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agarawu23:
BIG grammars we can't understand until we check our dico. some are not even in the dictionary

The only word I didn't understand was diaphenous, which was misspelt (it should be diaphanous). And checking its meaning, the matter is certainly not light, delicate or translucent...

crixlight2:
what type of torch, torch wey dey use battery?

Well according to Wikipedia, it is powered by a power plant, so it does use a battery.

A power plant was installed on the island to light the torch and for other electrical needs.

None of the above. Her right hand holds a torch, her left hand holds a tablet.

moneyallowed:
Tbf to Star-Lord he has access to technology no one on earth has seen. With his Jet Boots & Element Guns, he could hide behind a tree and take Cap from behind . If it comes down to hand-to-hand fighting though, he's dead. Rocket or no Rocket
Which begs the question, who would win a fight between the new Avengers and The Guardians? I'm thinking Avengers. Vision alone should be enough

The whole Star-Lord vs Cap reminds me of the fight scene in Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark. The guy comes out with all those sword tricks and Indy just shoots him, and since Star-Lord definitely watched that film before his abduction (he did mention the Ark during the scene when he was talking about the Orb in the Kyln), he'd pull that stunt real quick.

moneyallowed:
Cool pics, what's her obsession with dumpsters anyway
Do you think the series will be faithful to her comics as Daredevil stayed true to his? Cos if they stick to her source material we'll get one hell of an R rated show. In the comics, Jessica Jones swears a lot, drinks like a fish, & screws around like a ....you know what i'm getting. Add the fights and you have the whole SNVL-Sex,Nudity,Violence,Language.
Captain America would not approve. Any chance he appears in a cameo just to warn her and scream "Language!"

Well, I know Ritter can swear with the best of them, and she did play the eponymous b**** in Don't Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 with absolute relish. Since this is Netflix, I expect they'll do her justice.

ExInferis:
i watched Chappie last night with elevated expectations (me being a sci-fi buff) and i must say the experience was terrible. After the brilliant District 9 i had high hopes for director Neill Blomkamp, i even forgave him for the tepid Elysium, but this...this is a travesty. who ever funded the production of chappie needs to be shot, along with Blomkamp, his wife, sigourney weaver, and hugh jackman.

this film is so bad, so terrible, so useless, so riddled with gaping plotholes they literally appear like sinkholes in every scene.

without much ado, here is everything wrong with Chappie in bulletpoints:

1. Future south africa decides robocops are a good idea, but neglected to have a backup plan in case the machines--being machines--failed. Also the government didnt care much for supervising the main armament and robotics manufacturer.

2. Tetravaal, the company making the robots, looks more like an accounting firm than a robot mass producer. its chief scientists and enginners huddle over desks instead of research labs. Heck, even the singular brains behind the company's only successful product has a small table in the midst of the clerical hoi polloi.

3. Tetravaal is the most bullsh1t company ever when it comes to security. The main Guard Key, the master key to the robots firmware is a mere USB key, which is very much copyable, and is kept in the most unsecure room with nary a guard nor camera, nor alarms, nor any sort of protection. evidently anyone can just walk in and pick it up.

4. the engineers have a great degree of latitude within the compoany. they come and go as they please, access any facility, open any door, enter any level, access every computer and programs, and run whatever code, even malware. all the while there are no guards, no cameras, no alarms, no forms to sign, no permissions to be asked.

5. Tetravaal fully funds the Moose program run by the villain vincent but yet discarded it because it was "big, lumbering, over powered". Er, didnt you see the AutoCad before commission millions, probably billions, to build a fully functional vertsion of the darn thing?

6. Appaerently Tetravaal emnployees, even the ones who work in high security and sensitive projects, are not under protective surveillance.

7. in the wacky and improbable world of Chappie, a computer programmer can create a fully functional "human consciousness" in a matter of hours. And have said program ready for deployment without test running.

8. Deon is apparently the only human being capable of writing complex code completely free of bugs. im a programmer, and even for a few hundreds of lines of code, i spend a great deal of time debugging. i tried creating a first person shooter game with Blender and later Unreal and tons of prefab resources, with only 15 thousand lines of code but the scripting (in python) nearly ruined me after countless cans of Redbull. gave up after 2 years and just one serviceable map barely 500 square meters.

9. so after the bullsh1t "consciousness" update (ChappieConsciousness.dat file, haha) chappie started off as nothing more than a curious child who could only mimic gestures and parrot spoken phrases. a few scenes later he was blabbing nonstop and questioning human propensities with none of the mental progression expected.

10. If the moose robot was controlled via telekinesis using a daft VR-like contraption called a "neural helmet", why was vincent using a HOTAS stick to control the stup1d thing?

11. so all the robocops were wiped out via a malware and the wonky USB guard key thingy, and the police has no contingency plans so criminals are free to roam and cause bloody mayhem. so where was the army? the national guard? anyone? why was there no sense of panic in joburg and even within tetravaal iteself?

12. vincent, in the ofice on a monday morning, physically attacked Deon the star employee of tetravaal and even threatened him with a gun in full glare of every one. and vincent didnt even get a query from HR?

13. Deon finds out that vincent was responsible for bricking the robocops, and instead of reporting to the CEO or whoever, deon fumingly storms to vincent's pathetic workstation, an in front of everyone, deon threatens to spill the beans and expose vincent. he never did.

14. the gangsters of joburg are a joke. so is joburg law enforcement. a couple of villains and chappie robbed a bullion van on TV and no one bothered to trace the villains.

15. why do both deon and vincent have unfettered access to their robotic creations? why should vincent have full access to a militarily formidable and fully armed robot without any checks and balances or oversight?

16. why is a fully functional robot (the one chappie gets transferred into at the end) a prototype?

17. how can chappie, a robot running off a hard disk, transafer his consciousness using a neural helmet? isnt a neural helmet meant for reading human brain scans?

18. if the USB key needs to be physically plugged into the robots to be firmware upgraded (or virus infected), how come vincent only needed to plug it into some random Acer desktop only to upload his malware?

19. as regards 18 above, how were they able to upload Yolandi's consciousness remotely? didnt they need the master key again? and why is the preoduction facility still powered and online since the government banned all further output?

20. so Tetravaal has the most insecure network and computers that can logged into remotely to design, build, and program a robot? if it can be done remotely why does anyone come to work?

21. so how do they plan on getting yolandi out of the tetravaal facility after building her, seeing as robot production was banned?


these are just some of the plotholes, inconsistencies, and poorly realized internal logic of chappie. the acting is even worse, the theme hammy and handfisted, the motivations questionable, the plot tedious, and the endless deus ex machina laughable in its frequency and absurdity.

in a word, chappie is a terrible movie, the year's worst after jupiter ascending.

chappie is for sado-masochists only. please avoid

I don't know why avoided this, but it seems I made a good choice.

Currently watching The Heat.

WhiteAndBlue:
LOL, great for u at America.

I'm in the UK. It would still cost me an arm and a leg, obviously less than the Nigerian cost - two arms and legs.

WhiteAndBlue:
http://www.amazon.com/game-download-Deals/b?&tag=hotpicker-20&node=7266959011

Assassin's Creed Rogue is $12.50.
Dark Souls Prepare to Die is $5.00
Manhunt 1 & 2 combo pack is $5.00
Transformers Fall of Cybertron is $12.50

Tons more of course.

Then by the time they deliver it to Nigeria, all your savings don go.

First pics of Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones.

Indifferent:
Fantastic Four should replace and thor didn't make the list?

As much as I love Thor, it shouldn't even smell the list, although I'll give Asgard a special mention - it did look stunning. It had the things that could make it a great superhero film, but it merely is an enjoyable one (Loki should clap for himself & I also have a soft spot for Darcy Lewis and Thor's body). FF shouldn't really place either, it's been a while since I've seen this, but I know after the smoke (the fact that FF finally came to the big screen) cleared it just isn't a film that holds up with time, I still enjoyed it though.

Since I'm too lazy to keep writing every song in the current playlist I'm listening to, here's the screenshot.

The Troubles by U2 ft. Lykke Li.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLhtPtR4IQk

Salute by Little Mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjpa0SMOug0

Didn't know about no. 8, just cracked myself up.

Chandrettan Evideya.

EDIT: Spy was bloody awesome. Plenty action, plenty comedy.

Spy.
Pele, it's the cinema, I can't help you with any downloads.

gj22:
Wow. I just realised I have watched the first 3. I remember searching for them on YouTube but couldn't find the rest. The audio quality was poor tho in the version I watched. Any idea why they killed them off?

**shrugs** the only reason I discovered them was that All Hail to the King was a very popular torrent on kickass, so I got it then got the rest immediately after.

Oh my days, it didn't even click that Kung Fury was the Kickstarter film I was dying to watch...sweet! I'll get to it later.

kazzonline:
Link to download abi na theater tinz??

Currently streaming it.

Survivor.

moneyallowed:
Nna mehn i haven't o. How many one-shots are there in total? So i know how much catching up i have to do

I'm too lazy, so I'll quote myself...

cao:
No. There are currently 5 in total.
1. The Consultant: Set after Iron Man 2 & Incredible Hulk, it's simply a conversation between Agents Coulson & Sitwell. TPTB want the Abomination for the Avengers Initiative, of course Fury doesn't want that crazy SOB, so Coulson & Sitwell sabotage it by sending Tony Stark to talk to General Ross. About 4 mins long. This was released with the Thor Blu-Ray.

2. A Funny Thing Happens on the Way to Thor's Hammer: Well that's self-explanatory. A robbery happens in the gas station, while Coulson's buying snacks. Slow-mo action happens, then he leaves. About 4 mins long. This was released with Captain America:TFA BR.

3. Item 47: Set immediately after the Avengers. A couple activate a Chitauri weapon, then they go bank robbing, as you do. SHIELD is having none of that. About 12 minutes long. This was released with the Avengers BR.

4. Agent Carter: Well, I've already explained that one. This was released with the Iron Man 3 BR.

5. All Hail the King: Set after Iron Man 3, follows the Fake Mandarin, whose being interviewed in prison. This was the first one I watched, before I worked backwards. Let's just say Trevor Slattery still doesn't understand the mess he's in, since by the end of the short we find out his interviewer, Jackson Norriss, is working for the real Ten Rings. He breaks Trevor out of prison to meet the Mandarin. Trevor is still clueless. About 14 mins long. Released with the Thor: The Dark World BR.

Also, watch out for the mid-credit and post credit scenes. Unfortunately, they didn't release any short with the Captain America:TWS BR. Here's hoping they do something for GotG BR.

A genius would have known to post this in the Forum Games section...

moneyallowed:
Even the one-shots? Wow

Wait a sec, you didn't watch the One-Shots?! Dude...c'mon son, that's why I was excited about the Agent Carter series, her Marvel One-Short was awesome. Shame they stopped them.

Man Up.

You're rather late to the party...
https://www.nairaland.com/2342630/ea-sport-announce-1st-new

steppin:
Cry me a river!
Complaints all the time! "Don't expect miracles! Give us time! We're left with heavy debt! So?
Abeg, make una do una work!

Reminds me of the "there's no money left" note that Labour left after they were voted out. Infact David Cameron used it as a prop for the recent election...

LXStudio:
I think I'll upload a video to youtube and post the link here. That would be the best demonstration of the gameplay.

@cao yeah for sure just send me your email and I'll add you to the testers list, then you'll be able to download the game and play.

- Bisong.

No worries, I'll PM you.

moneyallowed:
thumbs up cao. Way to go girl!

I didn't do anything, it's not mine-o...I no dey anywhere near Canada. Although, if LXStudio are interested I could actually test it, since it is my day job...