The Like/Hate Thread

[Ashe]

There was a scene after the post-credits? God be danged.

I loved the movie. Laughed and had a few squealy moments.

Yeah, I didn't hang around for a second post-credits scene and hadn't heard of one.

Hate: So when I bought my car, it came with a satellite radio spliced in (I don't know how to actually start the service and stuff though). I have found that it works as a Line In for plugging in things like IPods, Zunes, or as I found recently, my cell phone to then load Pandora. The problem is that it seems to insist on using the 107.7 frequency for where it wants to output my sound. This blows, because 107.7 is a very strong signalling rap station, Power 107. So I can turn my music up and be enjoying something innocent and awesome on my Pandora like this and can so much as cross a street and suddenly, and very authoritatively, find this instead, at full blast volume (line in stuff seems to want to play things at half the volume as radio) and me suddenly going "WTFWTFWTF" and trying to move my phone wire around to get my signal back on track. Then its gone. Until later, when Kanye West decides he wants some input in what I'm listening to.

[Ashe]

Like: A lot.

So I got $4000 worth of my Magic collection stolen from my house recently (and yes, I have totaled the cost as I have printouts of the person's sales invoice on it, and I'm not going into further details about it for personal reasons), so I've been enraged about Magic stuff for a few weeks.

Thankfully, I just opened the following pack on Magic Online, which does give me some happiness.

EDIT: Ok, it won't let me make it larger so have to prob edit the pic and upload it somewhere.

EDIT2: FUCK IT, FOIL TARMOGOYF.

EDIT3: Might see if I can trade it for two nonfoils to get more value from it as far as needing 4 for decks goes.

[Android 17]

Like: Getting promoted at the end of the month after only working at this place for like, two months.

[Dehan]

Like beating Mass Effect 2 and now about to play through ME3...but maybe I should wait. I dunno.

Think I'll play through ME2 again as a renegade Biotic.

[Vad]

Like beating Mass Effect 2 and now about to play through ME3...but maybe I should wait. I dunno.

Think I'll play through ME2 again as a renegade Biotic.

Save that for after your ME3 play through.

[Dehan]

Already beat ME3 as a Soldier. Playing through as Sentinel now. May change to an Adept since I'm not too far in with my ME2 import.

Feels funny not having the adrenaline rush to get clean head shots but I will make due.

[Sage]

Pure soldier is so op it makes all the other classes just seem like... icing.

I went Adept thru ME1-3 but... yeah. Sure I can blow things up and throw people around and make fights look super cool but all soldiers need is ADRENALINE RUSH + REVENANT KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL.

It just kinda cheapened it for me. Still, soldier on multiplayer is broken good times.

[Pinky]

I keep forgetting that ME3 has a single player campaign. Beat it once a while back just to complete the series, but after that it's been all multiplayer.

Just unlocked the Talon. A pistol that uses shotgun ammunition and is stronger than the Eviscerator? Unlike shotguns it gets the accuracy bonus when firing from cover. My Batarian Sentinel couldn't be happier.

[Belle Hibiki]

Hate: Dark Shadows.

Seriously. Fuck you, movie.

[Kayne]

What's wrong with it? I haven't seen it yet. I also do not mind spoilers, but really, what's wrong with it? Too much Johnny Depp?

[Jonathan Meer]

Just watched the trailer. Looks really stupid.

[Belle Hibiki]

I think it's about the time that Depp murders a second group of innocent people in cold blood that I started to wonder "uhm... who's the protagonist in this movie?" It's really amazing how unlikable they made him.

Off the top of my head:
[spoiler]
- Murders a crew of 11 construction workers who were the ones who dug up his coffin and freed him.

- Mindrapes the well-meaning if drunk family groundskeeper into becoming his dutiful servant.

- When he can't get fishing boat captains to sign back on with his family's cannery by offering a better deal - because, as their leader says, there is such a thing as 'loyalty' - mindrapes the leader into betraying those loyalties.

- Seeks love advice (don't ask) from a group of flower children that we had seen earlier in the movie giving the female love interest a lift ... and after learning some trite but good stuff, announces that he's going to kill them. And then does. You could make the argument that murdering the construction workers was a craze brought on by being locked in a box and unable to feed for two centuries, but this?

- After promising that he wouldn't use his powers on anyone under his roof, murders the doctor when he finds out that, while she's been giving him transfusions of human blood to attempt to cure him, she's been putting the vampire blood she's taken from him (which he no longer needs/wants) into herself. It's established earlier in the movie that she's afraid of getting old, and she's actually kind of sympathetic (if somewhat pathetic), so the scene is just all kinds of horrible. Then he has the mindraped groundskeeper help dump her body in the ocean.

- Proclaims his first love was his one true love again and again, then falls for .. .. I guess what is supposed to be her spiritual successor. That's not the bad part; the bad part is that, even though he has these feelings for this new girl, he happily lets the female doctor he's eventually going to murder give him a blowjob and fucks the witch that cursed him in the first place. You might think these incidents would come back to bite him in the ass when he's trying to woo the romantic interest, but no. They're never mentioned again.

Ending spoiler:
[spoiler]- After learning that his romantic interest was put in a mental hospital as a child for seeing ghosts, that she spent her entire life until her escape wishing for the warmth of the sun, that she could never be with him because he's a creature of the night ... Turns her into a vampire rather than let her die.[/spoiler][/spoiler]

There's more parts than that, I'm sure. There was a point where I was wondering if they were going to take this corruption and work it into the story - his zealous desire to protect his family would lead him to take extreme actions that would eventually lead to their destruction/his undoing. Wrong again. He's never made to answer for ANY of this, nor does he show any guilt or regret. It becomes hard to make the case that Depp's character, Barnabus, is not just as evil if not worse than the villain.

There are some funny parts, but you see most of them in the trailer. They're few and far between, and almost vanish completely after the first act. The climax is - I literally face-palmed at it. I detailed some of the alleged protagonist's deeds above, but that's certainly not all that's wrong here. So many plot threads left hanging, so many points raised and then dropped, so many pointless scenes and logical holes...

Maybe if the story was completely farcical, it could get away with it, but that's definitely NOT the tone the movie strikes. In the end, I left the theater confused instead of satisfied.

Seriously, don't see this movie. Just go watch the Avengers again. It's what I wish I'd done.

[Vad]

Hate: wtb single female in Ohio that doesn't have a kid, a crazy ex-boyfriend, or enters a relationship thinking I'm the devil.

Fuck you, life. Fuck you. If I knew where you lived I'd come and kill you. D:

[Super Buu]

Dark Shadows looks to me like they were like "man, all the laydees love Johnny Depp when he's being all gothy. We should make one of those movies." Then just came up with a plot to tack onto that premise for EASY MONEY. Apparently though (I only just wikipedia'd it) it's actually based on a thing? Wouldn't have guessed.

[Sage]

Pure soldier is so op it makes all the other classes just seem like... icing.

I went Adept thru ME1-3 but... yeah. Sure I can blow things up and throw people around and make fights look super cool but all soldiers need is ADRENALINE RUSH + REVENANT KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL.

It just kinda cheapened it for me. Still, soldier on multiplayer is broken good times.

Hate: Posting in the wrong thread. My bad.

[Jarka]

Hate: Within the past two weeks, my supervisor was dumb enough to try to get me in trouble for something major he did wrong on two separate occasions.

Love: Hahahahahaahahahah that's going to bite you in the ass, nincompoop. For one, your bosses like me more than you. For two, I turned the customer disappoints into happy customers that raved about how I worked with them to solve their issue - one demanded I give him the general manager's contact information so he can notify her of how great I was with him. Good karma is best karma.

[Super Buu]

What a dick (him) What a pro (you)

[Undrask]

@ Bell:

I think that trying to create a line between the good guy/bad guy, especially in film, is kind of overrated. There are interesting people that are "evil" and are worthy of being captivating and interesting, even if they don't abide by our morals.

Sure, the grey line is usually more captivating and compelling like, "not sure if right or wrong" but some downright evil mofos have interesting stories to tell too. In fact, I'm writing a story about some downright evil mofos. It's fun shit.

[Kayne]

Seriously, don't see this movie. Just go watch the Avengers again. It's what I wish I'd done.

Sounds like a plan. I could go for some more Robert Downey Jr. in my life.

[Waffuru]

Yeah, it's my understanding if you didn't watch the 1960's Dark Shadows you probably won't like the movie.