MillionX Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 oh yeah that's the other thing; it was nice to occasionally speak with other people who are not on my team but work in the same area. That's gone now for sure...no such thing as "downtime" anymore when your workload goes up by about 1000% (not even an exaggeration, btw) in the first week of the pandemic. At the office, speaking with another person who isn't on your team is as simple as stopping by their desk, or being in the lounge area with them during break time. I watched the Nightmare on Elm Street episode of "Movies that Made Us" a little while ago....it was awesome. It's interesting to see all that behind the scenes stuff and the stories of how major things like the first movie of that franchise almost didn't happen for a variety of reasons, and all the little things that went wrong along the way. It also reminded me of just how hot "Tina" was; the first on-screen victim of Freddy; she had a nice t-shirt/panties scene there. The effects in the first one were pretty damn brilliant... that idea with the rotating room to achieve the effect of Tina being thrown around the room was genius....and later using the same techniques to get the blood geyser from Johnny Depp's character's bed when he got killed. It's much more interesting to me that people came up with these kinds of ideas to make effects compared to the typical "eh, just cgi that shit" approach you expect from today. J-ride, DangerousJ, DoctaMario and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment
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Darc_Requiem Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 1 hour ago, AriesWarlock said: Owls sleep like they got drunk the night before 🤣 Deadly_Raver, J-ride, VirginDefiler and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment
Maxx Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 Art Twitter is amazing sometimes. Procreate is a free app and that blows my mind for things it allows you to do BornWinner, Deadly_Raver, Sonichuman and 3 others 4 2 Quote Link to comment
Deadly_Raver Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Damn. Talk about a plot twist. DoctaMario 1 Quote Link to comment
HD-Man Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 7 hours ago, DangerousJ said: Did you bring or make Sweet Potato Pie? What kinda silly question is that? U know i did😂 Deadly_Raver, DangerousJ and DoctaMario 3 Quote Link to comment
DoctaMario Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 @MillionXyour redhead Hollywood theory is being proven correct again with this Annie reboot 😂😂😂 Deadly_Raver and MillionX 2 Quote Link to comment
Minako Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 41 minutes ago, DoctaMario said: @MillionXyour redhead Hollywood theory is being proven correct again with this Annie reboot 😂😂😂 Remind me of this? Quote Link to comment
DangerousJ Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 In the 2014 Annie film, the girl is black as opposed to ginger. I believe Jamie Foxx played the Daddy Warbucks character. Minako and Deadly_Raver 2 Quote Link to comment
J-ride Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) ^ Hollywood has it out for gingers. I'm surprised they let Rand Al Thor stay a redhead in the Wheel of Time amazon adaptation. Edited November 27, 2021 by J-ride Quote Link to comment
DoctaMario Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 48 minutes ago, MP_ said: Remind me of this? Million can go in depth with it, but the jist is that redheads always end up becoming usually black girls but sometimes other races in a lot of modern reboots and remakes. Minako and Deadly_Raver 2 Quote Link to comment
DoctaMario Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 34 minutes ago, DangerousJ said: In the 2014 Annie film, the girl is black as opposed to ginger. I believe Jamie Foxx played the Daddy Warbucks character. Was it an older movie? The one with Taraji P Henson? I just saw a commercial for it tonight and cracked up Quote Link to comment
DangerousJ Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Ok, what you are talking is a NBC TV movie made this year. The girl is "blackened" similar to The 2014theatrical film That was the last time I heard of black Annie. Quote Link to comment
MillionX Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) The latest one is an odd case--- Poison Ivy on Batwoman....strange because she's the asian girl on there, but for some reason they allowed the character to still have red hair in her "Poison Ivy" form, according to the pictures I've seen. We all know the next major one is likely the big-screen version of the new-era X-People (renamed since X-men is "problematic", of course...I suspect they might be considering the "X-Force" name though, even though that's supposed to be a whole different thing in the comics.).....you could bet money on the fact that Jean Grey will be changed to a black woman. I'll take a wild guess and say at least one other character on the core team will be race-swapped too...probably Gambit. heh, imagine being a naturally redheaded white person that's trying to make it in Hollywood in the past several years. You'd have absolutely no chance unless you just went on and dyed your hair some other color, and perhaps try and get a fake tan so you can fool the casting directors out there. On another note---an episode of The Unexplained on History right now is about vampires and werewolves! edit--oh yeah I've seen this episode.... they mentioned the interesting case of this guy Rod Ferrell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Ferrell heh, I'm just curious about what clan he picked for his character, really 😆 dammit, all I can find so far is the name; his character was "Vesago"... no one mentions the damn clan. I'll take a wild guess and say most VtM fans consider it to be "in poor taste" to even ask the fucking question. 😞 Since it was the 90s at the time... surely it was one of the more popular ones, I bet; and based on some pictures I'm seeing... probably Brujah, or Assamite/Banu Haqim...unless he picked the "no clan" option of Caitiff.. Edited November 27, 2021 by MillionX DoctaMario 1 Quote Link to comment
Deadly_Raver Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Looks like this guy has an update about the missing tennis star. Minako and DoctaMario 1 1 Quote Link to comment
DangerousJ Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Superhero Saturdays: Happy 20th Anniversary, Justice League! - (Nov. 17,2001 was the premiere of JL on Cartoon Network.) This theme by Lolita Ritmanis was nominated for an Emmy for "Main Title Music" FYI Deadly_Raver, Jurassic, RSG3 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment
Minako Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 3 hours ago, Deadly_Raver said: Looks like this guy has an update about the missing tennis star. Yeah laowhy86 has been spiking it for a while on his exposés of the dirty side of Chinese politics. His story about how he escaped the country with his wife and kid before they slapped an exit ban on him was insane too if you haven’t watched it. And legit, I thought I was getting hit with one the last time I left China. Don’t know if I ever told that story on SRK. Pretty sure I did on JTM, but that’s lost to the ether now… elliephil, TheInfernoman and DoctaMario 3 Quote Link to comment
Scanman Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 C-Milk has been covering the disappeared Chinese tennis player for a week or 2. I think he was probably the first Western youtuber to cover it. I think I spend far too much time China hating haha. DoctaMario and Deadly_Raver 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Deadly_Raver Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Remember how we were talking about the pumaman a few days ago? Look at what I found. And also.........................MST3K ripping it up. MillionX, elliephil, Chadouken and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment
elliephil Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 10 minutes ago, Deadly_Raver said: Remember how we were talking about the pumaman a few days ago? Look at what I found. And also.........................MST3K ripping it up. So when is this guy getting put in fortnite Deadly_Raver, J-ride and Chadouken 3 Quote Link to comment
AriesWarlock Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Deadly_Raver 1 Quote Link to comment
DoctaMario Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 5 hours ago, MP_ said: Yeah laowhy86 has been spiking it for a while on his exposés of the dirty side of Chinese politics. His story about how he escaped the country with his wife and kid before they slapped an exit ban on him was insane too if you haven’t watched it. And legit, I thought I was getting hit with one the last time I left China. Don’t know if I ever told that story on SRK. Pretty sure I did on JTM, but that’s lost to the ether now… What happened?? That country is wild. I was there once and flying into Beijing felt like flying into a Hollywood movie set. The buildings all looked fake. Quote Link to comment
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Chadouken Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 #godlywife 😂 Deadly_Raver 1 Quote Link to comment
Maxx Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Old man Wong is my spirit animal Darc_Requiem, iStu X, DoctaMario and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment
YourFavGrandpa Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 20 minutes ago, Maxx said: Old man Wong is my spirit animal I thought JWong was older than 40 tbh. Deadly_Raver 1 Quote Link to comment
Maxx Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) 3 minutes ago, YourFavGrandpa said: I thought JWong was older than 40 tbh. Honestly I did to but just saw a post of his saying he's 36. I think he just got into the fgc so young it feels like that. Like by the time srk started popping in 01/02 he was already a east coast legend Edited November 27, 2021 by Maxx Quote Link to comment
YourFavGrandpa Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 I'm probably confusing him with Valle and James Chen, as they're older than I iirc. Deadly_Raver 1 Quote Link to comment
Minako Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 35 minutes ago, YourFavGrandpa said: I thought JWong was older than 40 tbh. Justin’s a year or two younger than me for sure. Dude has been on point a fuckton lately. I’m definitely not typing out my Chinese exit story on phone, too much to type, but once I’m back on my laptop after I run some errands, pop some popcorn for it’s story time. Reticently, DoctaMario, Deadly_Raver and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment
DoctaMario Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Maxx said: Old man Wong is my spirit animal I venture most people on FGC Twitter TALK about playing fighting games more than they actually play them. Lotta pot monsters on FGC Twitter methinks. Deadly_Raver and RSG3 2 Quote Link to comment
Gimpy Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 DangerousJ, RSG3 and DoctaMario 2 1 Quote Link to comment
iStu X Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) 26 minutes ago, DoctaMario said: I venture most people on FGC Twitter TALK about playing fighting games more than they actually play them. Lotta pot monsters on FGC Twitter methinks. It’s been that way since 2009. A whole lotta talk but not enough backing it up. it’s why SRK and the FGC as a whole gate keeped so hard when 4 first drop. We didn’t want to let unpassionate people and posers in with us and drag the whole scene down. a bigger scene doesn’t mean it’s an overall better scene. Edited November 27, 2021 by iStu X Abbachio, Deadly_Raver, RSG3 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment
Maxx Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) 26 minutes ago, DoctaMario said: I venture most people on FGC Twitter TALK about playing fighting games more than they actually play them. Lotta pot monsters on FGC Twitter methinks. While I 100% agree with you but it's always been that way. Or at the very least they always say some shit that's just flat out wrong and people like it because they are also wrong. Like I've watched Sajam go through his comments on gg strive shit lately and pick a wrong ass comment and just prove it on stream how wrong and shit they are for thinking this way. He's been picking the comments that have a decent number of likes because it means others also think this. So they are shit and low level lol. But also I think theirs legit arguments to be made if fighting games are harder now vs before. Alot of ways you can think about it. Newer games: -easier to find tech.. Which means people get better faster -patches are faster.. So you have to keep up to make sure you know the new match ups and constant tech changes -devs are more active and see what's going on with the game through online and can make adjustments based on it -debatable if things like hit boxes make games easier now. -devs keep trying to make new games "income friendly" which actually ends up causing shenanigans. Like power rangers has a simpler button layout no motion inputs.. Yet this shit is mahvel with robots... Mad infinites lmfao -one of my favorite modern fgc tactics is where mass people complain about a character for buffs or nerfs not because it needs it but because they wanna manipulate the devs do they make xyz character better. It's a Meta game and Harada called people out on it and I was fucking dying. Like they think devs are idiots because they are Japanese and it's so funny to me. Edited November 27, 2021 by Maxx DoctaMario 1 Quote Link to comment
RSG3 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Fighters have mechanics on top of mechanics bowl to. Strive has 4 types of RCs alone. Quote Link to comment
Maxx Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 1 minute ago, RSG3 said: Fighters have mechanics on top of mechanics bowl to. Strive has 4 types of RCs alone. When I hear people complain about easy vs difficult I never count anime fighters In my head. They have always been difficult and have at least 4 different systems going on at all times lmfao. Weeb fighters are always absurdly technical just not popular with most of the fgc. Quote Link to comment
iStu X Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Maxx said: When I hear people complain about easy vs difficult I never count anime fighters In my head. They have always been difficult and have at least 4 different systems going on at all times lmfao. Weeb fighters are always absurdly technical just not popular with most of the fgc. that’s why I love melty blood so much. It’s a great anime fighter with very few mechanics and the mechanics it has are very easy to understand . None of the characters are overly difficult to understand/play as well. so win win. I wish more people played it. ;( Edited November 27, 2021 by iStu X RSG3 1 Quote Link to comment
AriesWarlock Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 New COVID variant Omicron According to the WHO: The B.1.1.529 variant was first reported to WHO from South Africa on 24 November 2021. The epidemiological situation in South Africa has been characterized by three distinct peaks in reported cases, the latest of which was predominantly the Delta variant. In recent weeks, infections have increased steeply, coinciding with the detection of B.1.1.529 variant. The first known confirmed B.1.1.529 infection was from a specimen collected on 9 November 2021. This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs. The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa. Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant. Several labs have indicated that for one widely used PCR test, one of the three target genes is not detected (called S gene dropout or S gene target failure) and this test can therefore be used as marker for this variant, pending sequencing confirmation. Using this approach, this variant has been detected at faster rates than previous surges in infection, suggesting that this variant may have a growth advantage. Pfizer Says New Vaccine Can Be Ready in 100 Days to Counter Vaccine-Escape Variants “We expect more data from the laboratory tests in two weeks at the latest. These data will provide more information about whether B.1.1.529 could be an escape variant that may require an adjustment of our vaccine if the variant spreads globally,” Pfizer said in a statement Friday. Deadly_Raver 1 Quote Link to comment
Maxx Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 43 minutes ago, iStu X said: that’s why I love melty blood so much. It’s a great anime fighter with very few mechanics and the mechanics it has are very easy to understand . None of the characters are overly difficult to understand/play as well. so win win. I wish more people played it. ;( Is it an easy system? I was listening to Majin talk about it ahead of the new game and him taking about half moon, full moon, sailor moon drives made me think I need to apply to a PhD fgc program to play it. RSG3 and iStu X 2 Quote Link to comment
Maxx Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Tekken imo will always be the easiest fighting game system. It's literally left, right punch, left right kick. Everything else is extra. Even with rage as a comeback at least you are very aware it can come out. As opposed to getting put in a random launcher you don't know is coming and requires match up/character knowledge. And every character has natural universal combos like every character has a 1,1,2 or 1,2,1 ect. Quote Link to comment
iStu X Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 23 minutes ago, Maxx said: Is it an easy system? I was listening to Majin talk about it ahead of the new game and him taking about half moon, full moon, sailor moon drives made me think I need to apply to a PhD fgc program to play it. I think it is. Quote Link to comment
AriesWarlock Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) Funny you mention that because when Aris was on the Gootecks & Mike Show I remember him sayings something along the lines of needing a PhD in order to play Tekken. Edited November 27, 2021 by AriesWarlock Hecatom and DoctaMario 2 Quote Link to comment
Maxx Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 9 minutes ago, AriesWarlock said: Funny you mention that because when Aris was on the Gootecks & Mike Show I remember him saying along the lines of needing a PhD in order to play Tekken. I think tekken is one of the unique games where entry level is low because of how simple the controls are but to get good Def need a PhD. I'm not beating knee, jdcr or arslan..but I can legit hop on and whoop dudes asses with some basic 121 shit lol. Hecatom and AriesWarlock 1 1 Quote Link to comment
DoctaMario Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 1 hour ago, iStu X said: It’s been that way since 2009. A whole lotta talk but not enough backing it up. it’s why SRK and the FGC as a whole gate keeped so hard when 4 first drop. We didn’t want to let unpassionate people and posers in with us and drag the whole scene down. a bigger scene doesn’t mean it’s an overall better scene. Agreed. I had a lot more fun when the SamSho scene was tons smaller. Granted, it was more like a clubhouse then but everyone was trying to get good and it was like a group of friends all doing the same thing rather than a few people really grinding while a bunch of others who never play were hanging out memeing. There are some cool folks that the new game brought in, but overall I would trade that to have the old smaller scene again. I was on srk for probably a year leading up to sf4's release and man, the change in the forums was like night and day. I'm ok with gatekeeping hobbies especially when you have people coming in that want everything to change to suit them yet probably won't stick. Quote Link to comment
DoctaMario Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 1 hour ago, AriesWarlock said: Damn right they skipped Xi. Imagine how mad China/CCP would be if they had a variant named after their dear leader 😂 Camacho and Deadly_Raver 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Deadly_Raver Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 31 minutes ago, DoctaMario said: Damn right they skipped Xi. Imagine how mad China/CCP would be if they had a variant named after their dear leader 😂 Since when do we give a fuck if china gets in their feels over a virus name? ..................Oh. Oh yeah. MillionX and DoctaMario 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Chadouken Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Copped an OLED for Black Friday. The picture is absolutely disgusting, and gaming at 120 FPS on my PS5 is literally a game changer. Hype af right now. iStu X, AriesWarlock, KimuraLOX and 4 others 6 1 Quote Link to comment
Serpent Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 I got a new monitor but it has a stuck pixel. No amount of those pixel fix things is working, guess I have to pack it back up and return it. I wish they did better QC, I get the feeling this is a pretty common issue nowadays. Deadly_Raver 1 Quote Link to comment
Deadly_Raver Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Geez. Inflation is doing even more damage than I thought. Chadouken, Abbachio, DangerousJ and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment
iStu X Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Chadouken said: Copped an OLED for Black Friday. The picture is absolutely disgusting, and gaming at 120 FPS on my PS5 is literally a game changer. Hype af right now. So jealous. 😞 I kept trying to get once since I have so much store credit at GameStop but all they had were bundles I didn’t feel were worth the extra $$$ they were asking for. RSG3 and Deadly_Raver 2 Quote Link to comment
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