all the reviews for atomic blonde are like “its an empty aesthetic film where charlize theron just dresses up in nice clothes, kicks the shit out of dudes, and has random sex scenes with women” as if that wasn’t my dream action movie
Wow that sounds ~totally messed up~! I’ve never seen an empty aesthetic film where a man just dresses up in nice clothes, kicks the shit out of dudes, and has random sex scenes with women. Not once, in the history of cinema, has there been a movie like that starring a man.
I went to this fest. I had two tickets. I was there the entire day. (Got an intense sunburn on my chest because I got sunscreen on everywhere except on my collarbone lol)
…Honestly, people are exaggerating about the suck. There were some pissy people yelling and bitching and booing, and the majority were dissatisfied with the server issues at the start, but the overall mood for the weekend was exasperated enjoyment.
TLDR; Y’all underestimate the technological miracle they were trying to pull off. They actually did pretty good. Don’t compare this to Dashcon, the media is sensationalizing things. Niantic tried their best to do good, and most people walked away still playing pogo.
Legendaries were released. All the tickets were refunded. There WAS unlimited free, cold water available all over the parks. There were a ton of rare spawns - including some regional-specific spawns that you could only get by traveling to another country. - Niantec DID NOT say ‘Oh its fine because here’s rare pokemon’, they were already spawning before things started going wrong.
There were ambulances on-site and a well-stocked med-tent in case of heat stroke or other injuries. There were shaded tents and hundreds of charging stations. A lot of really cool props.
The blank screens and youtubers being cut off were because of HECKLERS shouting over everything. Trying to be on stage just seemed to encourage them to be noisier and more aggressive.
They HAD free wifi in the beginning, but there were too many people and it shorted out all the wifi. (One of the festival volunteers said it was because they didn’t realize there was a specific specialty type of wifi router that was needed to be able to handle that level of traffic) After that, all the connection issues were due to local cell towers not being able to handle the strain of such a data-heavy program being used by so many people in such a densely concentrated area.
The Niantec exec who came on stage to apologize for what was going on sounded like he was on the verge of crying, and this was early in the day. They all knew things were fucking up.
They expanded the area of rare spawns to 2 miles out from the fest site, and encouraged people to go spread out to ease the strain on the cell towers AND IT WORKED. Once the majority of those 20,000+ people were outside of that ONE park, the app worked again.
People were catching pokemon, doing raid battles. It was fun! It felt like the first summer of pokemon Go again. Groups of people were sprinting across a field because someone shouted that a Porygon spawned, and I met a lot of really great people who generally seemed a bit frustrated that Niantec hadn’t been more prepared, but overall understanding and having a good time.
“Pay thousands of dollars” is sucky, yes, but the tickets themselves were 20$ - everything else was travel costs and lodging. They refunded the tickets, everyone who attended the event got a 100% catch rate on the legendaries (which, now that this catch rate is back to ‘normal’ - is ridiculously difficult to obtain) and promised everyone who attended the event would get 100$ worth of in-game coins. As soon as they announced this, pretty much everyone chilled and no one chanted anymore.
Would I go to a Niantec-hosted event again? Yeah, honestly, I would.
I think they’re a company of nerds who didn’t hire a proper team for event planning who would know about the technological strain this would cause on the local infrastructure, and how to mitigate it effectively. This is NEW. This kind of cellphone-centered festival, the kind of requirements to pull this off, is INCREDIBLY NEW.
Anyone who has ever attended a big music festival knows that your cell reception basically shrinks to zero, because cell networks are incredibly inefficient. Niantec HAD Sprint and Boost Mobile on-site to help boost up cell reception, but it wasn’t enough. The app RELIES on a strong cell connection, and the idea of having a festival that relies on a strong cell connection is basically asking for a miracle.
They put in a billion times more effort and money and love into this event than the whole dashcon disaster.
Aside from a couple shouty assholes, I honestly feel like the majority of people I met at the event still love pogo, and will continue to play it.
So chill. It wasn’t that bad.
Thank you thank you thank you for giving a better insight!!!!!! No matter how many people complained, many people still stayed and continue to play from what I understand
Anyway so I’m calling Rep. Farenthold later to accept on Sen. Collin’s behalf and I’m choosing Fists. Can take place in Iowa because if two parties agree to mutual combat, under state law it is totally legal here.
And if he accepts yes I will stream that shit live don’t be silly.
And after I beat his ass once for Collins, I will duel him again on Murkowski’s behalf.
Square up, bitch.
OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH GOD CSPAN BOUT TO BE LIT
SO I CALLED HIS DC OFFICE AND SAID BASICALLY THE SAME THING I SENT VIA EMAIL.
After about 20 seconds of dead silence, the staffer let out kinda a little laugh and said “Well ma’m, I’ll be happy to pass on your…”
“I’m not joking.”
“Ma’m?”
“You think I’m joking. I am dead serious. You want my address? Or I’ll meet him at the airport. I am absolutely serious about this. Oh, and as the challenged party, I get to pick weapons. I choose fists.”
Another 20 seconds of somehow even deeper silence.
“I…I’ll pass your challenge on to the congressman.”
“No. He issued the challenge. I’m accepting. Unless he’s backing out like the spineless coward he is.”
More silence. “I…I’ll let Congressman Farenthold know, ma’m.”
“You do that.”
ANYWAY SO HOW DID YOU ALL SPEND YOUR LUNCH BREAK TODAY.
Also if anyone wants to contact Farenthold via email or phone and ask when he’s going to man up and meet me on the field of honorable combat I would owe you one, particularly if you’re in Texas.
Okay so I called. Intern didn’t even hesitate anymore. Just asked me my method of dual (I chose fencing) and after taking my contact info (which I flubbed the numbers on) told me he’d pass it on.
Excellent.
Did you ever knooow that you’re my heeeerooooo *serenades*
I hereby nominate Joy to hold up the boombox (or, since this is 2017, the Iphone) and play the fight music from the Pon Farr episode of Star Trek while I apply a rear naked choke to Farenthold.
You can count on me, boss.
I do not like to ill wish people, but I hope this man never again knows peace. I hope people offer to accept his challenge to duel everywhere he goes. I hope he can’t show his head outside without people approaching to slap him with gloves.
Normally I wait until Sunday to post this stuff, that way CN’s
backdoor is all up to date for the week and everything… but this
schedule is so… interesting, that I just HAD to post it early. If
there’s anything wrong about Saturday and Sunday I’ll fix it. Anyways:
Here’s the Cartoon Network schedule for Monday, July 31 to Sunday, August 6.
Yeah.
I did not expect this. Nor do I want this.
When I found out TTG had a marathon on the 31st, I was not real surprised. It’s a way to hype up the miniseries. I’m used to day long TTG marathons anyway, nothing surprised me anymore. Or so I thought.
Then I saw August 1st. Once again, I kinda expected a TTG marathon leading up to the Night Begins to Shine miniseries (looks rad) and OK K.O. (is rad) premieres. And of course, Island Adventures would be aired right before, as with any other special CN airs anymore.
Then August 2nd’s schedule came out. I started to get concerned. “Is the entire weekday schedule gonna be just TTG and K.O. for this week?”, I thought.
I was proven right, with the 3rd and 4th’s schedules. “Oh god, will the entire WEEK BE JUST TEEN TITANS GO AND OK K.O.?!”, I worried.
I was wrong. Sorta.
I mean, look, there’s Megamind. Back from a brief run on Discovery Family. There’s that. I guess.
But look at the rest of the weekend. Nothing but Teen Titans Go and OK K.O.. They even pulled new episodes of Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Justice League Action, and The Powerpuff Girls just so they could air an hour more of nothing but TTG, OK K.O., and Megamind. That’s your variety this week.
Now, I want to know, WHO AT CN THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA? I’ve never seen any network’s schedule stoop this low. At least when other networks dominate their schedule with only one show for days on end (like FXX with Simpsons marathons or VH1 Classic with 47 days straight of Saturday Night Live) they ADVERTISE it. This is just a regular schedule to CN. That makes it 1000x worse.
Whatever.
Reruns of Gumball, We Bare Bears, Ben 10, and most likely Steven Universe return the week after this.
So do new episodes of Transformers, Justice League Action, and The Powerpuff Girls. We Bare Bears returns from hiatus, too.
Here’s what’s new new new new next week:
Teen Titans Go! The Night Begins to Shine - SPECIAL MINISERIES - Tues-Fri at 6:00p
OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes - SERIES PREMIERE - FOUR episodes Tuesday at 6:10p, two episodes a day Wed-Fri at 6:10p
a show like drunk history but it’s called drunk special interests and the guest infodumps about their special interest instead of talking about a history topic
say in the tags what you would be drinking and what your topic would be
Regardless of your opinions on Adam Ellis’s art, this is quite possibly one of the most patronizing, rude and childish things I’ve ever heard an adult say. Imagine being this far up your own ass.
IMMM gonnAA shit,,, is he ok?
THATS A LOT OF FUCKIN TALK FOR QUITE LITERALLY AS LOW EFFORT WIDE-NET-CASTING TREND-MILKING AS YOU CAN GET
lmao i kinda felt bad for him before but you know what! fuck anyone whose response to VALID CRITICISM is “im successful and you’re not, go back to being poor”
I’m really confused… can someone please explain this to me? with what little information I’m being presented with, it looks as though someone got mad at this man just simply for earning money while other people weren’t… can you blame a guy for that? I mean really, what if some homeless dude came to your house and got pissed at you for having money at all? you’d probably tell them to piss off and get a job. sure, life may be hard for some people but that’s not an excuse to get mad at the people who happened to achieve something.
I can understand that the response may have been rude, but it wasn’t unprovoked. Maybe it really wasn’t and I sound like some kind of a conservative asshole right now, but I honestly have NO information to go off of here…
The guy is worse than tim buckly. he gets money for his comics but his comics are such a scam like. look at this one from 2015
and now look at this one from this year
and when they’re overlayed
He’s even worse than tim buckly. I know the word gets thrown around a lot but he is legitimately a sellout. cutting as many corners as he can to make a quick buck. meanwhile, artists who spend time on their art and make sure its the best they can do are struggling to get by. The dude is basically a capitalist “artist”
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
