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15 hours ago, J.T. said:
Eh, the entire premise of the show is that we experience everything through Eliot and he is an unreliable narrator. There is no surprise that the thing with Shayla feels like it comes out of left field given that everything is filtered through Eliot's emotional wall.
I can't LOL hard enough at this. So we can handwave every lame shortcut, narrative mistake and piece of bad storytelling this show makes by chalking it up to "unreliable narrator?" Come on man. This is turning into an "emperor's new clothes" thing.
The Shayla relationship was so hamfisted and clumsily executed that I bet it was another thing stapled onto the show with the deftness of a kindergartner once they decided to stretch it into a series.
Keep in mind I like the show, I just don't think it's beyond reproach and there's more wrong with it that doesn't include your issue with gay/pregnant sex acts. I can forgive an inexperienced showrunner trying too hard to be transgressive more than I can forgive narrative dishonesty and other such bullshit.
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Counterpoint: Vera was much more interesting than Shayla, who was a one-dimensional wish fulfillment character with no existence outside her utility to Elliott.
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So what's the consensus on where Undead Nightmare falls in the storyline? Some say it happens between the "Marsden is home with his family" segment of the main story and the mission where he dies. But that can't be correct because I remember that Uncle dies in both stories in different ways. There's something similar with Nastas as well, right?
I was always of the opinion that it's all a dream, hence the "nightmare" in the name.
Apologizes for posting spoilers for a 5+ year old game.
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On 7/9/2016 at 11:48 PM, EVA said:
Basically everyting with Shayla and Vera could've been cut from the show, and it wouldn't have made a difference in the endgame.
This. Eliott being broken up over Shayla's death felt so unearned. They didn't do much at all to establish that kind of closeness before she got fridged. I mean trunked.
Great point about the padding in the series. Things like the Angela and her boyfriend subplot dragged forever for very little payoff. There was zero payoff at all to the bit with his psychologist's boyfriend. Or to the whole psychologist subplot, really. And I guarantee you that in the original version, the Dark Army didn't back out of the hack, because that whole thing added like two episodes' worth of content.
I'm right there with you. I thought it was decent but not amazing. I'll watch season two hoping for better. But if season two is just act two of the original screenplay stretched out to build 12 TV episodes, fuuuuuuck.
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On 7/9/2016 at 11:02 PM, Rev Ray said:
The problem is the Kung Fu gimmick could end up like Kung Fu Billy Graham.
I see nothing wrong with Reigns strapped to the ground in the desert
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22 hours ago, hammerva said:
By the way, anyone who looks at Drew Galloway since his release and thinks "boring WWE castoff" just isn't paying attention
I've seen some of his Evolve stuff and all his PWG matches and he bores the shit out of me. All power spots, and not because he's impressive looking, but because he just happens to be bigger than indy guys. It's lame and stands out like a sore thumb. Oh look everybody, "The Chosen One" is going to throw some small dudes around for 15 minutes, then win or slip on a banana peel. No thanks.
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On 7/9/2016 at 2:54 PM, Go2Sleep said:
Does anyone use the ropes for leverage in submissions anymore (even if it doesn't make sense most of the time)? That was a great old-school heat spot where the heel would would have his hands/feet on the ropes while the ref was checking the babyface, then let go as soon as the ref went around to look. The ropes would still be shaking, but the heel vehemently denied it and the ref had no proof so he would sternly warn the heel, who would of course do it again as soon as the ref couldn't see. Then it got it a pop when the ref would catch him and kick the heel to break the hold.
You don't see stuff like this in WWE anymore due to Vince's edict that the ref shouldn't be made to look foolish. Which is dumb because "blind ref" is a fucking staple of pro wrestling. Can it be abused to the point of absurdity? Of course but so can anything else.
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On 7/8/2016 at 4:42 PM, Robert C said:
I think the xbox store is shitting itself under load as well as the RDR servers. I had the same problem trying to buy Stick of Truth
Same here. It crapped out when I tried Friday but then it worked when I tried this past Saturday.
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I'd say it's worth it. It adds another standalone story to the game (it's shorter than the main game but still fun). It also adds more online modes.
You also get an "Undead Hunter" outfit, which looks suspiciously like Ash from Evil Dead.
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Just stopped by Gamestop...used copies are still $13+. Yeah, I think I'll do the download for $10.50.
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10 hours ago, KDWI said:
The bell clap, especially to escape a bear hug.
I was just thinking that the other day when I saw someone use an ear-ringer in a PWG match. Haven't seen one in years before that.
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6 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
Former Congressmen.
Yeah, this shooting isn't helping things. All it's going to do is bolster the "blue lives matter" numbskulls and embolden cops' martyr complexes and their "us against the world, shoot them before they can shoot us" mentality.
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Yeah, that's just one of those movies that would be totally ruined in a censored version. Like when Scarface comes on a non-premium channel and so much is blanked out half the movie is silent.
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Ha! I forgot about Cesaro because I FFWD through Raw.
Kyle O'Reilly does a rolling butterfly suplex but it's goofy looking as fuck.
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Seriously. We'd be better off with the actual army patrolling the streets than these scared yahoos. It's funny, when the shit was going down in Ferguson, I read a post somewhere by an actual serviceman who said soldiers patrolling cities in the Middle East treat the people there better than our cops here do, as they're trained to de-escalate situations and try to work with the people there instead of just getting nervous and going all murderdeathkill on everybody.
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I hope on the back it says "OBAMA IS TAKIN' MONEY FROM HARD WORKIN" MURICANS AN' GIVIN' IT TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANNA WORK" in Helvetica
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That's what I don't get. So many police are hysterical and so frightened and go from 0 to 100 in seconds. Why? I just ready about the Castile case and it's horrific.
Are police departments scraping the bottom of the barrel with regard to hiring or is it a cultural thing where cops are increasingly believing the "us against the world" hype where they just assume they're policing Fallujah instead of Anytown, USA?
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I was there!
I am old.
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The gutwrench is still used, just not in WWE. Jeff Cobb (Matanza) does rolling gutwrenches and it's insane. Timothy Thatcher does a Karelin LIft suplex, essentiallya gutwrench where he lifts the grounded opponent off the mat in a gutwrench, then finiishes the move.
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58 minutes ago, HumanChessgame said:
One of my pet peeves is shows and movies like these showing IP addresses with octets over 255, but I figure that's like all phone numbers in movies having to start with 555.
The social engineering aspects they play up on this show (and Sneakers did a really good job with a lot of that) are an good touch. It would be dull as hell just watching them sit around analyzing Wireshark data.
LOL I noticed the octet thing, too. Took me right out of the episode for a few minutes. I had to pause and complain to my wife about it. It's a wonder she's still around; Mrs. TS is a fucking saint I tell ya. It's funny you mention the "555" thing because I thought the same thing.
There's a really great self-referential scene where two members of the team are watching "Hackers" and scoffing at its graphical representation of hacking, wondering openly which show or movie will give this generation an unrealistic view of the practice. They might as well have turned to the camera and winked.
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1 hour ago, J.T. said:
I was shocked to see Mudge from Lopht Heavy Industries and Dark Tangent talking about the technical aspects of the show because I've met both of those guys at DefCon and HOPE. Those guys are legit internet boogeymen, but they are really old school.
So they actually have advisors? Because so much of the technical stuff they say on the show is bullshit word salad. I mean it's not "two people furiously type on one keyboard as they frantically try to stop a hack" bad but still. And the graphical representation of a virus slowly heading toward a server as they rush to shut it down (episode 1) was fucking garbage. Data does not travel like a game of Pipe Dream for Windows.
I will give them points for adhering to the very true premise that the majority of hacks are social/human error. The scene with the chick dropping piles of thumb drives outside the police station was cool.
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The combination of the "best/worst finishers" thread and a few mentions of Bob Backlund got me thinking of the atomic drop. I have legitimately not seen anyone do an atomic drop since the late 80s. In a world where we have the Canadian Destroyer and 35 leaping STO variations, has wrestling evolved to the point where smashing a dude's ass with your knee is where we draw the line of absurdity? The atomic drop and the claw are moves that, off the top of my head, are examples of wrestling moves you just don't see anymore (or rarely). What else ya got?
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LOL @ "belly clothesline." That's perfect. Even better than "running hug" as the description for Edge's spear.
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Wrestling moves that pretty much no longer exist
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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Exactly. It's a good tool to have in the drawer as long as you don't overdo it, just like anything else in wrestling. You don't cheat in front of the ref's face 6 times in a match (I just saw that in a PWG match and it really killed it for me) but you can sneak in some chicanery behind his back occasionally. That's what a heel is supposed to do.
It's funny that Vince doesn't want the refs "depowered" but seemingly doesn't give two shits about Big Steph cutting every wrestler's dick off in every interaction.