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    Book to Show: Compare and Contrast

    in The Wheel Of Time

    I suspect that the stuff with Perrin and Egwene is a signal that they're planning on combining their respective Tel'aran'rhiod/Wolf Dream plots.

    Reading the books I kept waiting for the two of them to realize they were both floating around in dream world all the time and start teaming up, and it kept not happening.

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    MLB Thread

    in Sports

    6 hours ago, mojoween said:

    I’m confused why Max Scherzer is team-hopping.  It can’t just be money, can it?

    It's probably just the money, the reports are that the offers from the Angels and Dodgers weren't anywhere close to what he's getting from the Mets.

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    Bob's Burgers - General Discussion

    in Bob's Burgers

    Have they ever shown how much Bob chargers for a burger? I could see that being an explanation of why the food seems to be very good but they never seem to hold on to new customers (beyond the Doylist explanation that they don't want to animate a bunch of customers in every scene).

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    MLB Thread

    in Sports

    1 hour ago, mojoween said:

    Not gonna lie…Bryce Harper as MVP surprised me.  Did Bryce win partly because Tatis missed a bunch of time?

    Harper was significantly better at getting on base this season and had a slightly higher slugging percentage

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    MLB Thread

    in Sports

    I think Joe Buck is tolerable most of the time, as a Braves fan I'd rather listen to Buck call a game over Chip Caray whining about shifts and analytics for half the game.

    I do wish Buck would get over his habit of reminding people that a player is near the end of their contract any time they produce a big moment late in the series. It's such a wet blanket to toss onto things.

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    MLB Thread

    in Sports

    Every now and then your favorite team wins the championship in your favorite sport, and being s sports fan is actually fun!

     

    4 hours ago, Calvada said:

    I wish Henry Aaron was here for this.  Hank is remembered so fondly in Wisconsin and he always spoke highly about his two stints in Wisconsin with the Braves and the Brewers.  He appreciated the fans here and we certainly appreciated him. We know how happy and excited Hank would be about the Braves and we would be happy for him.  

    The Braves won 44 games in the first half and 44 in the second half, which I choose to see as a bit of magic from the Hammer.

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    S01.E10: Freeyond

    in Upload

    On 8/31/2020 at 11:50 AM, AnimeMania said:

    That is a great theory except for the fact that nobody, including multi-billion dollar companies have ever successfully downloaded anyone's memory into a clone. 

    Well, this would presumably be why someone is out to kill Nathan. It's a game changer.

    4 hours ago, Paloma said:

    But if this happened, where is the real (still alive) Nathan? How would he hide?

    Good question, I assume that he's got a safe house/lab where he's able to do his work off the grid.

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    MLB Thread

    in Sports

    9th inning of a relatively close World Series game and FOX was playing a comedy highlight of Smoltz from 25 years ago complete with wacky hijinks music ...

    The Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers, etc.

    in Movies

    5 hours ago, swanpride said:

    1. Not true. The movie does a really good job laying out the argument for oversight. The main take-away from it is, is, that while oversight in itself is not necessarily a bad idea, the kind of oversight which is proposed is. That you have to design oversight carefully or you replace just one wild card outfit with another one. 

    2. The very point is that Zemo's plan is flexible. Meaning if plan A doesn't work he goes over to plan B, C and so on. Like, if he had gotten what he wanted from guy one, he would have never bothered with bucky. If the Avengers hadn't turned up, he would have created another opportunity. Aso. Yeah, they cheat a little bit with the timeline towards the end, but this is the kind of stuff I can easily handwave in an otherwise wellwritten story.

    3. Tony is highly emotional and snaps in that moment. It's human, because Tony is human. I never understand that attitude of some fans who want Tony to be perfect and try to defend everything he does when the very point of the character is that he is a flawed human being who makes mistakes. If you want to root for a hero with high morals and a nearly perfect track record, you have to be a fan of Cap, or Bucky, or Sam, because they are this kind of hero. Tony isn't supposed to be, and arguably that is what makes the character interesting. 

    It doesn't MATTER what Wanda has done beforehand, randomly putting her under house arrest because she didn't sign a stupid accord (she didn't even decide against it, she was still trying to make a decision), is a human rights violation. You can't just go around and arrest people because you deemed them to be dangerous. I never understood the mindset that acting like this is in any way okay. 

    1. The film presents all the reasons that oversight is a good idea so that the film can then turn around and dismiss them. At no point does anyone say, "We need oversight, but a better system." It's just, "the best hands are still our own," as the only alternative.

    2. As far as I can tell Zemo's plan was to destroy the Avengers by engineering a fight between Steve and Tony based on Winter Soldier killing Tony's parents. What does Zemo do if Tony never shows up at the Hydra base? Does he show Steve and Bucky the video and offer them popcorn as a cover for his escape?

    3. There's a big difference between wanting someone to be perfect, and that person not trying to straight up murder an innocent man for half of the 3rd act of the film. Then that attempted murder being brushed off and completely ignored afterwards because he was mad that Steve lied isn't interesting.

    4. Wanda is in the US without a Visa or citizenship according to that conversation. One might assume that means that her presence is somehow tied to her service in the Avengers relating directly to her past actions, at the very least her status is clearly something very different than the internment of American citizens based on nothing other than their ethnicity during WWII as Wanda is not an American citizen and has actually shown herself to be highly volatile and dangerous to the American people in the recent past. Granted we can only speculate on this because, of course, the film never gives us any explanation of Wanda's status before having a key moment in the film turn on it.

    The Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers, etc.

    in Movies

    I dislike Civil War because:

    1. The film uses every trick possible to stack the deck in favor of showing that any form of external oversight of a (self appointed) police force is a bad thing. Ross being the face of it, muddying the waters by having him talk about New York and DC instead of just pointing at the killer robots created by one of their founding members and the dead people in Africa.

    2. Zemo's plan is absurdly convoluted and requires (among other things) that Tony Stark be able to jet around the world visiting different locations and having tense conversations in the same amount of time it takes Steve and Bucky to fly straight from Germany to the Winter Soldier base.

    3. Tony Stark straight up tries to murder Bucky for something that Tony is aware that Bucky did while he was brainwashed. This basically just gets brushed aside by the end of the film as if it's an understandable reaction because Steve lied to him.

    Bonus. Steve's breaking point to Tony's pitch to sign on is Wanda's "internment" at the Avengers Compound, when Wanda was just a few years prior working with the previously mentioned killer robot until she realized that it was planning on destroying all of the people instead of just people she didn't like, and she also unleashed a mindless Hulk on a major city filled with people. Yeah, this single incredibly powerful person with a recent criminal history being kept in modern comfort is totally comparable to what happened to Japanese Americans during WW2.

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    MLB Thread

    in Sports

    On 10/12/2021 at 7:27 PM, Lantern7 said:

    I’m guessing the Brewers’ odds aren’t good. Maybe it’s because I root for the Mets, but I can’t stomach the Cook County Crackers going far. They’ve been to the postseason how many times since they moved to Atlanta, and they’ve won one title.

    ONE.

    It’s galling Bobby Cox got to the Hall of Fame by collecting so many participation trophies. Screw him, and screw the Crackers.

    If only there was some process by which the other teams in the National League East could have prevented the Braves from making the playoffs each year. Possibly even using the inherent advantages of their larger media market and payroll to give them a competitive edge in that process.

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    Season 9 Discussion

    in The Goldbergs

    3 hours ago, rmontro said:

    How is it going to keep the family together if Adam is sitting home and Beverly is attending NYU?

     

    Now we know what the character is based on.

    Bev only got in to NYU to follow Adam, she won't go without him

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    Season 9 Discussion

    in The Goldbergs

    It's funny because most of the real people that Adam portrayed in a less flattering way seem to have good humor about it, but Bev is upset about Adam getting a wait listed story that's clearly just sitcom 101 to keep the show's main cast together.

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    The Simpsons - General Discussion

    in The Simpsons

    · Edited by Perfect Xero

    On 9/28/2021 at 5:25 PM, Lazlo said:

     

    I turned forty this month. For the first time Homer and Marge would have been in my graduating class... which is wow.

     

    Speaking of weird aging things why is Marge's mother so ancient looking and sounding? I mean I guess she always has been but I never really noticed it before because we see her so infrequently. If Marge is in her very late thirties to seems a bit unusual to have a mother who seems to be in her eighties.

    She turned 80 in "Puffless", she was also a smoker and lived with heavy smokers, so that probably doesn't help.

    Much like with Abe, I think the writers just thought having the grandparents be older was funnier.

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    S01.E03: What If…The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?

    in What If...?

    39 minutes ago, kay1864 said:

    Show of hands now, on first viewing, how many people thought for a second that wiseass Tony Stark was messing with them with a collapse on the floor?

    Same!

    Also, what the heck was that virus or whatever infecting the blood vessels in his neck?


    It was the signs of Palladium poisoning from the original Arc Reactor that was killing him in Iron Man 2, before he created Howard's synthetic Vibranium New Element to power the reactor near the end of the film.

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    S01.E02: What If...T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?

    in What If...?

    9 hours ago, ursula said:

    In this reality, Thanos didn’t  even know those people. Looks like they were destined to be some Big Band’s minions in both realities.


    Thanos recognizes them and warns the others that they're "bad news" which I took as an indication that they had been part of his forces before he switched sides and the Collector "filled the vacuum".

    Even if we're supposed to take it that they're just hired goons or something and not Thanos's "children" as they were in Infinity War/Endgame, he still "adopted" Nebula and presumably killed off half her planet's population, which makes the whole "give dad a chance" thing beyond bad taste IMO.

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    S01.E02: What If...T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?

    in What If...?

    So it was lovely to hear Chadwick portray T'Challa again, and the opening Star Lord turn was pretty funny, and that's the extent of what I have to say that I thought was good about this one:

    We have the continued lionization of Yondu, who again kidnapped a child and this time lied to him about the death of his entire nation to keep him from going how to his family that was looking for him.

    At least in the case of Peter you could argue that Ego being on the lookout for him gave some justification to Yondu not returning Peter to his family, but with T'Challa he was just 100% being a selfish prick.

    T'Challa, at least, apparently didn't suffer the years of threats of being eaten at the hands of Yondu and his crew that Peter did, possibly because he'd already at least begun training in how to fight and be a future Black Panther and wasn't just a scared kid like Peter who was an easy target.

    Then we also have "good guy" Thanos, who was still someone who killed, literally, billions of beings and kidnapped children and abused/trained them into being weapons getting the "gee whiz why won't Nebula give her poor kidnapper/abuser dad a chance" story, which resolves with him fighting some of the other children he kidnapped and abused into being weapons after wiping out half their peoples.

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