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Rogue is definitely worth playing, adds a new dimension to the templars, as the assassins aren't just right by default. I'm (re)playing witcher 3 on my PS5 as the load times are now bearable. I previously played the main campaign and half of heart of stone on my ps4 before I got too annoyed with the slow loading. Finished the 1st playthrough + expansions, now on death march playthrough.

So, I've spent today watching the OG trilogy, and I freely admit this may be a controversial opinion, but S-M3 did not deserve all the hate it got. Maybe it's because I'm older now, but Harry's death hit me right in the feels... and I don't really have any feels.

@MikeI was exactly the same, he just seemed a really weird choice, but he absolutely smashed it. Never been so happy to have been wrong.

So, I know this is a thread rez, but whatever, there's literally nothing else going on here...I mean, considering 1 ) the state of the world, 2 ) AEW being awesome 3) the lack of any new posts we, the people of this forum, may just have aged out of all this...and that genuinely makes me sad. If no one else has said this, then I feel I should : thank you Kam. For a good, long while in my early to mid adult years (at least by average standards, i'd be shocked to reach 50) this forum was a place where expression wasn't censored, even if it wasn't popular or mainstream. I make no bones that most people will see me as an arsehole, as my opinions could and can be polarizing, to be kind, but this was a place where I wasn't just shut down, instead i was called on my bullshit opinions not by insults or rhetoric, but by reasoned argument (most of the time, at least). I think that's something that's missing in the wider web today. If the enduring legacy of this forum is that it made some people less shitty human beings, then that's something to be proud of and more than 99.9999999% of forums could ever hope for. Apologies for the off topic rambling, I'm kinda drunk. In vino veritas, as the saying goes (according to Archer... I dunno, who am I, Reginald Foster?). On topic... episodes I got to before abandoning Riverdale : 1st episode Scream TV series : S2e01 Hoops : i dunno, like 4 or 5 eps. I'll be honest, I was on watching it as some shite I hadn't watched before while my primary focus was drinking and playing games. You : s01e01 - ok, so, creepy, less cool Dexter... no thanks Breaking Bad L s05e02 or e03... binged the whole thing to there with my bro, then we both got outta sync schedule wise and haven't managed to finish it yet. Sabrina - the netflix series, watched p1 + special and just CBA after that. Tokyo Ghoul - 1st season, not bothered with the rest.

The Rise of Skywalker was a disappointment after The Last Jedi. Neither is perfect, by any means, but at least TLJ tried something different (albeit to mixed reception) while TRoS was a misguided attempt to retcon all of the so called controversy out. Even with that said, nothing TRoS did was especially bad, per se, but it was trying to fit too much into its' runtime. Giving it another half hour (at least), or splitting the movie in two and expanding on, well, everything, in two parts would have served the story much better. A franchise that managed it? Well, Marvel, obviously, though it feels like a cheat since it's obviously not over, just the end of an era. Furious 7 also did a spectacular job closing out the Paul Walker era in terrible circumstances (though WAY better than TRoS, it has to be said).

SCSA, and, dare I say (oh, shit, I guess I do) Chris Benoit. Is he a piece of shit for what he did? No doubt, but that doesn't change what he was capable of between the bells. Also, Michaels, Eddie and Pillman. And The Rock, as a talker, was godly. Also, and it goes against literally every fiber of my being to say this, but Cena was deservedly the man during his Super-Cena run.

Ah, don't get me wrong, the people who actually design new tech are just amazingly intelligent. It's just that they deliberately design it so that almost anyone can do it. I used to work for a company that, amongst other things, built PC's and servers from high level components (eg. case, motherboard, ram, cpu, psu, hdd etc.). I was on the services side, but the training on the production side could have been a day. Fortunately, the production manager was as solid as they come and would, at least, double check everything until he was absolutely sure of his staffs capability. Sadly, the company we worked for is no more (hey credit crunch, fuck you guy), but everyone has moved on to better since.

I can see how it might be a good thing for some people, especially in regards to forcing you out of your comfort zone with what you read. But, it's very much not for me. I can spout pretentious, pseudo-intellectual bullshit with the best of them if I really have to (by which I, of course, mean their deep and meaningful insight into the mind of the creative and the unique paradigm their world building presents to the reader...) , but I can't abide being made to listen to it from other people. I had quite enough of that in tertiary education, thanks...

Rewatch as in background I don't have to pay attention too and is better than the BS on terrestrial... Archer and Rick and Morty. Also South Park, Family Guy and American Dad. Rewatch as in pay attention to, pretty much any Joss Whedon show, but I don't really have time to even keep up with the current stuff I watch, so that doesn't happen.

Ugh, digital assistants... eww... I make a point of making all my friends and family who have and use them regret it. Go on, explain why spotify thinks you LOVE Rick Astley ... or why amazon has delivered a 40 inch strap on.

@lymmo Well, they're starting to bridge the gap between consoles and PC's. Hardware wise, it seems like Sony are a bit stuck. Their single model is probably going to be at or around the same price as the high end xbox.... which spanks it in performance terms. As someone who bleeds blue, it actually hurts to say that. Microsoft have made all the right moves in terms of user friendly features (cross play, play anywhere etc.), their subscription services piss all over Sony's from a dizzying height, and they seem to have learned all the lessons they needed to from the XBone's botched launch and subsequent trouncing in this generation. That hi/lo split is a stroke of genius too. When it comes to exclusives, that's a battle for Sony to lose. Between god of War 2 and Spider-man 2, they practically guarantee a huge uptake in the hardware themselves. That said, if Microsofts' relationship with Nintendo eventually sees those two releasing cross platform versions of what were previously exclusive franchises (Zelda on xbox, halo on switch etc.) then that would work to negate Sony's dominance to some extent. As good as Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey and Mario vs Rabbids are, not to mention Mario Kart, the Switch is the one console I don't own. As for what I'll be remortgaging my house to buy come holiday season.... I have enough equity to get both :p Though, realistically, it'll probably be an xbox series x, especially if the rumors about steam, epic games and GOG Galaxy are true... I have so many games on steam and GOG it's not even a consideration. Well, until GOW2 or Spidey 2 launches and I sell a kidney to buy a PS5.

I mean, there definitely is something to be gained from it in the broadest sense, but hacking your home wifi probably isn't worth the effort when so many people willingly join, for instance, McDonalds002... SURPRISE! that's not actually a McDonalds wifi you just joined and every password you enter for every site you use now belongs to the bad actor. There is a reason WIfi remains turned off on most people in the tech industries devices. I'd sooner go without internet than connect to some rando's open wifi. Even then, I'd use a vpn and if they can crack that, you're pretty screwed anyway..., they're basically at the level of a nation state, so if China wants to read my email that badly, there is pretty much sweet FA I, or anyone else, can do to stop them.

If you think that M2 thing pissed you off, imagine ordering a Q6600 literally 2 days before the i5 launch. Yeah, that was me, seeing 50% of the order I hadn't even received yet pissed down the drain. Never, ever again. Bleeding edge can f*** right off. Also, you're 100% right, there isn't very much to learn if you have, no word of a lie, half a brain. That doesn't stop sales people getting it wrong, but it is very much plug and play if you read the compatibility guides. Most importantly, the internet and youtube are your friend. If you get the kit right in the first instance, then a monkey could basically do it... or a small child, since that's who actually does do it for most electronics manufacturers.

Ok, so from the perspective of someone who has both an xbox 1s and a ps4, though neither and xbox 1x or ps pro, I'd say it comes down to 2 considerations. The most important is : what do you want to play? And by this I mean the bullshit that is exclusives. In the current gen, PS4 has this on lockdown. Spidey, God of War etc, etc, we've heard it a million times. And that is all true. But, the second is : if you're going to subscribe (as in, pay monthly), and I really can't recommend this enough, the xbox gold + game pass is the fucking bomb. All the exclusives on day 1, a massive back catalog and Xbox or PC? Sony just can't touch that. Bear in mind, this is from someone who accidentally renewed their PS+ subscription until 2024, and thought, well, shit, I'd have done that anyway.

I'm kinda biased to Roger, since he played Hugh Fitzcairn in the Highlander TV series... but I have to go with Elton. Anyone who can make a cynical bastard like me well up is pretty damn good. And no, it's not Candle in the Wind. Fucking Daniel though, gets me in the feels every time....

My point was that you can like anything you want, without insisting that it's good. I like Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill movies, but I wouldn't say they're great cinema. Fuck, I even liked BvS, but I wouldn't say it's a good movie. There are plenty of technical things about movies which are not subjective, like coherent plotting, continuity and decent editing. That's not elitist, it just is. It's these aspects which the DC films are largely falling down on, which is actually a good thing because they're the easiest to fix. It may well also be a symptom of trying to fit too much into few movies in an attempt to catch up to Marvel, even though trying to do that makes no sense at all.

Gringo, that's 5 decent Batman films, the Keaton ones were pretty widely acclaimed. Also, Xmen 1& 2, and the first two Spidey movies. And Deadpool. To say critics crap on comics book films just because they're comic book films is unfair. They crap on the crap ones. The DCEU is 3 movies in, and every single marvel movie in the MCU is better than any of them. We're not talking Winter Soldier or Guardians etc. which are obviously better, we're talking Edward Norton as Hulk, and Thor : The Dark World. That doesn't mean we can't enjoy them for what they are, but to pretend they're good films when they're just enjoyable crap is wrong. Just because something is bad doesn't automatically make it unenjoyable. Look at pretty much all the 80's action movies.

It's weird, Max isn't really a director, more a writer. Oh, and if you've not seen it, do yourself a favor and watch this

Yeah, that was genuinely funny. First time in a long time that I've actually found any of the comedy in wrestling funny. The rest of it was pretty terrible.

I'm going retro at the moment, the original Final Fantasy 7.

I'd say BvS is worth seeing in the cinema. Yeah there are issues, but it's a decent action romp, just go in with your brain all the way into mindless action film mode and it delivers in spades. The tone gets loads of stick for being too dark, but that's not an issue for me. Batman works being dark in tone, it's just a bit off with Superman. I was more stoked for Squad anyway as it has Harley Quinn and Joker in it, so that was probably inevitable, and after seeing BvS, the idea of more of Afflecks Batman only adds to that. Despite the shaky nature of BvS, if DC handles it right going forward, Affleck has a real chance of being the highwater mark of the cinema version of Batman. Plus, I have a feeling Margot is going to slay it as Harley.

Yeah, apparently they're doing reshoots to lighten the tone further after BvS. The villains perspective is the one thing they rarely get right in comic book movies, doom and gloom is for the tortured heroes. Villains should be full of dark comedy and rarely serious, after all, they're mostly ridiculous anyway. As Harley says "We're the bad guys, it's what we do."

If you genuinely think Deadpool (R rated Comedy with ultra violence), Ant-Man (a comedy heist movie), Iron Man (straight origin story), Captain America : Winter Soldier (political thriller) and Guardians of the Galaxy (comedy space adventure) are all "basically the same" then there is no hope for you. And while the MCU is a shared universe, it's only 2 films a year, and you don't have to have seen any of the other films to be able to watch any of them, aside from, maybe the direct sequels (though I'd say you really don't have to have seen any of the other films to watch Iron Man 3 or Winter Soldier, for instance). And to clarify, Marvel isn't ruling the box office by default because they make superhero movies, they're doing it because they make good to great movies that happen to be about superheroes. They can manage this because they have tight creative control over their films, overseen by one man, Kevin Feige. Warner/DC has gone the other direction and basically given the director scope to bury themselves. That's worked out great for them in the past, especially with Nolan's Batman, less well with MoS and BvS and horrendously like Catwoman. DC has an advantage in that their characters are iconic in pop culture, especially Batman and Superman, but they've yet to really test themselves and succeed with lesser characters like Marvel did with Guardians and Ant Man. That said, they've had more poor to middling films than any other studio, with some horrendous Batman films, Green Lantern, Catwoman, Superman Returns, Jonah Hex etc. Fox and Sony are the studios which seem to miss slightly more than they hit, with Spidey, Ghost Rider, Xmen, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Elektra,Deadpool etc. but not as badly as Warner/DC miss.

I keep hearing this "soooo many" thing, when it's really not. This year, you've got Deadpool, BvS, Cap,Xmen,Suicide Squad and Dr Strange. That's one superhero every 2 month's, on average. Six movies, total. Only 2 of which are in the MCU, and let's face it, then MCU is the only "must see" player in superhero movies. This year to date there have been more straight sci-fi movies (3) than superhero movies(2), shitloads more comedies, more war/terrorism action movies, 5 horror movies and, get this, more religious-based movies (2 biblical, 1 Egyptian). In short, there is plenty of other stuff to watch, Superhero movies are a staggeringly small proportion of the films being made, they just do big box office (that said, Zootopia has made the most money so far this year).

I'm not one for reviews, and I can generally just take a movie for what it is, but there are so many irksome things that just pile up during the movie, even with my brain turned off, as it were. On the plus side, most of the issues stem from the script writing/direction/production end and not the cast, though Luthor was off. Affleck did a sterling job as a war-wearied Batman, and it's by far the most nuanced version of the character we've seen on the big screen, to the point where they should have had a post-Man of Steel solo Batman film before Batman v Superman. They're far enough into Batman's career that they could have done an partial adaptation of The Killing Joke (at the start) and A Death in the Family (which leads to the Robin suit in BvS and Batman's darker outlook). It would also have given Leto room to establish his version of Mr J, before Suicide Squad.