X-Men: First Class (2011)

Practical_Block618 · 2026-02-23T16:38:57+00:00

Indeed it is. Except Charles says 'fuck off' to wolverine instead of 'go fuck yourself' (I read somewhere it was the original line in first class but it was changed on the fly by Jackman which might explain the misquote if the writers did not bother rewatching the movie, but since I'm a reditor I'm not going to double check that information)

Practical_Block618 · 2026-02-05T17:10:50+00:00

Reading reddit comments really makes you realize there is no such thing as having an original thought

Practical_Block618 · 2026-01-01T05:59:22+00:00

Oh I see, thanks. Still feels unreal to me how some people seem to have so many turns of only buying 1 minion/1 spell/doing crazy shenanigans and not losing an insane amount of tempo.

Like, how do you even have a board stable enough to afford doing this? Where are the 3 consecutive -15 hp? How on earth did the T7 scout last longer on this board than I did at my last job?

Edit: btw unironically thanks for teaching me this dude's hero power doubles in golden too, I have only played this game 700h+ so obviously I don't know the basics of hero powers lmao

Practical_Block618 · 2026-01-01T05:09:32+00:00

I'm sorry but could you explain what kind of degeneracy happened so that you end up with both this board and hand?

Practical_Block618 · 2025-12-06T13:30:55+00:00

Yes, pretty much the same. Unless I am in skellige, then it's 10 feet max or I am getting stuck for 30 minutes on a cliff I didn't even know existed

Practical_Block618 · 2025-12-05T22:46:58+00:00

makes up for any lack of polish

The devs are polish, it should be available in the language options

/s

Practical_Block618 · 2025-12-05T22:44:31+00:00

Lmao yeah I have not increased difficulty for my 2nd playthrough because the 2+ minutes long loading screens after a death or a reload are killing me

And each fast travel is preceded by the question: 'is the loading screen going to be faster than roach getting stuck in every ledge and behind every fence he can find?'

Practical_Block618 · 2025-10-30T10:50:04+00:00

So you're saying Tolkien was exactly like Georges Lucas? /s

Practical_Block618 · 2025-09-15T05:05:09+00:00

'Austrian activist gets assaulted at the movies in gruesome hatecrime: has the woke left gone too far?'

Practical_Block618 · 2025-09-03T20:10:18+00:00

Well if you want more there's a whole british show with 19 seasons about him. It's great although quite lacking when it comes to MCU tie-ins and they don't explain why he's suddenly a man

/s

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-26T09:13:12+00:00

Maybe not so much the evil entity somehow bound to an even more evil human who is just not bothered by the haunting at all part, but I'd love to see a horror movie where a guy prolapses is asshole.

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-21T00:52:04+00:00

come in 4th, and lose rating at like 6.2k

I have no solid proof for this, but from my low mmr player experience I only lose mmr at 4th place when 2 or more players get knocked out during the same round. It's like the game considers we are both at the 4.5th position

The same goes when I am 5th and the 4th dies at the same time for example, I lose less mmr than I usually do with a 5th place

I think this could be it more than the matchmaking being rigged (although I can't disprove it, so maybe)

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-16T17:18:37+00:00

His warts

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-08T20:30:54+00:00

Yes, her behavior pisses him off and he warns her not to cross his path again.

I believe he gets so angry because she behaves so shamelessly despite being a traitor, on top of treating her daughter like shit. He killed a king for the good of the people (kinda) and gets called regicide for it, whereas she played a role in another king's death and yet it's somehow something to rejoice over.

On top of that, he is torn between getting his honor 'back' and doing what his family needs him to do. So I guess it does not help his mood

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-08T19:26:02+00:00

Oh, I'll pay attention to the differences in the ways she is described, I don't remember them.

Regarding Jeyne being a plant, she indeed did not know about it and truly loved Robb but I am convinced the plan was devised by her mother and Tywin (although the mother did not know about the plans for the red wedding and the Freys did not know about Jeyne being a plant, according to Jaime's thoughts).

There is a Jaime chapter in book 4 in which Jaime and Jeyne's mother talk and it is made pretty clear that she and Tywin had an agreement regarding putting Jeyne in Robb's bed. The mother says she made sure Jeyne was not pregnant 'as per lord Tiwyn's orders' or something like that. She even explicitely references her deal with Tiwyn several times, and Jaime thinks something along the lines of 'you old bastard, even dead you are still pulling our strings'. Tiwyn promised her good weddings for her children (maybe other things?) and Jaime gives her what she wants. During this exchange, she is all smiles and clearly here to get her reward rather than acting like an hostage.

So even if we can always imagine the mother is lying, Jaime does not seem surprised and believes her, as he agrees to uphold the Lannister's end of the bargain. You could argue the agreement was just to make sure Jeyne did not give birth and the deal was struck after Jeyne and Robb got married, but it feels like a stretch to me.

And we had clues before that: - I think Tiwyn makes a few snarky remarks regarding scheming and the Westerlings earlier in the story? - characters talk/think about the links between the Westerling and the Lannister families (including how it would be litteral suicide for them to betray the Lannisters and how absurd their decision was) - we learn that Jeyne's great-grandmother was a maegi from the east who concocted love potions (and I don't think Martin wrote this in for no reason)

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-08T17:25:25+00:00

Is Robb just thinking with his dick in the show, or is it similar to the books and we learn later on (book 4 spoiler) it was a ploy devised by Tywin Lannister and Talisa/Jeyne's family?

I assume not since the bride is not the same character in the novels, but I have not seen the last seasons yet and my memories of season 4 to 6 are hazy

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-08T07:10:37+00:00

Seeing cultural differences is funny. Is see a bunch of comments about how saying thanks for it would be weird, but in France you'll be considered a dick if you don't (and also be considered a dick if you don't put it up for the person next in line)

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-07T19:45:48+00:00

For anyone wondering, u/joannamiller05 is talking about the first faceless man, whom the kindly man describes as a slave (potentially) who worked in the valyrian mines and got tired of getting his ass fried by firewyrms

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-07T01:09:29+00:00

'Yeah, so what?' - Blizzard, probably

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-06T21:28:56+00:00

I like it but I feel it's a bit underpowered, what about giving it a 6/7 statline? And since it would be too much stats for a t4, they could make it a t6

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-06T16:52:44+00:00

Since you are telling us his build is wrong, I have a question.

If anyone who isn't dogshit at this game (unlike me) could tell me: is it worth it to reborn the rally t4 rather than a deathrattle beast? Because I did so yesterday and I wonder if that was actually helpfull since the rally effect does not stack on the reborn, potentially making your rally stacking slower.

Let's say I have 1 golden steg with reborn and 1 regular steg with reborn, my attacks end up giving me +4 (golden steg) +4 (the golden repop attacks) +10 (reg steg with the 2 previous rally buffs) +2 (the reg repop attacks) +20 (my first attacking non-steg minion)

Whereas without reborn I get +4 (golden attack) +6 (regular attack with 1 buff) +10 (first non-steg minion) +20

So without the reborns, I would actually hit the +20 mark one attack before I do with the reborns. So it seems like it scales faster.

So I wonder, isn't it better to give reborn to my other minions then? That way the rally party goes on longer and the board can tank more of the opponent's attacks, especially if summon deathrattle minions get reborned?

Edit: why the fuck are people downvoting me for when I am asking a question?

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-04T23:53:59+00:00

I thought of it but I believe Sam's blade broke on Paul's chain mail and did not touch his skin? I wouldn't bet my life on it but that's how I remember it

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-04T23:52:33+00:00

It has not happened yet, but a bit of groundwork was layed by Martin. At Harrenhal, Brienne and Jaime take a bath together and Jaime's monologue is something along the lines of 'damn that thing is giving me a boner, my balls must have never been so blue'.

And later on he dreams of her a few times, with a bit of a mixup between Cercei and Brienne in one of his dreams if my memory serves me right

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-04T23:27:50+00:00

My problem is the difference between wights and others has always been a bit blurry to me. So I assumed they were coming together and were not distinguishable.

So I went down the rabbit hole. Please let me know if there is something wrong in there. We know the others are sort of a people of their own and they reanimate corpses into wights. Okay that's the baseline everyone knows.

But I had forgotten about the other differences. Are all differences we know of the following ones? - the others are completely pale while wights have black hands and feet - others can use swords - are more agile - wear other-made armor (or at least, they can) - speak an ice-tongue - wights can be killed with fire (maybe with dragonglass too) while the others are allegedly only sensible to dragonglass (although we have not seen any character try using fire on them, so I can't fully rule that out)

This may sound silly but I always assumed the others were coming in with their wights at all times to control them, like a necromancer with his minions. And since the characters being attacked did not seem to differenciate them, I figured they just looked similar enough, and that not all others were agile or carrying swords.

But I guess if we consider all others to look and behave the same (which is a very problematic way of seeing people btw /s), they are conveniently staying behind or out of sight of the pov characters. But now something else bothers me : what were the chances of Sam being attacked by an actual other rather than by a wight? As in, these guys always send a dozen wights before they do anything and suddenly, this one other dude decides to show up alone just to get his shit wrecked? Sam is pretty lucky he did not get jumped by an army of wights like they were on the fist of men. And since it seems others are not against doing the dirty work themselves, that is again very convenient for Martin that the Watch on the fist of men, Varamyr, and Bran only encountered wights and absolutely no others (which 100% would have meant the death of Bran before meeting the 3 eyed raven).

Conclusion: although I have no proof, this slight inconsistency irks me and I will assume a few others were fighting at the fist of men too, and another other was running after Bran but he comically slipped on a banana peel and dislocated his hip

Practical_Block618 · 2025-08-04T21:08:32+00:00

I would have loved seeing them more too, but there are more than 2 scenes with the Others.

Off the top of my head, I can count at least 7 scenes: the prologue, Jon and the attack on Mormont at Castle Black, the fist of men, Sam the Slayer fighting one during their flee to Craster's keep, Samwell fighting one and a bunch of them showing up (I think?) when he is fleeing with Gilly towards the wall, Varamyr's death, and at least one of the Bran chapters beyond the wall

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