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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: March 27, 2021, 09:57:51 PM »

it's about HOW they were formed, not how good they became together. don't be obtuse.

The 3-1 Warriors (funny how that has multiple meanings) were formed organically and just clicked.
No one saw Steph, Klay, Dray and the addition of Iggy as "Oh no, this team is a SUPER TEAM, they are gonna win 3 Championships and it ain't fair!!! They clicked and surprised the **** out of everyone. ​They then added the best piece they could find to fill a hole and upgrade a position.h Nothing wrong with that

This Nets team has literally brought it major talent "In Prime", "End of Prime" and "Past Prime" all in the last 2 seasons. How many All Star Appearances does this Nets team have between their players?
And now they may also have a shot at Andre Drummond? they are literally trying to be the "Super Team" that the Warriors were accused of "forming".

Just because this Nets team doesn't have the chemistry and excitement of that run of Warriors 2015-2019, doesn't mean they aren't purposely recruiting an All-Star Super Team Squad. Not saying that is wrong, just that they are literally doing what everyone was accusing the Warriors of having done, when that really wasn't the case. This isn't a "Big 3" situation. This is literally an All-Star Team, like the Nets are trying to form a "Justice League" of available players.

Not sure it's gonna work out, but they are certainly hoping to give themselves the best chance possible through talent and experience.

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Taking Flight with Falcon & the Winter Soldier)

« on: March 27, 2021, 07:39:04 PM »

My "earned, not awarded" comment was in regards to Sam getting the mantle of Captain America and the Shield that he earned, was given and then passed on, instead of US Agent being awarded the title whether the U.S Gov wants us to think he "earned" it or not.

It pays to be the White Panther.

"It's the White Wolf" - Bucky

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: March 27, 2021, 07:33:41 PM »

Well doesn't that sound like fun.

And people thought the Warriors adding 1 player to the roster was forming a "Super Team"

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Taking Flight with Falcon & the Winter Soldier)

« on: March 27, 2021, 02:11:43 AM »

So episode 2...

Isaiah Bradley makes an appearance. And apparently he was the reason Bucky lost his arm?

Also Redwing was destroyed.... do we see an upgrade in tech for Falcon?

does anyone think that Isaiah may come in to save Falcon at some point and give him some blood transfusion and now Sam becomes Super too?

I'm gonna watch it again over the weekend before I comment more.

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

« on: March 27, 2021, 01:19:55 AM »

Invincible

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bfAVpuko5o

First Look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4F7PFwtayc

Because I think more of us would like this show.

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

« on: March 27, 2021, 01:11:26 AM »

Hmmmm..... I dunno.
It looks alright. CG on the Shark guy is questionable, but it was also a Twtittervid blown up to fullscreen.

I'll wait for the next trailer. I'm not really sold, but I'm not turned away either. Just no hype level for this.

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

« on: March 26, 2021, 06:41:29 AM »

Invincible

Animated Super Hero show, much in the like of The Boys meets Justice League, although I'm also reminded a bit of Venture Bros even though I haven't seen that show since S2 or S3.
Let's just say the bloody gruesomeness of The Boys, the humor and style of the Venture Bros, and the presentation and animation of Justice League. If that doesn't peak, your interest... then I'm not sure what more to say.

This is a Prime Original, and just started tonight. First 3 eps are up, and then airs weekly. All episodes were around an hour long.
It's also based on some graphic novel series, and you may have heard of it. I've never heard of it, but it's right up my alley.

So far, I'm into it. All the opening characters are clearly analogs for heroes we know, as the opening heroes are mostly "Justice League". It branches out into more hero types fairly quickly (like JL Unlimited), and the action is very gruesome and graphic. There are blood and guts. People die. this is not for little children or those easily turned off by violence and blood.
But there is a good amount of light humor and even some small moments of relevant social commentary.

It mostly follows the "Superman" and his "Superboy", but it's not all Boy Scout Wonderbread theater, there some intrigue going on here.

Definitely worth watching. available on Amazon Prime

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

« on: March 26, 2021, 06:29:33 AM »

Schitt$ Creek

This was such a great show. I started it late one night in March and finished the entire 5 season run earlier tonight. General premise is rich family hits financial ruin and has to move to small town with nearly nothing to their name.
Clear favorite in this show I didn't expect to love as much as I did was David Rose. (actual son to the father played by Eugene Levy). Overly expressive in his mannerism's, voice, and personality.
followed up by Moira Rose whose grandiloquence rhetoric is a delectation upon ones own auditory perceptions (I don't know it that makes sense... but if you know the character, you know what I mean )

Those 2 clearly steal the show, but there are lots of characters to love in this.
It's definitely a comedy, but it has it's touching moments. You see how this family affects this small town, and more importantly how this small town affects this family that's been uprooted from their carefree lifestyle and grounded into the common folk lifestyle.

I may have finished the series on Netflix, but I noticed there is also a movie or something else left to watch. I'm hoping it a continuation or a follow-up and conclusion, as I absolutely want more of Schitt$ Creek.

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

« on: March 26, 2021, 03:45:42 AM »

New Suicide Squad poster



might actually look forward to this one. need to see the trailer first though, but since it's James Gunn, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

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

« on: March 25, 2021, 12:55:27 PM »

There's a supposed leak of concept art sent out to a toy company for 3 MCU projects.

*Potential Spoilers*
https://twitter.com/avengersavenue/status/1374938827039592448?s=20

Top: Doctor Strange 2
Middle: Hawkeye
Bottom: Ms. Marvel

All characters but 1 (top right) I believe we're previously announced and/or seen before.

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

« on: March 24, 2021, 09:16:21 PM »

Pierce Brosnan cast as Dr. Fate in upcoming Black Adam movie with The Rock
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/black-adam-pierce-brosnan-to-play-dc-hero-dr-fate-opposite-dwayne-johnson-exclusive.

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

« on: March 24, 2021, 05:15:44 PM »

I might continue the streak of every MCU movie being seen in the theater.

Supposedly AMC has previously revamped lots of theaters with air scrubbers sometime last year when we all thought we would get back to normal life by summertime.... assuming that is true, and also assuming a fairly good percentage of people may be vaccinated AND 100% of people will at least enter the theater with a mask (only to be removed for active eating and drinking), I think the risk of being in the theater, with an every other row available, 2 seats in-between each group/party/couple, I might not be all that big of a gamble to take.

Although I'd be more hyped if it was BW that was drawing me out.... or back in.
But a 20 person (kids and adults) watch party also doesn't sound bad either.
(comfy couch, kitchen in view of TV, bathroom, cheap drinks and actual food)

and where the hell is the trailer for Shang Chi? wasn't this originally coming out in July?

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

« on: March 24, 2021, 09:35:50 AM »

If you think about it, most everyone shares an account. They figure on average you may watch the movie with one other person if you rent it, and lots of household may actually have 4 people watching, or watch parties on rentals.
Just as the average person may not go to the theater to watch a movie alone.

So if $7.50 to $15 per head at the theater is the norm, then why would they give it to you for less to watch from the comfort of your home with access to a pause and rewind button and the ability to watch as many times as you wish in about 48hr period (or longer).

So justify the price by watching it with someone, splitting cost with a friend or two, or by having a small watch party.

It makes sense to me, even though I still wish it were cheaper too.

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General Gaming / Re: Oculus Quest 2: Entering the VR from the comfort of my BR

« on: March 24, 2021, 12:31:19 AM »

just know that some of the games I paid for on the Quest 2, were actually FREE once hooked up on Oculus.

Like the Vader series and a few others.

I also recently bought Minecraft on the computer so my daughter could play Minecraft on the Oculus, but the Minecraft App on the Rift doesn't seem to work now....
I'm gonna try to troubleshoot it maybe tomorrow, so I hope it's something simple to figure out.

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

« on: March 24, 2021, 12:25:36 AM »

also looks like Hawkeye is already getting a spinoff for a character named Echo
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/hawkeye-disney-plus-echo-spinoff-1234934667/

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

« on: March 23, 2021, 05:41:07 PM »

Black Widow sees delay to July 09, 2021
now releases on Theaters and on D+ Premiere Access same day!!!
https://deadline.com/2021/03/black-widow-cruella-disney-plus-theaters-day-and-date-release-1234720116/

Who's making their way to the theater for BW?
who's just gonna invite over 30 of your closest friends and family and charge $1 per head to rent the movie?

edit:
And Shang Chi is moving to Sept. 3rd.

Eternals keeps it's Nov date.

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Taking Flight with Falcon & the Winter Soldier)

« on: March 23, 2021, 05:18:57 PM »

BnM: Do we know if the person is male or female?  If female I will vote for the Invisible Woman because it is too obvious.

No ideas on who it is. I've  mostly been offline for the majority of the last 9 days, so I haven't looked into it any further either.

Should we start a new thread for The Falcon and the Winter Solider?

we could... but that's not how we do things around here

First episode was fine. Falcon murder-death-kills a bunch of people like right off the bat. Anyway, I didn’t mind the slower pace of the so far though there are only six episodes.

If the pace fits the show, and they actually make us care about Falcon and Bucky beyond the action set pieces they've been apart of so far, then I'm all for it. Long form character building on D+ between large group action set pieces in the theater is what we've been wanting.

The only things that really stuck out to me about the first episode is that Falcon not at least wearing a helmet seems unbelievable even in a world full of superheroes, and when the leader of the terrorists in the beginning doesn’t believe his henchman who says he saw a man (Sam) outside the cockpit window. Why would a member of a terrorist cell right in the middle of doing illegal **** ever NOT believe that in a post-Blip world?

that particular henchman might be the paranoid type... they may constantly be dismissing his BS claims about this and that, and that may very well be why he is a lowly henchman and not a "right hand man" so to speak.


as for the show... that betrayal at the end. the announcement of a new symbol of hope for American's.... using the very Shield that Falcon just donated to the Capt America Museum Exhibit...
a total slap in the face. He should've taken up the mantle for himself, as Cap suggested he do.
I mean Cap ain't even dead... and he handed Sam the Shield personally.

Not to mention the insensitivity at the bank.... Should have sold him the selfie.
And then he should also go to Pepper and or the US Gov or just start a Avengers Go-Fund Me to get the money needed, and then some.

Either way, I assume this is gonna be about getting that Shield back and Sam becoming the real next Captain America. Earned, not Awarded.

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

« on: March 23, 2021, 01:14:06 AM »

If this version of Justice League is successful enough, they should let Snyder continue it as as an HBO Max series.  If he need this many hours to make something good, I think his talents would be better spent on multi episode series that would give him more time to show his vision versus theatrical movies that have a 2-2.5 hour limit.

They could give him the streaming platform, and they can give him the series format, but would they give him the movie budget?

Not everyone (read: nobody else) gonna get that D+ MCU budget to go crazy on special effects and big name actors that they can pull from the movies.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: March 21, 2021, 09:26:52 PM »

It's crazy that happen to Lebron when it did. Prior to the game, I was taking to someone about how he had never had any major injury or even anything that really kept him out for many weeks at a time.
I didn't get to watch the game, but got the Google news alert sometime after it happened. I feel like I (and hundreds of millions of others...) jinxed that man that night.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: March 16, 2021, 06:53:32 PM »

The Warrior v Jazz was a good game. Not just because the Warriors won, but because a majority of the players on the Dubs played a good game.

The Laker game wasn't good. It started off decent, but the second squad just couldn't produce much if anything at all. I don't blame Curry for not trying to bail the team out. Not that Curry was ask that hot anyway

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

« on: March 15, 2021, 07:05:22 PM »

Get Hyped!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojGHE581lsM

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

« on: March 14, 2021, 05:35:24 PM »

Regardless of what we want, nothing produced by Marvel Television is cannon to the MCU.

Even though AoS spun off of Avengers, it's almost as if it happened in the Multi-verse.
so as long as you think "Multi-verse" it shouldn't bother you too much that none of it happened in the Feige-verse

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (MCU on the TV-View: WandaVision)

« on: March 14, 2021, 02:16:23 PM »

Hot Toys!!! Hot Toys!!! Come and get your HOT TOYS!!!!



plus a bonus video:
WandaVision Pitch Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRkLLkpL5oY

edit:
Apparently Jimmy Woo's missing person is clearly not Bohner, but apparently is still an ongoing thing that will be revisited....
https://twitter.com/PhaseZeroCB/status/1370786901196701698?s=20

So speculate away as to who Jimmy Woo's missing person is.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: March 13, 2021, 04:59:14 PM »

So what's the word on all this Switch+ mid gen refresh talk?

4k on the dock? 720p on the go? new OLED screens?

and Nvidia hiring for development tools programmers for "Next Generation of Console Gaming" which means Super Switch in development?

Someone give me a breakdown summary!!!

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Movies & TV / Re: SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (MCU on the TV-View: WandaVision)

« on: March 12, 2021, 10:00:58 PM »

And the WandaVision intros... In Animal Crossing
https://youtu.be/vSrbdgzIGWY

Edit: I showed my daughter the Agatha AC video, and then she sent me the above video, so I thought I'd share that too.