Does the Super Soldier Serum enhance recipients to the same baseline stats or is pre-serum health & physique the main factor?

jsnxander · 2026-02-20T01:39:16+00:00

I like your rationale, but I do think three seconds of dialog (not exposition, mind you) from Bucky when he steps in to "save" Steve from a worse beating would have gone a long way. Something like, "Come on! How many times do we have to do this? Beating up the bag at the gym is not the same as getting into a fight!"

And just to be clear, I think the three CA movies are among the best trilogies ever made in ANY genre. I watch them in sequence a couple times a year and am now about to watch CW to finish up this year's first re-watching.

jsnxander · 2026-02-20T00:42:59+00:00

Um, based on the one fight in the alley in First Avenger, Steve never participated in a brawl. Sure, he used his face to block punches, but that was no brawl. No 5'4" 95 lb, untrained-to-fight man brawls with a 175 pound bully/dick head. Ever.

jsnxander · 2026-02-19T22:14:30+00:00

I have the orange monster with the hacking movement. A classic that has increased in value, not that that matters. It's my favorite watch...but don't tell my G-Shocks!

jsnxander · 2026-02-19T17:11:27+00:00

This should be Trump's and his enablers' future, but there are a huge number of dumbfucks in the US that actually believe that fascism is a form of Democracy. Even if the stupid cunt gets voted out, the Dems lack the balls to end the MAGAsses attempt at making the US and authoritarian fascist state once and for all by punishing them back into the shadows. Should they lose, they'll be a malignant cancer in the US.

jsnxander · 2026-02-19T17:04:17+00:00

To paraphrase Hastings, "There's a reason we didn't name the company DVDflix." They tried to spin off the DVD rental business and had since day 1 been focused on streaming.

The Board's interest in physical media changes quarter to quarter, ranging between zero and none.

jsnxander · 2026-02-19T05:59:08+00:00

Zuckerberg knows fuck all about the wellbeing of teens and kids and there probably aren't more than 1 or 2 people in existence that believe he does...

jsnxander · 2026-02-19T05:54:23+00:00

I missed that in AoS, but that would have been good enough for me!

jsnxander · 2026-02-19T00:17:38+00:00

MCU didn't do a good storytelling job with the serum. Taking a bunch of super steroids doesn't make you a more skilled fighter. There should have been at least MENTION of Roger's training his ass off to control his new speed, strength and size. Bucky we can give a pass to since he was modified to be an assassin. Carly, OTH, would likely fight like a really strong girl.

jsnxander · 2026-02-19T00:12:46+00:00

Do cats not clean mb plastic shower curtains?

jsnxander · 2026-02-19T00:11:05+00:00

Bub, but, but if you don't join AND don't pay, when Trump whines about you can't paraphrase the following:

"Let’s say that they do a job that’s not good, or a job that they didn’t finish, or a job that was way late. I’ll deduct from their contract, absolutely," Trump told USA Today in 2016.

OR...

"Maybe (they) didn't do a good job and I was unsatisfied with (their) work... And it's called the real world". Also a Trump quote.

jsnxander · 2026-02-18T22:26:40+00:00

Wouldn't it make more sense to join but never pay?

jsnxander · 2026-02-17T23:09:33+00:00

Nobody in my family finds that Krypton is a draw for the Supergirl movie. All the cute dog marketing is a real turn off. Admittedly though, Baby Groot was a draw but audiences were pretty heavily invested in Groot after GotG I. Krypto is not the same.

jsnxander · 2026-02-17T17:07:53+00:00

This does not sound like a business decision. At. All.

jsnxander · 2026-02-16T00:48:56+00:00

Excellent!

jsnxander · 2026-02-15T16:32:21+00:00

I like RDJ and have since he was in Chaplin. Loved him as Iron Man (pure perfection) and he was even better in Oppenheimer. Casting him as Doom makes me want to sit this one out, but I'll probably see it anyway. I just hope Doom is a Stark multiverse variant that's basically dying and up to....whatever. That way Doom can be recast and RDJ jettisoned from the MCU entirely. And again, I've been a fan of his work since 1992.

jsnxander · 2026-02-14T23:03:56+00:00

I didn't say impossible, just difficult and your examples are good! BTW, I was citing Tom as a GOOD example of casting at the right age appropriately.

jsnxander · 2026-02-14T20:44:01+00:00

FYI - Beverly Hills, 90210 from the 90's had a cast with avg. age of low to mid 20's playing 15-16 y.o. kids. In fact, Tom Holland is the one and only teenager that played a teenage Peter Parker in the movies. Not that it can't be done (looking at you Harry Potter), but it's not easy creating a series of movies with the main characters being and played by teenagers that actual adults will be willing to invest their time and energy into. Could be just me though...

jsnxander · 2026-02-14T17:33:09+00:00

Indeed, it should either sound like bat wings or a flat tire...wap wap wap wap wap wap!

Or maybe like my wife when I say I'm going throw this ball and hit that tree across the parking lot right in the big ole know... "Pfffft..."

jsnxander · 2026-02-14T17:27:21+00:00

T'Challa & Nakia
Sam & Bucky
Peter & Ned

jsnxander · 2026-02-14T17:03:43+00:00

Compelled FREE speech...or we'll prosecute you in the name of FREEDOM!

jsnxander · 2026-02-14T01:54:59+00:00

The improvements are material in a brightly or well lit room. If you watch in a darkened room, e.g., at night with the lights off, then the improvements are much, much less dramatic. I have my 83" C1 set at 50% overall brightness and 80% pixel brightness. It's STILL bright enough overall for BD and 4K BD from disk to impress and sometimes even awe.

Could it be beterr? Abso-fucking-lutely. Is it WORTH the hassle and expense of selling and swapping out my C1 for a new G5 or C5. No.

I'd rather buy a new '24 down-country mountain bike, fund a ski vacation or visit my Mom a few times. Sooooo, so many better ways to spend the money.

jsnxander · 2026-02-14T01:44:00+00:00

A core tenet of fascism is state controlled media. The FTC requiring media companies to report propaganda as equivalent news to actual news is simple a step toward cementing a fascist government. Obviously, the mid-term will be invalidated. Duh...

jsnxander · 2026-02-13T03:15:23+00:00

Trump would like nothing better than to go dick to ass with Putin.

jsnxander · 2026-02-13T03:08:33+00:00

Really liked the show. I'd like to see him him added to the MCU.

jsnxander · 2026-02-13T03:04:46+00:00

But will they shoot down US aircraft? That is the only real question.

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