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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaetz Withdraws as Attorney General Pick⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean Trump gets to pick his Florida judge that dismissed his criminal case now? Mean she has to be owed and a Trump always pays…heh can’t even type that with a straight face, but as AG she’ll be able to do so many more favours for him. Until Thomas retires from the supreme court and she takes that seat to continue her mockery of anything resembling law in a democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney lost nearly a third of a billion dollars on two Marvel movies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes there’s nothing wrong with enjoying your favourite comic book characters on screen, like watching a live action cartoon. Comics don’t make sense all the time, or cartoons, comic book movies don’t have to either.

  If that’s not for you, than to each their own.

  I’ll also say I haven’t enjoyed many DC / Marvel movies for awhile but not because they don’t follow their rules. That’s their secret… They have no rules.

  Okay I may be wrong there but I don’t know offhand one rule a comic story hasn’t broken at a new point. I also don’t read a ton of them but I know they change their mind a whole lot. Also physics goes out the window when you take into account many comic characters. Sure ant man said this, who says ant man was correct?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science is Magic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure I’ve heard that one, very similar and awesome. I should read some of him, yes I know very famous just something I haven’t got around to doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science is Magic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do agree but if you wanted to make to case for ‘God’ they could have made sure some of their creatures evolved to understand his work, assuming they did it in a logical way. I’m not a person with faith but just try and think a way is possible, though usually trying to understand weird comic and media universe type actions.

  We are the way for a universe to understand itself (paraphrased from Sagan). Though his writing is much more interesting than this comment. I just think there’s room for belief if it works for people, but not for the strict literal interpretations that many seem to believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jay and Silent Bob 3 officially titled Store Wars⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that this helps their case but they’re over 50 now. Well Jason Mewes only turned 50 in June so depending on filming maybe be forty something. I’m older, I still like Kevin Smith, I have simple tastes. I still watch Baseketball now and then. Though I don’t think a group of me would make much of a market heh. To each their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dune 3 | Release confirmed for late 2026; could its title be something other than Dune: Messiah?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He does say he only checks via prescient, in the book’s time, to make sure they’re still on the golden path so he can get surprised. That is one of my favourite bits as well, he sort of gapped out for a moment. Then later we get introduced to him talking about wool gathering when Moneo’s mind wanders, that just made me ponder if that phrase was because he kept thinking about his surprise earlier in the story due to his own wool gathering. If I recall that phrase came up a few times in the series but I can’t remember if earlier or later books.

  Also if you think about it, never being surprised and living thousands of years would be quite boring and humanizes him in a way that most people would not think of since he’s the worm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dune 3 | Release confirmed for late 2026; could its title be something other than Dune: Messiah?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope you’re enjoying it, it’s my favourite of the series but I enjoy the philosophy pondering in that book. I can see why it’s not for many readers though, and if Dune was hard to film I couldn’t imagine trying to do that book without voiceovers of Leeto for more runtime than most studios and viewers would like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Judge Dredd Still Needs a Comics-Accurate Adaptation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly that was a movie that came to mind but I hadn’t read any of the comics to know if it did it justice, just recall enjoying it as a teen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Judge Dredd Still Needs a Comics-Accurate Adaptation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has made me wonder, did any 90s film capture the source material well? I say this as someone who went from teen to young adult those years. Mean you can usually tell a movie’s decade, but this one sort of captured the 90s action movies as an aesthetic to me. Or maybe cause Stallone was in his groove for a bit which was an earlier/mid 90s thing too. Never read the comics but did enjoy the Dredd movie much more, and can’t go wrong with Karl Urban that I’ve seen.

  I’m sure some lesser known comics did better but definitely not Batman, sure there were others I didn’t watch or realize were comic related.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain that, science nerds!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like Hitchhiker’s guide…is it safe? Oh yes it’s safe but not us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like a distinction without a difference, I sort of assumed the OP meant that is all I mean. We don’t know anything before the beginning after all. Like you said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Burton's Batman is 35: Once Upon a Time, Superhero Movies Could Be Bold Auteur Visions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame you were down voted, everyone likes their own things. I preferred the first one until the Nolan ones myself (lived in the middle of nowhere was actually one of the few theatre movies I saw) but there was a horrible drought of superhero movies for those decades and any Batman was fun to get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah isn’t he The Captain? (how I met your mother, how I always call him out with my girlfriend). Yes I know he did plenty but for some reason that one sticks, even if I half watched Dune with my dad in the 80s and 90s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never noticed it was him in X-Men: Apocalypse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup I agree, and usually don’t start looking up actors till a bit of a slow point in a movie (or later if it’s really engaging and only outside of theatre of course), every time I see it’s him I’m surprised cause I sort of enjoy recognizing actors. I’m sure there’s more similarities than I recognize for many actors but playing Poe, to Duke Atredies to billionaire ‘genius’ so well has made him unrecognizable at first, and sometimes I wouldn’t realize even cause I suck at seeing though beards for visual recognition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Double chocolate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard him knocking on his chest after reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA are thinking about inserting adverts into games - but don’t worry, it’ll be “very thoughtful”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Rainbow Six game in Las Vegas had billboard ads back in the day. I was kinda surprised it didn’t get worse since then. There’s a Penny Arcade comic for it.

  I’m sure the very thoughtful part will be about how much money it can bring in without people getting too upset about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just scrolled quickly and didn’t see it but the guy who played Peck ( William Atherton) in Ghostbusters the first one. Evidently he was not well received after the movie, least for awhile. He was a great at playing asshole characters in the 80s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨totally tardigrades⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also he was never married to a hobbit,even if she had a wizard friend and lived in an underground house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt Red still 'don't see a place for microtransactions' in singleplayer games⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their release wasn’t great for many people but they did improve it constantly over the years. To be fair as a PC player I didn’t have many issues so my opinion is biased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 4 Isn't Next For Larian; Something Bigger Is Coming | Spot On | Gamespot⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh has there ever been a palladium rpg system in a video game? Really I’m curious, I loved their IPs (ahhh Robotech) and some neat ideas that weren’t other IPs but the system left a lot to be desired. To be fair I never played much of them but recall reading rifts, superhero one and Robotech game books back in the 90s a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard'⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could have sworn when I pledged in 2014-2016 (can’t recall at the moment) I pledged cause Squadron 42 was hyped to be released in a much shorter time. I’m not complaining, I spent some more cash on it, but I thought I was going to get a fancier single player space game before now. I loved Wing Commander as a kid, even had to get a tech to figure out the highmem.sys and possibly other optimization in the windows .bat files to even play so wanted to play the newest of Chris Rpberts.

  Of course maybe I misunderstood at the time and it wasn’t supposed to be coming that soon, which is why I’m not bothered even if it passed, I think they are trying but got into feature creep. I haven’t logged on in over a year now but I keep an eye on things to try when it seems interesting and get use out of my HOTAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever Donald Trump is accused of something, he responds by accusing his opponent of that exact thing. The idea is less to argue that Mr. Trump is clean than to suggest that everyone else is dirty.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No puppet, no puppet. No, you’re the puppet!

  Yet he was still voted in after that eloquent retort in a presidential debate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Factorio pretty much rewrote its world generation to account for new planets—like this volcanic one⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done Factorio from vanilla, vanilla plus qol mods, to angels and bobs mods. Something is so satisfying once you get a train network set up, bots doing their thing (think it’s improved but used to be a performance killer with too many) and watching everything just work. I think I was at 400 hours before I even bothered launching a rocket which is where they say you beat the game. Anyone looking for YouTubers check out KatherineOfSky, think she still does them for factorio and is quite nice to watch and learn from. I actually haven’t played in a few years now but have 600ish hours (maybe left it on a few nights running by accident but mostly true hours), great game to figure out logistics, timings and such. Also personally usually played without the biters since I just wanted to build (glad they took out the requirement to kill biters for science) but watching other people build up defenses seems interesting but too stressful for my play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s been awhile, old penny arcade about it been almost 20 years. I remember hoping to see it at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Devs Say Miles Morales Is the 'Main' Spider-Man From Now On - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Being older I’ve really only known Parker as Spider-Man, don’t even think I’ve watched any animated with Morales yet. The Miles Morales game kinda felt like a Gen-Z Parker to me, in the way they updated to a younger character but almost all of his dialogue felt like it could come from Parker though of course their personal situation and known people are different. I was a bit hesitant on the change at first (harder to take change sometimes heh) but at about halfway through Miles Morales game now I feel quite satisfied with how the cutscenes and story have played out, he feels like a good successor to the hero. I’m sure many people have had similar reactions over the years, especially between gold-silver age comic choices. I’ve always known multiple Flash characters (once I started watching more animated shows) so this isn’t much different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2 reportedly runs with 7-12fps on an Intel Core i9 13900KS with AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX at 4K/High Settings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup even if you get top of the line everything PC games usually aren’t meant to be maxed out settings at launch. A high resolution really takes a toll on the hardware too. Of course not every game is like this but for the most part they don’t want the games to look outdated after two years. It’s always fun revisiting games after a PC upgrade because of this. Though since even the devs or publisher said that they didn’t hit performance targets this is noticably worse performance, least from all the articles I’ve seen. I enjoyed the first city skylines except the traffic so am looking forward to buying when it gets optimized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy says its Max Payne remakes are ‘a big, big project’ | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am curious how they’d translate it myself, I recall the first game vividly as new and thinking it was awesome. Though I assume the next game wouldn’t be marketed for me either. An updated drug scene would be interesting, haven’t had a good one since one of the Batman games. I probably missed some drug sequences but Max Payne’s was pretty effed up at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 - Official 2023 Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But if you’re a vampire that’s kinda a requirement, at least usually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you go to a concert only to have an umbrella block your view⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always think of the South Park episode that dealt with the Napster piracy when Metallica gets mentioned. Oh no she can only afford the Golfstream 3 without the surround sound with remote control. I get it, but it was amusing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a world we live in...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t printed 50 pages over many months, but I still have a laser for those times it’s useful. Pretty soon they’ll be able to downgrade your colour to black only, at only a slight surcharge over the regular black ink plan. I noticed they say you can print 50 pages but do they give the paper too? Heh.