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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Sounds like I may actually be one of the oldest here.
Since I purposely left it up in the air before, I'll clarify: mid 30's since last July. Same age as WWE Superstar Asuka.
I'm at the point where it's all downhill once my next birthday comes...and it kinda scares the fuck out of me to be frank.
One Strip! One Strip!I hear that. I've got to start worrying about diabetes and shit now. I'm not used to drinking beverages that don't have 40+ grams of sugar in them.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.22 here and pretty much all I drink is milk, hot tea, OJ, and water.
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My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I chug back plenty of orange just, and I don't really touch alcohol, but I do drink a lot of grape juice (and not really the natural kind either).
My real problem is my love of sweets. It's gonna kick my ass in the future...but I fucking love it!
...I hope Iron Fist gets better (to talk about more Marvel stuff), but I also look forward to Adric continuing to hate him so I can mock him some more.
Because you had one job Danny...and you failed it at every opportunity. You deserve all the hate, and I look forward to our heroes Joy and Davos taking you down twenty pegs.
If sugary drinks are a concern, go with seltzer water. It's carbonated, making it a good substitute for that mouthfeel you get from soda, comes in a wide variety of flavors, and contains no sugar or calories. I still can't resist a cold root beer once in a while, but otherwise seltzer has completely and totally supplanted soda out of my diet.
Anyway, I'm not surprised to hear about Inhumans. I wasn't planning on watching it even before the negative press, so it's not a huge loss to me.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Well, I'm 36, and i don't feel nearly as out of place as I did before.
On to Inhumans. I only got maybe halfway through the first episode. I'm so fucking disappointed. I really wanted to like this show; I was so looking forward to it that I actually noted the premiere in my bullet journal so I wouldn't forget. Since I don't know anything about the Inhumans or the royal family other than what I've read in this thread, I thought the lack of "this isn't like the comic, it sucks" bias would help. It didn't. the show just seemed poorly written, and I'm not willing to sit through that just to see if maybe it gets better. I did like Black Bolt, but I was confused by him using telepathy, hand signals, and Medusa speaking for him all at the same time. Like literally at the same time while they were discussing the death of Triton and what to do about it.
Spider-Man 2 is the better film, but Homecoming is the superior adaptation.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I don't know about that. It's definitely one of my favorite superhero movies and I love it more than any Spidey adaptation besides Spider-Man 2, but there's too much significantly out there about Homecoming Spidey, his world and especially his personality and personal themes for me to consider it a better adaptation than most.
In many ways, it's trying to do its own original thing through a Spider-Man lens first and be an adaptation second.
I think when it comes to Spider-Man, the poster for "okay film, but surprisingly good adaptation" is probably he first Raimi one - though it does, in part, adapt stuff from sources that are themselves adaptations.
edited 30th Sep '17 4:29:29 PM by KnownUnknown
What this guy said!
And honestly, over the years I've gotten a little more lukewarm about the Raimi movies. They are still overall good, but their flaws have become far more easy to notice as the years have gone by. Like Peter stoic and angsty atittude that feels out of place with one of the biggest pranksters of the comics, his utterly unconvincing romance with Mary Jane, MJ whole character in fact, the cheesy monologues, the fact that all three films are almost carbon copies of each other, etc.
They still have some of the best villains, though.
edited 30th Sep '17 4:24:56 PM by HailMuffins

I am 23. Which I suppose doesn't make me that young.
When we're done, there won't be anything left.