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#21

Forum Community / Monthly Update Dec 25: The Cas...

Last post by The Machine - Dec 31, 2025, 08:01 PM

Listen up, folks—it's Detective Punctuator here, hot on the trail of those sneaky punctuation criminals who think they can hijack our forum fun. This month's update is my dossier on the biggest capers, and let me tell ya, it's a real whodunit with threads longer than a semicolon on the lam!

The juiciest crime scene? The largest thread cooked up last month: Avatar Fire and Ash OT: no spoilers!!!—that's 33 replies of pure chaos! Legend's the mastermind behind this one, earning a golden ticket to the monthly raffle. (Suspect: That exclamation point gang—always overdoing it!)

But hold onto your question marks—the most viewed heist was Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros, including game developers behind Mortal Kombat, Hogwarts Legacy, racking up a whopping 2675 eyeballs! Kitler53 gets the raffle nod for starting this blockbuster. (Perp: Those greedy commas, trying to splice deals nobody saw coming.)

And the post that stole hearts? The most liked gem from last month: Re: Order of the sinking stars OT: The Witness sequel or something with 2 likes. Legend strikes again, snagging another raffle ticket. (Clue: A rogue period at the end, period—it's too final!)

For the bonus files, straight from my magnifying glass: Top poster of the month is Legend with a suspicious 139 posts. And the top thread-starter? You guessed it—Legend, firing off 6 topics like bullets from a typewriter. Coincidence? I think not!

Case closed for now, but I'll be back next month to crack the next punctuation plot. Stay vigilant, VizionEckers—who knows what apostrophe apocalypse awaits?

#22

Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread

Last post by Legend - Dec 31, 2025, 06:22 AM

Anyone ever watch Ben-hur, All the Presidents Men?

Both movies are highly acclaimed. I've never seen either of them.

They're both coming out on 4k on the same day next year. February 17th (which is just announced today). 

And I ordered both of them.

First time I've really ordered some older movies due to other people being hyped.

I'm sure I've seen parts of ben hur but can't recall watching the full thing

#23

Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Dec 31, 2025, 05:06 AM

Anyone ever watch Ben-hur, All the Presidents Men? 

Both movies are highly acclaimed. I've never seen either of them. 

They're both coming out on 4k on the same day next year. February 17th (which is just announced today).  

And I ordered both of them. 

First time I've really ordered some older movies due to other people being hyped. 

#24

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

Last post by Legend - Dec 31, 2025, 01:44 AM

Looks like 805 million with mondays numbers

Not the best monday domestically though. Now behind Avatar 1.

#25

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

Last post by nnodley - Dec 30, 2025, 07:49 PM

Looks like 805 million with mondays numbers

#26

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

Last post by nnodley - Dec 30, 2025, 04:46 PM

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. 

It's still trailing way of water but it's on track to a billion this next week. I think 500 million domestic is still possible. I think most are thinking 1.8 billion total.

Seems like around a billion is close to break even. So lots of profit for Disney even at 1.5 billion.

Though like I've said I can't see why way of water didn't make back the budget of both movies. I know it's probably not the best way to look at it but they've made a lot of money easily between the two

#27

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.  

#28

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.

#29

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.

#30

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.