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1 hour ago, F-ZeroOne said:

And no, I won't be the first to point out that the current season is leaning quite heavily on the door marked "fantasy".

Not that the Toymaker's last appearance wasn't a huge indication of where they were going this season...

"The Devil's Chord" has been my favorite episode this season. "Space Babies"...that boogey monster...🤢🤮

Yes, chef!

1 hour ago, no3Ljm said:

Thanks. So in other words, Collector's Edition is not going to have the 'premium remaster treatment', correct?

The Premium is the Bandai Visual/Japan release. The Collector's Ed looks to be Anime Ltd's release. As for the differences, Anime Ltd haven't disclosed what's in the Collector's Ed-release. As I mentioned above, I suspect Anime Ltd. is using the Premium's remastered footage in their release. So you are likely getting the same remastered footage, but same/different(?) extras.

1 hour ago, ScrambledValkyrie said:

So this would essentially be the WWM version? I already sprang for the recent Japanese remaster since it had English subs.

It's probably using that same re-master copy. So I'd wager if you bought the re-master released in February, you've bought this release already. Plus or minus whatever extras are in this release.

Wonder if this is their formal-wear wardrobe. I was expecting Delirium's costume to be less goth and more colorful. Yeah, it's probably their formal-wear since Destruction/The Prodigal is usually depicted as wearing a tank top or unbuttoned shirt and jeans (i.e. he withdrew/retired) and not armor.

Now Comcast wants in on the bundles.

Comcast to Launch Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ Bundle at a ‘Vastly Reduced Price’ (Variety)

3 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

Watching the new trailer I am left wondering if this is moving faster than I thought it was. 

Hence my post.

57 minutes ago, Duke Togo said:

The show ended where the book did. The story was finished. 

Exactly.

 If Clavell lived to write another book after Gai-jin, it would have still moved away from the period Shogun took place in. To me, that says that particular story (Shogun) was done. If the writers come out with anything that is a direct sequel to Shogun, they are pulling stuff out of their ass.

8 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

No. Just no. There is no sequel book. They'd be making it up on their own, and that's a whole different kettle of fish from adaptation. Just ask Benioff and Weiss.

The show runners talked about wanting to adapt another really good Clavell novel, Tai Pan. I was excited by the prospect of that. I am not excited about this news.

☝️ Or if they really want to stay in Japan, adapt Gai-jin (which relates to Toronaga's descendant and takes place in the years leading up to the Meiji Restoration). I'm not interested it any carryover-sequel series to Shogun. Adapt another Clavell novel.

6 hours ago, lechuck said:

This won't be considered as an addition to the original Timm-verse right?

Not connected to the original Timm-verse in the same sense. While Bruce Timm is producing, this is actually period-set in the 1940s rather than using the 1940s-style with modern technology as with Timm's original Batman: TAS.

Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery to Launch Disney+, Hulu, Max Streaming Bundle (Variety.com)

One wonders how long it will be before we head back into a cable TV-like subscription model (many, if not all streaming services, available in 1 bundle).

On 5/3/2024 at 7:24 PM, mikeszekely said:

...oh snap.  They're going to require PSN accounts for Ghost of Tsushima on Steam, too.😒

Refunds for Ghost of Tsushima on PC are now filtering out. (spoiler'd for size)
 

It's unlikely Sony will back off like they did with Helldivers.

Seein' the clips in my feed this morning.

59 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

They just can't manufacture a consensus because the fanbase is so bloody big and so heavily divided against itself.

If they can't come to a consensus, then they don't know what they want.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Their whole "every single background character is the hero or villain of another story" schick is standard expanded universe writing and something that Star Wars frequently indulged in before Disney. So much so that even a filthy casual like me had one or two of the "Tales of ______" books. It might be weak writing to general audiences, but to the die-hard fans it's continuity porn.

Continuity is both a blessing and curse. It's a nice way to fill in the gaps, but I didn't need it documented what a character had for brunch on a Sunday afternoon. If you dig too deep into continuity porn, you enter the mundane. Then it becomes lousy storytelling.

2 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

In the sense that they're not requiring it for Helldivers, but absolutely requiring it from day one one on PC games released from the moment forward, including Ghost of Tsushima later this month.

Yep.

3 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

Best case is probably that they just give up on this game, but remember not to do something this stupid with anything else in the future.

Oh, they will do something this stupid again. Gotta feed 'dem hackers with fresh data to mine off the PSN servers.

So Gunn went with a Nu52-ish costume.

On 5/4/2024 at 1:33 PM, jvmacross said:

Once again, Disney/Lucasfilm seem to think we need to have the background story for every character....this time it was for characters we arguably did not need any background story for....are these background stories supposed to make us feel sorry for both Morgan's and Barriss' "tragic" fat

The problem is, fans, like this one, keep saying "I want more. I want to see how <X character> got there." As the saying goes: fans don't know what they want. They have no clue what is good or bad; important or fat. We don't need to see everything because, sometimes, it's just not THAT important. It's why we get lots of crap. It's the one thing fandoms, including Star Wars', just doesn't get. Sometimes the most important moment of a character's life is just that moment; that one story. Everything else is filler.

1 hour ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Sony backed off:

For now.

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

The promo reel was...

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... a single fight scene between Amandla Stenberg's character Mae and Carrie Ann Moss's Jedi Master Indara set in one of the setting's ubiquitous seedy bars.

The action itself is very well choreographed and flows a lot like something from a wuxia or ninja movie, with lots of close quarters combat that's very heavy on minimalistic dodging and deflection and several moments of wire-fu like physics as characters use the Force to jump and push and freeze things in place.

Mae walks right up to the table, asks for Master Indara, then starts brutally beating the stupid out of everyone else at the table until she gets to the Jedi.  She makes several futile grabs for Indara's lightsaber, Indara calmly brushes off every single attack, and the two wire-fu their way to the building's second floor before Mae pulls a "ninja vanish".

 

Those are the exact same scenes from this week's new trailer ☝️. 🥱

I'm not saying this will be good or bad because I haven't watched it. It may swing either way. But my enthusiasm for this show is just 🤷‍♂️😐 after 2 trailers.

1 hour ago, Mog said:

..Honestly, they're getting dangerously close to the point where Star Trek was around the time Voyager and Enterprise were airing.  A lot of content is already out there, and the new stuff is either not taking enough risks or seems like rehashes/repeats of older, better told stories.

I think we're already crossing the Rubicon there.

Yeah, still not feelin' it.

And still not diggin' the time period. Would have preferred 200...300...500 years before the Skywalker-saga. 100 years just doesn't feel far back enough.

1 hour ago, mikeszekely said:

...oh snap.  They're going to require PSN accounts for Ghost of Tsushima on Steam, too.😒

Also, found this which may clarify some things:

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• Sony games on PC only require a PlayStation Network account. Don't confuse this with a paid PlayStation Plus subscription. PlayStation Network accounts are completely free.

• If PlayStation Network is not available in your country, you can create one in another country. No need for a VPN or anything like that. You just need an address from another country, which can be easily found on Google. NOTE: if you do this or PSN reviews the logs of  accounts and find it coming from an IP address where PSN isn't available, that's a TOS violation which would get your account banned.

• You will NOT be banned if you create an account from another country. I have friends who have American and British accounts (I'm from Brazil) since the PS3 generation and to date they have never had any problems. Again, PSN COULD ban the account if it's coming from a country where PSN isn't available.

Still....creating yet another account. And another password. On another platform. On another database. Which can be broken into. Which will be stolen. Which will find their way on the dark web. Gone are the days of just launching a single-player game without needing to login.

Foot, meet Gun.

Sony demands PSN accounts for Helldivers 2 PC players, and it’s not going well. A surprise hit, a network with brutal baggage, and the Steam profit paradox. (Ars Technica)

The r/HellDivers subreddit has more up-to-date info.

15 hours ago, jvmacross said:

So did Project Necromancer just get restarted again at some point?  

No one ever said it was stopped. Only that funding was reallocated to Project Stardust. Seeing that it was still around in The Mandalorian, I would say it only suffered a decade-ish-long delay. Palpatine probably would kept some funding off-the-books to keep it alive. The dark lord needed to find a principal investigator to head it up again and find some new specimens, neither which were not easy to come by now.