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My pen and paper history was AD&D to Shadowrun, with a lot of dawn of internet forum / newsgroup arguing over SR, so its just my personal nostalgia. Disclaimer: I need to give serious reattempts to Disco, BG3, Divinity, and Witcher 3, all of which fell off due to real life time crunches.

What the hell is an RPG now anyway? I mean that literally - which do you include / exclude out of Mass Effect / Cyberpunk 2077 / Fallout 4? Those characters have wildly different skill sets and narratives based on your choices. Is it background stats? Because then Grand Theft Auto San Andreas...

That was the biggest complaint of the first season, for each of the three-episode arcs, the first two probably could have been condensed into a single 'setup' episode. I personally think these damn kids need to adjust their Adderall schedules, but given the sheer amount of content fighting for...

Just to remind everyone, Bethesda never even finished bugfixing their Fallout 4 graphic update. Yeah, fixing graphical upgrades is now beyond them. Fortunately, Virtuous was actually in charge of this, though I am morbidly fascinated at how many ugly issues we'll get combining Gamebryo and...

What's this, the basest excuse to link Young Scrolls?

That.. was definitely a Frankenstein creation. Given what the new guys apparently had to work with from the original Disney version, I can't blame the new showrunners too harshly for the end result, but Disney should have tossed all the old material (and never made it in the first place) and...

I wasn't old or British enough to get anything out of Last Night in Soho beyond the technical aptitude, but Edgar Wright still gets a blank check for life from me for Hot Fuzz.

8GB cards just aren't enough memory in 2025.

They're doubling the rate you get (non-Darkfuse) reps with 11.1.5 - and good thing too, as I think it was going to be five months until I could start working on paragon rewards. But again, its not the total time investment that sucks (you could probably spend 10 minutes twice a week there and...

I would consider 1 (at least the first 90% of it), 2, and 3-8 all separate genres. While the internet now hates JJ Abrams (you should hate DIsney for not having a long term plan for Star Wars and letting Rian Johnson throw grenades into the franchise in the middle of a trilogy), I still think...

To Brah's point, literally all pregnancies for women 35+ are considered 'geriatric pregnancies'. Kirby's hardly an old woman (though she has hit the age where super low body fat doesn't help attractiveness), but she is literally old for a first time mother.

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Karl Urban has flat out said Garland was the actual main director on Dredd as well - Karl Urban Claims Alex Garland Actually Directed ‘Dredd,’ Not Pete Travis - though this sounds more like main editor.

With Flacco signing, Browns in position to forgo drafting QB at No. 2 Is it possible Sanders slides all the way to the Saints, or do the Panthers or Jets actually get the Steelers to move up? Yeah, this is the time of year when we hear theoretical after theoretical only for everyone to do...

Is literally one person on Earth surprised that they decided to turn a modern Sue into a girlboss momboss? Especially in a world that's culturally set in the late 50s / early 60s?

My opinion: Black Widow was not a good movie, but Florence Pugh in both that and especially the Hawkeye show may legitimately be the most charismatic character post-Endgame. (Actually, add that to the near-infinite list of post-Endgame Disney problems - the only great castings were Pugh, Hailee...

It's the Marvel entry I am most interested in this year, but yeah, I fully expect this to start lower than Captain Falcon. Adjusting for inflation, almost certainly in the bottom five, possibly as bad as fighting with Ant-Man (I believe currently) for second worst. Obviously if it is good you...

To be clear, seeing comic*-Butcher in the show rip through people like he did in Season 1 (remember Haley Joel Osment) before the showrunners retconned that every supe has durability should be amusing. I am thinking every actor who played a minor supe in previous seasons has a pretty high chance...

It was less of a wet fart than I expected, but did nothing to justify large chunks of the season. As people online have pointed out, all The Boys did in this episode was protect someone (that then went to prison*) then protect someone else (that one of them then killed). Arguably nothing would...

Again, you guys just don't get it, women came up with everything first, no matter how badly the dates are faked on their receipts. (Apologies for self-quoting, but I just wanted to reiterate how they came up with the worst end result.)

Edit: And if you like Noiselund's music videos as much as I do... you might be Mike, who made him put out a vinyl release (the songs have also been slightly remixed as part of the deal): noiselund.com

At least on paper, Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts, and Blade are all going to be released in 2025 as well (so you need some spacing between films), and given the apparent massive size of the rewrites and reshoots that this movie has had, it is hard to imagine Captain Falcon's enemies don't factor...

I thought it was made clear that Noir 2 was a supe actor pretending to be Noir 1. They haven't specified what Noir 2's powers are, beyond flight and 'standard' supe strength and durability / regeneration. Edit: and presumably acrobatics / flexibility, if he was going to be in Vought's Cirque du...

I have no idea what's going to happen in the finale. Normally, that would be a good thing, but here, it's just because the season has been such a meandering, politics-first mess that I will be shocked if the finale turns this into a cohesive storyline. Hell, something finally happens in episode...

I assume the NFL gave them the axe back when the last episode aired, but they've been running out the clock with their non-competes / non-disclosures until their contracts ran out now. Presumably Hanzus and/or Sessler have something in the works, but its hard out there for (even media) veterans...

I thought Gen V _the show_ was fine and didn't consider it a waste of my time, but like others here, I didn't give a crap about any of the characters, as they're all sex / party obsessed degenerates rebelling against their parents. Which is on brand for _their_ age range, but not anything I want...

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/around-the-nfl-podcast-ends I've been expecting it ever since the NFL Network went into cost/show cutting mode at the beginning of the year and talk started about subletting all their operations to ESPN, but at least we have...

As others in this thread have already said, you mean she was _smart_ enough to get shot by MM, incapacitating her, thus causing Homelander and Neumann (and not her) to make treasonous comments captured on audio recordings? I just can't see her endgame though - is she a fifth columnist for...

To be accurate, "Sage" didn't cure cancer - at that point all she was was some random kid who claimed she cured cancer, to which any sane executive would respond to the same way, no matter the sex / race /etc of the kid involved - "Sure you cured cancer in three days, without testing or any...

But that's not the Sabretooth that Reynolds was in a movie with?!? Now, if this is some running injoke where they only cast different actors than the ones Reynolds was previously in movies with (like the nonsense above about Blade), that's a pretty meta joke, but if he's trying to say X-Men...

Just like all sex-based comparisons in all other industries, the numbers are meaningless if you aren't controlling for experience and base pay. -"All these fresh out of college female assistant scriptwriter hires aren't making the same amount of money as our male assistant directors with 20...

I should have questioned how RLM's animated bits haven't involved Mike making fun of the elderly. The truth is revealed!

At this point, I honestly enjoy Spaceballs more than all the Star Wars movies other than Empire and the original. Even I didn't bother with the animated series. Considering how unloved modern Star Wars is vs the original trilogy, this seems like a hard sell, though it is nice they are giving...

Hughie not being dead within microseconds at the ice rink is the worst plotting this show has ever done. It's also hard to shake the feeling that everyone suddenly has new backstory they need to go through this season for any reason other than the writers have no idea how to progress Homelander...

The disappointing thing isn't the writing, it's that everything is taken from existing material, from the mechanical aptitude to the immaculate conception. Which in turn makes me think they're going to Dr Who this, and it turns out everything you white men like was done first by gay black...

To be fair, Ahsoka had a pre-existing fanbase from the various Clone Wars media. As usual, the better question is what the ratings will end at.

Even by Season 2 it was getting a bit absurd that Butcher and crew could survive so many direct confrontations with Homelander, Black Noir, etc. Not looking forward to their politics this season either, but hopefully Season 5 gets a comic Black Noir adaptation on their way to killing off everyone.

The one Alamo Drafthouse I hit on a business trip didn't encourage me to search for them on any other trip. That said, when their model has so few seats, and caters to higher income groups, that if they can't fill seats, that's a bad sign for the mass market.

To be clear, I've hated auto-scaling for literally decades (e.g. Final Fantasy 8). While the goal of having all content be useful at any level is a good idea on paper, it's extremely difficult to tune right. The normal outcome is to have enemies get stronger as you level, which goes contrary...

Evans wasn't fired, Endgame fulfilled his contract. He had been griping in the press for years that he didn't want the Marvel grind anymore. These weren't statements to try to get a raise for another batch of movies, he wanted out of the Marvel system. Whether that will be a good move for him...