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Apparently I linked to this thread rather than the old thread in my first post. Not my finest hour.

It's a good thing they helped Rex out when he got cold, he'd never got the sweater over his head with those arms...!

Since we have manga now in the thread, I'll mention I recently finished Kazuo Umezu's DRIFTING CLASSROOM. 50% horror story, 50% Lord of the Flies survival story. Pretty good early 70s storytelling.

Lol, I knew I should have looked it up. 😛

New thread split from old. Old thread: Supēsu Kobura aka Space Cobra aka Space Adventure Cobra, episode 4: "Dassō!! Shido Keimusho" aka "Escape!! Sid Prison" Cobra and Jane Royal track one of Jane's sisters, Catherine, to the world she's a teacher on, only to find she's been arrested and taken to the floating prison, Sid. We're very much in the middle of the story arc, and while we get the typical Cobra resolution (he defeats/vexes/escapes the villain in front of him while achieving his goal), the overarching story continues. Is it just me, or...

New thread:

Been awhile since I posted... ...fought some monsters... ...saw some nifty abilities... ...watched my demons talk to other demons. ...helped the fairy King and Queen... ...experienced drama... Yup. Surt. Guess I'll have to go around. Met these two again and taught not-Radiou Kuzunoha a lesson. And merged a bunch of demons for new demons. What's in the cards next?

Is the Nord man going to cut the tree for you, then?

Zardoz is an interesting film. I don't think it works, but it's still interesting.

Seems like the easy fix would be to tag reviews made during the early access period as made during early access. Updating the review after full release could remove the tag or something.

Weird, the film snob circles I know of wouldn't touch a fantasy, sci-fi or horror genre film with a 10-foot pole. FWIW, I thought Pitch Black and Riddick were really good. Chronicles had elements I liked and some I didn't, but killing off all the characters from Pitch Black pointlessly never sat well with me.

I've only seen both films once a couple of decades ago, so my memories of both are very weak.

I also prefer Star Wars to Empire. Keyrock, you might be the only person I've seen who prefers Gremlins 2 to the original.

I've always ranked Terminator and Alien as better than their respective 1st sequels. And boy was that opinion controversial not long ago (not as controversial as disliking Up! and Wall-e was not long after they came out, though - egads people got hostile over that opinion). I don't remember much about the Matrix sequels, but I wasn't over-enamored with the first film.

I didn't realize things had changed so much. Back just a decade or so ago, suggesting that Aliens was not superior to Alien and that Terminator 2 wasn't better than Terminator was some sort of fan-heresy of the highest order. Did everyone get tired of James Cameron all of a sudden?

They seemed to forget reel-to-reel and cassettes...?

Its a bit from Devil May Cry 5, the game being played. That character is Nico, the weaponsmith.

That's the next thing I need to do, but I'm clearing out the few remaining Minman before trying to tackle him.

It's a weird feeling knowing your terrible team has a shot at the playoffs. I guess it's better than being eliminated...

Yeah, he was a tool. I took a couple of tries to beat him - had a decent party but kept getting slowly wiped. Finally I crushed him. I need to merge me a Thoth - just got a few levels so may be time to play merge-o-mania.

TNG Interface The Enterprise sees 100s of unique, one-of-a-kind events over the course of 7 seasons - and yet not enough for any of Geordi's friends to believe he saw anything, much less his mother*. 'There's no proof', they say. Except when Geordi disobeys orders and Data matches the anomalous sensor data they denied existing to new data as Geordi talks to his 'mom'. What? Why did the alien masquerade as his mom in the first place? Why is Troi yet again shown to be incompetent as a counselor, not listening to her patient and only offering pop-psy platitudes? Why do Geordi's pals refuse to listen to him or look at the data and at least entertain there may be something more than Geordi refusing to believe his mom passed?? The command crew get such latitude except when the story needs them to be stick-in-the-muds. And who greenlit hiring Ben Vereen to play Geordi's dad and then relegating him to a video screen rather than letting him be there in person? What a waste of a great actor. This episode is pretty rubbish. *This is literally LOST IN SPACE level plotting, where whatever weird thing Wil or Penny saw is dismissed by the adults despite the fact that they'd encountered things just as preposterous the previous weeks of the show, and also typically first seen by Wil or Penny.

Got knowledge of tools - definitely one worth investing in.