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GloriousGbola:
Allow me to introduce you to teela brown of Larry niven's known space series

Don't do this to me, please. Don't make me jump on another novel series.

Nickshrapnel:
Yes, it is

Let's meet in the middle and say "No it isn't".

potland:
I want to be lucky like Domino.

Luck isn't a superpower

Weekend Watch List

- The Sea Beast (2022)

- 5 Centimeters per Second (2007)

Katcall:
So T'challa and ororoe once dated

Also got married.

Makoti Shinkai still cooking on this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w46IbYZCwM

ValeeLove:
I laughed a bit while reading this. My intention over the last months was not to make anybody feel bad, but to educate and enlighten wrestling fans and customers. And no, I am not some wrestling expert. I'm not a sport or entertainment guru, I'm even yet to own a business of my own. But in this dispensation those are irrelevant because the things I speak of ONLY require a brain to know and understand. They are commonsensical matters. People say prowrestling is entertainment hence the shinanegans are excused, I say prowrestling is sports and entertainment so the 2 elements shouldn't be neglected. But today there is little to less sport in it, the guys are mainly actors and choreographers; but when we surprisingly see sport(reality/shoot), our attention is gotten in a way that it hasn't over the long times of our viewing. And for many of us, we watch for the shoot angles only. People like Reigns' character because they feel he's real. It might be for a show, but maybe he's somewhat that backstage. It's the same reason CM Punk's pipe bomb blew up in popularity.

What Should WWE Look Like?

Since everyone in that company wants entertainment over sport, I propose 70% of entertainment and 30% of sport. Have a show that tells a movie-like story and ends up as a match in an arena. The story is not restricted to backstage areas alone and the camera is not acknowledged, like a movie. Not the perfect example, but see Adam Page's rise to prominence as an example. The only issue was the stories were told on a YouTube show and not on TV. The Attitude Era did a bit of this, it's no wonder why people liked it. Do this and you'll have your entertainment over sport and it will be ENJOYABLE, unlike the current product. The only downside is that your workers will be referred to as actors or mostly actors since it's more of entertainment.
If you want a real pro-wrestling product of equal emphasis on sport and entertainment without one going over the other, then what you need is a sports-based product(a slang though). What it means is that the story is between a good character and a bad character that is developed in a sports based form i.e like a real sport. There are no movie-like storylines here. No scripts. No choreography. Only predetermination which is based on who draws more money or who is a better performer. That way there is real sport competition going on there and the better performer not only goes over, but makes more money. Imagine how guys will work with this setting.
Yes I know, it wasn't like this in the past, but the truth is:
1. Pro-wrestling was built on the deceit that it was 100% real. So when you viewed trash, you didn't know it was so cos you had been coarsed to think it was a 100% real. That's why it grew and grows less popular as people are discovering the truth. It was also the reason why the movie-like story telling sold, cos if you thought it was 100% real and you saw a bad guy attack a good guy from behind or cheat to win or the Dusty finish or a brawl or anyother movie-like storyline we have grown to accept as normal which back then was a big deal, you were bound to give huge attention to it and their profit would skyrocket. These were the reason for the strict laws of kayfabe, cos if people knew the truth, people's source of livelyhood was threatened. You get it now? Let's give them a fake product, hotshot it, make tons of money quickly, keep our mouths shut and we'll keep on making money; if only they knew the internet was coming. So what happened after the hotshotting, the same thing that happens to anything hotshotted, people get bored of it and eventually see through it. But the funniest part and the irony is that the hotshotting which was used as a scam in the early days of Pro-wrestling is what we've grown to normalize today. It's what you Purpl3 refer to as "shenanigans". It's real shenanigans, it's also trash. That's like saying "we know you deceived us in the past when we didn't know the truth, now we know the truth and we oblidge to being continuously deceived because we never want to stop living in the illusion you created for us and we want to keep on having the same feeling we did back then" and that feeling will NEVER come no matter how many times you watch. Also that example is likened to drug addiction.
It's the reason why my proposal to the wrestling world seems boring. They've been used to hotshotted stuffs so much so that when they eventually hear of simple, true, real and effective methods they are quick to rebuke it and see such as boring. Back then when I used to watch the Ruthless Aggression era and I would watch matches with blood, hardcore and gimmick. And when it was time to watch a regular wrestling match, it felt boring and downright unwatchable. That's a serious problem. You claim to be a wrestling fan and yet can't do without gimmicks, can't do without the movie-like stories, can't do without gimmick matches even though you are well aware that you'll see good wrestling. It shows nothing else, but indoctrination into a wrong mindset about wrestling and only a re-learning and reorientation will enable people to know the truth.
2. Like every other part of life, we simply have to move on.
I'm not saying all about the old-timers was bad. They knew how to work, they knew how to talk, they could act. They were just a bit greedy and maybe confused. "Confused" is the word to describe modern wrestling. Confusion is not just relative to fans alone, even to the promoters. In where you work Purpl3, what does it take to get to the top? I'm sure you're not confused about that or about any other course of venture in life. Professional wrestling is the only venture where it isn't known what makes wrestlers successful, what 'gets them over'. In WWE they even had to make a word for it to show their cluelessness; they call it the "It" factor. What a load of trash. They are as confused as the fans, either that or they are scammers themselves. And that's why I strongly believe the business will go down or be sold in the long run and the signs are showing.
At the end of the day I can't tell you what to watch, but I hope I've if nothing else, demonstrated common sense.

On the point of choosing to be deceived, I'd like to point out that some of us simply transitioned from viewing WWE as a sport to viewing it as live theatre.

pu7pl3:
This guy just basically said I'm a fool and that I choose to remain so.
Issorite

I've never felt so called out in my life and, to make matter worse, I've actually said those things he pointed out in real life.

DandeNumeruno:
The Dragon Riders.

I need the best hands and a good portion of the budget to be dedicated to the battle between Daemon and Aemond Targaryen.

Xavier5:
Stargirl season 3 trailer

YOUTUBE LINK:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D3JHnpoahIvw&ved=2ahUKEwir-MOStfj4AhWbi_0HHYOsDcAQwqsBegQIBhAF&usg=AOvVaw0_XF16fn7-ONpVm6O2x-CP


#Xavier
#DCian

YEEEESSSSHH!!

pu7pl3:
please remind me again
Who is padre pio?

Catholic saint. Possessed the stigmata (bodily wounds of Christ's crucifixion) on his palms, feet and chest.

Baddestguyp:
check thread...
We listed about 10

Wait! Those were supposed to be actual criticism? I honestly thought y'all were just having a laugh

CAPdan21:
Personally I wouldn't have nominated either of them but Sink definitely gave the better performance....The way things are now, if my dog appeared in succession it would get nominated..

Maybe your dog is an acting prodigy but you just don't know

DoveXlover:
I don't forking care what you think.
This woman deserves an Emmy for her role in Yellowstone.
She deserves it mehn!!!!!!!!!!

Fork the Emmy, like I've noticed that shows that are anti woke don't get nominations.
Shows that refuses to show their gayyy and lesbiannnn nonsense are being snub and i know this is why they keep ignoring Yellowstone but Damm!!!!!! Beth deserves an Emmy.
Please use your church mind to judge this issue.

What happened to your OhBritannia account?

DoveXlover:
Yellowstone didn't even get a single nomination.

The wheel of time didn't get a nomination.

Vikings vahala is a great show.

The last kingdom.

Peaky blinders

Wetin you wan nominate The Wheel of Time for?

Baddestguyp:
just pointing out another of the many issues of convenience in the story...
The very least the writers could do was keep things consistent

"I choose not to accept this plot point/explanation until every minute detail and atom of it has been painstakingly explained to me" is not an issue of convenience in the story. That's just someone being deliberately obtuse.

So far no one has actually pointed out any actual inconsistence in the writing. Just about every point brought up has been reasonably addressed and cleared.

Funny how the reason we are all breaking down the story this much is cos a marvel fanboys decided we must all rate MOM 10/10 and ignore all the flaws just cos he did

This one is sha just in your head because nothing like this happened on this thread at all.

Baddestguyp:
saying she can destroy a book in different universes all at once is basically saying she can instantly kill a person across all universes at once

So where are you going with this?

Baddestguyp:
this is no explanation...

Destroying a book in 100s of universes all at once?

She can summon creatures in different universes. Why is destroying a book in different universes such a big deal?
This is desperate levels of nitpicking

Baddestguyp:
how was Wanda able to destroy all versions of the Darkhold...even those that exist in all the different universes

Same way she was able to send demons after America Chavez across different universes.

Baddestguyp:
it's clearly poor writing ...
That's why it's a popcorn movie...
It's viewers are expected to enjoy without thinking about it...
Nothing makes sense... nothing is explained to make sense

If you want to watch MCU movies as popcorn flicks, that's completely OK. But deliberately being obtuse on well-established plot points just to claim the movies don't make sense is not a good look.

There's literally no difference between you and someone who claims AoT isn't a good story because "it's just a cartoon".

Baddestguyp:
his analogy on alcohol still holds water even more with your explanation...
Cos as you said, she did destroy it...so it definitely wasn't controlling her...at best she was tempted and not controlled


Also how exactly did she affect all the universes at once by destroying the book across all universes...?

Corrupted, not controlled. Don't remember either me or anyone else saying the Darkhold was controlling her. At least, not directly.

His analogy on alcohol makes zero sense because the Darkhold is not something to even be used moderately. You can't use the Darkhold responsibly. If Earth-616 had continued to use the Darkhold, he would have ended up wreaking untold havoc eventually.

Rephrase your question please.

Baddestguyp:
lol...
Till this day, I cannot understand why people watch shows like Superman and Lois, The Flash, Supergirl, Batwoman, The Blacklist, Arrow, etc
I can understand Blacklist a little cos it looked promising at the beginning...

For all the others, is it that they have nothing to watch?

They find them entertaining.
Also Superman and Lois has been a good show so far, from what I've heard.

BlackManta:
HOW EXACTLY DOES THE DARKHOLD CORRUPT?


Seriously, how? There's no reason for it to do that. It serves no purpose for the book specifically. There are other examples of items corrupting wielders but those work because they serve a purpose.

The One Ring has Sauron's power tied to it. It makes sense that he would make it so that anyone who had the ring would be tempted by its power and wouldn't want to destroy it thus Sauron can still survive if he "dies". Some of Voldemort's horcruxes have this function. The necklace makes the wielder more unstable thus affecting their decision making which could make it easier for Voldy to retrieve it when he finds out it's missing. The diary allows him to possess the wielder and manipulate them into his bidding at least to some extent. Ignoring the horrible execution in Harry Potter, the concept is still understandable. In both these cases, the corrupting artifacts are borderline indestructible with very few things being able to destroy them.

Obviously there are things that corrupt people in fiction for no particular reason. Like the Goblin Serum or the Lizard Serum in Spider-Man and TASM respectively. But these make sense. They are dangerous chemicals that were injected into the creator out of desperation and injecting shit that seriously alters your biology can definitely do shit to your brain. It's not a living thing like the Venom Symbiote which in some versions, is either a feral bloodthirsty animal (Ultimate Comics), an evil angry and hateful monster (90s TAS, 2017, Spectacular Spider-Man),or somewhere in somewhere in between (SM3).

None of this applies to the Darkhold. It's not trying to bring back its creator or keep him from dying. It's not a thing that coincidentally corrupts you. It's not an actual living thing. The creator placed that effect on the Darkhold intentionally for no reason at all only for the sake of the plot.

Honestly, the movie's not actually clear on what it does to the user. Seemed more like a general temptation thing to me and in fact the movie just says "it takes a heavy toll".

Wanda seems to have actively and intentionally sought to use the book and there's absolutely no clear indication she got drawn to it by any corrupting force.

Side Note: Darkhold excuse completely exempts Agatha from any wrongdoing even from the writers' pov

The user gradually loses their humanity the more they use it, till they eventually don't even care about the costs anymore. Earth-616 Strange used it only once and got a third eye.
What do the Strange that destroyed his universe and Wanda have in common? They were both consumed with grief. And once they got their hands on the Darkhold, they both ended up wreaking destruction on massive scales.
The lore does a good enough job establishing the Darkhold as a force of evil. You're just basically asking to be spoonfed the workings of a plot device in chunky bits with a sippy cup, at this point.

Hope2014:
Is it worth watching

Which kind question be this?

BlackManta:
.

Man watched Wanda go on a murderous spree. Saw a universe that collapsed due to its Dr Strange using the Darkhold but wants a PowerPoint presentation on the Darkhold's corruption.

If the Darkhold wasn't a factor to Wanda's villainy, why did she destroy it at the end of the movie? Why didn't she leave it for a good person to make proper use of it? Why was Wong bothered that Strange used it and why did Wanda call Strange a hypocrite for using the Darkhold?

BlackManta:
Shang Chi is way better than badly written MoM

Shang Chi has :

Better characters
Fantastic villain
Better action sequences
Better pacing
Better story with fewer plot holes if any
Better re-watchability value
Far more entertaining

I'm not a big fan of Shang Chi. I liked it, didn't love it.

But seeing the mid after mid that Marvel is dropping in phase 4, I've come to appreciate Shang Chi even more

Better Characters how?

Lol! Man said "fantastic villain". Abeg! Na by wearing bangles?

Better action sequences is negligible.

How many plot holes did MoM have again?

What does better rewatchabilty value even mean and how does it point to a movie being better?

Fast Five is more entertaining than Interstellar. Does that make Fast Five a better movie than Interstellar?

GloriousGbola:
Additional clarity of your reply - the hobbit movies are a prequel to the Lord of the rings movies.

They were filmed after the Lord of the rings

An insane cash grab where an 80 page children's book was stretched into a trilogy.

The elf scenes were cool, I'll give them that. Kinda pissed that they starved an actual character from the books of screentime though.

DieRich5:
I finally rewatch it now fully waiting for next 2 months for the series, zero idea if the series is b4 or after

I download the hobbit part 1 ND I don't really feel it Now I understand why I didn't watch it back dem

The series takes place waaaaaayyyy before the movies.

Baddestguyp:
I heard they are good?
Is that wrong?

They're as good as Multiverse of Madness.

Baddestguyp:
I don't watch all tho...
I only watch some and I haven't seen anything good so far in phase 4

I heard Shang Chi and Wandavision (asides ending) are the only good project so far but I haven't seen them...will definitely watch someday

You hate MoM, but you want to watch Shang Chi and WandaVision? Okay now

Baddestguyp:
More quantity than quality

You watch all of them so why should they be picky when you're not?

I just love how well-spaced my 2023 content has been

Harley Quinn S3 premiering halfway through Westworld S4.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFZhq7y_hfg