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It seems pretty unlikely that Thanos would just… hand an Infinity Stone to Loki given everything that happened in Infinity War. But you know, it worked to have them retcon the scepter to be one them, but it worked for Age of Ultron and The Infinity War / Endgame so who fucking cares.

The answer is so obviously this. Everyone keeps slurping the MCU’s continuity but: 1) It serves such a smaller part of the audience than people realize 2) It’s smoke and mirrors They photoshopped Jake Gyllenal into a bunch of Iron Man shit he wasn’t actually in and body swapped Nick Fury who’s apparently been off-earth for years for, as of right now, no fucking reason. Maybe make one Superman movie that doesn’t eat shit before you worry about him and Apollo punching one another, my god.

I mean I just don’t know that there’s a huge market for this: You’re not going to outdo The Boys, so I have no fucking clue why they’d bring The Authority into the mix. I like Gunn’s style; Guardians have been great and I like Peacemaker a ton. But the latter works as a palette cleanser, you can’t have that vibe be the foundation on which you’re gonna build the whole house. So much of this whole scene reminds me of reading Wizard back in the 90’s. There was a lot of hand wringing about why comics like Shi were outselling Superman and what could be done about that. And the answer is maybe… nothing? Maybe Superman doesn’t put as many asses in seats as people might want? I dunno. They’re talking about rocket ships to Mars but they haven’t put a satellite into orbit yet. It’s weird.

Continuing to chase the MCU’s coattails after what will be almost 20 years of failure is such a weird move.

I’ve come across a few more arenas / encounters where the music / cues for enemies seem off. I’ve killed most of the bigger mobs but there will still be one or more of those little head guys slinging shit at me and there’s no indication that they’re there other than my health getting chipped away. Isaac doesn’t look, the combat music has stopped, they’re far enough away that I don’t hear them, etc. I’m playing on Hard which isn’t too bad difficulty wise, but I was planning on doing a NG+ impossible run and this may talk me off that particular cliff.

If “diet culture” includes shit like detox teas / lollipops / supplements, the demonization of vegetables, fruits, grains, and fibers, focuses solely on calories in/out and not people’s reaction to those things, doesn’t include behavioral changes to help guide long term, sustainable changes… then yes, it’s toxic.

RIP to a real one, I hope they microwave his corpse so it gets huge before they bury it. Ohioguy’s family company makes dum dums.

Been a while since I played the original, but I don't remember quite as many enemies coming up behind you with few, if any, indication that they're there. I get it in vacuums, but I've been ganked from behind in a couple corridors with absolutely no warning.

I have email correspondence of this idea in 2012. Expect to hear from my attorneys.

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This is the first episode of the series I felt was a little weak. I know this isn't the original series, but it feels weird that Vash, who always tried to save the spider and the fly, would be cool with Wolfwood just lasering a worm and then eating it? Especially after it seems like he'd be opposed to that when he doesn't chow down on the younger form. Wolfwood was fine, but I feel like we're running into Knives' goons everywhere. Again I know there was a slowish burn in the original show to get to where we really see what Vash CAN do and then longer to find out what it costs him to NOT do that. He seems a lot more aimless and random in this so far. We're not seeing as much of what life is like for normal people on Gunsmoke.

Ugh I’m sorry to hear that

How's your rehab coming along?

Oh it launches last year does it?

Ah yeah, I remember that now that you said it. Maybe they'll add it or someone will mod it in, it's so much neater than this one.

SOME OF US have as many trophies for being an arsonist as we do for being a firefighter. It's like a coin doubler but for real life.

So... I remember on the PS3 version, when you aimed the Plasma Cutter at something, the three dot sights could target things individually. Like if the leftmost dot hit something close, you'd see it there, but the other 2 dots could go further. Am I making that up? I remember it being a cool effect and it seems to not exist in this one?

I do think this is the smartest thing they leverage from these movies being based on comics… most mainstream, serially published comics make SOME attempt to fill you in on what’s happening in any given issue, even if it’s book 3 of 4 in a series that has hundreds of issues. There’s stuff for the regulars and stuff for first timers. They’re only going to keep the shared universe stuff up as long as the juice is worth the squeeze. They already do this to some extent… Iron Man 3 might as well not have happened, Abomination and Leader were on the shelf for about 15 years, there have been almost no references to a Celestial hand sticking out of the ocean, etc. To say nothing about there being 2 different X-Men timelines that make no sense together, Deadpool’s existence makes no sense in-continuity, etc. There’s gonna be ANOTHER Fantastic Four, MORE X-Men shit, who fucking knows which Venom will show up where, etc. It doesn’t matter.

But audiences don’t care. SOME people do, people like us who are terminally online and use that time to talk about movies do. But normal people don’t. More people showed up to Endgame than Infinity War and Endgame is the MOST dependent on context movie in the whole MCU.

Ooooh I forgot just… the whole ending of Super Metroid. Incredible storytelling without a word being said.

Well well well. Shinichiro Watanabe On Making ‘Cowboy Bebop’ And What He Thinks Of The Live-Action Adaptation WWW.FORBES.COM One of the most successful directors of anime is that of Shinichiro Watanabe. Known for his work on the original and entirely peerless 'Cowboy Bebop', I was more than happy to catch up with him and discuss his long and eventful career. You don’t say.

This shit is actually way more like “true believer” cult bullshit than the stuff you normally hear from right wing pundits.