stargazingpenguin
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- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 week ago:
I’ve been waiting to see MI - Dead Reckoning until I can see it and Final Reckoning back to back for that exact reason! I’m hoping it’s a satisfying conclusion in case they actually stick to the statement that it’s the last Cruise led movie in the series.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 week ago:
Godzilla Minus One (2023) 9/10
- I finally got around to watching this one, and I quite enjoyed it! I prefer the movies where Godzilla is the antagonist and the only monster, so having a movie like that with memorable characters was a breathe of fresh air! The atmosphere of dread Godzilla evoked when on screen was very good, and that lingered even when they were gone. I really liked a lot of the characters, and although I don’t understand Japanese I thought the actors did a good job. I’m also a plane fan, so seeing a J7W portrayed in a movie was a treat as well! Other than a few minor nitpicks I enjoyed it a good bit, and I watched it for the second time the next day, which is something I rarely do.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) 6.5/10
- Star Wars as a franchise has never really clicked with me, although I did think the original movie was pretty good as a standalone. However, I did get hooked on the Andor series and really enjoyed it, so I watched this movie after finishing season 2. Due to watching it as a follow-up to a very good series I may have rated it a bit lower than I would have otherwise, so I may revisit it later.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 7.5/10
- This is a film I’ve seen several times, and I think it holds up pretty well. It does a good job of building the tension throughout, and the atmosphere was good as well.
- An interesting, although somewhat predictable, time loop story. I did feel like they overdid some parts of the loop just a little bit, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. If it would have surprised me a bit somewhere along the way I would have been happy, but it kept me entertained, which is the important part!
- Comment on After 25 hours of the Dune: Awakening beta, I'm sold on it as a survival game but still a bit iffy on the MMO parts 5 weeks ago:
I’m watching it from a distance to see how things go. I’m a fan of the Dune books and the new movies as well, so the world would be interesting to explore. Unfortunately everything I’ve seen of it gives me the feeling that it should have been a single player game instead.
What they mentioned about the player built houses was the first thing I thought of when I heard you could build your own. There’s going to be huge amounts of clutter everywhere you can build!
- Comment on Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1 month ago:
No, it just says summer.
- Comment on Adam Savage's Tested: Star Trek Filming Models from The Next Generation to Voyager! 2 months ago:
Thanks! I’ve heard some mentions of it, but never dug into it much. I’ll check it out.
- Comment on Adam Savage's Tested: Star Trek Filming Models from The Next Generation to Voyager! 2 months ago:
Looks interesting! I saved it to look at later, I’m curious about the information on the Voyager prototype model. It might have to go in my archive of interesting Trek info.
- Comment on Weyouns, Ranked 2 months ago:
That’s the best part! Although in rare cases the flicker of recognition the other person has can mean you found an interesting person to talk to!
- Comment on Weyouns, Ranked 2 months ago:
I have been known to do the same! It’s a lot of fun to work Trek references into everyday conversation.
- Comment on Weyouns, Ranked 2 months ago:
The “Well Hello!” he gives Weyoun 8 when he walks in is good too!
- Comment on Weyouns, Ranked 2 months ago:
Weyoun 5 was my favorite. His scene where he plays dabo, drinks the poisoned kanar, and watches Sisko and Dukat argue is great.
Damar’s first meeting with Weyoun 8 always gives me a laugh though!
- Comment on CherryTree Introduces Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-Inspired "IYKYK" Raktajino Mug 2 months ago:
It’s still a lot of money for a mug, but compared to the $150-$300 they’re selling for on eBay it’s a great deal!
- Comment on CherryTree Introduces Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-Inspired "IYKYK" Raktajino Mug 2 months ago:
Is the wider section actually hollow? I was imagining they might just have a normal round shape inside due to it being more difficult to mold.
- Comment on CherryTree Introduces Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-Inspired "IYKYK" Raktajino Mug 2 months ago:
Very tempting! All the other ones I’ve seen are quite expensive.
- Comment on New Promotional Photos of SNW Cast 2 months ago:
Yes, we already know what’s supposed to happen with him, I was thinking about Una, La’an, and Ortegas! Of course, all that is contingent on them showing the transition rather than ending a bit before that.
- Comment on New Promotional Photos of SNW Cast 2 months ago:
Yeah… I’m not looking forward to the show ending! It’s the first Trek I’ve watched as it was airing, so I’ve been enjoying it. Anyway, I’m hoping they let them go off on other adventures rather than killing them off.
- Comment on New Promotional Photos of SNW Cast 2 months ago:
It definitely could be, but I guess we’ll see. Hopefully in the spring sometime!
- Comment on New Promotional Photos of SNW Cast 2 months ago:
Well it looks like Batel is still in the cast photos!
- Comment on Master Replicas Reveals New Line of Star Trek Action Figures 3 months ago:
I may need to get that Spock action figure! 🖖
In the promotional material it looks pretty good for the price range. Definitely better than the recent Playmates run. Do the prototypes usually look a lot better? I’m sure a little extra care is taken with them than the mass production run.
- Comment on Open source real time strategy game 0 A.D. releases Alpha 27 3 months ago:
It’s been a while! I was curious and just checked, September 2022 was the update 26 news post!
- Comment on Open source real time strategy game 0 A.D. releases Alpha 27 3 months ago:
I think it’s a good decision too. I understand why they were still using it, but I’m sure it would turn some people away.
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- Comment on 52-year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: "He is Don Mario, he's my dad" 3 months ago:
I’m happy to see they won! It’s amazing how low Nintendo can go.
- Comment on Bring Home Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 and Complete Series on March 25 4 months ago:
Blu-Ray and DVD players are readily available at most online electronics retailers.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 29th 5 months ago:
Euro Truck Simulator 2!
The Greece DLC released about a month ago, and I just picked it up in the last few days. Lots of fun so far, the map is starting to get pretty big. I’m planning to do another long haul across the whole map at some point.
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 5 months ago:
Really? That’s disappointing. I have the original Enterprise and the Defiant in the size you have as well as the Spock figurine. They were really nice products overall.
- Comment on The Eurogamer 100 - 100 best games to play right now 8 months ago:
I can appreciate a website making a list like this rather than putting five games to a page to garner more clicks! I definitely have different tastes than the reviewers though, which is fine.
- Comment on The Eurogamer 100 - 100 best games to play right now 8 months ago:
Yeah, I would put V in there as well! I still don’t like VI nearly as much, even though I’ve played it quite a few times.
- Comment on In part because it reminds me of TOS:”The Cage”, I’m hooked on *The Prisoner* 8 months ago:
I’ve never heard of this show, but from what you’ve said and the quick research I’ve done it sounds like something I would be interested in. Thanks for the mention of it!
- Comment on GE-Proton 9-12 released with fixes for Star Citizen, Bully: Scholarship and more 8 months ago:
I haven’t played it since this release, but I would maybe ask in the Star Citizen LUG Matrix or Discord if you haven’t already. They’ve helped with some questions I’ve had.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 8 months ago:
True, that would be better. I was just going to watch them two nights in a row, but I might do that instead!