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My name is Kang and I’m here to say, I’ve been banished to this realm in a major way

You know who cares about spoilers? Cowards. Put the ending cinematic in the trailer before I waste my money on trash, have thumbnails tell me what happens at the end, I don’t even care.

Go on.

I was hoping that Michelle Pfeiffer would teach Kang that poetry is just another way to rap.

Adams and Musk competing for the "Most Divorced" championship belt.

Beagle solidarity.

@Ominous

If you can’t cheese Krauser with a knife in this, someone fucked up.

It's like lol but not

I think this came up here, but the way we talked in 6th - 8th grade had me thinking we'd have lost at LEAST 6 girls to toxic shock syndrome before we all graduated high school.

OLO

This hasn't been the case for like... 30 years.

New Jersey baby, New Yorkers can eat my ass.

I said something to a coworker I shouldn’t have about a decade back. I still feel bad about it. Politically I used to support the second amendment. Then I grew a brain, a dick, and a heart.

The New York Jets are valued at > $5B and I dare say that Harry Potter is worth more than the fucking Jets.

Pretty sure he's Veb / the goo pot.

Back on my bullshit. Kidding aside I guess I'll sum up things too so y'all know what's happening. Back to... Chapters 21 - 40 of 1990's... The Eye of the World. In which... Everyone gets separated Nyneave sneaks up on Lan, and their May / December romance kicks off kinda Moraine talks about the One Power in ways that don't really come up this way ever again a few times Mat goes full Gollum Perrin does his best Pierce Brosnan impression Rand gets the DTs, channels some more, and gets the DTs again Thom takes one for the team Perrin and Egwene meet some Tinkers and everyone gets horny but nobody does much about it The Children of the Light are real dicks, capturing Perrin and Egwene Chapters 31 - 34 are needlessly confusing with poorly established flashbacks We realize Rand has never seen a blonde person before Rand and Mat end up in Camelyn and meet Loial Lan, Moiraine, and Nynaeve rescue Perrin and Egwene Rand sneaks a peek at Logan and meets Elayne, Gawyn, and Galad, then Morgase, Gareth, and Elaida Once again I'm blown away by the pace of this book compared to the middle and back end of this series. I forget how long the whole affair was supposed to be... three books? Four? And while we'd miss out on a lot of some stuff. my feeling going into this and especially now is that the series is just too damned long. Some thoughts... Funny that power wrought weapons are supposed to be rare but Rand, Thom, and Lan all have one. Some stuff here is just never explained. The shimmering at White Bridge... I don't think that ever comes up again. It's never really clear how Moraine uses the tokens, or having Healed the boys, or both of them, to track? And I don't think this stuff comes up later. I don't think a bunch of stuff about Elyas gets explained, or why the Children of the Light are in a position to bump into Perrin and Egwene at all. How did Morgase ever hear what someone from the Two Rivers sounded like? The Emonds Fielders didn't even know they had a queen! Also Chapters 31 - 34 are... badly written flashbacks. I wonder if Jordan intended them to be deliberately disorienting to let us vibe with how Rand was presumably feeling, but it just kinda sucks. And hey, Loial! Who doesn't like Loial. One thing that I think is clever about the series ie the notion that the boys being ta'veren can do a lot of heavy lifting for why shit happens the way it does. Oh you think Rand has plot armor? So sorry, he does almost literally. At this point I can't remember when people who channel get to see the weaves... I know it comes up eventually but I keep forgetting that Egwene and Nynaeve can't? I don't think Moiraine is inverting everything she does, and they don't see the weaves themselves since Nynaeve is initially in denial about whether she can channel at all. No Mat POV at all yet? I guess it doesn't happen at all in this book given what's coming and the fact that he's in the bag for most of it. Anyway there are 13 chapters left in TEoTW, everything is about to make even less sense, and goddamn the back half of this book must channel the speed force if they haven't even made it to the damned blight yet.

My brother in Cthulhu, this movie features sentient nanoscopic jello made of potable goo whose juices act as a universal translator when consumed and you're wondering how they could have justified like... a normal guy being around and saying words?

So this was fine. I liked it. It's not great. And as @sblfilms said, it's the least "fun" of the Ant-Man movies so far. Spoilers below... Is Disney punishing Evangilne Lilly for her anti vax bullshit? Because for an "Ant-Man and The Wasp" movie you could cut The Wasp and almost nothing would change. I feel like she barely had any lines. Modok was uuuh... something? He gets one scene where he just mops the floor with everyone to set him up as deadly and then he's a punchline for the rest of the movie. Almost the entire cast of the quantum realm gets short shrift. I appreciate that a lot of the microverse characters here have less history and clout than some of the other MCU side characters we've seen to date but still. Majors was great, which isn't surprising. He's acting like he's in a better movie than he is. Also the least realistic thing to happen in the entire MCU to date is Paul Rudd managing to hang in a fist fight with Majors. But while Kang isn't going to be the ultimate baddie in this phase, it feels a BIT weird to set him up as his multiverse conquering menace then have him get KO'd by ants and the same trick Janet played on him 30 years ago. But again, put Majors in everything, he rules. Also after the insufferable "Thanos was right" takes, if they make Kang have a salient point about nuking timelines, I'm going to lose my actual shit. For as big as the alleged impact of this movie is supper to be on the MCU, so much of this feels low stakes. Scott has essentially no conflict in this movie. There's some halfhearted banter between him and Cassie about Ant-Man not doing more to help people but as soon as he's given the opportunity to help, he does. Everyone kept stuff about Cassie secret from Scott but that doesn't matter. Janet kept stuff from everyone, but that doesn't matter. People kept stuff from Janet, but that doesn't matter. Every possible point of friction is smoothed over immediately. Love and Thunder at least gets Thor ready for the next stage in his life and sends off Jane. Stuff like Iron Man 3 at least moved the needle for Tony within that movie, even if the larger MCU papered over that in Infinity War. This movie mainly feels like it exists solely to introduce Kang to people who haven't seen Loki. So I dunno. Moment to moment it's not like it's unenjoyable, it's the MCU equivalent of filling up on bread. But as someone who still just appreciates superhero movies not being shit like they were when I was a kid, I can't get mad. That said whoever decided that Michael Peña shouldn't be in this needs a talking to.

Selling "protection against impersonation" is so deeply fucked.

There are so few creatives who eventually become billionaires that it doesn't matter. Rihanna, Kanye at some point, Rowling? I don't think we're talking about many, it's not relevant. Snatch that shit up too, om nom nom.

Every single billionaire on god's green earth is a policy failure.

This is certainly more common all the time, but again, I don't think it's reasonable for laypeople to conclude that the reason your job uses one is that they have control over Okta or whatever, and not your texts. "Normal people" just don't think about this because they don't have to. They'd think a password like ygHytb$1 is more secure than horseysurprise+Twitteraccount1 because it's "more random."

I don't blame laypeople for thinking that something like SMS is more secure than an authenticator, since the presumption would be that only they have access to their own texts and it feels like using a third party app is giving whoever runs that app the keys to the house. There's nothing inherently intuitive about this.

I'm going to be mad if the show ends with Barry never fixing the roof.