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I did end up going to see it. I really enjoyed it. It had the right amount of action, humor, and character driven moments.

@Mai Valentine  That's awesome and agree!  Hi... I'm Bob lol 

It was good, better than the most recent Capt. America movie. The actors all carried the roles pretty well.

What else did you both like about the movie?  The Red Guardian is becoming a favorite for me.  I can't wait to see where else this will go... and What Bob will become.  That has an interesting potential

@CreepinDeth @SpartanEvolved @mastermario  --> Thoughts?

I am not the one.  I have been scared to watch it. I have been burned so many times by Marvel and the way they have churned out some of the poor stuff recently. Whenever they release it on Disney+ I will check it out. I am not into going to the theater much anymore, especially since we do not have one locally. Really Thunderbolts is the movie I am looking forward to...................

lol come on @retro junkie

Anthony Mackie did a great job reprising the role and adding the mantle of Capt. America to his Falcon role. Harrison Ford did not impress in this role. The writing was okay for a Marvel movie, but didn't leave me wowed.

It wasn't the best... but I thought it was a pretty great movie.  Not sure about wowed... and they definitely did hold back a bit.  But I definitely dug the direction of the series so far.

The mission impossible steel book would be awesome!  I have the collection before Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Final Reckoning (Dead Reckoning part 2??)

Thankfully, I was able to see these in matinee... and it was fairly cheap to go see it

No one else saw this movie?  @mastermario @Grindspine @SpartanEvolved

This one has to be on @retro junkie's radar!

@Mai Valentine - Did you see it?  If so, what were your thoughts?

I think it stands alright on its own.  There are definitely tie-ins with the MCU and at least 1 of the older series on Disney+.  I won't spoil it just in case.

Hey @Mai Valentine !   Yeah... I will eventually get one as well.  Some factors right now are keeping me from purchasing stuff right now as well.  But also.... Good luck getting one... what the heck.  The purchasing bots really are killing it anymore.

I used to be able to get stuff before day 1 ... or at least on day 1.  I haven't been able to do that since the ps5.

ok... so... bumping this up.  Not one saw it?  No thoughts or comments?

There has to be one of you...   

 

I don't know if any one else is pumped for this movie... but Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning!  is in Theaters - May 23rd, 2025.  Hard to believe Dead Reckoning was launched 2 years ago... time flies when you're having fun... 

Some have said this is the final movie, others have stated this is not the final movie and the series may continue.  Others have said someone will die (not a spoiler, this is literally every Mission Impossible)...

Either way, I'm pumped for this movie.  Are you looking forward to Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning?

Thoughts? comments? post it up!

@retro junkie --> so it's a hack of Fire Red.  I am not aware of this as much.  How much do they change?

LOL... and you over ground your characters so they pummeled everything.  That's pretty funny.  Always keep a nerf 

We just got out of the theaters for Marvel's newest move Thunderbolts*.   In this movie, a band of misfits and loners get together.  This movie features a few characters - namely Red Guardian, Winter Soldier, US Agent, Ghost and of course Black Widow (Yelena).

Spoiler - in case you have NOT seen the movie or previews:

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The movie title was changed at the end to be "The New Avengers" lol   

^^^^  I think this was more tongue in cheek though.

This was a pretty good movie, it received great Reviews... and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.

Has anyone else seen this movie?  If so, what are your thoughts?  If not, is it on your list?

Thoughts? Comments?  post it up!

@retro junkie  Yeah... I'm willing to bet this goes down as a 50/50 love/hate movie lol.   It would be cool to have something that rivals the prior Avengers movies.  However, It's cool to see you down for the experience 

Like I said in the past, I just didn't like Avengers: Age of Ultron... however, once how I saw how it tied a few things together and a few of the nuances in the scenes... I really liked the movie.  I was too harsh of a critic - IMO.


@targetrasp --> lol net nerd! 

lol Are you going to open it @targetrasp ?  Or leave it as a case queen now (generally this is a guitar term... but we'll use it for games this time)?

Happy birthday Snatcher_L ... and fellow steel book collector!  This is a bit late, but hope you had a wonderful birthday.

IF you received the gift of gaming... post up your spoils!

To kick off the new thread... we just finished up binging Picard. 


I feel like we need to watch it again... it feels like parts were missed, or maybe that's the "filler" @targetrasp mentioned in the thread I created about Picard:

Picard - Is An Awesome Series

Alright - here is the new Binge-Watching Shows Thread

Older topics are found here:
Binge-watching shows during the Corona-pocalype? Post it up
Binge-Watching Shows - 2022 edition
Binge-Watching Shows - 2024 edition

What are you currently binging?  What are you planning to binge?   What are you repeat binging 

Post it up!

@CreepinDeth I remember others voting for an undated master topic of said subject back in the day.  This is cool... keeps 1 long string on insanity.  Though I do like the organization of different year topics.

hm... thank you for confirming @CreepinDeth

dag nabit 

Awesome post @Grindspine  --> Linus Definitely had a great video. Pretty funny... Nintendo... shut up and take my money. 

I wonder how available these systems will be.  Also, interesting that it has the power of a Ps4 / Xbox One... These are 10 year old systems now.  I know Nintendo is not always on the leading edge of power, and the utilize what they have extremely well... creating some of the best games.  However, a little more power may not hurt.

Then again... they've thrived for a reason.

Avengers: Doomsday is looking to be a massive release.  Look at all the chairs... some X-men in there as well.  Not a spoiler... trailer is out.  I posted that Robert Downey Jr was back ... but as a different character in this post last summer:
Robert Downey Jr... what? New Avengers Movie

Now... we are seeing more.  It's looking to be pretty awesome.

Check out the trailer:



Thoughts, comments.... POST IT UP!

I am also going back through some of the older series.  It's pretty cool

I get the hate, when Marvel or DC takes too much liberty with some of the comic story lines I read as a kid, I took it as a put-off. Sometimes big changes work, other times they don't. People are always going to find issue when others take liberties with source material. I'm less resistant to it than some, I just ask for quality, which in general does seem to be fading.

Especially in this day and age... it really seems like everyone complains about everything.  I get it, there are opinions about... and strong opinions at that.

Outside the liberties taken... and coming from not 100% remembering every main or back story... It was very enjoyable to watch. Again, there were certain points that were rough and some over active at certain spots, but the series was very enjoyable to watch.  Maybe if I knew everything... and was a uber Trekkie or something... it might matter much more lol

@CreepinDeth Could you check again while we are in the current mode with the forum?  Please let me know if you have a better result with the alerts or not.

The next in the Marvel series was released earlier this year.  Captain America: Brave New World was the next installment of not only Captain America... but also Marvel.

This movie is well done - in my opinion.  It somewhat follows after Captain America and the Winter Soldier.   Ross is now played by Harrison Ford.. and appears to be trying to change the way he's been in the past.   It seems he's trying to make things right.

Obviously (from trailers) ... you know the Red Hulk is involved.  Anthony Mackie is now Captain America (as you know from Captain America and the Winter Solider).  There are other comments and tie-ins from some of the older movies like The Hulk from 2008.

This is a well done Movie - in my opinion.   Has anyone else checked it out?  What do you think?

Thoughts, Comments... post it up!

Late to the party?  Sure.  We got a really good deal on the complete series of Picard Blu-Ray!

The series is really really good.  Ratings were not favorable for the 1st 2 seasons.  Honestly... I really liked them.  Outside a couple oddities, I don't see what the fuss was.  The 3rd season is so far really awesome as well.

We had an older Topic a few years back:
Star Trek Picard - is it good?
There were a couple good comments at the time.

How many have seen this?  Have you gone back and re-watched?

Thoughts? Comments?  Post it up!!

Next time I'm in the mood for a little masochism, I'll try to power through

Great - Tomorrow is the day LOL 

Do EEEETTTT 

I feel a little crazy... I know we are talking about your machine here in another post, but I thought I replied to this thread as well 

$60 is a pretty good steal.  I was not fond of MacBooks up until the last 3 months.  More to come from that on a separate topic.  They take a bit to get used to coming off Windows and Linux... but I could say the same about Linux coming off of Windows.  It's just something to get used to... and it's cool to have MacOS, Windows whatever and several Linux variants that I'm comfortable now using as a daily driver.   NO LIMITATIONS lol 

Since your OS expired... it might be time to look at Linux if you cannot get a newer OS with current security upgrades.  It sucks to get to that point... especially on the Apply Ecosphere where the devices can last longer (IMO).   I'm becoming a little more fond of Apply MacOS and the Ecosphere of iPhone and iPad ... especially combined.   

Linux has been my daily driver for a few years already. I do have a few Windows machines (my gaming PC and a couple of laptops) due to work but I haven't really needed to make those machines my daily driver. There is the odd thing here and there. For example, just today I had to format a USB stick to NTFS because I wanted to transfer some Xbox screenshots. It's nuts that Microsoft requires NTFS just to move some files around but it's required for the console to see it.

@CreepinDeth - yeah.. that's why I was asking if @retro junkie was using it as much as you LOL. 

I am working on making a MacOS topic... there are some really cool things about MacOS. Especially once you get to the integrations between your phone and iPad if you have one.  Obviously, there are additional limitations.  The sound is amazing on these new guys... more to come.

i am presently using my Macbook Pro mid 2012 to type this. It is running MX Linux based on DEBIAN. I use it daily. I also use my chromebook daily. I have a Mac Mini late 2012 running Sanoma 14.7.4 using Opencore-Patcher on an SSD with 16 gig ram. That is my desktop. I am seriously thinking about switching it over to Linux when the updates run its course on Sanoma. But that is still undecided.

Let us know how that goes... that is pretty interesting.

I need to setup a new linux daily driver as well... I have an old small form factor desktop that I'm going to create a Rocky Linux Image machine.  Then I'm going to use that to create a Rocky image to run as my daily driver.  I'll create a new topic on that as well.

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I am working on a tech idea website... more information to come.  Technically I've had the name for a LONG time.  I've been trying to start this idea since before we did World9-3 podcasts... IE 2007.  Just can never seem to get a good entry point.  Life changes lately have me accelerating some of this.  We may also start the podcasts back up under the CDG name.  Totally off topic here, but some of these topics reminded me

Clerks 2, Randalls analysis of the LOTRs trilogy...

LOL!  That's hilarious.

Come on, @targetrasp Time to put some work to it.  Season 2 is great. 

@BLUEVOODU if you have that ice blue with original box it is a collectors item, worth real money. My Daughter has hers in box.

man... I just checked that out.  I've been flirting with selling a good portion of my collection.  Just not sure yet, but putting hard thought on that topic.

The Ice Blue system was really cool... it wasn't that expensive.  It was one of those glory days type memory... where you could walk into a Target and there would be an awesome discount on awesome merchandise.  It was before the mass Ebaying and other things like that.

@targetrasp dangit man.  Just do eeeet.

And go for moose tracks ice cream WHILE watching LOTR Season 2

LOL ... yeah... crazy after this many years. They are available now, but price wise, they're not really coming down.   The PS5 Pro is pretty costly as well.  I've read a bit on it, but not sure it's worth the extra $200. 

Ah, I didn't know that Sackboy had struck out to spinoffs of the Little Big Planet franchise!

Yeah!!  It's a really fun game, especially if you are a fan of the Little Big Planet franchise!   Co-op mode included (I'm looking at you Astro Bot - you should've have multiplayer like Astro's Playroom).

This was on of my favorite levels.  Awesome music... and sync to music