Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

He doesn't even look anything like James Woods!

I'm honestly kind of sad the Ferrell/O'Reilly version was, at least from what I've read, not great. But Ferrell is spectacularly hit-and-miss in the cinema anyway.

Prederick wrote:

I'm honestly kind of sad the Ferrell/O'Reilly version was, at least from what I've read, not great. But Ferrell is spectacularly hit-and-miss in the cinema anyway.

I don't get why the reception to it was so bad. It wasn't good but there was still some pretty funny stuff. I wonder if people thought they were going to watch an actual Sherlock Holmes movie.

iaintgotnopants wrote:
Prederick wrote:

I'm honestly kind of sad the Ferrell/O'Reilly version was, at least from what I've read, not great. But Ferrell is spectacularly hit-and-miss in the cinema anyway.

I don't get why the reception to it was so bad. It wasn't good but there was still some pretty funny stuff. I wonder if people thought they were going to watch an actual Sherlock Holmes movie.

From what I read, it just was kind of the same old Ferrell humor, but I'd give it a shot if it ever came to Netflix or something.

My favorite Sherlock:

And in keeping with the topic of the thread, I’m listening to far more Post Malone than could possibly be healthy.

Watch Dogs 2 has some of the most fun dress-up since Resonance of Fate.

I enjoyed WD2 way more than the first.

It's much better than I expected. I grabbed it kinda randomly because a friend liked it, but it's got a great vibe. Way better than the super-grim-and-serious first game.

Hah! I just installed it yesterday. Haven't played much but the first thing I did was drive over to Pier 39 to check out the seals. They were right where they should be! (My wife and I were just there last year)

Jayhawker wrote:

My favorite Sherlock:

McKellan does a fine job, but the story just isn't that interesting.

SallyNasty wrote:

I enjoyed WD2 way more than the first.

I massively loved everything about WD2 except the insipid story. The whole "dudes the city is in peril but we will save it with social media because we're millennials yo" thing really grated. If it was done tongue in cheek it could have worked, but it tried to be Very Serious at the same time, and the ludonarrative dissonance was just generally extreme.

I remember being at the very end fighting the big bad guy, with no clear idea what was so bad about him except that he was smarmy and had a man-bun.

Still a great game, would play again (skipping the cutscenes).

I never heard of people using WD2 just WD40. I'm not sure why you would use it in a fight. Do bad guys squeak now? Also it would make them to slippery to hold on to. Oh is WD2 less slippery than WD40. hmmm if so I guess it makes sense to use it on bad guys.

I genuinely believe there is no way to properly fold a fitted sheet. Its a plot.

I effectively have two desks now: one that was moved to a suite way down the hall and a stand-up station just off of the lab I work for. I've had to buy a second water bottle and coffee cup. NBD, expect that I have left so many half drunk* cups of coffee behind over the past week.

* Half drank? Half drunkered?

Half finished.

Half-full.

IT has become clear to me that Mary Poppins and Pennywise are one and the same or at least the same species. Both show up every 27 years or so. Both are attracted to children, gross. Both have reality warping powers. Both have a thing of making people float.

You might say but Baron they don't look alike at all. Come on think about it. Pennywise can change his shape. His true form isn't a clown. That is just one of his many costumes. Think about this, they both like frills, umbrellas, balloons, and have the same dance moves. q

Consider that Mary Poppins thinks she is practically perfect in every way. Pennywise thinks he is best thing since slice bread. The ego on these monsters are one in the same.

I will grant you that one seems to feed on death and fear and the other joy and happiness. Hey we can't have pizza every day. A immortal being probably needs a balance diet.

Wake up people.

Wait, are we saying that....Ben is Glory?

I have a different, though related, read on Mary Poppins.

Mary Poppins is omniscient, omnipotent and only interested in the wellbeing of children, and wrathful to those who wish those children harm.

Sound like anyone?

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Jonman wrote:

I have a different, though related, read on Mary Poppins.

Mary Poppins is omniscient, omnipotent and only interested in the wellbeing of children, and wrathful to those who wish those children harm.

Sound like anyone?

Yes, she does sound like Demeter

Hrdina wrote:

Too bad Amazon Prime wasn't around 15 years or so ago to rescue Farscape like they did for the Expanse. :(

Not exactly prescient (since they're not making new episodes), but close!

‘Farscape’ comes to Amazon Prime Video on March 19th

I think I'll go wake up the Farscape thread...

I know I work with allegedly civilized people, but the refrigerator at my job is what I'd expect if I worked with a pack of jackals. And that's being mean to the jackals.

And so it is written, for every office, a bioterrorist.

Schnitz doesn't have ranch sauce any more. I'm not sure how much actual ranch* it was given it tasted like just sour cream with dill in it, but that taste was awesome. My life is ruined.

*I dunno what's in normal ranch dressing

So I watched about 90 minutes of Infinity War last night, and I'm just amazed at how much I've disengaged from the MCU. It's not that I think it's bad, and I certainly do not begrudge or judge everyone else for loving it and being excited for Endgame. I'm just a little surprised that my overwhelming feeling while watching IW was "this is nice and the jokes are fairly punchy, but I'm not really invested or anything."

I absolutely think there have been some great MCU movies (I enjoyed Thor: Ragnarok, for instance) but by and large, most of the MCU output today just kinda leaves me going "Eh, that was nice enough," which is weird to me because I remember when this started I thought I was going to be all the way in on all of it.

You get older and your tastes change, I guess.

The whole connected universe thing was a neat idea, but the more films that get made, the less interested I become. When I started reading comics a few years ago, I got really excited about Marvel's Civil War event. It was great at first, but soon, trying to track down all of the issues, and realizing you had to read numbers of issues in a run, then stop and switch to a different franchise, and the path just became ridiculous.

I never got to the end of the event. I finally just got burned out. What MCU had going for it was that I was there at the beginning. But the weight of it all is really dragging it down, regardless of how good the films are.

Imagine trying to watch Marvel movies starting right now, today. You have several franchise with multiple films. but you can't watch any of those at one, you need to bounce from franchise to franchise to get the story the right way. It's a scheme publishers use keep you invested, but it also ends up making hard to jump in later.

I fell off of the MCU on Netflix even faster.

After how great Thor RAGNAROK was going grim dark in infinity war was not what I wanted. It just wasn't fun.

I think Scientific Railgun and Magical Index are how you do an interconnected universe. They are connected series, but each of them stands alone, as does Scientific Accelerator. You don't need to bother with any of the other series to make sense and appreciate what each has to offer, but if you watch the second series, having watched the other series gives you more a sense of overarching events when each series offers a different perspective on a common event.

Each series is a valid entry point, and you can quit out at any time you wish. It's also interesting in that Index is basically a harem show, Railgun is basically a magical girl show, and Accelerator is an antihero show, so they have different sorts of takes on stories, even though they're all taking place simultaneously in the same city.