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This is the same story it's been for most of the season. Some nice football, toothless attack, braindead defence, opposition barely bothering knowing they will score soon enough.

Michael Bay is responsible for some of the most heinous wastes of celluloid and human time in history, but damn is the Rock not a great action movie even 20 years on. I can only assume it was a fluke. Or he had a lot of help making it. Even Nicolas Cage is good in it.

Bautista being decent as Drax (who is a fairly crap character that they changed a fair bit for the movie in fairness) was one of the revelations in GOTG. Then again I like pretty much everything about that movie to the extent I don't even care about the massive problems with the villain. Genuinely funny throughout. The prison escape, the slapstick chase at the start, pretty much every line of Drax dialogue... Great. I'm not sure it'll work as well in the sequel though. Especially as it seems there's some stunt casting going on, and they need to add a bunch of characters, a number of which are absolutely dreadful.

You should watch BvS, barely any jokes in that

She changes the way you play. She can do the scouting thing D-Dog does but not as well - she can only spot what she can see and she requires direction to work best. But she's excellent as cover in certain missions and environments. She also unlocks a useful (if completely daft) ability to shoot your grenades in midair to ricochet them into awkward areas I used quite a bit later in the game. Once she gets a tranq sniper if your style works with using her she breaks the game in many respects. I tended to favour D-Dog over her but she was my second choice for most of the game.

WB don't have a clue what they're doing. Suicide Squad, which by all accounts is meant to be a dark comedy (and has been since the get go), is going through reshoots to make it funnier, seemingly as a reaction to the fact BvS was roundly criticised for being joyless.

I listen to Sam Harris's podcast semi-regularly. I don't always agree with him, and his habit of starting every podcast with 'X person who hates me has misrepresented my views again this week' is deeply irritating, but he often has interesting arguments and perspectives on many things. He's pleasingly anti-religion, and very openly hostile to Islamism which is appropriate, but these tend to open him up to attacks from pro-Islam and left commentators. Occasionally something he says will strike me, and that happened today. His latest podcast is an AMA, and at one point someone asks about the Golden Age of Islam and Islam's benefit to the world. He largely bins this (with some good arguments) but he raises a fact that I completely was unaware of. Spain translates more books into Spanish every year than the entire Arab world has translated into Arabic since the 9th Century. The same population only produces 1% of the world's books, and the percentage of these that are religious is the highest of any community on the planet. These figures are from a UN study he states, and I can't say I've checked this, but those figures astound me. There simply has to be another community that translates things to Arabic (are the Arab world is far more multilingual than I appreciate), because I can't imagine a society can operate today that doesn't translate ideas from elsewhere to use for their own gain, and moreover would be so isolated to its own ideas as to be terrifying.

I sincerely doubt devkits would be with developers of something as fundamental as what the CPU is hadn't been decided. I think some of this is probably correct. But it's educated guesswork rather than inside knowledge.

A day one purchase. Take some elements of 1 and 3, photocopy the rest of 2 and smash it into a decent story and this is a slam dunk. I await EA **** it up, chasing every penny they can wring out of it.

The first series is in a different league. The story is engaging, there's a real connection and enthusiasm to the reporting, and it's not one you already know.

Second series of Serial finished today. Possibly the most 'meh' finale to anything ever. Even Koenig sounded forced in her enthusiasm with the damp squib announcement it was the final episode. Some interesting moments, as have been scattered throughout the series, usually the perspectives of the differing military heads involved, but ultimately we end the show where we started, something which shocks no-one.

Sadly not, it would have improved the movie. The Knightmare thing ties to a long running thing in the Batman world of never missing an opportunity to use the word 'Knight'.

Microsoft's racist Twitter bot. Reading about a Microsoft created AI telling the world it was 'smoking kush in front the police' absolutely made my day earlier.

I genuinely think WB want to satisfy fans, but the problem is they are rushing to get to their version of the Avengers. The Marvel idea only really worked because they spent 4 years establishing it. WB want to skip all that and get to the big event so BvS is full of random bits of wider universe stuff (I'm not joking when I say the movie literally stops in the final hour to show us all the other characters we're going to have in the Justice League...). The movie has a moment which essentially sets up the future villain Marvel will have literally spent the best part of 10 years setting up the equivalent to. The reason I think they want to satisfy (and develop) fans is that these movies are only a licence to print money when audiences buy into them. BVS made a shit ton of money over the weekend but it also had the biggest drop off in takings between Friday and Sunday of any superhero movie ever, even bigger than absolute car crash Fantastic 4 last year. Projected takings for BVS after that actually has it losing money (just) in cinemas over it's run after that. It'll turn a profit on home media, but WB wanted (and needed, really) this to be a billion dollar movie. It's exceptionally unlikely to be now. And that's because it isn't very good, on any level. Say what you will about Marvel, even their bad movies, even if you hate superhero movies, work and are well made and solid. Iron Man 2 is rubbish, but it's a better movie than BVS on a fundamental level.

Yeah the character is apparently Steppenwolf. It's hard to take that name seriously given the band but I'll go with it. I've looked up that character, as my deeper DC lore is hopeless, and that thing looks nothing like him. But fine. He is one of Darkseid's posse and I suppose they do need to set up these villains as Justice League 1 is on the horizon and they don't have many movies before then to do the leg work - although rumour has it the first Justice League movie is just Batman going on a quest to bring together the team, so they could do the donkey work there as well. We don't know who the villain in Suicide Squad is so maybe that's one of them. But from I know, Darkseid's crew are supposed to be pretty much Superman level creatures, in which case the Suicide Squad shouldn't be able to defeat it. My guess is at best, if it does tie in to the wider universe villain, it's more that Darkseid has something to do with the creation of whatever it is the Suicide Squad fight. It's a mess. I genuinely can't believe they didn't realise this was going to be as much of a mess as it is.

I'll be surprised if that plays into Suicide Squad with any depth but we'll see... The Knightmare scene is odd. There's no reason why it can't work on paper. The problem is they do it really badly, on every level. It's very disorientating in the movie. It takes a minute to realise its a dream because of how abrupt it is. And they get caught at cross purposes with it. You can absolutely use the dream sequence of a world gone to shit with Superman as some all powerful dictator to show Bruce's fears. It's a bit on the nose but it works. The problem comes that they try to do that, but also try to make it like a premonition. There are various references to a future of the series (it's obvious that this is what they want to threaten the world with being post Justice League) so you've muddied the water - it's an embodiment of Bruce's fears and it's a nod to things that are actually coming, it doesn't make any sense to have references to the big bad in Bruce's dream about being scared of Superman. Secondly, and more importantly, even if you clean up the dream, remove the premonition element, make it a more natural and obvious dream sequence, the movie doesn't need it at that point. You do that 20 minutes into the film, cementing Bruce's mindset of Superman being a dictator waiting to happen, having laid some more careful foundations of his distrust. Cinematically it's more satisfying. What we actually get, is an hour of setting up Bruce as being distrustful and ultimately hating Superman. The opening, which is really good, if too blunt on the 9/11 imagery, does all of your set up. You absolutely understand immediately Bruce's motivation. You need no further elaboration. You've got it the moment Bruce glances up to the sky and you see his anger at what's happened. After that you don't need to develop it, and you certainly don't need dream to drive it home. But they do anyway. The second one is just silly. As I said they've admitted they chucked it into the finished script as a 'cool, clever moment'. It's neither. It's stupid, confusing, and only acts a set up. Awful.

There's a moment in Batman V Superman that may or may not be a dream sequence (the film establishes that could be either), that confuses the **** out of everyone and doesn't add anything to the movie at all. Turns out, the reason for that was they just decided to shove it in after the script was finished because they thought it would be clever and cool. Somehow. Also they've already released a deleted scene that does more set up for things to come that is so obscure is not really even a spoiler, but strangely actually makes the very end of the movie make more sense. As currently it makes no sense at all. How no-one sat in the editing suite and said 'Zach, I don't think this cut actually makes much sense, and is a bit of a mess really mate', I have no idea. That video above is 45 seconds long. It could be even shorter. But it makes the final minute make sense. How isn't it in the movie?

I agree it's a bit impenetrable. I think it was designed with the idea that you'd be making notes of patterns in the day and characters and then investigate things. But nobody did. So you fall into using guides But still, it's a nice change of play style from the Zelda formula. The closest they've come to breaking it since was a Link Between Worlds. And all that did was say buy the boomerang etc and do the dungeons in any order you like.

D'Onofrio steals series 1. They said at the time it was as much an origin of Kingpin as it was Daredevil and everyone rolled their eyes a bit, but it absolutely is. He takes a slightly silly but important villain and embodies him. It's a great interpretation of a slightly broken man who has become this barely contained raging bully. I'm really hopeful we see more of him. Even if you immediately think of E'gar from MIB - sugar, water. Morr. Morr I think the whole show has been brilliantly cast, apart from Elektra. I don't rate Elodie Yung. She does a decent job with the character (and she does get better so don't be surprised if your opinion changes) but she's not a great actor, and she's playing a really divisive role - people think Daredevil either improves in her absence or they think it really isn't Daredevil without her. I'm in the former group, she's a rubbish character and always has been. So Yung is lumbered with a crap character she can't play very well from my perspective. Bernthal smashes the part, Cox is a really good Murdoch and Daredevil, etc etc. You should consider Jessica Jones afterwards. It's a different type of show, but really good with another brilliant villain.

Majoras Mask is the black sheep of the family. It's actually very good, but was such a departure from the formula it rubbed a lot of people up the wrong way. They won't do something like it again unfortunately.

Aha... What do you make of the series individually? 1 is probably better overall but 2 offers some great scenes (the episode 3 fight... ) and some nice reveals.

First series or second?

That It starts to recognise patterns in how you play and adapts to them. I played the opening few hours heavily reliant the tranq pistol with headshots, and then slowly they started to ramp up enemies wearing helmets. Later I had a powerful tranq sniper that didn't need the headshots really, so started to go to body shots - they then started to wear body armour. You can fight back against the though - when you open the FOB you can send squads out that 'destroy the supply lines' so for a few missions there are less helmets etc. It never really gets hard (bar a few missions that have difficulty spikes) though.

IIRC, and I could be wrong here, she doesn't unlock until early in the Africa missions, and you might have to listen to her tapes and do a side mission relating to her as well. Probably best to just blitz through anything relating to her and also visit her in her cage a few times.