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Pikachu has hair! IT HAS HAIR

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Episode Ardyn will be the last FF15 character add-on released

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The fan-favorite map returns, first on PS4

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A bizarre staple of so, so many sitcoms is the schlubby, selfish dude with a wife who’s as out of his league as she is long-suffering. No actor’s been as guilty of this trope as King Of Queens star Kevin James, who, on Kevin Can Wait, saw that wife killed off and subsequently used as joke fodder when ratings dipped,…

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In the decade (nearly) since Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has directed two films—three, if you want to count his Manson Family picture, due next summer. Mélanie Laurent, who played the vengeful Shosanna in Basterds, has since directed five features, maintaining a steady acting career all the while. It’s an…

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The Harry Potter extended merchandise universe includes a surprisingly deep co-op deck building card game, and you can summon it to your front door for just $30 today, within about $1 of an all-time low price. The game actually has seven successive scenarios of increasingly difficulty (representing seven years at…

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Let’s take a look at the abilities for the Ranger, Colossus, Storm and Interceptor

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Taco Bell has served breakfast for going on five years. Lots of fast food places do breakfast, but, as Forbes reports, most places that aren’t McDonald’s fail to thrive. Since Taco Bell entered the fray, the McD’s stranglehold on the fast food breakfast space has eroded slightly, and while it might not sound like a…

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Gloomhaven | $99 | Drop

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Just about a year ago, Blade Runner 2049 editor Joe Walker revealed that director Denis Villeneuve’s original cut of the film was four hours long and split into two parts, with the first half focusing on Ryan Gosling’s K learning about who he is (or who he thinks he is) and the second half starting after the high-tech…

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The best board game in existence, $128 AirPods, and the new Luminoodle Click lead off Monday’s best deals from around the web.

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Last night, Nintendo announced that just about all of the main Final Fantasy games from the PlayStation and PS2 eras were coming to their Switch console—except one. Missing from the line-up, despite the presence of Final Fantasy VII, IX, X, X-goddamn-2, and XII, was 1999's Final Fantasy VIII, a hilarious slight to a…

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How did it end up like this? The Killer’s debut single “Mr. Brightside” was the inescapable rock hit of 2004 and yet, in the 14 years since its release, the song has rarely been off the top 100 singles chart. In recent years, numerous publications have launched investigations into exactly what the fuck is happening…

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Note: This review contains very minor spoilers.

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The Witcher has found its, err, Witcher—in none other than DC’s Man of Steel himself, Henry Cavill.

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However you might feel about the site, Reddit is a place for news, moments, and memories. Redditors gathered together to commemorate some of the sites greatest (read: embarrassing) moments and threads, and most of them aren't pretty. Here are some of the greatest moments/threads/conversations in Reddit history.

1. Getting caught in the weirdest lie ever via MsPumpernickel

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I vaguely remember a story where a guy went to meet his girlfriend's parents and claimed he didn't know what a potato was.

Here's part of the epic tale in question, in which a Reddit user pretends to not know what potatos are as a joke, only to get caught in a horrible lie:

So first when the potato became on my plate, I acted very interesting. I showed an expression on my face so as to seem that I was confused, astounded but in a restrained way, curious, and interested. They did notice, and seemed confused, but did not remark. So I asked "This looks very interesting. What is this?"

They stared at me and the mother said "It's a baked potato." And I was saying "Oh, interesting, a baked....what is it again?"

And she was like "A potato."

And I was like "A 'potato', oh interesting. Never heard of a potato, looks pretty good."

And then they didn't see I was clowning, but thought I really did not know what is a potato. So I knew I would be very shamed, humiliated, depressed, and disgusted if I admitted to making a bad joke, so what I did was to act as if it was not a joke but I committed to the act of pretending I didn't know what a potato is.

They asked me, VERY incredulous, did I really not know what a potato is? That I never heard of a potato. I went with it and told them, yes, I did not ever even hear of a potato. Not only had I never eaten a potato I had never heard the word potato.

This went on for a bit and my girlfriend was acting very confused and embarrassed by my "fucked up antics", and then the more insistent I was about not knowing what a potato is was when them parents starting thinking I DID know what a potato was.

Well let me tell you I had to commit 100% at this point. When I would not admit to knowing what a potato was, the father especially began to get annoyed. At one point he said something like "Enough is enough. You're fucking with us. Admit it." And I said "Sir, before today I never heard of a potato. I still don't know what a potato is, other than some kind of food. I don't know what to tell you."

Read the rest here.

2. Never gonna fuuuuck you uuup via uninvincible314

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the Rick Astley AMA where somebody commented "will you ever give me up?" and his response was just "go fuck yourself" or something lmao

3. Wow. No jokes here. This Disney World Goofy has a hell of a story  via culb77

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The Goofy story. Prepare for tears.

Here's part of it:

I was working City Hall one day when two guests came in with two little girls. One was in a wheel chair and the other one looked like she had just seen death. Both were cut and bruised and the one in the wheelchair had her arm in a cast. The two women were actually nurses from a hospital and were asking for a refund on the girl's tickets, something we avoided doing at all costs. When I asked why they told me the story. The two girls were with their mom and dad at Epcot and on the way home they got into a horrible car accident. The mother was beheaded right in front of them. The father eventually died too but the two girls didn't know that yet. They were from overseas and had no money and no contact information for anyone they knew. They were bringing the tickets back to get the girls some much needed money to help get them back home. My heart absolutely sunk. If you had seen these girls you'd know why.

Read the rest of the story here. 

4. EA's never living this down via ThisNameIsValid27

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The EA reply about Star wars battlefront and getting downvoted to oblivion is a classic.

5. This user kept combining things with rice and then.. giving it a score via ItsNotMe98

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The kid who tried anything with rice (per request) then gave it a rating out of 10

6. Quality arguing hours via Twelve_Volt

The drunk guy who did an AMA and answered his own questions.

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7. This is how not to play Diablo via ImAWhaleBiologist

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These posts come up a lot and I never see WarPhalange get mentioned.

Ages ago, that user made a generic gaming post of a Diablo III beta code claiming he had cancer. Despite showing his post having literally zero substance, he got upvoted like crazy because cancer. He then came out and said he faked it to show how sob stories are used to game the system. Instead of taking the lesson to heart and thinking more critically about "My brother who died of AIDS left me this game collection photo of a stack of N64 games" posts, Reddit lost their god-damned minds and downvoted him for having lied. And to this day, sob story posts STILL get tons of attention, so basically nothing was learned.

8. So...this guy just played an extremely extended version of Roy from Rick and Morty? via GreatAndEminentSage

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The guy who was knocked unconscious and was out 10 minutes. He "lived" 10 years in another existence. Had a wife, children, a job and everything. Then one day he noticed something odd about a lamp in his living room. He spent a week not eating or sleeping just looking at the lamp. Then one day he was "sucked" back into his "normal" life. Strange story. Will look for link.

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9. Hey, internet. Don't do play detective. via Immobylized/Tuatha-an

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That time Reddit was so damn sure that they identified one of the Boston Marathon bombers.

Reminder that Reddit playing Sherlock Holmes got a man killed.

Here's a timeline:

• Boston Bombing happens

• Reddit decides to take a page out of 4chan's book and vows to "solve it"

• Spends the next 6 hours scouring through video footage and putting red circles around brown people with backpacks

• Someone finds out that a man with a muslim sounding name has been missing for a few days

• Everyone jumps on this train and starts posting his name and photo everywhere

• People start harassing this man's family

• Turns out he killed himself days before the bombing, everyone was harassing a grieving family.

• Law Enforcement releases the names and photos of the two main suspects in a direct effort to stop 'the internet' from doing that shit again

  • >Officials said Saturday that the decision on Thursday to release photos of the two men in baseball caps was meant in part to limit the damage being done to people who were wrongly being targeted as suspects in the news media and on the Internet.

• The Tsarnaev brothers are now aware that the police are onto them and execute their escape plan early.

• While escaping they're confronted by an MIT campus officer, they shoot and kill him.

And that's the story of how Reddit harassed a suicide victim's family and got a man killed.

Bonus quote from some moron moderator:

"it's been proven that a crowd of thousands can do things like this much quicker and better. . . . I'd take thousands of people over a select few very smart investigators any day."

10. Also don't do this via Ego_Sum_Morio

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Here's something I stumbled across a few months ago. Makes me laugh every time

~I used to masturbate onto whales at a local dock. Not a thing that I'm particularly proud of but I became quite good at it. I was taking zinc supplements so I was shooting massive loads and it became something of a sport to me. For anyone interested here is your best strategy. first, you need to find an isolated spot so you don't become a sex offender. I found a short kind of channel area where I saw the whales would congregate. Next, you arouse yourself. I was usually content with envisioning the occasional jogging lady coming over and taking a shit on my chest and that was enough to fuel the fire but if you're not as sexually charged as me just take some porn on the go.

After you're good an horny, you get some fish. My whales preferred tuna but healthier whales might have a taste for slamon or maybe even sea trout. Fat, unhealthy whales are slower and easier to hit so remember that. Once you are seated on the dock and ready to do the deed, whip your roosevelt out and scatter fish out within a few feet of you. use your judgement based on how far you know you can cum. I was a lonely and depraved soul who could hit targets the size of a thimble at distances up to 4 feet. You wait for the whales to begin eating and to get comfortable with your presence. At this point, you want to coo gently and talk sensually to them to gain their trust.

Now you're finally ready to cum on your whale. This is a tough part because the rapid motion of masturbation is very frightening to the whales, so you have to be subtle. Once you master a technique, you simply wind it up and let it go, aiming depending on your past cumming experiences. I always came high so I would aim for the neck of the whale and catch it right in the face. It's an extremely satisfying and erotic feeling, seeing those whales reel around covered in cum and maybe even transporting it to other places in the world. Either way I haven't done it in years but every now and then I catch myself gazing wistfully at a pod of whales, cock throbbing and waiting for them to swim close to me.~

Edit: for those asking, credit goes to u/MondoHatesYou 

It was only two days ago we reported director Danny Boyle had dropped out of directing the next James Bond film, over the old “everyone walks away clean” reason of creative differences. But there’s still a release date of November 2019 producers want to keep, which means the race is on to find a replacement.

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Hard to imagine now that the multi-billion dollar Rockstar Games machine was born from the acquisition of Lemmings creators DMA Designs in 2002, an aquisition that probably wouldn't have happened if Nintendo hadn't done the studio dirty with its first foray into 3D open world adventure games (Body Harvest, look it up). Nowadays Rockstar's releases are almost bigger than gaming itself and you can feel the electricity in the air as we get closer and closer to their next game, Red Dead Redemption 2. With more footage being released and the massive ad campaign beginining to roll out, the community is thirsty for another visit to the waning days of the wild west.

Here's 12 memes that will get you nice and ornery in the leadup to October 26th.

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zzz
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　　　∧_∧     Red Dead Redemption 2
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-- Mwave Australia (@MwaveAu) August 10, 2018

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oh whoa Red Dead Redemption 2 and Twitter have the same features pic.twitter.com/I76HGtF3as

-- Chris Dwyer (@junklatch) August 9, 2018

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Ramon Laureano has played a total of five games in the majors, all this season, all since the start of August. It’s been a fun start! He’s already had a number of defensive highlights, and his first hit in the bigs was a walk-off game-winner in extras, in his first career game.

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The Final Remix version gives you another chance to try the cult classic

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>When I slept through today's Nintendo Direct by accident but am still excited to talk about the news pic.twitter.com/xLTXMU6pNE

-- 𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚢 (@asalisbury) August 8, 2018

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-- sarah (@artdisease) August 9, 2018

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-- Chandelier Salesman (@ChuckConcrete) August 8, 2018

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The Smash Ultimate roster is getting out of control pic.twitter.com/68WhK5ETmS

-- Max Scoville (@MaxScoville) August 9, 2018

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PK Fucking Die pic.twitter.com/ryV5k1yJsu

-- Mother Confess (@Mother_Confess) August 8, 2018

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-- Plug Walk (@AnaetorJb) August 8, 2018

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-- Chad Concelmo (@Chad_Concelmo) August 9, 2018

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NO ONE'S HOME pic.twitter.com/VzBAkTzBAC

-- D1 (@xD1x) August 9, 2018

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About damn time pic.twitter.com/1OVfW28dt2

-- Grant ツ (@highvelocityboy) August 8, 2018

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Did you really think you could escape from your fate you idiot? pic.twitter.com/IarIl5gZDe

-- Aerogysmith Sweet Emotion (@hey_rogby) August 9, 2018

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DITTO STOP#SmashDirect pic.twitter.com/Q6Ol34vfh3

-- GG Gabriel Gaming (@Gabriel_Prevost) August 8, 2018

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"WE WANT MORE, MR. SAKURAI!" pic.twitter.com/tZPsCWDjXx

-- mnmtwinz (@mnmtwinz) August 9, 2018

In a way, classic paintings were the memes of their era. Creators using the tools they had in the hopes of making images that commuicated to the human experience in a way that made them popular and valuable to people. And while mastery of oil painting techniques became a less mainstream skill, the imagery itself were classics for a reason. So while we are no longer connected to the courtly intrigue and mythology that originally inspired these paintings, the EMOTION behind them still resonate with us. Hench the foundational idea behind r/trippinthroughtime, where users take the paintings of old to create memes that are relatable today.

Here's 12 examples that hit us like a blast from the past:

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We already knew about the Christmas Day and opening night trips to Boston, plus the MLK Day matchup against the Rockets.

The rest of the Sixers schedule dropped this afternoon, and here are some items of significance:

• it’s not as front-loaded as it was last year, with tough games against Golden State (2x), at Houston, at OKC, at New Orleans, and at the Lakers taking place after the new year
• 9 of the last 13 games are on the road
• there’s a crazy, five-game road trip that includes the Christmas night game vs. Boston, plus Utah, Portland, the Clippers, and Phoenix
• 9 back-to-backs this season, two of which are in April – that’s an upgrade from last season when the London game sort of squished the back-end schedule and didn’t allow for as much rest

More on this from Shams:

Notable tidbits on 2018-19 NBA schedule: No four-games-in-five nights again; back-to-backs are at historic lows (average of 13.3 per team this season, it was 19.3 in '14-15 and 14.4 last season) — and elimination of eight games in 12 nights for first time.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 10, 2018

• There’s a funky back-to-back featuring a 3:30 p.m. game in Cleveland on a Sunday, followed by a Monday night game in San Antonio
• LeBron comes to town on February 19th, so posers should get their brand new Laker jerseys ready
• all four games against Boston are on national television (obviously the league and the networks wanna get the rivalry up and running again)
• 27 national TV games is a ton, almost double the 14 we got last year (also means you’re gonna get a chunk of east coast games starting at 7:30 or 8:00 instead of 7:00 p.m.)
• some very early Eastern Conference tests – at Boston, at Milwaukee, at Toronto all in October

The Sixers put together a month-by-month breakdown:

• OCTOBER: 8 games (4 home, 4 road)
• NOVEMBER: 16 games (9 home, 7 road)
• DECEMBER: 13 games (6 home, 7 road)
• JANUARY: 15 games (7 home, 8 road)
• FEBRUARY: 10 games (6 home, 4 road)
• MARCH: 14 games (7 home, 7 road)
• APRIL: 6 games (2 home, 4 road)

Full schedule after the jump:

Thoughts?

The post The Sixers Are Playing 27 (!) National TV Games This Season appeared first on Crossing Broad.

These dudes make great videos.

Today they dropped an updated version to their Philadelphia sports power hour, which is exactly what it sounds like – one hour of Philly sports highlights that you watch while getting obliterated.

This version has plenty of Super Bowl and parade and David Akers 2018 draft clips.

After the jump:

Need a reason to jam 6+ beers down your throat! Well guess what?! THE POWER HOUR HAS BEEN UPDATED!

The current state of Philly Sports is the best that's its ever been, and I hope this helps everyone appreciate the long journey its been.

LINK HERE: https://t.co/VLi23i1FPy pic.twitter.com/9ekdxQmIHW

— DelcoDelphia (@DelcoDelphia) August 10, 2018

Gotta click on the Youtube link in the tweet to see the full version.

The post DelcoDelphia Does it Again appeared first on Crossing Broad.

Okay, okay - the last time I wrote several reasons about being psyched for an upcoming DC Films movie, it didn't turn out so well. Justice League seemed promising from a distance, but up close, it was clear that the creative wrangling behind the scenes had left us with a hollow, weird, not-very-entertaining movie - and I probably should have seen that coming from several miles away.

But Aquaman is different (I hope). From the looks of things, Aquaman could be the film (not including Wonder Woman) that helps redeem the DCU...

1. JAMES. MOTHERF***IN. WAN.

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If James Wan goes on to become THE NAME everyone associates with fun-filled, inventive, action blockbusters over the next few years, no one will be less surprised than me. The man has always been about making things work, despite all the odds put against him - he launched the "torture-porn" subgenre with Saw (a film that had basically no budget, and went on to become absolutely iconic - and make a bunch of money), evolved his horror bonafides with the UNBELIEVABLY EXCELLENT Insidious and Conjuring films (the man knows how to use Patrick Wilson effectively), and pulled off the greatest directorial feat of the century with Fast & Furious 7 (which had to contend with the death of the co-lead, and wound up being the series' BEST AND MOST EMOTIONAL ENTRY). Honestly the way he saved FF7, a film that SHOULD HAVE FALLEN APART MID-PRODUCTION, earns him SO MUCH CRED in my book.

Aquaman is Wan's first real shot at the big leagues WITHOUT any wild curveballs being thrown his way. He knew he was walking into a film universe in total disarray, and would have lots of expectations to deal with (both internally and externally). The fact that James Wan took this gig says a lot - if he can save the F&F franchise from Paul Walker's death, I think he can save the DCU from Zack Snyder's legacy.

2. A BAD GUY WITH A DAMN GOOD POINT

Wan brought his frequent collaborator Patrick Wilson with him for a reason - to play Orm (aka Ocean Master), Arthur Curry's half-brother, the current king of Atlantis, and the main antagonist of the movie.

And he's an antagonist with a damn good motivation.

One of the largest issues I've had with the DCU thus far has been its incredibly lackluster villains, whose motivations were as follows:

• MAN OF STEEL: Zod wants to terraform the Earth, instead of any other random planet, for basically no reason other than to spite Superman, I guess? He's very shouty and has some stupid facial hair.
• BATMAN V SUPERMAN: Lex Luthor is mad at Superman for...being like a god, or something? Because his dad beat him and no gods stopped him? Also urine? And then he releases an ultra-evil alien to fight the nice alien for....reasons? I'm still trying to figure it out.
• SUICIDE SQUAD: An archaeologist is also an evil witch, who does the classic "beam of light going into the sky" for some reason. To bring the apocalypse, I guess? Because she's just super evil? Also the Joker's there, and apparently designed his own emojis and released them in the Google Play Store. Very twisted.
• WONDER WOMAN: Ares is the god of war, so he likes war. He also likes pretending to be a pleasant, kinda ugly Englishman before turning into a CGI monstrosity who kinda ruins the 3rd act.
• JUSTICE LEAGUE: A mean helmeted CGI man wants to collect boxes, for reasons (of evil). He wants to do evil things, and make the Earth evil, so that his buddies will forgive him for fucking this up the first time.

If you honestly think you can find one relatable, understandable villain motivation in ANY of the other DCU films, I would be genuinely shocked. But Orm is different - he wants to attack the surface world for their constant abuse, neglect, and total disdain for ocean life. Which is...extremely real. Like, we are IRL fucking over the ocean so hard, 24/7, it's really kind of insane. If there were a society of humanoid beings with any level of intelligence living under water, they would be MORE than justified in making war with our entire civilization.

It's kind of a reverse Black Panther plotline - an outsider (with ties to the foreign unknown world) arrives in the foreign civilization to challenge the current king....but in order to STOP the king from declaring war on the entirety of the outside world. Will Orm be DC's Killmonger? We can only hope, although Patrick Wilson is nowhere NEAR as jacked as Michael B. Jordan.

3. BLACK MANTA LOOKS COOL AS HELL

Holy. Shit. Black Manta looks GOOD.

I still don't know if I'm entirely sold on the look of Atlantis - there is a lot of spotty CGI, the underwater sequences don't really feel underwater (if that makes sense), and some of the visuals we've seen feel a little weightless. But then, there's Black Manta.

And HOLY SHIT BLACK MANTA LOOKS GOOD. It is genuinely impossible to gauge how effective he will be as a character or antagonist, how well a secondary villain will be integrated into the story, or anything like that. All we know is this weird bug-eyed helmet that looks like it was pulled straight out of the comics looks good as hell, and that's something.

4. JASON MOMOA

Let's talk about the guy at the center of this film, Arthur Curry himself, aka "AquaBro"....Jason Momoa. Primarily known to most of the world as grunty-bae Khal Drogo, Momoa made his actual debut of the character in 2017's Justice League (not including his .mp4 footage in Batman v. Superman)...and was actually pretty great. That bit where he was unwittingly sitting on the Lasso of Truth? "My man!"? All pretty great, fun bits of levity in a universe that had previously been filled with cynicism, grimdarkness to the extreme, and Jimmy Olsen being shot in the forehead as "fun."

The dude has charisma out the wazoo, looks insanely badass, and seems like one of the most charming individuals both onscreen and off. And he really had his work cut out for him in taking on this role - Aquaman has long been generally perceived as a joke of a character, a straight-laced weenie in a doofy costume who rides on seahorses, talks to fish, and isn't too helpful when the battle moves to land. The casting of Momoa did a lot to immediately dispell that (since - again - the dude just LOOKS REAL COOL), but that really will only get you so far - you need someone who can handle the physicality of the role AND give us a fun, likeable character who we can root for. And I believe Jason Momoa is precisely the guy you want for that job.

The fact that his two most noteworthy performances are as Aquaman and Khal Drogo says something - I'm not sure I can imagine two less similar characters off the top of my head. One was a battle-minded warrior-king who sought to wed a woman from a foreign culture, and the other...oh okay crap they are TECHNICALLY similar roles, but one's a goofy enthusiastic dudebro and the other is essentially a Klingon with less vocabulary. And the thing is, Momoa has killed it in both instances - because he really brings with him a magnetic aura on top of having solid acting chops, and the end result is engrossing. How he turned Khal Drogo - a guttural rapist who was more of a plot point than a fully-developed character - into one of the most compelling and interesting components of Game of Thrones (first season, at least) should give us a lot of faith.

5. IT KINDA HAAAAAAAAS TO SAVE DC FILMS SOOOOOO....

I'm sure everyone involved in Aquaman knew from the outset that they would have an uphill battle, but likely had no clue exactly HOW MUCH WEIGHT would rest on this film's shoulders. See, this is DC Films' first outing since the disastrous performance of Justice League, which was both a critical AND financial disappointment (say what you will about BvS and Suicide Squad, both at least made a pretty good amount of money). And how well (or poorly) Aquaman does could inform the entire rest of DCEU. After all, if they still can't make things work in this post-Snyder era, maybe the foundation is too compromised to continue.

It's important to note that there are literally ZERO DC films currently in production outside of Wonder Woman 1984. Honestly, to some degree, Wonder Woman's success (both critically and financially) present something of a problem to DC - it's their ONE bonafide hit, and OBVIOUSLY needs to get some sequels. But because of that, they can't totally wipe the slate clean and start anew without discarding the legit cultural icon they've created in Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman. So, those films will continue no matter what - but what ELSE happens to DC could entirely hinge on how much Aquaman works.

But the fact this is coming in post-Zack Snyder is meaningful - after the mess of a production that was Justice League, hopefully WB understood the errors they'd made along the way and empowered producers and directors to make good, solid films...with proper amounts of pre-production (unlike Suicide Squad), spending time on a story and tone that an audience might actually enjoy (unlike BvS), and not making the absolute worst possible decisions on villains ever (unlike....uhhh pretty much all DC Films so far!). Aquaman will be the real test to see if WB learned their lessons - and could change the course of their future in time.

And if not, well, at least Shazam! looks pretty fun.

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Despite being a prequel series, Better Call Saul has been so filled with twists, strange hints, and intentional easter eggs that people have been coming up with fan theories as to what the future holds for the show since its inception, but especially in the wake of the shocking third season finale. We've been mulling them over a lot lately with the 4th season premiere right around the corner - and these are the ones that we find the most exciting:

1. Better Call Saul will stealthily morph into a SEQUEL series to Breaking Bad

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One of the big problems with doing ANY sort of prequel is that the 'ending' is preordained - since this happens in the past, we know EXACTLY where this is all leading....and once it catches up with the original, the prequel HAS to end. But Better Call Saul thought ahead, and began its trojan horse plot from the very outset...

See, Better Call Saul only takes place in the past 99% of the time - but for a tiny moment at the start of each season, we see the grim, tragic future of Saul Goodman / Jimmy McGill. After the events of Breaking Bad, Saul Goodman had the good fortune of escaping with his life intact, albeit now as a wanted associate of one of the most devious criminal drug empires in the American Southwest. As part of his attempt to flee law enforcement and retain what little freedom he could muster, he started life anew as an EXTREMELY lowkey mall Cinnabon manager in Omaha, Nebraska, under the pseudonym "Gene." It's a far cry from the outlandish, over-the-top Saul Goodman persona we once knew him as - a new reality so depressing and meaningless, it's even filmed in black & white.

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But these scenes are the key to BCS and it's ultimate purpose - yes, eventually Jimmy McGill will abandon all morality (as well as Kim) and turn into Saul Goodman. The journey there has proven thrilling, but we know exactly what to expect on that front. But BCS has never been about simply delivering on expectations, but subverting them in incredible ways. The theory goes like this: by the end of season 4 and with the loss of Chuck, Jimmy's transformation into Saul Goodman will be complete. We've already seen Gus begin to set up his drug empire (with the purchase of the laundromat that will serve as the front for the superlab) with Mike in his employ. In other words, there's not a TON of history left for BCS to explore. But what if season 4 not only BEGINS with a visit into the future of Gene, but also ENDS with one?

The implication being, of course, that season 5 (and possibly beyond that) will take place ENTIRELY in a POST-Breaking Bad world. After the fall of Walter White and the destruction of Saul Goodman - where we find Gene, the latest false persona inhabited by Jimmy McGill. And something pulls him back into that world that he left behind - something pulls him back into the sordid world of the Albuquerque drug scene. And that something is...Jesse Pinkman.

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Jesse is - like Saul - one of the few notable survivors of Breaking Bad, and really the only person with any real connection to Saul who might seek him out for any reason. But to keep the series tied together, the reason would be...Kim. Kim needs Jimmy/Saul's help, desperately - and it has to be him. She found Jesse because he was the only one she knew might be able to find him, and Jesse is the only other person with the contact info to Saul's "cleaner" who relocated him. Is it a little far-fetched? Maybe. But do we want to see Jimmy re-emerge triumphant from the miserable Limbo he's trapped in in Omaha's dullest Cinnabon? ABSOLUTELY.

For BCS to unexpectedly transform itself from a prequel series and into a legitimate SEQUEL series would be an incredible sight to behold - from out of nowhere, it goes from the most expected ending possible to something entirely new and unpredictable. It would be a VERY Vince Gilligan move - pulling the rug out from underneath us, but in the most satisfying way imaginable.

2. Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman is dead - like, ACTUALLY DEAD - and  the black & white "flashforwards" are actually glimpses into Saul's purgatory

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Okay, okay - I know the whole "he was dead the whole time!" genre of fan theory may feel a little rote at this point, but this one ACTUALLY HOLDS A LOT OF WATER, so just hear us out...

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Here's an odd detail that popped up in the VERY opening moments of Better Call Saul - we are introduced to a balding, mustachioed, depressed looking manager who is very clearly Saul Goodman. Strangely enough, he has wound up in the EXACT PLACE he theorized as his "best case scenario" while going on the run at the end of Breaking Bad - managing a Cinnabon in Omaha. That alone would be a curious enough wrinkle as to the true nature of this black & white world Saul finds himself in, but then we get to that strange little detail:

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See that? It's the city seal of Omaha, celebrating its bicentennial anniversary....but something's VERY WRONG WITH THAT. Omaha was incorporated in 1857 (after being founded a few years earlier in 1854) - so for it to be celebrating its 200th birthday, that means these flashforward Gene scenes are actually taking place in...2057?

In case you weren't aware, the timeline of Breaking Bad was somewhere around two years (starting on Walter's 50th birthday, and ending shortly after his 52nd birthday), starting in real time around 2008 (when the series premiered), and thus ending around 2010. If Saul fled in 2010 and was working in a mall Cinnabon in 2057, that would mean 47 YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE END OF BREAKING BAD.

But while Saul's hairline has faded a bit, he's clearly not 47 years older - that would put Saul in his 90s, and "Gene" looks very similar to Saul when we last saw him (albeit with a mustache). So what's actually going on?

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In short - Saul's dead. His cleaner felt letting him live was too great of a risk (likely given Saul's high profile as a prominent area attorney with his face plastered all over billboards and on commercials) and simply eliminated him. And everything we're seeing in these black & white flashforwards are actually snippets of Saul's miserable, endless existence in purgatory.

This WOULD BE Saul's idea of purgatory - an endless, monotonous, anonymous existence, doing the EXACT THING he predicted would be his fate. Managing teenagers in a mall, unable to run cons or practice law, disconnected from anyone and everyone who ever meant anything to him, and constantly ridden with anxiety over being found out. Honestly, this might even be Saul's equivalent idea of Hell.

And when we first see him, he's been in this afterlife nightmare for 47 years - but to Saul, nothing's changed. He hasn't aged a day, he hasn't gotten less nervous about being found out, and he has no actual self-awareness as to his situation. This is what Jimmy McGill's life of compromised morals and cons has earned him - an endless afterlife without anything that could ever bring him joy.

3. Saul Goodman's silent partner during Breaking Bad is revealed to be...Kim Wexler

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Kim has been one of the few sources of hope in Better Call Saul - mostly acting as a moral center of gravity for Jimmy to cling to when his conman impulses began to get the better of him. The assumption has - for most people - been that Jimmy would continue to descend into a moral abyss (especially after the death of Chuck) and would stray so far from the legitimate law world that he would even burn his bridges with Kim, the one person who ever truly believed in his potential and maybe even loved him for who he was. After all, it's not like Kim would FOLLOW Jimmy into the sewer of sleaze and money laundering that birthed Saul Goodman, right? RIGHT?!

There exists another possibility - that Jimmy does continue to sink deeper into the world of drug distribution and fraud, but instead of ditching Kim in the process, he drags her down with him. Yes, Kim becomes Saul's mysterious "silent partner" for the duration of Breaking Bad, and the person running Ice Station Zebra Associates.

For those of you who don't remember, Ice Station Zebra Associates was Saul's shell company he used for his money laundering operations (which Skyler was notably unimpressed with). But the name has also popped up in Better Call Saul a few times now...and every time in conjunction with Kim. So is the company a way of keeping Kim's memory close to Saul's heart in a future where Kim couldn't stomach his amorality, or is it actually Kim herself joining Saul on the outskirts of the law?

The first hint we see comes early in season 2, where Jimmy and Kim are starting to grow closer together - even having a cuddly movie night at home, watching the film 60s thriller "Ice Station Zebra" on TV, with Kim quoting the film and talking about how much it means to her (and her dad).

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But then the connections get clearer: Kim is at something of a lowpoint mid-season 2 of BCS (dealing with Howard's distrust of her and her shaky position at HHM) while Jimmy is in an unusual position of comfort (as part of his then-new job at Davis & Main). While sitting at a bar having a drink, she gets the itch to have some fun with Jimmy - so calls him in and has them run a scam on a businessman sitting nearby, convincing him to write them a check for $10,000 to their new tech start-up...

...called Ice Station Zebra Associates.

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Oh, and maybe you want MORE proof, huh?

In Breaking Bad, there is a 2nd desk in Saul Goodman's office - although we never see who inhabits it during the series (likely because Saul would want to protect that person from directly interacting with criminal elements). That desk is covered completely in books and paperwork...

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Seem familiar?

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Kim's desk was notorious for constant clutter and mess - because that was Kim's way, to always take on way too much.

We've already seen hints of Kim flirting with "breaking bad" and the thrill of the con - is it possible Jimmy drags her down with him? Honestly, this would perhaps be the most tragic ending for Better Call Saul - not only could Jimmy not save his own soul, but he also corrupted the soul of the one person who ever believed in his potential to do good in the world.

It would also add a new, tragic layer to the flashforwards - when "Gene" is watching the Better Call Saul commercials in his sad little home by himself, he begins to cry. Was he crying over his lost life and the end of everything he had built? Of course. But maybe there was more - maybe he was also crying because he had to leave Kim behind for good, and the BCS commercials were his only way to remember her.

The 8th canon entry in the mainline Star Wars franchise, The Last Jedi, was met with a bit of controversy from certain subsections of the fandom - namely, ones that were extremely mad at director/writer Rian Johnson, co-star Kelly Marie Tran, Kathleen Kennedy, and...well, basically everyone involved with the film, which failed to deliver on fan theories and instead sought to tell an original, interesting story filled with compelling and fascinating characters. But with a petition and ongoing fan movement gaining momentum to, uh, undo The Last Jedi, we took their complaints and whining into consideration to create ESSENTIALLY what those fans envision as the "ideal" version of the film. Enjoy!

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