@Coin I'll rephrase that accordingly:
"This will most likely become one of those 'storylines publishers will want to forget ever happened and ignore everything that happened, and which will be one of the things that the internet will never let us forget, like Rob Liefeld drawing ginormous penises on shrinking characters.'"
Better? 
Yeah. I read it as well.
But... I am going to call cosmic cube shenanigans on this. There's likely going to be some contrived explanation coming up, considering the last thing Marvel wants to do is damage Cap's image permanently when he still has so many more movies to go.
I'm not sure they can make this story actually pay off, though. The move is risky and the setup is pretty stupid, it's going to take a wizard to pull it off without it ending as one of those "storylines we're going to forget were ever written" things.
So.... Rebirth #1 was A Thing That Happened. Has anyone read it yet? I bought my copy on Comixology last night and I read all 80 pages pretty darned fast.
I wouldn't say this is DC fixing the fact they've been screwing the pooch for five years (at least), but it reads like a step in the right direction. Right now they're apologizing to the pooch.
@Arkandel No, if you were better you would be wearing a Wonder Woman t-shirt. You're only slightly more adequate, for now 
I can wear polo shirts at work instead of stuffy button-up shirts.
I'm good.
@silentsophia Flashbacks to my teenage years watching the last episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion and shouting "What the fuck????" come back to me now.
@Thenomain Yeah. I know how you feel... I got hooked on some of Dadealic's adventure games and every. single. one that I've played ends with "And it all went to shit." Whispered World? The Deponia series? No, fuck you. And Night of the Rabbit? Semi happy with a cliffhanger ending of "It will all go to shit." Damned German developers and their Sturm Und Drang.
In minor gripes, I installed Spanish, French and Italian keyboards/languages on my phone. The way it's SUPPOSED to work is that you switch languages by swiping at the spacebar on the touch keyboard, and it displays the language it allegedly is using.
This is a lie.
Every time I type and the spacebar reads "English", I am flooded with suggestions of words in every conceivable language BUT English.
@Arkandel ... oh dear, Arky.
Tell you hwhat. When I get home from work today, I'll send you some links to look at.
For me, it all depends on the frequency of choice for them. I like my Visual Novels to have a pace similar to some dating sims in which you have a moderate chunk of plot and then a choice, rather than extremely long tracts of text before the next choice comes around.
There's a game by Winter Wolves called Loren the Amazon Princess that sort of blends visual novel/dating sim and RPG into one bundle... and I think it's simply glorious. Season of the Wolf is another game like that, though I haven't had a chance to play it yet.
I usually prefer a tasteful Morrel or Weimeraner color for my backgrounds- it is close enough to white that it reads as 'professional' but it's dark enough that it doesn't assault the eyes with the blazing fury of a thousand suns.
I'd be willing to help and play at some point. Right now I'm still not really paying, due to recent developments.
So yesterday at the MD Anderson, they gave us the initial results of the biopsy- mom has cancer, again.
We don't know if the cancer is metastasized yet or not- we will know the full details on Monday. However, the fact that my mother had cancer previously, and it was very aggressive, on her nose-
And the fact that it was excised and then radiation was used to attack the remains-
And the fact that she's been cancer-'free' for the past four years, only for another cancer to emerge now...
The odds are overwhelmingly in favor of this being a metastasis of the original cancer. Sometimes a new primary cancer appears instead of it being a metastasis... so she could conceivably have something like Hodgkin's Lymphoma on her collarbone....
Which, as bad as that is, would be a better case scenario than a metastasis. Treatment cannot cure bone metastasis. It can relieve pain, help prevent complications, improve your quality of life- such as it is, but it is effectively a death sentence.
So, hasa diga eebowai. Seriously. I'm angry, but unfortunately there isn't anyone I can direct that anger towards, if you know what I mean.
Sandor is the nothing about which he wants much ado done. The lows to which he has to resort to command attention shows you how desperate and starved he is.
@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
The new Star Wars movies seem to work really well - and they are led by ladies. Ray isn't a great heroine, she's a great character, and I can't wait to watch Rogue One when it comes out. Would I have liked a kick-ass Jedi guy spinning lightsabers? Sure, I watched Anakin do it for two movies and it was kind of blah, not because he wasn't male enough but because those films sucked. Conversely I can't bear to watch Aeon Flux or Resident Evil, but that's not because females star as action heroes in those, it's because they were horrible!
Why did you have to remind me Aeon Flux was a thing? Dear god, that movie was the cinematic equivalent of a Greyhound station bathroom in Amarillo, Texas.
@TNP said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
That's what I'd like. Characters who are played by whoever can do a better job, as long as we avoid pointless blackface phenomena. As long as it's not a stretch, that's all I can ask.
It would be nice. Hollywood only has to look at Broadway to see that race doesn't matter shit.
Or opera. There's no possible way you could confuse me for a 17th century Scottish man (unless he had been on a cruise through the Caribbean first), but I've done Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor- and I've seen Hispanic and black sopranos sing the role of Madam Butterfly (one of them was imposing and close to six feet tall, which would totally have disqualified you for Geisha training in 17th century Japan- but nobody gives a shit because holy hell her voice is pure sonic orgasm). But I guess there's a difference between opera and Broadway in that aspect- Opera requires suspension of disbelief, because it's not whether you 'look' a part that is important but whether you can sing it. Broadway does still have requirements for physical type ('look', height for specific roles), but it doesn't extend to race.
Damnit, Lithium... maybe it's because I am brain tired today, but the moment I read "Kobayashi Maru" my brain suddenly went "Let's cast William Shatner as Danny Rand."
Or maybe my brain is still scarred from the panther mind control semen thing that was just unveiled to me in that other thread.
@Kanye-Qwest I always thought that that, like the Ancient One, was a no-win scenario. Danny Rand was originally white, so if he's cast white then he's a "mighty whitey", but if they were to cast an Asian actor for him... honestly? "He's a kung-fu fighter so he has to be Asian" seems to me just as big of a stereotype.
For Dr. Strange, making the ancient one a Celtic immortal woman (how did she end up in Tibet? I guess she must be a Travelocity member?) was a creative way of dodging the damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't trap.
Of course, since Tilda Swinton already portrayed an immortal character in film before (Orlando, based on Virginia Woolf's novel), in my mind I'm going to go watch Dr. Strange pretending the Ancient One is Orlando.