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I'm six episodes deep, I enjoy it.

1) I wasn't initially stoked on the new take of Iroh, but I've grown to love the way the actor portrays him (it's like following up robin Williams as Genie)

2) I was worried that they wouldn't give Zuko a proper stint as a villain, and they didn't. But I think it works for the tone they're going for

3) the way they combine storylines doesn't always work and makes things feel tonally inconsistent. Episode 5 is a perfect example of that

4) LOVE the music. The way they weave in "little soldier boy" during Irohs scenes is brilliant and will (hopefully) have a big payoff later

5) the acting is inconsistent, but it doesn't really bother me. They're mostly dealing with kids. The guy who plays Sokka is great, and the guy who plays Zuko is also mostly great. Aang and Kitara... The kid playing Aang was literally 12 when this was filmed.

I think Jack Black can be funny, but he should never be the star of the show

1 hour ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Also, for fun, please enjoy him as a clueless fitness instructor in 2008's "Burn after Reading". Fan-fucking-tastic! 

Ooooh, he was really good in Burn After Reading. I forgot about that one.

1 minute ago, Biggie said:

 Brad Pitt > Tom Cruise 

Get the fuck out of here 

4 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Snatch.  Inglorious Basterds.

Fair point, but I would argue that his looks are a large of it his character in those movies  "look at this absurdly attractive man speak like a dummy" is kind of his deal. it's not his acting ability, it's the fact that you don't expect him to act the way he does.

Also Nickelback isn't that bad

Brad pitt is not a good actor and never has been. His most iconic roles have always been "he's Brad pitt." Any time he steps out of his lane he sucks. Sometimes even when he IS in his lane, he still sucks. Like when he played Achilles in Troy. On paper, Brad pitt is the perfect actor to play basically the platonic ideal of a warrior (they should have modeled Achilles after Tyler Durden to an extent, I could write an essay on that), but it turned out like shit. Brad Pitt is good at acting like Brad Pitt.

I don't know how anyone could have seen his segment from last week and took away "he's just both-sidesing it." He clearly said multiple times Trump is worse, but when we get so far up our own asses that we can't even criticize Biden, maybe that's a problem, too.

I can say that I will 100% vote Democrat in November but also say that they kind of suck sometimes. That's not both-sidesing.

4 hours ago, best3444 said:

 

I had no idea. Maybe I'll pass on this all together. 

Yeah there's a whole plotline in the books about how Ciri's dad wants to impregnate her, it's gross as fuck. I imagine the show will not touch that one.

7 hours ago, XxEvil AshxX said:

Ys X just got confirmed for the West this fall. Just an FYI.

 

Also... I was starting to play through the Ys series, starting from the first one. I had to stop. This is a series that I will need to play when I don't mind wandering aimlessly for hours. These first two games are awful.

 

I know they more modern ones are better, and I've played a fair bit of Ys VIII and it's pretty good. But these early ones are rough.

Never start with the early ones. They're rough and only playable if you already know what you're doing

1 hour ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

The first season is pretty good.

I actually think season 2 is better, though more uneven.

The first episode of season 2 is what I wish the entire series was. Just Geralt doing Geralt shit and getting into hijinks. The story becomes immensely less interesting the more it tries to go into the grand "who can rape Ciri first" conspiracy realm, which is the same way I felt about the books. I just want someone to make a monster-of-the-week show about Geralt and Yennifer, like a high-fantasy version of the first few seasons of Supernatural or the X-Files.

There's a mission in War of the North, about ~10 hours into the game, that as far as I can tell is basically impossible to win if you aren't playing multiplayer or using cheats. Absolutely killed the game for me.

Other than that, it's a fun game.

I just got home from work about an hour ago. Celebrating the end of the night by drinking a hard Arizona iced tea and some beef jerky. Dinner/breakfast of champions.

6 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Y'all fuckin' nasty.

You're correct, but that has nothing to do with my snack preferences.

I got $25k tax-free after my mom died, then I injured my shoulder and couldn't work for like 4-5 months. That money was gone within a year and I didn't even do anything nuts other than buy an expensive laptop.

I love almond milk but it is obscenely disastrous for the environment so I generally don't use it. Generally I'll use oat or coconut depending on what I'm doing with it.

Edit: to be fair, almond milk is not as bad for the environment as dairy farming

1 minute ago, TUFKAK said:

Hangovers say hello 

Depends on what you did that resulted in said hangover. Epic night you and your friends will always remember? ... Worth it. It was just Tuesday and you're a piece of shit? ... Not worth it.

I have a strange relationship with it. Where I live now? No. Why? Because I don't want where I live now to feel like home. It isn't home. I don't even own a bed frame. It feels like the minute I own a bed frame and put up artwork, then this is my home. I like to live like I could pick up tomorrow.

I will also likely never be rich unless it happens by accident. Fuck the grindset, live your life. You are not a machine to be optimized for capital output. There is no such thing as an unproductive day.

I don't make six figures, but I also live an incredibly spartan lifestyle. Almost everything I own except for what little furniture I have could fit in a couple duffle bags.

37 minutes ago, TheLeon said:

Ys is a series I keep trying because I feel like I “should” love them. I got decently far into 8, but after like 15 hours or so I kinda lost interest when I realized how much game was left. 

That's why I usually tell people to start with 7 or Memories of Celceta - because they're short like the older ones, but they feel modern like the newer ones.

Oh I forgot about last year getting frozen shoulder. Straight up couldn't move my right arm for like 3-4 months. The pain for the first couple months was insane. I've had broken bones that were less painful. And it was constant like a tooth ache. I had to relearn how to sleep.

You're all wrong, it's "gueeft"

Not permanently, but my job is fairly physically violent, so I do injure myself fairly often. Right now I'm dealing with the aftermath of swinging my knee full-force into a dishwasher while I was at work. I hit my knee so hard it broke the skin. On a flat surface. I've broken like half of my fingers bartending (granted most of that was when I worked for a place that had old kegs with no handles so you had to throw them around and hope they didn't fuck you up. Most bars now don't let you stack kegs for that reason).

1 hour ago, 69los said:

 

Someone crunched the numbers for the AFC Championship game and she was only on for 44 seconds.

 

 

 

BetOnline currently has the over/under at 25.5 seconds. The over is a +200! 

I don't gamble anymore, but THAT is a betting line I can get behind. It sounds like a lot of fun.