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I watched it this weekend, a return to...well, not greatness but it was way better than The Predator! It's about time we finally had a Predator movie that takes place in modern day, especially since we've known since P2 they've been coming to Earth for centuries. I really liked the lead and appreciated they didn't make her great at everything like some movies will do. My only complaint was I felt like it would have better if they had taken a more Jaws 1 approach with the Predator and not shown it much until later. The bear scene would have been a neat place to introduce it, to the lead and the audience.

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I did nothing yesterday and loved it! Okay, I decided to get back into skateboarding but then it got too hot so I went in for more nothing.

Anyone watch it yet? I've only seen the first episode, I thought it was okay. For some reason I don't really like the actor playing Dream. I thought he was good until he started speaking LOL. Seems to be getting good reviews and I've heard episode 5 is especially good so we'll see.

8 hours ago, Darth Krawlie said:

I just realized this what thread this was. Completely forgot The Batman even existed. Still haven't gotten around to it lol

In my humble opinion, it's pretty mediocre. I was expecting a great movie from the rave reviews it was getting but I thought it was pretty generic.

And holy crap, shelving a 70M movie just like that?! This sucks that we may never get to see it. Then again, maybe it's really bad and WB is saving us the wasted time watching it. :P

I think we can count Darth Revan as a Sith who became a Jedi, too! The character was supposed to show up in Clone Wars but the scene ended up getting removed.

That's like Def Leppard, they were huge in the 80s and now you never hear them on the radio even though they still release albums.

Hopefully better than season 2!

I was going to watch this the other night but got distracted by a Tollywood movie I wanted to see first. I heard it was pretty good. Why is it playing in the theater, too?

On 7/25/2022 at 4:14 PM, Darth Krawlie said:

Phase 4 has been kinda not good overall. There’s definitely a level of fatigue coming even from me, but not enough to be out on anything of this. Well I’ll skip the Groot shorts, but other than that I’m still in.

I think I'm finally starting to feel it, or at least I was watching the new Thor movie. I may have just not been that into it. On the other hand, the trailer for the next Black Panther movie has me really hyped!

On 7/21/2022 at 11:34 AM, Ms. Spam said:

I have the flying dream frequently. I am playing in the oak trees around my childhood home and suddenly I am flying through the clouds and seeing Texas like from a birds eye view.

Flying is definitely my most common! Ever since I was little, I would have dreams where I would realize I could fly and would go all over my neighborhood and farther away. I do think about being able to fly pretty often, so I guess that would be why.

A game where you play as a cat in a futuristic city! If you have the new PS + Extra or Premium, you can play it at no extra cost. I played for an hour last night, so far it's not hard, more puzzle oriented than anything.

14 hours ago, Ms. Spam said:

I love how the south embraces flying flags around on their trucks attached with dubious attachments. SOOOOO many have come loose and wacked cars following behind them. It is worse than work trucks kicking a rock up and cracking your window shield.

I've always found it weird that so many people in the US have flags on their cars and homes. I mean, you're in America already, you need a reminder of that all the time?

5 hours ago, Odine said:

You Americans with your big wide roads and massive freeways. Try driving in the UK or any European city, it'll be nailbiting for you.

Though, I've never heard of anyone pulling a gun. That's pretty terrifying

Living in Tucson, I used to see people carrying guns pretty often. You kind of get used to it but it's still weird. To me, anyway, just not a big fan of guns. Now that I'm living in another state, I never see anyone carrying them.

34 minutes ago, Tank said:

Driving in Phoenix is WAY worse than driving in LA.

I don't know, I still have nightmares the one time I drove on the LA freeway. I remember at one point a garbage bag flew out of the back of a pickup truck I was behind and smashed open on the hood of my car, spraying trash all over! All while going 80 MPH LOL. At least I did make it to my destination accident free.

3 hours ago, Zathras said:

I've been saying for years where I am (Phoenix, AZ) gets worse every year, when it comes to driving.  I would say Phoenix is second only to LA as far as shitty places to drive. People will not even let you in when getting on the freeway.   In AZ, road rage is a thing, and I've even had a gun pointed at me before, because someone wouldn't let me in and I got over anyway.  Even though they ended up behind me, they sped up to point the gun and yell at me.  Another time, some dude who wouldn't let me over got pissed and followed me to bang on my window when I got off the freeway and was stopped at a light.   

Hey, I know AZ, I used to live in Tucson! Better drivers, at least, totally agree with the bad driving in Phoenix the few times I drove up there.

On 7/13/2022 at 3:11 PM, Zathras said:

As someone who works an IT job in higher education, I have definitely noticed since covid an increase in customers being harder to deal with.  Some are in a hurry, others could solve their own issue if they put 2 brain cells together, and others are just plain grumpy.  I have also noticed that since covid, no one where I work wants to come to the office anymore and demand to work from home at least 2-3 days a week.   Now, this could be that some folks just got used to working from home under lockdown, but it has been almost 1.5 years now that we have been back to the office, or at least for many of my colleagues and I,  it has.   I have also noticed that people in public are impatient and downright rude, or drive crazier.   People, whether you are talking about customers or even people providing service, seem more impatient, and less inclined to do anything more than just enough work to not get fired, let alone go the extra mile. There is certainly a zeitgeist of anger in the air, and it seems nationwide.  

Hey, me too (IT in education, that is)! Although we are back in the office, we're allowed to work from home once a week which is nice. I really appreciate that as I hate driving to work, it's all highway and I swear people are crazier on the roads now. Just this morning I was changing lanes for an exit as there isn't much time to do so, so put my blinker on, look back, see a car fairly far enough back that I can get in, so start moving over. Apparently they didn't want to slow down as they blazed past me so fast I had to pull back over which almost made me hit the divider. It feels people on the highway never want to slow down to let someone in now. I feel like I've had more near accidents in the last 6 months than I've had in my previous years driving.

 I feel really worried for the future, like I don't even know if I even want kids someday because the world lately just feels more awful every year and it doesn't seem to be getting any better.

The first mutant mention in the MCU and it's in Ms Marvel! I was not expecting that. I guess they're still ignoring the Inhumans for now, I guess. Probably not sure what to do after that mess of a series they had a few years back.

On 6/30/2022 at 5:38 PM, Tank said:

I had both the LP story version and tapes of the radio production and for years was conflating lines and memories.

I still remember Luke having a yellow lightsaber in ANH.

We used to have a thread dedicated to all the false memories and misheard lines of the OT.

Is that why the old action figure had a yellow lightsaber?

Any mention or cameo of Hercules? I've been wondering if he would show if they were introducing the Olympians.

I'm going to wait a but to see this, probably a couple weeks so the crowds die down. It does look fun! Anything surprising happen at all, like post credit scenes? No spoilers, just curious.

Loved this season! Homelander just doesn't care anymore and his supporters don't, either. But I wonder how the heck Maeve survived that fall since she lost her powers. She must have lost them in the explosion so how did she land safely?

I think so? I have a bunch of weapons now, although they didn't do me any good when I was trying to return the vehicles for Delamain. I got to the third car and the thugs there wiped me out in seconds. The katana is pretty badass.

 I'm a little farther now, I have Keanu popping up all the time to berate me LOL. Trying to do more side missions than main so I can level up and get money.

Well, I'm still at the beginning. I just did the mission where you sneak into Konpeki Plaza and see the dude off his father, then you have to escape. That was pretty intense. I was thinking while your character is hiding this game would be amazing in VR.

So I'm guessing I shouldn't do the High Danger missions yet. I see the icons for them around the city but haven't gone to any.