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After watching this, I'm surprised at the number of people that think this is a good movie. This is not the complete train wreck the theatrical release is, but as far as I'm concerned it's still a remarkably bad movie. Sure, Cyborg is a character as opposed to not being one, but the rest of the League is free from any development. Sure, the villian has a motivation, but he's also reduced to being a glorified henchman, while Darksied does all of nothing other than appear in a LOTR style flashback. The mcguffins are better explained in this, but they're still stupid and they added a whole new mcguffin that isn't explained at all. Some of the action is slightly better, but that was far from the biggest sin of the original. As far as I'm concerned, this is a film that is still fighting in the dumpster to be king of the trash pile. I haven't re-watched BvS or the theatrical release, but it's clearly still in a league with those films rather than contending to be an actually decent film like Wonder Woman or most of the MCU.

I'm a registered independent, but functionally a democrat, especially in this day and age.

This NFT nonsense is so crazy to me. It's still a jpeg, it's not creating digital scarcity of this item, it doesn't even transfer rights or even ownership (at least not by itself). We're just in a crazy crypto boom and people are assuming anything on the blockchain will rise in value. All the power in the world for artists who are making money doing this, but I don' think it makes any sense at all to purchase these things.

To me this acquisition feels like it's too big to fail (it isn't, but it feels that way). There are enough studios making enough games with a big enough catalog that it won't be long before MS is reaping benefits from this. It's impossible to say if those benefits will meet that dollar figure, but there should be a pretty consistent stream of games coming out to make it feel worthwhile. With nearly every other purchase, Rare, Bungie, whatever, it was always so dependent on just a few upcoming games. The scale of this transaction is really something else.

Yeah, I don't think they really finished dealing with the reality of what Wanda imposed on everyone in that town. The battle with Agatha and the loss of her invented family took emotional precedence, so it was recognized, but not finished. Sure, sword dude probably deserved to get locked up, but it sure seems like the FBI would have at least feigned at taking Wanda in for kidnapping a town. I think it's a casualty of the finale being a bit rushed. Too many story and emotional beats to get through.

Does anyone like him? Why do people keep putting him on TV?

I had it done years ago. They did it laparoscopically so there was a very small scar and recovery wasn't bad, couple weeks of mild pain when using my stomach muscles. After the surgeon got in there they figured out that my appendix wasn't a problem, but they still took it out anyways.

I did this to run the new Destiny 2 raid on day one. It was my first time doing anything like that in a long long time and it was great fun even though it was with a bunch of random guys and we didn't do particularly well. I have a couple groups of friends that regularly do game nights, one of which I hosted pre-pandemic. Very occasionally we'll make it a longer evening and have pizza or something. There's only been once we set aside a whole day to play Diplomacy, which took something like 10 or 12 hours. I think it's something I should do more often. It's freeing to set aside a whole day and declare that I won't be doing anything useful, won't be cooking, and will just be playing games. They're hard days to come by.

That really seems like a pretty sizeable increase. It would increase it from $0.08 to $2.33 per gallon on beer, where ~$0.08 seems to be in line with other states. The tax structure is sufficiently complicated that it's hard to figure out exactly how much beer is taxed overall from creation/import to consumer purchase, but it does seem like a huge increase from what I can tell.

I'd like a far more powerful switch, but I won't expect one. I also have hardly touched my Switch in the last year+. BOTW2 will get me playing again, but I think I'd need more than just that to upgrade a console.

Arizona is pushing a State bill that would prevent app store operators from forcing a specific payment system, at least for devs located in AZ.

Unfortunately it sells. Anecdotally, I've got family on various levels of the right wing news spectrum, and it seems like this is the kind of stuff they feel most comfortable talking to me about. To them it gets sold as "only crazies would possibly think this is ok" so they always seem surprised when I disagree with them and think maybe it's ok if we don't show kids openly racists books or cartoons. Fox News has done a very effective job at weaponizing this kind of thing.

I would guess it wasn't too expensive an acquisition at this point, so it was probably a good deal. Right now Fall Guys is 97 on the top 100 steam games, but it feels to me like a game that could remain more relevant. Going F2P is the obvious move, and launching on Switch and Xbox will help either way.

As someone who defended sunsetting as a concept, I'm glad to see them abandon it as implemented. They never should have devalued playable activities to worthlessness, and they should have been implementing more weapons to replace what was sunset. I'm surprised they reversed course so soon. I feel like the change to the level grind is a band-aid to a larger issue. Last season I hit the level cap and played all the high end PvE content, and it's just not fun to grind to be able to do those exact same activities. With the release of Beyond Light, at least I felt like I was leveling for the raid. Grinding levels to play the same nightfalls I was playing before is a bummer. Still, I'd rather grind 50 levels of powerfuls than 10 levels worth of pinnacles. The RNG of doing a thing like a master nightfall / master hunt only to get a reward in your highest level slot is horrible. Hell, I'd take a 100 level power grind with RNG protection over the 10 level pinnacle we have now. Ultimately though, the problem is less about how the grind works than what you're working towards. Working towards doing the same things you were already doing is a bad deal. It always feels better to be working towards something you couldn't do if you don't grind those levels. In WoW that always meant a new area, new dungeons, new raids. The comparative trickle of new content in Destiny will always be the fundamental issue the game has. I know they really don't like gating content too much, but there's something primal about powering up in order to earn the new thing. After playing around in a 12 man raid this weekend, I also felt very acutely how much Destiny needs to evolve some of it's activities. Throwing more players and chaos is an easy way to make something feel more epic, and the technology is obviously there. There's still so much to like about the fundamentals of Destiny. I just want them to do a bit more with it.

Think about WB's internal benchmarks. Superman, Superman II, Batman 89, Returns, and Forever were all the top hits of their respective years. TDK had broken records the same year the MCU started. Rises was only behind Avengers in 2012. They put the two most recognizable comic characters on the planet in one movie and it gets horribly panned and grosses less than half a dozen MCU films starring comparative nobodies. I would agree that if I were at WB I'd have been more concerned about the poor reception than the total revenue. $870M is a good haul, but it must have lowered everyone's expectations for what Justice League would make. (Of course, those figures were revised higher after Wonder Woman, and then JL went on to become an actual failure.)

Last week in my tier got effectively removed. I'm not sure if San Diego entirely follows state guidelines or what, but currently the county has phase 1A-1, 1A-2, 1A-3, 1B, 1C, and 2, where 2 is everyone over 16. (They're currently up to 1B) A week ago 1C included a broad swath of "essential workers" as defined by the state that I would have been eligible for. As of last Friday 1C is now only for people with underlying health conditions and there is no priority for the broader essential worker category. I won't argue the change is bad health policy, but it is a bummer that now I have to wait for essentially complete general availability before trying to get an appointment. I was really hoping that being part of the last phase before that would make it easier to get.

Somehow I feel like a couple guys who couldn't figure out how to kidnap a couple of dogs without shooting someone are not exactly mastermind criminals. I would be surprised if they are at large for too long.

Given that some amount of Vision's powers came from the mind stone, I wouldn't expect him to be nearly as powerful. Still, vision's body was a vibranium Ultron body, so it should be quite powerful if restored, even without the stone.

I don't have a PSVR, so correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was the games tend to be those that can be played standing in place or sitting, generally facing forward. It obviously limits the design space, but was necessary due to the nature of the tracking. I guess I figured that even if the next version has inside out tracking that they'd continue catering to a similar set of experiences, in which case, wires aren't that big of a deal. Don't get me wrong, I have a quest 2 and I love the lack of wires, but I'm sure that a wired PSVR would be much cheaper.

I'm very surprised to see praise for this, because to me it's one of the clear failures of the game. It's an open world and I want to be able to approach it that way, but the so many camps are designed you're forced through a specific path. Maybe there are a couple of entry points, but overall it's incredibly prescriptive in how it wants you to approach certain areas. It's one of my absolute pet peeves in open world games to run into "return to story mission area" warnings when playing an open world game. Why the hell should I not be able to flank or take the high ground? I really don't go that far out of my way in these games, but I keep running into those messages during story missions and I hate it. I tried picking it up again today after taking a break and I'm not sure if I'll come back to it. It's a decent game buried under frustrating design decisions and glitches. To name some that came up during this play session: why is it that I can find and use a gun, but it won't go into my safe? This is a game about scavenging, and thankfully it lets you pick up guns, but if I find one I like on an enemy that I haven't purchased, I loose it as soon as I swap it for something else. Also, why in the world do you pay random camps for refilling ammo at a bunker? I don't really care since the amount is tiny and I always seem to have plenty of credits, but I just ransacked some whole camp, find their bunker, and then pay for the privilege of taking their ammo? Or how about the idea that I can fast travel to a camp, go to their mechanic, and be prompted to pay 50 credits to retrieve my bike? I also couldn't save, because despite being in a camp I was too far from my bike or a bed. I could write pages of annoyances like these, none of them game breaking, many that I'm sure won't even occur to a great many players, but they keep piling up. I do want to get to a point where I could take on a horde, but progression is so slow I'm not sure I'll put in the necessary hours.

This really sounds like a 4chan troll that people are taking seriously.

I really like that provision the cops are complaining about. Has something like that been included in other state legalization bills?

I've been waiting for this since they announced the first PSVR. I'll almost certainly jump on board. Kinda disappointed that we didn't get more info for any kind of look at the hardware.

I'll be going back as soon as I'm vaccinated and once there are movies to see. I haven't really looked at the release schedule, but I feel like there's little that will be unavailable to stream in the near future. I suspect summer we might start seeing more big movies with a more normal release schedule.

I find the Australian news thing fascinating, and I kinda hope it goes through and news stays off of Facebook there. Don't get me wrong, I think it's incredibly stupid to force Facebook to pay for links that users post to the site, and essentially blacklisting news is a relatively reasonable response to such an insane law. I'd never support anything like that in the US, even if it were somehow legal. Still, I think a world where people don't get their news from Facebook is probably a better world than one where a huge percentage of the population only gets their news from Facebook. I could be very wrong. It could be that those people move to other platforms and their news diet becomes somehow worse than it was with Facebook, and people are radicalized to insanity at a higher rate than before. Either way, it'll be an interesting experiment at a huge scale if the current state of affairs holds.