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rennyforpresident · 4 years

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Renny’s BBSim: Second Chances Week 12: The Beginning of the End

Welcome back to Biiiiiiiiiig Brother!

@brentrobinson @flopbb-22 @flungevictee @kaysarswhore @maxdoesbb @music-obsessednerd @pawn2393 @paymeincashnottears @rennyforpresident @wheremy--demons--hide

Jury: @theminionjcfucked @fucklauryn @phylisisley @iantxrry @swampassthing @cirie-sandra-michaela

Previously, the house was shook to it’s core when @kaysarswhore flipped on her alliance and nominated @cirie-sandra-michaela as the replacement nominee, sealing his fate and sending him to the jury house.

Now? This might be a little more accurate than it was last week. With @kaysarswhore‘s betrayal, she might have put herself in danger. But as outgoing HOH, she can’t compete this week. Who will snatch the key from her?

And for the final 5 HOH competition, what better comp than a crapshoot! The first to shoot is @flopbb-22. You scored an 8! You’re currently in the lead.

Next up is @pawn2393. You have scored a 15! You’re in the lead, and have knocked @pawn2393 out of the running.

Next is @maxdoesbb. You have scored a 3. Sorry, but that means you will not be the HOH this week.

Last up, is @paymeincashnottears. Will this be her time to shine?

Her ball rolls past the 3, meaning

The ball then rolls past the 8, which means

Where will her ball stop... her ball goes into ...

the 13! Which means

@pawn2393! You have secured a spot in the final 4 and earned the right to nominate two of your fellow houseguests for eviction.

Will @kaysarswhore‘s betrayal come back to bite her in the ass? Or will @pawn2393 try to repair the relationship, so he at least has one ally left?

The nominees are...

@pawn2393: “I have decided to nominate you @flopbb-22 and you @paymeincashnottears. @flopbb-22, you openly admitted that I’m on your radar last week, and that’s not shit that I’m willing to let slide. @paymeincashnottears, at this point, it wouldn’t BB Second Chances if you weren’t nominated. Good luck in the veto, I guess.”

@flopbb-22: “Of all the people on my side of the house, @pawn2393 is the one I trusted the least. I should have known he would nominate me, but I honestly don’t care at this point. If there was ever a time for me to win a comp, it’s now.”

@paymeincashnottears: “I have no more emotions left for going on the block. Every goddamn week I’m up here, and every goddamn week I stay, so why should this one be any different? I’ll find a way to stay, know that.”

This week, only five houseguests will participate in the veto. Less competition doesn’t always mean an easier win, though

(yes I intentionally used the image without Fr*nkie lmao)

Who will host this competition? From around the wall in the backyard, in walks...

BB Legend Kathy!

Kathy: “Hey y’all! Let’s get this veto started!

Question 1: There are ten beer cans stacked here. How many beer cans are on the larger display?”

The only two players to stay are @maxdoesbb and @paymeincashnottears.

Kathy: “The correct answer is 112 cans! Which means @paymeincashnottearswins one point, and @maxdoesbb, you are eliminated.

“Next! There are 5 beach balls here. How many beach balls are in the large container?”

This time, three people stay in: @paymeincashnottears, @flopbb-22, and @kaysarswhore.

“The correct answer is 89 balls! Which means @kaysarswhore, you have earned one point! Unfortunately, @flopbb-22, with the furthest answer, you have been eliminated.”

And then there were three.

Kathy: “Next! There are three ounces of honey (asdkfjaslkdf) here. How many ounces of honey are there in the big container?”

This time, all three competitors stay in.

Kathy: “The correct answer is 520 ounces! Which means @paymeincashnottears, you have earned another point! Unfortunately, @pawn2393, you have been eliminated.”

It all comes down to this. Will @paymeincashnottears save herself from the block by winning her first competition? Or will @kaysarswhore swoop in a crush her dreams before they can begin?

Kathy: “Last round! There are five ice cream cones here. How many ice cream cones are in the big display?”

@paymeincashnottears answers 105. @kaysarswhore answers 120. Both stay.

Kathy: “The correct answer is...

110 ice cream cones! Which means”

@paymeincashnottears, you have won your FIRST POV!

Obviously, @paymeincashnottears will use it to save herself. Who will @pawn2393 nominate in her place? Will @maxdoesbb‘s rat game finally catch up to him? Or will @kaysarswhore‘s betrayal from last week come back to bite her in the ass?

At the veto ceremony

To no one’s surprise, @paymeincashnottears secures a spot in the final 4. @flopbb-22, now really nervous, is scared for who he has to face in this eviction.

@paymeincashnottears: “ @pawn2393, because I have vetoed one of your nominations, you must now name a replacement nominee.”

@pawn2393: “This is not ideal, in any way. I love both of you dearly, and I don’t want either of you to go. But at the end of the day, I have to nominate...

“ @maxdoesbb. You haven’t hit the block yet, and I hope this is just a filler position. No hard feelings, and I hope you’ll be staying around after this Thursday.”

@maxdoesbb in the DR: “I was REALLY hoping to make it to the end without ever being nominated, but this is fine. I feel like I have worked hard enough in my social game to secure my spot, and @flopbb-22 is a dead man walking.”

@flopbb-22 knows this, and knows it well. So he decides to play dirty.

Trying to take away a vote from @maxdoesbb to stay, and at the very least send it to a tie, @flopbb-22 sets his sights on @paymeincashnottears.

@flopbb-22: “Girl! That veto win was legendary! You know, I’m the last person in this house who hasn’t won anything. Literally no one on that jury is gonna vote for a comp flop like me.”

@paymeincashnottears: “But you have your social game! You’re definitely friends with those people. You can’t deny that.”

@flopbb-22: “But have you SEEN @maxdoesbb‘s social game? Unclockable. Unbeatable, if we’re being honest.”

@paymeincashnottears in the DR: “You know, @flopbb-22 might have a point. I’m not friends with some of those jury members. If I wanna win, I can’t be sitting next to someone like @maxdoesbb, who hugged literally everyone on the way out the door. Many thoughts......”

With such a limited number of people in the house, that’s all that went down before the live show on Thursday. Now, it’s time to evict!

Julie: “Hello again houseguests! There’s only a few more times that you’ll get to see me again before we crown our winner!

@paymeincashnottears, your first comp win! How does it feel?”

@paymeincashnottears: “It feels amazing! I knew I needed it to be safe this week, and I’m SO happy I made it to final 4!”

Julie: “That’s wonderful! @maxdoesbb, speaking of firsts, how is your first time on the block treating you?”

@maxdoesbb: “I gotta say, I’m not enjoying it! It’s a little stressful, but I’d definitely rather be on one of the other couches tonight *house laughter*”

Julie: “Well, we’ll find out if you have what it takes to make it one of those couches! Let’s get to the speeches”

@flopbb-22: “My argument is that I live up to my name; I flopped this season. I haven’t won a single thing, I haven’t made friends on the jury, and if you keep me, you can beat me. I want to stay and play this game and hopefully win something before the end, but if not, I do hold grudges and will bring them with me to the jury house. That’s all!”

@maxdoesbb: “It has been an INSANE and AMAZING summer with all of you! Getting to know you, getting to be friends with all of you, has been the summer of a lifetime for me. I hope you all keep me here just a little bit longer, and I hope I can finish out this season with you all in stride! Love you all!”

Julie: “Now, it’s time to vote.”

@kaysarswhore is going to be loyal to her secret f2 deal with @maxdoesbb, because she’s confident he would do the same. @flopbb-22 probably wouldn’t take her to the end at f3 anyway.

The last vote belongs to @paymeincashnottears. Was @flopbb-22 convincing enough this week?

Unfortunately, he was not. @paymeincashnottears is going to be loyal to the person who saved her from the block and who has had her back the entire game. She refuses to flip.

Julie: “When I reveal the name of the evicted houseguest, they will have one minute to gather their belongings, say their goodbyes, and exit the Big Brother house.”

Julie: “ @flopbb-22, come on out!”

Julie: “Final 5 is not bad! @flopbb-22, how did you manage to make it so far without ever winning anything?”

@flopbb-22: “I had really strong bonds with the dominant side of the house! Towards the end there, we just couldn’t win vetoes, and unfortunately, my bonds weren’t strong enough, and I was the bottom of the totem pole.”

Julie: “Are there any hard feelings towards your alliance? Did you mean what you said about holding a grudge?”

@flopbb-22: “I’m gonna let them believe that I meant it, but I probably don’t. Probably. *audience laughter*. I won’t let that cloud my judgement when I vote for the winner of this game, is all I’ll say.”

Julie: “I can’t wait to find out who you vote for, and we will find out on finale night, when we’ll see you back here. Thank you so much for playing again.

We’re down to the wire! Final 4! Which of our houseguests will make it to final 3? Find out next time. For now, from outside the Big Brother house, I’m Julie Chen. Goodnight.”

I am so STRESSED to find out who’s gonna win because it could truly be ANY of you!!!! All of you are ICONS for the games your playing.

#bb22 #bbsim #bbsim second chances

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minaminokyoko · 6 years

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Pacific Rim: Uprising (A Spoilertastic Review)

This movie should be the ultimate lesson for Hollywood on why you shouldn’t just replace a director who has vision with someone who just wants to make a quick buck in a lazy sequel. My God, I can’t remember the last time I’ve been this utterly annoyed by a sequel. I mean, late sequels have a serious tendency to suck for many reasons: hiring different writers/directors from the previous film, changing the tone, removing important characters and awkwardly jamming new ones in there, relying on boring sequel clichés, or misunderstanding the entire reason why the first movie was a hit. Pacific Rim wasn’t a mega-hit stateside—it did $101 million domestically and did much better in the foreign market with an additional $309 million—but it was easily a fan favorite. Even if I had the full story on what went down between Legendary Pictures and the delightfully talented Guillermo del Toro, there is no excuse why Pacific Rim Uprising is such a pathetic pile of nothing. With del Toro, we had some excellent world building, a basic understanding of the premise, a loose but still adequate story, and characters that were easy to remember and enjoy. We also had a fun cameo from the incomparable Ron Perlman, a fantastic score, and some truly imaginative fight sequences of the Jaegers vs. the kaiju. I’ve said before that I think PacRim is a good movie, not a great movie, only because I felt you could have simply removed Raleigh entirely and focused on Mako and Stacker instead since they were both ten times more interesting and easier to connect with on an emotional level. However, after seeing this nonsense, I have a whole new appreciation for the first film, because at least it told a goddamn story and its characters had personality traits and arcs. Uprising is honestly an affront to what the first film established, not only for retconning things with Stacker’s forgettable son, but just botching every single enjoyable element from the first film.

I’ll get right to the point—yes, the Jaeger/kaiju fights are the main draw for this franchise. Even though I’m going to list why this sequel is godawful, a lot of people really just want to see it for the big fight scenes and that’s all they might want to take away from any reviews. Well, I’m here to tell you, I still don’t think Uprising is worth your hard-earned cash, because it’s frankly a bait-and-switch. The trailer shows you a monstrous kaiju made of three other kaiju, and that sounds amazing, right? Well, it’s intentionally misleading. If you want the full story, check below the spoiler line.

Overall Grade: D

Pro:

-Seriously, the only positive thing to note about this entire film is that the fight scenes were at least adequate. Not good, not great, adequate. When the fights finally do happen, there’s plenty of smashing, and the idea of the kaiju melding into one huge kaiju was at least a nifty idea. It was easily the only thing about the trailer that got anyone’s blood moving and could have built any hype. However, judging by the movie’s poor opening weekend, enough people could tell something was off about it.

Cons:

-The trailer is misleading. How? Well, there are no kaiju in this movie until the last fifteen minutes. Seriously. They pulled a Huntsman sequel on you guys—promising something that only appears at the end of the fucking movie. All other times, you are stuck with the bland protagonists training or trying to figure out how the rogue Jaeger attacked Sydney. IIRC, there’s only the fight of Gypsy Avenger vs. the rogue Jaeger and then the end with all of them fighting. There’s a brief chase sequence in the beginning with Bland White Child and Stacker-lite, but it’s barely five minutes long and it’s just them rolling away from the full sized Jaeger like Sonic the Hedgehog. Look, if that still excites you, hey, go see it. But to everyone else who doesn’t want to feel ripped off, I’m begging you to sit this one out for this and many other reasons I’m going to outline below. There are only kaiju at the end of the damn movie. It’s Godzilla 2014 all over again—a magnificent creature that is advertised heavily as being in the film, but isn’t actually in the damn thing.

-The dialogue is so painfully cliché that you will roll your eyes so many times they might eject from your skull. Jesus Christ. I swear, it’s like they had a checklist of every action movie cliché they could think of and they made sure to check off every single one. Every line of dialogue in this movie is a sickening cliché. There is not one original thought. Not. One. Every character is flat and some form of a lazy archetype. No one gets any development. It’s Michael Bay-levels of incompetent writing. The movie couldn’t have been any worse written than if there was a room of chimpanzees hammering away at the screenplay. It’s just plain embarrassing. Every moment there isn’t a kaiju smashing something or a Jaeger beating wholesale ass, you will be in massive amounts of pain.

-The fights are mediocre. Remember how carefully staged the fight scenes were in the first movie? Hell, most of the time we can list them off the top of our heads because those fights were so damn memorable. We had the opening montage, the Knifehead fight, the two kaiju vs. the Jaegers, Gypsy Danger vs. Otachi, and then the final brawl underwater at the Breach. Each fight was staged well and paced well throughout the film. You didn’t have to wait too long between fights during the film, and it also entertained you with smaller bits like Mako and Raleigh training or the flashback to Mako’s childhood with that scary crab kaiju. Uprising is a bottom-heavy film, much like the equally terrible Jurassic World (God, talk about another late sequel that entirely misses the fucking point of the original property.) The only difference is at least Jurassic World had enough sense to deliver a powerhouse ending to an utterly stupid film, and Uprising doesn’t. The fights don’t have clever staging, great music, or very much creativity to them. After suffering through two hours with these annoying paper cutout characters, you should deliver the best damn fights we’ve ever seen, but no, they’re just standard hacking and slashing. Punctuated by the intensely annoying, shrieking helium balloon shaped like Charlie Day shouting inane dialogue in his squeaky voice. The fights have zero weight, too, because no one has a character, so you don’t give a shit if they live or not during the fight either.

-Like many terrible sequels, they kill off a main lead from the previous film in order to give the new protagonist some pathetic kind of Mangst. If there is one thing I am sure of, it’s that most fans of the original movie are going to be LIVID they dragged the actress playing Mako all the way back on set just to kill her fifteen minutes in. It’s just insulting. Mako was the fan favorite from the first film. Seriously, she has most of the fandom in her back pocket, so I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the immediate backlash is because the movie’s disgusting use of Fridging the main female lead from the first movie to make way for Bland White Child and Stacker-lite. It’s possibly the most insulting thing about the entire sequel. Mako deserved better. I’d rather she was out of the movie entirely, like Raleigh mysteriously is, than for them to kill her in such a cheap, stupid way. What a waste of a good actress and a great character.

-Making Charlie Day the villain. Yes, because nothing is more intimidating than a tiny man with the voice of Bobcat Goldthwait spouting dialogue so corny you’d expect it from an Austin Powers movie. Are you kidding me? Look, I get it, Charlie Day is a fan favorite so of course they were going to bring him back, but what the actual fuck made you think he should be the bad guy? It’s weaksauce. It sounds like they were just bored and out of ideas for the villain, as if the fucking kaiju or the Precursors weren’t good enough somehow, and just slapped this idiotic role in his lap. It’s such a bad idea. I hated his character in the first film and wanted him removed entirely, but at least he served a purpose. Here, it’s just lip service. Anyone who liked him in the first one is going to be pissed off at this random turn of the character with no indication of changing him back.

-Thin, boring leads. Let me be clear: John Boyega is not to be blamed for any of why this movie is failing critically and financially. The kid is talented and sweet and I want to pinch his cheeks and feed him apple pie in my kitchen. But he couldn’t save this film because of that rancid excuse of a script. Boyega is a darling on screen in almost everything else, but here, he has nothing to work with. Stacker-lite is just a cobbled together mess of leftover script notes from Chris Pine’s portrayal of Captain Kirk in the Star Trek reboot. He has nothing going for him at all. No motivation, no skillset, no charm. This character is completely empty inside. Bland White Child is the exact same as well; basically just every Little Miss Badass/Underdog stereotype only done amazingly poorly. She has nothing to offer the audience and while she has slightly more motivation than Boyega’s character did, it doesn’t mean anything. Then we have Generic Good Looking White Guy Lead, because for fuck’s sake, it’s not like it’s 2018 and we aren’t tired of seeing him, Generic Latina “We couldn’t get Michelle Rodriguez to do this bullshit so here’s someone else instead” Tits and Ass (who made me even angrier because normally when they have the Hot Latina Military Lady, she gets at least ONE badass moment, but this chick seriously serves no fucking purpose and is relegated to the laziest Hot Girl/Potential Love Interest role of all fucking time), Generic Cadets Who are Carefully Ethnically Diverse (you are fooling NO ONE, sequel; if you’re gonna bother to make them diverse, GIVE THEM ACTUAL CHARACTERS FIRST), Kick Butt Asian Lady (seriously, why the fuck did you cast this lady and kill off Mako? It would make more sense if Mako was in this role, like maybe Raleigh died in the Jaeger and she wanted to make automated Jaegers so no one would ever lose their partner again, there, ah fixed it, you morons), and finally Returning Cast Member Who Looks Tired AF But Needed the Money. It is a headache spending two hours with these characters. You don’t care about any of them and they have nothing to offer you. They’re just constantly stumbling around bumping into things and spouting dialogue from 30 years ago.

If you can overlook all of those flaws for the promise of Jaeger vs. kaiju fighting, have at it. Everyone else, don’t bother. If you’re that curious, wait until this hits a premium channel. I’m extremely glad I saw it for free, because I’d have been pissed paying $10 for this lump of expired crab meat. Save your money and go buy another copy of the first movie.

#Pacific Rim Uprising #Pacific Rim #movie review #film review #spoiler alert #spoilers

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theastonishingkylejackson · 6 years

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Yoga Isn’t Just For Women, It’s For Everyone And There Shouldn’t Be A Stigma Behind Guys Doing Yoga – Written By Chase Huval, Contributing Managing Editor for The Astonishing Tales Digital Magazine

I Despise The Concept Of “Spoilers.”

Chadwick Boseman as the titular character, Black Panther

I don’t mind reading spoilers because I actually like knowing what’s going to happen in a film.

I don’t care about being surprised by story elements (when you’ve read as much as I have, there aren’t very many stories that aren’t recycled and rebranded as new and you can usually suss out where a story is going to go well before it gets there), I’d much rather be surprised at the execution.

And so writing this review gives me great joy because it will be filled by spoilers, because I don’t want to limit myself when speaking about the perfect execution on Marvel’s latest outing.

BP is set in the fictional African nation of Wakanda. You get a brief history lesson of how they came to be, a glance at the differing tribes, then a peek into King T’Chaka’s closet where there lies a skeleton.

Within the first ten minutes you know history, culture, folklore, and a dark secret. When you actually see Wakanda after all that, it like Christmas lights being turned on.

When you see the coronation ceremony, or T’Challa’s interactions with Zuri, or M’Baku and the White Gorilla Cult lumbering down to challenge for the throne, you’re not wondering why these events are unfolding. You understand that is their culture, and because of their isolationist policies, that their culture has never been tainted or forced to change.

So you don’t question why the most technologically advanced country in the world’s STEM program is being led by a 16 year old, or why the Wakandans fall in line when Killmonger usurps the throne. It is their culture and it has been beautifully brought to life by 31-year-old director Ryan Coogler and his team.

You’d be forgiven for believing that Wakanda was more that a fictional setting after seeing this movie. It’s that convincing (although you’d be wrong).

The next thing that strikes you as different in this MCU film, are the characters. Sure, every Marvel film has one great character whose flaws and motivation are well fleshed out (and that character has mostly, up til now, been white and male), but their supporting cast is flimsier than the CGI on Henry Cavill’s mustache.

Black Panther is different. Every character stands on their own and even with limited screen time, but you get a sense of who they are and what they stand for. The first action set piece lays bare the intentions of Nakia (a Wakandan spy and former lover of T’Challa, who can’t stand idle while atrocities occur outside her borders), Okoye (Dora Milaje) and T’Challa (whom ascends to the throne with his loved ones around him so that he may better protect his country).

I haven’t seen characterization on this scale and efficiency since the Wire.

The stark difference being that while episodes of the Wire require multiple viewings of hour long episodes to glean the scope and breadth of its characters, Ryan Coogler accomplishes this in seconds.

The entire cast is truly brilliant, and I could wax poetic about them all day. I won’t since you could just redirect yourself to a fanboy message board if you wanted that.

Let me just say this though: the two breakout characters for me have to be Shurri and your villain (my hero) Erik Killmonger. Letiticia Smith is about to blow up after her portrayal of Shurri. I haven’t seen a scene stealer steal scenes like that since RDJ as Tony Stark.

Killmonger deserves some time just for himself. You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t mentioned much about Chadwick Boseman’s turn as T’Challa, the titular Black Panther. He did an incredible job. It’s really unfortunate for him that he’ll be overshadowed by Michael B. Jordan’s Killmonger.

T’Challa lost damn near every fight in the goddamn movie. When he was defeated in Ritual Combat, it wasn’t even close. But it’s not just the fact that he got bloodied in front of his people (even having some slight interference from Zuri, and still lost). He got bodied philosophically.

Black Panther versus Killmonger

See T’Challa was proper up on this notion of his father being such a good and honorable man and he felt a need to do everything he could to protect what his father held dear, mainly keeping Wakanda a secret. T’Challa was bought into the mindset of, “well, that’s the way its always been done.”

Killmonger didn’t have that luxury. He grew up in a nightmare, knowing that there was a dream right outside his window. He was forced to adapt, to toughen up, to man up. All the cliches that American boys are told growing up. It turned him into a stone cold killer.

But one thing it didn’t do was make him wrong. Killmonger couldn’t fathom how the Wakandans could leave others like them to be enslaved, tortured, murdered when they could easily help them to throw off their oppressors.

I can’t understand it either. It’s the one part of Wakanda that brings me no joy, and for that, T’Challa is #notmyblackpanther. I want Killmonger back so badly to lead not only Wakanda, but the world into Infinity War against Thanos.

The MCU doesn’t need more of T’Challa’s aw shucks ways of governing, we deserve the ferocity and intensity of Killmonger. I believe the entirety of his character can be summed up succinctly by his finals words, “Throw me in the ocean with my ancestors. Who knew, even then, that death is better than bondage.”

Then he rips the knife from his heart, letting all his emotion pour out into the Wakandan sunset (along with the remainder of his blood).

See how much more fun review are when you don’t have to worry about spoilers?

Black Panther is clearly a tour de force, and couldn’t have come at a more perfect time for Marvel. The Iron Man template of MCU moviemaking was getting a little dated. This film (along with Spider-Man: Homecoming and Thor: Ragnarok) signal a shift in Marvel’s visual and storytelling aesthetics.

Namely that of fleshed out supporting characters, lived in worlds, and great, tragic villains without losing the charm and humor that got the MCU to where it is today.

Marvel’s Black Panther: It’s worth seeing… twice.

Overall, I give Black Panther a perfect score of 5/7, with a +1 kicker for being entertaining, compelling and, in the genre, groundbreaking, for a total score of 6/7.

Check out The Black Panther at your local theater as soon as possible.

I’m The Astonishing Chase Huval of The Astonishing Tales Digital Magazine and I Approve This Message.

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