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SolidSnakesBandana posted:
Is he wrong?
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Mar 22, 2019 18:43
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Ok, that was fun. I wasn't so sure about Shazam but every new clip is warming me up to it. It does seem to be something different than your usual origin story and these days, I'm willing to give a shot at anything that breaks the mould of superhero films
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Mar 22, 2019 18:43
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:
He's right
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Mar 22, 2019 18:43
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So amped I got tickets for the early screening Saturday, thanks again to teagone for the heads up. Anyone else going?
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Mar 22, 2019 18:45
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:
Enough time has passed, and inflation is bad enough, since the beginning of the $15 minimum wage movement that it’s really more up to $18 now.
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Mar 22, 2019 18:46
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So... i guess this is just a reading comprehension thing? I'm pretty confused right now. I guess he was just saying that he thinks minimum wage should be higher? I thought maybe I stumbled on some rich goon conspiracy where it turns out everyone on the forums is actually super rich and out of touch except for me. edit: vvv In that case I shall take a moment to bask in the wonderful escapist fantasy of a $23 minimum wage. Something so unrealistic that it can only exist in a comic book or movie. SolidSnakesBandana fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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Mar 22, 2019 18:49
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:So... i guess this is just a reading comprehension thing? I'm pretty confused right now. I guess he was just saying that he thinks minimum wage should be higher? AlBorlantern Corps posted:
Should be, not is. So, yes, you just read it wrong.
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Mar 22, 2019 18:51
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Yeah minimum wage should be a lot higher based on inflation and standard of living like PJ said, and that's even before you factor in benefits which are usually not included in your per hour wage and also would drive the actual value up even further
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Mar 22, 2019 18:55
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Poor people should probably just die and give all their money to jeff bezos
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Mar 22, 2019 19:03
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Poor people should probably just die and give all their money to jeff bezos But then who would work in his warehouses?
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Mar 22, 2019 19:06
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thrawn527 posted:Paging jivjov to the thread. One of the seasons of Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVDs played every episode simultaneously if you play all so just run 20 instances of VLC and see if the movies sync up
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Mar 22, 2019 19:11
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Ah yes, the golden days if YouTube when you opened 10 tabs to watch a movie and got then all pre-buffered. How come that isn't a thing anymore? I used to watch movies during graveyard shifts that way
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Mar 22, 2019 19:19
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:edit: vvv In that case I shall take a moment to bask in the wonderful escapist fantasy of a $23 minimum wage. Something so unrealistic that it can only exist in a comic book or movie. You don't even have 10% of the knowledge it would take to say this with any kind of certainty. Shut it. Guy A. Person posted:But then who would work in his warehouses?  Yes, the robots are programmed to be miserable, exactly like the humans. That's the way Jeff wants it.
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Mar 22, 2019 20:18
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Aces High posted:Ah yes, the golden days if YouTube when you opened 10 tabs to watch a movie and got then all pre-buffered. A combination of factors, partly not wanting people to fish completed copyright streams out of their cache driving innovation in streaming methods which didn't keep a full cache, party streaming sites not wanting to waste bandwidth sending you the full video if you weren't watching, and partly adaptive bitrate stuff which scales the quality up and down depending on the detected bandwidth and play rate - so you aren't necessarily recieving one complete file.
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Mar 22, 2019 20:38
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https://twitter.com/Newsarama/status/1109173854964981760 I'm unreasonably upset at the lack of Batfleck on these collages.
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Mar 22, 2019 20:40
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Intel&Sebastian posted:They need to do some careful screening because I would be a little wary of letting a random marvel superfan start shooting off hot takes on Black Panther and Captain Marvel after 35+ hours of no sleep. Heated Marvel Moment
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Mar 22, 2019 22:28
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New picture of Todd Phillips' Joker  https://www.instagram.com/p/BvUvx21J04V/?utm_source=ig_embed Presumably, to signal the start of the editing stage.
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Mar 22, 2019 22:54
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:You don't even have 10% of the knowledge it would take to say this with any kind of certainty. Shut it. Oh no how dare I wish I had a $23 minimum wage, what a huge rear end in a top hat I am. Kindly go gently caress yourself.
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Mar 22, 2019 23:06
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Oh no how dare I wish I had a $23 minimum wage, what a huge rear end in a top hat I am. Kindly go gently caress yourself. um not to defend his hostility, but he wasn't dragging you for saying you wished you had a higher minimum wage, but for writing it off as a far flung fantasy. It can be a little insulting when there are people fighting for that very thing
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Mar 22, 2019 23:13
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23 is inevitable, as soon as it equals about 7.50 in todays money
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Mar 22, 2019 23:19
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Shazam! review embargo lifts tomorrow at 6PM eastern.
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Mar 23, 2019 00:07
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:https://twitter.com/Newsarama/status/1109173854964981760 Yeah I was gonna say, this would be exciting to me if I could watch Batman v Superman, and Justice League. I actually have been wanting to watch those again, but they are not available on Amazon Digital. teagone posted:Shazam! review embargo lifts tomorrow at 6PM eastern. Expecting Critic Reviews to be very negative.
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Mar 23, 2019 04:38
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Oh no how dare I wish I had a $23 minimum wage, what a huge rear end in a top hat I am. Kindly go gently caress yourself. I dunno if the term is well known in the States, but I guess its more akin to a living wage. The movement to make the minimum wage not some arbitrary bullshit nothing low number for children but an actual wage that an adult could be reasonably expected to support a lifestyle from despite only being deemed worthy of being the lowest remunerated of the working humans. To be honest I'm not surprised a marvel movie fan is unable to contemplate such a (not very) radical shift in society.
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Mar 23, 2019 04:39
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The minimum wage was originally established in the United States to be a living wage that could support at least two people on just that income.
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Mar 23, 2019 04:55
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I said come in! posted:Expecting Critic Reviews to be very negative. I'm expecting a lot of backhanded positive reviews. Like them complimenting DC for going full Marvel.
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Mar 23, 2019 05:07
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I'm not sure thats true but don't know enough to say it isn't. It is interesting to note that apparently the inflation adjusted amount peaked 50 years ago! Minimum wage americans earn less today, relatively, than they did half a century ago. If you were to match that figure, not improve, just match they'd be on about 20bucks an hour. Rather than what 7 or 8? Sad.
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Mar 23, 2019 05:11
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Where I live (Seattle) the minimum wage is $15, and this is hailed as amazing but the reality is that you can't live on this amount either. A realistic livable wage where I live is about $30 an hour.
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Mar 23, 2019 05:27
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:So... i guess this is just a reading comprehension thing? I'm pretty confused right now. I guess he was just saying that he thinks minimum wage should be higher? I thought maybe I stumbled on some rich goon conspiracy where it turns out everyone on the forums is actually super rich and out of touch except for me. Should have been $21 an hour in 2012 if it had been adjusted appropriately for inflation, productivity growth, etc since 1968 https://inequality.org/research/minimum-wage/
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Mar 23, 2019 14:22
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teagone posted:Shazam! review embargo lifts tomorrow at 6PM eastern. I grabbed early tickets so I suppose I'll see. Captain Marvel (the uh, DC one) is probably my literal favorite superhero ever so I've got hopes.
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Mar 23, 2019 19:52
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Just got back from Shazam myself. I liked it but it does a lot of things I'm predisposed to like and having a superhero movie set in Philadelphia (and very informed by Philadelphia as a city) predisposed me to liking it. It's rather slow and the action is kinda bland but I appreciate some of the things it does. If you're expecting something Snydery or even Aquamanny though you're in for a disappointment. It's blatantly set in the DCEU down to Superman literally showing up at the end and a Batarang being used against the villain but it doesn't have any of the same ethos. It's Big as a Superhero movie and it wears that on its sleeve. (Yes, there is a piano-on-the-floor scene.) The cast of kids is really charming and easily the strong point of the film and honestly the superheroics are pretty bland. Freddy bouncing off Billy and Captain Marvel is the selling point of the film more than anything so it makes sense that they'd focus on that for the advertisements.
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Mar 23, 2019 23:43
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ImpAtom posted:Just got back from Shazam myself. I liked it but it does a lot of things I'm predisposed to like and having a superhero movie set in Philadelphia (and very informed by Philadelphia as a city) predisposed me to liking it. It's rather slow and the action is kinda bland but I appreciate some of the things it does. Cavill as Superman? He have any lines?
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Mar 23, 2019 23:48
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teagone posted:Cavill as Superman? He have any lines? The face is hidden but it's the suit. No lines.
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Mar 23, 2019 23:50
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ImpAtom posted:The face is hidden but it's the suit. No lines. I am disappoint.
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Mar 23, 2019 23:58
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Wack.
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Mar 24, 2019 00:01
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ImpAtom posted:The face is hidden but it's the suit. No lines. 
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Mar 24, 2019 00:05
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ImpAtom posted:Just got back from Shazam myself. I liked it but it does a lot of things I'm predisposed to like and having a superhero movie set in Philadelphia (and very informed by Philadelphia as a city) predisposed me to liking it. It's rather slow and the action is kinda bland but I appreciate some of the things it does. 100% agree, just got home from the theatre. It's certainly not a perfect film, but it's incredibly honest about what it is. As someone that would rather read silver age DC over pretty much anything else, I loved it. It remembered that comics are supposed to be fun. the entire movie is basically an origin story
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Mar 24, 2019 00:06
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Yeah Shazam was fun, but was chasing the Marvel vibe so much that the end credits were a sketchbook cartoon montage set to a Ramones song lol The humor and family themes were well done. Some of the action could have been better, and the seven deadly sins were kind of generic. There was some good imagery especially early on but I feel like there was some missed potential, but there wasn't anything super stiff or awkward and it was overall pretty consistent. The acting from some of the foster siblings varied which I guess is to be expected. Freddy and Billy (more-so in adult form) played off each other incredibly well. Definitely enjoyed and I think people will eat up the tone and (final battle spoiler) full color-coded Marvel family so I can't see it getting bad reviews. It checks the boxes for what a super hero movie is "supposed" to be.
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Mar 24, 2019 01:29
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ImpAtom posted:If you're expecting something Snydery or even Aquamanny though you're in for a disappointment. It's blatantly set in the DCEU down to Superman literally showing up at the end and a Batarang being used against the villain but it doesn't have any of the same ethos. It's Big as a Superhero movie and it wears that on its sleeve. (Yes, there is a piano-on-the-floor scene.) The cast of kids is really charming and easily the strong point of the film and honestly the superheroics are pretty bland. Freddy bouncing off Billy and Captain Marvel is the selling point of the film more than anything so it makes sense that they'd focus on that for the advertisements. sounds like I'm gonna enjoy this one, although Superman not really being Cavill is a bummer I didn't think much of Captain Marvel (Shazam) growing up, but I liked how they used him in JLU and Young Justice so I've grown fond of the aesthetic of a kid/young teenager getting to be both an adult AND a superhero!
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Mar 24, 2019 01:33
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I wonder how many reviewers will be able to not mention Marvel in their write-ups for Shazam.
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