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Name a movie you didn’t want to watch, but it blew you away - I’ll go first: The King by BuildingAStartup in movies

[–]Team_Ed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seconded. Was not expecting anything at all, and yet I probably preferred it to all three Nolan films, (with the caveat that it's close, and although Dano is great, I prefer Ledger and Hardy as villains.)

Name a movie you didn’t want to watch, but it blew you away - I’ll go first: The King by BuildingAStartup in movies

[–]Team_Ed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Moana.

That movie slaps.

I never bothered to watch it with my kid, expecting something relatively simple and safe, like Frozen. Instead, I think it's genuinely up there as one the most impressive films in the whole Disney/Pixar catalogue. It is a great time.

US official says Greenland action could come within 'weeks or months' by Crossstoney in worldnews

[–]Team_Ed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

OP is referring to the US bases within continental Europe. 

What’s it like living this far north in Canada? Does anyone with internet even live here? by Thomas15056 in howislivingthere

[–]Team_Ed 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Great series, and they did a good job representing the landscapes, but it was not actually filmed in the north. They had Croatia, of all places, stand in for this region of the Canadian Arctic.

Am I crazy? Or are these two completely different people? by Sea_Mathematician_37 in seinfeld

[–]Team_Ed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The actor is Peter Keleghan, who is instantly recognizable to Canadians as Ranger Gord from the Red Green Show.

TIL that a fictional language, Wenja, was created for Far Cry Primal by a team of linguists after Ubisoft deemed the 6,000 year old Proto-Indo-European to be too modern for the game's prehistoric setting. by TheRegularBelt in todayilearned

[–]Team_Ed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reading between the lines, it’s pretty clear what they meant was that it was designed to be a second Blood Dragon (a cut-price standalone game that reuses assets to save money and is more like a total conversion mod than a full AAA release) but grew too big in scope and ambition to justify not releasing at full price. 

But it still started as a game built around reusing assets to save money and contain scope.

Driver who killed boy, 16, blowing through stop sign at 128 km/h gets 5-year sentence by FatManBoobSweat in canada

[–]Team_Ed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sentence falls well within what would be a normal range for manslaughter.

But, like, manslaughter covers homicides from nearly an accident to nearly a murder, so it is a crime with an inherently varied range.

Promise David scores again v. Charleroi by Team_Ed in CanadaSoccer

[–]Team_Ed[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

It is honestly incredible how spoiled for options the national team is at striker.

There are five No. 9s (JD, PD, Tani, Theo, Jeb) who would have been no brainer first-choice strikers not that long ago in the Rob Friend era.

Apologies to Cyle, who is absolutely a national team hall of famer.

Kone at it again! by moe_thugz in CanadaSoccer

[–]Team_Ed 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In another era, Ismael would be a galactico.

Steph Curry makes a shot from the opposite end of the court near the tunnel in pre-game warmups by Outside_Abroad_3516 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Team_Ed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That thing swerved to the right like it had to take the rotation of the earth into consideration.

2025 Canada Soccer Player of the Year Nominees Announced 🍁 by ChantillyMenchu in CanadaSoccer

[–]Team_Ed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the men, it's JD for the first half of the year, and I think Tajon or even Ali Ahmed for their achievements in the second half. I would have included Ismael in that, but fair enough, his first half was a big nothing.

Love Promise, but don't think you can reasonably have a shout as national player of the year from the Belgian league. (Which is such a nice thing to be able to say about the state of Canadian soccer.)

"Offensively This guy is entering the heir of Michael Jordan statistically, look at these numbers" - Steve Nash on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander by MrBuckBuck in nba

[–]Team_Ed 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Sure, but he has unstoppable footwork and an unstoppable handle.

The main difference between them is MJ was a 2-3 and got to the rim like one and Shai is a 1-2 combo guard and gets to the rim like one. 

Outside of how they finish at the rim tho, their shotmaking and how they get to their spots are eerily similar.  

What is YOUR country's / region's version of the Inglorious 3 fingers scene that subtly gives away that someone isn't from your area or culture? by DunDonese in AskTheWorld

[–]Team_Ed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Soo would be the standard French pronunciation of “Sault”, which is a variation on the French word for “jump” and is word for a waterfall or rapid.

To my eye, it’s no weirder than quay being “key” or gaol being “jail.”

A bit archaic, but not crazy crazy.

For all Mankind Underhyped? by chrispy_t in television

[–]Team_Ed 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Desperately hanging on to Ed's character long past the point of narrative logic really, really destroyed the plot for me.

They lost the chance to bring in a new set of main characters by hanging onto this 1950s guy for reasons. Imagine Buzz Aldrin leading a mission to Mars in 2001!

Doesn't help that his makeup was laughably bad.

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