#HBC | Red Ryu

How was class

I am content with my avi.

Sorry, was busy streaming my nuzlocke challenge and didnt see your post in time.

gl on your Gatecrasher Pre-release event.
I happen to be a MTG player myself (though more on a semi level)

Nothing too much catches my eye with Gatecrasher other than a couple of the mythics and of course the shock duel lands.

A con in Pittsburg.

I'm going with a couple friends there but it'd be cool to meet up there too if you went.

Ryu! I was curious, are you going to a certain AC in a couple months?

I am doing fine! How are you.

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Dude!~

Can't tell if your avi is a fox/cat or a canid. Either way I love it! x3

YOURS IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PEIRCE THE HEAVENS!
cap

*shrugs*

He beat me.

Playing PM most of today and yesterday probably didn't help, since I main Wario there. Close set. I got grabbed, heh.

5 dls mm at apex? ;D

Ahh Wenda.

Odlaw? He's from the books. He was also pretty prominent in the animated series (which was actually pretty good)

Totally in there. Ready to exert justice all over.

Lmao things ended up working out for me. Got free tickets + friend housing me for free. Better to end it at APEX then PS5

Wo rd

I know, I just have to get people to notice my group SOMEHOW.

Caught you!!


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It's really easy to me idk, might be different for other people.
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You cannot escape it now

Status:
Red Ryu has not entered you as a teammate yet.

;_;

Now all that's left is for you to add me as a team mate.

Register for apeeeeeex so i can add u as a team maaaaaaaate

Wow sorry idk why I didn't notice you sent this lol, but yeah I'm def still in if it isn't too late! If it is I can just be a replacement. Sorry about the delay!

Merry Christmas Justin!

Merry Christmas Red Ruy!

Hope you have a nice Christmas Justin

Dusk was my static teammate back when we used to do tournaments.

It was the funnest

We should do Anubis strategy obv

I'm far too broke to be going to Apex this year, unfortunately.

I'm going job searching for now, so I'll likely have some dough for the following Apex, whenever it happens.

I know right? It's looking like APEX isn't happening for me, so nyah...er blah~ Anything going on these next 4 weeks to maybe plan for? (There are no Iowa tournies yo)

I'll give you a timeline of which movies have Blofeld in them so you can watch those in order to get the full effect, but I guess there's not much point right now since you won't be getting those other movies back for a while

Octo***** is another mixed bag. It opens up a cool new horizon for Bond (India) and as such has a lot of very cool ethnographic influences. The main henchman is a badass mountain of a man with a turban, an awesome moustache, and the strength to crush dice with his bare ****in' hands. It's got a few good action scenes as well, and the final aerobatic stunt scene/fight is a winner. This is also the first movie to really play with the idea of Bond romancing a character that would otherwise be a villain in the story in a really meaningful way -- she's not a good girl caught up over her head or anything, she is a cold and calculating drug empress that even has the usual villain schtick like far reaching ambitions, a favorite animal (octopi), and highly skilled hitmen and bodyguards. On the other hand there's a lot of slapstick and cheese in this one, that really bogs it down. This movie has some very fun parts but it also has Bond bumbling around in a clown suit.

A View to a Kill is pretty much a dud that is salvaged by a few awesome things. 1. Christopher Walken is the villain, and he is awesomely insane. He's what TVTropes would call card-carryingly evil, the type of character Walken does best. There is one scene where he goes on a mass murder spree of his own men and loves every second of it. 2. Bond infiltrates a stuffy aristocracy of socialites instead of some remote culture or hideout, which gives an interesting atmosphere and some more detective work 3. Comic relief that actually works -- Bond goes undercover with a British knight posing as his driver/butler, and he loves every second of getting the chance to put this regal chap under his boot and abuse him. Just goes to show you there's no room for class and rank when 007's in the house. 4. I won't even hint at the final fight or stunt scene because they are freaking amazing and intense to watch. Okay, I'll hint: Christopher Walken goes after 007 with a fire axe. 5. Very cool chase scene through Paris after a hitman kills one of 007's contacts.

At the same time this one has a really dreary and uninvolving tone a lot of the time and it features the worst Bond girl by far. It's that chick that played Donna's mom on That 70's Show, and she is as mousy and miscast and just awful as ever. There's also a massive anticlimax, as Walken's main henchwoman is a black Amazon type chick that's proven to be every bit as tough and deadly as Bond. The movie builds up their encounter and fight scene, and builds it, and builds it, and then they finally meet on the battlefield.... and stop, right as they are about to go at it. Literally the biggest disappointment in Bond history. It's not so bad if you're ready for it, but damn, way to let me down, movie. the fireaxe fight and what precedes it are just minutes later and make up for it though, so awesome. Never gets old.

The Living Daylights is grittier than most Bond flicks and you can see really easily that the Dalton flicks are one of the inspirations for the Bourne movies. Lots of chase scenes in exotic locales, cold war paranoia, you name it. Neat stuff. The main henchman in this one is one cold, tough SOB and his fight with Bond is one of my favorites in the series, intense as ****. I honestly don't really have any problems with this movie, it just has a weird pace to it and a lot of room for improvement. Oh yeah, and moral ambiguity at its finest -- 007 fights alongside what would later become the Taliban against the Russians. Oops!

Licence to Kill is another one that might be better to watch later on, ala FYEO. It's one of if not the darkest Bond movie, but one of the main reasons it'd be best watched later is that one of the main plot catalysts relates to a recurring character you probably don't know yet, Felix Leiter. He was Jeffrey Wright in Casino Royale but a white guy in most of the movies. The movie just doesn't work unless you've got that familiarity with Leiter and this care about his friendship with Bond and stuff, as the entire mission is an extracurricular, non-espionage thing that gets going when some of Leiter's work in the CIA catches up with him and he and Bond gotta deal with it. Lots of great, great stuff here though, and like FYEO it is even better when you've already seen most of the Bond flicks, if not moreso. FYEO subverts and deconstructs a lot of Bond tropes, LTK goes right outside them and takes a casual stroll through the peripheral territory of the genre.

Live and Let Die was an attempt to cash in on the blaxploitation craze, more or less. It features a lot of the blaxploitation tropes (jive-*** mothaf***as, afros, Nawlinz, voodoo, drugs). It does have some cool stuff though for sure. The villain is entertainingly crazy, and the attempt to blend gritty blaxploitation/70s cop drama drug running plots with the megalomania and mad science **** typical of 007 movies is unique to this movie only. It has a few good fistfights and some of the New Orleans stuff is actually pretty neat. All in all the Caribbean atmosphere definitely adds a lot to the table here in terms of breaking the 007 mold a bit, so it might be better to watch after you've already seen all the Bond tropes in action. Then again you've seen GoldenEye onwards, so that might be enough to appreciate it? /shrug. The bad: They also wanted to cash in on the 70s craze of muscle car chases and "dagnabbit" type characters, and as such we have to put up with an extended sequence where Bond does admittedly cool car stuff but is being plagued by an obnoxious southern Sheriff. The Sheriff actually makes an appearance in another Bond movie later on, and that appearance is much worse, so if you've seen that one already (Man with the Golden Gun I believe), know that this one isn't nearly as bad. Overall it's a unique entry and enjoyable but has its flaws.

The Spy Who Loved Me is classic Bond. It is everything good about the largescale megalomania type Bond flicks. The story is good and unfolds in an interesting way that requires Bond to do actual (gasp) spy and investigative work as opposed to the villains politely spelling out their motivations for him. It has a lot of very cool scenic locations like Egypt and such, and some of the better fights in an older Bond flick, as 007 disposes of the guys with equal parts class, deadly skill, and casual annoyance. It also gets the coldness of Bond just right, where he almost has a sense of humor about offing the bad guys but gets serious when it matters. The villain, Carl Stromberg, is every cliche the 007 movies ever inspired rolled into one, but he's superbly acted and menacing as all ****. Also, the first (and best) appearance of Jaws, the enormous ***-kicking hitman with metal teeth. He has some really fun fights with Bond that never get boring. Add in some of the sexiest and toughest Bond girls ever, a Lotus Esprit that turns into a ****ing combat ready submarine, and yeah, great movie. So much fun.

Moonraker is... what it is. It's an attempt to cash in on Star Wars. It's an interesting curiosity, and I did really like the villain, Hugo Drax. He had a lot of conviction that helps save the movie. The pacing is kind of stodgy, though, and the plot unravels in a less than interesting way. Plus there's a cringeworthy subplot involving Jaws near the end, and some cheese throughout. In the bright side, Jaws is back, and that means he gets to have some ballin' fights with Bond.

For Your Eyes Only probably one of the darkest Bond movies by far. I think I would recommend saving this one for later. It subverts an endless number of Bond tropes, shows Bond at his darkest, and just breathes a lot of new life into the franchise, which was kind of slipping into just trying to rip off whatever the common trends were for a while by this point. A good example being that one of the main female characters is a 16-17 year old girl who, like all girls, falls for Bond, and Bond has to control himself instead of indulging for once. Little nuances like that help reestablish what a Bond movie is all about while discovering new horizons of all that is 007 are what make it so good. The plot is equal parts gritty and huge. But the main reason I would recommend saving this for later is that this movie contains the end of Blofeld's story, and you havent' seen any movies with Blofeld yet. That's kind of a big deal, as Ernst Stavro Blofeld is Bond's arch enemy, so seeing the end of their story before the rest of it would just be... weird as ****. Plus you'll appreciate the freshness of the movie more later, too.

VM was too long, more coming

You're missing a lot of the best ones. Anyways...

Chronological Order (might be a bit off, going form memory)

-Live and Let Die (Roger Moore)
-The Spy Who Loved Me (Moore)
-Moonraker (Moore)
-For Your Eyes Only (Moore)
-Octopussy (Moore)
-A View to a Kill (Moore)
-The Living Daylights (Timothy Dalton)
-Licence to Kill (Dalton)


Best of the Best

The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, Licence to Kill

^If I had to make a list of the best 007 flicks those would be on the list


If you don't go in chronological order or watch the best ones first and the rest in whatever order, I'll just give you some descriptions so you can decide what you're in the mood for

Oh I see how it is. I'll make the changes when I get to a Computer

Alright, well... which ones do you have?

I would say just watch them in order tbh

I have enough for the plane prolly but the whole trip altogether no lol. Pre reg, hotel, and food

Herp derp

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can't play

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dabess mafia player right here <<<

Anyways sorry ryu, if you can find a replacement that'd be great (cuz like I seen two or three people post already saying they would lol...)

I get out of school the 16th and finals don't **** around so sorry again

xD. I'll sign us up then! ^_^.

No way of getting there atm lol

Ryu! :D.

If you've decided that you wanna hydra, just tell me! .