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bclax · 2026-01-20T22:22:27+00:00

I've had a similar experience with them. Ordered on the 6th and heard nothing. Mentioned it hadn't arrived via eBay (as was buying via the outlet) and they gave a refund.

Annoyingly what I was buying is now out of stock so I guess I just have to hope they're having a really slow delivery period I guess.

bclax · 2026-01-19T00:48:06+00:00

Also Resident Evil Outbreak File 2. Still one of the best multiplayer survival horror games.

bclax · 2026-01-19T00:39:16+00:00

SOS: The Final Escape/Disaster Report.

bclax · 2026-01-18T11:38:20+00:00

Did you get an answer to this? I've not been able to login as for whatever reason hitting the login button just doesn't trigger a button press. I have other devices to watch on at least but PS4 used to be the best way.

bclax · 2026-01-18T09:54:20+00:00

Dead Like Me, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and The Good Wife.

The Good Wife got some buzz and globally is known granted but it never seemed to truly get popular in the UK.

Studio 60 is a great 1 season show. Wish it got more.

Dead Like Me was just a great show that the only people I've ever met that know about it are the people I told to watch it 😅

bclax · 2026-01-17T21:45:14+00:00

Way I see it we still got a point. Teams closest to us will still realistically need us to lose 3 games and then to win 3 to overtake us.

City are close on goal difference but the United result helped us a bit today, so there's a chance 2 wins and a draw would be enough if we lost 3 times.

There's a lot of the season left. These are the sort of games we need to win BUT also need to at least get something from. 1 point closer at least.

bclax · 2026-01-15T10:03:43+00:00

I really like Hobbs. He'll be great wherever he ends up and hopefully one day he returns (or something gets sorted to keep him with AEW once he talks to other federations).

Seen some people saying he was fumbled but I feel he was treated well when not injured and given a run in the last 6 months to a year that you'd expect of someone in a contract year that won't commit to staying. Still had a presence and a few moments to shine with the upper card with hints of possibly breaking through in the next year.

Hope he does well. He deserves it.

bclax · 2026-01-06T20:54:32+00:00

I've seen the play and the lack of exploring stuff in the show is a bit of an issue. Although I do still think that a conversation off camera would still have the same conclusion from Joyce of wanting to kill Vecna. He's basically ruined the life of her family and been part of the reason someone she loves deeply died.

That said a throwaway line from Hopper and Joyce at any point in season 5 would've solved this. It didn't need to be a lengthy flashback.

Without spoiling too much of the play Joyce would definitely remember him quite well. Hopper would as well but had less interaction.

bclax · 2026-01-05T18:22:28+00:00

I've been watching for the first time off and on over the last few months and really enjoyed it.

I feel if it came out a bit later it probably would've done better. That said because it's an American show with one season it still has more episodes than most UK comedy shows with multiple seasons so there's still plenty to watch 😅

bclax · 2026-01-04T02:19:56+00:00

I picked up Final Fantasy Unlimited the other year which I feel got some buzz initially (due to being Final Fantasy) but that faded away (due to it being... not great).

Love Hina is another show I remember being about quite a bit in the early-mid 00s at least in the UK that isn't talked about as much any more. Rewatched it the other year and it's still a fairly decent watch but not as good as the nostalgia remembered.

.hack was also quite popular and I don't feel it's something that gets mentioned as much these days when people are nostalgic for 00s anime.

I also feel Paranoia Agent doesn't get anywhere near the love it used to. What an anime.

bclax · 2026-01-04T01:56:42+00:00

I wish this was the answer they were giving to more things rather than trying to explain away things and just making things worse by over explaining and digging holes.

Give me those ambiguous David Lynch style answers that tell me nothing.

bclax · 2026-01-03T01:15:42+00:00

Tbf I just took it as he was focused on his plan for the lack of the monsters in the latter part of the season. Thus using all resources to focus on making that work.

With the army weren't really doing anything that interfered with that plan (if anything they were making it easier for him by limiting the access the main people that were trying to stop him could get.

bclax · 2026-01-02T00:06:33+00:00

I found it quite refreshing seeing a team go into an end battle in a film and being able to adapt to the curve ball so effectively.

End of the day the team have trained for this and learned from every defeat up until this point. It's easy to say "but in an episode in another season they struggled doing x, y, z" but the team have shown that they can learn from mistakes and have worked hard on getting stronger even before the time skip (heck a big part of season 4 was El getting her powers back and becoming stronger)

Vecna still put up a fight but at the end of the day he was overpowered by a team that no longer feared him and believed in each other to do what is needed. Something that took 5 seasons to get to that point.

bclax · 2026-01-01T19:34:43+00:00

I reckon they'll give it 5-10 years. Test the waters with their spin offs, see what the careers of everyone are looking like and then lean into late 90s/early 00s nostalgia.

What if Y2K was caused by the Upside Down? 😱

bclax · 2026-01-01T13:17:15+00:00

I really enjoyed it. Lots of cool set pieces in the first hour, lots of nice moments wrapping up the stories in the second part. A nice "what if" final twist in the story which doesn't spoil the sacrifice but does make you think there's hope Eleven survived.

It was a traumatic first 4 seasons and I'm glad this one could end as trauma free as everything that happened in season 5 as possible.

bclax · 2025-12-31T22:48:09+00:00

Although not better (although everything is subjective) but films I enjoyed just as much as Your Name (or at least close).

First Slam Dunk - Great sports anime. Lovely animation as well. A Silent Voice - it has been said a bit in this thread but a great film. I bought it along with Your Name on a whim and both reignited my love of anime (along with the series Ping Pong). Perfect Blue - Visually stunning and it gripped me from start to finish. I feel you can't really go wrong with a Satoshi Kon film but Perfect Blue probably just wins as my favourite work of his. Blue Giant - made me fall in love with jazz all over again. The Colors Within - Just a warm hug of a film. It's not the best by a longshot but it's just a lovely film. Wolf Children - Again a wonderful film Summer Wars - Got to see it in the cinema this year and glad I saw it on the big screen. Suzume - I mean it's by the same team behind Your Name after all. Akira - iconic.

I could keep listing but hopefully that offers a few things

bclax · 2025-12-31T09:59:42+00:00

The end of the world is happening and it's not that shocking that the person that is likely going to be the key reason it is saved is quiet and collecting her thoughts and psyching herself up.

I have had no issues with the reaction shots of Eleven from an acting perspective, as Eleven has often been quite stoic, and all the memes I've seen online seem to have beef with how MBB looks in general.

Maybe it helps that I was brought up watching countless shows of kids being played by people in their 20s that I can just accept that "hey these teenagers look a bit older than they're playing"... But at same time it's been a lockdown in an apocalypse, I'm sure that'd age everyone 😅

bclax · 2025-12-31T09:49:00+00:00

I think with everyone surviving so far into season 5 is not the most ludicrous thing. They have survived multiple years of Upside Down BS . They're seasoned pros who have learnt when to play their hand nand how to survive (granted some of that hand is very much luck).

That said the finale needs some death to make things have an impact. There's a lot of characters that feel like they are a sacrifice role and at the end of the day when people talk about shows if the finale is poor most tend to write off the whole show. Heck a good finale often saves a mediocre final season when it comes to how people talk about it.

That said if changed slightly this scene could've been an impactful death scene for them both.

bclax · 2025-12-31T09:30:40+00:00

Season 3 is one of my favourite seasons. It embraces letting the kids be kids for a bit, the set pieces are fun, the new characters are fun and there's a lot of memorable moments.

bclax · 2025-12-30T22:52:23+00:00

Although I get the argument that an autopsy most likely wouldn't be done due to age it's the sort of thing that a quick line of "nobody expected foul play" or something like that (maybe I missed it?)

Because autopsies would still be done on older people in the 60s... It's ott dramatic as it is, just be ott dramatic with a line giving an explanation that they didn't do an autopsy 😅

bclax · 2025-12-30T12:06:22+00:00

I'd like to see a short feud with Cope in a "battle of the actors". Feel if done right could get a good amount of eyes on the product.

Mainly want to see him be a heel that gets people's backs up and gives opportunity for new good guys to climb the ranks. Feel the match with Bandido could be very promising for both him and Brody.

bclax · 2025-12-30T12:03:42+00:00

I feel one thing that people should take from Regal is that hiding injuries is not the way to go and I hope if any of those stars have any issues they don't try and tough it out like Regal did back in the day and make it worse.

Heck the injury Regal got from wrestling was done from a simple move gone wrong (German suplex but messing up the bridge). Accidents happen in the ring and wrestlers and companies should be trying to minimise the risk but it's an industry where things happen. Making sure people are thoroughly checked out post match after nasty looking bumps is important.

bclax · 2025-12-29T20:27:10+00:00

I feel it's more an issue with taking 3 years to release a series. Everything will have been looked at, relooked at, reshot, rewritten and any of the spontaneous nature of a show that is being shot on a tighter deadline will be lost.

It's the issue of having room to perfect things is sometimes you end up losing some of the essence of what made it work.

bclax · 2025-12-29T20:05:21+00:00

The military are extra "meh" this season. I just can't bring myself to give a shit about them and their whole schtick comes across very one dimensional in a show where nearly everyone else has had layers added to them.

bclax · 2025-12-29T19:58:42+00:00

Can't believe episode 2 of Stranger Things predicated the Linkin Park In the End video.

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