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I'm somewhat torn about the SW thing. On the one hand, I understand the frustration of having content locked out under a lengthy time commitment. On the other hand I can think of quite a few single player games that had lots of grinding in them to beat ultimate bosses - is this really all that different but geared to multiplayer gaming?

I think you'll see a lot of companies try to be Netflix competitors (like Amazon and Hulu are currently, or CBS is trying with All Access) of the traditional content providers. Most will likely fall by the wayside with those content providers going back to a Netflix or merging with one another until you have a handful of streaming distribution channels.

Woman pleads guilty to incest after marrying mother French Institute believes a nuclear incident happened in eastern Europe / Russia

This is probably the most funny if you've ever seen the 80s TV show Automan:

Sounds like Amunet Black has a bit of a downgrade - IIRC her powers in the comics were mechanokinesis - she could control machines and deconstruct them to increase her physical powers.

Weirdly, perhaps, I always saw the roadshow format of 4 hour + overture, intermission and such to be the rarer thing than the norm. To me a 90 minute film seems more natural (excepting B and Z grade films, and serials)

I think with Dark Tower, WB wasn't sure what to do. Remember their plan was to do the movie (set in a cycle after the book series) and then a prequel series (about a younger Roland from a cycle before the book series). I think they needed to be thinking more about plot than their long term media plans... MCU has made Thor a comedy relief, which is strange because he never really was in the comics or any of the cartoons... well unless we're talking about Throg (Frog version of Thor). MCU has pretty much given Thor the "All brawns, no brain" element which makes him not unlike Hercules or Conan The Barbarian. I guess it makes sense that they would do that on the screen though, it seems to tranlate well. I can't wait for Black Panther. I only hope they introdce some more hero movies (with different heroes). But yes, Marvel movies squash the DC movies... the same can't be said for the tv shows. Marvel tv shows aren't doing so well while DC tv series such as Smallville, Arrow, etc remain top rated. Strange but that's just the way things work I guess. The director said he was influenced heavily by BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA and saw Thor as kind of a Jack Burton character. I can see it in the way they presented him. He's not dumb, but he's also clearly not the smartest person either. And his ego gets in the way, but he has a good heart and a lot of determination. About 109 minutes, according to IMDB.

Technically there were mass shootings that we know of going back into the 1920s in the US although they were typically crime related (St. Valentine's Day Massacre, for example). But if you ignore crime violence, you still get something like the Kelayres Massacre in Pennsylvania in 1934 that killed 5. And if you expand away from guns, you get the Bath School Bombing in 1927 that killed 45 and injured 48. What is new, in a way, is the number. You got one to three, roughly, a decade until 1972 or so when the frequency goes up to one or two every two-three years, and then by 1988 you get at least one a year.

Marvel's The Runaways? Did it already release in other countries? IIRC the US premiere on Hulu isn't until the 21st. The trailers seem true to the comic; what didn't you like about it?

I, Tonya (biopic on Tonya Harding) trailer is out: The last full Star Wars trailer was put in the movie thread, so I'll drop the "Awake" short trailer:

There's probably no other jobs in Appalachia that the mine workers could be retrained in that would offer the same money that mine working could. So the choice is retrain and move or make do and wait. And while Appalachia has a history of people moving out to find better jobs going at least back into the 1940s, a lot of people choose to wait.

Seriously though, that place looks rather picturesque.

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He'll have his stripper friends do it instead.

THE SHAVER MYSTERY LIVES!

Well, wouldn't mind being this Took me a suspiciously long time to realise what the animal painted on the side was, wasn't expecting a Russian heli to reference the NATO designation. I particularly like how it looks like it's drinking from the minigun cupola. Until you said it was an animal, I thought it was a guy in a hood rising from a fire or explosion.

I dropped out of the quiz when the first question had only two options.

Marvel's Runaways full trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=115&v=plyJQG-nRN0

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution article has some further background to KSU that might be worth reading for some further context to this incident (I don't think its paywalled) - http://politics.blog.myajc.com/2017/10/24/anthem-kneeling-at-ksu-is-only-part-of-the-tale/

Yeah I'd found out because of Gfted's post. Was always partial to his "I'm Walking". And of course his The Fat Man is legendary -

Stupid question - you are logged in to your account? Other questions - What model is the device? Galaxy Tab 3, iPad Mini 4, etc. What is your PFID#? (Located in the settings menu)

I am 100% sure you can infer the meaning of my post. No I don't. But that may be because I think you're using the term "prologue" when you mean "foreword". Which would I guess kind of make more sense that way. But at this point, I think my only possible recourse is to abandon thread...

I'm really not sure what you're on about.