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#11

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Avatar Fire and Ash OT: no...

Last post by BananaKing - Dec 30, 2025, 06:23 AM

So how is it's legs looking? 

It's already at 760 million worldwide. Clearly it's huge WW, but I wonder how much this needs to break even.  

#12

Gaming Community / Re: The Music Thread

Last post by kitler53 - Dec 29, 2025, 11:07 PM

so i've realized quite a few artists of note to me i can't find in my library at all (FU amazon...) so now i'm scouring the net for lists of great artists and albums trying to figure out which ones are missing.   during my search i found this list:

https://www.melophobemusic.com/post/100-greatest-indie-rock-bands-artists-of-all-time

i'd say at least half of these are in my library already and some are my all time favorites.   and of the ones not in my library very few of them are new names to me.   i guess this list has be pegged.

#13

Gaming Community / Re: The Music Thread

Last post by kitler53 - Dec 29, 2025, 09:21 PM

so for xmas my family got a subscription to tidal.   before that i was invested in mostly invested in amazon music because it let me upload my incredibly obscure music like the albums i bought out of the dollar bin in Prague in 1999.   than amazon started to really suck and i half moved to youtube music because it was free.   

anyways, converging my library into tidal and it's really taking me back digging though my music library deciding what to carry forward or not.  

1) it's incredible how terrible your library can get on amazon/youtube.  my kids wanted to listen to some random kids sound?  okay but only if you add that totally terrible artist to your library...
   ... i really like that tidal lets me manage my artist/album/song librarys seperately.  i can create a playlist for xmas music without hundreds of otherwise meaningless artists getting added to my artist library.

2) man i forgot just how much electric/dance music i used to listen to.  i still listen to daft punk but i have soo many artists in my collection i haven't listened to in years.   atb.  owl city.  odesza.  gorillaz.  fatboy slim. avicii.  paul oakenfold.  tiesto.  david guetta.   even deadmau5 i can't remember the last time i listened to it and i love deadmau5.

#14

Game News Discussion / Re: Viewfinder free on epic st...

Last post by kitler53 - Dec 29, 2025, 09:03 PM

Puzzle game that people have talked a fair amount about.

it was free on ps+ and i already played it.

it was average.   from the trailer i thought the gimmick was going to be incredibly awesome for a puzzle game.   in practice either the gimmick wasn't that good or the guy that did it wasn't creative enough to make good use of the gimmick.  there was exactly 1 puzzle that took me more than a few seconds to figure out (the watermelon puzzle).   

that said, i think at a technical level the game was really neat.  as a non game developer i feel like it must have been a lot of work to get this game doing its thing.

#15

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Avatar Fire and Ash OT: no...

Last post by Legend - Dec 29, 2025, 07:28 PM

$477,373,578 domestic. Needs to beat that to be top 25 all time.

Hard to say if it will. I get the feeling it will not have legs anywhere near way of water in America. I don't think it's going as viral with the kids.


$1,269,253,418 needed worldwide to be top 25. That should be very easy.

#16

Game News Discussion / Viewfinder free on epic store

Last post by Legend - Dec 29, 2025, 06:48 PM

Puzzle game that people have talked a fair amount about.

#17

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Avatar Fire and Ash OT: no...

Last post by nnodley - Dec 29, 2025, 03:28 AM

There's just something feel good about this series that I love. Makes me wish for more of a deeper connection with the world than how humans currently are. 

We greedy little bastards suck a lot of times but there's still hope....i hope!

[Spoiler]

#18

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Avatar Fire and Ash OT: no...

Last post by nnodley - Dec 29, 2025, 03:26 AM

Glad you liked it! Dolby is the best.

Spoiler for Hidden:

wtf was that eywa face? Did not expect that. But also very cool that it was teased instead of just an eywa talk session

Spoiler for Hidden:

yeah it was a nice tease of hopefully more to come. It looked like a Navi face but then it had bushy eyebrows which are not a Navi characteristic. Unless it was more an amalgamation of human and Navi because spider was also there with Kiri and Tuk

[Spoiler]

#19

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Avatar Fire and Ash OT: no...

Last post by Legend - Dec 29, 2025, 03:17 AM

That was great. Dolby cinema 3d is amazing. Never watched a movie in Dolby cinema before. Never going back.

The movie definitely had a very similar final battle but it didn't feel too similar in how it played out. Was also a bit of a rehash of the final battle of the first too.

I really like the bits they are going with Eywa. I really hope 4 and 5 delve really deep into that

Glad you liked it! Dolby is the best.

Spoiler for Hidden:

wtf was that eywa face? Did not expect that. But also very cool that it was teased instead of just an eywa talk session

#20

Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Avatar Fire and Ash OT: no...

Last post by nnodley - Dec 28, 2025, 10:26 PM

That was great. Dolby cinema 3d is amazing. Never watched a movie in Dolby cinema before. Never going back. 

The movie definitely had a very similar final battle but it didn't feel too similar in how it played out. Was also a bit of a rehash of the final battle of the first too. 

I really like the bits they are going with Eywa. I really hope 4 and 5 delve really deep into that