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Yeah sounds great just gotta let my meds kick in.

Cyborg is objectively better in the Snyder Cut; that and other improvements don’t justify the thing being twice as fucking long.

Get on my level, Biden, you fucking scrub.

I really enjoy DR1, but I feel like it was perhaps too "long" to be the kinda game where you try, fail, and repeat once you're more leveled up. I like it a lot but it really feels its age; it came out before there was a broad understanding of what games from that generation "should" be. Which in hindsight means that there's nothing else like it, even the later DR games. Also it's fucking weird that the game rewards you for upskirt and titty pics, that has not aged well.

Neither do I and I was there.

I’ve seen Shigeru Miyamoto’s penis. I had a pleasant conversation with Curt Schilling.

Ugh I’m late this week. Good luck y’all.

Gaming is potentially in deep trouble. If Spider-Man 2 cost almost 1/3 of a billion dollars to make and part of the plan to reduce costs is a headcount reduction of 50-75 people… what the fuck are we actually talking about? Absolutely fucking not. Spider-Man 2 is rad as hell. It’s also the buggiest, crashiest AAA title I have ever played and is dramatically worse that Spider-Man 1 and Miles Morales in that regard.

Pretty sure that’s what the “when compared to all others” means; there wouldn’t be a repeat.

Jesus Christ.

I think I’ve said it in other threads here, but my beefs with him are about the output… from what I’ve heard about him personally he seems like a good guy. So it’s not “personal” at all. I single him out because I think he generates more chatter than the material merits and (I say this with full appreciation that the call is coming from inside the house ) the fact that the guy insists on 3 hour+ cuts for 2 hours of material all the goddamned time.

FWIW I don’t hate Snyder at all. I genuinely do like his visual style when it’s applied the right way. Dawn of the Dead is good and I generally like most of the action bits in his DC movies, Justice League, Batman v Superman, and Man of Steel all included in that. 300 is a fun but fundamentally silly book and the movie is a fun adaptation of that. I just think that when it comes to the character stuff, he just misses the bullseye, the target, and possibly the very earth itself. I appreciate the criticisms of the samey-ness or “safety” or both when it comes to the MCU and I wouldn’t say Disney/Marvel’s approach to character is perfect by any means (Iron Man specifically is often just… whatever he needs to be for any specific movie or sometimes scene within the same movie), the MCU just fundamentally understands what makes their characters tick to an extent that Snyder is either incapable of, not interested in, or some combination of both. So a Justice League movie written by someone who isn’t some kinda weird ass libertarian / Randian bootlicker but directed by Snyder with his sense for visual spectacle? Yeah, absolutely.

But it’ll be November again, and there will be no nuts to be had.

Makes no nut November a bit literal.

Oh yeah, I liked it as well, I just thought it was funny, too.

No cut of Justice League is good, and Wonder Woman clicking heads while young girls look on in awed admiration left such a bad taste in my mouth that I just can't bring myself to care too much about the FOUR FUCKING HOURS that thing plods along. It's poorly paced, a bunch of the stuff put back into it overlaps and repeats itself, what we're told about the anti-life equation and what we see makes Darkseid's search nonsensical, etc. There's no good version of that movie full stop and if I'm going to eat shit I'd prefer it be for 2 hours and not 4, the turd being marginally less rank doesn't change the fact that I'm eating shit regardless. I can't recall if I've ever seen a non-director's cut of DotD since I never caught it in theaters... probably not?

This was a fun "episode." I don't know that the show needed an ending beyond what we got in the S14 finale, though I appreciate them acknowledging threads like Archer's dad, AJ, and Mallory here. S14 and this are probably the most interesting and funny the show's been since they decided to backslide away from the character development that happened right before and after the thematic seasons. Lana saying she wished Archer said he'd miss hearing her thoughts on things ten years ago is perhaps a bit on the nose. I don't think the show's really had anything to say about the characters for a few years now, but they went out on a fun note and I guess they left the door open for other shenanigans if they really feel like it.

The Snyder cut of Justice League is NOT better than the Whedon cut, it's just longer. Having a few better bits in there isn't a net positive when he absolutely added more turds to the punchbowl. And I know we had this chat about Watchmen... one of the cuts is better than the theatrical one (director's, I think?) but the longest one (ultimate?) is just too much.

So it's Assassin's Creed. Kidding aside, it's funny to see every feature from every 3rd person action game with a stealth system from the last 10 yeats just listed out in this context.

Greyhound bus stops are valuable assets. Here’s who’s cashing in on them | CNN Business EDITION.CNN.COM Greyhound bus terminals are rapidly closing around the country, causing access problems for low-income riders. So in addition to the usual suspects and what you likely correctly assume are the issues surrounding this, there's another culprit afoot. Private equity is the fucking absolute worst.

When will this guy learn how to edit a movie, Jesus fucking Christ.

Having had various Apple Watches over the years, battery life has gotten marginally better or stayed the same as features have been added. Every time a new model comes out there are panic threads about battery life being worse than the last rev, but they even out after a couple weeks of use. I dunno if the watches deliberately give conservative battery usage stats until they're worn for a while or something, but people freak out about it literally every year on the MacRumors forums.

Tell me you’ve never worked with senior management without telling me you’ve never worked with senior management

In an infinite multiverse, we are all Kang variants.