst Star Wars product made, but in retrospect it wasn't worth my time to get a couple of decent lightsaber scenes, at the cost of all but assassinating Thrawn as a live action villain. (He's a blue dude that's good at justifying his failures. Be afraid!) Much like the sequels...
  16. Wombat

    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    We're just four weeks in and I'm willing to write off half the teams. Hell, I don't know if I would bet a single dollar on anyone other than Bills / Dolphins / Ravens / Chiefs / Eagles / Cowboys / Lions / 49ers / Seahawks to even make the playoffs.
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    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    This is getting much further out of control than I figured, woof. Packers injuries are really stacking up.
  18. Wombat

    Would you be willing to forego media entertainment if it guaranteed the destruction of the industry?

    This. Unlike the 80s, where nearly all movies were made for bored teen males, tv and movies now being written for only women is because men switched to videogames years ago. That's also the reason why sports TV contracts are ridiculous: they are the only media men - especially high value...
  19. Wombat

    Ahsoka

    Hati continues to all but tell Baylan "We're getting involved even further with the witches? You do realize we are the baddies then.", so her being the one (and not Thrawn) to turn against the witches seems inevitable. There's only, what, two episodes left, and Ahsoka hasn't even landed yet...
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    Ahsoka

    He's not supposed to be a badass, he's supposed to be Moriarty with a navy - a tactical and strategic genius that knows you better than you know yourself and will use that to confound and defeat you. The other half is Thrawn, at least the still canon prequel books Thrawn, isn't evil. He just...
  21. Wombat

    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    The Captain rides again.
  22. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Also, I have to ask: What the heck happened with non-lethal damage? Blunt weapons, contagion, short circuit, etc. all lost their non-lethal flag, but takedowns still give you the non-lethal option, and apparently there's a weapon mod to reenable non-lethal somewhere. You can argue if non-lethal...
  23. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Clothing is weird, as its not completely cosmetic. It doesn't give armor - except for a couple the chest piece web vests that still do - but pieces do give other effects. I'm currently running around with a quickhack upload reducing eye visor, a camo balaclava (and camo does reduce enemies'...
  24. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    I've never hit 20 breach on any playthrough, even with always allocating points to Int so that breach stays uncapped. Keep in mind, my last playthrough I maxed out engineering (after every combat skill)... by mass crippling, buying immunity to my own grenades, and applying sticky grenades...
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    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    Don't forget geography, while Cincy to Baltimore is kind of a treck, everything else in the division is a day trip if you're committed. Nothing is sweeter than being there beating the other guys in their house, or more painful than stewing about almost winning while sitting in traffic for five...
  26. Wombat

    Cyberpunk 2077

    I haven't heard, will we be able to respec stats outside of the patch respec? Or more to the point, do we still get perk points from skill level ups? That character builder assumes a flat 80 perk points, and I didn't think everyone got a flat amount prior, due to different stats granting...
  27. Wombat

    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    Packers didn't have their #1 RB or WR. That said, they could use some skill players to emerge / be drafted.
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    I'm hoping
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    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    IMO it's way too early to say Love will be a franchise QB. That said, I don't wish misfortune on Rodgers, but am glad we got something out of the contract we signed with him last year, but that would be independent if Rodgers started one game or 20 this year. Honestly, the poor Jets are the...
  30. Wombat

    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    Still, the number of draft picks we got, for four plays, from the Jets. Woof. And can you imagine the additional impact to the Jets if Rodgers hadn't cut his own salary? You would have to think the league takes this as a precautionary tale and doesn't make a major trade for anyone 35+ again.
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    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    3/4ths of this game was miserable, but not the last quarter.
  32. Wombat

    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    Jets defense is giving it their all. Just a bummer, was hoping for an option other than 49ers / Eagles / Cowboys / Chiefs / Ravens / Bills / Bengals (having to win on the road all the way) this year.
  33. Wombat

    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    This is legitimately painful to watch, both in who is winning and how nothing is working for the other team.
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    2023-2024 NFL Season : Arizona's QB Search Continues

    This is the level of offense I expected out of the Packers, at least to start the season.
  35. Wombat

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The bottom two floors of Target's Worldwide Headquarters in Floydeapolis are a standard retail location, and same deal there. You would think seeing that reality on a daily basis that might make the corporation question the trajectory of their political support, but what do I know.
  36. Wombat

    2023 NFL Offseason Thread - Now with less QB sneaks!

    I've been assuming the Cardinals get the #1 pick since free agency started.
  37. Wombat

    Ahsoka

    There is zero chance someone with those eyes is of euro descent. Internet says father's Italian, mother is Chinese.
  38. Wombat

    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Given how Just-In-Time movie making is nowadays, unless they've finished primary photography, maybe even reshoots, I would toss out any Spring premiere dates. Which is probably the real reason for the delay - sure, not having publicity would hurt Twune's box office in 2023, but not having any...
  39. Wombat

    Ahsoka

    The Internet (TM) has noticed that Sam Witwer (the lead in The Force Unleashed games) had a voice credit in the second episode, so maybe they are doing an adaptation of Starkiller as the mystery Inquisitor? Honestly, I'm up for it - nowadays you don't put someone in a mask unless their identity...
  40. Wombat

    The Peripheral

    It's telling that I don't remember any of the names or terminology less than a year out, but the future timeline plans on setting off a nuke to wipe out their city in the present timeline, so Hit Girl generates another timeline in the future, somehow transfers her consciousness to that third...