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The doom and gloom of The Big Short was counteracted by the movie having a rapid pace, explaining absolutely nothing, and taking for granted that I watch the news and keep up with world events. It felt good for a movie to assume that I was a relatively intelligent and well informed person for once. This year, Dark Places and Everest made me want to walk into the ocean and inhale as much sea water as I could. And, Jesus, Beasts of No Nation made me want to just ride a shopping cart into a busy intersection. Thank God for butter pecan ice cream and Shaw Brothers kung fu classics.

I made the same mistake of watching that a couple months ago. Yeah, that movie is...super depressing. Requiem for a Dream looks at it and goes, "Damn." I felt that way after watching The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Beast of No Nation. Felt like I should take some valium and listen to No Rain on a 24 hour loop or something just to get my equilibrium back. It took a Turtle Sundae with extra hot fudge and extra crushed pecans from Bruster's to cheer me up after watching Beasts of No Nation.

Sicario will also make you want to cut your wrists. All humans should be destroyed.

The minor issue I have with The Expanse is the GoT-ish metaplot with entities squabbling amongst themselves while unchecked threat devours the solar system. The saving grace being that the socio-economic politics are so real world reflective that it is incredible and very sobering. It is very telling that prosperity for Earth as a planet came when they pretty much offloaded the working classes to the Asteroid Belt.

Communication is a powerful tool in large team PvP especially in objective-heavy game modes where pure murder does not always give you victory, but I don't enter general chat with randoms. Coordinating with the one or more friends I'm rolling with is usually enough. In re GTA Online, the one thing the DVDVR Mafia taught me it is that the bigger your mean streak is, the better. We would always find the biggest bully in the game and then do some bullying of our own. Nothing feels better in GTA Online than chasing another crew off of the server, unless it has something to do with strategically placed explosive devices. I was an ignition bomb troll king with few peers back in the day. I would always "allow" another player to take the Simeon car from me and then watch him blow himself up and get credit for the kill. One guy was so enraged that he sent me a PM and wished that my kid would get polio and that my mother would drink bleach and die. GTA Online is the only game where I felt that getting Hate Mail was complimentary.

My list of no credibility: 1. Mad Max: Fury Road 2. Beasts of No Nation 3. The Martian 4. The Revenant 5. Ex Machina 6. Inside Out 7. Star Wars: Force Awakens 8. Straight Outta Compton 9. Creed 10. It Follows Sicario got edged out narrowly. I love that movie but have no interest in revisiting it since it is a bleak soul smashing piece of work.

The Destiny community at Bungie may be the greatest collection of mouth breathing retards in the world. I can kinda let the toxicity slide a bit with GTA Online since 99% of the game is PvP competitive and your fun comes at someone else's expense.

Fuck.

Are you behind? I've been waiting to see your thoughts on the finale. I have to finish watching the second half the two-ep finale and I will be all caught up. Doing that tonight.

I wonder if there is an argument in bed if she ever refers to him as Mr. Fantastic? DON'T CALL ME THAT~!

I like Miles Teller, but has such a punchable face. It did not help that he was totally awesome at playing a complete dick in the Divergent movies. Even my daughter wanted to kick Peter in the groin after he knocked Tris the fuck out..

Indeed. He got his brawn from his granddad but his father's moxie skipped his generation. The in your face booking that tried to get him over as a heel and failed did not help... which means that he will probably make for a mega babyface if he ever turned (The Chris Masters Rule). Naomi is like the lost adopted Malenko daughter with all of these submission finishers. She has three or four in her arsenal right now.

An Irish guy using a finisher called the Bloody Sunday is the best. I think the announcement of Joe vs. Zayn for #1 Contender has me stoked more than anything on the card. If this Balor Club thing is going to happen and Finn leaves for the WWE roster, then job him out to Sami and then he and Joe can trade title runs.

My friend here at the office was in the beta and yes, if I had an XBone, I'd have played it constantly. I'd probably have called in sick the day after the blizzard to get in some extra game time. I spent over five hundred Maryland Lottery reward points entering the Xbox One drawing and lost to some asshole in Dundalk. I was very angry.

Not sure why you are falling for that. Fresh will stop playing that shorty after the beta while you obsess over achievements. The reason you want be to get an XBone is because my OCD is worse than yours.

Or that you have a XBOX One so you can stop playing this stupid game It is in the works. Be careful what you wish for. You will probably get tired of me next winter when we're both coordinating sick days in order to complete the co-op achievements for ME: Andromeda.

Okay, so why do YouTube searches for Brother YASSHI return everything from E-Fed Fire Pro bullshit to J-Pop songs with a screen cap of some ethnically ambiguous Asian girl wearing canvas sneakers? EDIT: Okay, so her name is Kiriko Takemura, but she goes by the stage name of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu or KPP. I guess the uploader has a thing for her since she doesn't sing or perform on any of the wrestler entrance theme's he's posted online.

You are going to bawl like a child when you watch this, Rippa. Why do you do this to yourself?

Finally finished leveling up Sunbreaker and Stormcaller. Now begins the grind for Defender and Sunsinger and then I will try not to get too frustrated trying to get sword kills in PvP with classes that I suck at playing and collect the other two Exotic swords. Once that is done I will have all of the Exotic Heavy Weapon grimoire cards. Got past the Red Bull Challenge version of The Sunless Cell. Tried to follow up with Shleld Brothers but apparently no player in the entire world was in the matchmaking queue for the mission. I soloed the tank twice and got up to the boss fight but no randoms ever joined my fireteam and I ran out of time.. Looks like I will need some help from the DARPA unit. The game has scheduled maintenance today from 8 AM PST to 2 PM PST (11AM EST to 5M EST). I have heard that there will actually be some hardware replacement going on at Bungie, so this may go on longer than advertised. Hope you have something good from Games With Gold that you can play in the meantime.

We finally have character crossover in The Expanse!

Oh yeah - and are people not going to be happy with me this year. Well more so than normal Last year's brackets nearly made me kick you off my Xbox Friend List. Is that the step after getting yelled at during multiplayer for poor team play? Unlike you, I can count on Rippa to be clutch, not die in the worst place at the worst time, kill what he is shooting at, and fully embrace the bullet stopping power of hard cover so yelling at comes before unfriending. Besides, wasn't it you that purged all of us from your Friend's List first?

Oh, I remembered Godzilla. It was my first answer but then I mentally disqualified it due to the "other than horror" statement. Zatoichi was my second answer followed by James Bond and Planet of the Apes.

Well, the man excluded "horror" so I kinda blotted out Godzilla even though every movie following Gojira / Gojira has not really been a horror film.

Oh yeah - and are people not going to be happy with me this year. Well more so than normal Last year's brackets nearly made me kick you off my Xbox Friend List. You're saying that I will be moved to slash your tires this year.

Backstage segment? There needs to be a fucking run-in during the championship match.