Media (General)

[wet quest]

And also funny haha movie good

[burnt shale]

The goats. I have all the hardy boys in original print I think.

[topaz oyster]

My brother has our copies

[full wolf]

Resurrecting this b/c I've been busy but yes! I do like Absolution! It's a fun romp, I agree it falls in the "Vox Machina" style of animated fantasy shows for sure (nothing groundbreaking or particularly mindblowing, but if you like the genre you'll probably have a good time)

shame we're probably never getting any more dragon age ever again tho

It originally felt like it was kind of supposed to be a little bit of a tie in with Veilguard, but aside from both taking place in Tevinter (Veilguard partially, it's not only in Tevinter), there actually wasn't much overlap at all, from what I recall. Also Absolution's biggest contribution to the lore (ending vague spoilers, but not actually revealing) ||is from a really spicy lore stinger at the VERY end of the show and I don't think Veilguard touched that reveal at all :/ Like, maybe it got a mention in a lore book somewhere, but it wasn't really in the game's plot at all||

[wraith sand]

Anybody remember the name of the movie whose premise is basically that a guy was living inside a reality show all his life and then finally starts figuring it out?

[topaz oyster]

Truman Show

[wraith sand]

Ah, that’s the one. Thanks.

[turbid laurel]

I wouldn’t say it’s dense, but if you try understanding everything nautical you’ll be reading for a while. A Sea of Words is a good companion book if you really want to understand everything, otherwise just let the words be part of the background music

[topaz oyster]

Fortunately, the movie is sort of an amalgam of several books rather than any particular part of the plot, and can safely be watched without really spoiling anything about the books except perhaps the vibe

[ionic lily]

Books can be overloaded with nautical terms and not be dense. For instance the Hornblower series.

[topaz oyster]

PO'B cheats

The language is too dense, but Stephen never learns it and is far more commonly the PoV character than Jack

So if you're as confused as Stephen, fine, he's confused too. If you're not, excellent! Jack knows what he's on about (when it comes to nautical terminology, and not much else)

[ionic lily]

It’s not the nautical terminology, I understand most of that

The prose itself is dense

[turbid laurel]

Hmm…. I listened to them first so I guess I don’t really get what’s so dense about them

[dusk hound]

I’ve always wanted to watch Critical Role but

That’s too many episodes

Even for me as a One Piece fan

[full wolf]

I mean, there's like a billion different formats of critical role these days

[topaz oyster]

Almost as many formats as episodes

[frail mulch]

I started at one point but I've got such a backlog of podcasts/etc. I just didn't want to keep up

[full wolf]

1. watch the animated show
2. watch one of the miniseries (i vote Calamity)
3. wait for a new campaign to start and get in on the ground floor with episode 1 (c4 coming soon)

[frail mulch]

did watch Vox Machina and I figure that's the polished version of the story

[midnight compass]

There's also abridged episodes for about the first half of C3 now

[frail mulch]

it was jarring starting critical role after VM and having to make space in my head for Tiberius, the dragonborn character whose player left at some point

[topaz oyster]

The first ~20eps are fully skippable anyway

[full wolf]

I do think the wide consensus is that as a starting place, C2 (Mighty Nein) is better for newcomers than C1 (Vox Machina)

M9 actually starts at the beginning of a campaign, for one, rather than being an odd pick-up of what was previously an offline home game in the middle of a story arc

Also, by the time they got to C2, they actually knew what they were doing with this streaming thing and had a format and some production quality

[topaz oyster]

I do have a hard time jumping on board with this because CR3 leans fairly heavily on CR1 in a way 2 does not

[full wolf]

(You can also start with C3 for this reason, but I'll be real, I bounced off C3 like four episodes in so I can't recommend if it's good or not, personally)

oh hey, there you go

just do CR2 :3

or, the most correct answer. dimension 20.

[molten jetty]

CR3… I had a hard time with. Did not like it.

[midnight compass]

I really should listen to C2 but might just wait for the TV show

[molten jetty]

I’ve watched most of CR1 tho

[gritty sierra]

i got less than 30 episodes in CR2 before getting to A Thing and just stopping

[molten jetty]

Episodes are just so….. long

[gritty sierra]

never picked it up in any form again

[topaz oyster]

I am a CR3 Enjoyer

[full wolf]

save us BLeeM. save us.

[midnight compass]

I still haven't finished C3 because I wasn't sure I liked how it was going and (more importantly) also discovered 40k podcasts and look where that got me

I did really enjoy it overall though

[molten jetty]

If anyone can get me to watch 4hr episodes its Brennan haha

I’ll give it a shot the first few weeks and see if I connect lol

[topaz oyster]

Unironically I think I like 3 better than 2

2 gets strong faster, and ends strong, but the very beginning and the middle are very much a slog for me

I like 3's lows, on the whole, better than 2's lows, and I like its highs better, even if I think it has its highs more concentrated

[full wolf]

I'm gonna throw out a really hot take, but I stand by it. Vox Machina are too basic of dnd character tropes for me, they're really straightforward. Mighty Nein hit a sweet spot of really interesting concepts that were very digestible. Hells Bells lost me because the vibes I got was that everyone was trying a little too hard to have their character be really unique and unexpected for DnD and it was kind of too much and I didn't really bite on any of them.

[topaz oyster]

I never did get that vibe, either

[midnight compass]

Yeah I can mostly agree with this. Most of why I want to get into C2 in some form is that the Mighty Nein look more enjoyable to me than the other parties

That said, Fearne and Chetney are peak imo

[full wolf]

If I had to pick a bell it's probably Fearne

[topaz oyster]

She's my least favorite Bell

[full wolf]

kon why are we like this

[buoyant scroll]

Amusingly, only 4 of the Hells ||at the beginning|| are characters made for C3

[midnight compass]

The duality of Sharders

[azure fern]

I like C1 the best because it's the "most d&d" campaign

[topaz oyster]

Well Feather and I do seem to have pretty diametrically opposed taste sometimes even beyond just being on the Shard lmao

[azure fern]

but also because I was there since before it blew up

that helps

or rather...as it was blowing up, cause it blew up super fast

[midnight compass]

I think my favorite thing there is y'all both liking Edgerunners for completely different reasons

[azure fern]

I think I caught it live around Ep 4 or 5 and it already had like 13k viewers or something

[full wolf]

(...do i. really like edgerunners?)

[azure fern]

before that I think the highest view count I'd seen in a d&d show was some debut ep of one of the follow up Roll Plays with like 8k people or something

[topaz oyster]

This might be the one place we agree, since I'm at like a 6/10 on Edgerunners

[full wolf]

i watched edgerunners. it was fine. i mostly watched it b/c studio trigger, but i'd rather watch promare

[topaz oyster]

I also didn't know you had watched Edgerunners

[full wolf]

kon we talked about this b/c it's part of my reasoning for thinking i probably can't play CP77

[azure fern]

oh, nice, more people lukewarm on Edgerunners!

[midnight compass]

Okay I guess I was wrong

[topaz oyster]

I knew the second half of this sentence

[buoyant scroll]

[topaz oyster]

I didn't remember Edgerunners being part of the conversation, though I did walk in halfway through

[full wolf]

ok alright, absolved

[midnight compass]

I mostly remember Feather really liking the animation but finding the story too sad (or not fulfillingly sad), while Kon did like the story but didn't care much for the animation

[gritty sierra]

me neither (on remembering why feather said she wasn't gonna be into cp2077)

[topaz oyster]

I was okay on the story as well

[gritty sierra]

but i've never seen edgerunners

[topaz oyster]

I was mostly impressed by its faithfulness to the setting

[full wolf]

that does sound like a take i might have had on edgerunners but imma be real, it did not make enough of an impression for me to remember the actual feelings about it

[topaz oyster]

Except for the core tenet of the plot, which is how it treats cyberpsychosis

[dusk hound]

I actually recall watching Dimension 20 like 2 years ago?

It was a campaign where they were all in New York or something

[full wolf]

liking the animation sounds right tho (but again, would rather watch promare)

[full wolf]

The Unsleeping City!

[midnight compass]

It was also like 2 years ago

[topaz oyster]

Every scene in the show is findable in Night City in-game, which, genuinely impressive

[gritty sierra]

that is pretty nuts. i feel like my biggest 🤯 is how few GB cp2077 is for how big and detailed the city is. feeling my age vis a vis what video games can do now

[topaz oyster]

Yeah

It is so dense and so big at the same time

[dusk hound]

Yeah that’s it

I remember liking it

Although I don’t remember anything else about it

[gritty sierra]

I recall a startling number of Sondheim references

[full wolf]

Unsleeping City S1 has one of my favorite Lou Wilson rants in it

actually it was more of a whole table rant

[ionic lily]

Why is that startling, they are all theatre kids

[buoyant scroll]

I loved [Unsleeping City] ||Siobhan playing two different immigrant characters, god that speech at the end of s1 😭 ||

[full wolf]

(Language warning) Context is they're in combat and Breannain calls out that a spell an enemy is casting is going to hit basically everyone on the map: https://youtu.be/Ra6E0nKI9Cs?t=702

it is a beautiful work of mutual bullying art :3

[dusk hound]

I wish I could play D&D, but that requires actually having friends

[full wolf]

(this is a compilation, the clip in question ends at 12:54 when brennan goes "OKAY!")

[burnt shale]

I think as characters yes but not sure I agree as characters to be played. Mighty nein is still the best of the three but that’s for other reasons imo

[gritty sierra]

that rant is so good

"Reddit is going to eat your ASS, DUDE" locked itself into my vocabulary for like over a year

[burnt shale]

Mighty nein I think is the best becuase every character I think played to one of their strengths as players

Feather is 100% right on bells hells tho they got a bit too cheeky imo

Bells hells I think is also of the three groups the least intresting combat wise

[azure fern]

Except Orym, because of course Liam can make anything interesting combat wise, even freaking fighters

[burnt shale]

In my experience fighters are way more intresting then the other martials in combat but that’s besides the point

[full wolf]

I think the Bells had a steep curve for me, firstly because they had a connection to the EXU that I fell off and didn't finish and then was disappointed to see characters from that appearing again, like I'd need to go back and watch that if I wanted to get into CR3. And then—yes this is EXTRAORDINARILY HYPOCRITICAL OF ME—but i felt like I could just sense that everyone had written extremely detailed backstory theses about where they come from and who they are as a person and where they come from and it was too much to chew! i didn't want to chew it, i didn't like the flavor enough and it felt like there was gonna be work involved

[burnt shale]

At the least I think that’s becuase he’s a Battlemaster and good at narration but I think his style of play is more condusive to a caster

[full wolf]

(do not ask me how much backstory planning i wrote pre-game for Meijin and Dier, pls, it is embarrassing)

(i am the problem, i know 😭 )

[ivory night]

I started c3 and yeah the characters were a little too out there for me

[burnt shale]

Tbf your just playing a game it’s not a liveplay and what’s fun at a table and liveplay are different

[ivory night]

Also like weirdly the switch away from live episodes idk felt different

[burnt shale]

My biggest gripe is the lack of fan art

[full wolf]

you say that but one of those WAS legitimately an actual play show that took like five years off my life expectancy to produce

(everybody go watch Secrets in Stained Glass or else )

[burnt shale]

Its in the playlist

But my ttrpg playlist is so long

[azure fern]

Except Orym, because of course Liam can make anything interesting combat wise, even freaking fighters

[steep bramble]

When you do get to it, please feel free to share reacts in #shardcast-and-videos

[burnt shale]

Personally laudna>fearne>dorian>orym> chetney>fcg> Ashton>imogen

[molten jetty]

I have a lot of thoughts on C3 and most of it ties into the thought that ||having a conflict with divinity so directly central would work much much better if any of the characters weren’t: (1). A joke cleric (2). Had positive opinions on the gods
As is they were just like… soooo why do we care? And the only one who did care was a flat earther!||

[topaz oyster]

I am judging

[molten jetty]

||like just philosophically it was weak in how it dealt with this and just shrugged or had poor counter arguments to doing away with the gods||

[ionic lily]

Just read Mistborn smh

[full wolf]

noooooooooo only nale gets to do that to meeee

[topaz oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/spray-bottle-cat-spray-bottle-spray-bottle-meme-loop-gif-25594440

[full wolf]

look @gritty sierra and i have a really normal like. half a million words of dnd backstory for the current campaign we're in. that's totally fine. everybody thinks that's a normal amount of backstory.

we're over halfway done with it

[azure fern]

This gif is very disorienting to look at for more than 5s

[topaz oyster]

This actually works for me, in a way, CR3 general ||There absolutely is a version of this where they have one or more Very Pious People in the party and their position on the issue is just sort of assumed. But I think here there's a different sort of take of like, we don't value the gods as deities at all, and actually we don't like them very much on the whole (even before you throw the betrayers into the mix) but we will respect them as sort of cosmic refugees and fight for them on that basis, and I think what they did in that light was very interesting actually||

||And then they did get a Very Pious Person in the party but it was Bad Pious and not Good Pious and they didn't let that sway them from the core of why they made the choices they made||

[buoyant scroll]

C3 ||I always appreciated Orym grounding everyone anytime they started to second guess themselves with a "Hey, it doesn't matter right now whether the gods suck. Ludinus is not someone who can be trusted to make that decision for the whole world"||

[azure fern]

Also, C3 || A lot of their motivation was less about "do we like the gods" and more about "the guy trying to do this is evil as frick, and we don't actually know the consequences of what he is trying to do...which is very fair. I think we miss out on potential inner party conflict but gain a different kind of perspective ||

Mori ninja'd me

[topaz oyster]

CR3 ||I also always got the sense that just because the gods were Predathos' primary targets and he didn't see regular people as food, that there wouldn't be collateral damage. It wasn't just that he didn't see people as food, he didn't see them at all and I can't imagine a version of him eating the gods that didn't have massive collateral damage||

[molten jetty]

C3 ||yeah but it felt like they were just flip floping without actually feeling motivated toward anything and there were no interesting philosophical discussions of the main plot point. ||

[acoustic pewter]

Yeah, it makes me wonder why the screen isn't soaked yet.

[ivory night]

|| and just like mechanically I thought the C2 cast was more interesting. Tal’s was cool but like idk didn’t really find the rest all that interesting. || C2 + C3

Calamity is probs my fav thing they’ve done in a while

[molten jetty]

||instead it just felt like very… areligious which just felt odd. It was so tonally dissonant. And the problem isn’t just being areligious but not actually having a discussion about it and just being wibbly wobbly||

[azure fern]

Hah! That reply with the corssed out part about combat was a joke, cause again Orym was the exception xD

[topaz oyster]

CR3 ||I only think this is really true if "are the gods good and worth fighting for" is the "main" point. They do kind of sidestep this, but I think in large part because it was orthogonal to the stuff they really felt worth fighting for and because their answer was gonna be pretty mid-to-bad on it anyway||

[ivory night]

I only watch like 10 episodes of C3 || whenever Travis came back ||

[topaz oyster]

||I think they'd have said no, actually, if Matt had continued to press the issue (which he did, a lot, but eventually he did give up). But they found something different and I think really surprising and interesting||

[molten jetty]

C3 ||but it felt set up where I dropped it as the main plot point? And they just kept going back to “well idc about the gods” and they brought on a guest star who was a cleric. I was excited! Finally we’ll see interesting philosophy counterpoint to the MCs and the cleric hated the gods and I was like…? Well, is the rest of the campaign just gonna be this noncommittal when philosophical discussions of this would be interesting?||

I think I didn’t get to the point where this pivots because of how frustrating it was

[cosmic dock]

Please can someone give me a TLDR of the new Homestuck thing, who's involved, and what's the implications of that?

[cobalt onyx]

The implication is that there's always money in the banana stand

[topaz oyster]

CR3 ||I do think they struggled with it as players because the answer for basically everyone except FCG and maybe Orym was going to be "no I do not think the gods are worth fighting for" and I think that's a hard thing for them to just come out and say without the natural followup being "well then what are we even doing here, lets go home and let Ludinus do his thing". But I kind of liked the struggle of them finding something different, when the "natural" course was not really available for them||

[molten jetty]

C3 ||yeah I think the main problem was they should have had like a session 0 that better indicated a religious character could contrast with other members of the party and provide actual discussion apart from what we got ||

[topaz oyster]

CR3 ||I mean the whole red moon showdown that kicked off that part of the plot didn't happen until fifty episodes in, I don't know to what extent they could have foreseen that as an issue||

[molten jetty]

C1+2+3||and also saying the gods are not worth fighting for just feels so weird with all the help parts of the pantheon have provided in past campaigns from what I’ve watched?||

I do know this all ended up being to shift to a new setting but still

[topaz oyster]

CR3 ||I mean these characters in this campaign. M9 are a much more pious bunch by comparison, though they all sort of played VM as more similarly indifferent or wary in the later parts of CR3||

[molten jetty]

CR3 ||right, that makes sense I was saying more in terms of the campaign as a whole having this sentiment (even guest stars)||

[topaz oyster]

CR3 ||But these characters in particular I think just kind of stumbled into an indifferent-to-negative vibe on the gods on the whole, I don't think that was planned and I don't think that was foreseen as an issue until it kind of already was. And then, I liked seeing the players rise to the challenge of finding ways for their characters to stay in it despite that||

[buoyant scroll]

CR3 ||I felt some of them had good reasons and arguments for their indifference or anger, Ashton in particular. The gods help sometimes, but they do so unevenly, and a lot of people constantly suffer. It ultimately though didn't matter in the face of the real problem they were presented with, which was a millenia old mass murdering egomaniacal elf||

[molten jetty]

CR3 ||yeah, I agree with the first part of what you’re saying that it wasn’t foreseen until it happened but I didn’t vibe with it and never made it for enough for them to rise to the challenge ||

[molten jetty]

CR3 ||Idc if some (or even most) were indifferent or didn’t care. I just wanted there to be something (anything) pro-gods when they’ve been fairly positive influences in past campaigns. Like a guest star. Orym fighting for the Wildmother. Matt having NPCs that aren’t antagonists that are religious. Etc.||

[buoyant scroll]

I guess I just don't understand feeling a need for it

[azure fern]

and people still acuse CR of being scripted

Liam poking fun at those folks is one of my favorite running gags since C1

[molten jetty]

I disagree because it sounds like they had to pivot to make it work lol
CR3 ||the other option was letting Predathos chow down||

But more than anything it feels (C3) ||like out of world knowledge influencing the game where the previously kind gods were now morally questionable beings because they had to be got rid of for the future of CR to detach from Wizards and DnD ||

And that was a bit annoying to me

Anyway I’ll stop being argumentative haha

[topaz oyster]

I do think this is not necessarily a conclusion that quite fits the timeline. A lot of this was happening pretty concurrently and I have a hard time entirely believing that they were committed to getting off D&D for future Exandrian games back then

Like, the whole OGL drama was happening January/February and CR3 ep 50 aired at the beginning of March

At most, they were allowing themselves the room to make it happen

But I don't really think Matt did or even could have changed the entire back lore of what was going on wrt The Big Bad on the fly like that just over the OGL drama. In fact, I think CR's been fairly measured in how they've approached giving themselves space to be less dependent on WotC for their living

(And, if I'm being honest, I think they respect their own story too much to knee jerk yank the story around like that just because WotC spooked them)

[burnt shale]

they were doing that prior to the OGL. they had started marketing their campaign as its own brand outside of dnd with their anime and they realized they wanted to scrub the material they did not own

[topaz oyster]

That's true but there weren't significant signs of a potential system change until after

In some cases, well after

(And to be clear, we still don't know that they intend to swap off 5e permanently for Exandrian campaigns. I'm not sure they've even said anything about system for CR4)

[buoyant scroll]

All they've said about system for C4 is an explicit statement that the announcement will come later

[burnt shale]

Tho tbf they also had at least 2 months of pre knowledge of the OGL changes if i recall

my guess is probably 6

[ivory night]

Helps that they just hired the execs from WotC

[old steeple]

https://preview.redd.it/therussianbadger-real-life-v0-6h46fkjdrwcd1.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=ca1dfbb43aed034a9d8df442bdda373ec201a28b

why does it fit so well

why is Bajur such a good plastic man

[hushed moss]

I really hope we get Plastic Man in the DCU but a the same time a live action Plastic Man would be pure CGI nightmare fuel.

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/1956125403933819150?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Chris Hansen is working on a documentary that will investigate Roblox’s handling of child safety issues.

(Source: @RealSchlep)

X · Aug 14, 2025, 10:46 PM

Can’t say I’m surprised

Roblox has definitely been under a lot of fire due to how they handle child safety for the longest time

[velvet oriole]

Watching more ATLA today.

[inland jetty]

Oh yeah, that show. I should watch a bit more of it after work tomorrow

[velvet oriole]

Atla s1e10 ||Sokka gets made fun of so much 😔 ||

Atla ||Jet is 100% feather bait. ||

[candid peak]

Ain't that the guy who made How to Catch a Predator that was later outed as one himself?

[cold sequoia]

are you thinking of To Catch a Predator?

I can't find anything relevant that's named How to Catch a Predator

[dusk hound]

No

Chris Hansen has been doing this for forever

Since Dateline

[topaz oyster]

He has had legal issues but I think they've been more in the financial vein if I'm remembering correctly

Something about bouncing checks in the covid era?

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/natequarter/770978076681191424/nosferatu-non-vosferatu-cest-pas-mon-problème

Steven Moffat's #79 fan

nosferatu ? non. VOSferatu. c'est pas mon problème

-# #🗡️ #top hits

Tumblr · Dec 27, 2024, 1:13 AM

[sacred slate]

Strange New Worlds continues to stick the landings.

[dusk hound]

Wholesome

[agile drift]

Alien 3 ||Ripley woke up out of hypersleep after the worst ordeal of her life, found out her new surrogate daughter is dead, and then decided to bang the first guy she met? The hell? Get your priorities straight girl||

This is quite the departure from the previous 2

[midnight compass]

I know enough about the plot of Alien cubed that I refuse to watch it out of spite

[burnt shale]

The comparison is helped by Matt Mercer seeming to play ever guard

Or at least a sizable amount of minor characters

[tight dove]

You mean Mark Mercer

[agile drift]

Apparently the version of alien 3 my brother acquired for me is a different cut that's like 30 min longer than the original? Man I don't want to watch this... But I've also already invested an hour and a half into this and don't want to have to go through any of this again...

Decisions

Yeah I'm done with this film. Ander your spite has guided you well

[buoyant scroll]

I don't dislike Alien 3, but I certainly find it to be the most...meandering

[lucid haven]

Talking alien i enjoyed these 1st two epps of alien earth

[burnt shale]

What is the specific thread btw

[main dew]

Same

Alien Earth, ||I did find the justification to get the hybrids to the crashed ship to be a bit weak but sure, we gotta get the main characters to where the alien is, I'll let it slide||

[lucid haven]

Im just super invested in all the world building and all the things in this universe we are finally getting answers for

I've also recently invested in tyranids so this is very much in my hyper fixation right now

[full wolf]

DA: Absolution ending spoilers ||The reveal that Meredith is still alive as a lyrium statue ruling Kirkwall||

[lucid haven]

There totally was a bit of plot armour for some of the characters tho lol

[burnt shale]

Ahh

[lone canyon]

Star Trek deep space 9 is so good

Kira Nerys my beloved

[burnt shale]

It’s good yes

[distant birch]

Magp 47 ||Gwen they could never make me hate you||

[midnight compass]

The only thing I've heard that I like is the dog-shaped Xenomorph from having a dog as the host instead of a human. Xenomorphs are cool.

[muted solar]

Xenomorphs are so cool

[lucid haven]

I just finished super man

[forest wigeon]

Super, man

[lucid haven]

Legit made me so emotional just the hope in my core that a movie like this can still be made and mabey inspire poeple to go and be punk like superman

Just like theres so many reasons right now that this hit me deep

I need more movies like this

Just the core message of being nice and doing the right thing is what I needed today

[tight dove]

Im a punk rocker yes i am

[lucid haven]

now i gotta actually watch peacemaker smh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2oqXCtCiik

so one question for yall ppl who are in the know about Superman|| so what green lantern stuff is in the works cause i know theres a superman and supergirl movie comming or even just a supergirl solo movie. What else is in the works in this contnuity?||

[west escarp]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Universe_(franchise)

There’s also an upcoming Matt Reeves Batman sequel but it is intended to be unconnected/in its own continuity

[midnight compass]

Afiak the only confirmed movies in this continuity are a sequel, the Supergirl movie, and I believe also a Wonder Woman movie

[lucid haven]

sweet that link had what i wanted

also has this for the tv stuff

a lanturns tv show is on the way hype

completed and releasing early 2026 is very hype

this is just insane tbh the names

[dusk hound]

Superman ||Theres gonna be a Lanterns TV Show in early 2026 that follows Hal Jordan and Jon Stewart, other than that there’s nothing for Green Lantern, Peacemaker season 2 comes out next week, that’ll have a Guy Gardner cameo in it and a bunch of other DC cameos that Gunn is teasing, and then the big one next in June 2026 is Supergirl, adapted from one of my favorite comics of all time||

||We should hopefully be getting news on the Lanterns show soon||

[lucid haven]

yaa i posted pics from wikipedia

has the answers i was looking for thanks tho its good to get more sources on things

gives me something to watch tho because peacemaker wasnt really on my "must watch" list untill today

[dusk hound]

I’m so hype for Peacemaker coming back in a week

[dusk hound]

If you want more Superman stuff I can’t recommend My Adventures with Superman enough, it’s an amazing animated show that’s basically like if Superman was a shonen anime

And obviously any of the DCAU shows are great, especially Superman: The Animated Series and Batman: The Animated Series

Gunn is reportedly taking a lot of inspiration from the DCAU

[lucid haven]

nah im fine with out more superman animated stuff

more just want more of this universe post the superman movie

[dusk hound]

Oh, then yeah we don’t really have anything yet, you can watch Creature Commandos that was made by Gunn and The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker

[lucid haven]

so i might watch creature commandos

[dusk hound]

Other than that we don’t really have anything yet

[lucid haven]

i didnt think suicide squad was in this tho ?

or is it "made by gunn" in this rather than "offically"

[dusk hound]

Some of it is canon

And some of it isn’t

It’s confusing and I really wish he could clarify it

But basically events similar to The Suicide Squad happen in the DCU but not EXACTLY in the way they are depicted in the movie

[lucid haven]

so more "this isnt in universe but we are in a slightly close universe akin to a new turning of the wheel "

is the vibe im getting

i use the whole "new turning of the wheel" stuff in my head all the time for this

[dusk hound]

The Suicide Squad ||Rick Flag Jr being killed in Corto Maltese is canon since they talk about it in Creature Commandos and it’s gonna be a big plot point for Peacemaker season 2||

[lucid haven]

also its the 2021 movie right not the earlier movie ?

also should i watch this or peacemaker 1st

[dusk hound]

Watch that first before Peacemaker

And yeah it’s that one

Don’t watch the 2016 one, it’s awful

[lucid haven]

sweet ill put that on the list

yaa ive heard suicide squad was awful i just didnt realise there was a good one

[tight dove]

yeah "Suicide Squad" is not very good
"The Suicidee Squad" is incredible

i like describing it as "R Rated Guardians Of The Galaxy" but idk how good of a description that is

[lucid haven]

well mabey dc universe back hopefully

WAIT, gunn has ONLY DONE THESE

like wtf

not many at all and all basicly bangers in the last decade

[tight dove]

gunn only makes bangers

[dusk hound]

I was surprised when I found out he wrote the Scooby Doo movies

[tight dove]

james gunn is the man who killed scrapy doo

[lucid haven]

i swore that gunn had made more than this but wow

[dusk hound]

I hope Lanterns is good because Green Lantern fans need a win

[lucid haven]

i hope ryan renolds gets a cameo in it

for the memes

[burnt shale]

its basically a new one every 2 years which is honestly pretty reasonable but i am curious whats up with teh 4 year stretches

[tight dove]

that is pretty consitently a new movie every 2 years

[lucid haven]

yaa the ramp is only begening in the mid 2020's

like if 2026 is a good year for him i could see him making a movie or 2 every year for a while

[cold sequoia]

Lindelof being involved makes me excited, I really liked his Watchmen series

[burnt shale]

i think thats a very healthy development cycle tbh

tho i do suspect theres mor eto his schedule than just that

[lucid haven]

i was going to watch the new epp of dexter resurection but time to put on The Suicide Squad

silly superman movie getting me hyped for things and giving me hope

[inland jetty]

So I've been getting curious about card tricks and table magic again, and its lead me to watch old Penn and Teller shows. Honestly, one of my favorite parts is getting to see the contemporary commercials on the youtube reuploads

[winged mountain]

I can't believe they went with that name, apparently the story goes that James Gunn tossed it out as a joke [there was just a Suicide Squad movie a few years before] but the studio loved it

it's like a soft sequel to the bad one, it does feature a few of the same characters, but the specific events of that movie don't matter at all

but it'd be like calling the first book "Mistborn" and then the second book "The Mistborn", how do you even sell that

[lucid haven]

i mean it seems intentional because its not a sequal right ?

[cold sequoia]

I would call it a reboot

[lucid haven]

idk i feel like it would be more like calling the 1st mistborn book "Mistborn" written by someone else that was a massive flop and never was recieved well then brandon picks it up and writes a banger book called "The Mistborn"

[crystal brook]

Downton Abbey s2e8 ||Pondering on whether this maid that im not sure has a real son thats trying to have an affair with Lord Grantham, is a Richard Carlisle agent||

[winged mountain]

It is certainly a sequel

It features the same characters in the same roles within the same continuity

It doesn’t have anything to do with the first movie beyond that but it’s as much a sequel as temple of doom is to raiders of the lost arc

You could maybe develop the analogy into a Janci Skyward book vs a Brandon one but it’s still a sequel

[tight dove]

Yes it’s factually a sequel but its mechanically a reboot

The movie acts like these are new people

[winged mountain]

In what way?

[lucid haven]

i mean does it really matterif we call it a sequal or not

its a literal reboot of a bad movie

we can just move past the previous movie and continuity and move forward right ?

[cold sequoia]

Erm, temple of doom is a prequel to raiders of the lost arc ☝️🤓

[tight dove]

New intros for like Harley and stuff

The movie is written like its stand alone

[winged mountain]

I guess, like a lot of sequels do that but I guess it doesn’t really matter

The point was really just that it’s a silly name to give a movie within the same continuity and the same decade

[inland jetty]

atla b2e8 ||Toph and Iroh 👀||

||Big fan of Appa saving the day||

[burnt shale]

Is a good episode

[inland jetty]

||Azula's bad Zuko impression was also fun, especially her poor reaction to Aang taking the encounter too seriously to see it as a joke||

[winged mountain]

I do want to catch some of that show sometime before the MTG set comes, I know it's popular I just feel like I missed it

[inland jetty]

atla b2e8 ||Azula v Aang v Zuko 👀||

||Its been neat noticing the limited animation moments, but the wide shot of the fight in the street before they take it into the buildings was a really fun one, great use of it||

||Katara offering to help Zuko 👀||

[west escarp]

At the intermission for a preformance of the opera Carmen and let me just say, god forbid a woman to anything

Love her

[acoustic pewter]

ATLA B2E8 ||"LEeEeAaAaVe!"||

[west escarp]

They had the actor playing the bullfighter Escamillo pour “wine” on the bodice of an extra then lick it up her front to her mouth

Which. Hot.

[velvet oriole]

Atla s1e13 ||The prince saved the avatar? ||

[inland jetty]

||The Blue Spirit saved the Avatar... Zuko was busy doing something else||

[velvet oriole]

How many episodes of this season do I got...

[inland jetty]

Not a ton left, iirc

[velvet oriole]

6

[velvet oriole]

Atla s1e14
||Villager: Can your science explain why it rains?
Sokka: Yes, yes it can! ||

[azure fern]

man, AtlA is so great

Im jealous of ya'll experiencing it for the first time

[velvet oriole]

Yeah, I feel like I was just slightly a little too old to watch it when I was younger.

[west escarp]

Carmen @ Michaëla about Don José in the opera Carmen

[dusk hound]

DCAMU you will always be famous

I need to rewatch these movies

[velvet oriole]

Atla s1e18 ||Zuko: ||

||A girl kissed Sokka ||

[velvet oriole]

Last episode of the season

o7 to all the kids who had to wait a whole another week for this episode.

Atla s1e20 ||General Iroh: 😎 ||

Atla s1e20
||Sokka gf turned into a moon fish, can't a guy just have a gf anymore?

Zukko has a sister? New gf unlocked? ||

[wet quest]

||For Zuko???||

[terse crystal]

@velvet oriole first time watching?

[velvet oriole]

Yup. Well, I watched the first episodes a year ago but decided to start watching again. But these are all new episodes to me.

[terse crystal]

Season 3 is my highlight

Also controversial opinion: I really enjoyed Legend of Korra

No I will not elaborate

[velvet oriole]

Is it a controversial opinion enjoying it?

[topaz oyster]

Often, yes

[west escarp]

Just saw artwork of Ashton Greymore from Critical Role c3 with “kindness is the real punk rock” written next to him

Biiiiiiiiggg case of “he would not say that”

[velvet oriole]

Ha

[azure fern]

S1E20 || Obligatory: everybody gangsta until uncle Iroh raises his voice ||

[muted solar]

I stand that Korra season 3 was peak and season 1 || Amon + the equalists were awesome too ||

[burnt shale]

It is controversial to enjoy and to not enjoy it

[heavy anchor]

Agreed

[acoustic pewter]

I love it too! Controversy be bleeped!

[muted solar]

Yeah my girlfriend hates it because she hates Korra as a character

[keen flax]

Once again your girlfriend proves she has impeccable taste 😌✨️

[muted solar]

Lol you know... I am always saying I have bad taste so...

No it's you all who are wrong this time

Honestly though I thought Korra was an interesting avatar and her seasons all did really interesting stuff

Also korra season 2 brought us || the story of wan ||

[azure fern]

-# which sucks

[muted solar]

-# I enjoyed it

That said I would agree that season 2 was the weakest Korra season. 1, 3, and 4 were 🔥

[oak ivy]

||it is a good story but sort of ruins the entire avatar mythos||

[cosmic dock]

Oh, a Korra discourse. It must be a day ending with "y"

[keen flax]

Korra ||tbh... I think this applies to the entire show 😭||

[azure fern]

https://tenor.com/view/the-cure-robert-smith-kite-music-video-high-gif-6969948779230738430

[keen flax]

But! I shall choose peace! I have grown and changed and I accept korra existing now 😌✨️

[dusk hound]

Cosmic I have a new husband that you can enter in your harem

Can I introduce you to Aaron Pierre AKA John Stewart Green Lantern

[keen flax]

I've seen him around the block~ hate to break it to you but hes not pookie to me 😞 he is attractive though!

[heavy anchor]

Yeah she's... Not my favorite

I mostly like season 3 because the villains are great

[terse crystal]

reminds me of this dude

https://tenor.com/view/william-knight-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-coincidence-gif-22124751

[muted solar]

https://tenor.com/view/aaron-pierre-that's-mufasa-aaron-pierre-mufasa-gif-1857791875693311185

I will never be able to not hear it

[dusk hound]

U love the Jen Hudson spirit tunnel videos

My favorite is the Shemar Moore one

[muted solar]

I haven’t seen that one. I know about them through my girlfriend’s sister haha. The Aaron Pierre one is just the one that has stood up a tent within my mind

[inland jetty]

atla b2e9 ||Really fun training sequence. Also a big fan of the... hippo-mouse?||

||Oh hey, Iroh's explanation of Lightningbending sounds sorta like an explanation of how it works with electric charge||

||"Instead of lightning, it keeps exploding in my face! Just like everything always does!"||

[burnt shale]

And this is why zuko is so popular

[inland jetty]

||Two great episode climaxes back to back, book 2 is definitely where this show goes from "good" to "really good"||

Anyways, I'll hit the halfway point then call it there for the day

atla b2e10 ||Oh, the Avatar legends rulebook mentioned something about Aang and a library 👀||

[inland jetty]

atla b2e10 ||Oh I am loving the double voice on Wan Shi Tong||

[keen flax]

Guys F4 was pretty fun!

[dusk hound]

It really was

Which is about really all you could ask for out of an MCU movie recently

[candid peak]

I asked my bf which YouTuber he felt "fell off" and he answered Jaiden Animations
Which his reasoning is kinda fair (her content is a lot less relatable now that she's famous) out of all the YouTubers one could watch it's kinda funny

What about you guys?

[winged mountain]

Brandon Sanderson (like the author but I can't watch his youtube stuff anymore)

[cold sequoia]

I unsubbed from Gamer's Nexus a few weeks ago
The ragebait to information ratio was too skewed

[candid peak]

Actually on a more positive note, who to you think has improved over the years

[terse crystal]

no lie smosh

although its a big step from the two dudes fooling around in High School to the double digits or so cast members and crew

but man can that cast work off of each other

[velvet oriole]

Atla s2e1 ||Sister has lightning powers? ||

[terse crystal]

yup

Shes a great character, deliciously evil

[velvet oriole]

Atla s2e1 ||She is giving me yandere vibes. O.o

Zuko and Iroh just had their Mulan moment ||

[velvet oriole]

Atla s2e2 ||Katara wants to kiss Aang? ||

Atla s2e2 ||o7 Omashu||

[molten jetty]

||Secret Tunnel… Secret Tunnel… Through the Mountain…||

[frank quail]

||I forget the next line||

[molten jetty]

||But then it goes…||

[frank quail]

||SECRET TUNNEL||

[molten jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/avatar-the-last-airbender-aang-secret-tunnel-atla-gif-21985714

[azure fern]

https://tenor.com/view/secret-tunnel-avatar-avatar-the-last-airbender-atla-gif-24922006

[keen flax]

||SECRET SECRET SECRET SECRET TUNNEL!!||

[azure fern]

https://tenor.com/view/secret-tunnel-avatar-the-last-airbender-atla-hippie-gif-21985707

[paper hull]

https://tenor.com/view/song-aang-atla-hippie-sing-gif-13853815

[fair dirge]

Guys, what do you think of the latest statements of adaptations of the Cosmere?

It seems that Sanderson is leaning more and more towards an animated adaptation

[dusk hound]

Oh, where’d he say this?

[fair dirge]

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSAeBFVNH/

[dusk hound]

I feel like this is just more him saying that animation isn’t completely off the table if the money and animation is right

But he’s said for years that he wants it to be live action

Live action brings in more people than animation

[fair dirge]

In other words, into the spiderverse cost 90 million dollars and is undoubtedly a masterpiece of animation and script

[lucid haven]

i posted it but better in #other-brandon-content

where you dont have to click through

and it plays nativly in discord

[frail mulch]

My mother-in-law is visiting so husband and I had a date night and saw the 4K remaster of Shin Godzilla. I went in mostly blind other than knowing it's Godzilla, but weird from a YouTube comparing Godzilla's size across different films. ||I kinda feel like the villain was red tape even though also, this version of Godzilla has to have one of the highest body counts out there. Really interesting design.||

I was also reminded that I never finished Evangelion and only got a couple episodes in initially so I'd probably start fresh

[terse crystal]

https://bsky.app/profile/reuters.com/post/3lwm4gvjptd2l

Reuters (@reuters.com)

Terence Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London and went on to play the arch-villain General Zod in the Hollywood hits "Superman" and "Superman II", has died aged 87, his family said on Sunday.

-# Actor Terence Stamp, star of Superman films, dies aged 87
Terence Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London and went on to play the arch-villain General Zod in the Hollywood hits "Superman" and "Superman II", has died aged 87, his family said on Sunday.

Bluesky · Aug 17, 2025, 2:40 PM

[candid peak]

Me: Hey, Sis. Did you know there's a racehorse called Skibidi Rizz?
Her: ...No.
Me: Do you know what Skibidi Rizz means?
Her: ...No.

Oof

[crimson kelp]

is that an oof?

I feel like knowing is way more oof 😛

[muted solar]

Is it just me or is the fading of one shot directly into another shot making a bit of a comeback lately? Feel like I hadn’t really seen shows and movies using that style of transition for ages, or doing so very rarely. But I feel like I’ve seen it in a lot of what I’ve seen lately, relatively speaking.

[velvet oriole]

https://youtu.be/1H3xQaf7BFI

A three and a half hour video

[crimson kelp]

steve's a real one

good investigative journalism

[dusk hound]

Superman 2025 ||Yeah she’s hot as hell I feel comfortable saying that https://fxtwitter.com/blazebinges/status/1956208509298860493?s=46||

Blaze Binges (@BlazeBinges)

Milly Alcock as Supergirl
︀︀Superman (2025)

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FxTwitter · Aug 15, 2025, 4:17 AM

||James Gunn if you can hear me, please make her a girl kisser ||

[minor ledge]

Milly alcock supergirl was a good casting

[dusk hound]

She’s a hell of an actor too (see: House of the Dragon)

I bet you Supergirl is gonna do really well in Australia, Milly Alcock is very popular over there

[minor ledge]

She was in the GOT spinoff right

[dusk hound]

Yeah

[dusk hound]

Crack pot theory time

Superman 2025 ||What if this is Zod and Mala, not Jor-El and Lara||

[minor ledge]

Nah that woudl beat the point of the scene

[lucid haven]

it would undermine the whole movie imo

[minor ledge]

oh idk if this true but apparently christopher reeves son was in superman 2025

Better tribute to christopher reeve tahn what the flash did lol

[west escarp]

He had a cameo as a reporter, which is his real life job

[crystal brook]

Alien: Earth e2 ||Sending (due to the hormone stuff, mentally) young teenagers into this situation does not seem like a good idea at all ||

[dawn kayak]

this would make me care about this movie series

[crystal brook]

Yeah this show is certainly not for the faint of heart, if you can stand it though its awesome so far

The cinematography is to die for

[cold sequoia]

What percentage of this video are just jokey asides to the camera about how he doesn't like [insert X thing here]?
I got to the point where I only watched his hardware reviews because the other stuff was more snark than content and then unsubbed when the non-reviews became more common than the reviews

[lucid haven]

yass more ppl watching this

[crystal brook]

Alien: Earth ep2 ||So assuming Boy Kavalier is supposed to be Peter Pan, taking the children to Neverland, who is the Captain Hook going to be, or have we not met them yet?||

||Id imagine the Xenomorph is the Crocodile||

[lucid haven]

yes to all of those

that was the vibe i was getting

[lucid haven]

Alien: Earth ep2 || wendy and her lost boys going to save the day from the evil cyborg captian hook and his pet crocodile is very clearly the under tone vibe i was getting. ||

[crystal brook]

Alien: Earth ep2 ||Its definitely making me want to read Peter and Wendy to see if I can spot things||

Alien: Earth ep2 ||Im unsure the Cyborg is Hook just yet personally but I may be proven wrong||

||Mostly i think we need to see more of Kirsh||

Alien: Earth ep2 ||Boy Kavalier has a good chance of being Hookish too I think||

[lucid haven]

Alien: Earth ep2 || idk either he was just the 1st thing i thought of when you mentioned it. I would love to see more of Krish and more of everyone i just am so glad we finally get earth in this world. For me everything is the vibes and the world building that i want to see more, give me more leeches and the eyeball monster and all the other stuff. ||

[crystal brook]

||He is clearly a grown adult but he acts very childlike, and dreams of a world where no one dies, a world where you can stop ageing, the natural passing of time||

[crystal brook]

Alien: Earth ep2 ||My jeebies are heebied by everything in this show ||

||Give me more but also give me ample warning to hide behind my fingers and peek at all the awful stuff going on ||

[lucid haven]

||Hehe im very not squeamish so I love all the gore and jump scares and crazy aliens ||

Hopefully you have someone you can watch it with and grab onto when it gets spook

[velvet oriole]

Most of it is travel vloggy. Only the beginning and the end is... Monologues?

[naive mica]

Well I know there are folks who will be interested to hear this: I watched the first episode of AtlA tonight.

Not sure I'll get to a second one as I'm currently puttering around the apartment cleaning stuff up.

[midnight compass]

https://tenor.com/view/aang-gif-11133719361914177670

[oak ivy]

You havent seen it?

[naive mica]

But that was a fun little pilot. ||Lean but effective characterization for Sokka, Katara, and Aang. Zuko and Iroh didn't get as much depth, but there's only so much you can do in 22 minutes.||

[paper hull]

Hol up. Have you not seen AtLA?

[naive mica]

Nope!

[paper hull]

[naive mica]

Parents didn't let us watch cartoons growing up.

[oak ivy]

Would not have guessed that

[paper hull]

Well better 20 years late than never.

[naive mica]

And just haven't found the time.

[oak ivy]

This is like when lotus said she hadnt watched doctor who

[naive mica]

But with the Avatar set coming out for Magic, I figure I better know more about the show than just "That's rough buddy" before building decks based on the characters.

Also I was surprised that this meme was in the very first episode.

https://tenor.com/view/tea-iroh-jasmine-calming-avatar-gif-5157514

[paper hull]

🍿

[topaz oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/zuko-thats-rough-avatar-soka-funny-gif-9847954

[midnight compass]

I didn't watch it until I was like 17

[thin ridge]

No way same

[midnight compass]

But in my case I was young enough when it came out that I literally just missed it and eventually found the show on Netflix

[paper hull]

Yea I mean, I can see that as being relatively normal tho considering you were very very smol when the show was actually coming out (Atrus I think even smoler). Glam is a bit older and was apparently just banned from watching it.

[lucid haven]

Hype

Magic the gathering universes beyond working in the reverse direction let's goooo

[naive mica]

I also have never watched an episode of Spongebob

[lucid haven]

Don't do it

[naive mica]

I know that show purely through the memes.

[lucid haven]

SpongeBob isnt nessiccary entertainment. Avatar the Last Air Bender is

[paper hull]

Neither has DKDiamantes, as long as you don't resist the memes you're alright.

[lucid haven]

You know what

I might rematch that with my kid

He's like prime age for it now that he is 12

Avatar that is

[midnight compass]

Technically I also wasn't allowed to watch it, but only because we didn't know what the show was about other than "monk kid" and "terrible movie" until we were teenagers

I guess less "not allowed" so much as "didn't want to"

Generally we were pretty hesitant to watch stuff that wasn't part of franchises we already knew and liked or recommended by my mom

[paper hull]

The Shyamalan movie is actually terrible tho and should be ignored.

[naive mica]

The film goes in the same box as Eragon and the Percy Jackson movies.

Aka

there's no movie in Ba Sing Se

[midnight compass]

I almost watched that when it first got added on Netflix (so like 2010/2011) but didn't know anything about Avatar at the time 💀

My mom was like "lets not" and while I have no idea if she'd heard of the movie's reception or just didn't want to watch it but either way she saved us

[naive mica]

Good move either way.

[lucid haven]

Well more in the box of the dragonball movie for me but yes

[candid peak]

Heard the Materialist described as Broke Men Propaganda and that's certainly a term I understand the definition of

I'm going to see it soon so is that a spoiler?

[dusk hound]

Honestly how long do you guys think it would take Doakes to find out that Clark Kent is Superman

[burnt shale]

eh both those movies are orders of magnitutde better then avatar

[lucid haven]

Agreed

[heavy anchor]

I'd throw Artemis Fowl in that bin too

Honestly how do you butcher the basic concept of a book so much

Like, at least Eragon and Percy Jackson have reckonizable characters and mostly follow the book plot, if not very well
Artemis Fowl just tosses everything that made that book unique out the window and just decides to go as generically bland as possible. Bah

[frank quail]

I kinda want to watch it just so I can accurately diss it, instead of only knowing what youtube talking heads have said about it

[heavy anchor]

It's pretty simple

in book, artemis is a villain, a kidnapper, and uses his wits and genius to outsmart everyone

In movie, he's at worst edgy

[distant birch]

Honestly Percy jackson was kinda alright. The first one at least

[heavy anchor]

We don't talk about the second one

I think that was the first time I walked out of a movie theater genuinely furious

[distant birch]

I've really enjoyed the second one the last few times I've watched it as a bad bad bad movie

But I can't imagine the pain of seeing it in theatres

[frank quail]

the only complaint about Artemis that's stuck in my head is ||casting Dame Judy Dench as Root, invalidating a major part of Holly||

[heavy anchor]

that's the other thing I would bring up

Completely invalidates how hard she's worked to be where she is, and her unique struggles

And all this is a shame because if they had actually bothered to follow the book it makes for a truly awesome story

I've never read anything quite like Artemis Fowl

[frank quail]

it all went downhill after book 5ish

[heavy anchor]

That it did

But it still has a soft spot in my heart

That's probably why I'm harsher on the movie is because it was one of my absolute favorite series as a kid

so I was REALLY excited to see it get a movie, only for them to just erase most of what I loved most about it

Like, I even went out of my way to go through and translate the fairy script in the books

[ionic lily]

https://trekmovie.com/2025/08/17/star-trek-lower-decks-wins-2-hugo-awards-first-franchise-wins-since-tng-finale/

[inland jetty]

atla b2e11 ||I only caught a few bits and pieces of the tail of this arc, but its one i do remember. Always wondered how they lost Appa, I didn't realize it was a season 2 thing||

• Kyoshi novels ||Oh right, and the White Lotus society, they were also in the ttrpg rulebook, and featured a bit in Kyoshi's books (her Airbending master, or at least an Airbender she traveled with during the second book, was a member)||

Anyways, back to moving chores, its my last day off before I fly

[terse crystal]

https://x.com/criterion/status/1957410316960113012?s=46&t=7rq3rvjQ6sGnDFilqY768Q

Criterion Collection (@Criterion)

✉️

X · Aug 18, 2025, 11:52 AM

4K eyes wide shut?

[verbal lintel]

All sponge bob memes are from seasons 1 through 3. That was when the original creator and writer was present before he said ‘bub bye’. 1 through 3 are absolutely on the Must See Once list

Comedy and Animation Style fell off a cliff after that point

1 through 3 were made with a unique pencil on paper animation style that digital could never replicate

[keen flax]

1-3 is utterly classic, yeah~ i grew up with a bit of 4 too but its not as strong sadly

[cold sequoia]

The movie was, afaik, all digital and it is well beloved
It was also originally seen as the end of the show iirc

[verbal lintel]

(Oh and the OG SpongeBob movie for Bald! bald! Bald!)

Yep , the og movie was pretty much the peak

You can see where S4 just continues off digital from there. The of the original writer’s comedy could never be replicated by anyone after that

[cold sequoia]

Season 2 is peak for me design wise

[keen flax]

S2 is a perfect blend of it being both memes and it just being genuinely funny

[cold sequoia]

But seasons 2-4 sort of blend together for me in terms of episodes

[cosmic dock]

Bad adaptation, but good fun movie. The TV show was a good adaptation, but I don't think it was as good (as a piece of media)

[keen flax]

Yeah thats valid when theres 100s of episodes 😂

[frank quail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZK8Z8hulFg

(on the design, no comment on the comedy)

[paper hull]

Just realizing that a large chunk of what Glam knows about Spongebob probably comes from mpedits at this point.

[verbal lintel]

Yeah, that’s probably all. And everything MP Edits uses is from S1 through 3

It’s like the Simpsons. You watch S1 through 8 because it’s so gooood…. The show runners just never considered stopping though

[keen flax]

-# give it up for season 36.... yaaaaaaay

[gritty sierra]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-AF7fOzW0

happy 20th anniversary

[topaz oyster]

pls no

[frank quail]

I'll upload it again in 720p when Youtube-HD is available in the Netherlands
RIP

[midnight compass]

Almost as old as me

[forest wigeon]

And a lot of them are from the movie in particular

[forest wigeon]

I watched it when it came on Netflix a few years ago

[minor ledge]

does anyone watch modern simpsons

[burnt shale]

Yeah 1-4 is what I generally hear as the main watch priority

[verbal lintel]

You’d think no, but apparently there’s enough to justify its perpetualness

[minor ledge]

i guess so

modern family guy is even unfunnier and people watch that

[smoky root]

I feel so old now

[dusk hound]

Becoming a director at 20 years old is crazy https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/1957483131940057200?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

First look at ‘THE BACKROOMS’ movie.

Kane Parsons is directing the film and will be the youngest director ever for A24 at 20 years old.

X · Aug 18, 2025, 4:42 PM

It’ll be interesting to see this

A24 usually always cooks hard

[dawn kayak]

shout out to the slenderman movie

oh parsons is the guy who did the youtube one with the statue

that one was alright

damn, did not realise he was that young

I wonder what version of backrooms it'll be

the more boring 4chan one or the wiki one after it got out of hand and people started running wild

[keen flax]

The backrooms movie???

No way theres enough lore for this to make it a 90 minute feature length film

[full wolf]

wow Abby Saja has a YouTube channel???

-# this is a joke, pls don't hurt me

[dusk hound]

You would be very surprised

There’s an entire wiki

There’s legit thousands of levels of the Backrooms

[keen flax]

I keep forgetting thats him omg 😭

[full wolf]

Hehehe, this is why I have to make the jokes

[dawn kayak]

there is in the wiki version

[dawn kayak]

not really

[dusk hound]

Looks like we may have our DCU Booster Gold https://x.com/homeofdcu/status/1957179768841048186?s=46

Home of DCU (@homeofdcu)

Kumail Nanjiani at the Peacemaker S2 Premiere!

X · Aug 17, 2025, 8:36 PM

[dawn kayak]

there are three versions of the backrooms

the OG 4chan one which is just the infinite office space

the wiki one which is like the SCP wiki open to pretty anyone to write whatever so people kept adding stuff and going crazy and doing their own story arcs and now there's multiple universes because of conflicting canons and all that

[dusk hound]

I think they’re gonna end up going with the wiki one

Just pick and choose what they want to be canon

[dawn kayak]

and the one that's more common in games which is a mix of both, though leaning harder on the og 4chan one which is a bunch of liminal spaces with maybe a couple influences from the wiki, mainly in the enemies and creatures found

like this is the entirety of the OG one

(well kind of, people added a bit more but it was still pretty much just the office stuff)

[dawn kayak]

actually this third version also has other outside influences like the pool stuff and a harder focus on liminal spaces which neither the OG nor the wiki ones have

also tbf it's decently easy to fill a 90min horror movie specifically

especially if it's as vibes focused as backrooms generally is

just from tension building mostly silence with just still shots, walking and the hum of fluorescent lights you can write off like 30min

[minor ledge]

backrooms has become knockoff SCP

[dusk hound]

It reminds me

We need an SCP movie tbh

[minor ledge]

Nah

[dusk hound]

It’s crazy how we haven’t gotten one yet

It’s become such a mainstream IP

[minor ledge]

SCP works better as wiki stuff

[forest wigeon]

maybe an SCP anthology show

Black Mirror style

[buoyant scroll]

There's "There Is No Antimemetics Division"

[burnt shale]

Scp would make a great show the issue is no media company would ever do it becuase it would be a licensing nightmare

||Like the torture scene where doctor bright has to watch as he is placed onto different members of his team rewriting their personalities ( I believe they also kill him each time I forgor) is one of the most heart reaching things I’ve ever read It would be increadible drama || scp all graphic

I want to see that acted out by professional actors but they basically could never market it

[frank quail]

remember that time a writer got pissed off and left and took all her OCs with her?

(I'm talking about the technopath, but I'm sure it's happened a bunch of times)

[buoyant scroll]

I think short internet serials a la ^ is probably all we'll get

[minor ledge]

those mid SCP games on st eam figured it out

[frank quail]

wait, did someone film that?

[buoyant scroll]

It's pretty easy for an indie creator or small team
Large productions have much more complicated processes and licensing rules they have to deal with

https://youtu.be/w-IiVeGAydE?si=U6XcQ9PlQQZS3X4w

[burnt shale]

They literally couldn’t create exclusive merchandise

[frank quail]

neat!
(PS Y'all should read the tales/book)

[buoyant scroll]

there's a book?

[frank quail]

https://qntm.org/antimemetics

[minor ledge]

my issue with SCP as of right now is that its hard to figure out whats actually good and whats mid tier

[buoyant scroll]

huh

id only ever seen the video thumbnail

[burnt shale]

I mean that’s just the course with these kinda internet mass media projects some is good some is bad and you just kinda have to wade through it it’s part of the fun

[frank quail]

Qntm is the original author
you can find the original tales (including a link to the SCP Hub) here https://qntm.org/scp

also also! you should totally check out his other big works Ra and Fine Structure

they both have some problems landing their endings, but they're such great scifi worlds

[molten jetty]

I wanted some Cosmic Horror and heard Magnus Archives is good so just listened to E1. Pretty good.

People in the comments said to take notes so I did

[buoyant scroll]

Hell yeah!

[molten jetty]

(plus I can listen while playing Stardew 😛 )

[minor ledge]

I should listen to TMA as my next podcast

[buoyant scroll]

I originally listened to it during my trips to and from physical therapy

[minor ledge]

i have 14 hours left in my current one lol

[dawn kayak]

we really don't

there's too much SCP stuff as it is

[stark crag]

correct, everyone should listen to TMA

[small quarry]

I really need to finish the last 20~ or so episodes but I also kind of just want to do a relisten

[dawn kayak]

if you are going to do a SCP show then throw in Able, cowards

bring on the cringe

[frank quail]

turns out I forgot I saw this 😮

(I haven't seen the other episodes though)

[stark crag]

they're worth it! and then you can dive into fan content without fear of being spoiled 👀

[acoustic pewter]

Yay! Fellowship of the Ring book ||Gandalf came back to check on Frodo in less time than this (17 years). Really puts it into perspective.||

[acoustic pewter]

Well, it's not based on the randomized internet lore that people have crammed thousands of levels into on a wiki literally anyone can edit and add lore to. This is specifically based on a series created by Kane Parsons that he started when he was 16 years old, following a defined narrative with its own distinct characters, lore, and "rules" the Backrooms follows. And given just how complex he made the narrative, I'd hope the movie (which is a continuation of his series) is over 90 minutes long.

[naive mica]

AtlA 1:2 ||I'm just a guy with a boomerang.||

[timid zodiac]

These recent atla watches are making me want to rewatch atla...

[crystal brook]

Downton Abbey s3e5 ||Well this Eclampsia scene is rough||

[cosmic dock]

You have CONTROL which is kinda an SCP shooter

[forest wigeon]

I tried rewatching ATLA but it looks AI upscaled or something on Netflix and it bothered me

[cold sequoia]

I think its just the blu ray version of the show

[naive mica]

That's annoying. Glad I'm not watching it via Netflix. 🏴‍☠️

[buoyant scroll]

There's issues with some of the masters for AtLA having been lost and the higher resolutions being a little odd
It's why some episodes of s1 particularly are groddy

[cold sequoia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4-CRkd_74g

[stark crag]

pausing the trailer at 30 seconds ||does something happen to this dog? if something happens to this dog I swear I will commit a murder. aaks please ||

[cold sequoia]

||Nothing in the trailer other than having a collar chained to a post||

[azure fern]

The above trailer || This should be illegal ||

|| A horror movie with a dog?! Everybody knows dog movies should all be feels good drama/comedies smh my head ||

[buoyant scroll]

||A preview comment iirc said while horrifying it's also kinda wholesome, so I'm really hoping the dog makes it out okay||

||I really wanna watch it...but idk if I could. I have painfully strong emotional reactions to dogs in danger||

[wraith sand]

https://youtu.be/5O2ZPoGeO4c?si=anXglxLEdQYX2pbK

if this didn’t win an Oscar, it absolutely deserve to in my opinion. This is a masterpiece.

[velvet oriole]

Atlas2e4 ||They put cajuns in avatar? ||

[inland jetty]

||Waterbender Cajuns!||

[dawn kayak]

oh yeah that series

the one monster from it is pretty famous on the internet

[velvet oriole]

Atla s2e6 ||Omfg it's WWE avatar ||

Atla s2e6 ||Toph ||

[burnt shale]

shed beat you up for using that emote about her

[buoyant scroll]

||The Boulder is voiced by Mick Foley, one of the Rock's big rivals||

[inland jetty]

||The Avatar Yangchen novels (starring the prior Air Avatar to Aang) also feature a little bit of that "modern day culture viewed through the lens of this fantasy cartoon setting" (She and some other air nuns get into a lighthearted dispute over their local airball teams), and its also great||

[velvet oriole]

Atla s2e6 ||A new party member has been added to the team 😎

Also, the follow the Avatar and X has gotten very boring.||

[distant birch]

I'm thinking about Superman 2025. And I know this is a maybe a bit of a crazy take but I honestly... I think I enjoyed it more than I've enjoyed anything in the mcu

[keen flax]

👀👀👀

Hmmm I... think I like Black Panther too much to agree, though 😂

[dusk hound]

Black Panther is very good

I’m not as high on it as most people but it’s a very solid 8 or 9 out of 10

[keen flax]

I will say though, Superman was an excellent superhero movie! It didnt move me as much as it did others though, I realize

F4 was the same where it was a good movie, but I had no external feelings about it

This is sinners's fault, actually

[distant birch]

The thing is, I don't know if it's better it just clicked with me more

[keen flax]

I feel like this is the difference maker for a lot of people~ everyone's got that one superhero you just love more than others because it speaks to you

[distant birch]

It's sort of... while I think I get the appeal of the mcu as a franchise, I don't think the characters have ever clicked with me the way these ones have

I'm sitting here and realising yeah I'd go look for fanart or fanfics or headcanons or analysis about Superman 2025 and I just dunno if I've had another superhero movie quite move me to stay excited and be engaged beyond just a bit of an event/moment

I actively want to see more of the dcu because I love the characters and world we've seen beyond just seeing how the overall plot progresses

And if this is how mcu movies make other people feel then ig I get why it's such a successful franchise

[keen flax]

Yessss I do agree I am HYPED hyped for the dcu

10 years of being obsessed with Young Justice and 15+ years of being obsessed with teen titans has finally paid off 🤩

[distant birch]

Honestly when I was younger I was really a DC kid

I remember watching the justice league animated show

But I kind of switched to marvel because they had the only good movies

And now I'm being reminded... sort of that I liked dc and why

[minor ledge]

i just.. dont like most of the MCU

[keen flax]

I didnt mind the mcu! I just really really reaaaaallly liked BP 💀

And moon knight

[minor ledge]

my progblem with the MCU is that most of it is action first writing s econd

[buoyant scroll]

BP?

[azure fern]

What do you mean? 🤔

[minor ledge]

Liked gotg 1-3 though

[keen flax]

Black Panther 😂

[buoyant scroll]

ah

[minor ledge]

Shocked i liked gotg considering i didnt like the comics i read of gotg before they made them into a movie

[keen flax]

I remember liking the first 2 avengers, winter soldier, what i saw of civil war, both black Panthers... andddddd uhhhhhhhhh yeah thats it 😂

[distant birch]

I got into the mcu late but watched most of it - and, tbf, enjoyed most of it

[minor ledge]

The first iron man is alright i suppose

The rest i really really didnt care for

[distant birch]

But just sort of enjoyed it... differently to things I really like, ig. I liked it, but wasn't quite hooked in the same way

[minor ledge]

Shocked marvel execs approved a gotg movie though ngl

[keen flax]

Oooo I never liked iron man himself so I did not pay attention to his movies

And i still need to watch GotG

[minor ledge]

Completely different characters tbh

For one ocmics iron man is way more compelling

[keen flax]

Ive heard!!

I need to read more comics but if I ever read a marvel one it'll be xmen first

[minor ledge]

Xmen? Are you sure

[keen flax]

Well yeah, I like the xmen! Do they have bad comics or something?? 👀👀

[minor ledge]

i uhhhhh dont like xmen

[distant birch]

Cosmic did you watch the xmen 97 show

[keen flax]

Oh! Why?? 👀👀

[keen flax]

YES 🤩

97 rewired my brain cells

[minor ledge]

There very conceptually flawed

[keen flax]

I feel like when written well, they can be an incredible allegory to the same suffrage Minories face, at least to me!

97 in particular does this exceptionally ||From the speech about magneto being right, to Roberto literally coming out to his mom|| it plays a role for me to see myself in, you know? Like, I already like characters that face oppression and stigma and now there's a whole team that fights against that? Sign me up! But at the same time, im aware that that allegory doesn't work for everyone~

[minor ledge]

the problem is that the bigotry against mutants is completely justified

[midnight compass]

I mean some of them are villains, but even then most of the villains are lashing out at their oppression

And that doesn't justify persecution of weaker mutants who are just otherwise normal people or towards groups like the X-men who are trying to protect everyone else from the villains

In completely unrelated news I HAVE CONVINCED MY BROTHERS TO WATCH KPOP DEMON HUNTERS!!!!!

[dawn kayak]

... no it isn't?

[midnight compass]

Youngest brother was convinced by listening to the songs, middle has been dragged into it but is willing

[dawn kayak]

extremely valid

[gritty sierra]

NK Jemisin actually had wrote something for the broken earth trilogy that i liked so much i immediately folded into my personal ethos, and paraphrasing, it boils down to: okay, so WHAT if the group of X People actually DO have powers? so WHAT if they can kill people with them? so WHAT if they HAVE killed people with them? treating them like sub-human, subjecting them to this prejudice, is STILL wrong in every way

[minor ledge]

Theres xmen wholl blow up entire cities randomly with no real control over it

[midnight compass]

Especially when the "normal" humans doing the persecution decide to make giant death robots to wreck cities in search of their targets

[dawn kayak]

I was going to just repeat my post about if only there was a writer of colour that had written something like this but I had a feeling Grey would bring it up so I decided to leave the lane open

[dawn kayak]

so?

[midnight compass]

This does sound pretty cool and I really should read Fifth Season sometime

[minor ledge]

Being able to kill millions of people on accident isnt a good thing actually

[frank quail]

I could kill a lot of people with a gun in a busy city

[dawn kayak]

and they deserve to be jailed or killed just because they were born wrong?

Fifth Season is really good

[gritty sierra]

NK Jemisin wrote a world where the people with powers ||actually did destroy the world and the end result is actually no, treating them badly is STILL the messed up evil thing to do||

[dawn kayak]

also know who could kill millions of people on accident?

https://tenor.com/view/superman-david-corenswet-walk-aura-2025-gif-1033972644421251120

this guy

has a big famous speech about it, in fact

well his cartoon version does

one of his cartoon versions

[oak ivy]

I dont even have time to break down the issues with that analogy

[gritty sierra]

SWEARING in the blog, in Jemisin's own words https://nkjemisin.tumblr.com/post/166523521576/apricops-hey-writers-if-you-want-to-make-a

woop, had to kill the embed for said swearing but there you go

[midnight compass]

Even if that justified punishing the mutants that could do this, that doesn't justify anything towards the guy who is just sticky or something

[minor ledge]

Realistically the X gene or whatever just shouldnt be allowed to exist considering how dangerous it is most of the time

[inland jetty]

atla b2e12 ||Incredible opening to this one||

[midnight compass]

I mean if we're speaking realistically the entire thing is biologically impossible

[gritty sierra]

there, no weird dot

[minor ledge]

Like it just doesnt work as a racism allegory if the genes or wahtever are actually dangerous

[frank quail]

Kris, please read the blog Grey posted

[inland jetty]

atla b2e12 ||OH HEY ITS JET||

[gritty sierra]

yes it does - the Jemisin quote is ALL ABOUT this concept

[frank quail]

it's a direct address of that point

[midnight compass]

What's going on?

[gritty sierra]

so to repeat myself: NK Jemisin wrote a world ||where the people with powers actually did destroy the world and the end result is actually no, treating them badly is STILL the messed up evil thing to do||

[dawn kayak]

it actually does

[inland jetty]

atla b2e12 ||The Gaang is deliberating on how to get to Ba Sing Se without Appa, and Sokka suggests Serpant's Pass, hoping to get their asap and avoid any shenanigans. Then some other refugees show up immediately after he says this, tells the group that Serpant's Pass is a death sentance, and that they should take a more roundabout path instead. Then, Iroh jokes about returning to the site of his greatest military defeat as a tourist (and then Jet shows up)||

[dawn kayak]

especially given how black people have been killed in this very millennium for "being dangerous"

while not actually being dangerous at all

[minor ledge]

Which doesnt work if there actually dangerous

[gritty sierra]

i feel like you haven't read the post

[dawn kayak]

you should listen to the black person on this one

[frank quail]

ok so there's just a fundamental disconnect here

[inland jetty]

Kris I really don't think you're taking in anything anyone else is saying here

[minor ledge]

mate black people arent the only ones affected by racism

[cosmic dock]

Because it should not matter if we are big, or dark-skinned, or wearing “villain clothing” like hoodies, or whatever. All that [Censored]’s just an excuse anyway; racist white people are scared of us when we’re small and light-skinned and wearing business suits.  The problem isn’t us. The problem is chicken[Censored] white people and the imaginary monsters they carry around inside them.

[gritty sierra]

honestly, just quoting nk jemisin paragraph by paragraph in text isn't the worst way to get through this

[dawn kayak]

we are the ones that most often (and/or most visibly) get killed because of racism currently

[oak ivy]

This feels like a disproportionate response to a valid narrative take

[dawn kayak]

so we can kinda speak with property on the subject

[oak ivy]

Why are we comparing who gets more racism done against them

[dawn kayak]

because people should start listening to the affected communities when the affected communities say that said people are wrong about the treatment of those affected communities in media

[minor ledge]

The problem comes with the fact that theres mutants wholl kill millions of people on pure accident with no control over it to the point it becomes a trolly problem

[frank quail]

Duck, start here #1364954411582885899 message

[dawn kayak]

you might want to listen to the black person when they are talking about racism, they might have some information you are not privy to due to having suffered racism through their whole lives

[oak ivy]

I only saw the part of the allegory not working

Im not sure this convo is even coherent any earlier or any later lmao

[gritty sierra]

is this a matter of you just not being interested and wanting to make it stop, duck?

[minor ledge]

Crazy considering ive also suffered through plenty of racism half my life

[gritty sierra]

if you think it's a problem, feel free to pm me or another mod

[minor ledge]

Are arabs (and middle easterners in general) black now or something

[gritty sierra]

i would suggest that Kris and Naru can take it up in PMs themselves

[cosmic dock]

Discrimination is still bad

[minor ledge]

I agree but that doesnt make it work as a racism allegory

[novel bear]

It is not a direct allegory for the realities of racial discrimination, but is instead a direct allegory for a narrative that perpetrators of racial discrimination push to justify themselves

[inland jetty]

Is that a verdict as a mod, Grey, or just a suggeation? Because I have further atla thoughts but now is really not the time I want to be sharing them unless the conversation is over here

[gritty sierra]

i'm good for the conversation to continue as it's about how racism as metaphor works - but if it can't continue at all without talking about who should be listened to more based on irl race, then i would move that to be a firmer verdict as a mod, yeah. the former is a difficult subject that's worth discussing, the latter should be taken off server

oh, and here's a

[minor ledge]

Think we should just drop it i was typing a big old message but realized it was too triggering then a message should be in the server of this size

[gritty sierra]

thanks, that's appreciated

[dawn kayak]

I have things to say but not the patience to say them in a pleasant way

[keen flax]

See tbis was with my alignment of thinking. It isnt about the mutants capabilities of destruction, you should not judge and persecute then for that when we all have a capability of destruction, you know?

Humans want all mutants to die and stuff but the mutants, the xmen specifically (most of whom joined as oppressed children) simply want to help others~ thats what I like about it~

Oh oops, im sorry

[inland jetty]

Well, with that matter... put aside for now, not really settled, I guess I'm willing to say (atla b2e12) ||Iroh (and Jet's gang) said trans rights||

Or I guess not put aside

[small quarry]

yeah, iroh is a real one

[gritty sierra]

With the subject matter being what it is, could we avoid statements that might be seen as stirring the pot? Avoid the stuff that's just here to comment on the meta conversation instead of be part of the conversation?

[ivory night]

Agreed!

[gritty sierra]

I'll clean up the convo and delete some stuff, Kris. You can always feel free to ping the staff role, pm a mod, and talk things out without escalating. For here and now, it'll be gone in a min.

[novel bear]

so atla

@inland jetty who's your favorite character

[inland jetty]

Hard to say

Lotta good ones

[frank quail]

and why is it all of them

[inland jetty]

atla general ||Zuko is up there for sure||

[keen flax]

Atla ||mine is katara ||

[ivory night]

|| azula erasure || smh

[lucid haven]

iroh

or zuko

[terse crystal]

Hype was real

https://www.criterion.com/films/34534-eyes-wide-shut

[dawn kayak]

great movie

[inland jetty]

atla b2e13 ||I don't know whether to focus on Jet noticing Iroh Firebending, or Sokka's plan||

[frank quail]

Atla All ||Every time heat talks about Jet, I can only think about one thing...||

[molten jetty]

ATLA ||Zuko ||

[frank quail]

||I'd say more, but I'm purposefully keeping it Really Unclear||

[inland jetty]

atla all ||I'm fairly sure I know what that thing is (this arc in Ba Sing Se was one of the ones I saw bits and pieces of as a kid)||

[lucid haven]

i for one am just super excited because zuko is on one of the best cards in the set for the avatar magic the gathering set

and its really iconic as well

[frank quail]

😠

[lucid haven]

||https://cards.scryfall.io/large/front/2/c/2c1c0fb2-cb74-46a1-9ce4-5274feab1146.jpg?1755019582||

[inland jetty]

atla b2e13 ||Tai Li flirting with Sokka 👀||

atla all ||That's another bit I already know||

[azure fern]

|| Team Avatar really has it all. A master airbender, a master waterbender, a master earthbender and a master backbender. ||

[inland jetty]

atla b2e13 ||I feel like I say "That was a really good episode!" every time now, but that's because jts true||

||Anyways, that was a really good episode!||

||One more for the night, then I sleep for my last day of work in Florida||

atla b2e14 ||Forgot to mention it last time, but I love the way these trains work||

[midnight compass]

Oh yeah this is a great episode

[inland jetty]

atla b2e14 ||Oh this handler is a character||

[midnight compass]

Atla b2e13 ||wydm that tea was given to him warm||

[inland jetty]

||Other great moments include Sokka and Aang asking a pet store owner about where to find the black market, in front of a government official||

[midnight compass]

||there couldn't be a Firebender here||

[inland jetty]

||Oh hey the pet bear||

[midnight compass]

||platypus-bear? Lion-bear?||

[frank quail]

||just... a bear?||

everyone knows copying the jokes from the show is the height of humour

[midnight compass]

That's just my entire sense of humor

[inland jetty]

something something knights who say ni

[midnight compass]

NI!

[inland jetty]

atla b2e14 ||Jet camping out on Zuko and Iroh is a really fun arc||

||I'd be really curious to watch it completely unspoiled||

[midnight compass]

I went in completely blind but that was years ago

The entire second half of season 2 had me addicted because I needed to know what was going on

[keen flax]

And s3 is actually drugs because you don't put it down

[dusk hound]

MOON KNIGHT LOVER???

LETS GOOO

Shame that Marvel hasn’t brought him back

Such a waste of Oscar Isaac

[inland jetty]

I've got the next three weeks off, more or less (I don't start my new job until the 9th), so I'm definitely finishing it soon

atla b2e14 ||Also yeah, I didn't see this episode, but I've for sure seen the scene of Jet being brainwashed||

[midnight compass]

|| https://tenor.com/view/there-is-no-war-in-ba-sing-se-avatar-the-last-airbender-atla-no-war-there-is-no-war-gif-15884087966518847999 ||

[dusk hound]

ATLA b2ep14 ||There is no scene of Jet being brainwashed ||

[inland jetty]

Shame you can't tag those gifs

Oh! I assumed you got that from the gif searxh thing

[midnight compass]

Thought it would be fine since it gets posted without context but I can tag jt

[inland jetty]

Unless you can tag those? Don't think I ever figured that out

[midnight compass]

Indeed I did. I edited the message since it still posts a link

[inland jetty]

Ah, I see

Handy for the future, since I've got a private server of just me and a bunch of files and links I wanted to move from my phone to my laptop

[velvet oriole]

Tbh, it gave me the same feeling as the mcu. I was bored.

[distant birch]

That's fair. Im sure it varies from person to person

It just hit for me

[velvet oriole]

Where is my Bae Terra 👀

[gritty sierra]

same, I was like. oh this is WAY BETTER, what did they put in this stuff

[velvet oriole]

||Like different groups all trying to follow/kidnap the Avatar is boring.||

[lucid haven]

im just so glad superman hit the ground running and it wasnt an origin story

im so tired of those

[distant birch]

I also love that it went with having an established hero cast in general, beyond just supes

[dusk hound]

Finally ending the era where every superhero movie has to be an origin story

[lucid haven]

like totally give me an origin story of some no name person who we might not have seen before

[keen flax]

-# spiderverse

[lucid haven]

thats different

[oak ivy]

Turns out you dont need an origin story when you can actually characterize well!

[lucid haven]

they did a brilliant meme with it

[gritty sierra]

I liked that a lot, Superman 2025 ||I saw someone point out that it's a VERY comic book movie because it opens the way a lot of comics do, and make you feel like you've missed the beginning of the story but that's okay because you got here RIGHT when it's getting good. there's a sense of entering the movie with a sense of CONTINUING action that I was bewildered by (positive)||

[oak ivy]

Banger movie

[gritty sierra]

Superman 2025 ||me and my brother talked about like, the moment the text scroll said metas had been here for 300 years, we sat up straighter||

[oak ivy]

its weird how miles was not in any comics before 2018. At least none i would willingly read

[dusk hound]

Superman 2025 ||”3 minutes ago, Superman lost a battle for the first time”||

[gritty sierra]

YUP

[velvet oriole]

A rated R movie about Terra would go hard.

But I don't think they would ever do it justice.

[dusk hound]

Superman 2025 ||Can we also appreciate the fact that Clark was battling the Hammer for 3 WHOLE HOURS before he was defeated, that takes a lot||

[oak ivy]

Someone make the bird eating a cracker meme but its grey saying how bad superhero movies are

[lucid haven]

Superman 2025 || i just truly never expected the dog scene in the snow to be the cold open||

also this movies lex really sold it for me

[keen flax]

Superman 2025 ||1A 1A 1A 1AAAAA||

[dusk hound]

Nicholas Hoult as Lex taught me that I wasn’t hating hard enough tbh

[distant birch]

I love 2025 lex so much

[lucid haven]

also also the Superman 2025|| the alagory to things im already really deeply invested in with irl life and the conflict that lex is trying to abuse is just very 2025 in my brain i love it||

[distant birch]

Peak character

[gritty sierra]

it makes me literally think I've never seen a REAL comic book movie before!

[keen flax]

Superman 2025 ||also his literal hate monkeys are just... this is what I want 😂||

Superman proved that DC can be goofy silly but also still... have that DC flavor you know??

[dusk hound]

Superman 2025 ||Love that Gunn gave Snyder fans a cameo||

[distant birch]

Superman 2025 ||lex is so obsessed with Superman I love it. And also so menacing yet completely incompetent.
-# oh. That's why I like him||

[lucid haven]

it can be guardians of the galexy 1 with out being the dark knight

and i love it

the dark knight is great but its very SERIOUS

[keen flax]

You have a pattern my friend 😂

[distant birch]

Yeahhhh I... realised that as I was typing

I love how unashamedly fantastical Superman 2025 is a lot of the time

[oak ivy]

Superman 2025 ||i liked how hot well realized lois lane was||

[distant birch]

Sp2025 ||with lex just having a pocket dimension, the justice gang, random kaijus, monkey hate farms, etc. Even just letting everyone have costumes and stuff It's not trying to stick too closely to what's realistic||

[keen flax]

Its. fun.

[lucid haven]

||THE GIANT MIDDLE FINGERS FALLING ON POEPLE ||

nathan fillion was just a treat in this movie for me

[distant birch]

Sp2025 ||also everyone got time to shine! Lex, supes, lois, Jimmy, krypto, Mr terrific, guy, hawkgirl, Malik(?)||

||metamorpho||

[keen flax]

Sp2025 ||Mr Terrific was an absolute highlight, my dad and I loved him||

[lucid haven]

Superman 2025 || WE GOT A BLACK SUPERHERO WHO IS SUPER SMART AND WASNT ELECTRICLY POWERED||

AHHHHHH!!!!H!H!H!!H!H!!H

||not just some dumb electric powered lightning person with black in their name ||

[oak ivy]

||still wrapping my head around jimmy “baddie magnet” olsen||

[lucid haven]

whats hard to wrap your head around

hes clearly a magnet

mabey hes a meta you dont know

[oak ivy]

I was legit wondering if he was a meta in the theater

[velvet oriole]

Sp25 ||I didn't expect Nathan Fillion as the green lanturn.||

[keen flax]

Sp25 ||also!! Guy Gardner not being awful!! Therefore W movie||

[lucid haven]

||https://i.imgur.com/knvSLeH.png|| seems like not a meta but soemone who has been transformed a bunch of times by events into weird stuff

[velvet oriole]

||Idk why they gave him that blonde hair though... That was a... Choice.||

[oak ivy]

||they should have kept his deleted scene||

[keen flax]

gasp I havent seen it!!

[oak ivy]

idk it was filmed or just in the script

I cant repeat it here bc he says a no no word

[keen flax]

😞

[velvet oriole]

O.o

[minor ledge]

He was kinda of an asshole IIRC

which is like the point of his character

[wet quest]

Jeepers, we're onto Secret Project 25 now?

[wet quest]

Superman 2025 ||My favorite part about that is that all of the moves seem kinda random with the numbers and letters, but you can tell at the end that there was some logic to it because 1A, first number first letter, is just punch. Plain and simple.||
||I really hope one day we get a move list.||

[dusk hound]

We are so back https://fxtwitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1957877883659251785?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

The first trailer for ‘FALLOUT’ Season 2 has been released.
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[silver oyster]

i am bursting with hype omg

[dusk hound]

Did NOT know THE McCauley Culkin is gonna be in this

I’m hype

[oak ivy]

@lone canyon your blorbo is back

[velvet oriole]

More ATLA today?

[velvet oriole]

Atla b2e7 ||A solo Zuko episode?

These kind of episodes are the best!||

||Revoke Iroh's birthright ||

[lone canyon]

I LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL

[velvet oriole]

Atla b2e7 ||Iroh gives me strong Dalinar vibes.||

Atla b2e8 ||Sugar queen ||