western-series

[sage sleet]

i felt like the magic/combat in HP was extremely repetitive but idk

[outer tulip]

Did he do all HP songs? Like this one too?

|| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKDlH89Gvos || HP

[brave orbit]

Yea he scored that movie too

[outer tulip]

one more... did he do this too? || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuf34meOWcQ || star wars

[regal root]

|| https://vxtwitter.com/hawkofkrypton/status/1565822780402171905 || Man of Steel

[brave orbit]

What movie is it from

[regal root]

Yes

[outer tulip]

its def in OT.. don't know the others

or can't remember.. its though

[outer tulip]

bruhh.. wow . He's literally the GOAT of soundtracks

incredible.. who would've thought one person

[brave orbit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8zlUUrFK-M&ab_channel=xithe My favourite of his

[regal root]

Damn right 😤

[outer tulip]

Omgggg

[regal root]

He's sadly gonna retire after the 5th Indiana Jones movie wraps up, but the dude is 90

He's more than earned it decades ago

[brave orbit]

wasnt it 4th

[outer tulip]

there's a piano version of that JP song I remember hearing in the movie

[regal root]

Crystal Skull

You have the OG 3 Indy movies from the 80s, then the abomination that was Crystal Skull, and now 1 more

[outer tulip]

yeah he should've retired a long time ago. Good for him

greatest composer ever

[brave orbit]

Murray Gold will take his place in Orchestral peak

His music feels really similar idk why

[dense frigate]

Fucking aquaman using half a dumbell

[leaden depot]

False advertisement, he doesnt use one in the actual story smh

[dense frigate]

[hoary hawk]

why not?

[sonic quail]

Why was it an obamanation

I liked it

[brave orbit]

Obamanation

Thats hilarious

Obama's nation

[outer tulip]

didnt kanye make that up?

[hoary hawk]

make what up?

[dense frigate]

No he didn't

[sonic quail]

Real ones know

[crimson lance]

paying 17$ to see jaws once instead of getting a-list

im so business savy

[hoary hawk]

ur paying 17 dollars to watch a movie

that came out

40 years ago?

[crimson lance]

yes

[hoary hawk]

thats def business moves

[crimson lance]

peanuts 1970

nevermind i got amc support and alist now

[sage sleet]

Fuck is amc support

[crimson lance]

i got amc support

[outer tulip]

didn't you already have a list?

[white smelt]

What’s the extension on fmovies

So I don’t go to an even sketchier one

[outer tulip]

.app

[sage remnant]

^

Just setup torrent streaming with Kodi. Easy for everything

[outer tulip]

directly? or through a third party app?

[feral kettle]

Heat is so fucking good @modern lichen

perfect crime film i think

[crimson lance]

need to see heat

only micheal mann (facts) movie ive seen is miami vice and i wasnt a big fan

[feral kettle]

Miami vice looks good

so does thief

[hollow pasture]

Breaking Bad S3 E7 || Damn Hanks a badass, he really just 2v1d guys with guns and somehow won ||

[glacial jetty]

just watched bullet train

That was actually a ton of fun

i highly recommend it

[sage sleet]

people shit on it for no reason

it was extremely fun

everyone is so critical of everything and are allergic of fun

[mild seal]

I might watch it on tuesday cause its cheaper

its been a while since I've been to the movies

[sand cypress]

Last movie I saw in theaters was top gun maverick and it was great

[sage sleet]

my silly gas light is on so can't gop anywhere til tuesday

[sand cypress]

You could still drive with the light on probably

[sage sleet]

i have no gas in my car lol

[sand cypress]

Rip

[sage sleet]

maybe i'll see breaking this week

just to do sumn

[feral kettle]

love it

Great tarantino clone film

[jolly heath]

bullet train is super

[jolly heath]

anyone watched this?

french movie

its really good

i watched it when i was super young in russian but only now found english subs and watched it in french

[brave orbit]

Watch shiki jitsu

[jolly heath]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/460550806874357771.webp?size=48

lemme watch nge first

[brave orbit]

You dont need evangelion

[brave orbit]

Also its based on a novel

[sage remnant]

Are you fan of NGE fed?

[brave orbit]

Yea

My favourite anime

But i prefer shiki jitsu

Which is my favourite movie

Sadly nobody knows about it

But its one of the best looking movies ever

[sage remnant]

Ah

[sage remnant]

Gunmetal gods author had NGE as one of his major inspiration so you might want to check it out

[brave orbit]

Shiki jitsu ||Focuses on only a couple, a director and a girl which every day says it's her birthday tomorrow, then it turns into a really experimental super artistic look into depression ||

[sage remnant]

Interesting

Would check it out someday

[brave orbit]

||When I say artistic I really mean it|| shiki jitsu

[sage remnant]

[jolly heath]

ye i know but ive heard here and there about anno and thought it would be prudent to watch nge first

[brave orbit]

@sage remnant has anyone generated oathbringer art yet 👀

[sage remnant]

I had seen a few.

The server is already gone tho

😔

One combined 4 covers using midjourney which I sent some days ago and pinged you too

[brave orbit]

Yea i saw

[burnt lake]

For All Mankind s3e9 ||WHAT THE FUUUUUCK||

[dim hedge]

[sage remnant]

Stormlight || https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/wgkyfb/i_gave_midjourney_ai_a_description_of_shadesmar/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share ||

@brave orbit

Stormlight || https://www.reddit.com/r/brandonsanderson/comments/wqrt96/according_to_an_ai_this_is_what_stormlight/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share ||

[brave orbit]

Someone generated Vin from Mistborn || https://i.imgur.com/PVwCh3q.png ||

Goddamn

[sage remnant]

Someone apparently just enter Oathbringer and || it made Kaladin ||

Pretty sure someone fed some paragraphs from the books and got good results too

[copper phoenix]

imagine in a decade ai will be making videos instead lol

fed will finally have his stormlight adaptation

[sage remnant]

I am surprised some Japanese studios haven't tried getting the rights to the books

Like KKC is popular there to have multiple Japanese editions too lol

[copper phoenix]

brando is too stingy with is babies

he wants to have total or most control over it

[sage remnant]

I mean to other fantasy books too

[sage remnant]

Apparently no anime studios have approached him yet

Someone had asked in ama or in smth like that

[brave orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/burn-elmo-pyro-burn-it-down-ashes-gif-5632946

[copper phoenix]

@sage remnant speaking about this, we're not very far from top tier fanmade videos tbh

https://www.instagram.com/p/Chvq3AjrHH7

actually insane stuff

[sage remnant]

Isn't that basically deepfake?

[copper phoenix]

nah she really created a 3d model

and animations

like if you see the part where she turned a video into a rigged skeleton for animation that's gonna save so much time

people will be making their own movies at home soon enough

[sage remnant]

Most of the stuff she used are already prevalent stuff tho. Except for Dall-E.

I have been seeing those stuff mentioned in Corridor crew's channel when they explain breakdown of vfx scenes

[copper phoenix]

well yea that's still huge tho, instead of hiring actors you could just play everyone lol

since you can create a new person from scratch

[sage remnant]

Yeah. Dall-E kinda changed it

The motion tracking thing, images to 3d models and deepfakes have been being used in mainstream for years.

Tho I doubt with these less editing so there's that

It is scary tho ngl.

[copper phoenix]

yea but that's in the industry, I was talking about your average joe youtuber doing fanfics and other stuff

[sage remnant]

Yeah fair.

Nothing we can do other than either ignore or adapt.

[copper phoenix]

idk I'm looking forward to what people will come up with, sure there is gonna be lots of trash but that goes for everything online

[sage remnant]

Personally, from my perspective its still just a tool than something to get an end result.
Midjourney just feels something which would make communication with a artist easier.
Like I could give a description and also say "something looking like this" if I ever have to give a commission for anything

[brave orbit]

This is probably the best stormlight fan animation (WoR)
|| https://youtu.be/NqOHn9ohoP4 ||

A bit janky but

The backgrounds look great

Characters are a bit ehh

[copper phoenix]

but wouldn't midjourney be a lot cheaper tbh, unless you really want something specific

[sage remnant]

Midjourney's result all look experimental to me. It just gets what I want on paper but doesn't feel to convey the exact emotions I want it to

[copper phoenix]

the lighting kinda bugs me a lot too (wor) || I know the chasms are supposed to be dark but maybe they could add some more ambient light for artistic purposes ||

[sage remnant]

Backgrounds look bad there tbf

Like some scenes it looked like a still image than a Background

[copper phoenix]

that's fair

at least the results I have seen satisfied me

[brave orbit]

We are getting a mistborn movie announcement any time now

[sage remnant]

[brave orbit]

[sage remnant]

I will watch it before reading

[copper phoenix]

[brave orbit]

Cant wait to see who is directing

Its gonna be a big name definitely

[copper phoenix]

tarantino

[sage remnant]

I just need good stunt coordinator and action choreographer.

[copper phoenix]

mistborn || gotta get those close ups of vin's feet ||

[sage remnant]

Get my man rivenx3i

And Andy Cheng

[copper phoenix]

idc much about the action tbh

everything else gotta be on point tho

[brave orbit]

Cant wait for people to complain Sazed is a woman now

In the adaptation

[sage remnant]

How heavy would the CGI have to get for Mistborn's world?

Compared to Stormlight

[brave orbit]

I'd say a lot of background enhancing

[modern lichen]

Mistborn is a steampunk ish world right

[brave orbit]

Post-apocalyptic

[modern lichen]

Post apocalyptic steampunk

[copper phoenix]

well only without the steam

[brave orbit]

I think era 2 is more steampunk

[modern lichen]

Ok, just punk

[copper phoenix]

ye pretty much

era 2 is actually steampunk

[modern lichen]

Interesting

[brave orbit]

Era 4 was space opera right

[copper phoenix]

I think that's the plan

[brave orbit]

What was era 3

[copper phoenix]

every era is gonna be a huge technological leap

idk industrial/modern

[sage remnant]

Era 4 gonna be cyberpunk then

[sage remnant]

Oh

[copper phoenix]

cyberpunk and space opera can coexist tho

[sage remnant]

Yea

[brave orbit]

Oh era 3 is space opera

[copper phoenix]

then whats 4

what comes after space lol

another dimensions? alternate universes?

[sage remnant]

Back to the basics

[brave orbit]

No wait

[sage remnant]

Stone age

[brave orbit]

Era 3 || The second trilogy will be set in the early computer age with 1980s technology. ||

Era 2 isnt a trilogy

[sage remnant]

Advanced Technology with magic would hardly be good

[copper phoenix]

cope

I trust brando

if there is one person who can get magic right in every way is him

[sage remnant]

Reason I dislike most Urban fantasy works.
Hardly anyone is able to get the full potential

[sage remnant]

Probably

[copper phoenix]

I mean he already does kinda since his magic is based on actual laws of physics

stormlight || there is literally quantum entanglement used in one of the most important pieces of tech in the world ||

[sage remnant]

But like he is gonna have to integrate computers with magics and what not.

[copper phoenix]

plus other stuff from row which you haven't read yet

but you should to understand

[copper phoenix]

I don't think thats needed lol

[sage remnant]

Ah

[sage remnant]

Why?

[copper phoenix]

like are you imagine using magic over the internet or something? lol

[brave orbit]

If its anything like ROW it will be goated

[copper phoenix]

I just think not every piece of tech needs to be related to magic

fr goro read row

[sage remnant]

Like, the way I see it, magic is a resource, like any other resource.
It should be used in conjunction with existing resources if the world develops with magic alongside it

[copper phoenix]

you'll get a grasp of how he handles even more advanced stuff

[copper phoenix]

yea but that could just mean another piece of tech that's not something we see in our world

doesn't need to exactly couple with things we have now

[sage remnant]

Like if the magic is just recently discovered, I wouldn't mind if it isn't used in conjunction with other stuff.
But if it has existed for centuries, but the development of other tech aspects are the same as it is in our world, its not good worldbuilding.
Cuz magic is an important element that's gonna change it.

Humans are gonna use every piece of resource to further the tech. And magic is gonna be an entirely new useful resources for people in such world.

[copper phoenix]

it's definitely gonna be used in conjunction with other stuff

but doesn't necessarily needs to be the same tech we have irl

[brave orbit]

Stormlight ||fragments of super advanced stuff has been existing for millennia, its normal they keep using that stuff before researching more stuff ||

[sage remnant]

If it does, and if it is coherent enough, I am more than happy.

Most urban fantasy I read back in the day had magic existing for years and common with people too but everything else seeming like its from a normal world. I stopped reading them altogether due to that.

[copper phoenix]

have you read era 2 yet?

[sage remnant]

Not gonna open that just incase it might allude to RoW stuff.

[brave orbit]

He hasnt read mistborn

[copper phoenix]

goddaming goro

[sage remnant]

I haven't read anything sanderson except Stormlight and Reckoners

[copper phoenix]

you doomposting out there and I thought you actually read mistborn lmao

[sage remnant]

I started with saying I haven't

[brave orbit]

No ROW stuff, was explained in oathbringer

[copper phoenix]

it's just that era 2 shows really well how magic integrates with more modern stuff

[sage remnant]

Ah.

[copper phoenix]

"modern" compared to era 1

[sage remnant]

Then I am more intrigued by it

The progression of magic is something I hardly see done right. The best I saw was in Magi and even that was just decent from what I would want

[copper phoenix]

anyway that's why I'm hyped to see how he's gonna do it in later eras

because it's really promising

[sage remnant]

Ah

[copper phoenix]

bro just reaaaaad

[sage remnant]

Then I hope my sister gets time to read mistborn so I can get to it

The books are by her money so I can't start it before her finishing

[copper phoenix]

you can't really complain about how badly magic is done and not read the actual god of magic

[brave orbit]

ROW has the best plotline ive seen done in fantasy

[burnt lake]

For All Mankind s3 FINALE ||oh my fucking god||

[sage remnant]

What novella was before RoW? I don't think I have read that either

[brave orbit]

Dawnshard

You need that for ROW

Imo

[sage remnant]

I caught up to it, then found out about wheel of time and moved into it and haven't read anything of Sanderson after that

[modern lichen]

Did you watch the LOTR episodes spice

[copper phoenix]

row || it's the same of the die hard movies ||

[copper phoenix]

ye ep2 is incredible

[brave orbit]

Row ||I mean navani's||

[copper phoenix]

the show is promising

[modern lichen]

Nice

Yeah it is

I'm glad it's being as slow as it is

[sage remnant]

Isn't there something like bingeclock for books

[modern lichen]

Though I don't know what to feel about a little of the lore changes

[copper phoenix]

you mean from the silmarilion?

I haven't read that so idk what changed

[modern lichen]

And the appendices yeah

[copper phoenix]

is it too bad?

[modern lichen]

Nah

[burnt lake]

welp guess I'm all caught up for For All Mankind

[crimson lance]

peanuts 11-13-70

I wonder how many characters there are in peanuts when you include all the characters who appeared for one page with no name, or the characters who Schulz introduced and then immediately got rid of

peanuts 12/31/70

another year done

[sage remnant]

@modern lichen hotd/got || would Melissandre exist in the show's timeline? ||

[crimson lance]

i only have 30 years left, one day ill run out of peanuts

[modern lichen]

no

maybee

let me check

[crimson lance]

wiki says || shes 400 || Game of thrones s8

[modern lichen]

@sage remnant its unclear, hotd/got ||melisandre may have been alive from even before the conquest yeah||

[copper phoenix]

so I just saw this meme comparing hotd, witcher and rop tomato audience scores and I can't fucking believe rop has 36% while witcher has 75% lmao

I had to go and check in the rt site because I couldn't believe my eyes

[modern lichen]

Audience score?

[copper phoenix]

ye

lotr nerds are vile

[crimson lance]

surprised the witcher show is so high

i guess it makes sense though since most fans are from the game

[sage remnant]

[copper phoenix]

the witcher show is average at best

and that mostly due to henry cavill

[crimson lance]

Below average*

[copper phoenix]

without him it would be unwatchable

witcher || still mad props to him for trying to make the best out of the role like he even brought his own action coordinators from the mission impossible movies or something for blaviken fight scene and it shows, it's still one of the greatest action sequences in the show ||

plus all the inputs over geralt's character he tries to give

but he can't make miracles

[sage remnant]

Witcher || What do you think of the banquet fight? ||

Witcher || https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PKkZpXPBWQA ||

[copper phoenix]

which season is that

I can't even remember really

that show is mostly a blur to me

[copper phoenix]

witcher || it's good but not on the same level ||

[sage remnant]

Fair

[vapid marlin]

Anyone watch the rings of power?

sort of questionable so far, but the production level is really high. so that's at least good

[opaque solar]

Does DC and marvel comics come under western series?

[sonic tree]

Yes

[opaque solar]

I found this holed up in my garage

[shadow sequoia]

I saw it with my parents, seemed pretty interesting but need to see where it goes

I'm a sucker for anything Lord of the Rings related

[vapid marlin]

yeah. the soundtrack & general production value was pretty good

but i have some questions, I guess. it's not offensively bad at least

[shadow sequoia]

Yeah, I can see why people have problems with it but I'm too much of a fan at this point I think

Kind of how I feel about anything related to One Piece, Berserk, Avatar, Marvel, DC, etc

I'll defend them all to this day in some manner or another

[vapid marlin]

Well

what did you think of (Rings of power) ||Galadriel jumping off of the fucking boat||

||I think she's the one I am finding the most weirdness with. Her jumping off of the boat was like.. why? Why not have her just refuse at the port before the ship leaves? But then I guess she can't run into that shipwreck (Who idk HOW the fuck she even came across, being continents and continents away from fucking middle-earth, supposedly SWAM far enough from valinor to find people||

[shadow sequoia]

Rings of Power S1E2 ||I think my parents and I all laughed, my mom really likes LOTR too, so it caught us all off-guard||

[shadow sequoia]

Rings of Power S1E2 ||Yeah, that made no sense and my mom kept saying "Wait what?" ||

[vapid marlin]

||Not a criticism here but I'm really interested in her character arc. Right now she is hell-bent on "hunting sauron" but by the time we know her, she's a ring bearer & doesn't do any of this acrobatic ass swordplay||

Lotta questions. I'll be watching it as it releases (rings of power)

[shadow sequoia]

Same

[main lion]

I had a random thought about comics in the west

[jolly heath]

BB s5 e7 || mike…. ||

[main lion]

so afaik, and after looking it up, there doesnt seem to be a "WSJ" equivalent, or any sort of collective magazine where new titles get published etc in the western comic industry

Im sure its been something brought up before, but something like Weekly Shounen Jump is basically a massive advertisement for these series themselves, and the series also help the magazine. This is why we can have nobody mangaka pop up out of nowhere without any prior works, because of pitching series to WSJ. And then popularity raises due to people following the magazine itself.

This is probably why its so hard for anything besides marvel/dc/superhero comics to gain mainstream notoriety like new manga can do so quickly. The titles of "Marvel" or "DC" etc act as the advertisement those manga magazines provide.

Makes you think there should be some sort of system like this, if there isnt already. I think maybe archie comics were kind of like this? But thats a very specific niche.

[shadow sequoia]

There's stuff like Imagine and Dark Horse Comics

But yeah, I don't think any comic book releases happen weekly

I used to read Spawn regularly but that was years ago and monthly

[main lion]

but do they have periodic releases under one collective magazine? Not even suggesting weekly. Monthly would work

I know dark horse publishes comics etc

[vapid marlin]

there used to be, but that was nearly 100 years ago lmao

[main lion]

but thats very diifferent

[shadow sequoia]

I could've sworn Spawn was always under Image but I'm not sure

[main lion]

jeez

[vapid marlin]

idk. Kids don't read comics here

so the release format is oriented towards adult buyers (and content for adult readers)

in the current day

[shadow sequoia]

It's like Harsh, Star, me, and a few others

[main lion]

But they do read manga. I feel like theres something they could do in order to spur the industry on again.
Or even just start making more comics with manga aesthetics

[shadow sequoia]

When I read The Walking Dead when it was coming out monthly, it was always under Image Comics

[vapid marlin]

yeah

but it didn't release like

with other stuff iirc

i always read the issues on their own

[shadow sequoia]

Yeah I don't think so

[main lion]

yeah my suggestion is it being like WSJ. Which releases a 200ish page magazine comprising the weekkly chapters of every WSJ series each week

[shadow sequoia]

Oh I see what you mean

Yeah, I don't think any publisher has that

[sonic tree]

There's stuff like dc universe now

[vapid marlin]

If only they would organize all of the dogshit into one neat pile, I would start reading

[sonic tree]

Which is like the wsj app

[vapid marlin]

[shadow sequoia]

Would be kinda silly to be reading Watchmen only to turn a page on some new kid friendly Teen Titans Go shit or something

[sage remnant]

Isn't it like late already for it? Like doubt anyone's gonna buy magazines weekly now.
And for online, there isn't any need to group it that way

[shadow sequoia]

I wonder if it's because there is just too much focus in specific demographics per comic volume or something

[main lion]

yeah but Im saying outside of dc/marvel.

The reason I brought iit up, is because I think a large reason why Im so uninterested in western comics is the usual aesthetics or focus on heros.

Those series that dont follow those conventions, dont gain mainstream notoriety. ANd if they do, its very rare (and often due to an adaptation makking it blow up)

Im saying new writers/artists dont get the opportunity to put their work out there to be seen by

large amounts of people and gain success

[vapid marlin]

ehh well. there are a couple of outliers

go read BONE

[main lion]

youve told me about it. I definitely wouldnt say its as popular as a superhero comic, or even most big manga

[vapid marlin]

but idk. i think the market is just too small lol

[shadow sequoia]

I think that's why Todd MacFarlane created Image Comics

[vapid marlin]

it's well known in the comic sphere

but it's not the type of thing that really breached the US market in the same way that manga or hero comics did

[shadow sequoia]

I think I read somewhere that Marvel or DC was fucking with him and he decided that indie comics should get a turn and fucking made his own publishing company

[vapid marlin]

kids in the US don't read western comics they now go see the movies. and if they read comics

it's probably webtoons or manga

[shadow sequoia]

Yeah

[vapid marlin]

already kinda cucked market

[main lion]

Well lets take it iin that direction then

[crimson lance]

Don't forget comics are expensive and the cheap ones are filled with ads. That probably stops lots of kids from reading

[shadow sequoia]

Maybe it's the appeal of like, anime already has the visual storytelling and because Marvel/DC movies are more prominent in the US than say like, anime at the box office or whatever... maybe that audience is just too small?

[vapid marlin]

yeah, i mean it'd probably be good. Now let's just find 5-10 actually worthwhile comics to release monthly in one batch

[shadow sequoia]

It's funny too because I've met more people into manga than into comic books

[main lion]

how many manga fans do you think there are that have aspirations to become a mangaka.
Imagine if, for example (not suggesting this, just an example is all), viz created a WSJ equivalent in the west where people pitched their series for publication in said magazine. Manga aesthetic wesstern comics. Like the french already seem to be doing, for example.

[shadow sequoia]

Maybe it's just a fault of the times

Lmao Fats

Yeah idk if there's enough shit that's interesting for people the same age as with WSJ

[main lion]

Well yeah the suggestion is that this magazine would exist to find that

or the hypothetical

as in those comics dont exist yet

[shadow sequoia]

I don't think the average One Piece fan would be interested in something like Spawn or Batman unless it like, had a massive appeal or marketing or something

Or any manga fan for that matter

[crimson lance]

Everyone's interested in Batman

[main lion]

Im not

[vapid marlin]

enough to buy a monthly comic?

[main lion]

[shadow sequoia]

Idk about that

[vapid marlin]

like, idk

[crimson lance]

It's just hard to read for most people because of how comics work

All the history and different runs

[vapid marlin]

physical media as a whole is just dying and the online sphere is pretty much already dominated. it'd be a hard break-in to the market

it's possible though. but you'd need some real winners

and consistent monthly release authors

[main lion]

Like seriously, shounen manga has such a massive appeal to children in its aesthetic and themes.
I dont think this is just a japanese thing or w/e, I think they just cracked the code without forcing them to all be about ONE thing (like dc/marvel are).
Imagine a magazine adopting those aesthetics and themes as their focal point, and then new up and coming comic artists pitch their ideas.
And start the magazine for the purpose of being a WSJ equivalent in the west.

[barren temple]

What the sam hell

[shadow sequoia]

I think if they stopped doing superhero stuff, they just lose out on most kids' interests these days

Because superpowers are all the roar now

[main lion]

didnt say that though. Im not talking about dc/marvel

[shadow sequoia]

But stopping that type of shit and being original would be better imo

[main lion]

Im suggesting some other comic publishing company come to the forefront

[shadow sequoia]

And yeah

Not just Marvel and DC

[vapid marlin]

well the teen demographic can just dodge that shit generally

[crimson lance]

Indie comics are hardly successful online even with a demand for them

[vapid marlin]

plenty of quirky teens who hate superheroes because they are popular

[crimson lance]

Doing it physically wouldn't be better

[shadow sequoia]

Harder to get my brother into Harley Quinn than Haikyuu

Even though I love both of those stories

Idk, I guess it's just a super specific audience

Anime/manga also just have that really marketable style for kids too

[main lion]

Im not even saying it being physical, although I think itd be good to as well.

The idea would be to just, have a magazine with the same amount of competition as WSJ. They dont just see someones idea and go "yeah seems good, we'll publish you. Feel free to release your shit and itll be available for people to read online if they want to".

Itd be the same concept as WSJ. Concepts get pitched, denied, refined, pitched again, if they think its worth taking the spot in the limited page magazine over another cancelled series it gets in. Eventually creating a reliable source for quality comics. Wouldnt start out amazing Im sure. But thats the type of thing that would have to pick up over time.

magazine available online as well, whatever

[vapid marlin]

could start with like

grab an elite bunch of webtoons that are currently popular

[shadow sequoia]

Yeah eBooks exist now too so the physical copies wouldn't be too big of a deal I think

[vapid marlin]

and offer them more money than they get where they publish currently

to join a different platform

[shadow sequoia]

Then again, that depends on what's made for like, digital and physical and such

[vapid marlin]

just mix a ton of shit. have some 4 panel funnies, have some long-burn stories, have some episodic stuff

into one weekly/monthly release

could probably absorb plenty of popular current stuff like that as long as you have the money

[crimson lance]

Just reprint all peanut comics it's a million dollar idea

[main lion]

It could be currently existing stuff yeah.
I mean I think a good way to start would be grabbing up some reputable self published stuff, or like you said, webcomics.

I do think however, for something like this to actually revitalize the comics industry, itd have to primarily focus on attracting what kids are currently interested in. So like, heavy focus on shounen manga aesthetic. Things pickk up, it gets big, and then they branch off and have a "seinen" equivalent with more mature themes and aesthetics.

Reputability from the initial magazine helps give it traction, eventually leading to more interest in comics of other themes as well. Or trust. Allowing for more varied comics to become more relevant without freak accidents, besides the dc and marvel branded ones.

Idk, its just an idea

but I feel like western comic publishers need to rethink the entire current situation

for them to ever reach the relevancy of old

[leaden pollen]

Watched nope, it is good

[main lion]

nope, it wasn't

what an interesting name

wtf peele wrote it

[crimson lance]

Directed it too

[main lion]

man is moving up in the world

[crimson lance]

He's made 3 very popular movies now

[main lion]

anyway idk, just shower thoughts. Didnt mean to disrupt lotr talk. Just figured this was the right channel for it

[dim hedge]

👌

[vapid marlin]

there's not much to say yet about rings of power

only 2 eps out

i basically said what I was going to already

[leaden pollen]

Want to watch Thor too but heard bad things about it lol

[peak pilot]

Watch it and form your own opinion

[shadow sequoia]

I still need to see that

[dim hedge]

I was gonna watch Thor

But decided to just drop all the mcu

I heard bad things like smile

And now look at she hulk

[sinful vessel]

Best decision

Although She-Hulk isn’t that bad

Speaking about the mcu, is Iron Fist necessary to watch The Defenders? I’m two episodes in and im not interested at all

[shadow sequoia]

No

It's also the only one out of all those shows that is egregiously bad

[sinful vessel]

I’ve heard

[shadow sequoia]

You would only watch it for the sake of checking off the box and cameos

[dim hedge]

I felt the decline coming anyway

So

[sinful vessel]

Luke Cage was pretty enjoyable actually

Didn’t like it my first time but on a rewatch it was pretty good

[dim hedge]

[shadow sequoia]

Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones

[dim hedge]

When did that come out again

[shadow sequoia]

All of their first seasons were peak

The Punisher too

[dim hedge]

DAREDEVIL WAS GREAT!

[shadow sequoia]

That was like late 2010s?

[dim hedge]

I enjoyed it

[shadow sequoia]

I don't remember tbh

[dim hedge]

They said they are gonna reboot Daredevil

idk how to feel about that

Hopefully it isn't for kids

[sinful vessel]

Luke Cage came out in 2016

[dim hedge]

Sheesh

[sinful vessel]

Can’t wait for the Daredevil reboot

18 confirmed episodes

[shadow sequoia]

Same actors?

[dim hedge]

Ye

[shadow sequoia]

Oh cool

[sage remnant]

Probably would get disneyfied

[sinful vessel]

Tbf

[shadow sequoia]

Daredevil twerking let's gooo

[sinful vessel]

You can make a decent daredevil series without all that gory violence

[sage remnant]

She Hulk || has he made his intro in thr show yet? ||

[sinful vessel]

[pale tapir]

Daredevil will be good I think

[sinful vessel]

No

[pale tapir]

Also she hulk isn't bad

[dim hedge]

I get you got your priorities straight but seriously!??!

[pale tapir]

I just think people are disappointed they aren't getting a super hero show

[shadow sequoia]

I'm joking

[dim hedge]

The cgi is bad

[pale tapir]

Thor love and thunder wasn't great, but I'd watch it again

[shadow sequoia]

But honestly

[dim hedge]

I knew that

[shadow sequoia]

It wouldn't surprise me if Marvel started messing around with that stuff more

[pale tapir]

I think you should watch the show and judge that. It's better than CGI on most other shows

[sage remnant]

I wouldn't watch the whole movie again, but there are certainly scenes I will watch again a lot

[pale tapir]

I'm not out here trying to defend Disney though

I'm just saying the vfx artists did the best they could with what they have

[sage remnant]

I think the problem is with marvel than vfx artists

[pale tapir]

It's not marvel

It's Disney

Actually

It is Also marvel

They aren't being great rn

[sage remnant]

The recent interview thing where they said about getting bad treatment, getting a lot of new tasks suddenly near the end and so on

[dim hedge]

No chance I'm ever watching Marvel stuff made by Disney again

However Spider-man on the other hand

[pale tapir]

That's fine sb. No one's asking you to

[dim hedge]

Future looks good for that

[sage remnant]

I will be watching the movies as long as there would be stuff providing me a fun time.

[dim hedge]

We just gotta wait and see I suppose

[shadow sequoia]

Ngl

I'm kind of done with anything related to the MCU after Endgame

[pale tapir]

That's what I mean. I dislike the management at marvel, but I think the people working on the shows and on set are doing their best

[sage remnant]

The movies are more spending time with my friends than watching a revolutionary stuff.

For me

[dim hedge]

Endgame wasn't that good to be honest

[sage remnant]

Yeah

[dim hedge]

Most of the movie was boring to me

[sinful vessel]

Nothing has been super exciting since then other than NWH

[shadow sequoia]

Really?

[pale tapir]

I've heard this a lot, and fair enough, but what doesn't make sense to me is everyone's need to announce that.

[shadow sequoia]

Damn dude

[dim hedge]

Infinity war was better 💯

[shadow sequoia]

Oh fair

I rewatched Infinity War like 10 times

[sage remnant]

Endgame's climax was extremely good

[dim hedge]

Yeah it's great

[dim hedge]

But that's it..

[pale tapir]

Endgame's climax was good, but it's pacing was a little off

[shadow sequoia]

Endgame was awesome for me too but I agree, Infinity War was better

[dim hedge]

Ye

[sage remnant]

I mean, its all buildup to that.
Pacing issues

[sage remnant]

Exactly

[pale tapir]

Also I liked the beginning

||Really established how much the avengers fucked up|| Endgame

[sage remnant]

Endgame || the time travel thing was kinda messy ||

[sage remnant]

Yeah

[dim hedge]

That's my main issue

I got very bored

[shadow sequoia]

Avengers: Endgame ||A rat saved everyone ||

[sage remnant]

It wasn't bad enough to put me off. Just was minor annoyance at times and that was it for me

[modern lichen]

I didn't really think the Endgame climax hit as much other than a few moments here and there

Infinity War on the other hand was pretty cool throughout

[dim hedge]

Avengers: Endgame|| Ratatouille ||

[shadow sequoia]

[sage remnant]

Endgame's climax hit throughout for me. Was fun.
Still rewatch some couple of compilations of it time to time during meals

A dc question btw harsh

[modern lichen]

Yeah?

[shadow sequoia]

Same

I love going back and watching opening night reactions

I still get chills and goosebumps

[sage remnant]

|| why is Snyderverse so polarizing in the fandom? Does it get the characters way off?
I found all of those movies pretty fun to watch. Granted I don't know the characters outside those movies and a couple of old movies I watched as a kid || DCEU/Snyderverse

[modern lichen]

Snyderverse, well, it fell apart pretty quick due to poor planning and just being relied on Zack Snyder's vision completely

Interpreted a lot of characters in a polarising way, especially Batman and Superman

[sage remnant]

Ah

[modern lichen]

Rubbed people off in a wrong way

Plus I don't think Zack Snyder's vision is all that special either so people got worn out pretty quickly

[sage remnant]

So the main fault of it was interpretation of the characters?

[shadow sequoia]

His daughter passed away too iirc

[sage remnant]

That was during Justice league I think

[shadow sequoia]

So Zack was probably bankrupt creatively at that time because he was dealing with that

[sage remnant]

Before Whedon took over

[crimson lance]

yeah thats why he didnt finish justice league

[shadow sequoia]

Yeah

[crimson lance]

but that didnt effect his other movies, bvs, man of steel

[shadow sequoia]

They don't like his interpretation of Superman

That's the main issue I thought at least

[crimson lance]

superman and batman really

[sage remnant]

As someone who knew very less about the characters both movies were pretty good for me.
BVS felt a bit eh at times but I remember enjoying Man of Steel when I first watched it

[modern lichen]

He did additional shooting for ZSJL

[dim hedge]

The song Hallelujah played for the trailer, and it was his daughter's favourite song

is it in the movie?

has to be right

[modern lichen]

Yeah

It's in the movie

[dim hedge]

Ye

Good

[shadow sequoia]

Man of Steel ||Really cool cinematography, soundtrack, visuals, and fight scenes; I think most of the problems stem from Superman being portrayed as someone who is in conflict with saving humans when it should've been more light hearted and less morbid||

Man of Steel End ||There was also the whole Superman killing Zodd thing that happened as well||

[shadow sequoia]

Damn

[sage remnant]

Man of Steel || the first sentence you wrote is why I liked the movie ||

[shadow sequoia]

Yeah lol

Man of Steel ||https://youtu.be/PC0-rxyI3ik|| I remember thinking this scene was so cool and hype lol

I think this was also one of the only movies where I actually bought the soundtrack

[sage remnant]

Man of Steel/BVS || so he should he shown as a symbol of hope for mankind. As a selfless saviour?

Didn't BVS have it? I might have forgotten moments which contradicted those as I haven't rewatched it. After your message of the issue with it, I see it as a movie for Kent to grow from Kent to Superman.

Most of the movie (Man of Steel) was spent him discovering himself if I am remembering right ||

[sage remnant]

I was remembering this scene from.BVS regarding the above text || https://youtu.be/SL6iqAfPuLU || BvS

[shadow sequoia]

Man of Steel/BvS ||Yeah I think it was just a bit too dark for Superman and correct if I'm wrong but he actually fails to save a decent amount of people in between these movies; It wouldn't be so much of an issue if it wasn't sort of condescending I think? It's weird because he's sort of sad about saving people or something? I don't entirely remember, hang on||

RedLetterMedia did a video on it and I remember sitting there watching it and agreeing/laughing with most of their issues with it

[sage remnant]

Noted. I'll check that

[peak pilot]

Finished s2 of breaking bad

[shadow sequoia]

Nice

[peak pilot]

What in gods name was that season 3 opener

[dim hedge]

LOL

[coarse flower]

full metal jacket ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EKqDCFcIck||

||i've rewatched this scene way too many times,it's too funny...unlike the rest of the movie|| full metal jacket

[feral kettle]

You would be correct

[peak pilot]

Breaking bad s3 ep 2 ||no more cooking ☹️||

[peak pilot]

Damn this episode

Breaking bad s3 ep 2 ||freaking Keller again man||

[fluid merlin]

Im actually enjoying rings of power

[brave orbit]

Hated ep 1, ep 2 was much better tho

[fluid merlin]

I had to reboot episode 1 like 4 times

Couldnt get into it and the episode just kept running while I wasnt watching

[modern lichen]

It's a slow burn

[hoary hawk]

slow burns are good

[modern lichen]

Setting the entire thing up, so yeah, that's fair i guess lol

I liked episode 1 for what it did, it hooked me with the ending definitely

The show looks absolutely magnificent though

[hoary hawk]

yea

a lot of $$$$

[modern lichen]

The difference in budget of this and WOT is just.. incredible to see realised on screen

Also, House of the Dragon again, another show that looks great

[hoary hawk]

yea

HOD and LOTR shows releasing at same time

is good stuff

for the genre honestly

[modern lichen]

Yeah, epic fantasy has gotten a comeback with these 2 massive shows

[hoary hawk]

i do genuinely believe theres been a telling lack of quality in tv shows in recent years

marvel is just marvel, hard to define it as quality

but HOTD and LOTR are just tier above

of course money is telling but its not like disney is lacking so idk

[modern lichen]

And also, it's interesting that these shows are set in the past of the stories (LOTR/Hobbit for Rings of Power and A Song of Ice and Fire for House of the Dragon) we already know

[brave orbit]

It's not a slow burn, just uninteresting exposition

[modern lichen]

Ok cool good for you

[hoary hawk]

yea I mean i think people are just generally interested in the world

they dont care as much if its a prequel etc

its much of the same reasons why people want more star wars content that isnt skywalker related

theres so much potential in the world

[modern lichen]

Yeah, it's the world being rendered well I think

In each case

[hoary hawk]

theres always stories to tell of other characters, their lore, their continents etc

[brave orbit]

WoT getting 80M for the whole 8 ep season while Rings of power gets 250M just for rights and who knows how much more for the season

[hoary hawk]

yea well its about precedence

LOTR is hugely successful

and brings an audience just with its name

[modern lichen]

Yeah, glad to see more Stories come out of Middle Earth and Westeros

[hoary hawk]

even bezos has been known to be a huge fan

so you could see why theres a huge diversion of money

[brave orbit]

I know, just unfair

[modern lichen]

Tbf, LoTR has the greater cultural currency

Barely anyone knows WoT out of like fantasy nerds

[brave orbit]

WoT had the same potential, was Amazon's most watched premiere

[hoary hawk]

yea, because theres generally a lot of fantasy fans

[brave orbit]

It was more word of mouth

[hoary hawk]

but at the end of the day, LOTR is just far and beyond where it reaches casual fans

[modern lichen]

If you go look at the initial GoT seasons fate, it looks just like what WoT looks like

[hoary hawk]

yea im aware

i consider myself an early GoT fan tbf

not like premier but early enough where it wasnt the biggest convo on twitter at ep release

but it build itself

[modern lichen]

I caught up to the story at the 5th seasons iirc

[hoary hawk]

which WoT also has a chance to do

i was watching around season 2

[modern lichen]

Tbf I dropped WoT at like the second episode lol

[hoary hawk]

it's just unfortunate it'll be dwarved by LOTR becuz of it being on the same platform

[modern lichen]

Unfortunate for WoT showrunners def

[brave orbit]

WoT had a bunch of other unfortunate circumstances beside the budget, like having the setup season be crammed into 8 episodes and covid messing up the writing for the last 2 episodes

[hoary hawk]

im def not gonna root against another fantasy series doing well, like id prefer for all series to do well

to encourage even more mediums to be translated to the screen

but all in all, LOTR has insane cultural currency

[modern lichen]

Yeah, quite literally

And i won't say thats unfair

Because the reputation came out of immense popularity and love for the stories itself

[hoary hawk]

which is helped by a successful precedent of a good trilogy

[modern lichen]

WoT just has more legwork and I don't think it hit that when it came to the actual show

[hoary hawk]

that won dozens of oscars lol

[modern lichen]

And the books

Yeah, the movies were cultural phenomenons

[brave orbit]

(It has two trilogies)

[hoary hawk]

yea

but hobbit is funny

[modern lichen]

The Hobbit trilogy plain sucks

[hoary hawk]

3 movies based on 1 book

like how did they do that

[modern lichen]

It should've been just 2

[modern lichen]

Studio shenanigans

Del Toro was primed to make those movies, how good would those have been, god

[hoary hawk]

dune is also the same but i believe they will actually only have 2 parts

[brave orbit]

It wouldn't have been able to, it had the studio working against the creators

[modern lichen]

WoT show is just subpar in terms of the content

[brave orbit]

❌

[modern lichen]

Dune is extremely dense however

[hoary hawk]

it is

but still funny to recognize it isnt that big

and will produce 2 potential blockbusters

[modern lichen]

The translation of the internal monologues into visual storytelling and showing it on film is quite a task

And Villeneuve pulled it off extremely well

[hoary hawk]

the visual storytelling was so good

[dense frigate]

Well from watching a few clips on YouTube I just binged both seasons of Ted lasso

[hoary hawk]

wha

[dense frigate]

Now I want more sports dramas

[hoary hawk]

just watch the show bruh

it isnt that long lmao

[modern lichen]

Just watch the show dude yeah lol

[dense frigate]

No I did watch the show

[peak pilot]

Breaking bad s3 ep 3 ||things getting too real , and skylar cheated smh||

[hoary hawk]

ted lasso has so many good scenes

[dense frigate]

Like I got interested from some clips

And just binged the show

[hoary hawk]

ohhhh

yea

ted lasso is awesome

waiting for szn 3

sadly there arent that many good sport dramas that arent cliche af

[dense frigate]

It is gonna be the last one apparently

[hoary hawk]

yup it was never meant to last too long

even szn 3 was kind of a long wish

back by popular demand

[dim hedge]

[hoary hawk]

this all literally started off from a skit ad

lol

[dense frigate]

I know that Jason is going through a divorce irl rn

[hoary hawk]

yea with olivia wilde

[dense frigate]

So probably why it is taking a bit

[hoary hawk]

but i think hes a bit removed from that now

[dense frigate]

You mean 13

[hoary hawk]

she has other problems now

house days

where i had a huge crush on her

[dense frigate]

I think everyone did

[hoary hawk]

i just want jason to be happy now

[dense frigate]

I want both of them to be

I need a good series

One that doesn't become mediocre

[modern lichen]

Mr Robot

[hoary hawk]

fargo

[dense frigate]

Seen both

Love Mr robot

[mild seal]

It's rare for a series to not decline overtime

[pale tapir]

LMFAO Harley Quinn season 2 is hilarious

[simple epoch]

GoT s3ep9 || I don’t think I can continue watching this show, my heart is pained.. I was stuck in disbelief for 30+ minutes. Not ashamed to say I cried myself to sleep ||

[feral kettle]

Goated ass series

[feral kettle]

the leftovers

https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1566555722049019910?s=21&t=SrsBuud--FpzEwmlyP3JmA

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Brendan Fraser in tears during a 6-minute standing ovation for ‘THE WHALE’.

Read our review: https://t.co/MiYEL3gkVo

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🥲🥲

[outer tulip]

Awww

We won || https://twitter.com/mcusource/status/1566518953203073024?s=21&t=qiUeeCC-8AQWksVmdL8BKA || MCU/Kang Dynasty

MCU Source (@MCUSource)

CONFIRMED: Tobey Maguire’s #SpiderMan will appear in #Avengers: THE KANG DYNASTY!

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Twitter · Sep 4, 2022, 8:09 PM

[crimson lance]

For some reason halo is still advertising at AMC

Morbius too

They really can't get anyone to buy ad space

[regal root]

https://tenor.com/view/lets-go-the-rock-rock-go-rock-lets-go-lg-gif-18455293

[pale hawk]

Anyone watch shadow and bone?

Or read it I think it’s a book too

[hoary hawk]

yea

[feral kettle]

this account spreads alot of misinfo

so be wary

[pale hawk]

This show is so crazy fr

[outer tulip]

I lowkey be trustin it though

[feral kettle]

i dont think they even started writing kang dynasty bruh

[outer tulip]

Prob not

But they def know whose gonna be in it

[mild seal]

eh

I wouldn't trust it imo

[hollow pasture]

Breaking bad season 3 episode 12 || I did not expect walter to show up out of nowhere and do that that was the most badass thing he’s done so far I think ||

[burnt lake]

Breaking Bad s3e12 ||not even blowing up that room with Tuco in it?||

[hollow pasture]

Breaking bad season 3 episode 12 || True but I prefer this moment because he was in more of a dominant position instead of being in the room with the explosion ||

[peak pilot]

I almost clicked that on accident

[feral kettle]

oh man one of the best breaking bad episode endings

the finale is amazing

[crimson lance]

https://twitter.com/JFrankensteiner/status/1566565572749426688?s=20&t=-BIQwPcGa3Er1NsdykbxwQ

John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner)

Paul Schrader getting me emotional today

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@feral kettle

[feral kettle]

i saw this it made me sad

i love paul

[crimson lance]

yeah you saw it, i posted it

[feral kettle]

nerd

[crimson lance]

saw jaws btw

cool ass movie

jaws || moment the air tank was said to explode i just fucking knew they would feed it to him ||

[north sun]

Good episode of HotD

[hollow pasture]

Breaking bad s4e1 || Holy fucking shit, did not expect Gus to flip out like that ||

[copper phoenix]

do you have a problem with the exposition or the actual lore? because lotr lore is far from uninteresting lol

wot had a ton of exposition too in the first episodes but I haven't seen you complaining

you simply can't have a show with worldbuilding of this complexity without exposition

[outer tulip]

Amazing episode of Hot D

[copper phoenix]

gonna watch soon

[modern lichen]

nice

[outer tulip]

one thing I didnt' understand about this episode though... Hot D || I get Viserys naming Rhaenyra heir for the sake protecting the realm from Daemon.. But what sense does it make to keep her as heir now that he has a son? And even if he wanted to keep her heir, why pressure her to marry? Wouldn't that just make whoever she marries the King of the Seven Kingdoms?... And even if somehow she can maintain a higher stature as a Targaryen born Queen than her husband as King, wouldn't she still have to take on his name anyway? Unless she breaks traditions, the throne wouldn't belong to Targaryen anymore... the only workaround I can think of would be her naming a Targaryen heir outside her immediate family, but I can't see that being an easy thing to do... I just think it would be so much cleaner to make Aegon the new heir, especially if he really needs her to be married||

[turbid oxide]

Breaking Bad season 4 episode 1. ||There was so much blood there no one would believe unless they saw for themselves.|| This is my favourite season opener hands down

[hollow pasture]

Peak fr

[north sun]

||I get Viserys naming Rhaenyra heir for the sake protecting the realm from Daemon.. But what sense does it make to keep her as heir now that he has a son?||

||1. The guilt he feels over his obsession with having a male heir driving Aemma to her death.
2. He loves his daughter and doesn’t want to supplant her after he’s named her his heir.

When she marries then her husband wouldn’t be king they would be her consort.|| HOTD 3

[wooden swift]

Watching all the shit come out of the abortion that is She Hulk has made me feel all of my piss boiling of Marvel has been warranted

Jesus Christ

What an embarrassment

[smoky grail]

Great Hot D episode

[copper phoenix]

hotd latest || what the fuck it's daemon bourne ||

[cunning spruce]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that about the show

[copper phoenix]

hotd latest || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asdCCADoohQ&t=64s ||

[white smelt]

I don’t really get the hate. It’s on par with other marvel stuff.

I mean the universal hate. I know you don’t like marvel in general which is fair

[cunning spruce]

I totally get the hate because it looks bad. That's just me tho. If people like it, then I'm fun with that.

[white smelt]

You mean the cgi looking bad?

[wooden swift]

Structurally it isn't worse no, just more ham fisted

Which makes it more observably bad and ostentatious

[cunning spruce]

Ye, and the other uneeded twerking and political shit that will agee like milk

[wooden swift]

Structurally she hulk twerking is on par with fat Thor playing Fortnite

[cunning spruce]

Plus the CGI is not great..

[copper phoenix]

and hulk dabbing

[white smelt]

People loved endgame ||fat Thor playing Fortnite tho||

[copper phoenix]

feels like jokes for the zoomers

I don't really find it funny tbh

[wooden swift]

The cgi was bad in the new thor film too

[cunning spruce]

Yea, but was it needed tho? Like, it's not going to age well

[glacial jetty]

i don’t think people liked it that much, but they didn’t complain as much

[sage remnant]

How old are you spice?
If you don't mind me asking

[copper phoenix]

I mean it's far from being the first piece of humor that doesn't age well

[copper phoenix]

30 🧓

[white smelt]

She-hulk /gotg ||And if twerking was the line in the sand why do people love guardians when it ends in a stupid as hell dance off thing. Prolly worse imo, the twerk was after credits for like 10 seconds||

[cunning spruce]

I did enjoy Endgame tho tbh other than that

[wooden swift]

Thor:L&T ||real https://youtube.com/shorts/5KK97EPYpaw?feature=share||

[sage remnant]

[north sun]

Dance off bro! Me and you!

[white smelt]

[glacial jetty]

i don’t think I saw nearly as many people talking about the Fortnite thing tbh

Especially considering one is a post credit scene

[cunning spruce]

It was leagues better than the twerking

[copper phoenix]

the gotg dance off at least fits the movie

[glacial jetty]

Kinda weird to home in on

[sage remnant]

Everyone I knew loved Fortnite thing

[white smelt]

Fits the terrible movie yeah, so why doesn’t this fit the show

[cunning spruce]

I honestly didn't even notice it was Fortnight thing at the time

[wooden swift]

I did

[copper phoenix]

are you replying to me? I haven't seen shehulk so idk anything about it other than the memes

[sage remnant]

Noobmaster69 had been a popular name for CSGO nights in my friend circle after that movie

[white smelt]

Yeah

[copper phoenix]

I just know about the twerking scene without any context and to me it feels cringe af

I haven't felt this cringe in any other piece of bad humor from the mcu and there were a lot of them

[white smelt]

Idk I guess I’m just wondering why this broke the camel’s back when the MCU has been pretty cringe from the offset. Rewatching iron man had me like 🥴

Straight boomer humor

[wooden swift]

MCU has always done this thing where they try to be very topical and adhere to the culture of the time by slipping it in where they can. I was tired of it long ago but it's grown increasingly ham fisted

[cunning spruce]

Yee, I just watch the fight scenes

[copper phoenix]

it didn't broke the camels back to me because I stopped caring about mcu long ago

to me this is just a funny drama to watch from the sidelines

🍿

[white smelt]

Fair enough

[modern lichen]

I don't think it's even worth complaining about lol

[white smelt]

That’s what I’m saying lol

[modern lichen]

It's just an absurd scene in an equally absurd show

She Hulk is playing in on the fuckin absurdity

[copper phoenix]

there is also the fact twerking is absolutely awful in any shape and form

it's like fart jokes at this point

[modern lichen]

I find it refreshing from th stupid sort of self serious nature of the MCU properties in this phase

[white smelt]

Do you fondue

[modern lichen]

Boohoo we're seeeeerious look at us kinda shit

[wooden swift]

No I agree with Wanze though. It's always been bad and cringe memey, even if the twerk scene is arguably the epitome of marvels cringe memeyness, it's been around a while. CGI has also gotten worse yes but that's way less concerning than how bad the writing has been for a while

We need to listen to Aristotle and consume better art

[modern lichen]

Balkan I find it antithetical to complain about the MCU when you don't care about it

[wooden swift]

Noted

[cunning spruce]

I'm sure it's fine ||, but the whole thing with her ranting about stuff when Bruce went through horrible things that was far worse than whatever things through made me mad while watching that particular scene in a clip||

[modern lichen]

I'm just going to watch or read better things that are out there

[white smelt]

Not Harry Potter hopefully

[modern lichen]

Not at all

My love for Harry Potter has worn out a long time ago

[white smelt]

Is rings of power a weekly thing?

[modern lichen]

Yeah

[mild seal]

she-hulk ||except all the horrible things that happened to Bruce happened after he became the hulk, while the shit that Jennifer has had to deal with was before she became a hulk, thats the whole point of why she can control her anger and not to compare traumas||

[white smelt]

What days does it come out?

[modern lichen]

Friday

Thursday for you i think

[white smelt]

Ah gotcha

[wooden swift]

They're pushing it hard lol

[white smelt]

I might let it build up a bit before I get into the weekly watch. Do we know how long it is?

[wooden swift]

My Amazon package came in rings of power bubble wrap

[modern lichen]

8 episodes

[white smelt]

Damn that’s short

[modern lichen]

First 2 out now

Each episode is more than an hour long lol

[white smelt]

Oh

Nevermind

I’m poggin

[modern lichen]

First 2 episodes averaged at 1 hour 10 minutes or something

[white smelt]

That’s sick

[modern lichen]

It's a slow start

[cunning spruce]

Hulk ||he went through horrible abuse amongst other all his like which is whthe hulk is like the way he is anger wise||

I could be wrong

[modern lichen]

But if they hold the pace and consistently keep upping on the writing then yeah

The show is a five season story btw

[mild seal]

in the comics, yes. but as far as the MCU goes that hasn't been addressed

[cunning spruce]

It's probably implied tho

[mild seal]

its been a while since I've seen the ed norton hulk but I don't remember it being implied in that

[modern lichen]

Critical Role and Rings of Power on Friday

Dope shit

[mild seal]

CR this week is gonna be crazy

I already know it

[modern lichen]

Oh yeah the cliffhanger, oh boy

These past few episodes of this campaign have just been full throttle

[cunning spruce]

What is CR about

[copper phoenix]

crunchyroll

[mild seal]

voice actors playing dungeons and dragons

[modern lichen]

Not just ordinary voice actors, these are some of the best ever

[mild seal]

oh yeah

[modern lichen]

Matt Mercer, Laura Bailey, Travis Willingham, Liam O'Brien, Sam Riegel, Marisha Ray, Ashley Johnson, the cast is fuckin stacked

[copper phoenix]

one day I'll get to watch it

I heard it's long as shit

[cunning spruce]

I think I only recognize Matt Mercer but I don't know

[copper phoenix]

but sounds interesting

[modern lichen]

You could start on the animated show

[cunning spruce]

I think I'll do that

[copper phoenix]

oh I didn't know that was an option

[modern lichen]

They did it through the Kickstarter for just a single animated special for $750,000 but raised $11 million

[copper phoenix]

so the new campaign is after the show?

[modern lichen]

Nah, the animated show is an adaptation of the first campaign

We're on the third campaign now

[copper phoenix]

I see

[modern lichen]

The actual play continues

[cunning spruce]

Oh Matt Mercer voices Trafalgar Law in the dub

[modern lichen]

All of these voice actors are VO royalty

[mild seal]

Ashley Johnson is what's her name from the last of us

Ellie

[modern lichen]

But CR is a separate business now, with Travis Willingham being the CEO

[white smelt]

I kind of hate that the English VA scene is so small. These people are all good but I hear them in everything and I’m just so done

[modern lichen]

It's set in Matt Mercer's world entirely, that he built from scratch

[white smelt]

It’s kinda cliquey

[cunning spruce]

Ooo

[modern lichen]

That's the problem, voice acting is dope but not a lot of people do it

These guys are amazing at what they do

And they're passionate about it

[cunning spruce]

YeDoes it count as niche thing

[modern lichen]

But their real talents show in CR

[mild seal]

The anime dub scene especially is very niche

[modern lichen]

Because they're inhabiting their own created characters and you can see how good these people are at telling stories

[mild seal]

Most people do it because they like the anime

[modern lichen]

Mercer is one of the best storytellers this generation

[cunning spruce]

I'm glad because I actually like most dubs.

[modern lichen]

His world, Exandria is a Marvel of worldbuilding

[mild seal]

The names for his NPCs are so good they make fun of him cause they sound like something else

[white smelt]

You capitalized marvel. Are you comparing it to the MCU perchance… ?

[cunning spruce]

I definitely will check out CR. Where do I watch/listen to it?

[modern lichen]

[mild seal]

Probably mobile autocorrect

[cunning spruce]

Probably autocorrect

[modern lichen]

My favourite will always be Mike Hunt

[cunning spruce]

Where shall I watch this?

[mild seal]

Their YouTube channel has all campaign 3 episodes

And campaign 2 I think

[cunning spruce]

Ooh

[mild seal]

I forget when they moved away from geek and sundry

The episodes are long though. 4hrs most of the time

[cunning spruce]

Oof

[mild seal]

I think they're also in podcast form

[jolly heath]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/659907895399546881.webp?size=48

listening to cr in podcast form is the inferior way to experience it

[mild seal]

I agree

Gotta watch Sam's ad reads

[jolly heath]

[modern lichen]

Campaign 1 too

[glacial jetty]

is the alternative just video of them speaking?

[jolly heath]

also just seeing the players mess around in the background

[jolly heath]

they're seated at a table and there's cameras that show the battlefield too

[glacial jetty]

i can’t imagine how that would be immersive enough

[mild seal]

They have a battlefield with miniatures

[modern lichen]

Oh they're immersive

[jolly heath]

and in later eps i think matt starts to use different lighting too

[glacial jetty]

maybe i just lack the imagination for that

[modern lichen]

Man this week's ad read is especially repugnant

Sam went above and beyond with the grossness

[mild seal]

Yeah... I wanted to skip that so fast

[modern lichen]

I can't stop looking

[mild seal]

And then Laura just starts eating a pickle

[modern lichen]

Marc, you should check out this week's ad read

It's uh.. pretty fuckin gross and entertaining

[jolly heath]

perhaps..

im not caught up though 😔