Perfect Xero
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I assume that at some point there will be a reveal that it's a comic that Stuart is writing and everything is a metaphor for things going on in his life.
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5 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
Not that this wasn’t funny, but I call bullshit on the whole premise of Lois only just discovering self pleasure. We’ve all seen Lois use her vibrator numerous times throughout the series!
It's just a vibrating massage device for her sore muscles!
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22 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:
My city has an independent league team. I should go sometime. I thought the Isotopes were a minor league team?
Yes, a bit part of Dancin Homer was Homer getting called up to the Capital City team.
This particular break of continuity bothers me more than it probably should.
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NFL Thread
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14 hours ago, Black Knight said:It won't be much of a battle between Gabriel and Sanders. Gabriel is a clearly inferior QB whose ceiling is journeyman backup, while Sanders was acknowledged to be at least a second-round talent. I don't think the Browns would have bothered drafting Gabriel if they could have been assured of drafting Sanders on Day 3. Unless somebody gets seriously injured in preseason, Gabriel will be cut or put on the practice squad and the Browns will ride with Flacco, Pickett and Sanders. My guess is the plan is for Flacco to start, Pickett to be the backup QB if Flacco gets injured, but in blowouts Sanders will get the playing time so that he can start acclimating to the NFL. It's actually a reasonable plan, but everything the Haslams touch goes rotten, so...
So they ... spent a 3rd round pick on a guy who they will end up cutting instead of drafting the guy they really wanted who fell to the 7th round instead of just drafting that guy in the 3rd round?
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Egwene already brought a dead person back to life, so I'm not sure why Rand can't do the same.
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Given that the show has established Perrin as a wife killer, I assume that Faile won't be around for too long.
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14 hours ago, aghst said:
So poor reviews for Captain America Brave New World and mediocre box office.
In fact the Deadpool creator is calling for Kevin Feige to step down.
If you're making comic books or super hero stories you should always do the opposite of whatever Rob Liefeld thinks you should do.
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I'm pretty sure that the only chance of Xander appearing is if they recast the part.
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If only Disney had some sort of streaming service they could but an Agent Carter movie or series revial on.
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10 hours ago, Morrigan2575 said:
I'm watching Grimm right now and not sure how I feel about this. If it's Kelly, Diana and the Triplets fighting crime with help from the Parents I could get into it. However, please no Bitsie Tulloch/Eve
It's not impossible, but they'd probably have to set the show 10 years or more into the future to be about the kids fighting crime.
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On 12/24/2024 at 4:51 PM, Kel Varnsen said:
Yea that was my understanding too which is what I was getting at. I don't think Lee was the writer then (I looker it up and it was Jim Shooter). But yea it was supposed to be a lot less clear that it was intentional abuse in the mainline universe. But in Ultimates it was a lot more clear (doesn't he have an army of ants attack her). But if people want to talk about respecting storylines, the Ultimate line was way more of a change from the main universe than anything in the movies.
The Ultimates turned the scene up to 11, but the idea that it was just an art mistake people made too much out of doesn't work if you read the actual comic in question.
Even if the actual shot of Hank hitting Jan was an art mistake, it happens literally a page after Hank had his unstoppable adamantium robot attack her, during which he taunts her and calls her weak when she's not able to fight it off while it's hurting her. Afterwards he bullies her into not telling anyone.
He also snapped at and insulted Jan earlier in the issue (and in the issue before as well). When Jan reveals her black eye to the Avengers Hank tells her to shut up and calls in his killer robot to attack.
This is one of the reasons that I'll forever be bitter that the MCU had Iron Man create Ultron and not Hank Pym. Meanwhile it's at least a little gross that MCU Hank gets to be the "boy he sure loves his wife and daughter" guy.
Longer Avengers v1 #213 recap, by me:
SpoilerIn the issue in question Hank is facing a court marshal by the Avengers because (in the previous issued) he attacked an opponent who had already ceased hostilities and was talking things out with Captain America.
Jan tries to comfort him and he insults her, but she forgives him when he apologizes. (Which Tigra witnesses and wonders when Jan is going to wise up and realize what a loser Hank is). Then we get a couple of pages of him being sad that people like her better and that she's richer than him and pays for everything.
Hank goes to his lab and creates an unstoppable robot with a "weak spot" only he knows about so it can attack the Avengers and he can save the day to prove he belongs on the team.
Jan is worried about Hank and goes to check on him in his lab, he finds out she's there, accuses her of spying, then has his robot attack her. He taunts her that her "little stings" are useless against it before he deactivates the robot and tells her his plan.
She tries to talk him out of it, which is when the "art mistake" happens, he then shows no remorse for having hit her and tells her she'd better go along with his plan.
At the trial he goes on a rant where he blames Captain America for him blasting the lady in the back and tries to get Jan to speak in his defense.
At this point Jan finally has enough and reveals her black eye to the Avengers. Hank then tells Jan to shut up and calls in his killer robot.
Hank Pym, being Hank Pym, is too useless to actually hit the weak spot while it's beating on the Avengers and the robot turns on him. Jan is the one who steps in and saves him. Afterwards he's more upset that Jan was the one who saved him than for the damage he's caused.
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MLB Thread
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10 hours ago, ProudMary said:As I've been discussing the need for a salary floor, this telling graphic pops up in my feed. The teams in the two columns on the right should be embarrassed.
One big contract is a rather questionable way to evaluate team spending. The columns on the right include teams that have often cracked the top 10 payrolls over the last decade (Braves, Cubs, Giants, Blue Jays), while the column on the left includes the Marlins and Royals.
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MLB Thread
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Sooner or later, all our games turn into Calvinball.
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Bob's prices haven't changed since the show launched, so he's gone from probably being on the higher side of average for a small burger joint when the show launched to being an absolute bargain in recent years.
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Kristen: "I think I forgot something."
David: "If you forgot then it wasn't important."
Kristen: "Yeah, you're right."
*Kristen's Swiss cheese brained husband who almost killed himself saving their daughter standing alone in the rain*
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Black Sabbath tried to warn us!
He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
When he traveled time
For the future of mankind
Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
Planning his vengeance
That he will soon unfurl
Now the time is here
For Iron Man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved-
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12 hours ago, grommit2 said:OK...here's another question:
I watch games on TV. The TV shows a little box which is supposed to define the strike zone. The left and rights sides appear to be accurate. But the top line seems to be drawn low.
I thought the strike zone was from the knees up to the letters. But the top line seems to be quite a bit lower than the letters.
Is this just the camera angle, or is the strike zone really that small? ⚾"The official strike zone is the area over home plate from the midpoint between a batter's shoulders and the top of the uniform pants -- when the batter is in his stance and prepared to swing at a pitched ball -- and a point just below the kneecap. In order to get a strike call, part of the ball must cross over part of home plate while in the aforementioned area."
So the official top of the zone is probably a bit above the "belly".
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10 hours ago, ebk57 said:It was cool. Although I'm so old that it didn't seem fuzzy enough to be authentic. Good effort, though.
My question is - why is the "home" team wearing gray and the "away" team wearing white? It's the 8th inning and I'm still confused.
I assume it was because they were honoring Mays, so the Giants wore the home uniforms.
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19 hours ago, smittykins said:I’ve always thought it stupid that if someone reaches on an error, his battting average goes down. It’s not his fault that the fielder effed up, why should he be penalized for it?
The batter's average doesn't go down any more than if the fielder had just made the play and recorded the out, if the the batter's average didn't go down that would be the batter getting rewarded because the fielder screwed up.
It would also penalize the pitcher more by making their Batting Average Against go up due to a fielder's error.
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18 hours ago, Phishbulb said:
I don't normally get offended by stuff like this, but that joke in Moe's Bar about "tipping" (complete with all the....noises and the ...uhhh...."money shot" at the end), seemed very off-brand for the show to me. The show doesn't usually get that graphic with stuff like that.
I thought that it felt like a Family Guy joke.
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4 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:
Cap too I think, at least his power level. Because I remember reading the regular comics and how powers were always presented as "peak human", which I always interpreted as being as fast as Usain Bolt, as strong as one of those worlds strongest man guys, with the endurance of an Olympic decathlete and the agility of of a world class gymnast. But I am pretty sure even one of those worlds strongest man dudes isn't going to be able to pull down a helicopter with just his hands.
Then again it's probably for the best that this was all they really used from the Ultimates since the only other things I remember were that Hank Pym was super abusive to Janet and that Wanda ans Pietro had a creepy incestuous relationship. If Marvel really was looking to piss off old school comics fans all they would have to do was bring in either of those plotlines.
IIRC CA: First Avenger and Avengers 1 had Cap at more like "peak human" level, it wasn't really until Winter Soldier that they had Steve regularly doing things that were just blatantly super human.
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MCU Tony was, much like Sam Jackson as Nick Fury, heavily influence by the Ultimates version of Iron Man.
The Mummy (1999)
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The Mummy might be the most perfectly cast action/adventure movie ever.