Gonna admit I never got far with Flash. The first three episodes didn't really grab me so I pretty much let it go.Shrapnel wrote:I love Arrow and The Flash, and there's been a huge backlog of episodes in my DVR, and I've recently been watching through them.
I got to the Flash episode about Firestorm and the Evil US General(TM) (Eiling, I do believe his name was) who wants to use him as a weapon. It was amazing. Here's why:
After the Flash saves Firestorm from Eiling, the general gets away unscathed, and you think he's going to escape punishment and return to menace the good guys another day.
But...! Harrison Wells (AKA the Reverse Flash) nabs Eiling out of his HQ and drops him off in some sewers, where - wait for it.... FREAKING GRODD KILLS HIM.
I loved it, because villains like Eiling very rarely get punished like that in superhero shows.
Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.
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Yeah. I look forward to both of them. And I love it when they intertwine. The catching bad buys episode by episode was vital to the plot, I think. It shows the growth of him (without a montage).
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
My only complaint is the whole Iris subplot. I'm pretty tired of that romance trope, and while I appreciate Iris pointing out how stupid it is; the writers and Barry don't seem to be internalizing this revelation. And the enforced idiocy with never telling Iris his identity was ridiculous long ago.
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How do you confuse a barbarian?
Put a greatsword a maul and a greataxe in a room and ask them to take their pick
How do you confuse a barbarian?
Put a greatsword a maul and a greataxe in a room and ask them to take their pick
EXPLOSIVE RUNES!
I'm hoping it will bear itself out like Olicity.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
Obviously "completely rocked" is overstating it. But I really like the throwaway joke in Avengers where briefing lady is talking to Cpt. America about the new enemies who volunteered to be experimented on, and she calls them monsters for having volunteered.
Cap makes a joke about "because you'd have to be crazy to volunteer to let a scientist do experiments on you just to help out your country" or something. But I really liked it, because it showed both Cap having empathy with enemies, and showed how he goes through life as the "normal" Avenger even though he's really not that fucking normal, and he must still feel weirdly completely alone around normal humans.
Cap makes a joke about "because you'd have to be crazy to volunteer to let a scientist do experiments on you just to help out your country" or something. But I really liked it, because it showed both Cap having empathy with enemies, and showed how he goes through life as the "normal" Avenger even though he's really not that fucking normal, and he must still feel weirdly completely alone around normal humans.
The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron did completely rock me. Musings and movie spoilers below.
Does it bother anyone else how similar Thanos's and Ultron's voices are?
Seeing a little bit of Wakanda was super cool. The Black Panther movie can't come soon enough.
Thank god Black Widow actually has a decent character now, where before she had one-liners and a dark secrit past. I'm still not a fan of Scarlett Johansson's acting.
Also Tony Stark never did fix that tractor.
Seeing a little bit of Wakanda was super cool. The Black Panther movie can't come soon enough.
Thank god Black Widow actually has a decent character now, where before she had one-liners and a dark secrit past. I'm still not a fan of Scarlett Johansson's acting.
Also Tony Stark never did fix that tractor.
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DSMatticus wrote:Again, look at this fucking map you moron. Take your finger and trace each country's coast, then trace its claim line. Even you - and I say that as someone who could not think less of your intelligence - should be able to tell that one of these things is not like the other.
Kaelik wrote:I invented saying mean things about Tussock.
I'm...You Lost Me wrote:Avengers: Age of Ultron did completely rock me. Musings and movie spoilers below.
Does it bother anyone else how similar Thanos's and Ultron's voices are?
pretty sure that was intentional. The AI was pulled from the crystal, which was given to Loki by Thanos. Probably was a photocopy of Thanos, or at least his intentions, there somewhere, so Ultron never had a fair shake at benevolence to start with.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Yup, movie was fantastic.
I liked the Mijolnr stuff, with the establishing bit at the party, then super-speed guy trying to catch it out of the air and discovering that was a bad idea, then Vision cutting the debate over his intentions short by handing it to Thor.
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...You Lost Me wrote:
Does it bother anyone else how similar Thanos's and Ultron's voices are?.
No.
It bothered me that Red Reddington spent half the movie doing a Tom Waits impression.
But Darcy points out that casting James Spader as the villain when Robert Downey Junior is the hero is an in-joke harkening pack to the brat pack movies of the 80s.
It bothered me that Red Reddington spent half the movie doing a Tom Waits impression.
But Darcy points out that casting James Spader as the villain when Robert Downey Junior is the hero is an in-joke harkening pack to the brat pack movies of the 80s.
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
AoU was crazy quotable and the best parts were all character driven.
The best was probably Hawkeye making fun of the insanity of comic book movies and how you just have to embrace the craziness but perfectly in character. No wink wink nudge nudge. Hell it sounded like a pep talk Jeremy Renner gives himself before a scene to get in character. Also his contemplating murdering Quicksilver.
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Maxus wrote:I'm...You Lost Me wrote:Avengers: Age of Ultron did completely rock me. Musings and movie spoilers below.
Does it bother anyone else how similar Thanos's and Ultron's voices are?
pretty sure that was intentional. The AI was pulled from the crystal, which was given to Loki by Thanos. Probably was a photocopy of Thanos, or at least his intentions, there somewhere, so Ultron never had a fair shake at benevolence to start with.
I'd say it's definitely intentional. The post-credits scene had Thanos pulling on the Infinity Gauntlet while looking annoyed and saying something along the lines of "Fine, I'll do it myself, then!" That's all but an admission that Ultron's base personality being that of an omnicidal psychopath was indeed Thanos's plan all along.
Working on gear for my artificer, I found that I can (possibly) make wall breaching profitable for only a few hundred gold.
Extract Drug from BoVD is a 1st level spell. With some shenanigan-ry, I can make a Command Word item of Extract Drug for about 300gp. Each casting of Ex.Drug lowers a stone or metal object or 1' cube's hardness by 1 permanently.
If the GM approves of making the "magical green vapor" the spell creates capturable on the grounds that the 1 round caveat is due to dissipation and not the effects of a permanent spell ending, then I can reduce cubic feet of walls to 0 hardness in 8-10 minutes and then turn around and sell drugs the watch needs a Spellcraft check to recognize. With some more wealth, either through adventuring or, you know, selling motherfucking drugs I can make more drug extractors and render sections of wall into paper-hardness more quickly. Like within 2 minutes If I've got 10 extractors working on a single cubic foot of wall, or a 2'x2' section of wall that most of the party should be able to crawl through in 8 minutes instead of a 1' section that only shortarses like my goblin artificer can.
Extract Drug from BoVD is a 1st level spell. With some shenanigan-ry, I can make a Command Word item of Extract Drug for about 300gp. Each casting of Ex.Drug lowers a stone or metal object or 1' cube's hardness by 1 permanently.
If the GM approves of making the "magical green vapor" the spell creates capturable on the grounds that the 1 round caveat is due to dissipation and not the effects of a permanent spell ending, then I can reduce cubic feet of walls to 0 hardness in 8-10 minutes and then turn around and sell drugs the watch needs a Spellcraft check to recognize. With some more wealth, either through adventuring or, you know, selling motherfucking drugs I can make more drug extractors and render sections of wall into paper-hardness more quickly. Like within 2 minutes If I've got 10 extractors working on a single cubic foot of wall, or a 2'x2' section of wall that most of the party should be able to crawl through in 8 minutes instead of a 1' section that only shortarses like my goblin artificer can.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Command Word activated unlimited use spell items are one of those things where you have to beg your DM pretty please to be allowed to do, because there are like a billion ways for that to be broken as fuck. And one of the big no-nos is command word activated unlimited use spell items of spells that make things. That usually ends badly, and DMs almost always say no. Your chances of being able to do that are "very low." Also, I'm almost positive that this is the wrong thread for that discussion.
This is the thread for talking about how you need to see Mad Max Fury Road. Because it's the most awesome thing I have ever seen in my whole life. There has literally never been a more actiony action movie in the history of mankind.
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This is the thread for talking about how you need to see Mad Max Fury Road. Because it's the most awesome thing I have ever seen in my whole life. There has literally never been a more actiony action movie in the history of mankind.
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I kind of think this DM is one of those DMs who won't see an issue with it due to not thinking things through.
However, if he does, then it just means I don't get to override the "must be inhaled within one round" thing and I still get my rock crumbler with a side of "makes the good shit." Then I make an Amulet of Drug Resistance to avoid addiction issues.
However, if he does, then it just means I don't get to override the "must be inhaled within one round" thing and I still get my rock crumbler with a side of "makes the good shit." Then I make an Amulet of Drug Resistance to avoid addiction issues.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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When did we see any of Wakanda? We heard them speak of it, but the south Africa scene wasn't it and I've seen multiple people think it was even though South Africa was on the damn scene for the entire fight /rant....You Lost Me wrote:Avengers: Age of Ultron did completely rock me. Musings and movie spoilers below.
Does it bother anyone else how similar Thanos's and Ultron's voices are?
Seeing a little bit of Wakanda was super cool. The Black Panther movie can't come soon enough.
Thank god Black Widow actually has a decent character now, where before she had one-liners and a dark secrit past. I'm still not a fan of Scarlett Johansson's acting.
Also Tony Stark never did fix that tractor.
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Yeah, that was totally South Africa; Wakanda just got a name-drop. I mean, it wouldn't have been very smart for the weapons dealer dude to be hiding in the same country that he stole from, would it?
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Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Especially after they branded a glyph on his neck that means "thief, but not as nice"Shrapnel wrote:Yeah, that was totally South Africa; Wakanda just got a name-drop. I mean, it wouldn't have been very smart for the weapons dealer dude to be hiding in the same country that he stole from, would it?
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Age of Ultron was really good. One thing that bugged me through the whole movie, though: Ultron's motivation was never made clear until the very end. He never actually said why he thinks the Avengers are terrible until the movie was practically over. Every scene with him had me wondering why he was working against the Avengers. His motivation turned out to be the fairly cliche "I will force betterness onto humanity and failing that murder everyone" so there was no reason to play it so close to the vest, especially since the first part is something Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver probably would've been on board with.
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Derp. I was just so hyped about hearing "Wakanda" that everything else went straight over my head.RedstoneOrc wrote:When did we see any of Wakanda? We heard them speak of it, but the south Africa scene wasn't it and I've seen multiple people think it was even though South Africa was on the damn scene for the entire fight /rant.
DSMatticus wrote:Again, look at this fucking map you moron. Take your finger and trace each country's coast, then trace its claim line. Even you - and I say that as someone who could not think less of your intelligence - should be able to tell that one of these things is not like the other.
Kaelik wrote:I invented saying mean things about Tussock.
It's been a while since I saw it the one time but I'm fairly sure he mentioned why. He said that they want to save humanity but they don't want it to change. His reasoning was that the avengers would fight any of the unpleasant but necessary changes that he felt needed to take place in order to better humanity.Chamomile wrote:Age of Ultron was really good. One thing that bugged me through the whole movie, though: Ultron's motivation was never made clear until the very end. He never actually said why he thinks the Avengers are terrible until the movie was practically over. Every scene with him had me wondering why he was working against the Avengers. His motivation turned out to be the fairly cliche "I will force betterness onto humanity and failing that murder everyone" so there was no reason to play it so close to the vest, especially since the first part is something Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver probably would've been on board with.