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I've read that comic a lot and the trailer hits a lot of notes. Now that doesn't mean people will like it - I'm just holding out hope that faithfulness to the source translates the magic of the comics.
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This take seems to be out there a lot but I'm not sure why. This film is based on MM's The Crooked Man, which is a Hellboy story and folk horror. The tone and story match the comic. It's not the best Hellboy comic, but if your budget's limited, it's got a better chance of still coming out good
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This is the story to try. It's very human and small scale. No world-ending threat, no containment. It's about a small number of people and Hellboy. It also helps that the trailer is showing stuff that is straight from the comic. Except the crooked man is scarier in the trailer.
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Yeah... sadly, it was making something of his own in which Hellboy starred. It's not a Hellboy story, it's just a Frankenstein's monster of things to make you say "oh, that's a bit like the comics". Karl Ruprecht Kroenen is a prime example: germaphobe SS scientist becomes an elite assassin.
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GDT made GDT's Hellboy. If you put a skinny blonde dude in Hellboy's place and said they're John Constantine movies, they'd work just as well. Just pretty visuals and monsters. It's not MM's Hellboy. If you've never read The Crooked Man, worth a look. The tone of this trailer is exactly right.
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Oh, this cool-looking Nazi scientist who is an eloquent amoral geek in the comics would be the ideal template for a mute assassin in the movie. Also, let's make an early threat some random demon for no reason. Golden Army was fine, but it took a steaming shit on canon and changed elves completely
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I've been on the Hellboy train since the comics began and I'm in for this movie. The crooked man is a great standalone story. It's small in scope and location. If you're gonna do something weird, this is one of the stories to do it with. And let's not pretend Hellboy '04 isn't shit, because it is
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Her hubris while sitting on a string of cancer cases and other medical issues has a direct line to our current situation. She acted like no one could replace her. Well, Amy Coney Barrett did just that. Her legacy is forever tarnished by her ego.
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The fame aspect is good but so is having piles of "fuck you" money so that you don't give two shits if anyone buys a commission.
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Oh man... can the reward include $99.9m reward with a stern warning to "not fuck this up"?
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Apropos of nothing, Mos Def is my canonical Ford Prefect. Going in, I remember being very unsure how an American rapper would deliver on the British-written alien weirdness of Ford. I left unable to read hhgttg without seeing him in my head. To be clear, this is a good thing. He owned that role.
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I like my hurricanes and my z2 (the toe strap). I hated the strap until I tried a size smaller than I thought I was, then it stopped choking my toe. Chacos seem very unforgiving on sizes, but once you have it, it feels great. My hurricanes are great but that toe strap is reassuring on long walks.
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If you're willing to look at men's shoes, especially if you're a wide in women's sizes, you'll find some bargains on eBay and on Amazon. Picked up a pair of men's chacos (43) in black for $35 on Amazon. That's nuts.
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...and when I looked back, at the hardest times in this Soulslike, there were only my footprints. That was when I was producing premium content free of brand deals, highlighting the rotten core of this republic. Oh... cool, I guess. Just..I could have used help with Jannus The Emasculator...
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No business should be doing this. There are enough mail services and automation solutions out there to separate the sender from the thing being sent. It should not be down to someone correctly differentiating "cc" and "bcc". With Office 365, Power Automate can send individual emails, not mass email
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Nike paying Caitlin Clark $28m for a sneaker deal is awesome. Until the final four reduced the crowd, I couldn't have named a single men's player in men's March Madness, while the women's tournament had multiple stars. Caitlin was a big part of that - she provided stories and people love a narrative
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Yeah, yeah. At this point, you not admitting your ghostwriting role for marvel is just insulting.
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The founding fathers: "As we ratify this second amendment, let it be known that we totally foresaw our imprecise and slow loading muskets eventually becoming automatic-loading, high-velocity weapons and did intend that a dumbfuck we wouldn't let vote should have ready access to them."
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This headline... Jesus. Let's finish it off: "I thought I was bored of running - then I found joggling. I'm still bored of running, but at least I look like a twat doing it."
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American football is turn-based rugby league. I will not be taking questions.
#nfl
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Crimes are cool and you should totally do them. Doing crimes makes you 1000% more attractive to the opposite sex! Or the same sex! Your choice!
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Ha ha! Hilarious! What a funny parody! ... ... ... ... Now, if I insert my credit card somewhere will you make more Pinocchio?
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To a kid who found sandman alongside the Judge Dredd graphic novels in his local library, it was an eye opener. Judge Anderson: Childhood's End was a tough read, but scenes like this one felt infinitely more "grown-up" (for a fourteen year old, anyway).
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Let's get high... once the appropriate working hours are concluded, of course.
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Let us raise the banners of middle age over the tiktok battlements, as our forbears did to Facebook!
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America has its own gammon (Translation from English to American: ham).
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Love that you're getting out there! And that your Taskmaster addiction isn't completely crippling your career.
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You may mock, but it's halved the time it takes him to create each cartoon, giving him a whole extra minute to spout hate on twitter every day.
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Perfect post. No notes.
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I'm sure he'll request his publishers cease selling Dilbert merchandise there in solidarity, depriving the city of his biting wit. The monetary impact will be more than tolerable, right Scott? Scott...?
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the really disheartening thing about the prevalence of scams is that instead of talking about it like a public policy problem, we all act like it’s on every grandma to stay vigilant
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I like Mastodon, but you have to understand what it is to appreciate it, and the best way of doing that is to understand open source. Open source is the best option when you want the source to be open. When you want slick UI and UX, you go commercial. "Jank tolerance" is a key factor.
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When you understand the concept of a prefix, but not the practice
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I resent that you brought this into my life.
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You literally responded to a post about the bombing of Rafah complaining about the "superb owl" joke. Your comment brought a pun into the context of state-sponsored murder. I'm not some "free speech" absolutist. The "dots or feathers?" crowd can get fucked, for example, but this is a weak complaint
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These were not equivalent things, though. The senseless murder of innocents vs the potential for some people to be upset by a (pretty unimpressive) bit of wordplay. You grouped them, thus equating them
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Holy shit! I responded seriously to your letter comment, but I just realized you're upset that people are making a pun about the Super Bowl! You are a far-too-serious person looking to be offended, which is your right, but don't expect everyone to take that seriously.
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So if my culture has positive connotations attached to something and someone else has negative, I'm not allowed to use it in the context of my culture?
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THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS IN WARHAMMER 40K. ESPECIALLY NOT THE IMPERIUM. EVERYONE IS BAD. EVERYONE. YES, EVEN THEM.
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#CBS pushing the shitty Fire Country show as if it was real. Stuff that right up your ass! It's not enough that they pump out copaganda, now they're making the exploitation of prisoners look like something noble.
Shove it up your ass until you feel your teeth!
#nfl #superbowl #soullesscorporation
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Incredible face detail
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
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Today the Irish Examiner published my piece about the hellscape of platform manipulation and spam that is the modern web. In it, I highlighted that such actions materially benefit Twitter. Now, for the first time in 14 years, I've been suspended by Twitter. For "platform manipulation and spam".
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Sure, Jordan Love looks like another elite Green Bay QB, but can he follow in Rodgers' and Favre's shoes as an absolute dogshit human? He has to blaze his own trail though. No fraud or vaccine denial. I look forward to learning about his appreciation for pedophilia and seal clubbing in ten years.
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Landscape for Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate RPG
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Bluesky is every bit as shitty as early Twitter and that's why I love it. I want social media that makes me say "I've done all I want to do in here." They'll fuck it up, of course. They always do. Some investor will demand infinite returns and we'll descend into algorithmic hell once more.
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Cool dog. Cool chair. Cool view. (Presumably) cool person. Cool slippers.
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Is this a daily dose like vitamin c, where you can fill your boots, or like salt, where too much will kill you?
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Why does @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com look like a renegade detective in a beloved low-budget Italian film from the 80s while Terry Pratchett looks like his friend who owns a boat they use to stop sea crime
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Amazing! Who could possibly have predicted that making loot-grinding, endless hamster wheel games would reduce the amount of games people play?
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