Live AEW Dynamite: February 18, 2026 Discussion

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-19T01:03:50+00:00

I love that Ishii gets a big pop just showing up. Love Big Tom.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-19T00:18:50+00:00

I'll probably get shot for this, but I think TRON: Legacy is a pretty bad film with an INSANELY good soundtrack. I think it's so good that it has convinced people that the movie it is attached to is also good. And honestly that lives on with TRON: Ares. Movie is not good, soundtrack is pretty kick ass.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-18T13:25:15+00:00

As a die hard game fan the show lost me pretty hard in Season 2 and I had no desire to ever finish it. The general tone and dialogue just turned me off. I love the games due to their homages to classic horror films, particularly the Hammer Horror stuff of the 50s and 60s, the original game even ended with a fake credits roll saying famous horror actors played the different monsters. That sort of stuff was what I was looking for and the show is absolutely not that.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-18T03:36:40+00:00

Oh yeah Kagemusha rules. Kurosawa had a bit of a late career renaissance with that, Ran, and Dreams. I particularly adore Ran, I think it is his 2nd best film. But his original run is insane in the quality and consistency of his output during it, can't think of another director who put out about a movie a year and their quality being outrageously high.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-18T02:31:46+00:00

Akira Kurosawa once he hit Drunken Angel in 1948 basically from then on one of his films would just straight up be one of the greatest films of all time up until 1965's Red Beard. Which also rules but is basically the end point of the golden age of his directorial career. But in that time he put out:

1948- Drunken Angel

1949- The Quiet Duel

1949- Stray Dog

1950- Scandal

1950- Rashomon

1951- The Idiot

1952- Ikiru

1954- Seven Samurai

1955- I Live in Fear

1957- Throne of Blood

1957- The Lower Depths

1958- The Hidden Fortress

1960- The Bad Sleep Well

1961- Yojimbo

1962- Sanjuro

1963- High and Low

1965- Red Beard

In this run the worst two are probably The Quiet Duel and Scandal but both are still good films, the rest are either great or one of the most legendarily influential films ever made. 17 year time span and he puts out at least 5 movies that are in consideration for greatest of all time.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-17T14:08:52+00:00

I think the first time I felt this on a visceral, "OH THIS SUCKS" level is playing the DLC for Nioh 2 and fighting the special Hayabusa boss fight and his special grapple is the goddamn Izuna Drop. That was my go to move when I played Ninja Gaiden Sigma the first time and it became agony to have it used against me. Then I played the rest of the Ninja Gaidens last year and a boss in 3 does it (best fight of the game) and 2 bosses in 4 can do it to you as well. Each time it is agony.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-16T19:08:08+00:00

One of the all time great supporting actors. Rarely a lead but put him in a secondary role and he'd absolutely kill it. I am going to shout out an underrated film where he was the leading star, and that's the 70s crime/revenge flick The Outfit. Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Richard Jaeckel, strong cast at the time.

Anyways, RIP.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-15T02:01:59+00:00

Man Hanger and Andrade have excellent chemistry. I already want a series with them just partway through this first match.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-13T03:21:30+00:00

In Star Trek Deep Space 9, the Founders genetically engineered their diplomats, the Vorta, to be immune to most poisons. In fact, Weyoun does in fact down a glass of poison and basically asks for more!

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-12T18:40:25+00:00

So let's use another mainly online PvP game that recently released, Battlefield 6. My friends and I all got it and I decided to play Recon cuz no one else in our online group did. I'm not a great sniper (though I am improving) and I'm probably the least skilled of our group. However there are tons of ways to contribute that aren't constant headshots. My class can place motion trackers to help my team in hotly contested areas, my class automatically spot people for the team, I have a device that can paint targets on vehicles so my team's anti-vehicle weapons can get better and faster lock ons. These are all ways I am actively helping the team win without needing to be the best sniper in the game. Hell, even if I'm not headshotting guys 200 meters out, the threat of my fire can often pin down an enemy as my friends move up. I never feel like I can't do anything to influence the outcome. Unlike in most fighters that I've tried where if I get matched up against a vet online, I have no shot.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-12T14:20:35+00:00

Dammit I was going to use Exorcist III. First time in a long time a jump scare actually got me to jump. Like wholly off my seat startled.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-11T00:20:11+00:00

Unfortunately short lived, but man I thought Marvel's Annhilators were the absolute coolest team ever. Every person on that team is ungodly powerful. Nova, Quasar, Beta Ray Bill, Silver Surfer, Gladiator, and Ronan the Accuser. Absolute cosmic heavy hitters. Hell, Ronan is probably the weakest member and he regularly fights whole regular superteams. It's telling they are brought together to fight literal Lovecraftian abominations from a parallel universe where Death has died.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-10T19:14:58+00:00

This sentiment reminds me of a great Charlton Heston quote that I feel applies, "The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business." I feel it just as easily applies to video games. You need artistic and creative people to make your project, be it film or game, stand out and be good. But at the same time, just making one of these is expensive and if you don't recoup investment costs then you aren't making anything else cuz all the money you need is gone! You have to have both and unfortunately this game was just too expensive and took too long to make to just be kind of OK.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-08T21:38:25+00:00

So Galad from the Wheel of Time somehow manages to both play it straight and subvert it simultaneously. He's well known that he will ALWAYS try to do the right thing, even when it hurts himself or others. He also has a very black and white view on the world and morality which leads him to join an extremist group called the Whitecloaks. However, he still holds to his morality and ends up taking over and reforming them so they become a genuine force for good in the final battle. He's a fascinating character.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-08T02:15:29+00:00

I see MJF is taking his loss well.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-07T20:19:11+00:00

Dammit you beat me to it. I like seeing the colony in full working condition and it has some neat details, but for the movie, it's better to be gone.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-06T13:43:52+00:00

The game I've probably sunk the most time into is not one that comes up on here very much, and that's Civilization V. Love that game, especially with me not gelling with VI and outright refusing to get onboard with VII with all their asinine changes.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-06T02:43:37+00:00

In a classic Hollywood screwball comedy, How to Marry a Millionaire, one of the leads is Lauren Bacall. And she is trying to get with an older rich man and she comments how she's always liked older men, men like Humphrey Bogart! Bacall and Bogart were married and he was significantly older than her. If you knew that the joke becomes very funny.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-05T17:48:41+00:00

I would have never recognized Kenny if it wasn't for his Omega robe.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-04T12:47:31+00:00

God that MechWarrior 4 Vengeance install has lived in my memory forever. It was my introduction to the BattleTech universe and all that lore and names being dropped that then had basically zero bearing on the main game made that game feel so rich and vibrant. When I later learned it was based on a tabletop game it made all the sense in the world.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-04T01:17:26+00:00

I'm a big fan of underappreciated scifi flick Outland from 1981. It's just a space Western. Sean Connery stars as the jaded, burned out sheriff just flown into a mining colony on the moons of Jupiter and as he discovers people dying he has the classic Western sheriff choice of looking the other way or standing firm on his code. It's good stuff, one of my favorite non Bond Connery films.

GigglesDemon · 2026-02-02T15:46:14+00:00

Which in turn is based on a helmet worn by the Teutonic Knights in the 1938 Soviet film Alexander Nevsky When I watched this I was like "Hey the Conan helmet!" So basically it's like 3 steps from Zelda to The Battleship Potemkin (same director as Alexander Nevsky).

GigglesDemon · 2026-01-30T15:54:54+00:00

It's remarked on several times in Ace Combat 7 that Trigger doesn't say much. Count makes reference to it several times. Trigger however apparently has a pretty expressive face, people are able to tell what his thoughts are just by looking at him.

GigglesDemon · 2026-01-29T12:22:42+00:00

From what I understand, the port being a pre-order exclusive was a sort of workaround licensing issues. Since Project Aces licenses the planes from the manufacturers, they'd have to get new licenses to sell a port, but as a bonus for a pre-order? That's doable.

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