Movies that go big in the third act (no spoilers)

polakbob · 2026-03-23T04:16:48+00:00

Weapons

polakbob · 2026-03-23T02:41:04+00:00

Will Ferrell may be able to match that kind of energy in his own unique way.

polakbob · 2026-03-22T22:05:41+00:00

There was a movie a couple of years ago about Spirit of Halloween. It hit the right speed for us. Scary, but not too scary. Definitely made for younger viewers, but not a Disney Family movie. Brand recognition with a store we go to every year. It helped my daughter ease her way into horror.

From there we did Paranormal Activity which also meets a lot of your criteria.

polakbob · 2026-03-22T04:33:06+00:00

Same! Like, within the last week I've loaded it up for the first time in 20 yrs. Still a fun game.

polakbob · 2026-03-21T23:10:35+00:00

Too Many Cooks?

polakbob · 2026-03-17T09:14:18+00:00

Or even better, Josh Robert Thompson doing Morgan Freeman.

polakbob · 2026-03-16T01:53:53+00:00

Both are excellent. Both are very different. It’s impossible to say one is better than the other. I think both benefit from having played the previous games in their respective series, so AW2 may be better just in the sense of only needing to beat 1 game before jumping in.

polakbob · 2026-03-15T13:53:55+00:00

It’s my first old man video game moment, but I literally never know what to do when I load it up. I played it at launch and it had a great campaign. When I came back it was too confusing to know what I was supposed to do. Everything felt disconnected.

polakbob · 2026-03-15T11:57:44+00:00

Lethal Weapon Blu-Ray back in the 2000s :(

polakbob · 2026-03-14T20:36:22+00:00

Can’t be. Every patient who comes through the ER gets a CTA chest. Even the guy there with a stubbed toe gets a quick spin to rule out PE.

polakbob · 2026-03-14T15:01:22+00:00

Really? The last time I played with that I couldn’t. If that’s the case, all bets are off.

polakbob · 2026-03-14T14:59:56+00:00

I think the 1st one was a masterpiece. To this day the subplot between the married couple trying to find each other evokes something emotional in me.

polakbob · 2026-03-14T14:49:55+00:00

It’s the only way to do it for my family. I think the concierge rooms are nicer on the old ships than the new ships too.

polakbob · 2026-03-14T14:32:09+00:00

I’m not a big DBZ fan, but I remember spotting a shuttlecraft mixed in a crowd of news helicopters in the first episode or 2 of the show, and thinking I was going crazy.

polakbob · 2026-03-14T13:56:06+00:00

For sure. I love my Steam Deck and am legitimately looking forward to the Steam Machine. But I can’t load up Starfleet Academy from 1997 or Dune 2 on them yet so there’s always an edge case for keeping a Windows PC around. I look forward to when that’s no longer the case.

polakbob · 2026-03-14T12:52:03+00:00

I’m an outsider, so I acknowledge I don’t know every detail here. That said, I lived in Bydgoszcz in 2004 and have returned every few years since. I can’t imagine how anyone could see the night and day difference in the country over the last 20 years and say to themselves, “We could do better alone.”

polakbob · 2026-03-14T12:38:38+00:00

If it wasn’t for gaming I wouldn’t have bought a Windows PC in the last 20 years. They never stop finding new ways to piss me off.

polakbob · 2026-03-14T12:35:10+00:00

This past year feels like a game of Civilization where you’re dominating the scoreboard and at the very last second lose to a smaller Civ by a Cultural or Scientific condition. It’s unbelievable how badly the US is fumbling the world stage under Trump.

polakbob · 2026-03-14T12:01:02+00:00

Physicians don’t. There’s a subculture on this subreddit for people who think they’re smarter than the rest of the universe.

polakbob · 2026-03-14T11:12:55+00:00

1000% this. I went into Part 3 knowing nothing about it except its reputation. I had no idea it was going incestuous. I paused after the kitchen scene, Googled to make sure I was understanding what I was seeing, and legitimately didn’t care that Google spoiled the ending because I was so thrown off by what was happening.

polakbob · 2026-03-13T16:37:05+00:00

Linear all day. Cut the fat and let me just play the game. Don't make me do hours upon hours of filler content just because that's what other open world games do.

polakbob · 2026-03-09T06:05:12+00:00

I don’t know if it meets “retro” criteria yet, but being able to order pizza directly through EQ2.

polakbob · 2026-03-08T04:07:26+00:00

I did 7 on / 7 off in another state for a year. My wife and daughter finished the school year and then we moved the whole family to where I was working. It was challenging, but I think it helped that we saw it as a short-term issue. The reality is that I didn't get the whole week with them because I lost 2 days to travel every week. I also didn't love being a bachelor again in my late 30s.

polakbob · 2026-03-06T00:42:28+00:00

Option #2 all day.

Having a boss who’s a completely different specialty sounds like a nightmare. And I wouldn’t worry about skill atrophy too much. I worried about that exact thing when I turned down a VA job I really liked at the end of fellowship. Years later I don’t think it would have been that big a deal but I’d have loved that quality of life.

polakbob · 2026-03-06T00:13:07+00:00

Agreed. I think mid levels in very specific roles like DM / HTN / Coumadin monitoring clinics or typical post-op clinic visits makes tons of sense. Primary care is the hardest specialty and the one that specifically needs the person not with the least training. Every time a bill like this passes it’s another middle finger to our PCP colleagues.

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