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Which was your favorite new Pokémon revealed from the Scarlet and Violet trailer?

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Michael the Spikester

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Mamboo07 said:
I remember there's gonna be a live action adaptation of Disney's Pinocchio which is coming out next year is currently in the works.

Can't wait to see Monstro in straight up CGI which would be great.
(Maybe his design would be the same but take inspiration from the extinct Livyatan?)
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Gonna simply just be watching the original 1940 classic on that day that lifeless carbon copy remake comes out.

It enrages me that my favorite all-time Disney film fell victim to these pointless live-action Disney remakes.
 
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I'm having my booster shot in an hour so this has to come a little earlier than usual:

DAILY DEMON SHOWCASE

This showcase's demon is of the Avatar race:

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“I am Avatar Xiezhai. Onwards to our quest to punish the unjust!”

Alignment: Neutral-Law

Origin: Chinese mythology. A mythical creature found that can also be found in Korea, Vietnam, and Japan legends and symbolizes justice. It’s shaped like an ox or goat with thick, dark fur, bright eyes, and a single long horn on its forehead. Aside from understanding human speech, it can also know the innocent from the guilty. If it catches a corrupt official or someone who lies for their own gain, it will impale them with his horn before devouring them.

Skills: Shockbound, Hamaon, Critical Aura, Puncture Punch

Next time, you will meet a demon of the Yoma race.

Mareep, is that you? Jokes aside, Xiezhai is so consistently tied to electric skills that I wonder if there’s anything behind it other than its kinda lighting-shaped horn. It’s a cool look either way, with fluffy fur fitting to a benevolent justice warrior and genuinely scary-looking horn. Some depictions, especially the Korean ones paint this creature as more similar to lions, btw. It’s being a sheep in here is either more typical of Japanese sources or it’s just the designer was being funny.
 
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Pokémon infinity finally released and it’s definitely a fan game worth playing!
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Completed - Pokémon Infinity

Pokémon Infinity ----------------------------------- Pokémon Infinity Discord >>>Pokémon Infinity Download
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It has great graphics style, difficulty, story and fantastic fakemon and regional forms. I can’t wait to play through this!
 
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Mamboo07 said:
I remember there's gonna be a live action adaptation of Disney's Pinocchio which is coming out next year is currently in the works.

Can't wait to see Monstro in straight up CGI which would be great.
(Maybe his design would be the same but take inspiration from the extinct Livyatan?)
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I'm going to be a bit cautious on the live-action version as even though Pinocchio is one of my favourite classic Disney animated films. I do also imagine that there are a number of aspects that probably need modernising too.
 
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Would ya'll be interested to read my spoiler review of No Way Home?

I have a lot of (really good) things to say about It, but also some important stuff regarding It which I would appreciate the people I usually tag in my posts to read.
 
Michael the Spikester

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GilTheGreat19 said:
It do be the last week of the year

Time flies, doesn't it?
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It sure does.

But a new year means to start a new notably with new year resolutions.

Being a better person, taking better care of yourself physical and mental-wise, and especially eating healthier. Which is what I aim to do.

Starting in the new year, might not expect to see me on here as much.
 
Michael the Spikester

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What movies y'all looking forward to next year?

For me

Black Adam, Doctor Strange 2, Jurassic World: Dominion, Samaritan, Sonic 2, The Batman, The Black Phone, The Northman, and Top Gun: Maverick are certainly my top ones.
 
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Michael the Spikester said:
It sure does.

But a new year means to start a new notably with new year resolutions.

Being a better person, taking better care of yourself physical and mental-wise, and especially eating healthier. Which is what I aim to do.

Starting in the new year, might not expect to see me on here as much.
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Glad you know what you want, brother.
Best of luck to you next year
 
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Z25 said:
Pokémon infinity finally released and it’s definitely a fan game worth playing!
reliccastle.com

Completed - Pokémon Infinity

Pokémon Infinity ----------------------------------- Pokémon Infinity Discord >>>Pokémon Infinity Download
reliccastle.com reliccastle.com

It has great graphics style, difficulty, story and fantastic fakemon and regional forms. I can’t wait to play through this!
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I'm a bit interested in Pokemon fan games but not sure if I want to give this a shot.

So far, they seem to be on the side of being difficult for the sake of difficulty.
 
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So yeah, this movie was way better than I originally expected.

The characters are all really good. Tom Holland, Willem Dafoe, Andrew Garfield, Marisa Tomei, Zendaya and Jamie Foxx specifically stole the whole thing for me. They were breathtaking and their interpretations may be some of the best ones I've ever seen on a Spiderman movie.

The story is really well written. It is way different from what I imagined, It ties really well with the past movies and everyone has a moment to shine (except the Lizard, RIP to that one). Had me almost tearing in a lot of parts such as Aunt May's death or just the Andrew Garfield speeches. And the ending scene... Just amazing and what I had been waiting to see throught these movies. They also did justice to the Amazing movies which is neat.

The music is amazing, the perfect evolution to the Homecoming and Far From Home scores. The new theme for Tom Holland is perfect and for me It is up there with the Tobey Maguire and TASM2 themes in regards to representing both the character and the world he lives in.

My only nitpick are the Special effects. Some parts look kinda too fake (specially Sandman), but It is still tolerable and not as bad as in TASM2.

So yeah, It was really great. I really reccomend anyone who wants to watch It to check the other two movies too so they can get the whole experience I had watching It.
And speaking on that last paragraph, here's the thing I wanted people such as osby osby Guh-Huzzah! Guh-Huzzah! Pokelego999 Pokelego999 Hex D. Jess Hex D. Jess GilTheGreat19 GilTheGreat19 Cutie Gwen Cutie Gwen Speed Weed Speed Weed Lamperouge Lamperouge Wademan94 Wademan94 Noipoi Noipoi Dyllybirdy Dyllybirdy M MooMew64 Knight Dude Knight Dude and others to read
To talk about No Way Home in depth I first have to talk about my personal experience during the period in which we have been watching Tom Holland swinging and climbing on our movie screens. When Civil War was announced I was still the shameless and shady teenager of that time period, and therefore one of those who saw no value in a movie: I was just going to see if my favorite characters appeared for profile pictures on my Wiki pages and common Discord servers. So Spider-Man in Civil War was nothing more than that for me then: a character for yet another profile picture.

Homecoming was more of the same at the time, but worse because I had gotten carried away by YouTube channels and people I shouldn't have listen to ... But I still did because of my interest in looking for a community. All of that changed somewhat before Far From Home came out, back in 2018: I met the people at Smashboards, made new friends in high school, and a lot of things changed in my head. A process began ... And a new path that I decided to take with myself.

A few months before Far From Home came out, I saw Homecoming for the first time, and I saw a very important potential in the character of Tom Holland. An opportunity to create throughout these films a character that, although at first it may be divisive, will eventually end up enchanting many as much as Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield did when I was little. And indeed, without going into deep detail about my personal life, I saw that Far From Home would be one more evolution of the character, not the enormous and intense one that everyone was clamoring out for ... But one in which I saw myself reflected back then and one where the character learns a lot of life lessons and important philosophies. Without a doubt, my excitement for the next movie was through the roof, I wanted to see the next step for this character. The character was growing at the same time as me, and my connection grew stronger with each movie.

We enter 2020, and rumors are coming out that the third movie will be a crossover with the previous Spider-Man movie sagas ... And at that point I entered a fear (obviously not a big one because it is a movie, but still a fear ) for one thing in particular.
The fear, was that Sony executives and producers were going the easy route: trying to please the internet folks who deeply hated Holland's Spider-Man by making a product that basically presented him as the "bad version" while the previous ones with their villains and all are "the good version". All putting back the development of the character to favor practically a vocal minority in social media. Nothing helped when in the trailers the biggest point was simply the return of the old villains.

The fear I had for that scenario grew every day, but I also decided to buy tickets for opening day with my mother. And there I was that day, at the movies ... And what I saw surprised me deeply for the better. The writers did what I thought was impossible: they managed to balance everything related to the villains and elements of the old films with the development and evolution of Holland's Spider-Man. It was emotional and even beautiful to see everything that the character goes through in the film: the pains, the sufferings, the successes and failures ... And that great and satisfying ending where Holland's Spider-Man becomes the version of the character that many of us wanted to see all these years and that we have seen it grow to such an extent.

I must say that just as it happened with Far From Home at the time, No Way Home came to me at a point in my life where I also connected a lot with such: I have lost many people, difficulties have come out for me, I have made decisions from which I regret and the guilt of the things I did in the past is on me ... But at the same time I have managed to move beyond all that, and I have achieved things that I saw impossible all this time: I have managed to make peace with my family, I hang out more with people, I have made new friends, I have achieved some independence, I have learned many life lessons (several from people with similar experiences, close to how Holland learns from Tobey and Andrew) and in general, I have evolved quite a bit as a person and I am proud of all these achievements.

I am glad that I was able to grow as a person and at the same time see the same thing on the big screen this whole period with the excellent performance of Tom Holland: we have both made mistakes, we have both made successes ... and we both aspire to be amazing people and inspiring those around us. Without further ado, I'm looking forward to seeing what this version of the character will hold, and hopefully it continues to be as emotional and powerful as it has been so far.
 
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TMNTSSB4 said:
the memes that’ll come out of this somehow
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I know it's because kids want to go to movies around this time of the year and there is less competition for family-friendly movies but I wonder if this will cause other companies to try and copy Sing lol.
 
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osby said:
I know it's because kids want to go to movies around this time of the year and there is less competition for family-friendly movies but I wonder if this will cause other companies to try and copy Sing lol.
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I mean this with non-irony, but Illumination movies are trendsetters in this day and age, in the same way Shrek was in the 2000s and beyond. Like, you'd be pressed to say the Minions and Despicable Me didn't have a massive influence on animation as a whole.

Of course other companiea are gonna copy Sing. Disney would make bank doing that, they got a massive backlog of songs that they already own
 
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Mamboo07 said:
I remember there's gonna be a live action adaptation of Disney's Pinocchio which is coming out next year is currently in the works.

Can't wait to see Monstro in straight up CGI which would be great.
(Maybe his design would be the same but take inspiration from the extinct Livyatan?)
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Where is my live-action remake of Atlantis, Disney?
 
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All the sensationalization around climate change and exaggeratedly fast predictions about hoe humanity will die out in insert arbitrary year here are part of why people don't take climate change as seriously as they should.

Please don't fearmonger, it just end up doing more harm then good.
 
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Jotadé said:
Would ya'll be interested to read my spoiler review of No Way Home?

I have a lot of (really good) things to say about It, but also some important stuff regarding It which I would appreciate the people I usually tag in my posts to read.
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I wouldn't reading your review myself now that I have seen the film.

I was typing this out when you already post your review.
I am an idiot box.
 
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TheMightyP said:
I mean this with non-irony, but Illumination movies are trendsetters in this day and age, in the same way Shrek was in the 2000s and beyond. Like, you'd be pressed to say the Minions and Despicable Me didn't have a massive influence on animation as a whole.

Of course other companiea are gonna copy Sing. Disney would make bank doing that, they got a massive backlog of songs that they already own
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Yeah, that's fair. And I can't blame them honestly when some of the Illumination movies are actually really good (like Despicable Me) and they're mostly good for some silly fun for kids.

Zachmac said:
All the sensationalization around climate change and exaggeratedly fast predictions about hoe humanity will die out in insert arbitrary year here are part of why people don't take climate change as seriously as they should.

Please don't fearmonger, it just end up doing more harm then good.
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I wish people would talk more about how we actually made significant signs of progress in preventing the climate crisis, like big-scale forestation attempts.

Obviously, things are still not great but acting like we passed the point of no return just is defeatism and feels more like an excuse to give up.
 
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TMNTSSB4 said:
the memes that’ll come out of this somehow
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Sing 2 still got overshadowed by Spider-Man No Way Home though.
I have no interest in Sing 2 and I already saw The Matrix Resurrections (which I thought was fine), so I intend to see The King's Man in the near future.
 
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osby said:
I wish people would talk more about how we actually made significant signs of progress in preventing the climate crisis, like big-scale forestation attempts.

Obviously, things are still not great but acting like we passed the point of no return just is defeatism and feels more like an excuse to give up.
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The ocean was literally on fire a few months ago
 
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