Blarghagh

So you accepted it because someone went "muh feelz".

Blind Fury.

Except X-3 and the first Wolverine movie were made when he was no longer involved with the franchise. Then again, First Class had barely a cameo and then when he was back in the saddle for Days of Future Past, there he was back in the center.

http://steamed.kotaku.com/ten-years-later-star-wars-kotor-ii-gets-an-official-up-1719284362

Wasn't there a guy who said yes to Mission Impossible II and no to playing Wolverine? I don't even remember the actor's name.

Oh no, they can see I'm a famous director after they google me. Knowing the name and not knowing its history is a big no-no.

Yeah a director of a bunch of really bad movies. Might as well call yourself Cordwainer Bird, Stephen Greene, Norman Ashby, Robin Bland, David Agnew or Thomas Lee. That's the joke.

I prefer Alan Smithee. Then they can google me and see how I'm a famous movie-director too.

So he told you to check your privilege? I kid, I kid. But that sorta proves what I'm saying, you shared even less than I thought you did and you got disregarded for it in another instance. Being more "real" in a community can often be a good thing, but sometimes a drawback.

On the subject of sharing vs anonymity (and trolling): I maintain that despite being a factor in online harassment anonymity is still an important cornerstone to the internet. I'm sure many people were members here long before they shared any personal information - I know I was - and many of them might not have been if there was no anonymity. I will always want a certain degree of anonymity. I doubt I would have registered if that anonymity wasn't there. I'm very self-conscious and the anonymity of forums is a big factor in what draws me to them. And while being entirely anonymous might cause some people to not trust what you say, there's also the opposite - judged by what you have shared. What did they say in the other thread, Bruce? You didn't know what you were talking about because your family was rich, or somesuch? It evens out. Plus, I would rather not associate my real name with this place, not because I want to have the freedom of anonymity to hide behind now but because I used to do that. I've been here since I was a dumb 16 year old kid and I have said many, many idiotic things that I never would have lived down were I not anonymous and even long after that I was able to lose my temper and sling unwarranted insults occassionally. I've also complained about my job, my boss, the clients we did work for. I would rather not have someone (prospective employers, perhaps) be able to find that when googling my name, you see? I've shared enough that I'm sure if someone combed through my posts eventually they'll be able to find who I am, but it's not easily accessible and I want to keep it that way. My own experience and wishes aside, there's also the fact that as far as I can tell, not a lot of us are minorities or different sexualities. Anonymity is an important factor to the internet for LGBT or ethnicities or even women to escape prejudice or come to grips with their identity. How many closeted homosexuals or transsexuals were too scared to even face it, let alone come out, until they found support online where they had the safety of anonymity? Or even in simpler circumstances: I know my girlfriend will often switch to gender neutral screennames if she's tired of being treated differently when she's gaming online. I have very little experience with needing to do that - the only prejudice against me personally that I've ever encountered was from crazy radfems and even that's been minor (although irksome), so for me anonymity is mostly a preference. For them it's much more important. In short: Anonymity isn't just a roadblock that enables trolls, it's important to many people, and some people will never be comfortable sharing things from their life. I don't think people should be required to share to be considered real, but they do have to consider that people might not take them as seriously.

Since I've stopped working as a community manager I've received zero harassment. I think her field, and therefore her colleagues may be conflating their own experiences to the rest of the internet.

I totally second Mike Mignola. I also really like Dave Gibbons use of light and shadows.

While that might seem like a problem, remember that the same can be said of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I think that it was just that what makes it worthy of recognition, because it was just bad enough to kill the franchise without reeking of sabotage. Upon closer inspection however you begin to see just how ridiculous this movie is. Sounds like you never took a closer look at the preceding films. Did one of the extras looked like he slip on a banana peel because he fell 2 seconds before batman was even near him? Did the main bad guy had the funniest voice ever? No, the lead did. Make fun of Bane what you will, he's still less ridiculous than Batman himself. And while I didn't pay attention to a lot of extras, it was filled with plotholes and contrivances you could drive the tumbler through hidden through sneaky editing. Like when the Joker is looking for Harvey Dent at Bruce's fundraiser, Joker throws Rachel out the window, Batman jumps after her, and then it cuts to the next day despite the fact that the Joker is still holding Gotham's richest hostage and they never mention it again. Or when after the truck crash when the Joker comes out with two henchmen, but then the second one disappears because he's inconvenient for the scene. Or why the hell nobody in the police realizes that their honor guard has been completely replaced with people nobody knows. And lets not ignore the fact that every Joker plan relies on complete coincidence and strain believability in every instance. He leads Batman to the next clue using the imprint of a fingerprint from a gun impact that Batman was only able to find because he was developing the technology for it right then and there as he was working on it. That begs the absolutely ridiculous question of "How did he know Batman would create a fingerprint machine for it?" Dark Knight was still a really fun movie to watch but it's nowhere near the masterpiece some people seem to think it is. Heath Ledger's performance is pretty much the only thing that elevates it. But people thought Dark Knight was so amazing for some reason that Rises had huge expectations attached to it that it was never going to get close to. That doesn't excuse the many flaws that film has (the only thing I really liked in it was Catwoman) but it's just mediocre on a whole. It's really not that different from the rest of the franchise (there's a good case to be made that it is a retelling of the first film). It's definitely not so bad that you could consider it deliberate sabotage. And about that anyway, sabotage of what? "Contractual obligations"? Nolan was always contracted for three films, and this was written to be the ending. The studio approved it being an ending to that franchise. There was nothing to sabotage. And if it was sabotage, then Nolan must be the worst at sabotage ever because it utterly failed. It has 87% on Rotten Tomatoes (critics loved it), 8.5 on imdb (audiences loved it) and made over a billion dollars worldwide (the studio loved it). In every category that matters (i.e. not nerds being snarky on a video game forum) the film was a rousing success. And it was super memorable too, considering people are still doing Bane impersonations. Not sure where exactly the deliberate sabotage angle comes in.

Sounds like he didn't so much become a gamer as he did read the Codex.

I think that it was just that what makes it worthy of recognition, because it was just bad enough to kill the franchise without reeking of sabotage. Upon closer inspection however you begin to see just how ridiculous this movie is. Sounds like you never took a closer look at the preceding films.

Correctly surmised that this was in the wrong forum. Moved to computer and console.

Really? I didn't think The Dark Knight Rises was awful, just mediocre. It's closer to Batman Begins than Dark Knight was. It seems more like Nolan trying to salvage what was left of his original plan when Ledger died.

Near constant-nausea due to post-nasal drip after allergies. I'm getting really, really annoyed at it.

I doubt it. It's a Will Smith character that says "let's go save the world". He may as well be saying "welcome to earf".

Strange that it says trailer when all they showed at comic con was some random footage. I'll pass, since this is obviously a phone camera pointed at a screen - you can still see the ears in the thumbnail!

Sometimes I tip people at a register. Depends on how complicated my order is. It helps that it's not expected here, so nobody feels slighted if I dont tip. So if you're just the dude that gives me a plastic cup of tea at the register, I'm not obligated to reward you. If I order ten different subs with non-standard toppings and some of them lactose or gluten free, I'm perfectly willing to reward you.

There's no tipping here. I try to tip anyway whenever I have the cash. My girl works in food service on the side (she's an artist, hard to make money as an artist) and I know that they get treated like crap.

The internet seems to love the reveals of BvS and Suicide Squad. I'm not on the same page as them it seems. I've been trying not to hate things since I feel internet culture is negative enough as it is but those trailers have a lot of things that bother me and the things that don't bother me leave me cold. Mostly I was surprised that Leto sounds exactly like Ledger. There are so many Joker voices and they go with that? I still quite like most of the effects in The Thing. They are obviously dated but in comparison to other films of the time it still holds up quite well. I've never been able to get a hold of Prince of Darkness, but I do love In The Mouth of Madness. It's not a good movie, but it's a lovely mind**** that feels like a weird mix of H.P. Lovecraft and David Lynch. The effects in that aged worse than The Thing, but I love the themes and weird imagery of it*. On a side note, there's an amazing short story by Peter Watts that retells the events of The Thing through the eyes of the alien. You can read it here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/ *D̰ͨ̅̏o̻̣͙̳͍͕ͤ͌͆͝ ̹̔̈́̍͌̐y͉̻̗̺͓o̞̲̣̗͉͒̇ͨ̓̑ͅu͔͊ͫ̊ͥͪ̆ͯ ͈̗̳̲̒̈̑̊r͍̪͕̜̩ͩ̎͋éͫ̀ͅa̩̮͕̩̪̺d̍ͫ̇́͗̀ ͓̪ͪ͋̍͂ͦ͐Ś̵̔̇̂̓͆u͍̤̟̹̻͛͡ẗ̺̰̪̩͖̲́ͧ̈ͦͣ́t͚̳͚͎̩͚ͩ̐ͥé̹̦͕̻̲̈́̂ͅr͓̘̻̗ͬ̈͂ͩ ͙͔̯͍̞̠̃C̼͎͚̝̠̻͗͋a͂ͬ͊ͫͣñ̟͈̙̠̪ͯ̋ͥ̀̂̚ĕ?͇͍͔̖͔̓̀̇́̏͡ͅ