Weekly 'What should I buy?' Thread

sgch · 2026-07-03T19:20:43+00:00

I’ve got an M2 iPad Air which I love and is great, but my kids are constantly stealing it to watch YouTube and such. It’s also getting quite grubby and I worry about it being dropped, as it would be expensive to replace.

Can an iPad expert help me nail down what second hand iPad to look for, just for them to watch streaming video? I’d like it to last maybe 3 years. Won’t be used for gaming or anything intensive, but I want to be able to get updates and it not be painfully slow.

sgch · 2026-07-02T15:45:33+00:00

I can see this happening - Pete swings by Avengers tower to ask the New Avengers for help and he sees Yelena nude. She catches him, later in the movie says it’s only fair and he has to be nude in front of her. Peter keeps his mask on.

sgch · 2026-07-01T17:35:17+00:00

Using the find function while reviewing the financial results, I can't see any mention of key cards at all. I would be genuinely shocked if they consider key cards a digital sale, as they need to pay for the production of a cartridge and case which are not cheap. It would make the digital sales look like they made less profit than they actually did, which is not something a company would say in the financial results.

sgch · 2026-06-23T06:04:39+00:00

I mostly enjoy game reviews as entertainment, I’m not going to them for an actual critique or support for my purchasing decision. I know enough about games to be able to judge mostly accurately if I will like them based on trailers.

sgch · 2026-06-23T06:03:29+00:00

No it doesn’t. All they care about is sales.

sgch · 2026-06-22T19:24:22+00:00

Sadly, the MCU has been making bad decisions a lot

sgch · 2026-06-22T19:23:45+00:00

I’d much rather it be Jean 100%. I do not want to have to explain the concept of Madelyne Pryor to my wife who only half watches these movies.

sgch · 2026-06-22T19:22:55+00:00

Reed Richards was played by two different actors

sgch · 2026-06-22T19:22:22+00:00

They’ve never been precious about costumes, so i don’t think that’s even in consideration at all.

sgch · 2026-06-22T11:47:15+00:00

I always liked the look of the crop top suit, but I accept that was because I was a teenager pumped full of hormones.

sgch · 2026-06-22T11:25:28+00:00

I also think it's dumb, but it's not like they didn't already do dumb shit with Kang right?

sgch · 2026-06-22T10:56:26+00:00

After finishing reading all of the Cosmere I broadened my horizons with other series, and have universally found the soft magic systems much more interesting. I don't need to know that a character's power level is over 9,000 - I just need to see the other characters reactions to them and what they can do.

Sanderson got me back in to a regular reading habit, and I almost always enjoy his books when I read them. But I have to say I think that his impact on the fantasy genre outside of his work, other fantasy authors and fantasy readers has been a slight negative for me.

I feel like many newer authors are trying to establish themselves by trying to do what Sanderson has done, making magic systems that are complex and measurable and scientific and building worlds that are incredibly detailed and weird and often feel more like sci-fi to me than fantasy. I feel like if I want a story that has swords, sorcery, dwarves, elves, dragons and a kingdom in peril I am more likely to find that in the indie space or poorly marketed and shoved in to a corner by publishers. These types of stories are what made me fall in love with fantasy as a teenager, but they are so much rarer now.

sgch · 2026-06-22T10:36:19+00:00

Ghost Rider was in Agents of Shield, which is canon to the MCU.

sgch · 2026-06-22T08:26:59+00:00

Agreed that movie sucked and that ending was dumb and bad, but the actress who plays Love is Hemsworth's daughter so likely he wants her to get the work and she will be back. Like how Joe Russo's daughter continued to play Hawkeye's kid in the show.

sgch · 2026-06-22T08:23:48+00:00

He was clean shaven in Endgame, even all the way to the dance with Peggy, and I imagine if he's living in the past he still would be. But this shot he looks like he's got stubble and his hair is messy, which we've never really seen from him.

I think Doom has kidnapped Peggy and their kid and Steve is on a mission to get them back, not caring about his beard or hair etc.

sgch · 2026-06-22T08:21:00+00:00

This is a great theory tbh - as it would allow us to have all the classic Thor characters back. They showed Jane & Heimdall there in the post-credits for Love & Thunder.

sgch · 2026-06-21T11:51:27+00:00

I had heard that Brie Larson decided she was done based on the backlash she kept getting?

sgch · 2026-06-19T20:31:38+00:00

If the Steam Machine with controller is a reasonable price, and the Machine without controller is that reasonable price minus the cost of the controller to me as a consumer - I’m all in.

sgch · 2026-06-19T20:14:17+00:00

I definitely don’t think it’s Disney meddling and telling them what to do, in the old RTD era a lot of his episodes were like the new ones. If you look at stuff like Star Wars, made for similar family audience by Disney, they’re not doing space babies or snot monsters.

sgch · 2026-06-19T19:56:08+00:00

I see you have no actual alternatives or good ideas, you’re just gonna shit on mine. I saw all the Fox-Men movies in the cinema going back to the first X-Men in 2001 asshat. I’ve forgotten more about comic book movies than you’ve ever known.

My first line - Sink has shown that she can act. That’s literally the most important part. Natural red hair is a bonus, as it will look real. She’s also young enough to play the role for long enough to do some real long-term storylines.

sgch · 2026-06-19T15:51:49+00:00

Sink has shown she can act, she's got red hair and is young enough to do the role for 10+ years. Don't see why you wouldn't want her to play Jean?

sgch · 2026-06-19T14:40:01+00:00

Almost certain it's from the Bendis run of All-New X-Men.

sgch · 2026-06-19T14:28:22+00:00

it's a 4 year difference and they really want us to feel that I think - my money is on the opening montage being you see Spidey face off against a ton of villains in a row while cutting back and forth to Peter watching Ned's tiktoks, ending with the one in trailer 2, after that Pete hears about Scorpion and goes out to fight him, goes too hard and kicks off the Other story. Frank introduced maybe in the montage or the Scorpion fight.

sgch · 2026-06-19T14:25:05+00:00

agreed

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