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Movies & TV / Re: All Things Netflix! Coming Soon: The Netflix Experience, Live and In Person!??

« on: November 05, 2025, 12:48:13 AM »

The trailer for S5 of Stranger Things dropped, and it looks like there is a military perimeter around Hawkins, so I wonder if folks are just not allowed to leave for some reason? Though the damage to the town is still there but it doesn't seem as bad as it was in the finale.

I'll watch it for completion and closure sake, but I really hope they implement some real costs and stakes. Max being in the state she is in may carry some of that price, but they could easily hand-wave it away somehow.

As for song choice, I loved what they did with Kate Bush, but agree they should have picked a different song for the finale. I liked how they used Separate Worlds in the penultimate episode, we should have gotten more songs instead of repeats.

It also felt weird to bring back Dr "Papa" like that. It would have been like Jurassic World 2 bringing back Hammond and pretending he never died. He was gone int he narrative, an bringing him back after a pretty clear death in S1 just felt jolting.

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Movies & TV / Re: All Things Netflix! Coming Soon: The Netflix Experience, Live and In Person!??

« on: October 25, 2025, 02:05:21 AM »

Had a lot of family stuff going on lately so haven't had the energy to play much since finishing Xenoblade 2 earlier this week. Figured i might as well go on and continue with Stranger Things: Season 3.

...Really? THIS is the season of the show that's universally hated? THIS one, the one where **** actually happens; everyone actually contributes to the story; there are actual consequences to the things the characters do; and Eleven isn't just an instant win button for once? Really? 

Yeah, I thought this season was pretty alright. Granted, it had a bit of a slow start with teenage love bullshit and you have to accept some really stupid plot contrivances (i.e. everything about the Russians, *redacted* not getting dissolved into meat several times throughout the season when so many others were; etc.), but in general i thought it was well-paced. Refreshingly, while characters would act recklessly, they weren't generally weren't acting STUPIDLY like they were in Season 2. Yeah, the nostalgia key jangling was a bit excessive both at the start of the season and the end, but in general I thought that was a decent watch. I'm not sure why people hate this season so much.

I'm not sure if hate is the right word and suspect that's just the internet blowing every minor issue into a major ordeal. For whatever reason, people online tend to have an overwhelming urge to **** on things they don't like and that the weakest part of something HAS to be a load of crap instead of just being the same good show but with some weaker points, plots, or characters.

I just viewed it as my least favorite season, but still enjoyed it. Aside from the one out there episode in S2 I don't think there was really anything truly awful about any of the series (and that wasn't awful, just felt out of place and unnecessary, especially with it being a wide open loose end without any additional follow up or closure), just a collection of minor issues or complaints.

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Movies & TV / Re: All Things Netflix! Coming Soon: The Netflix Experience, Live and In Person!??

« on: October 04, 2025, 12:02:06 AM »

Honestly I don't remember S1 having the issues you described at all. I do agree that S4 was great, but yeah, S3 has its issues and those issues were there to a degree in S2 but mostly contained to some small portions. But I forget a lot of it so it could just be a blended and faded memory. I'll probably re-watch it all one last time leading up to S5, but I don't see myself going back to the show a whole lot after it is all said and done.

Both how long it has taken and the show sagging under the weight of the stakes which have abruptly become very real and very high have taken away the possibility of the classic S1 charm from coming back. The best we can hope for is a great follow up and conclusion to S4, but that depends on a lot of things.

I agree taking a break would be good, then you can get S3-5 all out of the way and make a fine conclusion on everything.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Will you be willing to buy Virtual Game Cards, or would go all digital instead?

« on: September 21, 2025, 02:59:58 AM »

I can't imagine it'd go over well, but imagine an accessory that lets you connect your Switch 1 to your Switch 2 and use it as a DS. 🤣

Funny how that is a built in launch feature for the S2 now. When they bring 3/DS games to the service you know an option will be to pair with another S2 or a S1 for the second part of the screen in your hand.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: September 17, 2025, 01:15:32 AM »

KPop Demon Hunters. OMG I was floored by this film. I heard it was really good so planned to watch it eventually, but my daughter's friends are all into it and she's asking about it so I decided to vet the movie before showing her (she's 4 and can be sensitive to more intense things in shows). I was taken like I have not been by an animated film in a long time. The music is catchy, the characters interesting, and the animation is phenomenal. Its by the Spiderverse studio so very much in that vein. I also love how it unabashedly embraced Korean culture and mythology. While checking out the credits I was impressed by how many Korean folks worked on the movie. And it didn't feel forced like some modern "diverse Disney" takes. This is how you push diversity and inclusion in films. I am excited to see where the studio goes with new projects and where they take a potential sequel because I can see a lot of room for something more to come of it.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Will you be willing to buy Virtual Game Cards, or would go all digital instead?

« on: May 27, 2025, 03:34:50 AM »

I began migrating to digital a few years into the Switch life and honestly, I'm happy with it. I adore physical media but these new ones just don't feel the same as this nice old bulky carts. And digital is way more convenient for me these days. I have also decided I don't give a crap about the "ownership" and availability because there are some wonderful fans who make a job out of "archiving" old games so I really believe I'll be able to find nearly anything I would want by sailing the high seas and modifying my older consoles. I've already done it on Wii and 3DS, so that is always an option for me to find the older stuff.

So yeah, I registered to buy the Mario Kart Digital Switch 2 system and expect to get everything digitally.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What will Nintendo release in 2025?

« on: May 27, 2025, 03:28:16 AM »

Any chance you could just copy my 2024 list since I said I may as well do that and then promptly forgot to post a new list? 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What will Nintendo release in 2025?

« on: January 05, 2025, 03:10:52 PM »

Half tempted to copy most of my 2024 since a lot of it was tied to Switch 2...

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TalkBack / Re: Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble Update Next Week Adds Quick Rewind, Miku Support

« on: November 19, 2024, 07:12:44 PM »

What in the world do you mean by the Minecraft and Harry Potter creator? Is that some sort of inside joke for Hatsune Miku fans?

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Movies & TV / Re: All Things Netflix! Coming Soon: The Netflix Experience, Live and In Person!??

« on: November 13, 2024, 05:12:30 PM »

I had no idea they were splitting the season and was shocked it stopped after episode 3. Granted its another week or two for the next set to come, but come on. It was very intense, but also could feel it either teasing things those more involved with the game lore would get excited over or teasing future spinoffs already.

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Movies & TV / Re: All Things Netflix! Coming Soon: The Netflix Experience, Live and In Person!??

« on: November 10, 2024, 01:27:53 PM »

Probably for the best. I know the cast in the game is quite large and diverse so allowing us to get stories focused on more heroes would be great so long as they maintain the level of storytelling in this first run.

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NWR Feedback / Re: Connection Problems

« on: November 03, 2024, 07:28:54 PM »

Its the Core theme a lot of the die hard members used. Guess its bugged.

https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?action=theme;sa=pick;u=5670;a3580c711b49=da43dec706272d1e4b44c456e2bf691a

Go to this link, if it is blank ass ;wap2 at the end of the url. Select the default theme and when the next page loads blank add ;wap2 again and it should work. Its why I'm back here **** posting once again finally.

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Quantum-Ant-Man-ia)

« on: November 03, 2024, 07:26:47 PM »

I mean Mahershala is out as Blade now apparently so seems even more possible that Snipes could come back in some capacity again.

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I'M BACK / Re: Unclebob posts bumps

« on: November 03, 2024, 07:23:41 PM »

Well I finally learned how to fix it.

There's an issue with the core theme.
There's a fix but I have to dig it up.
See if this works. https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?action=theme;sa=pick;u=5670;a3580c711b49=da43dec706272d1e4b44c456e2bf691a
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Just use it to change your theme to the default theme.
You may have to add ;wap2 at the end of the url if you get a blank page when you select the default theme to force the site to display its shitty mobile site, otherwise once you pick it click the option to change your profile options.

After adding that ";wap2" to each page I finally got it to load for the first time in months.

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Movies & TV / Re: All Things Netflix! Coming Soon: The Netflix Experience, Live and In Person!??

« on: November 03, 2024, 07:20:49 PM »

I was blown away by how good Arcane was. I've dabbled in the game with some college friends years ago but understood very little outside of the basic gameplay. So all the lore was new to me. Season 2 is coming in a few weeks and its going to be the last one. While these shorter series can be nice, I do wish a few would last longer than 2-3 seasons. But then again the few that do last longer tend to fall apart before the end if they even do end so I guess I should be happy to get something fantastic and short over 5-10 seasons of mediocre slop that overstays its welcome.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia XC: XC1 - Definitive Mafia Edition. Sign-up Thread. Take 2.

« on: September 18, 2024, 06:33:28 PM »

How the hell did I miss this? Count me in!

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NWR Feedback / Re: Connection Problems

« on: August 27, 2024, 03:41:40 PM »

I'll definitely write it up later when I have time and the site feels more stable. It erased everything when I was forced to refresh to next time I'll have to write it in Word or something.

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NWR Feedback / Re: WiiUIVLife Account

« on: August 25, 2024, 01:32:50 PM »

Doesn't have to be based off a previous post here. The AIs powering all this stuff has whole libraries of information and user comments that it could still be a bot. I work with AIs often now and sometimes I forget I'm chatting with a bot in the middle of working on solutions.

I ran their comments through some AI detection tools and they think it is 100% human generated, but those tools can be wildly inaccurate.

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NWR Feedback / Re: Connection Problems

« on: August 25, 2024, 01:29:18 PM »

Got it the other day when I tried to do a big post. I gave up at the time.

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TalkBack / Re: Civilization 7 To Settle On February 11, New Life Sim Announced At Gamescom Opening

« on: August 22, 2024, 11:59:10 PM »

I found them to be manageable so long as you only played on smaller maps. Medium and up all made the poor little console struggle to keep up.

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Movies & TV / Re: IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE!! [OT] for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Movies & TV)

« on: August 13, 2024, 09:39:53 PM »

I'm still balking a bit at RDJ as Doom. I don't doubt he can do a great job and will be phenomenal in the role on its own, but its the baggage about him being a variant or something else that worries me more. There is enough going on I had kind of hoped the forced pivot away from Kang would inject some freshness into the MCU that didn't have the sag of pretty much everything from Phase 4.

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Quantum-Ant-Man-ia)

« on: August 13, 2024, 09:35:32 PM »

Which was it? This is the spoiler thread so its all fair game.

Finally got around to watching Deadpool 2 and knowing how 3 starts it kind of took the wind out of a lot of it. Was still neat but just rings a bit different when taken with 3.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Mario Kart: Double Dash - XLink Kai

« on: May 09, 2024, 12:40:57 AM »

Damn, I entered this thread and read the old messages from 2010 not realizing they were old and thought that they prices had bottomed out on adapters based off Mop it up's prices.

I've heard the used/retro games market has bottomed out a bit as folks that caught the fever during the pandemic (or trying to make a quick buck) have started cashing out so maybe these could drop a bit in the future?

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TalkBack / Re: Switch Screenshot Posting To Former Twitter Among Functionality Being Disabled June 10

« on: May 09, 2024, 12:33:21 AM »

Just want to say your sass in this article brought a smile to my face.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia XC: Xenoblade Chronicles 1 - Definitive Mafia Edition. Sign-up Thread.

« on: April 30, 2024, 12:56:49 AM »

I'm still game!