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by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Misc Topics, Links and Pics
Topic: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content
Replies: 35
Views: 6152

Re: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content

You complained about me bringing up politics. Does anyone get to refute you on this or is this just you having a say. You brought up politics. Hey, if you think it's reportable then do your thing, bro. The politics I'm mentioning do happen to be directly relevant to the subject matter and not a ran...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Misc Topics, Links and Pics
Topic: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content
Replies: 35
Views: 6152

Re: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content

Be fair, lionbadger, the conservatism isn't just American. well no, but what is the point of having that there internet thing if you aren't going to poke people with a stick a bit It's also the American FESTA-SOSTA legislation that's actually relevant to the case of OnlyFans, to be fair. That's bip...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Misc Topics, Links and Pics
Topic: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content
Replies: 35
Views: 6152

Re: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content

They're not being forced. They're chasing investors -- and celebrities -- because it's an easier way for the rich principals to get obscenely rich. When MindGeek was pushed, they didn't close PornHub, they just dumped the amateurs. Well, I expect it's a bit of the stick and a bit of the carrot. The...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Misc Topics, Links and Pics
Topic: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content
Replies: 35
Views: 6152

Re: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content

Cryptocurrency and blockchain have their own reputation problems (crypto in particular has acquired a rep as a money-laundering tool), but I wouldn't call them interchangeable with the dark web. But anywhere commerce is driven to the underground economy it gets more dangerous to do, which is true fo...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If T'Challa Became Star Lord (Ep 2) [Spoilers]
Replies: 4
Views: 4808

Re: What If T'Challa Became Star Lord (Ep 2) [Spoilers]

Imagineer wrote:
2 years ago
Last thing I want for Marvel is where DC is trudging. When everyone's Batman, no one is.
What's this a reference to, by the way?
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Misc Topics, Links and Pics
Topic: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content
Replies: 35
Views: 6152

Re: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content

There are already competitors champing at the bit, I expect. It's the 21st-century version of cops rousting the hooker strolls. The profession just sets up shop somewhere else. The best bet would be something decentralized and blockchain-based like PornRocket, which would be harder to shut down by g...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Misc Topics, Links and Pics
Topic: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content
Replies: 35
Views: 6152

Re: Only Fans banning sexually explicit content

It'll be a boon for their competitors. Bad news for them, though. Seems to have been at the pushing of a big "anti-trafficking" faction in Congress that's claiming (without any proof that I know of) that OF is promoting child pornography. It sucks.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

Episode 2 showed a pretty dramatic upswing in the fortunes of the universe simply by having space pirates abduct the wrong ten-year-old. But don't just put all the weight on who Peter and T'Challa were by age ten -- Peter had to be kept hidden from Ego, and T'Challa didn't. That's a really good poi...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If T'Challa Became Star Lord (Ep 2) [Spoilers]
Replies: 4
Views: 4808

Re: What If T'Challa Became Star Lord (Ep 2) [Spoilers]

The episodes are very brief. I think that's the only downside for me with these so far. Lots of little touches in this episode I enjoyed: Korath the Pursuer fanboying for T'Challa was very funny, and the whole story being about the Ravagers instead of the Guardians was fun. Thanos of all people turn...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

Nobody has presented a compelling reason why Quill and T-Challa are so significantly different . . . I don't personally feel like talking with you about that question is going to be worth the effort, since you frankly have yet to manage a post on the subject that hasn't consisted of over-the-top, i...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

Its YOU that gets to say whatever unmolested then YOU cry when you're challenged on your points. I simply expect the forum to enforce its "no politics" rule without fear or favor and not to use it to defend wingnut viewpoints at everyone else's expense. Don't try to twist that. I've been ...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

Ok explain exactly how swapping him with Quill makes the story better and fun without mentioning race. Damselbinder beat me to it. Put briefly, that's a "you" problem. T'Challa's character is about more than race, they're obviously distinct characters in any number of ways and again, if t...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

Please explain how replacing Starlord with T'Challa somehow made the story fun? Somehow I suspect that if you can't grasp how T'Challa Among the Stars is fun at a visceral level, and what's fun about watching him pull together his own crew of misfits (which includes some surprising entries) I doubt...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

Not siding with Shevek here but how is simply replacing a guy with another one from a different race a "story"? Where are the original stories... like T'Challa actually being black panther? Aside from separate outings in the Infinity and Civil War storylines, there was a whole major MCU m...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

Ohhhh, the T'Challa/Starlord What-If is pretty rad. Holy cow.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

*Could* have taught him German. *Did* teach him German. What's the difference? He is in fact correct about what the quote actually says and implies, and you are not. And your opinion of what it does or doesn't "add" to the story is not fact. You're the one obsessively trying to shoehorn i...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: General Movies & TV
Topic: Brand New Cherry Flavor
Replies: 6
Views: 7253

Brand New Cherry Flavor

Saw this Netflix horror mini-series over the past couple of days. I enjoyed it. The spoiler-free commentary first: it's as much about surrealism as about scares, with ingredients that feel like equal parts Cronenberg, Lynch and Hammer Horror. A young woman filmmaker's quest to get her short film mad...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

This just gets better and better, doesn't it? Howard Stark, a wealthy genius industrialist who built his own fortune from the ground up, can't do anything without the help of his erstwhile girlfriend? That whole read is bizarrely paranoid and implied by nothing in the show or that anyone here has s...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

The virtue signal was the only thing that mattered. Known to saner people as a "reference" or even an "Easter egg." She absolutely can't even be referenced if she's not a hottie explicitly seen in the episode or there must be some bizarre conspiracy at work? Again, you're reveal...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

Rather, it's the use of these facts to randomly virtue signal (etc) That you react to the simple mention (and/or the most basic discussion) in this incredibly specific and abstruse way probably says a lot more about your "random" "signaling" purposes than those of the writers or...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Arachna 2 Launched on Kickstarter - New Video Posted
Replies: 152
Views: 25231

Re: Arachna - Bringing Sexy, Adventure, and Peril Back to Superheroine Comics - First Five Pages of Story in PDF format

ArachnaComic wrote:
2 years ago
We are so excited about how this book is looking, here are the first five pages of the story in PDF format.
https://bit.ly/3CGpk5D

Last chance to back Arachna on Indiegogo InDemand. The campaign closes on Sunday. https://igg.me/at/arachnacomic
Really cool-looking project. Rooting for you!
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)
Replies: 53
Views: 13880

Re: What If...? (Marvel, 2021)

I thought it was a fine little one-off. The animation was excellent and the concept was fun. Enjoyed little easter eggs like the mention of Hedy Lamarr, who I'm guessing is involved with some of the super-science of this universe given her IRL history with the frequency-hopping signal system. The fi...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: RIP Markie Post
Replies: 10
Views: 1215

Re: RIP Markie Post

Never seen or heard of that pilot before, but I was a big fan of Markie Post's work on Night Court. Shitty news.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: The Suicide Squad (2021)
Replies: 42
Views: 6551

Re: The Suicide Squad (2021)

That's really cool! Good for them.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: General Movies & TV
Topic: How often do you go to the cinema in a "normal" year?
Replies: 24
Views: 1833

Re: How often do you go to the cinema in a "normal" year?

Reacquiring trust in the safety of the environment will be a process, the more so the longer anti-vaxxers continue to be a factor. I want to go back myself, but OTOH I haven't gone yet. The prevalence of anti-vaxxers in my province is part of the reason I stay cautious.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: The Suicide Squad (2021)
Replies: 42
Views: 6551

Re: The Suicide Squad (2021)

It really is a mug's game to try to play movie studio accountant from outside the process, that much is true.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: The Suicide Squad (2021)
Replies: 42
Views: 6551

Re: The Suicide Squad (2021)

I'm thinking that the break-even did NOT happen, because there would have been another article in Forbes eventually crowing about how it finally broke even...right? Uh... why? Forbes doesn't have any particular skin in "crowing" about anything, it's not some geek property persisting on ra...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: The Suicide Squad (2021)
Replies: 42
Views: 6551

Re: The Suicide Squad (2021)

It's staggering how poorly managed the whole thing has been though. I mean when you look at how the MCU has dozens of characters cast, established, able to pop up across the universe, it's very efficient and it's pretty great. But it's not the work of movie geniuses, hell a lot of MCU movies are pr...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: General Movies & TV
Topic: How often do you go to the cinema in a "normal" year?
Replies: 24
Views: 1833

Re: How often do you go to the cinema in a "normal" year?

Big "event" movies that really benefited from being seen on a big screen were usually the draw for me. I really want to get back into a cinema, I miss it.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: The Suicide Squad (2021)
Replies: 42
Views: 6551

Re: The Suicide Squad (2021)

All that article in Forbes says is that it passed the $200 million mark. It made more than its "production" budget, but it did not BREAK EVEN because it did not cover its additional **promotional* budget. The Forbes piece does in fact account for this if you actually read the whole thing....
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: The Suicide Squad (2021)
Replies: 42
Views: 6551

Re: The Suicide Squad (2021)

There's not going to be another Birds of Prey movie. It lost money. Not true, in point of fact. Although it was undoubtedly a disappointment, it made back more than its production budget, and its overall reception was also complicated by the early stages of the COVID pandemic. That was actually the...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: The Suicide Squad (2021)
Replies: 42
Views: 6551

Re: The Suicide Squad (2021)

I was pleasantly surprised by how funny both Cena and Stallone turned out to be. Maybe not surprised, I know they can both manage comedy, but they both did make me LOL at certain points.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: The Suicide Squad (2021)
Replies: 42
Views: 6551

Re: The Suicide Squad (2021)

Good for her. Hope they do it.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: The Suicide Squad (2021)
Replies: 42
Views: 6551

Re: The Suicide Squad (2021)

Yeah, definitely what a Suicide Squad movie should be. Just straight-ahead, zany fun. Lots of gore, lots of laugh-out-loud moments, often both at the same time. They plainly had a blast leaning into some of the very stupidest characters DC continuity had to offer. King Shark was indeed priceless, re...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Pitch a series… Wrangler Jane of the Secret Service
Replies: 17
Views: 1641

Re: Pitch a series… Wrangler Jane of the Secret Service

If you were going to reinvent a program(s) from your youth, make a pitch that describes your mash-up TV reboot project... https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f5/d3/bf/f5d3bf0f9786a75e9acdb8a023334a0c.jpg I would pitch a Sixties sci-fi show that mashed up the beach party fad with a concept like Lost in S...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: In 2021, Do You Care If Your Superheroines Models Have Tattoos?
Replies: 34
Views: 3018

Re: In 2021, Do You Care If Your Superheroines Models Have Tattoos?

argento wrote:
2 years ago

It is indifferent to me, but the tattoo can be covered with base cream.
Not practical at a certain scale or for physically strenuous shoots, and that shit ain't cheap, either.

Definitely in the "do not care at all" column, myself.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Scarlett vs Disney
Replies: 14
Views: 1515

Re: Scarlett vs Disney

Team Scarlett. Not only does she seem to have the better of the legal argument from what I can tell, but Dinsey compounded the scumbaggery with the response that accused her of somehow showing a "callous disregard” for the circumstances of the pandemic(?!) by... expecting them to follow through...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Masters of the Universe: Revelation
Replies: 35
Views: 4050

Re: Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Evil-Lyn for the win!!! Why is it the evil chics are always the best!!! LOVE her hair I've been enjoying the heck out of all the female characters, but I gotta give it to her: Evil-Lyn's visual design is so rad and let's be real: her flex is nothing new. https://68.media.tumblr.com/32482a7a78575c42...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Powers you want to see in SHIP
Replies: 13
Views: 1671

Re: Powers you want to see in SHIP

No no sure, it's just, like... "chloroform as weakness" is the whole concept of my flagship OC lady. But I, too, spoke in jest. https://media.giphy.com/media/NxeLIYlGJMiyI/giphy.gif I also, genuinely, do think we can make exceptions for an epic series that deploys certain tropes in enough...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Powers you want to see in SHIP
Replies: 13
Views: 1671

Re: Powers you want to see in SHIP

"Oh no! Chloroform happens to be my only weakness!" :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: I feel called out. :/ LOL! :giggle: No offense meant to anyone who's used those tropes of course... we've all been there, and they're all hot with the right execution. Just talking about what's "next level&qu...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Powers you want to see in SHIP
Replies: 13
Views: 1671

Re: Powers you want to see in SHIP

I wrote a few (quite long) stories at Mr. X's site featuring a heroine called Miss Adventure who had super-senses, but with the inherent weakness that if she got distracted, the sensory input would overwhelm her and render her vulnerable to the inevitably Sexy Results of her misadventures. The direc...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: General Movies & TV
Topic: Jolt [Beckinsale, Amazon Prime, 2021]
Replies: 8
Views: 1174

Re: Jolt [Beckinsale, Amazon Prime, 2021]

Perhaps I will open a "Kate Beckinsale and her weird Instagram pictures" topic one day.... Beautiful women with a wicked sense of humor are my jam, I'd 100% read it. :evo: That's the whole reason I follow Lena Paul on Twitter if I'm honest. It's a Panda, Pandas never get erections Hah! Th...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Masters of the Universe: Revelation
Replies: 35
Views: 4050

Re: Masters of the Universe: Revelation

No need to apologize for your tastes, man. If it's not for you, it's not for you. I mean, believe me, I completely get it: if someone had told me in the year 2000 that I'd be watching She-Ra and He-Man cartoons twenty years later, I would've laughed them out of the room. If that holds true for you, ...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Heroine Dungeon
Topic: How to achieve the old pics on wizardlair website
Replies: 2
Views: 1564

Re: How to achieve the old pics on wizardlair website

Apparently, Zeta hasn't been visibly active since last year, but Vladi has been sighted on his dA account as recently as ten days ago and has posted a lot of old Wizard's Lair content. It might be worth reaching out to him directly.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Masters of the Universe: Revelation
Replies: 35
Views: 4050

Re: Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Oh damn, I forgot Ram Man. Whose 'real' name was Krass. I figure they had to have done a lot of this on purpose.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Masters of the Universe: Revelation
Replies: 35
Views: 4050

Re: Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Damselbinder wrote:
2 years ago
Rio Blast is not an action figure name.

Rio Blast is a new flavour of Mountain Dew.
IKR? Or a brand of chewing gum.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Masters of the Universe: Revelation
Replies: 35
Views: 4050

Re: Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Fisto has the distinction not only of being a hilariously awful, cheesy name but also a name that the Star Wars franchise very distinctly ripped off to apply to a Jedi character (one of the prequel trilogy Jedi is named Kit Fisto). But hey, this is all just how Mattel rolls. Actual character names f...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Masters of the Universe: Revelation
Replies: 35
Views: 4050

Re: Masters of the Universe: Revelation

One thing I learned as a result of this: there was a MotU reboot in 2002 - 2004 that I never heard about. I'm going to have to check it out at some point, I hear it was actually quite good.
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: General Movies & TV
Topic: Jolt [Beckinsale, Amazon Prime, 2021]
Replies: 8
Views: 1174

Re: Jolt [Beckinsale, Amazon Prime, 2021]

A fresh movie that is available from today onwards on Amazon Prime. Did know pretty much nothing about it beforehand except the title, the genre (action), and that ...Kate "the latex goddess" Beckinsale has the lead role. It's a bit uneven, but it was fun. I feel like it would have benefi...
by NotUv2
2 years ago
Forum: Heroine Dungeon
Topic: What happened to The Wizard's Lair?
Replies: 40
Views: 14294

Re: What happened to The Wizard's Lair?

j773251 wrote:
2 years ago
holy shit! this really worked! thanks

https://web.archive.org/web/20120918011 ... s_Main.htm
I'm glad you reminded us of this. I was actually able to track down my "lost" story! :thumbup: