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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Out for the Season (Broken Hand)

« on: December 10, 2019, 04:30:27 AM »

Anyone catch the end of the Kings Rockets game tonight!!? LMAO!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQssRp1iZXM

I swear, watching Westbrick and Harden both fail at the same time is a true joy. One of my joys from this season since I have to root for my team to continue losing for the remainder of this season.

a few seconds left in the 4th, game tied, Westbrook gets the layup and calls "GAME OVER" with one second left on the clock.
Kings call timeout. Advance the ball to the front court. Get the inbound to Bjelica for an open 3.....
shots in the air, time runs off the clock and.... BOOM. Kings win by 1.

Rockets stand on their home court dumbfounded as to what just happened.

I jumped up so quick, laughed and cheered so hard, I gave myself a headache. LMAO

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Movies & TV / Re: (NEW Poll Added!!) New Movies/TV Shows we should keep an eye out for!

« on: December 10, 2019, 01:55:38 AM »

That's a pretty long list.... I'd have to weed out which I thought would be suitable for a Top10 and then leave an "Other" option for everyone to comment on movies not listed.

I'll figure it out before the last week of Dec and the 1st week of January

still open to other idea of course.

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Movies & TV / Re: (NEW Poll Added!!) New Movies/TV Shows we should keep an eye out for!

« on: December 10, 2019, 12:43:05 AM »

I was pretty shocked they hit it so soon! I thought they'd be cutting it close but a few movies over performed, especially Aladdin!

For a new poll, maybe we could take a look at upcoming movies for 2020 and try to guess the top 5 grossing? https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/most-anticipated-movies-of-2020/

Why is Cyborg, Green Lantern Corps and New Mutants on that list?

Neither Cyborg nor GLC have even started pre-production or at the very least have a script, as far as I know....

and New Mutants ain't ever seeing an official theater release.
Maybe that's what a micro poll should be. Which of these movies ever see a theater release in 2020 (or at all.... ever)?

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Movies & TV / Re: (NEW Poll Added!!) New Movies/TV Shows we should keep an eye out for!

« on: December 09, 2019, 09:19:34 PM »

Well.... Disney did it. They crossed $10B WW in (less than) a single calendar year.
and Star Wars hasn't even hit yet.... Never been done before, and likely to only be outdone again in the near future by maybe.... Disney!?

https://deadline.com/2019/12/disney-crosses-10-billion-worldwide-box-office-new-all-time-record-1202803824/

Every movie I chose made it*, but so did 2 other Disney movies (Aladdin and Captain Marvel). And we also not even counting the $B that SM:FFH made since it's not technically a Disney movie.
oh yeah, and SW:RoS isn't even out yet... but I already said that.

*Frozen II has not yet officially crossed the $B mark yet.... still has about $80M to go. But we all know it's getting there.... probably before the year is over.

well, now that Disney will officially blow past that watermark/milestone/life-time studio achievement.
We're gonna need a new poll for the new year.

Anyone got any suggestions?

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: I'm not making it up, it's in the NEWZ, DEWD.

« on: December 09, 2019, 08:57:00 PM »

Well, maybe this will strike a cord with some NWR residents.

Wal-Mart apologized and then pulled these lovely Xmas Sweaters from the shelf today....

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/business/walmart-apology-santa-sweater/index.html



I think it's funny... totally inappropriate for a Family store, but still funny.

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Movies & TV / Re: (NEW Poll Added!!) New Movies/TV Shows we should keep an eye out for!

« on: December 09, 2019, 09:24:53 AM »

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZFCF--uRY

30 years later. I'm assuming Girlbusters never happened in this reality.
but it looks like Slimer is back. Didn't see any OGB's.

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

« on: December 07, 2019, 11:34:57 PM »

I don't know the House of M storyline specifically, but if that was when she said "No More Mutants" then I think it has been brought up that this could be the opposite of that.

I was always thinking that the "M" or "X" gene would have something to do with "blipped' people, but once they made it clear we were headed to the MULTIVERSE in a big way, and that Wanda was leading the charge.... I think "No More Mutants" type scenario became a heavy favorite speculation.

And don't forget, Loki, WandaVision, and Doctor Strange will all be connected and playing with the Multi-verse.

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Movies & TV / Re: Hey! DC's got stuff too... (Official Thread for the DCU of Movies and TV)

« on: December 07, 2019, 09:24:43 PM »

Looks like Crisis is gonna help Berlanti's Arrowverse expand even further
https://www.wired.com/story/crisis-on-infinite-earths-crossover-watchmen/

We already knew about Superman and Green Lantern coming.
did we know about Stargirl and Booster Gold though?

(Booster Gold was apparently removed from the article, but was also I guess rumored before hand)


edit: and WW84 Teaser for a Trailer to be released tomorrow
https://twitter.com/WonderWomanFilm/status/1203358507652698113

WTF!!? WW out here swinging from lightning bolts!!?

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

« on: December 07, 2019, 08:40:08 PM »

CCPX News:

first look at WandaVision

“[We have] the opportunity to tell their story, and show more of what Wanda can do, more of what makes Vision, Vision, and most importantly, reveal a name that I’m not even sure we’ve said in the MCU yet, but we make a big deal of in the show, is the fact that Wanda is the Scarlet Witch. And what does that mean, that she is the Scarlet Witch? That’s what we play into with this show in ways that are entirely fun, entirely funny, somewhat scary, and will have repercussions for the entire future of Phase 4 of the MCU.”

“The multiverse is the next step in the evolution of the MCU, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is gonna crack it wide open in ways that will have repercussions for a Disney+ series just before it, that’s not WandaVision, and for movies just after it in a big, fun way.”

and more....
https://collider.com/wandavision-details-scarlet-witch-multiverse/

Feige also apparently had some Eternals footage on display as well:
https://deadline.com/2019/12/marvel-studios-kevin-feige-disney-plus-the-eternals-black-widow-ccxp-1202803059/


also:




and a Black Widow Poster they were handing out. could make for a good avatar for someone, somewhere.

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

« on: December 03, 2019, 09:01:22 AM »

Looks a little Mission Impossible-ish
full of crazy action scenes, the family reunion, settling old scores while back in town....
looks good and fun.
and I think it goes w/o saying..... but Day One.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Out for the Season (Broken Hand)

« on: December 02, 2019, 09:44:31 PM »

Hey... we won a few!!!! (I have nothing in defense of your criticism of my team right now... you are ultimately right.)

The few games where we made it "interesting" it wasn't even really because we were "Good" it was because we got lucky with rookie ball shots that happen to fall. Now if they could play that sloppy all the time and consistently have the ball go in.... well, we'd have another Steph Curry effect on our hands, where everyone just thought he was being lucky at first getting off all those quick 3's off from all over the court with almost no daylight to release most of them.

Unfortunately, that is not how this group of G-Leaguers will play out this season. Will be bad, we may win a few more. The cream of the crop will float, the rest will likely be cut in the off-season. I'd be surprised of more than 4 of the Warriors new faces (outside D-Lo, WCS, Chriss) will even be active NBA players, much less still on this team, next season, unless some dramatic improvements happen in the new year.

But high draft picks.... and returning talent next season will hopefully see us through this touch time. Your condolences are appreciated, but honestly, this is pretty damn close to what we are historically use to.
The major difference is, that now management won't be trying to trade off any(all/or the only) talent it develops to get more draft picks.


edit: and we still on a tight rotation (8.5 men tonight - Looney back on limited minutes), so these boys getting much needed playtime. I'm just hoping more than Paschall rise to the occasion and perform in the time of need.

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General Chat / Re: NWR's WorldWide Test Kitchen

« on: November 30, 2019, 05:01:53 PM »

I came back in here to double check a recipe and damn, Tinypic is gone... Photobucket is blurred, which means so many either missing or ugly pics now

Edit :photobucket still shows the pics on my phone. They are blurred on the computer tho.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Out for the Season (Broken Hand)

« on: November 30, 2019, 04:59:08 PM »

Warriors game last night....
if it wasn't for that 1st quarter.... we woulda won that game.

team is improving.... slightly
scoring isn't really the issue, it's the defense.
Draymond got a lot of work to do with these boys.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: I'm not making it up, it's in the NEWZ, DEWD.

« on: November 29, 2019, 06:49:49 PM »

This is hilarious.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/29/johnny-depp-producing-michael-jackson-musical-as-told-by-his-glove

Johnny Depp producing musical about Michael Jackson's life, from the perspective of his sequin glove (that was a musical alien that fed on virgin boy blood)

https://www.fortheloveofaglove.com/the-show/

WTF. 😂🤣

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Out for the Season (Broken Hand)

« on: November 28, 2019, 09:48:40 AM »

and my Warriors won!!!!

unfortunately I ddin't get to watch it, as I was helping a friend mount a TV in his "bar room" and by the time we got it up and running.... we couldn't find the game.

Honestly, I think they started blacking them out from the local channels. LOL
but then again, he doesn't have regular cable either....

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Out for the Season (Broken Hand)

« on: November 27, 2019, 12:48:30 AM »

I gotta get my nba streams up on my SheildTV.
I suppose I could cast from my phone, but this pos is unreliable, and I need a new one.

I tried to watch the last Lakers game on TV, and I think it was only on NBATV in my area (which I don't have), so I just watched something else instead.

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Movies & TV / Re: Disney+

« on: November 24, 2019, 12:46:08 PM »

I'm playing it on my computer

6core 3.3Ghz
16GB Ram

560Mb down, 18Mb up from Comcast

If that's not enough to run Disney+ then I don't know what to say.
I figure it has to be some compatibility with the Chrome browser (and to a much lesser extent the Opera browser)
I have not tried the MS Edge browser.

Now that I think about it, the things that did play smoothly, were actually played from my Nvidia Shield on a different TV

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Random LOL of the day thread

« on: November 23, 2019, 11:18:19 PM »

Elon Musk and Tesla reveal the CYBERTRUCK to questionable looks and a laughable demonstration

Here he tries to show off how the windows are "shatter-proof" using a steel ball
https://twitter.com/rafadl_/status/1197733435483160576

and here is the website so you can bask in the uglory that is CYBERTRUCK and it's concept designs. LOL
https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck

p.s. Bladerunner inspired and released on Bladerrunner day in the movies "Nov 21, 2019"...the future!!!

seriously, what are they thinking.... is anyone seriously going to drive this and think it looks cool?

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Movies & TV / Re: Disney+

« on: November 23, 2019, 09:18:05 PM »

anyone else having D+ playback issues in Chrome?

tons of video studdering, mostly on the Marvel videos I try to watch, as The Mandalorian played smoothly, and Lady and the Tramp played smoothly last week when we watched that as well.

I had to open Opera, which is much smoother, but still not perfect..

anyone else experiencing this?
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Youtube and everything else streams perfectly fine at all times on Chrome. Only an issue with D+.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Out for the Season (Broken Hand)

« on: November 23, 2019, 07:55:27 PM »

maybe the tourney is the option of compromise they use to push the rest of the change, while tossing the tourney? gotta over reach and negotiate back to what you really want. Make it seem like your giving up something in compromise to get what you really wanted all along.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Out for the Season (Broken Hand)

« on: November 23, 2019, 06:04:13 AM »

3 points..... so close.
we almost beat the Jazz with the decapitated zombie corpse of the Warriors.
3 points. That's another moral victory in our books. lol

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

« on: November 22, 2019, 01:18:09 AM »

Frozen 2 - not as good as the first IMO

I don't remember the first movie breaking out into song every 2.5 minutes, but I could be mistaken. I haven't watched it in a long time. None of the songs really stuck with me either like "Let it go!" did for the entire world for however long that was. I couldn't recite anything from any of the songs tbh.... but that's not even what took me out of this movie.
Now this may seem like a bit of a nitpick, and i'm sure it was done for time (and because it's meant mainly for younger audiences) but there were several large leaps in logic to move the plot quickly in this one. They were all so sudden and just "HEY!! OMG THAT MEANS X", which I guess is fine, but for some reason it stood out to me sooo much the 2-3 times I remember it happening in the movie.

Visually this movie was very nice, and all the kids seemed to really like it, but overall, I'll hold on to the recent nostalgia of the first over the sequel.
I'm also pretty sure there will be a Frozen III or a D+ series sequel announced in the next year or so. LOL

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Out for the Season (Broken Hand)

« on: November 20, 2019, 05:52:00 AM »

you can't bury the lead and not say that the Warriors won tonight. LOL

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Out for the Season (Broken Hand)

« on: November 18, 2019, 09:40:20 PM »

Injury bug is hopefully done feeding on the Warriors.

I'm just happy we stayed in the game up till the end against the Pels.
less than a 10 point loss is an improvement and a small moral victory.

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Movies & TV / Re: Disney+

« on: November 15, 2019, 01:05:02 AM »

I saw an article on how to get D+ w/ Ad Free Hulu and ESPN+ for $13.99

FIRST: you sign up for Ad Free Hulu for $13.99(?)mo
THEN: you sign up for D+, Hulu ad supported, and ESPN+ bundle for $12.99 using the same exact email address

NOW: you will then get a $5.99mo credit on your original Ad Free Hulu account, and only be paying $1 extra for the triple bundle, but with Ad Free Hulu

you will have 2 billing accounts as your your original Hulu account will be crediting you.
I don't know if this actually works, but it was supposedly put out there by the Disney+ twitter account.

I only pay $1 for Hulu a month for the next 2 weeks (BF/cyber monday deal from last year....), but I'd actually probably pay for the service if I could get ad-free for only $6mo, and you throw in ESPN+ for free.