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That whole season was outstanding. For some reason about halfway through I got it in my head we were going to see Echo(Maya Lopez)'s dad turn up somewhere as an easter egg. Maybe I heard the Name Willie Lincoln in there somewhere?

In hindsight Echo would have been a great replacement for Elektra in Season 2.

Vib  Ribbon adapted to use .mp3 or spotify tracks would be cool.

I'm happy with that list and this will be the first mini-console I opt in on.

American: The Bill Hicks story was about as good as it gets IMO. The guy is one of my all-time favourites, and is up there with Hunter S. Thompson as someone's who's take would be greatly appreciated in the year 2018.

Provided they skip over some of his early material that was very influenced by Kineson, it should hopefully be well received.

On 10/23/2018 at 2:28 PM, Stilly said:

Jesus Christ, [everyone in the gaming community and not just limited to] you guys. This is exactly what people wanted Hello Games to say when No Man's Sky was released. Like, people said this letter verbatim would have made everything about No Man's Sky's release okay.

 

So then when Bethesda does just that, everyone gets pissy?

 

Also, they're letting everyone know before a public beta. What? Where's the outrage?

As an aside, I'm that outlier that enjoyed the OG No Man's Sky. Played the fuck out of it until it got too repetitive(valid and consistent complaint with every sandbox game ever made), have booted it since all the improvements and just not enjoying it as much.

Re the main topic, I never got any more interested in this, not even with a Power Helmet thrown in.

I'm gonna get drunk and join the fun tonight but for now NO! AXEL! NO MORE TALL WOLVERINES. Peter Dinklage can double dip or we can amputate another actor at the knees.

Woo, Liev Schrieber would be coo though.

For whatever reason, because the parts of Fox/Marvel that are unanimously loved are are Deadpool and Wolverine, I see them/just DP ushering this in, complete with a joke about the new Wolverine not being as handsome or rugged as Jackman.

Nemo's pitch of a subversive stab-force team working in shadow would be convenient, not to mention a pretty cool twist, but so many cataclysms and social injustices(on the netflix side) would have brought them out of the wood work by now.

Likewise some kind of gem fuckery is convenient, but hokey. Not to mention mutants need to be introduced in a way that doesn't immediately put them at odds with the heroes of the MCU. I mean the easy pitch is 'Here are the X-men, they bad, AVENGERS AS- Only cap got to say that? Fine. NOT IN THE FACE [/i] ". but I think it'd be super on the nose. 

A Displaced community/ refugee intro would not only facilitate some great social commentary reflective of current crises, but it then sets them up as a genuine wildcard as opposed to being thrown into conflict with the established heroes- and don't forget we don't know yet what shape the remaining MCU is going to be in post-infinity.

I like the idea of Xavier just out in the world as a closet telepath, as an agent of social change(hence his low profile) with Magneto assembling an army in the Savage Land. Full Ultimate Magneto with the Mutant Bible and talking about eating people- noone knows he's there because it's the savage land and he has no reason to show his hand regardless of the emergency. Xavier might be prompted to action by Ash Wednesday and start assembling his own response team.

I'm bummed I can't find Wizard's Ultimate X-men casting call w/Fred Durst as Beast and Sugar Ray(wants to fly, not Leonard) as Cyclops or Bobby.

I'm both excited and terrified to check this out now. Just that I gotta.

I'm not even a little bit trying to compare Zombie to Stone, just in case that came across.

Ecch. There's so many characters you could take a bloodless identify-with-the-villain route and at this point has it not been done to death? His name alone would need to be nerfed to fit what they hope to achieve.

:fhd: for the recommendations! Behind the mask has been on my list for a minute. 

I watched NBK when I was 14 I think and am willing to admit at this point I probably didn't get it, not to mention Juliette Lewis is distractingly irritating anytime she's on the screen. Gonna give it another try, is the point.

It goes in spoiler tags because there's spoilers, but moreso because I got way too wordy with this and nobody has time for that.

TL;DR Devil's Reject is pretty unique IMO.

*Actually, Romper Stomper is also an incredible film that's hard to watch.

Borderlands 2 being adapted to VR for release in December! 

I've been having a blast with my PSVR and so far I've not been disappointed by anything I paid more than ten bucks for.

The only gripe thusfar has been with the PS aim controller, which could be just me getting used to it/not looking down the 'scope' properly. The Move controllers have been flawless for 1:1 tracking

1 hour ago, Iambaytor said:

I think the only Rob Zombie movies I would give the nod to would be Lords of Salem and (bizarrely enough) Halloween 2, (I have never understood the appeal of The Devil's Rejects and the further we get from 2004 the more confusing it becomes) but they probably weren't the best horror films of their respective years.

Lords of Salem is Hereditary .5

And as long as the Slasher genre lives, Devil's Reject will be relevant as an insight behind the masks.

Yeah I was gonna ask- because it's been more than a decade and a half since I read the stuff that wasn't Burning Tyger- whether the evil arc you mentioned was the Dark Avengers stuff or back then because, to be clear he wasn't evil so much as being manipulated by the Goblin Queen. 

I mean, we now have the Watcher/ Nick Fury's role but that's effectively what Ellis had set him up as when the series ended.

I'm in for any and all things Nate Grey. That aesthetic is straight Ellis/Grant though so I'm really hopeful for the continued adventures of insane Shaman Nate. 

At some point I, or more likely a boffin with the time on their hands is gonna look at the title and subject of horror through the last few decades to try to track some kind of trend or reflection of current affairs at the time.

Drag me to Hell is cheesy Raimi goodness! Sad to see no Zob Rombie on the list either, especially since he did Hereditary first!

So Demolition Man has aged terribly but also

Demolition Man has aged wonderfully! Eerily accurate reflection of 2018. 

Regardless of authenticity, that thing looks hack AF and the bezel looks more cumbersome than carrying around an Atari Lynx.

Stop me if you've heard this before but an ideal pro unit would be about the same size as current and hold all the additional power in the dock- hell make that thing big as an OG xbox for all I care, just leave the portable aspect portable.

Man Ezquerra collaborated a lot with Ennis in the early noughties, which is my frame of reference for him. He pencilled the Saint of Killers mini and nailed that gritty western feel, and I read some of his and Ennis' Just a Pilgrim too, which wasn't bad. RIP.

My point there was that whatever the dude is capable of or able to ignore, I'm confident he's not wearing his mum's name while talking about "trifling-arse ho's".

I really hate to focus on the track itself but it's classic Kanye cypher- heartfelt recognition of female agency hidden in a hook using a dated and terribly offensive slang(IMO).

Invoking the Name of Donda is either him shrugging off the last 'control' or moral north(the collaboration with Dame fizzled and further supports this) or, my point, is that there's more to the message than we're seeing, as with most things related to Kanye.

Nah, I like a Joker willing to sacrifice the whole caper for the perfect delivery(ie a slave to the punchline). Ledger was competent and more manic crazy than the guy who'd probably manage to get a laugh out of you(either chemically or the old fashioned way) as you lived out or witnessed your worst nightmare.

That could all be true, but Ye wearing a 'Donda'  nameplate- I don't know the correct name for those necklaces with a name on them?- for that awful single and video w/Lil' Pump shows us that we probably don't know shit about what drives that man.

^ Can't see the video cause I'm @ work but the buzz that made the most sense really highlit(lighted?) parallels between Ledger's Joker and this new thing. 

Which is vexing from my standpoint because I never saw the appeal of Ledger's Joker.

Yeah Season 2 is much better than the first. Re @The NZA's spoilers, I'm keen to see Colleen do something, and that last scene threw me for a six as well.

Looks great. 

I'ma be sad to see the troupe and timeline folded into Marvel.