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« on: March 27, 2016, 01:44:51 AM »
You look at the audience reviews of the movie and then look at the critics reviews and there's clearly a conflict there. There's just no fucking way the audience is wrong on this. I seriously believe reviewers have a Marvel bias. My mother always said when you point a finger at someone else, there are always 4 pointing back at you. This won't go over well, but have you considered that you might be the one with shit taste in movies? 37% of the viewers thought it fresh... Sounds like you're a 37 percenter.
8162
« on: March 26, 2016, 07:31:51 PM »
Oh I plan to eventually see TWS, and not just because Chris Evans is in it. As for the idle guard thing, I'm not saying it's not wrong to do it, but I'm not going to go out of my way to hark on the movie for it when plenty of movies have done it before. It's hard for me to criticize it so much when it's a rarity for movies to do it right over wron,g and I'm just a brain dead cinema monkey who's more focused on Batman being Batman. And even if they did, just because it's "common place" to not give a shit about small details like that doesn't really excuse the fact that the movie is still worse for it. I guess that's fair, I'm just saying this new Luthor didn't really bother me because he did what needed to be done with a Luthor. Nothing else was really needed I guess, but maybe you're right in that muscle man Lex should've been in instead of Mark Zuckerberg. I'm open to new interpretations too, but not when they're worse than the tried-and-true versions everyone is familiar with. Being different for the sake of being different? Nah. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Considering the main focus on the movie is the conflict between the two heroes, I don't find it a problem to see Luthor setting the stages of the other conflicts both in this film and the next one. That's another issue with the movie altogether.
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« on: March 26, 2016, 07:19:08 PM »
More well versed than I am of Marvel. I can not comment on CA2 or DP in how they treat guards though as I had not seen either and I'm pretty used to those types of characters doing that since I got enough of it in Star Wars (Watchmen is another movie notorious for idle troops). Maybe Disney just puts more resources/effort into what goes on in the background but it seems like a money sink because that's not what you're supposed to be focused on.
And I get you on Luthor, I really do. If they had kept ripped body builder Luthor I would've been ecstatic, but I guess I'm just more open to a new take on Luthor than most comic fans are considering how iconic he is to Superman. But I feel like if they had cast Luthor a more appropriate way, it would've squandered him more since Luthor was mostly just the guy setting up the events, not necessarily partaking in them.
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« on: March 26, 2016, 07:05:13 PM »
Most of those overly-dramatic comments are made by Luthor and he was purposefully doing it to show how deranged Lex really is, otherwise we'd just think he's only a little eccentric instead of being a legitimate madman. As for the small mistakes, there was plenty of moments of idle guards in Nolan's trilogy, TDKR being the worst offender. The grenade? Maybe you're right but I didn't really think much about it until you brought it up. Pacing was worse than Man of Steel, dialogue was garbage ("Your Doomsday." "The red capes are coming." "Son of Krypton versus Bat of Gotham!" "Save... Martha..."), casting was god-awful (Ben is the saving grace, here. Seriously the best part of the movie is him). Action scenes were visually impressive but they're often ruined by small, stupid mistakes that any other director could and easily would change. For example, in the Knightmare sequence, the fight was, on the surface, awesome! But then you see multiple Supermax guards in the background literally just standing there until Snyder told them it was their turn to attack Bats. Or in the warehouse when he's going to save Martha, instead of shooting him out-right, the thug just pulls out a fucking frag grenade so that Zack has an excuse to include an awesome explosion in the background. Sorry, but I really didn't see this. The ankle thing may have seemed over done, but considering how much of an edge Batman had over Superman when he was weak, just about anything Batman did may have come off that way. Also Batman was training some pretty crazy stuff right before his fight, I wouldn't put it past him to be able to fling a crate like that (especially if we don't even know if it's crazy heavy or not). The special effects at times were just so poorly done, they actually reminded me vaguely of Batman and Robin. When Bats begins to swing Superman around in the port from the ankle? That was the faking shit I've ever seen in my life. Or when Batman yanks the crate above his head, even though that's physically impossible, during the warehouse fight. Just absolutely ridiculous. Esienberg/Luthor didn't actually bother me as much as I thought. I mean it felt a little weird to have this scrawny twig that could snap at any moment play Lex, but he really grew on me throughout the movie showing they were going for a deranged scientist over someone who wanted to stand toe to toe with Superman. Lex Luthor is just... no. The worst thing I've ever seen. And it's not Eisenberg's fault, it's the character direction I have a problem with.
There are so many things I absolutely LOVED about the film but I can't just say it's a good movie because of that... it's a piece of shit with moments of brilliance thrown in there. As are most of Snyder's films.
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« on: March 26, 2016, 06:33:36 PM »
What was ass about it? And God help you if one of the things you say is having the appearances of the other heroes in there. It was ass and I'm a straight-up DC shill. You just have bad taste, evidently.
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« on: March 26, 2016, 06:29:31 PM »
It is certainly better than what everybody is making it out to be. I seriously think there's a Marvel bias going on that's manipulating people's judgement on the movie. I only found one thing jarring and that was the whole Wayne dreaming scenario, but I couldn't find anything actually making the movie be as low as people are putting it. So, you found it good meaning everyone else is bias and wrong?
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« on: March 26, 2016, 06:18:53 PM »
Just saw Batman vs. Superman. Seriously, how much did Disney pay reviewers to say it was a bad movie? I went in there expecting a 5/10 and got an easy 8. And those reviews on Rotten Tomatoes? There's clearly a bias, with a solid 75% approval from everyone else, there's just no fucking way.
The movie was solid, WB/DC is stepping its game up and it's apparent. Justice League is going to go to fucking town and push DC back into relevancy. I dunno, maybe people are still butthurt over the whole Affleck thing but he made a great Bruce Wayne.
8168
« on: March 25, 2016, 04:06:04 PM »
GO fuck yourself. :^) GO away :^)
8169
« on: March 25, 2016, 09:55:52 AM »
Go is a Chinese strategy board game, the aim is to surround more territory than your opponent. Creating AI to play Go is considerably harder than creating one for Chess. The strategy involved in a game of Go is much more complex than chess, with a game of Go being able to have 10^170 moves whereas Chess is only 10^120. What's go
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« on: March 25, 2016, 09:39:59 AM »
Since there was a thread on Microsoft's new AI taking a temporary leave, I figured some users might find this article interesting, there's been a victory on the AI front. A new aggressive Go AI is crushing through professional competition. It won a 3-0 shutout against one of the best Go players in South Korea. Move after move was exchanged and it became apparent that Lee wasn’t gaining enough profit from his attack.
By move 32, it was unclear who was attacking whom, and by 48 Lee was desperately fending off White’s [AlphaGo's] powerful counter-attack.
I can only speak for myself here, but as I watched the game unfold and the realization of what was happening dawned on me, I felt physically unwell.
Generally I avoid this sort of personal commentary, but this game was just so disquieting. I say this as someone who is quite interested in AI and who has been looking forward to the match since it was announced.
One of the greatest virtuosos of the middle game had just been upstaged in black and white clarity. AlphaGo’s strength was simply remarkable and it was hard not to feel Lee’s pain The last two games will be played regardless of the fact that AlphaGo won. The AI is extremely cunning and makes no mistakes. EDIT: Just read that games four and five already took place. Lee won game four but game five ended with AlphaGo winning. EDIT: EDIT: Just read the Wikipedia article on the match, found something interesting: Prior to 2015,[11] the best Go programs only managed to reach amateur dan level.[12] On the small 9×9 board, the computer fared better, and some programs managed to win a fraction of their 9×9 games against professional players. Prior to AlphaGo, some researchers had claimed that computers would never defeat top humans at Go.[13] Elon Musk, an early investor of Deepmind, said in 2016 that experts in the field thought AI was 10 years away from achieving a victory against a Go top professional player.[14]
The match AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol is comparable to the 1997 chess match Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov. There IBM's Deep Blue computer's defeat of reigning champion Kasparov is seen as the symbolic point where computers became better than humans at chess.[15]
AlphaGo is most significantly different from previous AI efforts in that it applies neural networks, in which evaluation heuristics are not hard-coded by human beings, but instead to a large extent learned by the program itself, through tens of millions of past Go matches as well as its own matches with itself. Not even AlphaGo's developer team are able to point out how AlphaGo evaluates the game position and picks its next move. Monte Carlo tree search is also used in a major way to improve the reasoning efficiency of the program.
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« on: March 25, 2016, 09:19:14 AM »
>"Fix her"
Yeah, they're certainly going to repgram her to spout predetermined lines if any negative term is brought up. Because you know, that's real learning.
8172
« on: March 24, 2016, 10:12:15 PM »
But then we get a cookie cutter situation (like what we have now) and ultimately people will grow tired of comic book movies. I mean, just look how many we're getting in the next four years. They're completely over saturating right now, and it shows. Also it forces you to be completely invested in all the movies or you risk losing some serious knowledge. I missed out on Captain America 2, then I want to go see Avengers 2 and was all like "WTF happened?" Putting time and pacing in between movies will ultimately make them successful, not churning them out every other season (running on every season), and is why I'm scared for where Star Wars is heading despite loving Episode VII. I actually want to see DC rival Marvel, it causes competition for both companies to try and release superior products and put more effort into it.
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« on: March 24, 2016, 10:03:38 PM »
8174
« on: March 24, 2016, 09:55:18 PM »
I don't know who decided to make him Luthor but they need to be shot. And, yes, Jesse Eisenberg's Luthor was campy as shit. I don't think it's fair to blame DC for this, ultimately everyone was basically expecting DC to follow Marvel (And Marvel just got lucky with timing it first, otherwise the roles would be kind of reversed) to the point where everyone was downright demanding it. I don't think it's a situation of DC trying to compete with Marvel (despite what Marvel purists would have you believe) but more of DC trying to give comic book fans in general more of what they want, and I've been dying for a Justice League movie for ages. And the movie's biggest weakness was that it definitely showed that it's trying so hard to ride Marvel's coat tails. You want to see DC make an impact to show it can rival Marvel, but you realize it's too little too late now.
8175
« on: March 24, 2016, 09:29:19 PM »
Lol the super titan actually looks kinda like Trump. And I did mention in another thread Trump is a cross between a cabbage patch kid and Char Aznable.
8176
« on: March 24, 2016, 06:44:48 PM »
I hate Trump, but IF he wins I'll be sure to post about how great America is going to be again all over Serious.
8177
« on: March 24, 2016, 05:22:52 PM »
We get immigrants, not "refugees".
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« on: March 24, 2016, 09:14:28 AM »
I see the generalized, assuming, buzz wording, hypocrisy on rhetoric just moved to a different thread. Look, I can make claims before they happen too: When Trump wins and builds his wall and nothing happens, everyone's going to look pretty fucking stupid! See doesn't that look stupid as pig shit? We can all agree it does, so stop thinking it's okay to reword it, this isn't math where the outcome is predetermined and we don't have a time machine, so stop with making future claims.
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« on: March 24, 2016, 04:58:18 AM »
Strawberries are nasty fam.
8180
« on: March 24, 2016, 04:11:46 AM »
I'm the last person that should be commenting on this considering I'm too afraid to even say "Wassup" to my crush and it's running on almost two weeks now. But yeah, even I have to say that's kind of screwing the pooch dude. That text would've been better spent asking for another hang out.
8181
« on: March 23, 2016, 08:57:15 PM »
This is too much for my feeble mind to comprehend.
8182
« on: March 23, 2016, 08:53:31 PM »
Oh God, what have I created?
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« on: March 23, 2016, 07:28:58 PM »
Today at work, a coworker who I absolutely despised kept going on about how her and her husband are planning to have a baby. This girl is only 24 years old and while one should not just the age of a ready parent, this girl is literally the whitest trash on Earth. Her and her husband (who she never shuts up about) are constantly fighting, she has no goals and just wants to work this current dead end job we're at just so she can go home and take care of him. She hates anybody who has drive or is successful. She called me an awful person because I told her I wanted to leave this God awful position and move up to make more money because "People who want more money are selfish."
And now here I am thinking, about her and her abusive husband as potential parents. This isn't right, not existing at all would literally be a better option for that soul than being "raised" by her. This child is going to be born in a shitty situation and there is fuck all anyone can do to stop even the slightest permanent scarring. At this point I came to a realization. Verbatim may have something going here, an existence like that would be awful. You could be born into some billionaire family and be happy for the rest of your life, or you could be born into a couple that fights every other night and the highlight of both their lives was a rushed marriage right out of high school. The only winning move is to not play.
8184
« on: March 23, 2016, 03:43:38 PM »
What story? I forget, what the Hell makes you [wrongly] think I'm a Furry again?
Sorry, I'm not into furry roleplay.
Just, you know the way you tell the story and everything. You're a furry guy.
8185
« on: March 23, 2016, 02:21:37 PM »
Don't act like your special. I have nude pictures of ONE mod on this website. Just letting you all know.
8186
« on: March 23, 2016, 10:47:25 AM »
I forget, what the Hell makes you [wrongly] think I'm a Furry again? Sorry, I'm not into furry roleplay.
8187
« on: March 23, 2016, 10:45:08 AM »
You don't know me affiliation, way to try and direct the problem onto something else, I have stated numerous times I don't support Trump, once even in this thread. Trump is what happens when you cross Char Aznable with a cabbage patch kid. But that means fuck all to you, and your sports team mentality on Trump. I could defend the man just taking a fucking shit in the bathroom and you'd claim I support him. Knock the fuck off with that. And your last claim shows you still don't see the problem. "It's okay when other candidates use rhetoric, it's okay when we use rhetoric, it's NOT okay if he uses rhetoric." He could tweet right now how much he wants to kill X race, that's not the issue with Flee's post. You keep trying to dodge the issue and make this argument be about something it isn't. Let's stop beating around the bush. You're right wing. That's the only reason you're attacking Flee's post.
And on top of that, you're doing a very shitty job of attacking his post. Trump is playing on people's fears. The shit he says is moronic. "We're gonna build a wall and Mexico is gonna pay for it ahyuckyuck".
Get a grip bro.
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« on: March 23, 2016, 05:05:34 AM »
And the last six hours is proof that there's a conspiracy against me. I think you're paranoid.
After the last weeb sub-forum I went to, the last thing I want to to try and join another /a/ 2.0. Nobody tell him about the weeb sub forum
8189
« on: March 22, 2016, 09:28:57 PM »
Lurking is very unhealthy habit fam. don't tell me how to live my life
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« on: March 22, 2016, 09:27:48 PM »
THERE YOU FUCKERS GO AGAIN!
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