Other Forums Containment Thread

[ShutUp]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnbc-rihanna-is-now-worth-1-4-billion%E2%80%93making-her-america%E2%80%99s-youngest-self-made-billionaire-woman.603978/page-3#post-89521284

Another person on my list of people to hate.

Note - if she were a moral person she would be divesting of the majority of this money back into charities, good causes, etc. The simple fact of her wealth accumulation makes her basically evil for the damage it does to others. There is no such thing as a moral billionaire.

Y’all just love to shit on a Black woman. Even in a clear case of don’t hate the player, hate the game. The system that allows billionaires to exist ain’t changing, and if it does none of y’all will have anything to do with it. Instead of being so damn negative sit back and enjoy Black Excellence.

 

It’s always amusing when they say they should be putting most of their money back into charity and such when we all damn well know none of them would donate a penny if they had that kind of money.

But that thread IS some classic Only on Era stuff where suddenly its racist to have a problem with a billionaire. Back to your regularly scheduled programming in the next billionaire thread.

[Propagandhim]

Nice knowing you, corporal. 

[ShutUp]

New Thor movie getting review scores similar to Dr Strange 2. The usuals furiously defending Marvel’s honor in the review thread, resorting to talking about how much money phase 4 has made as copium kicks in.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-have-been-to-the-us-exactly-once-i-felt-fairly-safe-but-there-was-always-the-worry-in-the-back-of-my-mind-that-someone-might-have-a-gun-on-them.604059/

So yeah, I went to the US in 2019, Wrestlemania weekend with my best friend, we were only in the country 4 days. Now I’ll say this asides from getting lost in New Jersey and missing the last train back to New York (thank you Impact Wrestling for the last minute change of venue and super late show time) and being in a taxi which rear ended another car and continued on like nothing happened on 8th Avenue in Manhattan. The only other was dealing with jet lag an injury to myself, which landed me in ER (hurt my back moving heavy luggage through the subway).

That said in the back of my mind was the fact that guns are everywhere in the US, the fact that anyone of the thousands of people we passed every day might have a gun in their pocket or their car etc. Also despite NYC having strict gun regulation, there are plenty of people who will happily ignore this, I was at multiple highly crowded locations which could all potentially make prime targets for a shooter looking to cause maximum damage. Long queues outside arenas, highly crowded tourist areas, like Times Square etc.

The thought that any small incident could erupt in to gunfire was always a worry, it never fully left the back of my mind and meant that I was always on guard much more so than I would be in a country without a serious case of gun fetishisation at such a cultural level.

NYPD were also everywhere, you could go barely go more than a couple of blocks without seeing cruisers or cops on foot, many armed with either full size assault rifles or shotguns displaying them openly, as someone from Scotland this is is quite jarring, armed cops are very rare here, you hardly ever see them outside of airports or large scale incidents in which armed police are called in specifically. We saw a few people getting arrested mainly for traffic stops or street fights, but every time I saw it, it put me on edge, knowing how trigger happy American police are known to be, a small traffic stop could easily escalate to the person being gunned without mercy if they dared to run, it was in the back of my mind.

Seeing the way things are going in America I would have to think long and hard before going back to the US these seeing how things are seemingly going backwards there at record pace, mass shootings are seeming worse than ever, rights for LGBT people are most likely nest on the chopping block for the supreme court and the Republicans fully have fully taken the mask off and put the KKK hood as they turn try to turn the US into a Christian Fundamentalist Theocracy.

I’ll temper this by saying by saying pretty much everyone we met in New York was a good person, they all helped us in whatever way they could, whether it was simple things like directions or sharing an uber with a fellow wrestling fan to get to a show when we find out that some of the subway was shut on weekends. Hell, one random guy we met in a cafe even let me into his apartment to use his toilet when I needed to go badly. Also most New Yorkers we met seemed to agree with our assessment of the Trump administration and viewed his style of leadership as being distastrous both for the US and the world.

In general I think most Americans are at heart, good decent people. But beneath that there is a dangerous element just below the surface which has been fully enabled by the political means that gun violence is always going to be apprblem until something meaningful action, but the system is being held hostage by an extremely vocal monitory who view any attempt to regulate gun ownership as an attack on themselves. They are radicalised in the extreme, holding dangerous and hateful beliefs and are seemingly prepping for a culture war. This subsection is pure poison and is the reason why I think foreigners like myself are removing the US off the destination list.

[HaughtyFrank]

Majority of black and dark skinned native/Asian billionaires would meet the colloquial criteria of self made simply because they belong to the two diasporas most pillaged by other groups of people.

That doesn't excuse the exploitation those individual members derived their fortune from, but it does highlight the inherent racial caste system of feudalistic capitalism in that those groups of people by design were always meant to be the serfs of.

Wah?

Just randomly connect words, someone will probably think it sounds smart.

Also he seems to forget that there are billionaires outside the US

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-tekken-9-was-a-soft-reboot-of-the-franchise-what-would-you-want-to-see.604071/#post-89519352

Personal want is an old Anna Williams, in her 50s that now runs her own casino/bar, holding one of those long cigarette things and can still kick the arse of any rowdy patron or fighter that causes trouble. Sadly given Bandai Namco seems to still refuse any women fighters to be playable after a certain age, I don't see it happening but I can dream dammit!

 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

rihana being worth 1.4 billion finally helps me understand inflation

In March, Bloomberg reported Savage X Fenty lingerie was working with advisors on an IPO that could potentially be valued at $3 billion. Rihanna owns 30% of that company. She also owns half of Fenty Beauty, which generated $550 million in revenue in 2020. The other half of the company is owned by French luxury fashion conglomerate LVMH.

In 2012, Rihanna started a philanthropy fund, the Clara Lionel Foundation (CLF). It aims to “support and fund groundbreaking education and climate resilience initiatives,” according to its website.

She dodging taxes just as much as anyone. lol

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/#post-89523912

Loved the first Thor, but a huge, huge part of that was the whole sequence from crash landing on that trash planet right up until Thor being setup to face Hulk, with all the Tim and Eric style humour with Jeff Goldblum in between.

 

[ShutUp]

The Batman very comfortably sitting as the top reviewed comic book movie of the year as Thor sinks into the 60’s now 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

New Thor movie getting review scores similar to Dr Strange 2. The usuals furiously defending Marvel’s honor in the review thread, resorting to talking about how much money phase 4 has made as copium kicks in.

ZeoVGM:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-3#post-89527845
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-4#post-89528286
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-4#post-89528478
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-4#post-89528823
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-4#post-89528952
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-4#post-89529348
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-5#post-89530527
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-5#post-89530614
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-5#post-89530791
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-6#post-89531007
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-6#post-89531316
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-6#post-89531370
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-6#post-89531709
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-6#post-89531709
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-7#post-89531928

 

[Lonewulfeus]

Who gives a shit about review scores, like what you like without needing validation from an external source.  Absolutely crazy to argue over that shit

[Nintex]

there's only one GOAT super hero movie this year

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-226#post-89457873

GF is playing the new Somnium Files game and the dominatrix/Nazi uniform AI's character model is so extremely off-putting.

Anything remotely interesting I see about these games gets nullified by the otaku pandering and the writer's own (poor) sensibilities.

Yikes, time to leave her ass.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-blood-is-boiling-every-fucking-day-due-to-the-pathetic-condition-that-this-shithole-country-is-in-and-the-powerlessness-to-do-anything-about-it.604026/

Things have been bad for a while but since Uvalde and the Row overturn I've felt some combination of rage and despair every fucking day. The pure scum of the Republican party have the upper hand and probably will for a good percentage of my life due to the Supreme Court majority and will continue to enact callous and hateful policies that will continue to result in suffering, misery, and death. And fuck the Democratic establishment from the deepest depths of heart for doing literally nothing to stop or even attempt to waylay those evil fucks from achieving their agenda. Seriously, fuck this. Fuck this shithole failed state and fuck every Republican lawmaker and voter who created it. How the fuck are we supposed to deal with this norm of constant, never-ending preventable deaths? Also, Happy Fourth of July everyone.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Yo, is that thread just a cover thread for people to talk about playing those games?

That's pretty slick.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-226#post-89457873

GF is playing the new Somnium Files game and the dominatrix/Nazi uniform AI's character model is so extremely off-putting.

Anything remotely interesting I see about these games gets nullified by the otaku pandering and the writer's own (poor) sensibilities.

99% sure the outfit is chosen by the player so.... why not ask your girlfriend why she likes it? Nope, rather bitch about the game existing

[HaughtyFrank]

Who gives a shit about review scores, like what you like without needing validation from an external source.  Absolutely crazy to argue over that shit

Zeovgm often uses RT scores like they're some final authority on whether a movie is good or bad, so if it swings the other way he of course has to go full damage control

[HardcoreRetro]

Damn, that's disgusting. Fucking nazi character.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Oh yeah, GF needs to go like right now 

[Kurt Russell]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-have-been-to-the-us-exactly-once-i-felt-fairly-safe-but-there-was-always-the-worry-in-the-back-of-my-mind-that-someone-might-have-a-gun-on-them.604059/

So yeah, I went to the US in 2019, Wrestlemania weekend with my best friend, we were only in the country 4 days. Now I’ll say this asides from getting lost in New Jersey and missing the last train back to New York (thank you Impact Wrestling for the last minute change of venue and super late show time) and being in a taxi which rear ended another car and continued on like nothing happened on 8th Avenue in Manhattan. The only other was dealing with jet lag an injury to myself, which landed me in ER (hurt my back moving heavy luggage through the subway).

How much of a soyboy do you have to be to put yourself in ER schlepping a.suitcase containing a long weekend's worth of clothes?

[Nintex]

Likewise, the scenes are mimics of each other for both genders yet are unquestionably intentional. I went ahead and replayed the beginning sections for each to make sure. But to double check I looked into the character models of Three Houses and got rather disappointed. So to give a bit of a preamble: the character models in Three Houses (and I assume Three Hopes) are all based on the same core character model and have the height, width, chest size, etc all proportionally changed for each character.... Except the female characters who also have a bust size scale that's independent of the height. Which wouldn't be an issue except for two problems: 1.) Basically none of the characters notably change height over the timeskip with the obvious exceptions of Bernadetta, Ashe, Lys & Cyril. But, despite the cast mainly being 17-18 at first, almost every Academy student has a dramatic increase in bust size. Which wouldn't be an issue individually, but the entire cast getting bustier, but not taller or wider, fits in with a very typical misunderstanding of puberty. And 2) the bust size is independent of height yet no named character is given the average (aka generic unit) size. iirc, only post timeskip Edelgard and Bernadetta get close (I don't want to go down that inevitably dark road to double-check). That's actually why I just assumed the game had two base models for all the women until modders started trying to do silly things like make giants in the school hub. But these very intentional choices make it obvious that the characters were designed to fit certain fetish/anime tropes rather than being all inclusive. That's what why the Three Houses models can look a tad odd since the bust size is independent of the height. That's also why Byleth is notable as she has her bust size toggle maxed out despite being one of the shorter characters. Which I can't imagine was done for any reason other than to ensure her chest would be seen from 90% of camera angles.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Seeing the way things are going in America I would have to think long and hard before going back to the US these seeing how things are seemingly going backwards there at record pace, mass shootings are seeming worse than ever, rights for LGBT people are most likely nest on the chopping block for the supreme court and the Republicans fully have fully taken the mask off and put the KKK hood as they turn try to turn the US into a Christian Fundamentalist Theocracy.

This person is totaaaaaallly from scotland.

Lightning Count I always thought you were from the US??? Where ARE you from ? XD

oops

[VomKriege]

I feel like Kevin Feige is hoping Wakanda Forever redeems phase 4 or else he will have to do a group call and lay down the law.

[Vertigo]

New Thor movie getting review scores similar to Dr Strange 2. The usuals furiously defending Marvel’s honor in the review thread, resorting to talking about how much money phase 4 has made as copium kicks in.

ZeoVGM:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-3#post-89527845
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-4#post-89528286
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-4#post-89528478
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-4#post-89528823
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-4#post-89528952
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-4#post-89529348
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-5#post-89530527
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-5#post-89530614
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-5#post-89530791
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-6#post-89531007
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-6#post-89531316
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-6#post-89531370
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-6#post-89531709
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-6#post-89531709
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-7#post-89531928

 

Him and regular MCU dickrider Cuburger putting in work.

I do love how now they hate critics when they criticise

I mean, the movie could be absolute trash, I've certainly had my doubts about it since the first trailer, but am I the only one who finds reviews like this kind of obnoxious?

It's like an exercise in the reviewer getting to say snarky hot-takes but they dont actually go into detail or reference any of the things in the film that supposedly lead them to having said take?

It just feels kind of self-indulgent.

It totally is, and movie critics know it, some even relish in the opportunity.

It's often done for entertainment rather than just pure critical analysis, and a critic's chance to be creative in their own take down as a self-appointed cultural gatekeeper.

Isn’t this how Reee treats any movie not in the MCU or Star Wars wheelhouse as a chance to get off snarky hot takes. Maybe I should dig up some of the those old DC film threads where they had mod approved trolling throughout.

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Who gives a shit about review scores, like what you like without needing validation from an external source.  Absolutely crazy to argue over that shit

Zeovgm often uses RT scores like they're some final authority on whether a movie is good or bad, so if it swings the other way he of course has to go full damage control

ZeoVGM also seems to think that superhero movies are a proxy battle in the culture wars and Marvel is "on the right side of history".

[VomKriege]

I think it's kind of a feat Marvel kept a streak so arguably viable at the pace they are cranking those (and for projects that massive), I wouldn't find it very surprising there's just overall fatigue with those schedules and expectations not unlike -at a different medium scale- their comics have had chronically for decades.

[VomKriege]

I don't think Feige is too invested in this phase.

 
Do these people think every component of those films are not heavily vetted multiple times over months if not years ?

[Vertigo]

One more from that cowpat of a thread

I don't think Feige is too invested in this phase. As people have said, he's been hands off for majority of the projects. I think this is a cooldown period and we are just seeing the MCU on cruise control for moment until Phase 5 starts up and Feige takes the reigns again. Then the overarching plot will finally reveal itself.

So Kevin Feige has taken a hands off approach and has left a multi billion brand on "cruise control". instead of the truth Reeee cant face. They’ve stretched themselves too thin across the movies and the mediocre Disney + shows and the formula is beginning to fall apart.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

but feige is doctor strange and can do it all

*multi arm feige*

*one scenario gif*

[Vertigo]

I think it's kind of a feat Marvel kept a streak so arguably viable at the pace they are cranking those (and for projects that massive), I wouldn't find it very surprising there's just overall fatigue with those schedules and expectations not unlike -at a different medium scale- their comics have had chronically for decades.

I think doing the Disney+ shows plus putting out 4 movies a year often 2 months apart has sped up how tired these movies look these days.

I don't think they’ll ever reach the heights that Infinity War/Endgame soared to. That was a once in a lifetime feat they pulled off.

Those felt like genuine exciting events. These last few movies have been real letdowns.

[VomKriege]

There's only so much stories or beats you can do before you start rethreading, repeating, piling up too heavy a continuity, having to reboot or/and up the ante.

[knux-future]

I like the MCU

but the fact is they are running out of interesting characters that can carry films. Iron Man and Captain America are gone. They don't "own" Spider-Man and while the XMen are cool...most of that cast is buns outside of the mainstays in which most have had their stories told already lol.

Thor as lol funneh man only works once too.

They also got fucked w/ CB's passing as they don't have anyone charismatic and likeable enough to carry like RDJ did.

So Phase 4 has just been them throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks....and while I enjoyed Shang-chi and Spodermens ...everything else has been a pile of mid....especially the D+ stuff.

AND thats not going to change w/ the upcoming films...can't wait for the defense force storm the Marvels is going to cause lol.

[HaughtyFrank]

One more from that cowpat of a thread

I don't think Feige is too invested in this phase. As people have said, he's been hands off for majority of the projects. I think this is a cooldown period and we are just seeing the MCU on cruise control for moment until Phase 5 starts up and Feige takes the reigns again. Then the overarching plot will finally reveal itself.

So Kevin Feige has taken a hands off approach and has left a multi billion brand on "cruise control". instead of the truth Reeee cant face. They’ve stretched themselves too thin across the movies and the mediocre Disney + shows and the formula is beginning to fall apart.

The idea of Feige just putting a franchise which is one of Disney's most important money maker on "cruise control" is really too funny.

"Yeah, I think I'm going to chill for the next 4-5 years guys, keep sending that paycheck though"

[ShutUp]

So Strange 2 and Thor are just so-so because Feige decided to suddenly not care that much and Ms. Marvel has the lowest viewership of the shows because of the fascist chuds.

That much copium in a short amount of time can’t be healthy.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/really-do-not-understand-cross-necklaces-made-of-gold-or-flooded-with-expensive-stones-like-diamonds.603921/#post-89504988

Crosses with Jesus still on them are purely Catholic symbology and are considered sacrilegious to many protestant sects, because it presents defiance to the idea that Jesus resurrected.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/really-do-not-understand-cross-necklaces-made-of-gold-or-flooded-with-expensive-stones-like-diamonds.603921/#post-89509479

Only protestants don't show the Christ on the cross. Every other christian sect does (Catholics, Copts, Orthodoxes, and so on)

And the Christ on the cross doesn'T nullify the resurection as it's a core tenant/belief of christian faith (irregardless of sect)

I mean, that's literally what I said.

Err no, Copts and Orthodox believers do not follow the Catholic church.

Did I say they did?

Did I suggest they did?

Read my post again. Slowly.

Crosses with Jesus still on them are purely Catholic symbology

https://www.resetera.com/threads/really-do-not-understand-cross-necklaces-made-of-gold-or-flooded-with-expensive-stones-like-diamonds.603921/page-2#post-89511621

OK, sorry for that then.

I'm speaking as a protestant. I'll correct my language and say that most protestants don't believe in depicting Jesus as still being on the cross.

This still doesn't disprove what a lot of protestants believe about depicting Jesus on the cross. It's sacrilege.

There are sects of Christianity that aren't Catholic or Protestant, dumbass.

Royalfat's standard tone is always
 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/thor-love-and-thunder-reviews.604104/page-11#post-89544873

Summer of Top Gun rolls on!

Xenu is the greatest villain Marvel has ever faced.

 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-226#post-89457873

GF is playing the new Somnium Files game and the dominatrix/Nazi uniform AI's character model is so extremely off-putting.

Anything remotely interesting I see about these games gets nullified by the otaku pandering and the writer's own (poor) sensibilities.

99% sure the outfit is chosen by the player so.... why not ask your girlfriend why she likes it? Nope, rather bitch about the game existing

The irony of posting in that thread complaining about your girlfriend enjoying a game with a scantily clad woman character is
 

[ShutUp]

They keep talking about Covid challenges with the newer Mahvels and yet that didn’t effect how Batman turned out. The man in the lead role got Covid for crying out loud. Feels like the industry has a more than capable grasp by now on how to film in a world with Covid in it.

[headwalk]

i can't comment on the MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE being bad because i can't remember it ever being good.

i got everything i needed in iron man 1's runtime. i think i saw the first avengers in the cinema but it left so little impression i couldn't even be sure of that.

[ShutUp]

It will never cease to amaze me how many people talk about disappointment or surprise based on the words of others, without even having seen the film. And even more so that they decide to stop seeing a movie they might have been interested in based on lukewarm reviews. Where is their own judgment? And even more so in a franchise in which really weak movies have received very good ratings and others, much better, have received poor reviews.

The exact sort of talk they used to mock when it was a DC movie. How quickly the tables have turned.

[HaughtyFrank]

Apparently he planned it for weeks and has escaped the scene wearing women's clothing.

Oh god was he trying to emulate the Joker scene from the dark knight where he escapes in a dress

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mass-shooting-at-fourth-of-july-parade-in-highland-park-il-suspect-in-custody.603795/post-89537043

This sounds a bit far fetched...

[NekoFever]

The movies are hilariously low effort now. Even before covid it was really apparent that they just get the actors into a green room because that’s easier than going outside, and post-covid they don’t even bother getting them in at the same time. Most of the stars are out or in the process of being replaced by characters who nobody cares about. They make everything uniformly ugly, even when they occasionally dare to hire a director with some flair. Then they run out of ideas 90 minutes in so end in a final battle where they’re all fighting identical mooks on a featureless flat plain before a giant laser shoots into the sky or whatever.

It just feels directionless and stretched thin by shitting out five movies and half a dozen Disney+ shows a year now.

This is coming from someone who, for all its flaws, admired the achievement of building everything into a production on the scale of Infinity War/Endgame. That just felt like an ending and I’m happy to get off the train now.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

have they started accusing the movie flopping because of mysoginsm and female thor?

[ShutUp]

The movies are hilariously low effort now. Even before covid it was really apparent that they just get the actors into a green room because that’s easier than going outside, and post-covid they don’t even bother getting them in at the same time. Most of the stars are out or in the process of being replaced by characters who nobody cares about. They make everything uniformly ugly, even when they occasionally dare to hire a director with some flair. Then they run out of ideas 90 minutes in so end in a final battle where they’re all fighting identical mooks on a featureless flat plain before a giant laser shoots into the sky or whatever.

It just feels directionless and stretched thin by shitting out five movies and half a dozen Disney+ shows a year now.

This is coming from someone who, for all its flaws, admired the achievement of building everything into a production on the scale of Infinity War/Endgame. That just felt like an ending and I’m happy to get off the train now.

And even with No Way Home, it was the nostalgia of the villains from Raimi’s first two movies returning plus Tobey/Garfield that drove the box office into overdrive.

[ShutUp]

have they started accusing the movie flopping because of mysoginsm and female thor?

No that’ll either be if it opens this weekend under expectations, which really would be a bit surprising, or if it drops off like 65%+ the second weekend.

[Nintex]

I'm a bit bummed that it sucks to be honest. I was looking forward to this movie. Thor Ragnorok was really fun.

The movies are hilariously low effort now. Even before covid it was really apparent that they just get the actors into a green room because that’s easier than going outside, and post-covid they don’t even bother getting them in at the same time. Most of the stars are out or in the process of being replaced by characters who nobody cares about. They make everything uniformly ugly, even when they occasionally dare to hire a director with some flair. Then they run out of ideas 90 minutes in so end in a final battle where they’re all fighting identical mooks on a featureless flat plain before a giant laser shoots into the sky or whatever.

It just feels directionless and stretched thin by shitting out five movies and half a dozen Disney+ shows a year now.

This is coming from someone who, for all its flaws, admired the achievement of building everything into a production on the scale of Infinity War/Endgame. That just felt like an ending and I’m happy to get off the train now.

Yep, Disney is just spread too thin across too many projects and franchises.
Last I counted they currently have about 20 Marvel projects in production, ranging from a sequel to Captain America and a TV mini-series about Groot to a spin-off show of WandaVision.

Same with the directors. Taika Waititi is directing/writing about 6 movies right now as well as various TV shows and doing voice acting for a bunch of Disney movies.
Seems like it's all being done on a production line schedule with CG artists crunching away at trailers, shows and movies to meet their deadlines.

[NekoFever]

And even with No Way Home, it was the nostalgia of the villains from Raimi’s first two movies returning plus Tobey/Garfield that drove the box office into overdrive.

Yeah, I had a 5/5 time seeing that in the cinema, and it’s by far the best phase 4 MCU, but when I watched it a second time there’s nothing there beyond the crossovers and Willem Dafoe being Willem Dafoe. It’s also the one where it became insanely apparent that nobody was in the same room together when filming this stuff.

[BikeJesus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnbc-rihanna-is-now-worth-1-4-billion%E2%80%93making-her-america%E2%80%99s-youngest-self-made-billionaire-woman.603978/post-89515482

So surely you hold these same concerns when you're on Gaming Side, right?

Fucking roasted.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2022-ot-1-build-back-later.533906/page-270#post-89275866

User Banned (3 days): Use of Homophobic language

At this point if you're still one of those corny Democrats/liberals who can't look at the current landscape and realize the Democratic party as a whole is essentially useless and we need real leftists and progressives replacing this geriatric circus of corporate-cock-suckers - there's no hope for you. Whether it's Biden waxing poetic about the good old days of politics (which still sucked) and only NOW realizing what we're dealing with, Nancy Pelosi telling us we need a "strong republican party", using Manchin and Sinema as excuses, telling us we can't do stuff because of the fucking Parlimentarian, Sotomayor telling us how nice Clarence is, Finestein hugging Graham, everyone constantly pointing to the rule book while the GOP laughs and rules by minority and all on the so-called left generally appearing to have zero urgency about an impending Christofascist state - it all points to the death of this idiotic party which committed suicide because it kept telling itself - and us - that all we had to do was reach across the aisle and go high when they go low and we don't need to worry about reversal of rights instead of using their power to improve the material conditions of people, reduce suffering and save lives; because of a delusional view of this country as somehow being above turning into a right-wing hellhole instead of recognizing it for the wretched, right-wing, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, bigoted, violent shit-hole it is.

Fuck Bill Clinton. Fuck Barack Obama. Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck Nancy Pelosi and fuck the DCCC. Losers. Weaklings. Morons. And, most importantly: participants in this whole little game, comfortable knowing they're insulated from the negative effects hundreds of millions of Americans will face.

[paprikastaude]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lollipop-chainsaw-remake-announced-for-2023.604053/page-5

Just a bunch of people mildly excited for a weeb game and pages of Crossing Eden screeching at everyone inbetween, particularly when being rebutted by simple facts

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lollipop-chainsaw-remake-announced-for-2023.604053/page-7#post-89546139

User Banned (1 Week): Dismissive commentary, trolling over multiple posts

OH YES!

My wife laughed so hard with this game. She will be surprised.

Good thing she's a leftist from Latin America, and her concern is with real-life women, not movie/game characters, or discussions that simply DO NOT EXIST outside the forum bubble and some on twitter.

https://twitter.com/MarcoGorgar/status/1544324056165515267

No need to make it into some culture war shit bro

Americans make it a culture war, and try to spread it to the world, I would never NEVER do that. Because material reality always wins culture wars. Sorry. Its really my mistake to enter the post. I'm just going to respond to another colleague on the forum and no longer participate in this bubble topic.

I mean I think it's fine to be concerned with both the irl treatment of women while also being concerned about and acknowledging the tropes and representation in media which have the potential to influence and underpin said treatment. It's not one or the other and the two are interrelated.

Weird post.

Sorry once more, i disagree. Hunger, unemployment and the implosion of rights is what happens in real life.

I was today using some of my available time to collect food due to record unemployment and HUNGER in the place where I live.
NOBODY is worried about the character THAT DOESN'T EXIST if he's killing other characters, in a skirt or pants.

It reminds me a lot when the far-right folks in their own culture war, worried that now such a black actor will play a white character, or that such a character in the game will be lgbt+. It's useless in material reality.

I can only imagine offering a poor woman one more outfit and feeds collected and asking: what do you think of the short skirt of the video game that will be remastered?

But it was my fault, I apologize, because I get a little annoyed with these pamphlet-decorated discussions of middle-class white Americans. How we really need a stronger American left, to raise awareness among these people... Sorry once again, true. Getting off topic.

 

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnbc-rihanna-is-now-worth-1-4-billion%E2%80%93making-her-america%E2%80%99s-youngest-self-made-billionaire-woman.603978/post-89515482

So surely you hold these same concerns when you're on Gaming Side, right?

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Fucking roasted.

ITS A FUCKING LEGITIMATE RESPONSE

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lollipop-chainsaw-remake-announced-for-2023.604053/page-7#post-89546139

User Banned (1 Week): Dismissive commentary, trolling over multiple posts

OH YES!

My wife laughed so hard with this game. She will be surprised.

Good thing she's a leftist from Latin America, and her concern is with real-life women, not movie/game characters, or discussions that simply DO NOT EXIST outside the forum bubble and some on twitter.

https://twitter.com/MarcoGorgar/status/1544324056165515267

No need to make it into some culture war shit bro

Americans make it a culture war, and try to spread it to the world, I would never NEVER do that. Because material reality always wins culture wars. Sorry. Its really my mistake to enter the post. I'm just going to respond to another colleague on the forum and no longer participate in this bubble topic.

I mean I think it's fine to be concerned with both the irl treatment of women while also being concerned about and acknowledging the tropes and representation in media which have the potential to influence and underpin said treatment. It's not one or the other and the two are interrelated.

Weird post.

Sorry once more, i disagree. Hunger, unemployment and the implosion of rights is what happens in real life.

I was today using some of my available time to collect food due to record unemployment and HUNGER in the place where I live.
NOBODY is worried about the character THAT DOESN'T EXIST if he's killing other characters, in a skirt or pants.

It reminds me a lot when the far-right folks in their own culture war, worried that now such a black actor will play a white character, or that such a character in the game will be lgbt+. It's useless in material reality.

I can only imagine offering a poor woman one more outfit and feeds collected and asking: what do you think of the short skirt of the video game that will be remastered?

But it was my fault, I apologize, because I get a little annoyed with these pamphlet-decorated discussions of middle-class white Americans. How we really need a stronger American left, to raise awareness among these people... Sorry once again, true. Getting off topic.

 

Really?
The game didn't sell very well and the reception both critical and from players seemed pretty tepid.

Edit : huh, turns out it actually sold pretty well.

[HaughtyFrank]

I mean I think it's fine to be concerned with both the irl treatment of women while also being concerned about and acknowledging the tropes and representation in media which have the potential to influence and underpin said treatment. It's not one or the other and the two are interrelated.

Weird post.

Sorry once more, i disagree. Hunger, unemployment and the implosion of rights is what happens in real life.

I was today using some of my available time to collect food due to record unemployment and HUNGER in the place where I live.
NOBODY is worried about the character THAT DOESN'T EXIST if he's killing other characters, in a skirt or pants.

It reminds me a lot when the far-right folks in their own culture war, worried that now such a black actor will play a white character, or that such a character in the game will be lgbt+. It's useless in material reality.

I can only imagine offering a poor woman one more outfit and feeds collected and asking: what do you think of the short skirt of the video game that will be remastered?

But it was my fault, I apologize, because I get a little annoyed with these pamphlet-decorated discussions of middle-class white Americans. How we really need a stronger American left, to raise awareness among these people... Sorry once again, true. Getting off topic.

They literally don't you bunch of Jack Thompson loonies

https://www.psypost.org/2022/06/sexualized-video-games-are-not-causing-harm-to-male-or-female-players-according-to-new-research-63388

Meanwhile in the real world

https://twitter.com/JessicaNigri/status/1536059962316627969

 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-it-whenever-a-mass-shooting-happens-instead-of-talking-about-gun-control-it-is-about-left-or-right.604215/

This is something I noticed quite a lot the last few years.

Another shooting happens and you will have some small talk about gun control, but in America the discourse is then happening whether the shooter belonged to the right wing or left wing. You see this with the shooting in Highland. Instead of seeing finally that maybe there should be stricter gun controls, "right wingers" say he must be an anarcho communist, because in one photo he had two different hair colors, the "left wing" is talking that he is seen with MAGA flags.
I am mostly generalizing right now with "right wing" and "left wing" obviously.

And I also see that it is important to see whether the political affliation might play a point in the tragedy.

But this whole discourse whether he is actually right or left wing, shouldnt be as important as the easy access to guns. This is where the big issue lies. Again, it seems it was a semi-automatic rifle again, that literally no one needs to "defend" themselves.

[HaughtyFrank]

It is a bad sign for a democracy to instantly politicize tragedies such as this. And on the 4th of July, no less, where those 2 party fuckers usually come together just a bit.

User Banned (Permanent): Troll Account

 

[Vertigo]

And even with No Way Home, it was the nostalgia of the villains from Raimi’s first two movies returning plus Tobey/Garfield that drove the box office into overdrive.

Yeah, I had a 5/5 time seeing that in the cinema, and it’s by far the best phase 4 MCU, but when I watched it a second time there’s nothing there beyond the crossovers and Willem Dafoe being Willem Dafoe. It’s also the one where it became insanely apparent that nobody was in the same room together when filming this stuff.

This is another issue a majority of the movies in this phase are utterly disposable. Even moreso than usual.

I watched NWH at uh home and unlike seeing it at the cinema where the crowd hype and energy was amazing, at home every flaw presented itself including the very bad green screen, most of this phase barely musters a rewatch.

For me only Shang Chi was worth watching again everything else has been terrible and most of all boring. I fear for what Black Panther 2 is going to be like without T Challa in it

 

[HaughtyFrank]

so dont buy it then

jesus gamers

as always with this stuff there are good games here but they don't have big explosions or huge budgets so it's obviously shit

I mean I pay annually and pausing one month is kills my 20% coupon

Also you're talking to someone who is also bummed because there's no visual novel gem.

But they absolutely sold their reduction in games offered as we'll be giving you more Triple A titles

Also don't call me a gamer

Then don't act like a gamer

i mean if you play games and post on a gaming enthusiast site are you not a gamer

Nope

Yeah, you are. Sorry you see such negative connotation to the word that it's poisoned, but everyone posting on Era Gaming is a gamer.

Again absolutely not.

You can insist it but the beautiful thing is I get to say nope.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-usually-pretty-easy-going-with-these-things-but-jesus-this-months-humble-bundle-monthly-is-the-worst-one-ive-ever-seen.604218/post-89538204

 

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-it-whenever-a-mass-shooting-happens-instead-of-talking-about-gun-control-it-is-about-left-or-right.604215/#post-89537886

Please, do you know how much time I've wasted arguing that gun control was needed to leftists? Way more than I should have. Being on the left ain't enough, there's plenty of leftists who will make the exact same sorts of arguments against gun control that right wing dipshits do, it's about the goddamned policies it's not about the labels. Talk like this is exactly the sort of "team sports"-ing of politics that people are talking about.

Good thing non of the other site admins or their sycophants are like that 

[ShutUp]

Close to 30 posts in a thread by Crossing Eden for a remake announcement of Lollipop Chainsaw. All because…the lead character shows skin.

Please get fucking laid, Eden. Can even use your Ubisoft baton for foreplay.

[BikeJesus]

so dont buy it then

jesus gamers

as always with this stuff there are good games here but they don't have big explosions or huge budgets so it's obviously shit

I mean I pay annually and pausing one month is kills my 20% coupon

Also you're talking to someone who is also bummed because there's no visual novel gem.

But they absolutely sold their reduction in games offered as we'll be giving you more Triple A titles

Also don't call me a gamer

Then don't act like a gamer

i mean if you play games and post on a gaming enthusiast site are you not a gamer

Nope

Yeah, you are. Sorry you see such negative connotation to the word that it's poisoned, but everyone posting on Era Gaming is a gamer.

Again absolutely not.

You can insist it but the beautiful thing is I get to say nope.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-usually-pretty-easy-going-with-these-things-but-jesus-this-months-humble-bundle-monthly-is-the-worst-one-ive-ever-seen.604218/post-89538204

 

Subbed to Humble Bundle for 6 years without pausing a single month, but not a gamer. Sure Jan.