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Yeah funny how New York got "cleaned up" by gentrifying all the scary minority neighbourhoods and making it harder for poor people to afford to live in the city.
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Williamsburg went from an industrial shithole to being one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city in a little over a decade. But yeah, the deregulation of rents is terrible and it is slowly strangling the city. There is a massive shortage of affordable housing and public housing has been massively defunded over the years. It's possible to live in a government owned building and have no kitchen for months because the budget is so low. If something isn't done to stop it, I can see the bubble bursting and a new era of scary NYC beginning.
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May 19, 2014 20:35
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We stayed in Jersey City (i think) when we visited three years ago. It was out by Silvercup Studios. The place was a loving warzone. There were 11 shootings in the neighborhood in the 5 days we stayed there.
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May 19, 2014 20:50
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Jeez, and here I am from Wisconsin.
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May 19, 2014 21:02
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Rhyno posted:We stayed in Jersey City (i think) when we visited three years ago. It was out by Silvercup Studios. The place was a loving warzone. There were 11 shootings in the neighborhood in the 5 days we stayed there. SilverCup is in Queens (Long Island City neighborhood, though technically still Astoria?) That area was also an industrial wasteland with a ton of hotels thanks to proximity to midtown and the presence of two film studios (Kaufman & Silvercup) but if you went back today you would see more than a dozen brand new luxury high rises that were all built/still being built within the last few years with more on the way.
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May 19, 2014 21:05
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ToastyPotato posted:SilverCup is in Queens (Long Island City neighborhood, though technically still Astoria?) That area was also an industrial wasteland with a ton of hotels thanks to proximity to midtown and the presence of two film studios (Kaufman & Silvercup) but if you went back today you would see more than a dozen brand new luxury high rises that were all built/still being built within the last few years with more on the way. Long Island City! That's it. What a poo poo hole.
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May 19, 2014 21:18
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ToastyPotato posted:Williamsburg went from an industrial shithole to being one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city in a little over a decade. But yeah, the deregulation of rents is terrible and it is slowly strangling the city. There is a massive shortage of affordable housing and public housing has been massively defunded over the years. It's possible to live in a government owned building and have no kitchen for months because the budget is so low. If something isn't done to stop it, I can see the bubble bursting and a new era of scary NYC beginning. The cops are feeling the budget crunch too, I read a few months ago that detectives aren't being paid overtime to work major cases to completion so they're just clocking out and moonlighting instead, and naturally more murders are starting to go unsolved because of it. Once the statistics even up from that and the news goes wide it'll be fun times. Rhyno posted:Long Island City! That's it. In another decade or so those highrises are gonna be Peachtrees from Dredd.
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May 20, 2014 12:56
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McSpanky posted:The cops are feeling the budget crunch too, I read a few months ago that detectives aren't being paid overtime to work major cases to completion so they're just clocking out and moonlighting instead, and naturally more murders are starting to go unsolved because of it. Once the statistics even up from that and the news goes wide it'll be fun times. The NYPD has always been pretty finicky when it comes to solving crimes though. If something isn't a slam dunk or a huge case, chances are they will not bother to see it through. They actively discourage people from filing reports of thefts and will regularly try to file it under "lost property". As for the NYPD budget... if only NYC hadn't spent so much of it on military grade equipment, vehicles and anti-air systems...
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May 20, 2014 18:15
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ToastyPotato posted:The NYPD has always been pretty finicky when it comes to solving crimes though. If something isn't a slam dunk or a huge case, chances are they will not bother to see it through. They actively discourage people from filing reports of thefts and will regularly try to file it under "lost property". As for the NYPD budget... if only NYC hadn't spent so much of it on military grade equipment, vehicles and anti-air systems... Or the sheer amount of spying it turns out they're doing on people they don't like. The NYPD is far too secretive of an organization now, Ray Kelly had been classifying his travel itinerary, even though as a public official that stuff was suppose to be public knowledge. Plus with the current mayor depleting the surplus by paying the bills Bloomberg skipped out on, it's looking like making the city serving the whims of the financial elite wasn't such a great idea. The praise Rudy gets for "lowering" crime in the city has always bugged me since crime started coming down under Dinkins, but people still have this vision of Dinkins as a mayor that just let criminals so whatever they want. I've heard that Marvel and DC are moving their offices out to LA, which I think is sad, comic books were born in New York to see them move away is just sad. And I think Marvel moved Dare Devil out to San Francisco.
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May 20, 2014 19:29
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Marvel aren't going anywhere. DC are, which has caused a lot of editorially shake up since a lot don't want to move. And Marvel move characters temporarily to hype things up for "local audiences" and other marketing nonsense.
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May 20, 2014 19:32
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Edit: Oh thank god. I know DC left NYC a short while ago, but that is seriously sad that Marvel is probably leaving now too. But again, with no one controlling rents, it is not surprising that tons of people are jumping ship. I would think Marvel would keep offices here if they are starting up 4 new series set to film in NYC though.
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May 20, 2014 19:33
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Oh that is good to hear that at least Marvel stayed behind. And DC just seems to be made of "great" decisions lately. And yes rent in New York is too drat high. I would love of weer could get some rent control again but well I'd also like a million dollars and we all don't get what we want. Is DC still set on only making animated movies based on New 52 content? And I did watch an episode of Beware the Batman the other night in its 3am slot. I didn't think it was bad, not to big of a fan of the CGI animation though, the CGI used in Clone Wars was much better I feel.
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May 20, 2014 20:07
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As bad as DC's new 52 stuff might end up being, it is better than Marvel's complete dedication to doing nothing but motion comics or super anime animated stuff. Marvel's animated track record is abysmal.
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May 20, 2014 20:09
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Well yeah Marvels stuff is mediocre to the extreme, I just wish DC would get back to doing really good movies instead of just barley tolerable ones that still beat Marvel.
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May 20, 2014 20:43
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ToastyPotato posted:As bad as DC's new 52 stuff might end up being, it is better than Marvel's complete dedication to doing nothing but motion comics or super anime animated stuff. Marvel's animated track record is abysmal. Well Marvel had good shows. Then they lost or got rid of said good shows.
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May 20, 2014 23:27
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DC's animated stuff is, by track record, better than Marvel's, yes. This is a fact. Right now, DC would have to release a literal turd - just 22 minutes of a steaming poo poo, sitting on a grimy restroom floor - to be outdone by Marvel's piss-poor animated offerings. But considering the last effort, a CGI show (which can be pretty expensive) about Batman (the character that always sells), got cancelled without even completing a full season? DC's animation is hosed. Even if they had come up with plans for a new show after getting the news that Beware the Batman would be getting cancelled, it wouldn't be coming out until next year at the earliest. Marvel's animation might be crap, but at the moment they have a leg up on the Distinguished Competition by actually having some. Teen Titans Go notwithstanding, of course. It's a sad state of affairs compared to just a few years previously.
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May 20, 2014 23:29
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I get the feeling that DC just wants to focus on their direct to video stuff. Though that's fine by me. If they produce crap, I can just say "Oh well, better luck next time" since they release them often enough.
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May 20, 2014 23:31
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DC's last DTV movie was poo poo too, though. At the moment cartoons based off of comics aren't doing so hot at all. Well, except the new season of The Boondocks.
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May 20, 2014 23:33
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DC's animated movies have been gradually declining in quality since Dark Knight Returns. I'd love to see an exorbitantly big budget adaptation of The Long Halloween done in the style of Triplets of Belleville, but it's a pipe dream. I think they're fine with doing pre-New 52 adaptations, but I'm sure The Killing Joke is another fan favorite, even if I don't think it lends itself to adaptation.
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May 20, 2014 23:40
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Teen Titans GO! is the only DC media i'm consuming and it's great.
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May 20, 2014 23:41
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I'm just kind of amazed that Marvel has never sought to adapt any of its big storyline into an animated film. DC has done it a bunch of times and the closest Marvel has come was adapting The Ultimates... Oh I guess Planet Hulk as well. That was probably the only flat out adaptation that I think they even did.
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May 21, 2014 00:10
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Marvel's animation outings remind me of superhero movies from the 80s to the late 90s, where directors generally seemed to resent working from source material and tried to erase anything iconic about the characters and their stories.
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May 21, 2014 00:50
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ToastyPotato posted:I'm just kind of amazed that Marvel has never sought to adapt any of its big storyline into an animated film. DC has done it a bunch of times and the closest Marvel has come was adapting The Ultimates... Hulk vs Wolverine was based on their classic comic fight, too, though rather loosely. But yeah they seem generally uninterested in that concept. I'd say they want to save their big stories for MCU films but that doesn't really make any sense. Then again nothing about Marvel's animated stuff makes any sense these days so who knows man.
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May 21, 2014 03:07
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I just wish they'd stop those horrible anime movies
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XboxPants posted:Hulk vs Wolverine was based on their classic comic fight, too, though rather loosely. But yeah they seem generally uninterested in that concept. I'd say they want to save their big stories for MCU films but that doesn't really make any sense. Then again nothing about Marvel's animated stuff makes any sense these days so who knows man. Deadpool managed to be goofy without being super irritating in that movie, too, which is something of a miracle. I would kill for an X-Men show with the same level of metaplot and care (and budget) that was afforded to, say, JLU or Last Airbender. One that wasn't all about Wolverine, either. But if Marvel has the television rights again, I guess we can look forward to something with the same level of metaplot and care (and budget) as the original 80s Thundercats.
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Im going through the first season of Teen Titans. Holy poo poo this show is amazing! It almost has everything I want in a Superhero show. Makes me wan't to get some Teen Titans books.
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May 28, 2014 02:09
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BigRed0427 posted:Im going through the first season of Teen Titans. Holy poo poo this show is amazing! It almost has everything I want in a Superhero show. Don't, unless you like seeing all the characters you like getting killed off.
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May 28, 2014 02:13
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Don't, unless you like seeing all the characters you like getting killed off. Wan't George Perez a writer on the Titans in the 80s?
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Don't, unless you like seeing all the characters you like getting killed off. Or turned into sex objects.
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BigRed0427 posted:Im going through the first season of Teen Titans. Holy poo poo this show is amazing! It almost has everything I want in a Superhero show. If you want a book like the Teen Titans cartoon, you should pick up the 90's Young Justice books. It won't have Beast Boy or Cyborg, but you really don't want any books with them in it.
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BigRed0427 posted:Im going through the first season of Teen Titans. Holy poo poo this show is amazing! It almost has everything I want in a Superhero show.
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 BigRed0427 posted:Wan't George Perez a writer on the Titans in the 80s? Keep watching, season one is probably the weakest overall and if you enjoyed that then hoo boy are you in for a ride. Hazo fucked around with this message at 05:11 on May 28, 2014 |
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Aside from the YJ cartoon, my only other real experience with that group is a weird comic crossover they had in the 80s/90s. I remember it was in a lot of the DC comics I had as a kid. Something to do with a large group of people trying to protect some pregnant woman and Terra was angry. Idk, there was a girl with wings too, it kind of freaked me out.
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May 28, 2014 15:46
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Season 2 of Ultimate Spiderman is on Netflix. I probably like it more than most of you, but its not terrible. Certainly better than Avengers Assemble.
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twistedmentat posted:Season 2 of Ultimate Spiderman is on Netflix. I probably like it more than most of you, but its not terrible. Certainly better than Avengers Assemble.
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Avengers Assemble is so goddamned bad. It manages to be so boring and I am pretty convinced they think their audience is filled with drooling morons. Adventure Time has handled story arcs and character development 100x better and that show is also directly marketed at little kids. Assemble is offensively lazy, especially in comparison to other competent comic book related shows.
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It's really amazing how they canceled EMH for it. Its hard to believe that AA is a Disney animation production.
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May 29, 2014 17:28
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Unfortunately, even EMH wasn't allowed to go out on a high note with the Loeb edict of NO MORE "PREVIOUSLY ON...", EVERYTHING DONE-IN-ONE poo poo. I keep hoping for USM and AA to pull a 90s Iron Man or X-Men Evolution where the first season or two sucks but everything else is awesome.
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notthegoatseguy posted:Unfortunately, even EMH wasn't allowed to go out on a high note with the Loeb edict of NO MORE "PREVIOUSLY ON...", EVERYTHING DONE-IN-ONE poo poo. That's literally what I am hoping for too. I doubt it though.
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