The Nerd Thread (comics, movies, anime, cartoons, video games, lore, fun stuff, ect.)

I’m just wondering why in the unholy fuck it will be live action.

Who looked at Minecraft and went “yea let’s make that realistic looking.”

@Zincy
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but there have been realistic 2048 x 2048 resolution texture pack with bump maps specular maps and all kinda of maps + RayTracing + shaders + moving grass and flowing clear water that aims to make Minecraft more “photoreal.”

Idk mang.

I personally can deal with it.

@tehwatever
sounds dumb.

I used a texture pack like that during a SevTech Ages playthrough.

Melee Based Super Powered Beings need high damage resistance, invisibility, or great mobility.

Otherwise, what’s the point of having an ultra punch power if you can’t even get close to your target without them outrunning or wearing you down with ranged attacks quickly?

Just saw Godzilla x Kong.

Despite the title, it is in fact not a shipfic.

@Dustcan
Good.

Hell, the X is silent in the title anyway.

But it was a dope movie imo tho.

A lot of things just happen for no reason, but other than those oddities it was pretty good.

I was actually surprised to see Tiamat show up. And her lair looked a lot like it did in the comic so hey that was nice.

@Dustcan
Good, because Godzilla already has a wife that will possibly never make another appearance ever again.

It seems tom holland is actually being eyed to play danny phantom in a live action movie.
Other actors exist.

is kung fu panda 4 really that bad?

I watched the latest X-men 97.
Missed opportunity for a reference to Magneto’s arcade game line “Welcome to die”.
Bizarrely split into two stories in one episode. I don’t think any other episode of X-men has done that. There’s a and b plots, but not two separately titled segments.
Any way, they’re both cool and Mojo’s new voice actor is pretty good. Alyson Court, Jubilee’s original VA returns in a cameo.

@Dex Stewart
Wish i can watch it

@NeoEnvy
I pirated it

@Dex Stewart
When he showed up I was just going go on say it say it

We are getting a female Silver Surfer in the next Fantastic Four movie. Played by Julia Garner

I want to read the fanfic story behind this:

Albert Kim has stepped down as showrunner for the live-action ‘AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER’ series.

He has signed a deal with Disney to work as an exec producer on the ‘PERCY JACKSON’ series.

Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani, who exec-produced the first season, will now develop Seasons 2 and 3.

Chess.com is giving free diamond memberships(which cost $9 a month in my local currency) to cheaters if they are “honest” about the fact they cheated

I get that dealing with cheating in chess is complicated but giving out literal handouts to people who defrauded other players is disgusting, I don’t care if they are apologetic, if they are apologetic then they should be willingly to deal with the consequences which is suspension

It’s sad the only person who has prominently called out Chess.com for their pathetic attempts at dealing with cheaters is former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, who has the exact opposite problem. His definition of a cheater is “someone who wins a lot” or “someone who managed to beat me in a game of chess”. He calls out half a dozen random GMs for cheating based on the most spurious of evidence and blocks you if you point out any flaws in his logic(including literal statisticians when they point out a good player winning a lot maybe because they are a good player and not because they are cheating). He borderline incites harassment against those he accuses as well, very “Won’t someone get rid of this meddlesome priest” energy

Also he was caught cheating himself
Woops

Worlds that fill in that empty space in the Pacific Ocean tend to interest me:

@CaptainXtra
I’m imagining how this would change world history.

I guess it would take Spain another few decades before reaching China.

Someone get Cody on this.

I saw a video about someone theorizing how Mu’s existence would impact history.

All I remember is that the seafaring people in the Oceania region might end up colonizing the Americas before the British did, but after the Native Americans did thanks to Mu serving as a kind of colony stepping stone towards finding the Americas.

I’m working on a new fantasy short story to distract me from my languishing fantasy novel that I otherwise should be working on.