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Uncharted Based on the both professional and audience reviews I was expecting this to be a lot worse than it was. Outside of the major casting mistakes of Nate and Sully it was about what you think an Uncharted movie would be, they are great games but I don't think anyone is expecting them to translate into high art on the big screen. 6/10
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Orville - New Horizons The move to streaming was a mixed bag IMO. Clearly had a bump in the budget and fewer episodes allowed for increased production values on a per episode basis. They also were allowed to do longer episodes which unfortunately for most of the plots was unnecessary and it always felt like there was a scene or two that could be cut from almost any episode. I think Seth Macfarlane has finally accepted the fact that he is a bad actor and allowed the rest of the cast to have more screen time this season. One surprising change was the almost complete lack of humor this season outside the last episode. The first season was a mess with dick and fart jokes and modern day pop culture references that were totally out of place. Second season they wisely changed it up to make the humor more culture clash based and it worked really well most of the time, this season had almost nothing aside from a few one liners from Bortus who remains the MVP of the show. 7/10
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General Entertainment Worst business decisions ever.
elbobo replied to CastletonSnob's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
This is from 1972 Xerox was 10 years ahead of anyone else and we are talking about 10 years in the computer industry, that is like 3 lifetimes and they did nothing with it. Pretty much everything from the mother of all tech demos that occurred a few years earlier is here in commercial ready package. Again this was 1972 Xerox Alto - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG The Mother of All Demos - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG -
The Northman I was not a fan of the mysticism elements and thought they really detracted from the rest of movie, I understand why they were in there to not make it paint by number revenge film but they just didn't work for me. 5/10 The unbearable weight of massive talent Nic Cage being a caricature or how knows maybe real Nic Cage is entertaining. This movie is not quite what the trailers made it out to be though. A good time was had though. 7/10
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General Gaming What are you playing today?
elbobo replied to CastlevaniaNut18's topic in The Spawn Point
Put about 5 hours into Evil Genius 2. I typically like these builder/management type games but this one the systems just don't work well together. The base building is separate from the income earning portion of the game and it makes for a muddled mess. Really disappointed in this one. Going to start Deathloop next. -
Ambulance Michael Bay got a camera drone and by god he was going to use it. This movie is exactly what you would expect it to be. The helicopter scene in the LA river was wild, honestly the best stunt flying since Terminator 2 probably, can't believe they got permission/insurance to do that scene. 6/10
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This looks very "ehhh I guess I'll watch it at some point" and I play D&D every week
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Star Trek Strange New Worlds Best first season of Trek since TOS and it maybe beats it but has the advantage of only having to put out 10 episodes so they can focus on quality instead of quantity. Great cast in terms of characters and actors, excellent production values and it has the proper Trek adventure spirit to it where it can have serious plots without being excessively dark. My only complaints are Spock continuing to be the center of the Star trek universe at Skywalker levels of importance and also I did not like the Gorn being straight up monsters that hunt and eat everyone they come across. 9/10
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Inflation sucks bruh: JPow's Jihad
elbobo replied to mclumber1's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
upstate NY, it was very much a starter home. 1000sqft and needed updating but structural and mechanically fine I paid 95,000 for it in 2011 and sold it for 115,000 in 2017 after putting about 15k into it. Looking at online estimates which who knows how accurate those are it is currently worth 165,000-180,000 which is crazy IMO. -
Inflation sucks bruh: JPow's Jihad
elbobo replied to mclumber1's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
average new car price has hit $47,000 in the US. That is half of what I paid for my first house only 10 years ago. Monthly car payments have crossed a record $700. What that means WWW.NPR.ORG The average cost of a new car is also at the highest on record, topping $47,000 a pop. At this rate, an essential household purchase is starting to feel like a luxury in America. -
Television Stranger Things 4 out now
elbobo replied to Remarkableriots's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
Outside of the whole Russia plot which felt like a completely unnecessary distraction it was a good season. -
I was watching the first 2/3s of this thinking "hrmmmm Raimi is really restraining himself on this movie" then there was magic fight involving musical notes and then Strange possessed his zombie corpse across dimensions and made a weapon cape out of the souls of the damned and I was 100% on board. The sould cape was one of the coolest things in the entire MCU.