Warfarer

re: New Trailer for 'The Fantastic Four' | Marvel Studios

Posted by Warfarer on 4/19/25 at 8:25 am

My "hawt take" on the trailers:

- I said initially that I thought Pedro Pascal was too old to play Reed Richards in the MCU. Im not the biggest Pascal fan out there anyway, but now I see they are using Downey as Von Doom so the age makes more sense due to them being school rivals/classmates.

- Sue Storm looks too young for Richards in this but it might be that they are using the really early story for them where Sue is like 10 or 15 years younger and fell in love with him when she was a teen.

- I don't like the look of the guy playing Johnny, hopefully he'll sell it better than I think he will. He doesn't have that cocky swagger that I envision the character to have.

- Ben fricking kills it in this trailer too. Looks are spot on and I like his interactions.

- Silver Surfer looks goofy. Female or male, doesn't matter. It is tough to make a chrome person look good. They actually did a good job in the last movie but this one looks even more "chromey" than that. That out of the way, I am in the camp of not liking them using a female Surfer out of the gate. Maybe she won't be the main Surfer in the MCU and she is just there in this universe.

- I will be there to see this in the theater for sure. I hope they do it well, I have enjoyed the Comic movie phase as it has given us a lot of good popcorn movies but they are on a losing streak right now. I hope they are starting to right the ship but I see it more of a closing down than a jumping off point now. I hope I'm wrong because this time of popcorn action movies is winding down if these last few Avenger movies fail.

re: Unanswerable question: what was Harry Stamper‘s net worth when NASA reached out to him?

Posted by Warfarer on 4/19/25 at 8:11 am

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where he is told the shut the frick up about why it would be easier to train oil drillers to be astronauts and not astronauts to drillers.

I agree with him on this. The premise of the movie is that the drillers were basically catching a ride to the asteroid with assigned astronauts and then it was their show from there. I am sure, like in all other blue collar jobs, you need practical experience to adjust to the environment and course correct when needed. You can't train that practical experience in a matter of a month or two.

Now the real argument should be, if they had more astronauts would they have overshot their target landing area by however many miles and been up shite creek to begin with?

re: Looks like our starting CBs popped for possession of weed and tobacco

Posted by Warfarer on 4/19/25 at 7:56 am

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Yes, it is illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under 21 years old in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, including on military bases.

It used to be illegal to buy or sell tobacco under the age but it wasn't illegal to actually have it. I know it sounds stupid but there wasn't ever a possession of tobacco charge when I was a kid. I used to go to the Dothan Peanut Festival and go around and get bags of chewing tobacco and dip for my dad's workers when I was about 6 or 7 years old lol.

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re: Jeff Bezo’s company new 25k EV pickup

Posted by Warfarer on 4/13/25 at 2:25 pm

I think there is a market for a $25k small ev pickup with a 100-150 mile range that can charge quick. Like stated above, make it better looking and you can use it go to the grocery store or hardware store a few days a week. Make it affordable enough to where it can be a secondary vehicle.

re: Average test scores displayed in grade-level equivalents compared to the national average

Posted by Warfarer on 4/9/25 at 5:48 am

I keep reading how the majority of public schools around Chicago are basically illiterate but this map shows they are close to national average.

re: Beard Trimmer

Posted by Warfarer on 4/5/25 at 9:40 pm

I’ll second on the manacape stuff. I have a few of their stuff, hedge trimmer, beard and the actual little pocket shaver. All works well and has been super low maintenance.

re: ‘Snow Woke’ In Freefall With 68% Drop At Weekend Box Office

Posted by Warfarer on 3/30/25 at 8:17 am

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With Snow White’s box office freefall in its second weekend, Amazon MGM’s action thriller A Working Man is projected to seize the box office crown from the live-action Disney princess movie.

this is the funniest part to me. It had a shitty opening weekend and then is going to come in second the next week to a box format Jason Statham action movie that is a mad libs of all his other movies. that is a rough look for Disney but they should have known this the last year with all the bad press.

re: The Average Weight for American Women

Posted by Warfarer on 3/30/25 at 8:11 am

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good weight for a male is roughly 105 + 6 lbs for every inch over 5 feet tall.
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Was once that and fealt weak. I turned that 6 into a 9 and its where I should be

I've never heard either of these but I would say that 6 is too low and 9 is a bit high. 7 or 8 probably would allow for a pretty muscular build. Im 6'4 240 and still want to get down to 225 and, while I am covered in fat, I am strong as an ox still.

Back to the OP, that is crazy that the average woman is 5'3 170 but it is believable. there are so many people who have zero control and only want to make excuses for themselves instead of just owning it.

re: What is the most brutal death scene you can recall in a movie?

Posted by Warfarer on 3/24/25 at 4:08 pm

How about the kid being torn apart by the dogs in exorcist the beginning.

re: What the heck is going on with USPS?

Posted by Warfarer on 3/22/25 at 8:56 am

Out of my last 3 or 4 packages from Amazon or eBay, the two delivered by Amazon drivers were thrown over the fence about a block away and the few coming USPS have gotten into Alabama and then sent back out of state to another facility and taken two weeks each.

I have a new toothbrush that I ordered three weeks ago, gotten a replacement for already and it just popped up that it is being delivered today.

re: What's your best Mid-life guy advice?

Posted by Warfarer on 3/8/25 at 7:07 am

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What's your best Mid-life guy advice?
I suggest finding simple, inexpensive, social hobbies because you never know who you'll meet.

I think this is great advice.

My other is stay active and eat better. At least walk and don't eat like shite.

re: How Did the Climate Change Narrative First Get Its Momentum?

Posted by Warfarer on 2/24/25 at 5:35 am

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It started with a book called The Population Bomb.

Said the growing population combined with word drought would kill everyone by starvation.

Remember the propaganda movie, Soylent Green?

Once the drought didn’t come it was an ice age coming.

Then acid rain
Hole in the ozone
Global warming
Rising oceans

Now we are at climate change plus pandemic.

this is 100% correct. They did all these grifter predictions on how the world would end to funnel money. Now, with it being called Climate Change, they can literally blame any change with climate change. A guy from my little town has gone hard left with politics and has bought into climate change 110%. If it is cold in April, climate change. if it is 60 in January for a day, climate change. if rain picks up, climate change. if it doesn't rain, climate change.

the grifting left has found their universal term for anything that isn't the day before.

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re: Do you have any grumpy opinions about modern life?

Posted by Warfarer on 2/24/25 at 5:03 am

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People dress like shite in public now.

I went to get gas at about 10:30 in the morning a couple weeks ago and three different drivers were wearing pajama pants and a hoodie. What the frick and why?

re: Folks on Ozempic who claim weight loss from other factors

Posted by Warfarer on 2/23/25 at 3:27 pm

I've had people ask me if I am on it the past few months due to losing a bunch of weight. I actually put myself on the slow carb diet and have lost around 100 pounds in the past year.

When people ask if I am doing the shot I just tell them a. im too cheap to pay for the shots and b. im too chicken shite to give myself a shot.

My sister is on one of the shots and pays about 1k a month for them and still drinks a bottle of wine a night with chocolates and other shite to eat. But she can't figure out how she doesn't lose weight.

re: Most underrated series’

Posted by Warfarer on 2/22/25 at 1:03 pm

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Futureman

I would say this one and the Inbetweeners are two I would say are grossly underrated as most people I know have never heard of either.

Miracle Workers was pretty funny too. It got shuffled around several times and was tough to find.

Fringe was never big enough for how good it was. I know it is loved here but overall, it is underrated.

Merlin was a bit hokey and corny but it was a solid show with a fantastic finale.

re: The Gorge on Apple TV

Posted by Warfarer on 2/20/25 at 5:13 pm

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I started it late last Friday but fell asleep before the opening credits were done.

I turned it off with about 30-40 minutes left and finished the next day.

It was fine. Not good, not bad, just meh.

The concept was good and the story wasn't bad. Something just didn't hit on it. Im not a big Miles Teller fan and Im not a big fan of Anya whatever. Neither one of them can carry a movie for me even though I really enjoyed queen's gambit.

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re: Best Pair of Khaki Shorts

Posted by Warfarer on 2/20/25 at 5:10 pm

I really like my Vuori shorts and birddogs are really comfortable too, almost like gym shorts but they aren't as nice as the Vuori.

re: Rainbow parade in NZ interrupted by Haka dance

Posted by Warfarer on 2/16/25 at 8:35 am

I can see where your confusion came from lol. I meant it likes kids hate something though, not a deep seeded hatred of something like us old folks mean it.