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Are the dogs going to be okay after 85% of the world's population dies? That's all I care about.
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Ohio is starting to gradually reopen the state very soon. All "general offices" that were closed from the shelter in place order can reopen May 4th and I'm extremely worried for my safety. I work in IT, which means I will 100% be going back to the office when the rest of my company is. I doubt I will have any choice in the matter. I really, really, really do not want to be going back to work and I feel like I'm not alone here. I feel very safe in my controlled environment working from home. Sure, Ohio has done a better job in locking down the state earlier than most and minimizing spread of the virus, but I feel like it's too soon and I'm going to contract Coronavirus and spread it to my girlfriend and her family. Am I just being a crazy person who is doomsaying and being overly cautious and scared out of my mind for no reason? I dunno, man. Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Apr 29, 2020 |
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Apr 29, 2020 15:21
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Update on my work fears from earlier: Looks like my job has voluntary return to the office on May 11th and mandatory return on June 1st with employees alternating days in a 50/50 team setup. I'll probably have to return to the office sooner than that, since I work in IT. I'll probably know for sure soon during tomorrow morning's department meeting with the CIO. Still really, really, really, really don't want to head back to work, but I'd rather stay employed I guess. They pay me very well and allow me a high standard of living and I'd rather not lose that! USA USA USA! 
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Apr 29, 2020 22:31
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zer0spunk posted:Welp, stay safe. It sounds like you have a pretty good case on being WFH...see what the rationale of being in an office is There's absolutely no reason for it because I work for a real estate firm that owns and operates shopping malls. 98% of our work in the home office could be done remotely forever. But I assume the idiot Boomer leadership is all about the illusion of proper American working culture for America and max productivity in the office or whatever the heck, so why not rush straight back into the Coronavirus infested real world? 
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Apr 30, 2020 01:11
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Bleusilences posted:They should have A and B team with a disinfection team ready. The concept is if you A and B team work half the week they usually work. So if you A team is infected you still have half your workforce available and the disinfection team goes in and you can resume work 1 or 2 day later. Sure you not producing as much but it's better then nothing. This is literally what my company will be doing when we're back in the office, minus the disinfection team, as opposed to, ya know, maybe continuing to work from home.
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Apr 30, 2020 02:08
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Zero VGS posted:For serious, I'm an IT person who got my first taste of work from home and I'm about 110% as effective as I was in the office. If they ever insist I come back, I'm straight quitting. They're just gonna have to deal with me never showing up in person again, one way or the other. Yup, I'm in IT too and I've felt so much more productive and less stressed out ever since I started working from home. Plus my girlfriend, who is currently unemployed and in school, can keep me company when it's slow. While I'd rather society gradually get back to normal in every other respect, I'd love if working from home becomes the standard and not the exception.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:43
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Mnoba posted:one of the best things coming out of this is watching blue state people revolting against their lovely authoritarian leaders lmao, reading this thread and all of the brrrr trump and brrrr republicans is just really fascinating. This is not a thing and solely exists in your feverish MAGA fantasies with your dear leader Emperor Donald Jebidiah Trump.
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Apr 30, 2020 14:46
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The Glumslinger posted:Except the economy is still gon a suck, polls show somewhere between 70-80% of people plan to continue to social distance and continue to avoid going out even after their state reopens. Its gonna mainly be empty stores and restaurants with everyone there forced to deal MAGA idiots who refuse to wear masks and complain about everyone overreacting Yup, most people are terrified of going outside at this point when they see 800 new daily cases in their state alone and 30k nationally every single day without fail. Nothing is going to be back to normal for many months, if not far longer than that. People aren't going to be magically okay with going out for date nights at restaurants after their friends and family have contracted Coronavirus, or worse, died. No one is going to be shopping in significant numbers anywhere outside of their essential trips to grocery stores for a very long time. That's why delusional red state governors who think gradually opening their states back up will "save the economy" or whatever nonsense are just going a. kill people for no loving reason b. depress the economy even more when death statistics get out of control again. We're so hosed and none of this needs to happen at all.
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Apr 30, 2020 16:14
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I live in Franklin County here in Ohio and my county has now surpassed the rest of the state with the most Coronavirus cases and deaths. Looks like the statewide and county level numbers haven't "flattened" like health experts assumed it would last month either. So excited for the gradual opening date of May 1st. Can't wait.
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Apr 30, 2020 18:58
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Bernie Panders posted:why does everyone assume that people wanting to return to work is a trumper? i literally need money for food and shelter, i have no money because my UI claim is in limbo. no more money is coming from the government. why am i a bad person for wanting to feed my family the only way i can Struggling to feed your family and pay rent is very tough and loving terrible, but there's a global public health crisis going on and people are dying by the thousands. There's 25k+ new cases nationally per day and this epidemic isn't ending anytime soon. This isn't just about you. It's about society as a whole and we're hosed.
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Apr 30, 2020 20:16
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This is insanely stupid because not only is there more than enough commercially produced porn out there to last decades upon decades for the average viewer but there's also more than enough amateur porn on dozens upon dozens of websites all over the internet. Every porn company could shut down tomorrow forever and every person on this loving planet would still never run out of new boobs, vaginas, butts, and dongs to masturbate to as long as they want for all eternity. Amateur porn is probably more popular than commercially produced crap too and that's never going away.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:18
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bird with big dick posted:I don’t want to watch any old random porn I want to watch videos from exploitedmethaddicts.com and if they aren’t producing new content for 18 months we’re going to have a real problem. Yeah, I agree. I can't get off unless I'm watching Eastern European BBWs acting out Jojo's Bizarre Adventure scenes except they're naked and having sex with each other and there hasn't been a new film produced in over a month.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:47
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Lotti Fuehrscheim posted:If you suffer for the good of society, society should do its best to lessen your suffering. I agree with you 1000%, but unfortunately America is a third-rate hellhole run by corporations, the wealthiest 1%, and bloodsucking conservative evangelical pricks, so we will never mirror what Europe has intelligently been doing for decades.
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Apr 30, 2020 21:59
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LionArcher posted:Easier access to longer videos and more videos. It was free last month and lasted a month. No credit card needed. Also, having them offline is nice in the sense that if something weird goes down (porn is illegal or porn hub gets busted for child porn or some other BS) I have them on a back up hard drive. Same with erotic comics. I’m starting to download as much stuff (not just adult content, think media I own and things like ifixit guides) as I can, on multiple hard drives. If the world gets truly hosed for long enough, not having to reply on the internet for stuff will be handy. It’s why I’m glad I still buy games physically mostly. Man, I must be weird because I jerk it to erotic fanfiction, not erotic comics.
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May 1, 2020 00:32
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Pindakaas posted:I'm glad that corona thing is over now. That was a close one. Hey, we're down to only 25k or so new cases average per day in America, so I guess it's time to open up all the restaurants and salons!
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May 1, 2020 05:50
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Mnoba posted:i didn't vote for him, but since you like otherizing people allow me to retort. you're an online bully, and whatever satifaction you derive from playing online trump bad must really be filling a very large void because your posting is really bad. Only a disgustingly racist bigoted rear end in a top hat who voted for Trump and bizarrely feels compelled to play team sports and defend their lord and savior forever would react to "Trump is a moron who eviscerated the bad health care law that kind of helped poor people" with sad defensive insults.
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May 1, 2020 14:27
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:you can already do this at Chipotle I'm not even sure what started the "I never voted for Trump" defense, since it pops up everywhere among alt-right morons when they're spouting the most trite conservative talking points. Just be honest about how you're a proud racist rear end in a top hat who loves our ignorant racist president and you come off as less inverted into your own butt.
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May 1, 2020 15:03
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Dr.Caligari posted:I think , if you didn’t include prison population numbers , you were always #1. drat glad Dewine cancelled The Arnold, though. Of course, but I think it's telling that Franklin County doesn't have a particularly large prison population like Marion, Delaware, Richland, etc County and we're still #1 in cases. Maybe that says we shouldn't be opening up when Coronavirus isn't particularly declining in spread of the disease either. Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 15:14 on May 1, 2020 |
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May 1, 2020 15:08
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bird with big dick posted:I got a friend from HS that loves to scream "I'm an independent" at people while repeating the loving dumbest OAN and godlikeproductions.com talking points poo poo you've ever heard. I had a former co-worker just like this who actually voted for Trump but then disavowed support of him when it turned out he was the dumbest, most racist man in America like everyone knew he was. He used to claim to be an independent who didn't support Trump while repeating insipid conservative talking points and conspiracy theories about AOC all day.
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May 1, 2020 17:11
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FlamingLiberal posted:We can all have gun control again if we just get a bunch of black and brown people to show up in white neighborhoods open carrying Sure, but black and brown people don't want to get murdered when the police is more militarized and deadly than ever.
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May 1, 2020 17:12
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Jeza posted:Given how often Americans walk into places just to shoot them up, how the hell do armed "militia" walk into a government building with assault rifles like this? Aren't these places meant to have, I don't know, guards or something? They're white and the Second Amendment protects "lawful" expression of gun ownership. But it's because they're white and most cops empathize with the feelings of white supremacist gun nuts or are white supremacist gun nuts themselves.
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May 1, 2020 17:27
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Jeza posted:crazy how you can be trained to recognise lawful and unlawful expression of gun ownership. id have no idea. id be like ahhh a guy with a gun!! There's really no line between lawful and unlawful expression of gun ownership except being white and the personal feelings of idiot cops at that time, which is why it isn't all that uncommon for some dumbass to show up with his AR-15 on his back at Walmart in a state like Ohio or Kentucky with very little in the way of firearms restrictions and multiple people call the cops because they're scared but the cops show up and shrug because it's legal.
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May 1, 2020 17:46
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I said come in! posted:Something that also isnt being discussed really, is that something like 3.5 million people in the U.S. have lost their health coverage during this. That is 3.5 million people that if they were to get sick with COVID-19 and end up in intensive care, or worst need to be on a ventilator, they would be in debt for the rest of their life. If you get sick in this country without health insurance, its better that you end up dying to be honest. Having a collection agency go after you for medical debt is pretty brutal as they take like 90% of your wages when you do finally get a job. Or that countless retail, fast food, and other low wage workers are in red states where Medicaid access has been rationed and limited and aren't offered health insurance by their employers. That's if they still have jobs at all if they were working in the hotel, movie theater, restaurant, etc industry, which have been hit incredibly hard and hurt poor people the most. America owns because we have an entire underclass of low-income folks who are underinsured or have no health insurance because a considerable segment of lawmakers and society as a whole doesn't give a gently caress.
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May 1, 2020 19:24
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wyoak posted:Yes, it's brutal (but there are some protections like bankruptcy, which is its own can of worms). No, you are not better off just killing yourself. He's not saying people should literally kill themselves, but having a $40,000 medical bill with no health insurance pretty much says you may as well be dead unless you're wealthy because you will never be able to enjoy your life again. Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 19:51 on May 1, 2020 |
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May 1, 2020 19:38
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FlamingLiberal posted:The billing is completely insane. My dad got sick and eventually died from leukemia complications in 2012, and I'm glad he had very good insurance because the bill for 8 months of treatment before he died was like $1.2 million. It's an insane racket that needs to be thrown in the wastebin of history like every other sane country has. Part of the reason why our health care system is so abysmal is because you have wealthy rear end in a top hat lawmakers like Lindsey Graham who have no interest in engaging with factual information or reality itself, which leads to him seriously contending that unemployed workers struggling during the worst epidemic in the past century were making $17/hour, instead of, uh, maybe $11/hour, after they lost their job working the front desk at their closed hotel... and that's a high wage for many workers in our terrible economy. The people who dictate health care policy in our hosed up horrible nation are so out-of-touch with actual society time and time again. That's one of many reasons why we've never thrown it in the trash.
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May 1, 2020 20:38
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zer0spunk posted:i went to a tinder hookup cuz i'm an idiot march 30th and the 2-3 weeks that followed in April waiting to die for being stupid were harrowing..not worth it, dumbest move possible Probably not the best idea, but you have a far greater chance of contracting Coronavirus going to the grocery store or picking up takeout for dinner than meeting one single person who probably isn't ill. 1-on-1 engagements were never the problem.
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May 2, 2020 18:14
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Im Ready for DEATH posted:We aren't. At worse, we would only lose a few hundred thousand humans out of millions. The long-term ramifications of the shut down in the major economic centers of the world are already leading to far worse outcomes, and we will continue to bear those outcomes for decades. No one wanted to be the politician that gave this the laissez-faire treatment, though, except Republicans right now. And the media is working overtime to make them look bad for it. You are a loving moron. We're already at nearly 3.5 million reported cases globally on May 2nd and the primary reason why the numbers aren't so much worse is because most countries that aren't America locked the heck down ASAP.
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May 2, 2020 20:10
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Xenocides posted:George W. Bush started Iraq due to bad intelligence. Trump is going to try to start this in defiance of the intelligence data and the community that produces its. Seems impossible but in this lovely era where facts are rapidly becoming obsolete who knows? Haha, hell no. While there wasn't straight up arrogant defiance of and contempt for the intelligence community back in the Bush days like Trump displays at every turn, one of the main reasons why the war happened at all is because the Bush administration blatantly falsified information about the weapons capability and intent of Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Revisionist history does us no favors. Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 03:03 on May 3, 2020 |
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May 2, 2020 22:06
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Sir Not Appearing posted:Only boomers still do PiV. Does that mean millennials are into anal and oral sex exclusively?
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May 3, 2020 06:09
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Sir Not Appearing posted:Please explain how well your cloth/paper mask is protecting you from others. I'd like to hear all about it. From the start, the reason various organizations have pushed masks is to protect everyone else from you, not vice versa. Cheap cloth and paper masks are far better than nothing at all and we have a massive respirator/medical mask shortage in America, so you are loving stupid. Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 21:04 on May 3, 2020 |
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May 3, 2020 21:00
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Yellow Yoshi posted:Breathing into the mask all day is hot and uncomfortable No one should be out at a store for an extended period of time or anywhere else at all for non-essential reasons, so the idea that anyone is breathing into their mask all day, besides health care workers, retail employees, and select other essential workers, is insanely stupid.
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May 4, 2020 05:36
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central dogma posted:No one has stayed put for a year in the entirety of human history, but sure, blame capitalism, a relatively recent invention in the scheme of things. Nah, we have all the mechanisms and conveniences in modern society in place to incentivize everyone to stop working, stay indoors almost exclusively except for social distanced walks and other physical activity in parks and other public spaces, and quit going out to retail establishments and other businesses every day for non-essential reasons for the entire year or longer, except we don't because bloodsucking rear end in a top hat capitalists want to murder us to enable maximum revenue as much as possible. Several European nations have basically done this to the letter too, but we aren't doing it in America because we're incredibly dumb and we don't give a poo poo about our non-wealthy population.
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May 4, 2020 14:00
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central dogma posted:European nations are reopening right now despite not having a vaccine. Which ones said they are remaining shut until a vaccine is developed? Not saying any nations are shutting down until a vaccine is available, unfortunately, but European nations shut down much more aggressively than the US did and their numbers are so much less dire than ours.
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May 4, 2020 14:04
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Fartbox posted:Are tehre any up to date death/infected numbrs worldwide stats`? Google has an extremely accurate tracker that aggregates from several sources. It can also drill down by country/state/etc. https://news.google.com/covid19/map The World Health Organization has daily worldwide situation reports too. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 14:55 on May 4, 2020 |
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May 4, 2020 14:53
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Cacafuego posted:Florida update: pools at my condo complex were packed full yesterday. Plenty of old and younger people gathering with no masks throughout. 2 of my wife's coworkers (all WFH) went to the beach yesterday near Cocoa. The first one arrived at 9am, the second around 10am and said there was no parking to be had. Beach was also packed full of people. Went to Publix on saturday and it was fully stocked with meats. All employees were wearing masks and gloves (finally!) and ~67% of people were wearing masks of some sort. People were relatively polite. A friend was able to get the PPP loan and is opening their small restaurant later this week while attempting the 25% capacity as apparently they have several people asking on social media to open it up. Nearly every single grocery store and big box retail like Target/Walmart has required their employees to wear masks and gloves for over a month now here in Ohio. But uh, I guess Florida is just that insane and no one cares in your godawful state. Lol.
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May 4, 2020 16:00
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ruddiger posted:Americans sure seem conflicted about their mask situation. I feel like this is ordinary behavior outside of a public health crisis by white people in Flint though.
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May 4, 2020 20:32
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remigious posted:Hey guys I wasn’t sure where to ask this, but figured y’all may know: can you collect unemployment if you tell your job you are going to self isolate? You can't collect unemployment unless you were explicitly laid off or furloughed without pay. Alternatively, if you were fired without legitimate cause but that's irrelevant in this scenario.
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May 4, 2020 20:51
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BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:I'm interested to see how they are going to go through the extra 6 million unemployment claims per state to find out who is legitimately qualified. Im honestly shocked the unemployment system didn't instantly vaporize from the rush that started a few weeks ago. How is any system prepared for that? Depends on the state, but for the most part unemployment claims seem to be getting much less scrutiny than a typical scenario. But that's on a case-by-case basis, since I'm sure plenty of struggling people have been denied their benefits per usual. It's a really dumb system that shouldn't exist at all because we look down upon and penalize people for the audacity to be unemployed in America as opposed to making sure they don't die homeless on the street without food or water because they're human beings who exist, which is absolutely not the case in much of Europe and the rest of the world.
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May 4, 2020 21:09
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Chomp8645 posted:I have seen exactly two movies in the Marvel cinematic universe: Guardians of the Galaxy and Infinity War. So obviously many of the events in the latter lacked context when I watched it. Both Thor Ragnarok and Captain America Winter Soldier are absolutely worth your time and are mostly disconnected from other Marvel movies.
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Zero VGS posted:Whoa now the music is trash. Except Ragnarok because they got the guy from Devo to do it. Black Panther has a pretty solid cinematic soundtrack too. Both Guardians of the Galaxy movies have a really great soundtrack, both the soundtrack and the classic pop/rock. Otherwise I agree and they're all forgettable and dull.
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