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Post by The Captain on Mar 5, 2020 16:15:42 GMT -5
I learned today that a moonraker is an actual thing. Forty years after the James Bond movie. I feel a little embarrassed. I'm just glad there's no such ailment as thunderballs. Or octopussy...
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Post by The Captain on Mar 5, 2020 13:55:28 GMT -5
Well, I am between games at the moment, and I am hoping to keep it that way for a while. It's nice not having something sucking up all my free evenings so I can get something else done. Just beat the main storyline in Dark Souls 3. I have the DLC, too, which is supposed to be both very good and VERY hard. After beating Bloodborne twice back to back and then Dark Souls 3, I think I've had my fill of insanely hard weird creepy action games. I liked them both a lot, especially Bloodborne, but I'm all set for a while. That said, has anyone been keeping up with the PS5 rumors? It is shaping up to be a really cool system. Priced to launch somewhere around $500 ish, backwards compatibility with at least PS4 day one, Ultra HD bluray included... I don't recall if I read this or am hoping, but if they also have backwards compatibility with PS1/2 discs I will buy one as soon as I possibly can. I have some old PS1 and 2 games I'd like to revisit, but I don't wanna deal with aging hardware, crappy analog cables looking shitty on HD TVs, troubleshooting emulators, etc. If I could just pop in my old PS1 RPG discs in the living room and fire up some nostalgia, man.. that is tempting. If the PS5 is backwards-compatible with PS1/2 games, they can have my money immediately. I replay Castlevania:SOTN every couple of years, but it looks like crap as you mention with the aging hardware and poor translation to HD TV. If it would look like it used to, along with a boatload of other games that I used to love, I might buy my first new system in a decade (last one was a Wii, for whole family usage).
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Post by The Captain on Mar 5, 2020 11:15:03 GMT -5
While I understand why it was shut down and that if it hadn't been, it was a serious threat to the community, but I really do miss the Politics thread. There are two topics that are burning a hole in my brain, and while discussing them with both my wife and my sister is fine, that's a pretty limited audience for variety of opinion. I wish we, and by "we", I mean all humans, could separate the emotional side of politics from the intellectual side so that conversations could be had in a rational manner. We as a society would be better off for it. There. I said it I go back and forth about it. I think I mentioned that I went through it a month or so back. And damn...it had some of my best stuff in it. But it also had a tendency to bring out the worst in me. So it's a trade-off. What I did notice and remember is that we lost a number of good members because of the thread so ultimately I think it's better without it. But it does put a hamper on my funny. In a perfect world, we would be able to handle it like adults, but it's certainly not a perfect world. I'm not advocating for it to be reopened, just lamenting that we can't handle it.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 5, 2020 7:23:03 GMT -5
Kittens
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Post by The Captain on Mar 5, 2020 6:48:36 GMT -5
While I understand why it was shut down and that if it hadn't been, it was a serious threat to the community, but I really do miss the Politics thread. There are two topics that are burning a hole in my brain, and while discussing them with both my wife and my sister is fine, that's a pretty limited audience for variety of opinion.
I wish we, and by "we", I mean all humans, could separate the emotional side of politics from the intellectual side so that conversations could be had in a rational manner. We as a society would be better off for it.
There. I said it
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Post by The Captain on Mar 5, 2020 6:16:59 GMT -5
Along the lines of the Punchline discussion, whatever happened to the Joker's daughter? I seem to remember her from around the time DC did the "23." issues in the Nu52 period, but I don't follow much new DC so I wasn't sure if she was still a thing or not.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 4, 2020 21:29:09 GMT -5
Hey guys, just a reminder that this isn't the politics thread. Let's try to keep the posts in this thread on the subject of people who have shuffled off of this mortal coil. Thanks. My sincere apologies. Feel free to delete my original post and any subsequent replies.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 4, 2020 10:42:34 GMT -5
RIP to Michael Bloomberg's pathetic, ego-driven vanity project of a presidential campaign.
My wife summed it up perfectly this morning when she said his campaign slogan was "I have lots of money. I'm here. Vote for me."
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Post by The Captain on Mar 4, 2020 8:07:30 GMT -5
Coal
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Post by The Captain on Mar 3, 2020 9:22:54 GMT -5
In the news - two cops got into trouble for taking pictures of the Kobe Bryant accident scene which probably had bodies ( and body parts) on display. I predict in less than five years society will be okay with putting these types of grotesque images on full display. There I said it. I would argue that "society" is already OK with this practice. We have become, by and large, a voyeuristic, consumption-driven people, drawn to the salacious and grotesque almost compulsively. Don Henley sang about it 40 years ago in "Dirty Laundry", which was merely an extension of the "if it bleeds, it leads" mindset in newsrooms across the country. We watch "reality TV", not because it is affirming or uplifting but because we revel in the misfortune of others. We WANT to see people in pain and suffering, because that is far more "entertaining", and I use that word both loosely in regard to the material actually having any true entertainment value and with deep scorn for the consumers. We are a truly f@#$ed-up society, and our depravity only fuels and encourages those who would take pictures of a crash site and release them, most likely in exchange for money. Profiting off of others' pain used to be looked down upon, but it is just another means of making a buck today that is tolerated by an increasingly cold and callous population. There. I said it, quite sadly.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 2, 2020 13:06:46 GMT -5
Paul
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Post by The Captain on Mar 2, 2020 7:35:20 GMT -5
Chain
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Post by The Captain on Mar 1, 2020 21:23:59 GMT -5
Here we are again - our annual salute to Wales, the Welsh people, their descendants overseas, and admirers of Welsh culture everywhere. Happy St. David's Day 2020! Thanks Rob! As I've learned over the past year, I have a lot more Welsh ancestry than my father ever let on (not that he was hiding it, he just didn't have any idea or interest in finding out). That, coupled with my trip to Wales last August, have given me a much-greater appreciation for the Welsh people and culture.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 1, 2020 9:29:14 GMT -5
Only got 80 books in last month, as both my life (taking over my parents' finances due to my mom's illness) and my wife (she's been taking our older daughter to swim so she can study for a certification test, while that used to be when I read a lot) worked against me. Still, I'm averaging 3 books read per day, which, if, maintained, will allow me to easily surpass my goal of 1,000 issues read in 2020.
Best thing I read in February: I've really been enjoying the Jonah Hex stories in All-Star Western and Weird Western Tales. Had never been introduced to them before this month, but they are fantastic (one thing I'm a little bummed about is that, with the Showcase Presents format, I'm not getting them in color, but that is a minor quibble).
Worst thing I read in February: Said it before in another thread, will say it one more time here. Silver Age Wonder Woman by Robert Kanigher is possibly the worst garbage I have ever read in my 40 years as a comics fan. I have literally put the Showcase Presents book aside and will never open it again. It makes me sad that these issues were ever published and foisted on an unsuspecting public.
March Look-Ahead: Will be continuing to read the Jonah Hex stories (just got Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex, v2 in the mail yesterday). As well, I will keep reading my way through Iron Man from the beginning. I just got past a really rough patch in the late-30s/early-40s where there was a lot of supernatural influence on the book, which was really out of place, but once you get past the Thanos issue, the book takes a turn back toward technology-based villains (and the Mandarin, but he gets a pass since he's Iron Man's greatest foe).
One interesting thing to note about issue #55 is how much they played it up as the introduction of Drax rather than of Thanos. Even the letter pages a few months later had a lot to say about Drax but none were printed that mentioned anything about Thanos, even though it is his first appearance in that book that makes it worth 100s of dollars today.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 29, 2020 8:44:11 GMT -5
I might go back and start watching this again at some point, as I was working my way through it on Netflix at a pretty good pace, but then I got bogged down in the middle of Season Two and just lost interest.
It also didn't help that shows like The Mandalorian, The Witcher, and Season Three of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina were released, and once I was done with those shows, I got back into the Marvel shows on Netflix, finishing Season Two of Daredevil, and now I am currently on Season One of Luke Cage (which I am LOVING).
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