The Pitters' Place

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I didn't realize you were into board games; or I just forgot. Dominion is my all-time favorite; I'm super active at the Dominion Strategy Forums. Hell, my registered collection of board games on BGG is up to 156, so I'm beyond being into board games! You may remember that I started a thread on Wing...

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It was board game night at my place. Two of my buddies had arrived and we were engaged in aimless banter when the power flicked off, then on, then off and on. Weird, we thought. The sound of the air conditioning would have masked the rumbling in the background. A few minutes later, the phone rings. ...

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Derived Absurdity wrote:Uncut Gems - very, very good film. Did absolutely nothing for me whatsoever.

You are friggin' hilarious.

I have declined to ever watch it having predicted all the things you mention. No one needs stress these days.

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Y'all crazy. Maybe some of my appreciation is colored by loving it so much as a kid, but plenty of childhood favorites didn't really hold up for me as an adult while BTTF really does. I saw it as an adult, so that might be part of the reason. I recently went back to the first Indiana Jones film, wh...

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I don't know what's more unbelievable: that you haven't seen this film until now, or that you thought it was "just okay" and "standard 80s cheese." [gonemad] BTTF is pretty much perfect for what it is, and what it is certainly wasn't "standard" in the 80s, or any time ...

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That's a shame; I was all ready to kill the monster for you and then demand you write a song dedicated to my greatness that you could then travel the land performing, perhaps in taverns and bars and the like. The song would be a great hit of course, and then we would both get rich off of it. I woul...

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If you really wanted me to get past this for you, I think the "Share Play" function on PS4 allows me to virtually control your game from my own PS4. Thing is, I've never actually used Share Play before and I'm not sure how well it even works. I investigated this and unfortunately Witcher ...

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Raxivace wrote:Pass me the controller bro, I'll handle this. FedEx it if you have to.

Something like that thought occurred to me. Like, if I downloaded my last saved game file in a USB. . . .

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I'm a casual player and hate lengthy boss fights, so I'm done with this game regarding its DLC. I'm not going to struggle over and over to kill that damn frog thing in the first mission. Glad it came with the game and I didn't just pay for and download this crap. Back to another play-through of The ...

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I just finished this puppy--so much for its reputation for consuming a billion hours! Sure, I left a bunch of quests uncompleted since I had no idea the main story was about to wind down, but I'm only level 35--I was thinking the end would come when I was nearing 100. Anyway, a very good game and de...

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She made a sequel!

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d) The disparity between the unending videos of unprovoked police brutality that are going viral on social media and the relentless images of looting and rioting everyone getting their info from corporate news are being subject to is extremely stark. You would think there's no police brutality from...

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Have the riots had an effect on any of you folks? My first apartment upon moving to Minneapolis was right in the area where the shit started going down. I shopped at that Target and I worked in the mall attached to it. So there's that. Yesterday I went to the Dinkytown neighborhood near the U of Mn ...

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16. 19. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (Audiobook, 1818/1831*, Mary Shelley) - More like Frankenstein's Monster: The Modern Incel. [url=https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=frankenstein+mary+shelley+incel]I'm not the first person to make this observation , but seriously...

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Shirley Jackson was an excellent writer and I'm not sure why she's not more generally well-known, despite the recent cinematic and televisual reinessance of sorts her work is undergoing. I've always known about her, even before some of her short stories were assigned in high school. You don't gener...

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The Runaways (2010) - this was a thoroughly boring and mediocre biopic, which I was expected, and which I only watched because I didn't know it starred BOTH Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning, at the same time, in the same movie. Also it was on Netflix. I don't know, I don't remember anything about...

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Really, check this out! "Pandemic" and "hilarious" are not mutually contradictory.

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For some mysterious reason, I felt a strange desire to play this board game and my game buddies were sadly reluctant to come over and join me. Could the reasons be related? Hmmm. So I played it solo. I don't know if I and my friends just suck at this game, but we've never beaten it, even when always...

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Raxivace wrote:Did you think the mermaid was meant to be funny then?

No, I think most folks would have found her a tad disturbing.

It's intentionally a kind of crazy film. Not for everyone, for sure, but I really think time is going to be very, very kind to it in terms of how it is regarded critically.

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Exceptions abound, but all successful horror-comedies I've seen were very clear about intending to be funny. Not so with whatever this was supposed to be. There is absolutely no question that parts of Lighthouse were meant as comedy and other parts were meant to be disturbing. That it plays by its ...

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Should I bother with Gwent? I haven't so far, but offers to play during missions keep popping up.

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Gendo wrote:There's a few movies by the name “Triangle". Do you mean the 2009 with Melissa George? If so; I'm in.

That's the one. I believe you are the one who brought it to my attention, so I'm returning the favor!

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I would recommend this extremely low budget indie flick if you liked movies such as The Triangle and Coherence. The less said, the better. That is all.

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Eva Yojimbo wrote:As big as Witcher 3 is, I think the last Assassin's Creed (Odyssey) I played was even bigger.

I loved that one! I am actually replaying it in-between sessions of Witcher 3.

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By the time the final ep. rolls around I was literally holding my breath and felt physical anxiety about their performance at Daytona. I can't remember the last time a documentary or film had me that nervous! I was watching their performance standing up, breath held, through the fingers of hands cl...

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Have you done the Bloody Baron storyline yet? I forget exactly where/what part of the game that was (I know it was quite early), but Raxi and I mostly agreed it was the best part (we just disagreed some on the quality of everything else). Yep, very well done. Not sure it is entirely over, though, b...

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Hey Faustus, you still playing Witcher 3? Kind of curious to know your thoughts at this point. I'm a very casual video game player so I haven't gotten very far. Still in Novigrad, only level 17. But I'm really enjoying it. Story based games are my jam and this one really excels at story. I've never...

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I don't give a crap about competitive cheer-leading and never will, so I only gave this Netflix documentary series a chance because I was super bored and I noticed a rave review somewhere. Wow, was this ever good. I vaguely knew that at this level, it was a genuine sport requiring serious athleticis...

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And someone interviewed him. Very funny, at least to me. Been a long time since I tripped on anything.

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Inspired by the Netflix show and after hearing about how this is one of the greatest video games ever, I have this for the PS4 now. I'm in the very early stages where the game is still teaching itself to me. Any advice as I begin my journey?

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You make some very good points there, Raxivace. My opinion of the show just diminished!

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Yeah this probably isn't a surprise but that finale fell pretty flat for me. Oh well. I don't think it's as great as the general critical reaction seems to indicate, but I thought overall that the writing on the show was fantastic. They weaved clues and foreshadowing all throughout the episodes to ...

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Hmm, I thought DA and I had almost opposite tastes, but his list has some commonalities with mine. I owe it to myself to check out some on his list that I haven't seen yet. In alphabetical order: 2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange Alien Apocalypse Now Apollo 13 Blade Runner Blade Runner 2049 B...

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YMMV on much sense the explanation we get makes, though dramatically I didn't find it satisfying. Also, the big reveal here has me mad. Seriously we're going back into the Locke/Richard compass scene predestination paradox well to explain the fucking inciting incident of this whole show with Crawfo...

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Gendo wrote:The old IMDB boards are also completely unavailable as far as I know.

Filmboards sucks as a forum as the community consists primarily of extremely childish alt right whack-jobs, but many old posts from the IMDB boards were transferred over.

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I didn't mind it much, but I need an explanation for why he would feel he needed to hide himself in someone's body/mind. He's all powerful and this makes no sense.

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I'm torn on 6 because as a flashback I liked it just fine, but as a surreal trippy dream episode it had the same problem certain episodes in The Leftovers did where it never really got crazy enough for me. They could have done it as a flashback, but I suspect it is going to end up being important t...

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Raxivace wrote:Faustus have you been keeping up with this?

I gotta say after episode 6 I'm feeling a bit ambivalent about the show again.

Wow, I had exactly the opposite reaction--I loved where 5 and 6 have taken the show!

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This show is getting better and better--episode 3 was fantastic, and so multi-layered. I've always loved Jean Smart from Fargo and Legion, and she stole every scene she was in.

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My wife and I tried watching Booksmart and it was one of those movies that seems to be trying really hard to be cool and funny and failing to do either one at every turn, and we turned it off after like 15 minutes. We never even came close to laughing or cracking a smile. We wasted $5.99 renting it...

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I mean, it was right there . Realizing that the world is fundamentally unfair and tilted radically toward the upper crust would be a pretty good and authentic coming-of-age story, at least IMO, but we're not going to get that in a movie written and financed by that upper crust, are we, no matter ho...

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It's hard for me to think objectively about the second episode because my feelings about it are contaminated by the fact that for the entire episode it kept halting and going into buffer mode, which got worse as the episode went on, becoming nearly unwatchable towards the end. I guess it was pretty ...

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It's amazing how so many people actually had a problem with Scorsese's comments on Marvel. Like they couldn't imagine how an extremely creative, thoughtful, and well-respected director would take some issue with film turning into bland factory-made assembly line-manufactured paste based on comics a...

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Just finished the first episode. Wasn't what I expected but I was pleased with what I saw (and what I heard from the Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross score). The episode had something problematic which I hope is addressed later, in that it is just absurd to think that our heroes would be the police when fi...

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Anyone else going to be checking out the premiere on Sunday? I feel hesitant about getting sucked into another Lindelof show only to feel disappointed in the end, but even when he's terrible I still can't help but be fascinated by whatever he's is doing. That he's also working with something as bel...

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Have any of you seen Joker? It feels like they read this thread (just the Batman stuff) when creating their version of Gotham. I think Castor and DA would appreciate it though, because of how anti-capitalistic it is. I was going to skip the movie until I listened to a rave review from the Chapo Tra...

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Hey guys! I see that there is just way too much here for me to comment on, so I'll just jump to my question: what did you guys make of Tarantino's latest "love letter" to Hollywood? I'm still processing the experience... my gut feeling is that it is one of Tarantino's best. I sure enjoyed...

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I'm definitely a Knizia fan; there's been at least 3 times when I've suddenly realized that a game I've enjoyed for a long time is a Knizia game. Like just now while looking up his list of games I leaned that he did Colossal Arena. But of his stuff that I've played, I'm a big fan of Ra, Tigris and ...

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I finally got a chance to play it a couple months ago. It was ok, but did not at all live up to the hype for me. I do want to give it another try though. I was worried that this would be the response of my group, who can be pretty skeptical, but I lucked out. Do give it another try, though. It may ...

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I don't think anyone here is big into the board game hobby, at least not as much as I am, but has anyone caught wind of this game? Unlike other titles in the hobby, it's actually been getting some interesting press in terms of write-ups in venues like the New York Times and The Smithsonian, because ...

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