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Tiggum posted:If you think well done steak is objectively wrong but you like crispy bacon, you are a fool and a hypocrite. Overcooked meat is overcooked; either acknowledge that different tastes are equally valid or stop ruining your bacon. I'll agree with you that crispy bacon really is overcooked bacon and I prefer it still slightly chewy. I think the difference between bacon and steak is that bacon is mostly fatty (when talking about American streaky bacon anyway) which lends itself well to cooking, whereas most meats that don't have as much fat in them are better when cooked just enough. In fact, most fattier cuts of steak usually taste better when cooked a little more. If I make a steak that has a nice strip of fat on the side, I also make drat sure that that fat gets nicely cooked. Related unpopular opinion: I stay away from bacon at brunches and most places where I don't make it myself. Usually the bacon isn't really crisp or even nice and chewy. It always looks like it's been dehydrated and sweaty at the same time and tastes like cardboard. I know it's because they just take a tray and throw it in an oven or whatever, but it always just looks terrible and not worth the caloric value. Scrambled eggs are hit-and-miss.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Unpopular sushi opinion: it's better without soy sauce. So is everything else. That's because people soak it in soy instead of just dipping it in a touch. I also know people who throw the wasabi right into the bowl instead of adding it separately.
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Feb 1, 2017 23:01
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spit on my clit posted:I wonder if chinese goes well with sushi... Hung out with my cousin a few months ago, and it was his idea to stop at an Asian supermarket to do this. Alternating between sushi and General Tso's with fried noodles is awesome.
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Feb 2, 2017 18:27
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oldpainless posted:Vince Vaughn is not funny. I know ostensibly he is a comedic actor but if you ever watch one of his films and think to yourself "that was pretty funny" the movie was funny in spite of him not because of him The only movie that I've seen him in that I can remember loving was Dodgeball, and that was because he was the straight man around everything else.
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Mar 28, 2017 16:04
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WampaLord posted:He's definitely meant to be the funny one in Swingers and in Old School. He was also great in Dodgeball, but he was the straight man to everyone else being crazy.
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Mar 28, 2017 16:23
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Solice Kirsk posted:Oh! I got a bad opinion! The movie Stripes is not very funny. I haven't seen Stripes but related to this, Caddyshack isn't really that good. It has its moments, but it's like three separate movies that just don't gel together. Animal House, on the other hand, is still fantastic.
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Apr 1, 2017 16:39
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On another movie-related PHUO (though not maybe on this forum): I don't like Fight Club. It's not a good movie in the least, and its twist is the cherry on top of the "so what?" sundae.
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Apr 3, 2017 14:32
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It's actually possible that the chocolate in Reese's cups isn't even chocolate anymore. I forget what they're making it out of but apparently a lot of candy bars these days are made with some kind of oil concoction that tastes about like chocolate and a poo poo load of sugar. It's much cheaper and we as Americans are disgusting pigs that just buy whatever is cheapest and sweetest. Much like Wyngz, if you ever see anything that's "chocolat(e)y" (like hot chocolatey powder or chocolaty chip ice cream) it's not actual chocolate. Yes, even chocolaty milk.
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Apr 9, 2017 18:54
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Das Boo posted:Oh god, President Disney has declared a dictatorship. We could do worse than a cartoon mouse as our lord and master.
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May 18, 2017 18:15
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Baronjutter posted:I was reading an interesting article a while ago that a lot of europe was able to become nice social-democracies and the whole "Jante law" in scandinavia because the new world allowed a sort of pressure release valve where all the go-getters and greedy assholes and people who wanted to really make a name for them selves got to run off to. There was a loss of individualistic and creative people, but also of selfish proto-randians. Around that period is where the whole cultural idea of jante law came about, which set the stage for social democracy and everything the outside world thinks of when they admire scandinavian welfare states. So, thank you America for taking all the jerks! So once we get space colonization off and running, the planet might actually have a chance?
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May 26, 2017 20:35
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Speaking of space, I think the USA has been missing out on a prime opportunity military-wise. Instead of marginally improving our fighter planes, why aren't we building orbital weapons platforms? If we could attack anywhere we wanted from space and also intercept any incoming ICBMs we wouldn't even need such a large navy or air force presence. I'm pretty sure the US is a signatory to an anti-space weapons treaty. I know a treaty's only as good as its ability to be enforced, but it's still there.
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May 26, 2017 21:29
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Mu Zeta posted:I think Patrick Stewart just wanted to be an action star while he could. From what I remember, this was a part of it, too. In the original draft, Picard was on Earth trying to get the Phoenix to work while Riker was on board fighting the Borg. Stewart asked for the switch. It's still one of my favourite movies and I'll cut it some slack on the Borg front because it's a good movie. Same with the Borg queen. She worked in First Contact because the Borg needed a face, but the idea of a single collective being controlled from one point was stupid after that and defeated the idea of the Collective being... well, a collective.
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Blue Moonlight posted:There’s a reason there’s a largely superfluous chunk of Nemesis where Picard drives around a dune buggy. Oh absolutely. I remember the behind-the-scenes featurette where he kept jokingly saying he was related to a car racer also named Stewart. quote:Another nerd PHUO: Star Trek ‘09 and it’s sequels, and Disney shitcanning the Star Wars EU, were exactly what their respective franchises needed. To a point. Star Trek got up its own rear end, but the result so far has been middling at best. The latest one was decent, but they still sacrificed a lot of the heart of what made Star Trek good just to make a fun movie. Also, [WARNING: TREK NERD RANT INCOMING] the first two made sense because it's a new timeline, but the set-up for the latest one happened before that divergence point. So my question is what happened to Krall/Edison in the original timeline? I know I shouldn't think too much about it. As for Star Wars, I have a similar gripe. The latest two movies should've been condensed into one because they wasted 1/3 of a trilogy replaying the same story, and Episode VIII was a little long. I know Abrams didn't have a plan or anything, but he should've. I also think they botched it by resetting the Empire/Rebels dynamic. The Force Awakens at least made it seem like the Republic and the First Order were an equal match (or at least at a stand-off), but now the First Order is running across the galaxy? There's no focus there, and it showed.
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Mar 14, 2018 19:20
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steinrokkan posted:The Harry Potter series is a bunch of great kids' books followed up by a bunch of awful angsty teen dramas. The teen stuff is the worst part. Half of Deathly Hallows was the trio stuck in the woods mad at each other. I know that in real life teens get angsty or whatever, but none of that's actually interesting to read. It's frustrating. Semi-related opinion that may or may not be PHUO: I don't give a poo poo if a movie/TV show/video game is "realistic" if it makes it boring or not fascinating. I remember years ago sitting with my cousin while he gushed over how "realistic" some Call of Duty game was "realistic" but I found it slow and not fun. There's a difference between realism and verisimilitude, and it's the latter that makes you enjoy something more.
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Mar 19, 2018 19:49
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Try going to a dry wedding (except for 1 glass of champagne) with 100% vegan food at the wedding reception and say that. Fortunately the best man smuggled in some wild turkey for the groomsmen but I couldn't help but feel bad for everyone else looking incredibly bored+hungry while my now-sister-in-law went around and kept trying to bait people into complaining about the food. One of my trivia teammembers went to her cousin's dry wedding. Held in the afternoon, and registered at Wal-Mart (she wasn't kidding). Not even champagne. When it came time to toast, they brought out literal bottles of Welch's grape juice to pour into champagne glasses. Not even sparkling grape juice.
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May 3, 2018 20:30
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spit on my clit posted:if you move to the south expect it to get very, very hot. stay away from louisiana if you cant handle 80-90 degree weather on a cloudy day It's why I've always preferred colder climates: way easier to add layers and heat than the opposite.
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May 9, 2018 21:35
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:Just bought Mass Effect: Andromeda...and I'm not hating it. So far premise beach is good, and the rubbery looking people aren't too bad! Yeah, I wouldn't have paid full price for it, but for the $20-30 or so I found it for, it's pretty good. I agree with the criticisms, but it's still fun enough for me to waste time on after work.
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May 14, 2018 15:15
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The star wars prequels are better than the hobbit films. I'll agree with this. There are a lot of flaws with the prequels, but they're at least memorable, for better or worse. The Hobbit, on the other hand, feels like a fever dream. I can't remember much.
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May 15, 2018 17:11
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Caufman posted:Better Cat Hitler Than Adolph Hitler. But what of Dolphin Hitler?
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May 29, 2018 16:13
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Everyone I've ever met who is a Serious Batman Fan (like really serious) has either had some sort of strange mental disorder or a chip on their shoulder about wanting to enforce their own hosed up justice. There's only been one exception to this rule. To say nothing of the Punisher and his fandom.
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Jun 1, 2018 14:31
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yeah I eat rear end posted:A sauce goes on something, a soup is just soup. No normal person just eats a bowl of sauce (although I wouldn't be surprised if some people do that with ranch). There was a goon who wrote stories of the Golden Corral, and saw a guy who made a soup out of rice krispie squares and a lot of chocolate sauce.
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Jun 1, 2018 17:07
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ToxicSlurpee posted:That effect actually goes away for regular drinkers pretty quickly. I drink more coffee and tea than anything else and never have issues with dehydration at all. A lot of the things that coffee supposedly does to hurt you are myths, really. Yeah, I assume the myth comes from misunderstanding "drinking 3 cups of coffee dehydrates you" and "consuming the equivalent of 3 cups of coffee in caffeine dehydrates you".
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Jun 4, 2018 18:34
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Whenever I hear people praising a movie for how "accurate"/realistic it is with respect to physics or anything really I know it's almost definitely going to be lame (see also: interstellar). Reality can be interesting but it's not what I watch movies for, if I want that I'll watch a documentary. I've had some people try to get me to like certain video games for the same reason. I don't care if it's "realistic", I want it to be fun.
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Guy Goodbody posted:There are many movies based on books that are better than the book they are based on I know this is from a page ago, but: I read all the James Bond books a long time ago, and I'm trying to figure out which ones were better than the movie afterwards. The best books generally were ones where the movie stuck relatively close (From Russia With Love, On Her Majesty's Secret Service), then ones that changed key points (Goldfinger: instead of nuking Fort Knox, his plan was just to rob it using the mob), and finally ones where the producers completely changed everything (The Spy Who Loved Me, You Only Live Twice). PHUO: Diamonds Are Forever is a good Bond movie, and Moonraker is dumb, but fun if you remember it was made in the post-Star Wars sci-fi boom.
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I thought Praxis was the Klingons' key energy-production facility. Seriously, though, I remember the word from cultural studies classes as part of my degree but don't remember a loving thing about them.
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Wheat Loaf posted:He was actually born in New York! I just assumed it was a made-up name.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Witcher 3 has incredible writing, its maybe the best writing and acting I've seen in a game but its actively tedious to play and if the story isn't a massive draw for you its easy to see the flaws I finally played the game last year, and I really enjoyed myself. The side quest stuff is 100% correct, but I just want to play a game that doesn't require me to keep constant notes on where and what to do, while presenting a really nice atmosphere and gameplay. Related to this: I don't know if this is a PHUO, but I finally installed Morrowind on my laptop (after years of not being able to play it thanks to cheap computers and then switching to a Mac for a while), and it's just not hooking me. I've heard goons say that Oblivion and Skyrim (both of which I enjoyed on the 360) pale in comparison to it, but I think it's just too old for me to enjoy after getting used to things like quest markers, instead of that journal system it has.
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docbeard posted:Yeah, this is very much the case. There are things that I think were and remain unparalleled about Morrowind, mostly setting and lore stuff, but the actual act of playing the game is not any of those things. This is what I've gathered so far. If they somehow decided to release an anniversary edition complete with updates to everything, I'd give it a shot, because I love good lore and atmosphere. But to be honest, I've been interested in replaying Skyrim lately for some reason (my 360 I left at my parents'), but I can't decide if I should just find a PS4 copy or get it for Switch so I have the option to play it on the go). Or maybe I'll just download DLC's and replay Breath of the Wild or something.
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Unpopular Bond opinion: I actually like Diamonds Are Forever. Maybe it's because 1971 Las Vegas seems like an exotic place compared to what we all know about it now (may also why I like Martin Scorsese's Casino), but I like seeing what Bond has to deal with there. Sure, the reveal of a diamond-based space laser is goofy, but since we'd already done You Only Live Twice which had a reusable rocket, it was kind of par for the course at that point. Same with Moonraker, really. All of the laser stuff screams post-Star Wars boom, but it's fun. The silliness isn't a direction I want to see new Bond movies go into, but for it's time, it was fun. JollyBoyJohn posted:Actually it was Sean Connery on account of him being a) Scottish and b) first I still love that Ian Fleming didn't like Connery as Bond at first, but became so impressed with his portrayal that he wrote Bond's backstory to be Scottish because of that.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:How do I constantly forget this movie even exists until someone mentions it again? Because our collective reaction upon discovering the plot was, "OK, so?" I can't remember if it was a casualty of the 2007 WGA strike, but it certainly felt like it was. Events just kind of happen. Ugly In The Morning posted:As far as bond movies go, I like Goldeneye and the Craig ones. Spectre wasn’t as good as Skyfall but it’s underrated IMO. I haven’t gone back and rewatched any of the pre-Brosnan ones in years, so I’m not sure if I’d enjoy them more now that I’m older. I hesitate to say most of my generation like GoldenEye because of the videogame because it's actually a good movie. The plot makes sense, the villain works, and the action scenes are fun (hello tank driving down a street in St. Petersburg). Skyfall was good because we weren't sure where it was going. Not every Bond plot has to be super-important worldwide. Just important enough for it to be a big deal to us and the characters. Same with Licence to Kill (which may also be unpopular, but I've seen more people say they enjoyed it in retrospect). Spectre, on the other hand... there's a lot of neat visuals in the movie, but there's something that just bogs down that movie for me. Maybe it's because they didn't give Christoph Waltz enough to do, or maybe it's because they tried to do the whole "I've been there since the beginning, James. I'm your long-lost adopted brother" or whatever it was that was just dumb. Granted, I haven't seen it since theatres, but whatever the reveal was soured me on it. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation did a similar story, but better.
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mind the walrus posted:Skyfall is good until you realize it's nearly the exact same movie as The Dark Knight, then it's just pretty and ok. mind the walrus posted:That's because Bond after Casino Royale in 2006 doesn't have an identity. They chase trends. Yeah, I never quite put two and two together with The Dark Knight, but I remember reading once that someone compared final shot of Bond looking over London with his coat in the breeze was supposed to be reminiscent of Batman with his cape looking over Gotham. I think the producers even once said they'd love to get Christopher Nolan to direct one. As for the Mission: Impossible connection, it's even weirder given that Lea Seydoux was in Ghost Protocol, and was then cast in Spectre. And yeah, the continuity/expanded universe stuff is so drat annoying. I mean, Bond's always chased trends (like I said, Moonraker was an attempt at chasing Star Wars, Licence to Kill chased the late '80s paranoia about drug culture, for example), but there are times when they've done it well and made us care. But when they gently caress up, hoo boy is it ever obvious. Blue Moonlight posted:PHUO: Star Trek: Insurrection was the TNG film most faithful to the spirit of TNG, closely followed by Generations. I don't think this is that unpopular of an opinion. First Contact is good because it's focused on what it does, and it did it well. it's not a perfect Star Trek film, but it has enough of the themes to work IMO. Trapick posted:I'm not going to defend the movie, it's terrible. But the Son'a don't want to live on the planet (which they could, just land on the other side, the 300 Ba'ku won't notice), they want to suck the magic particles from around the planet or whatever and irreparably destroy an entire planet's ecosystem to extend their lives somewhat. Yeah, there were definite downsides that the movie didn't quite mention enough. It's too bad, because there's a good TNG movie in there somewhere, and there are some really good themes, but it just doesn't amount to much. (Also they imply that the Son'a were on the side of the Dominion, and a DS9 episode references them as some kind of influence, so that was botched). I'll still watch it once in a while because I love the visuals and music.
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mind the walrus posted:Invert this. Aside from fondness for the actors, no one gives a gently caress about anything from Voyager. Meanwhile Enterprise was mostly wet toast, but you still get nods to it in like Star Trek: Beyond. Enterprise gets nods because it's inconsequential. Voyager can be ignored with a retcon at least, like saying do you think the Borg are stupid enough to be wiped out with just one stroke? Even Data couldn't get the Borg to self-destruct. Although I'd still like to know what the hell happened to Edison and his crew in the prime timeline, if those events began before Nero's incursion. doverhog posted:Bond is like, watchable garbage. I mean I wouldn't and don't watch it anymore more but it was something on TV. If you've ever read the novels, that's basically what they were. They were fun adventure novels you read while on the train or whatever, and could forget about. It's only been recent where they've tried to make them more than just blockbusters. I appreciate it when they try to make a better story than the average one and break the formula, but when they attempt it and fail, it comes out stupid. I just remembered The World Is Not Enough attempted some kind of love story with Bond and Elektra King, and it made no sense.
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Gripweed posted:yeah that was a weird period where terrible indie movies like Napoleon Dynamite, Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, etc. made it big. People complain about Marvel movies but at least they stopped that poo poo. There was definitely a scramble to pick up indie movies at the time. At least, indie movies that had at least one recognizable cast member. I'll add my agreement to wondering why anyone liked Napoleon Dynamite. I can understand almost any other movies listed, but I saw that movie, and realized there are only 3-4 funny moments in the movie, and the rest is just either sad or obnoxious. Unsurprisingly, one of those best moments involves Diedrich Bader. Henchman of Santa posted:I liked Juno a lot, but I was 15 and have had no desire to revisit it. Same. It's one of those movies I really enjoyed in my early 20's, but I'd rather spend the time to watch a new movie instead. Wouldn't mind seeing it again, but out of the movies mentioned, it's the only one. I hold it higher on the list than Little Miss Sunshine because it at least had a certain amount of personal drama I liked. Little Miss Sunshine tried to hit certain "indie" notes intentionally way more.
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Shibawanko posted:a view to a kill is one of the best james bond movies Every so often, there is an opinion here that surprises me. This is one of those times.
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