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ITT: People so upset Seinfeld complained about the direction of comedy they suggest he kill himself, definitely not proving his point.

On 4/26/2024 at 8:09 PM, 69los said:

Week 3

 

The very underrated

 

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I watched this one recently as it had been on my list and it was highly recommended in a reddit threat about horror movies where characters make reasonable decisions. I liked it a lot but wish that the resolution was just a little less obvious.

Never judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree or Tarantino by his ability to count.

I also bounced off after about 1.5 episodes. I gave it a try since it had positive buzz, and I thought the song was pretty neat but the style of dialogue just wasn't doing it for me.

Visually the show was little hit and miss with some of the sets and props looking artificial, but they did a great job with Goggins as the ghoul. 

Seven eps in and I like it more than expected. I thought the trailer looked surprisingly good, the first few episodes were a little dull despite having some moments, but the actual plot of the show is shaping up to be surprisingly solid.

On 4/11/2024 at 8:24 PM, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

The entire bear scene in the second episode 

Really made me think of this.

Finale spoiler:

I cannot believe that this show began in 2000. It’s been a while since I watched the earlier seasons but I really don’t associate it with that era. 

Solid episode, didn't realize the season was over though. I do wish the show was a little less coy with what the viltrumites are actually up to. They're basically offering fully automated luxury gay space communism, but everyone reflexively knows that they're evil because of the way that they are. I just wish someone would ask them a follow up question like, hey if what you have to offer is so great why are you enacting genocidal violence to make us take your great offer.

It would be really funny if there actually is no catch, life with the viltrumites is perfect and we're just such a suspicious evil species that we can't recognize altruism when we're looking it in the face. Though that doesn't really work considering Omni-man's solution to the trolley problem.

As is increasingly the case with his videos, it takes a while to get to video games, but the subject is fantastic.

20 hours ago, sblfilms said:

 

It is a road trip comedy with a sci-fi underbelly

2 hours ago, best3444 said:

 

Ashley Birch.

Sounds promising.

I finished the season and am generally disappointed. There are plenty of nits to pick, but overall one of the best things about the books is how huge everything feels and the way the scope constantly expands. This was largely missing from the show due to the aggressive remixing of the plot and localizing all the central characters as a group of friends who already happened to know each other at the beginning of the show. It'll never happen, but considering the warring Three Body Problem shows going on, the real perfect choice would be Damon Lindelof and HBO heading up an adaptation.

You're telling me they wrote a book as a sequel to the movie Heat?

The pace feels a little too fast. For a show that plays into the mystery aspect of the books, the characters blurt out the right solutions a little too quickly.

Everyone's too young and hot.

I wonder what people who aren't familiar with the books will make of it.

5 minutes ago, HardAct said:

Been reading about this game! I watched the above link "what isBalatro " but I can't wrap my head around what is going on or what I am supposed to do in this game. I finally broke down and bought SF6 last night opening the doors to buying games again it seems. I love simple high replayable games on the Ally. Is this hard to understand, I mean like really here? It looks crazy to me. I'm leaning towards just buying it and seeing but I want to be able to fully understand the game without 20 hours of getting blasted?? thoughts? If it's an easy to pick up hard to master really great game I'll buy it now!

It takes about 5 minutes to understand. 

I can already tell I'm going to spend my entire time watching this being mad about the changes from the books.

The people's elbow on bug planet was brutal.

15 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

There’s not a bad performance to be had other than maybe Christopher Walken who’s… just kind of there?

I feel like in the book the emperor was mostly a dude to whom Paul happens, and Walken really captured that most insignificant galactic ruler energy.

Kicked ass, best fantasy movie since Return of the King.

Finishing up S1.

9 hours ago, Brick said:

Read this game uses an anti-cheat called nProtect GameGuard, and reading the complaints about that AC, make me second guess installing this game on my computer 

 

Doubt Arrowhead could/would change to a less controversial, and invasive AC at this point either.

Yeah I feel like this would get more attention if it weren’t for the server issues. It’s a bummer because I’m not going to buy the game because of this and I feel like in another timeline Arrowhead could have been convinced to ditch it.

It's a bummer this game requires a super invasive anti-cheat program. I'd like to play it when the server issues are resolved but I'm not installing that shit on my computer.

Eps 1 and 2 were interesting, and Jodie Foster, spooky vibes, and the setting did a lot of heavy lifting.

Eps 3 and 4 were boring.

Eps 5 and 6 were constantly escalating nonsense.

lmao

The Outsider was very True Detective but it was a Stephen King adaptation.