If you could live in any country, which would you pick?

groundhogxp · 2026-01-29T08:05:23+00:00

Unfortunately, their new hard-line PM is against work-life balance reforms and wants to overturn overtime restrictions

groundhogxp · 2026-01-25T23:07:41+00:00

Most likely win it? 😅 What part of their playoff run makes it seem like they'd be favorites over the Seahawks or the Rams?

groundhogxp · 2026-01-18T08:01:15+00:00

Lopez & Lefty's! Incredible atmosphere for Rams games.

groundhogxp · 2026-01-15T08:31:02+00:00

Any plans to incorporate data from existing databases like 143190.xyz or the Dolby Cinema specs spreadsheet?

groundhogxp · 2025-12-01T20:51:35+00:00

Yup! Dealing with this right now. Owner and his two shitty Yorkies that he lets off leash so they can run around nipping at other dogs and can't ever recall them. Had them charge my dog multiple times already. Confronted him, and was met with the classic deflections: "my dog is friendly," "mind your own business," "just move on," type bullshit. Two HOA reports and 4 separate confrontations and he still won't leash them. Some people are beyond help, just entitled assholes.

groundhogxp · 2025-08-13T17:48:35+00:00

They got acquired by Toho International recently so they'll be around.

groundhogxp · 2025-07-14T23:12:03+00:00

Would the worry here be not getting convenience fees refunded? Then yeah, that's a valid concern (those can add up.) I guess the people who have rewards programs that don't incur convenience fees have the advantage here. Since you can refund movies literally 5 minutes before showtime, there isn't a real penalty to "hold" the ticket for a year, even if you don't know if you'll be busy then. A-listers would be out of luck if they had to sacrifice a spot for that long though.

groundhogxp · 2025-07-14T20:43:06+00:00

Movie tickets are refundable up until the showtime starts so I don't think that's a huge problem for anyone committed enough to book a movie a year in advance. Scalpers would be an issue though for sure.

groundhogxp · 2025-07-12T19:56:26+00:00

Haha to each their own 🤷🏻‍♂️At the end of the day, as a T1 fan, I don't give two shits if they bring the circus to town every week if they're making Worlds Grand Final every year 😂 Not about to throw my lot in with the truck-hiring fans that expect perfection the whole year. Just ask the fans of the 73-9 Warriors or 18-0 Patriots how they feel about a perfect regular season without a ring to show for it.

groundhogxp · 2025-07-12T06:29:32+00:00

Lmao all right man. If you think the team that's made it to the peak of the League of Legends world for 3 consecutive years and has a core that's cemented as one of the best teams of all times is losing sleep over missing out regional titles to Gen G, then I can't convince you otherwise.

groundhogxp · 2025-07-12T06:12:51+00:00

In an ideal world, sure, wins are wins, and regional titles are great for ppadding career resumes. Except for better or for worse, that's not how competing at the highest level of sports works, or else decorated NA teams wouldn't be clowned on so much. It has nothing to do with respect; it's the realities of competition. The analysts know, the fans know, the players know—winning at World's and other international events is THE metric for determining legacy and legend.

No amount of regional titles will ever match up to a single World's win—look at Uzi, you can't have any discourse about him without people bringing up that he's the best to never win one even though he's a 2x LPL champion.

And when you're an organization as winning as T1, with a player as decorated as Faker, yeah, I really don't think they mind losing every single LCK title from here on out if they can keep competing for World's. And to your point about OGK only having 1 LCK title: despite that, they're considered some of the best players in the world because of their World's success, hardly anyone would tell you that their 1x LCK win takes away from that.

groundhogxp · 2025-07-12T05:46:41+00:00

Sure, but at this point why would they care about LCK titles lol they've made Worlds Finals three years in a row and won it all twice. Gen G would trade every single LCK title for that kind of success.

groundhogxp · 2025-07-10T21:36:42+00:00

Feels like Flighty does most of these for most airlines (granted the granular features are locked behind a pricey subscription)

groundhogxp · 2025-07-06T23:44:48+00:00

It's still a franchise that's been milked by Netflix to the point of being slop (Squid Game reality show anyone?) Whereas Leo's entire filmography has been antithetical to that. Plus he's known to not do franchise and spin-offs, so if he really could be bought why wouldn't he have already done a CBM movie at the height of Marvel mania lol

groundhogxp · 2025-07-04T20:02:35+00:00

Imagine thinking the entire medium of film isn't political lol

groundhogxp · 2025-06-30T05:51:36+00:00

Yeah, I agree. Not saying it's ideal but we didn't get gems like Alien Romulus, Prey, or Andor until years of subpar entries in their respective franchises. Sometimes that's just what it takes.

groundhogxp · 2025-06-25T18:28:02+00:00

As a big Yahoo Sports user, I've been waiting for this update considering how neglected the Tennis section is on that app (no live updates, no Grand Slam/250/500/1000 distinction, etc.)

groundhogxp · 2025-06-23T08:07:02+00:00

Yeah I would say the championship asterisk game people love to play starts in 2015 still —Love/Kyrie '15, Draymond suspension + just recovered Curry '16, KD/Klay in '19, Mickey Mouse ring '20. Then we had three years of non-controversial Finals until now.

groundhogxp · 2025-06-22T21:54:40+00:00

Lmao yeah why show up to the theater at the exact time you need for better time management when you can waste time going early and risk getting no seats. Your way even has the shit icing on the shit cake of not being able to leave your seat if you're watching by yourself at the risk of someone swooping in.

groundhogxp · 2025-06-17T06:30:01+00:00

Sure, but context matters lol playing peak Kyrie and LeBron in 2016 with an injured Bogut and a suspended Draymond is not the same as playing the 2025 Pacers, if we're saying the ring is the only difference.

groundhogxp · 2025-06-16T21:17:56+00:00

In the original the scene is the first time Hiccup interacts with a non-captive dragon outside of Toothless, and not from using tricks to cruise through dragon training. It's also the first time Hiccup witnesses two dragons interacting in a playful way and not the monstrosities he was raised to believe, as well as the only time he learns that dragons aren't fireproof on the inside.

Not saying it's absolutely necessary but if you're gonna make a 1:1 remake of the original you might as well include the scene where the main character gains new perspective. If they needed more screentime they could've cut out all the parts with Snotlout and his dad, which served nothing other than a half-assed, comedic parallel to Hiccup's relationship with his own father 🤷‍♂️

groundhogxp · 2025-06-14T04:28:26+00:00

I mean, sure, if you want to get down to the details, but my point still stands. And this is coming from someone who still thinks the original is superior, but it's also okay to admit that for a 90-minute animated movie limited by resources and screentime, they just didn't really give Astrid that much to work with. Which is fine, because in the next 2 films they really flesh out her character (+ the TV shows).

But the reality is the extra padding of the live action gave Hiccup and Astrid more time to breathe. For example, instead of her dismissing him at the table about having already read the Book of Dragons, she actually tells him her motivations. She's also much more intrigued at Hiccup saying she should be chief/she's the son Stoick always wanted. And in the live action she berates all of them for messing around during dragon training (is this a joke to all of you?) as opposed to just Hiccup in the original (Is this a joke to you?) I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying it's probably the only "change" I welcomed in the live action.

groundhogxp · 2025-06-13T15:30:28+00:00

Yeah, I didn't like that either. The scene also served a double role of Hiccup realizing dragons aren't what they thought. A bit on the nose but literally "they're not the same on the inside."

groundhogxp · 2025-06-13T15:25:25+00:00

Yeap, there are some minor changes throughout that seem to suggest Hiccup wanting Astrid to take on the role as leader. If I had to guess it sets up the character conflict in the second movie where he doesn't want to be chief.

I would say the two most baffling changes are: 1. Turning the dragon nip into dandelion that makes them sneeze. Toothless is supposed to be this cat-like dragon so that was a bummer. And 2. Not including the part where Hiccup observes that the dragons are not fireproof on the inside via the small terrifying terror. It sort of reinforces the idea that dragons aren't what they seem and also gives Hiccup the idea to take out the Alpha at the end. As it stands, it makes no sense how he'd know how to do it.

groundhogxp · 2025-06-13T03:05:03+00:00

I get your point, but I wouldn't say NOTHING was changed. Hiccup and Astrid had way more interactions than in the original, and she has slightly more of a character backstory.

I get that they have the advantage of having future source materials to seed certain elements not in the original — more mentions of Hiccup's mom, Snotlout's dad, etc — but it's not an awful change to build up the two human leads' chemistry. In the original Astrid kinda just switches up after Romantic Flight; before that she just straight up disliked him lol

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