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Post by The Captain on Aug 13, 2021 5:41:06 GMT -5
Both of my daughters really enjoyed this, but I sat it out. I'm just not much of a cartoon guy any more (although I love Lego Batman Movie), so this has limited appeal to me.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 10, 2021 7:53:36 GMT -5
@mrp - congrats to you and the missus. My wife and I are just slightly ahead of you, as we hit 19 years back in June. shaxper - all the best to you and Amber ad you deal with figuring out the care situation for Owen and the girls. I can't imagine how difficult it must be trying to juggle all of that, but as I've seen how you handle the inmates here, I k know you are up to the job.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 5, 2021 19:48:12 GMT -5
That's out of the scope of my collection.
Sorry Rob.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 4, 2021 9:28:21 GMT -5
Owen is back in the hospital, worse than ever. They are bringing in an oncologist tomorrow... Oh no! I'm literally sick to my stomach after reading this. As a parent, my heart is breaking for you. And a shout-out to @bert as well. Hope you are staying strong through your health ordeal.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 22, 2021 11:21:50 GMT -5
Moon Knight #1. Written by Jed MacKay. Art by Alessandro Cappuccio. Mr. Knight has opened the Midnight Mission. Moon Knight stalks the rooftops bringing violence to any who would harm his people. He fights Vampires and other weirdness. And their is another worshipper of Khonshu out there who thinks Moon knight is unworthy. Moon Knight has had many ups & downs in his various series. He needs something that makes him different from Batman or Daredevil and MacKay has the nice twist to set up this run. I'm not sure of the current status of MK's supporting cast since it has been quite awhile since I have read a Moon Knight series. The 2006 series was the last one I read. I was aware of his Mr Knight persona that Warren Ellis developed in his run. So far with one issue this creative team has grabbed my interest. I will buy any Moon Knight series that Marvel puts out, as I am a serious MK simp, so I was excited to see that a new one was coming out (probably due to the impending Disney+ series). This issue does a decent job of setting up the "new normal" for MK, while also helping those of us who haven't been reading Avengers and don't know what's been going on with him since his last solo series ended. Like the idea of him returning to his roots from way back in WBN #32 as someone who hunts the "things that go bump in the night", as it has some serious Angel (the Joss Whedon TV show, which is one of my all-time faves) vibes to it. Enjoyed seeing Vermin and 8-Ball in the book, as they are the type of Z-List villains that I am drawn to, and the reveal of another follower of Khonshu who has issues with MK's methods has promise. I bought two of the variant covers for this issue, which I rarely do (but with my pull list being so small, it's not a burden). One of them is the Skottie Young version, as I try to get all of his for the series I buy (fun fact that I learned at the LCS yesterday, is that the SY variant for a previous MK series sells for $125+ on eBay, and I got mine for $1 over cover back then). Will probably buy the regular cover at some point when it inevitably hits the $1 bin, as that will become my reading copy going forward. All in all, glad to see Mr. Knight/Moon Knight/Marc Spector back in action and am looking forward to where they go with this. Grade: 7.5/10
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Post by The Captain on Jul 22, 2021 11:10:37 GMT -5
Same issue as MDG. Resolution is set at 1920 x 1080, have scroll bar at bottom to reach far right side of page.
As EdoBosnar said, you have a lot going on right now, so this minor inconvenience can wait to be resolved.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 11, 2021 19:34:33 GMT -5
Pretty excited about this. Watched the first season when it originally aired, then binge-watched it again over Easter weekend this year when I was laid low by COVID. Haven't read the books, so I'm interested in seeing where this goes without having any preconceived notions (as I did with Song of Ice and Fire, which wasn't a bad thing, necessarily, but it's a little frustrating when the adaptation changes things or omits entire storylines).
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MODOK!
Jul 11, 2021 14:11:33 GMT -5
Post by The Captain on Jul 11, 2021 14:11:33 GMT -5
I gave up after two episodes. I may watch it some day. But there are so many shows and so little time. I did as well. It just wasn't compelling enough for me to keep watching, and once summer hits, I am busy with too many things to be able to waste time with mediocre programs.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 10, 2021 20:42:49 GMT -5
Saw this with my family at home last night using the Disney+ Premier Access option with our subscription. $30 is basically the cost of four movie tickets, but we can watch it as many times as we want before it goes all-access on October 6. They'll invite friends over at some point, and I may take another look at it to see if I missed anything or if my opinion changes.
As for the movie, it was a perfectly acceptable way to pass the evening. To echo other comments, this would have had more impact had it been released just after Civil War due to the timing of how it fit into the MCU timeline, but it was nice to get some details on Natasha's history (particularly about Budapest).
Florence Pugh absolutely took the film and made it her own; my wife and daughters were completely into her character from the outset. I thought David Harbour did a nice job as Alexei/Red Guardian, living in his past glory as the Soviet Super Soldier, which gave him some depth, but Rachel Weisz unfortunately wasn't given a whole lot to do.
Taskmaster was disappointing and predictable, as I guessed the identity about halfway through the movie.
There was a strong theme of female empowerment in the movie, which I felt was fairly well done. It wasn't overt to the point of being overbearing, but it was definitely noticeable throughout.
Post-credits scene, as always, raises more questions than it answers, but I guess that is what it is designed to do.
Overall, mid-tier MCU outing. Not a Winter Soldier or IW/EG level flick, but certainly not IM3 or GotG2.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 7, 2021 8:25:48 GMT -5
Not what I wanted to hear/read about the film. My daughters have been pestering me to take them this weekend to see it, but I'm honestly not really feeling this like I am Shang-Chi or the next Spidey movie, so this does nothing to build my excitement level.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 7, 2021 8:22:00 GMT -5
Back pain sucks and is one part of getting older I am not impressed with. Sorry to hear you're dealing with this. My wife just had an MRI done on her lower back and she has all kinds of things wrong in there (a cyst, arthritis, other joint issues) that are causing her tremendous pain, to the point that she is getting an injection in August to help relieve it. She turns 49 in September and will probably need these injections every six months for the rest of her life.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 4, 2021 11:34:44 GMT -5
We don't really need to get regular Loki back, do we? I mean, it could just be a branch in the timeline. Well, something has to be the inciting incident for the fracturing of the multiverse for both the next Spider-Man and Doctor Strange movies, and a unpruned timeline with a variant Loki running around could serve that purpose.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 30, 2021 11:02:39 GMT -5
Amazing how they find a way to still be annoying even when they are giving you money. I don't think anyone has much love for the IRS. Damn straight! Update to this: Didn't sit in queue last night, so got up at 6:00 AM today to do the video call. It had just a four-minute wait time, which thrilled me. Got the link for the meeting, joined it, and sat there while the screen said "Waiting for the host..." ...then got a call 30 seconds later from the company saying their conferencing system was down and that I could use Zoom to do the meeting. Told them I don't have Zoom on my phone, so they said I could "just download it", which I refused to do (I loathe apps on my phone, as I don't know what they might be collecting on me). The girl (and she was just a call-center employee, not a cyber-security expert) gave me a phone number for the IRS... ...which turned out to be wrong (although I might have heard her wrong), so I had to search the internet for a number, called it, bounced from one person to another to another before FINALLY getting someone who could help both me and my wife opt out of the advance credit. I will say that, despite all of the transfers, the three people I spoke with at the IRS, all between 7 and 7:30 AM, were both cheerful and helpful, so there is that. However, the entire negative interaction with the IDMe outfit greatly outweighed any good feelings generated by the IRS folks.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 29, 2021 21:12:57 GMT -5
The IRS can screw itself in the ass with a rusty steel cactus.
In order to help out Americans, the IRS is offering to give eligible taxpaying entities the Child Tax Credit in installments over the course of the next six months rather than having it be taken when submitting one's tax return next year for the 2021 fiscal year. There is a way to opt out through the IRS website, but in order to get access to that, a person has to set up an account through IDMe, the IRS' technology partner to combat fraud.
To do this, you have to upload multiple pictures of documents, including driver's license, SS card, passport, and other primary or secondary documents, as well as get on a video call with an IDMe "Referee", who will determine if you are who you say you are, all just so I can tell them I don't want the tax credit this year. They say it's for "my protection", but when it takes me 45 minutes just to accumulate all of the documents and fill out all of the personal information online, only to be put in queue for a 48-minute wait to speak to someone to tell me that I am me, well, let's just say that there are valid reasons for people hate the IRS and this is just a new one to add to the list.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 29, 2021 6:54:30 GMT -5
Mine has been the same since coming over here except for a brief period during the "Cap is revealed to be an agent of Hydra" debacle, where I switched it up to show my displeasure with that ridiculous storyline.
Otherwise, I simply cannot argue with Captain Malcolm Reynolds' goal.
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