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Apparently there's going to be another "Variant Rush" event starting on the 21st:

Those of us over CL 1000 might want to consider holding off opening any Collector's Reserves until the event begins, if any of the variants take your fancy.

If it encourages anyone else to sign up, I'll happily stand for Treasurer or Secretary instead of Pres.

Yeah these days it's all "scissoring lesbian motorcycle twins" and "god of belts and zippers". I prefer the classic summons, like Fire Guy, Ice Lady, Lightning Gandalf, and Sentient Cactus.

So which character did everyone pick first?

I chose Osvald, as I was intrigued by how he was the only one to come with a warning that his tale is a solo affair until later in the story. I'm also hoping for some prison break hijinks.

It was pretty broken though.

It got to the point where I started logging the decks I was coming up against, and Zabu was in just over 50% of them. Plenty of other decks are capable of total bullshit combos, but Zabu was definitely the most bullshitiest. Spiderman & Absorbing Man on one turn was one of my "favourite" moves. I started playing Spectrum/Sandman exclusively just to remain competitive.

Does anyone in real life talk like this?

Whatever this style of dialogue is called, it's unrelenting in Midnight Suns. Almost makes it unplayable for me.

1 hour ago, NickC said:

Stuff I found weird and unsatisfying with season 3:

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Teacher Rob - so in the final we found out that he was not only an abusive husband, but he also was having an affair with a colleague and a paedophile. But he was not a killer. Woah.

 

Faisal never got his comeuppance with the law on screen. It was dealt with in a few lines of dialogue.

 

Darius never got his comeuppance with the law on screen. Same as above.

 

Faisal getting found out because Alison's probation officer also had a prescription drug habit, also used Faisal to access the drugs and also was careless enough to drop them in a place Catherin could find them when she happened to have an impromptu nap on her sofa. 

 

Catherine's ex and his story about investigating Darius and trying to meet up with him - really it amounted to nothing.

 

Still great TV. They nailed the emotional journeys of Catherine, Clare and TLR in the finale, thank goodness.

Agree with all of that. Series 3 could have done with another couple of episodes to tie everything together, but all those weaknesses are forgiven when the core of the show is so good. Between Sally Wainwright's writing and Sarah Lancashire's performance, they paint Catherine as a total badass, a supercop, yet someone who is also human and emotionally vulnerable. Great television.

From what I can work out, the films were shot twice, in both the Tamil and Telugu languages. The Hindi and other versions are all dubs. Somewhat frustratingly for my kids, there's only an English dub for the first film, so I had to narrate the entire second film to my youngest.

One weekend evening last year, I sat down to rewatch this, and found my kids creeping downstairs to sit next to me just as it started, so decided to let them watch it with me. Explaining our colonial history to a nine-year-old was an interesting challenge, and even harder was convincing my seven-year-old that we were the "bad guys", but I was pleasantly surprised at how engaged they were throughout the entire runtime. We rooted for the heroes, we danced together for Naacho Naacho, and we all got emotional when Rama and Bheem's friendship was tested. It was the single most enjoyable cinematic experience I've ever had.

Naturally, I was keen to experience more of this sort of thing, so over the last two weekends we have watched the two Bahubali films, from the same director as RRR. We loved them! There's something very special about SS Rajamouli's work, because I've never seen my kids so engrossed in such long movies before. I'm going to track down a few more of the recommendations in this thread, so thanks to anyone who's posted suggestions!

Is there logic to which card Arnim copies, or is it random? Playing him in a lane with Wong and Black Panther seems risky if you could end up with two Wongs.

14 hours ago, Tiny said:

I watched Dog Gone last night. It's based on a true story about a dog who goes missing on the Appalachian trail. It's nothing ground breaking and was a little twee at times but if you have kids, and/or love dogs then it's an easy watch. 

 

I bawled my eyes out. 

Does the dog talk

Just watched the first ep of the new show.

It looks much better than I've come to expect from 3D anime. I suspect some of the scenes must have been motion-captured, it looks so damn smooth.

In the original anime the nature of the world and the population's relationship with "lost technology" was only slowly revealed over the course of the series, so it's interesting that they've front-loaded the backstory this time around. The very first scene explains the seedships, Vash & Knives, so the world is going to be a little less mysterious but I suppose the origin story trope is pretty tired these days.

Gutted that they seem to have dropped Milly and made Meryl the kouhai this time around. Hopefully we still get some version of Wolfwood, and the Gung-Ho Guns.

It's a strong first episode, different but familiar, with the Humanoid Typhoon goofing off while trying to save the town from a comically reckless villain.

Confession time.

I once made an anime music video using footage from Trigun.

For Linkin Park's One Step Closer.

This has been my obsession since I received it from Santa. Finally managed a win tonight, after many, many deaths. I've started poking around the wiki, looks like there's tons of stuff I haven't found yet.

Patch last night. Didn't know about any of this until I noticed the Nova in my hand had 1 less power than usual, the devs really need to improve the in-game messaging.

https://marvelsnapzone.com/marvel-snap-january-10-2023-patch-notes/

10 hours ago, Ste Pickford said:

On New Years Eve we watched the film White Noise, which appeared on Netflix the day before.  It was instantly a surprise late contender for my favourite film of the year. It's adapted from a well known novel, apparently, but I haven't read the novel.

 

Anyway, I recommended it on another forum, and today I see that two people tried to watch it and gave up after half an hour saying the dense, overlapping dialogue did their head in.  I had a browse on IMDB in pretty much every user review is "1/10, had to switch off after 30 minutes, hated it."

I loved every second of it.  Anyway, give it a go and report back.

I really struggled with White Noise.

Perhaps it didn't help that I was watching it on NYE after a bottle of wine, but so much of the film felt like obscure metaphor, it made me feel stupid. It was tonally all over the place; part sci-fi horror, part family drama, part roadtrip comedy.

I've been tryng to play Midnight Suns on the Deck, and while performance has been okay, I was encountering occasional black screen crashes. Advice on reddit suggested I try installing CryoUtilities, and that seems to have stabilised things for me, touch wood. I was sceptical at first that tweaks to the swap config would reducing crashing, but there you go.

Jared Leto's hard kombucha.

IT'S HAPPENING!

My santa has been incredibly generous this year, but I have no idea how they knew about my secret love for catgirl anime visual novels??! I thought I'd kept that hidden well enough, but I'll be trying out "Fluffy Store" first!

Many thanks, you cheeky scamp!

1 hour ago, moosegrinder said:

I'm super casual at this and TCGs in general. Smash it in the face and hope it falls over, that's the play. I'm also only rank twenty something which means I'm very aware it's probably not competitive but I tend to win more than I lose with it

 

 

General gist is get one location maxed out, the final of the 4 being played then hopefully get Namor somewhere to get the sneaky 10 (not essential, mind) and then Spectrum the fuck out of the board.

 

Can anyone who has decent synergy spotting skills tell me if I have any dead cards and what would be better instead?

 

Edit: Collection level 537

It's pretty good for your collector rank, I'm at 1500 and my Spectrum deck is very similar.

The only card there that doesn't really fit is Agent 13. At 537 you should have Ebony Maw, I think? It's a better fit for the deck because it has an ongoing ability, but can be a little tricky to play effectively with its restrictions.

Sorted. Thanks for organising this, JPR.

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✅ Original science fiction movie

✅ Sam Raimi

✅ Adam Driver

✅ T-Rex

✅ Velociraptors

❌ ???

2 hours ago, therearerules said:

I got partway through episode 1 and turned it off. It's mafiascum/ werewolf but without the rules that make it work and just money instead.

 

Also just finished The Mole on Netflix which does the job infinitely better.

You've answered a question for me, thanks. After hearing The Traitors described by my wife I'd wondered if it was some scum-like. I'm not sure what you mean when you say it has "no rules" though?