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  1. I hope so. We've gone long enough without one, lol. I think Cortez was a solid hire though.
  2. Was thinking about heading to metrotown for autographs tomorrow, but I don't want to have to deal with the rush for it.
  3. Anchorman 2 - 5/10 I laughed more than it deserved to be laughed at. But it was sporadic. I have a hard time believing that they shot all that content, and that these were the best moments they could dredge up. If it was almost a whole second movie's worth of content as they say, God would that movie have sucked. What was with that defending of journalistic integrity from Ron's team? Was a massive stretch to just point out that Rupert Murdoch is full of $&!#. If someone watching this didn't get what you were trying to say beforehand, it would certainly have still gone over their heads after.
  4. The Raid 2 - 7/10 It was not really my kind of movie, but it was good. Solid cinematography and action choreography, and enough elsewhere to tie it altogether. Really had no business being as long as it was though.
  5. O'Brien gone. Feels like management wasn't watching the same player I was. It's a shame. Especially as we just replaced with another one year rental anyways. Find it funny though that after losing Fernandez, we still make a net gain in Uruguayan-ness this year.
  6. Night Crawler - 8/10 Feels like it was adapted from an Ayn Rand novel, lol.
  7. Though I loved almost all of Burton's earlier work, I'm on the same boat. I avoid everything he does now.
  8. Oz: The Great and Powerful- 6/10 Better than expected in some respects. Some visual shots were just brilliant. Wasn't afraid to mix it up and just frame some shots in a retro/cartoonish way, Liked the spin on the origin of the wicked witch of the west, but sympathy shouldn't have been so easily and meaninglessly wiped out before the end like that. Also, how are the populace supposed to believe in the wizard if they executed his tricks for him? It's not the only plothole either, not that this is a movie you would expect to be logically sound.
  9. Interstellar - 7/10 I'd say I ultimately enjoyed it more than any Nolan movie since Batman Begins. Would rate the first 80% of the movie higher, but it gets its head stuck up its ass towards the end. Not unpleasent, but it was predictable, overly surreal, and ultimately unfulfilling when it finished. If Matt McConaughey was not the lead in this movie, I would have had an impossible time not falling asleep. He was gold, and nothing really would have worked without him.
  10. Jurassic Park was my favourite movie growing up, but it's almost odd to see just how well it holds up today. Minus a couple of CGI scenes, it looks amazing. I don't know that I've seen anything quite as atmospheric as it since. I loved Hanna. Though unlike other similarly passed over movies that I really enjoyed, I don't know why. I just really liked it. I have to go back and watch it again.
  11. Tomorrowland - I shouldn't be excited about a movie based on a themed area of Disneyland, but it's hard not to be. Spectre - I don't know how exactly to describe my expectations, but they're high. After their woefully trying to turn the series into Bourne, that Skyfall ending made me feel rally good. I guess my expectation is now that they'll have a movie that's more classically themed, a la Connery Bond. With the huge success of Skyfall, it's obvious where they should be going. Chappie - I was pretty mixed with Elysium. Didn't think it was a good movie while watching it, but for some reason I can think about it in the back of my mind with a positive light. Though that's largely with images of the Elysium station itself, not the run down world below it. Feels like if Blomkamp tried a different genre he could show how he really is, because it seems like he's getting to comfortable. Chappie shows some promise all the same though. Outside of those, there's not much I want to see. The New Terminator and Jurassic Park movies had trailers that turned me off the movies rather than help me get excited for them. I would have like to have seen Edgar Wright's Ant Man, but their letting him to go due to creative issues, and hiring the guy known for Yes Man and The Break-Up tells me everything I need to know about it already. I will still go watch the Avengers though, lol. Had a crapty trailer, and it's not like there's anything really exciting about watching idea for a second time, but I'd be lying to myself if I said that I won't wach it. ... And Star Wars. Will watch it as well, almost undoubtedly. How do I feel about it though? I loved the trilogy, but I loathed the prequels. Loathed them. The Phantom Menace for me is high and above the best of the 3, which speaks to how lowly I think of them. By default I give more credence to a sequel then a prequel, but Lucas still has his hands in this from what I understand. That is as big of a red flag as I could get. Head honcho or not, I don't know how far it can go if he has any power to pull it back down.
  12. Chef - 5/10 It had some merit, and an obvious message on the surface, but this was one boring movie. Shouldn't be so hard to define a beginning and ending of a movie like that. Just felt like part of an unfulfilling and uneventful part of a larger film. Like a hobbit movie, without a series.
  13. Hobbit 3 - 6/10 I didn't dislike watching it, there was just little personality to it. This is where the book stretching hit the hardest. At least the other 2 had the adventure element going for them, but this was drawn out in a single war, and a fairly inconsequential one that was dressed up as something more than it was. The hobbit is a great book, but they took the whole thing the wrong way. Been there, done that, and better. Far, far better. Martin Freeman was still awesome as always, but he had less time to shine than before. Was one of the movie's bigger shames.
  14. Castle Crashers is the one thing I've seen at 90%. I don't know which of the 75% are recycled from previous sales, but it feels like very many. Almost all new releases are 25% or 33% off at best (except Borderlands and a few others). Anything I really remotely wanted, that's been on sale, has already been at that price. Some of the ones on the summer sales appeared at a smaller discount than they did in the previous year. More of a time for all discounts to appear simultaneously, as opposed to a time for the best discounts you'll never get elsewhere, the way I see it. I rarely ever buy things on Steam, or digitally altogether, and the only time I get games from a hundle bundle is when others gift them to me. But you're right that I did already buy all the major releases I could have wanted. A lot of them at similar enough prices, on the actual release date. I'm looking for some indie games potentially, but I'm still waiting for that sweet point with price. So far, I was close to getting Castle Crashers, but decided I wouldn't really play it, and the Lifeline DLC for State of Decay, but then I just sort of forgot to check out before the sale expired, lol.
  15. Yup. It does nothing to entice you into buying, especially if you already know that you're not going to be getting anything and it's doing absolutely nothing to change minds. Very mild. Better games will come, dicounts will remain bleh though.
  16. That's probably the best way to put it. It was said to be present with this and that, but none of it was there. You will only find half of those (the earlier games) on Steam. EA shifted all their DRM to their Origin system. It will be on sale somewhere, but not Steam. I myself really have no overwhelming need to buy and play anything on Steam atm. My wishlist is fairly huge, but I don't have any real desire to fill in the blanks. Maybe Transistor if it is legitimately on sale, and not 33-66% off. edit: Oh yeah, and those Heroes Rise text games. Tried a demo a while back, and I want to finish my story.
  17. 3 years 15 mil per for Melky. Is this what the Blue Jays couldn't match? That's a scary thought if that's what's beyond the upper limits for a position player. Sounds weird to say, but I hope they weren't even truly interested in signing him, because that's a better sounding possibility.
  18. Vince is a deluded egomaniac, and the funniest thing is just how unaware of that he is. I'm sure he hears it all the time, but he doesn't believe it. When he plays off his favouritism as just an observation of effort, it makes me laugh at him all the harder. But whatever, if they pump up Reigns that much more, maybe it finally frees them to use Cena in a different way, for the first time in a decade. Or maybe there's just 2 Cenas running around then. Who knows with Vince.
  19. Is it really? I mean I glanced past the game when it was first released, so I wouldn't know beyond what their own trailers told me. But what is it that makes the game surpass others?
  20. The Onion's Person of the Year. http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-onions-person-of-the-year-2014-tie-malala-yous,37661/ Informative read.
  21. And I felt it was a poorly made game regardless of the ending. I don't ever really desinate games as just being shit, so. I use my words carefully when I designate it as such, lol. It still has far too much baring on whether I'd try what they have next. The game, and everything they said and did afterwards. If I did play it, like I said, I wouldn't pay for it, or pay much at least. Have way too many games to play otherwise anyways, so I'm personally good. Get why other people are enjoying what they are about the game. From what I've heard it sounds like a vast improvement in basic depth. Wouldn't know personally just how far that is without going in and actually ripping apart the details to know whether or not it's all on the surface.
  22. Nor do I. It may turn out to be the case that I'd enjoy it, but their last 2 games were as big a waste of my time as possible. The least I could do to return the favour is ignore what they do for at least a decent while.
  23. Its worth that price. Things like the metacritic score are the result of Russians dive bombing it due to their not so glorious depiction. The actual game is not so special in that it doesn't offer much more than the others before it in the series did. But that's already a pretty high standard. I'm a sucker for a World War II motif, and it provides a not as common perspective in that regard. $10 is not a bad price. Would've been upset to have paid the $60 for it, which I was originally planning to do. I found it for $15 on clearance while buying another game. Worth that much. Don't expect it for much cheaper than that. Steam sales continue to get more underwhelming by the event.
  24. I don't mind they let go of Fernandez. He had a lot of potential, but he was such a massive ass that I kind of look forward to not having to see his antics. Liked when he told the ref to F off at the end of the playoffs though, that was awesome. I hope O'Brien goes unclaimed, but it's not certain that he will. This team needs him more than they realize. I hope that they bring back Rosales and Leveron on new contracts. That latter is more likely, but I hope they consider Rosales as well. The whole Salgado leaving thing was already determined months ago, so I'm not pulling out any hairs that I did not already at that time. He has been so mishandled and misplayed in his time here that I feel he deserves better than what he got here, and now he gets a fresh start. I don't get Mehdi Ballouchy either, though he's one of those Robinson favourites, for whatever reason. He plays like a poor man's Matt Watson, who is himself just another poor man's someone. And my good friend Mattocks. First he gets his contract picked up. Then he finds himself on the protected list. I lol'd. I tell myself it's obviously because he has value and they want to make sure they don't lose him for nothing. But I will lol if he hasn't left the team at some point during the off season.
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