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Taear posted:Okay so it is just being annoying then This post and your other whining posts are worse than anything in the MCU.
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Taear posted:You know what, I'm honestly not sure. I just do not think of my childhood in relation to what year I was in at school. It’s normal to think about one’s life story in terms of rites of passage (even if one is not familiar with the term it is part of the way we tell our stories about ourselves to ourselves) and school graduations can be rites of passage.
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Jul 25, 2023 19:56
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Secret Invasion Twitter put out a bunch of messages, then quickly edited or deleted them and replaced them with redacted copies. https://twitter.com/SecretInvasion/status/1683900099657883650 Here's what the unredacted versions said: quote:Everything hangs in the balance now. Our species is close to finding a home, but humans are not as accepting. It seems that a war may be upon us. Sounds like some generic rebel Skrull/Gravik perspective in writing? Doesn't really give anything away or point to anything that I can tell.
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Jul 25, 2023 20:07
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn The early D+ shows had a problem of 5 great episodes and then loving up the dismount This one, well, I'm genuinely excited to see if they still manage to drop the ball despite there being zero stakes
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Jul 25, 2023 20:10
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Bar Ran Dun posted:It’s normal to think about one’s life story in terms of rites of passage (even if one is not familiar with the term it is part of the way we tell our stories about ourselves to ourselves) and school graduations can be rites of passage. I mean sure, when you leave school or university or etc. Not every year though. Unless you graduate every year?? Super Deuce posted:This is weird. Also, I see posts of people talking about “college” which doesn’t refer to what we consider “college” in the US a lot. People use colloquialisms. Would it be uncouth to use regional idioms on the Internet? It’s done all the time, by people of all regions. I’ve never seen anybody complain about someone from the UK talking about the boot of their car. No this is more like americans saying things in farenheit or something like that A strange measurement, rather than a colloquialism. Sockser posted:
I can't see how it can POSSIBLY be anything other than a wet fart. An end that means nothing from a show that meant nothing
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Here's what the unredacted versions said: EDIT: Hmm, I think I'll try that out. (quick and sloppy prompt): write a 5-sentence call to action to other Skrulls from the perspective of a Skrull who has to live in hiding but wants to live in their own skin and have their own world, while warning about humans who would betray them ChatGPT posted:Attention fellow Skrulls, hear my plea! We must unite and embrace our true forms, shedding the burden of hiding in plain sight. JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Jul 25, 2023 |
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Jul 25, 2023 21:15
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maybealabia posted:Assuming anyone has genuine curiosity rather than commonwealth curmudgeonliness, here's an explanation. If you just want to be mad at Americans, there's plenty to choose from that won't make you look like a giant idiot to focus on. Forget it maybelabia. It's Commonwealthers on Internet.
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Jul 25, 2023 21:47
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is it really that surprising that we would associate memories with stages of life rather than specific ages you spend a shitload of your time at school in your youth. i had a friend named victor who used to bring white onions to school and eat them like apples. i know immediately that that occurred in 2nd grade but i'd have to calculate my age cause gently caress if i know
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Jul 25, 2023 22:03
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Forget it maybelabia. It's Commonwealthers on Internet. I mean I gave it a legit try but the response was that millions of people understand their childhood wrong on purpose to annoy people who use Celsius so lmao
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maybealabia posted:I mean I gave it a legit try but the response was that millions of people understand their childhood wrong on purpose to annoy people who use Celsius so lmao I appreciated the effort and thought the entire tangent was a fascinating look into shared experiences. You get a whole other outlook on life with mixed age classes and school systems that get reformed too often.
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Jul 25, 2023 22:53
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It's a lot easier to remember who was present and which room an event happened in versus your exact age at the time.
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maybealabia posted:I mean I gave it a legit try but the response was that millions of people understand their childhood wrong on purpose to annoy people who use Celsius so lmao What, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying "It is strange that Americans use their school system instead of saying their age when nobody else does this" It's funny that you don't usually see Americans on TV do it, but in casual speech it's an absolute constant. I'm not saying "Americans do it to annoy me" I just think it's bizarre and it's just as annoying as when something casually drops Farenheit or a recipe uses cups. https://twitter.com/RottenTomatoes/status/1683980564750016513?s=20 anyway, look what they did It's a while since I saw a direct advert on RT for a TV show Taear fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Jul 26, 2023 00:18
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Taear posted:What, that's not what I'm saying at all. Except people from other countries do that as well. As I said before, "college" will be used by people in the context of their age in countries where it doesn't mean "university". "Primary school" is often used the same way. It really just feels like you are upset that Americans use the terms they use.
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Jul 26, 2023 01:04
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Taear posted:What, that's not what I'm saying at all. Is this supposed to make me interested? If I haven't watched the show, this looks like nothing. If I fell off the show after two episodes, this looks like nothing. If I've watched all five episodes, this just makes me set my expectations extra low.
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Jul 26, 2023 01:41
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Sockser posted:Is this supposed to make me interested? Hey, it's two people having a conversation in a room. A problem only Nick Fury could fix, no other superhero could have tackled this world-ending threat of... [checks notes] one bad Skrull in a nice coat. Lol that they are showing the ending is literally going to be Fury faking radiation poisoning and the final confrontation taking place *very* conveniently in the super Skrull machine so the villain can be tricked into killing himself. Probably those "pills" were explosives, and when Gravik goes to fully super Skrull himself with the Avenger DNA it'll take him out. And we'll be all tutting about "yeah, but what if they met in literally any other room" and gently caress this piece of poo poo show.
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Super Deuce posted:Except people from other countries do that as well. As I said before, "college" will be used by people in the context of their age in countries where it doesn't mean "university". "Primary school" is often used the same way. It really just feels like you are upset that Americans use the terms they use. Most of the time if someone uses college they're talking about it in the US terms. And - those are often used in a sense of "I did this thing while I was there" instead of "this is a way to identify what age I am" Sockser posted:Is this supposed to make me interested? It's such a strange flat thing for them to do. I watched it for a little thinking it was actually satirical and not a real clip
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Taear posted:What, that's not what I'm saying at all. So we need to change the name of that one Ray Bradbury book to Celsius 232.778? Also, fair warning, if you're getting a recipe from me you're getting it in cups, teaspoons, tablespoons and pinches. But yeah, having missed the previous 4.25 episode of this, I'm fine missing this one too. Still just "Wow" that the "Sam Jackson as badass secret agent Nick Fury taking on aliens" show was just so... bleh.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:34
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Sure is cool the guy whose whole thing is "we want to be free to live in our own skin" spends all his time in human form in his secret base.
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Parkingtigers posted:Sure is cool the guy whose whole thing is "we want to be free to live in our own skin" spends all his time in human form in his secret base. Yeah, but if I was Kingsley Ben-Adir I'd prefer to look like Kingsley Ben-Adir instead Kingsley Ben-Adir who can't see, walk or breathe after 18 hours of Skrull make up.
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Okay. I'll bite. What pills are Fury taking that a swig from a flask also does the trick? Is he fighting sobriety? Has this entire show been a botched intervention? I've only seen the first episode.
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Jul 26, 2023 04:59
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He's just doing the villain thing of offering James Bond a drink.
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Inkspot posted:Okay. I'll bite. What pills are Fury taking that a swig from a flask also does the trick? Is he fighting sobriety? Has this entire show been a botched intervention? I've only seen the first episode. It's an old nuclear plant, and those are anti-radiation pills. Please note that he did not need to take any kind of anti-radiation treatment for the dirty bombs he was exposed to in the first episode.
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Jul 26, 2023 05:32
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Iodine pills. I think Gravik even made an iodine pills joke, last episode.
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I hope they go the Metal Gear Solid V route and reveal that this is just some random Skrull who's convinced himself that he's Nick Fury after getting hit in the head with a space coconut. The real Fury is still out there, actually being effective somewhere. The show should have just been eight hours of Samuel L. Jackson and Don Cheadle drinking bourbon without any white people around.
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Marsupial Ape posted:Iodine pills. I think Gravik even made an iodine pills joke, last episode. So straight-up Red Scare. Great. Very topical.
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Nameless Pete posted:The show should have just been eight hours of Samuel L. Jackson and Don Cheadle drinking bourbon without any white people around.  But seriously six hours of two relatively straight-men-types in positions of power just sitting around talking about "man, poo poo sure got hosed real fast, huh?" would have been miles and leagues better than this shitshow
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*sigh* Well, time to be underwhelmed yet again.
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Oh no not Russian tanks on the Ukrainian border!
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So, uh, why did G'iah make a heartfelt goodbye phone call to Fury's wife from the power station?
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It’s so bad. My god, no matter how poo poo you thought the ending could be — it’s worse.
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Firebert posted:It’s so bad. My god, no matter how poo poo you thought the ending could be — it’s worse. Faaaart. Seriously?
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Ninurta posted:Faaaart. Yep.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sywnzbcjabo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLtIqqJXqHw
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Two hundred and fifty million United States dollars. Edit: It's such a nice round number. A billion is 4 Secret Invasions. Patrick Mahomes signed a 2 Secret Invasion contract, etc. dingo with a joint fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Aw, shucks, folks, don't keep me in suspense, how was it?!
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 Rings are genetic, I guess. Edit: Also I always assumed that Drax had been ritually scarified as part of his whole warrior shtick, but apparently not. Nameless Pete fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Secret Wars started off boring, then brightened up a little around episode 4, and has ended in just the most bizarre and ludicrous way possible. So... Giah is now just casually ambling around with the power of literally every single character that was in Endgame, and (somehow) even some that weren't?? The President of the United States has declared a loving holocaust on the Skrulls, so he's essentially going to try and make an entire alien refugee species extinct?? Does nobody apart from Fury making a two-minute phone call have anything to say about this?? They're not going to tell us how long Rhodes was replaced by a Skrull, apart from "a long time"?? Why did Sonia not just immediately blow Skrull Rhodes' head off, what did she or anyone gain from that drawn out scene in the hospital where it was so important that POTUS believed their story?? OMG it only just occurred to me that Fury's arc in this series is a complete circle, he literally ends it exactly where he started. The whole thing kicked off because he abandoned the Skrulls on Earth then hosed off into space, then it ends with him abandoning the Skrulls on Earth IN AN EVEN WORSE SITUATION, THEY ARE ALL BEING EXCECUTED WITHOUT TRIAL UNDER THE ORDERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, in order to gently caress off into space 
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Rarity posted:Did Olivia Colman end up having any point being in this series? She probably got a decent paycheck for it! Other than that, no. Which is a shame, because the show would’ve benefitted from having more of her character in it.
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