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  1. Wombat

    2021-2022 NFL Season: Deshaun Watson will die a Texan!

    NFC: TB, Packers, Rams, Cowboys WC: Seahawks, 49ers, Redskins AFC: KC, Bills, Titans, Ravens WC: Dolphins, Browns, Colts Without knowing injuries in advance, TB still has the best roster in the NFC, AND I don't have any faith in the new Saints in being competitive with them. The NFC West...
  2. Wombat

    Star Trek: Picard

    Once, long ago, I was excited for the Picard show, as we would finally get to see something past DS9 in the timeline. Now, when I see 'they time travel to the 21st century', the only question is "Did they have to cut the budget to that degree since no one wants this show' or 'Are they...
  3. Wombat

    The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

    This smells like a Terminator: Genisys deal, where the trailers make it look like its a defacto remake, but that is really just the first act of the movie. I referenced Terminator: Genisys for a reason.
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    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    That arm looked broken in slow motion.
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    The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

    The original casting plan for the first Matrix was that all of the heroes would be black, and all the agents white. Hollywood creatives haven't become more liberal, the studio heads have stopped reigning them in.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The photo was commenting on the wealth disparity, not the size. Ironically, the photographer probably didn't know that Amazon wouldn't build a building that tall unless there are 3+ floors and millions? of dollars of robotics equipment (the Roombas SeanDoe1z1 referenced) packed inside there...
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    None of them show any sign they are making major income, and unlike a lot of Youtubers, have to pay rent on warehouse space. I'd be shocked if any of them are making much beyond $100k, with the caveat that a lot of silly personal things (Gremlin arms) get listed as business expenses for their...
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    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    Honestly, by modern QB backup pay standards, $5.1 Mil wasn't too expensive for draft insurance. It does throw out any ideas that this is a 'Playoffs or Bust' scenario in NE.
  9. Wombat

    Saints Row 5

    This game feels like an alternate universe where THQ turned into Ubisoft and churned out SR2 sequels every two years. Maybe I'll be surprised, but this just feels like Watch Dogs 17. (P.S. Actually, forget giving out SR3 - I am tempted to play SR4 again. Too bad all the great stuff is way...
  10. Wombat

    What If...?

    Does it? All we really know is: Coulson is a 'Steve' fanboy.. but Hydra Smasher existed in that timeline. Hawkeye and Fury were alive when they pulled Captain Carter out of the Shuma Gorath portal... but we don't know when that was relative to the first Thor movie. Something with a Captain...
  11. Wombat

    What If...?

    Much like Mysterio in the second Marvel Spiderman, it does feel like there has to be a second level twist for the comics audience, and not having this be the What If concept we know by having a single timeline would qualify, as well as providing cover for annoying details people point out, like...
  12. Wombat

    What If...?

    Supposedly a number of voice actors show up in multiple episodes, and I can't imagine they would bring Kurt Russell or Jeremy Renner in for literally one line - we'll probably get followup episodes with Captain Carter in the present and Yondu's crew fighting Ego. Plot twist: Maybe all of the...
  13. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    To be fair, SL's initial numbers were better than they should have been, just due to Covid droughts. And Activision's stakeholders can argue whether they are playing Live or Classic, they are still paying their sub. It should also be clear their glacial release schedule has done their retention...
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    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    Considering drafting Love only made sense if there was a sizable chance Rodgers was gone next year, all this really sounds like is a renegotiation on both sides: Rodgers doesn't have to give back his signing bonus if he would have 'retired' this season and gets some say so in where he gets...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    While _some_ individuals were fired due to their own behavior (Furor), stating that mass upper management started leaving two years ago because they knew their Me Too comeuppance was inbound seems unlikely (as well as chronologically iffy). It's far more likely this was just the normal stock /...
  16. Wombat

    The Tomorrow War (2021)

    To be clear, the movie doesn't set any ground rules, and quantum realities are nightmarish to comprehend regardless if fictional or not. For all we know, they did just keep sending back samples to the past... which resulted in endless divergent timelines where they beat the aliens. That doesn't...
  17. Wombat

    The Tomorrow War (2021)

    Just like every other big studio movie they sold to someone else's streaming service due to Covid, there was no chance this was going to be better than forgettable. Look, as much as I want to reward studios making new IP, this was just utterly forgettable. I think I'll remember as much of this...
  18. Wombat

    Loki

    I assume every chain's vests will be animated adspace a la Idiocracy as soon as they can come up with a good way to recharge them.
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    Loki

    I was expecting most of this... in the finale. I have no idea where we go from here. So blind speculation time: Kang _is_ one of the Time Keepers, but wants to rule for himself. Ravonna is working with him (mirroring the comics), and 'Lady Loki' is working for Ravonna (the other analyst that...
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    The E3 2021 Thread

    I'm not sure there was footage of a single game that made me more interested in paying for it. (Alright, fine, Psychonauts 2's graphics don't look terrible now.) Given how far off nearly all the newly announced games are, I don't think there's a single new announcement I care about yet either...
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    The E3 2021 Thread

    The 8-4 guys over the weekend said they doubted there would be a Switch Pro announcement at E3 since its not in Japanese daylight business hours. (Obviously there are stock ramifications.) That means nothing for it coming out this year, mind you, wasnt the 3DS XL two weeks after E3?
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    The E3 2021 Thread

    Frankly, we should have expected this. Debugging an almost complete game? Plausible to get done from home, especially if geometry is finished. Having your art people pulling down massive unoptimized uncompressed world geometry repeatedly, especially once the scope gets cut down and you start...
  23. Wombat

    The Outer Worlds

    On one hand, there just aren't many Scrolls/Fallout-likes that aren't from Bethesda. On the other hand, there just wasn't any spark to anything in the first game. Admittedly, the budget wasn't massive, but I have a hard time remembering anything about the game, and I played both DLCs when the...
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    The E3 2021 Thread

    ... creepily possible, and uncomfortably prescient.... Death's Door looked like it would have been fun if we weren't burnt out by Hades. Wizard with a Gun reminded me far more of FF9 than Ralph Bakshi...
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    The E3 2021 Thread

    The only show worth watching (as opposed to skimming the summary) starts in 45 minutes.
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    Loki

    The shoulders of the opponent seemed feminine to me (e.g. Lady Loki), but Richard E Grant is also in this, and I can't imagine who he would be other than Old Loki. What order any of those three are in the timeline, I couldn't tell you. And yeah, you would have to think the show ends with (some)...
  27. Wombat

    The E3 2021 Thread

    Personally, I just want to know what everyone's up to. Even before Covid, the realities of modern AAA game production were getting to everyone, with Ass Creed no longer yearly and Modern Warfare cutting entire game modes out of some of their yearly releases. I don't expect much, possibly...
  28. Wombat

    The Mandalorian

    Not that we really need to rehash that the Disney sequels ranged from mediocre remake (TFA) to actively bad (TLJ, ROS), and that was almost entirely due to the (re)writing, not the acting, but we need to be very clear here: The reason Kylo Ren was the only interesting new character in the...
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I'm pretty embarrassed by how many of those I knew, but it was heavily weighted towards TNG and DS9 (aka good Star Trek).
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    Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy

    They paid 'in advances' - Epic gave them $146 Million, but the first $146 Million in sales goes back to Epic. In effect, they guaranteed them $146 Million in sales (what, 2.5 million copies), not that Epic gave them an _extra_ $146 Million plus sales. The 'One-Off Fee' and marketing spend at a...
  31. Wombat

    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    Cute way to keep (an) A. Rodgers in GB.
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    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    Love not even being active last year was a bad sign for the next half decade, but if we don't lose Rodgers this year he's gone next year, so we may as well get something for him. Sure, the Packers still will be competitive this year, but I would take Garop and picks in a heartbeat for Rodgers'...
  33. Wombat

    Invincible

    In this very episode TV Eve said she'd been with Rex for longer than she was with the Teen Titans, so at least middle school for thwm meeting up, with probably the same general storyline Much like the Boys, the characters will have the same names and mostly looks, and the general* arcs will be...
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    "Jack, did you do something funny?"
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    Invincible

    This smelled like the payoff episode, next week will just be the infodump on what the Viltrumites have truly been up to, though it wouldn't surprise me if the final scene matches what happens when comic Mark finds out the truth.
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    Invincible

    So, is this the best media (TV/movie) to come out since Covid started?
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Don't most/all covenants have the 'good' stuff (aka mounts, etc.) tied to the level 4/5 covenant feature? It seems like mathematically it will still be better to get that to 4+ than to fiddle with getting everything to level three first. (The again, my main is Venthyr, and I haven't bothered to...
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    To this day, I remember that the end credits blasted Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up', and the little old ladies walking by in the hallway being appalled by the lyrics as everyone left the theater. As far as the movie goes, even at the time I thought it was relentlessly mediocre and cribbing off...
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    Invincible

    That was the point of the post-credits scene, Omni-Man thinks himself and Invincible are functionally unkillable. We also don't know if he was still hovering outside, he may have waiting to prevent any deathblows if the new Guardians couldn't cut it. But getting the wife off his case may be...
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    Invincible

    Yeah, I was a bit worried about the dust cloud fights in the last episode, but they were just saving their budget for this one. I'm still fuzzy on how durable everyone is in this world, apparent humans can survive being crushed two feet into cement, yet civilians die instantaneously.