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All of Dan Da Dan s2 - so far
Man, what the **** even is this show? I say that completely positively, it's wonderfully animated and certainly knows how to keep everything rolling without falling into the worst shonen tropes like 10+ episode training arcs. It's like someone made an anime of a supernatural monster of the week US series that actually fixes the inherent issues with that type of show by both being more coherent and absurd.
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I think the toxic positivity by AI and it's seeming inability to say the user is wrong somewhat explains the ideological fault lines behind it's use. Also AI art is derivative soulless **** that appeals to the fascist aesthetics of the contemporary right, half-baked dreams of an idealized past that never really existed.
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2 hours ago, Malcador said:
You think Trump has a sense of humour? Ok.
Sometimes unintentionally he's funny, but not in the way he'd like to be.
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On 8/8/2025 at 10:33 AM, majestic said:
War of the World (2025)
I don't get the reviews. When you're sitting in front of your TV, looking at Ice Cube sitting in front of a green screen that is reflected in his glasses, the correct choice is to review and enjoy the film for what it is. The wrong one is to review it as if it would be a serious work of art, because if there's one thing the reviews are right about, then it is this: War of the Worlds (2025), which was originally filmed during the 2020 lockdown, is an utter disaster. From the terrible cinematography, to the forgettable sound design, to the incredibly bad acting of the entire cast and digital effects on the level of 2003 game cinematics (the arrival of the tripods basically looks like it was copied and pasted from the arrival of the Burning Legion in Warcraft 3), one can only come to the conclusion that even Uwe Boll movies are better.
Now, the techincal aspects aren't Neil Breen level terrible, but if you've ever seen a The Asylum film (I would recommend Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies if you haven't and are interested), that's about what you're getting - just that everything looks like found footage because most of the cast filmed their scenes with their phones' selfie cams.
With that out of the way, what an enjoyable silly ride this was. The premise, the acting, the cinematography, the editing, the effects - combined everything is so bad it breaks the laws of physics and becomes a stunningly enrapturing mixture. Plus it has Clark Gregg, and let's face it, anything that has Clark Gregg in it automatically gets taken up a notch. If you don't agree, then fine, but know that you're wrong.
Spoilers from here on out. I'll not mark them, because, well, what would be the point?
The film features, of course, Ice Cube sitting in a chair, cast in the worst role you could think of for him, a high ranking intelligence officer. His daughter Faith, a genius biologist, is dating an Amazon delivery truck driver so Ice Cube can get a thumb drive at the end of the movie. He keeps a really close tab on his family, down to checking what Faith eats during her pregnancy, but he's completely oblivious to the so-obvious-it-hurts fact that his son Dave is the hacker and conspiracy theorist Disruptor that he spends the first fifteen minutes of the film trying to find.
Shortly after yet another failed raid, meteors rain from the sky. The
Burning Legiontripods arrivesonAzerothEarth. In what is a fun little twist and about the only interesting thing the film really does, the initial counter attack by various militaries around the world is highly successful. These tripods are not invincible, and they're taking down easily by concentrated missile and tank attacks. Ice Cube is swivelling on his chair yelling BOOYAH at the green screen - you know, like any seasoned intelligence officer would. Who could blame the guy.Alas, all that was just a diversion. Some tripods manage to locate data centers, and that is where the film really goes off the rails. See, the tripods in this version grow tentacles and start injecting tiny cybernetic insects into the data centers - insects that feed on data, and the more data they consume, the smarter they get. All the world's data gets eaten from the data centers. Power plants fail everywhere, Facebook pages disappear, the military is now completely incapable of fighting back as fighter jets and commercial airliners just fall from the sky, tanks stop dead in their tracks and not a single digital gizmo keeps working.
Except Ice Cube's computer and Faith's, Mark's, Sara's (NASA friend of Ice Cube's) and Dave's smart phones, plus all the apps running on them. The internet is still working fine too, in spite of a global power outage. The tripods also forgot to attack or deactivate all the US drones cruising about. After Ice Cube finally finds out that Dave is DISRUPTOR, Dave's hacking collective develops a computer virus to
drop the enemy mothership's shieldsinfect the tripods, but it fails. Why? Well, as Eva Longoria puts it, the insects are part biological and part cyber.A couple of seconds later they got it all figured out, they combine Faith's research into anti-viral agents with their computer virus (DNA is just a sort of code, after all). Now all that is left for Ice Cube is to plug in his thumb drive, download CANNIBAL_CODE.EXE and upload that to the super secret government surveillance programm GOLIATH - which will infect all the aliens once they consume it. Only hitch in that plan? Ice Cube doesn't have a thumb drive. Top secret military installation, he says, ain't allowed to bring one to work.
Makes sense. On the other hand, he's using Facebook at work and has Zoom and WhatsApp installed. Well, can't be perfectly secure in all aspects, can we. Anyway, now's Mark's time to shine, because Ice Cube just needs to buy a thumb drive from Amazon - which still works, by the way, even after the world's data was eaten by cybernetic insects - and out comes the Amazon delivery drone. Dave covers Mark with a leftover Predator drone and shoots down some aliens and crashes the drone into a tripod.
Meanwhile the tripods are converging on Washington D.C., and a couple of B2s take off to carpet bomb (nuke, maybe, they are talking about a blast radius of five miles) them into oblivion. Well, them, the residential area of D.C., and most importantly, the GOLIATH data center hidden beneath Ice Cube's workplace. Please don't wonder how there's still working military equipment at this point after it all failed without data, and also don't think too hard on how and why the military would not constantly fly sorties against the alien invaders. They just knew they'd need to be on standby to bomb the ultimate goal of the alien invasion.
Mark saves the day by successfully delivering the thumbdrive to Ice Cube, who barely makes it down to the server room. He plugs in the thumb drive and poof, alien threat vanquished. Yep. CANNIBAL_CODE.EXE does the trick.
While writing this post I've racked my brain trying to find a worse film that I've seen, and somehow I come up short. Not even 80ies B-movies are this bad. Definitely a "so bad it's good" sort of film. A+, a 10/10, five stars. Will be shown at film schools all over the world in the future as an example of how not to make a film.
So it's also an ad for Amazon?
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This is more local news and perhaps belongs in the funny thread, but I do not think there is perhaps a clearer example of the face eating leopards eating the faces of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party supporters.
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Dandadan s2
Jennifer Lopez Anaconda is a top tier anime attack name, up there with Star Gentle Uterus and Space Ripper Stingy Eyes.
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Here in Texas we beat them to it. I guess you can always become a temporary resident of Canada for the time being.
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44 minutes ago, Lexx said:
Just watched 28 Years Later. It kinda was not what I expected. Not a bad movie, though.
It was good but I swear
The scene where the naked alpha chased the kid and his mom whoever mixed the sound really amped up the **** slapping noises because that was very loud
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These days I mostly use YouTube for music and specific cooking or fitness stuff. The unsettling AI voices spouting word salad over stock images is not a good time.
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7 hours ago, majestic said:
The bridge offer's still on the table, by the way. I can see you're interested. C'mon. I know you always wanted a bridge.
Getting ripped off for a bridge would honestly be a bigger win than any of Trump's incredible deals. I think the biggest thing about the deals is really just putting Trump's name on them, the contents of such are meaningless so long as he can say that he's made a beautiful deal that no one's ever seen before. So long as Trump gets to claim victory, the terms of victory don't matter at all.
Also, between this and the whole Obamagate 2.0, Trump is trying to throw up as much **** to distract from him being a pdf file*.
*I'm betting a substantial amount of his people do the "it's actually hebephila" thing we used to make fun of certain libertarians for.
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Almost finished with Bleach (- filler arcs)*, at the Fullbring mini arc. I'd say it's probably one of the better shonens of it's day, which may be slight praise but it's praise nonetheless. Probably won't work for you if you dislike shonen out of hand but it's good popcorn watching akin to a good action movie or series. I'm going to take a break before TYBW because I just don't like watching weekly.
*I think skipping the filler is doing a lot of work, because by god is there a lot of it and it's trash. The whole Bount arc is a terrible speed bump and swerving off from the main story for 20+ episode arcs is not good.
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“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” - Donald Trump
What did he mean by this?
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2 hours ago, majestic said:
Until this recent Scam Blondi hooplah with the Epstein list/files I was under the impression that the high level MAGA influencers were all in on the grift (like Fox news), and just out to profit from the, uhm, cognitively challenged MAGA cultists. Why else harp on about Epstein's client list even though the reincarnation of Cyrus the Great almost certainly partook in his offerings.
Apparently not, the reactions to Bondi trying to hush down the topic appear, if nothing else, quite genuine and sincere. I have no idea how you can be that far up in the MAGA cult ranks and not realize that Trump wasn't the victim of a witch hunt, but it is what it is. The Laura Loomers and Dan Bonginos and Kash Patels of the MAGA-sphere seem to really be under the impression that the problem is Pam Bondi, and not Pam Bondi under orders by the Great Tangerine to drop the investigation.
Dan Bongino going on record saying the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein was really a suicide basically ended his right-wing influencer career, which is but a small solace: he probably made enough off the cult for him and his family to live comfortably for the rest of their days, unless Lutnick and Bessent really kill the economy.
I think there's a few things
1) The guy is Teflon Don. The magats will not blame him for anything, from closing their hospitals to destroying their businesses and jobs to covering up his old pal Jeffery's files. To them everything good that happens when he's in office is a direct result of his Deal Artisanship while everything bad he has no agency over or knowledge about. It's an incredible amount of cognitive dissonance and servile worship, like cult tier.
2) Quite a lot of the Epstein stuff on the Right is mistaken, they believe he was trafficking 6 year olds for satanic democrat sex rings or whatever instead of trafficking teenagers for wealthy associates to abuse. The truth is that quite a few of the same people on the right who are invested in Epstein stuff (and also the anti-LGBT "groomer" mania) also tend to believe that pursuing teenagers is ok, enough where "Pedocon theory" is a running joke. I think if Epstein were still alive defending him would legit be a MAGA cause, just look at how they rallied around Andrew Tate after he was sexually abusing teenagers.
3) A lot of these ****s are genuinely true believers who have cooked their minds in the gutters of right wing influence spheres. While quite a lot of them are in on the grift, a sizeable portion genuinely do believe this **** which is a mix of hilarious and terrifying.
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I think Elon is just a wealthy dumbass with a ketamine soaked brain and that explains almost all of his dumb behavior.
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5 hours ago, Sarex said:
Do wonder if Kubo is ever going to go back to it, or if he just plans to continue teasing us.
I guess that depends on how Thousand Year Blood War turns out and if he has the time and desire for Bleach 2: Helldust Crusaders. Personally I can see it happen either way, Bleach does have a definite ending point and the whole Hell business can be seen as a what if deal.
If he does do it then there's gonna be an anime, and I hope it isn't flooded with filler arcs.
5 hours ago, Sarex said:Your mind cannot adjust to this breakneck speed of releases.
Yeah, it's certainly different than a chapter every year or so. I've also been really busy and haven't had time to check. I guess Guts is going to somehow remove the brand or absorb it or whatever.
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Started rewatching Bleach, breddy gud Shonen stuff. Will skip the filler.
6 hours ago, Sarex said:New chapter of Berserk out. Guess it's time to face the inner demons now.
Somehow I also missed the last one
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James Bond to be directed by Denis Villeneuve
I'm sure this will be a must see for @Bartimaeus
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6 hours ago, Malcador said:
Happy Juneteenth, unless they arrest you for the Wokeness now
I saw someone call it a "DEI holiday" and I got to say the world would be a much better place if that guy choked on a phallic object.
Anyways as someone who grew up maybe an hour away from Galveston, it felt weird to realize how much of the states didn't know about Juneteenth. The US memory holes quite a bit I guess.
Miss Juneteenth (2020) is also probably one of the best Texas films there is.
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On 6/10/2025 at 4:48 PM, Wormerine said:
Solasta 2 will be using 2024 ruleset. Good, bad?
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1096530/view/515211974718523887?l=english
Generally good, for the most part 5.5 is an improvement but there's still some questionable stuff like Warlocks potentially being better martials than martials and the entire Ranger class.
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9 minutes ago, Pidesco said:
She looks like her dad.
For a non-insignificant amount of people, that's the appeal.
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3 hours ago, Malcador said:
MAGA mental gymnastics will be impressive
At this point not really, everytime Trump folds or backtracks it's always either 4d chess or Trump has always been for it.
2 hours ago, Pidesco said:
Alex Padilla, US senator getting cuffed for speaking over Kristi Noem. Just perfectly normal, as bad as any other administration.
It would be great if people in positions of power started pushing back against the Trump administration .
Edit: And here's the Noem quote that should be getting alarm bells.
"We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
I remember reading somewhere that the MAGAts (or whatever term you want to call the Trump crowd) wanted to conquer blue states/cities due to perceived humiliation for "losing" the protests of 2020 and it seems that is turning out to be all too correct.
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42 minutes ago, Guard Dog said:
@Gromnir"Ice Barbie" I am soooo stealing that. Having served in a Marine rifle platoon I can tell you for a fact putting them on an American street in front of a mob is a bad idea. This goes one of two ways. If the marines are armed a good number of the mob might end up dead. Thats bad. If they are not armed a number of the Marines end up dead. Neither outcome is acceptable so it's a weapons grade stupid idea to create the scenario.
But we have a stupid government run by stupid people. Which would still be true even if the quarter landed the other way last November.
Look man, I'm no Kamala stan but I doubt she'd be sending in the Marines because ICE got yelled at in front of a Home Depot.
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34 minutes ago, majestic said:
Fake news, not enough chemicals.
The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!
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Dexter Resurrection - Dexter is back to being the Punisher and is feuding with an evil(er) Wall Street guy who is obsessed with serial killers and is also Peter Dinklage with Uma Thurman as an enforcer. It's ok but still has all the same problems as the original Dexter series post s2.