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Bond movie no. 7: Diamonds are Forever (1971). Connery’s hair starting to go a bit gray in his last appearance. More Blofeld than I’d expected (harhar). Space laser! Plenty O’Toole seemed pointless, there just to die. A lot of cheesy lines from the assassin henchment.
These movies would be a lot shorter if they just shot Bond whenever they caught him. The action scenes in all these old Bond films always feel so jarring compared to modern ones. Limited by the technology of their time I guess.
Akira Kazama teaser for Street Fighter V #gaming https://youtu.be/IOdgfo7OaLI
. @mikong
Quoted migueldeicaza's tweet:Signal, the private messaging tool, introduced a new payment system. A win-win for mobsters and the pump-and-dumpers behind this.
As usual, the people will loose, and they lost my trust. https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1379763470216888321
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.” - Hugh MacLeod
[Team Camote] - Camote Quiz Night “Are you guys happy now?!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG3pzFg4GRY&feature=youtu.be via @YouTube
The Galactic Federation interviews Earth for membership
@bloodyvints What series and issue is this from?
Bond movie no. 6: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). Only Lazenby appearance. He was fine, I suppose. Tracy probably best Bond girl so far. I liked the ski scenes more than Thunderball’s underwater scenes.
Loose continuity. Was confused by Blofeld not recognizing Bond after they already met in the previous movie. Apparently, the novel order was reversed. Also, did Bond just leave him stuck in a tree assuming he was dead after hunting him relentlessly?
@zaaaldehyde Food deliveries are allowed past the curfew time
@mlq3 @rocketkeis Noted. Thanks!
@rocketkeis what is it supposed to mean?
@anthony_siy what does service contracting mean here sir?
@Wizards_MagicEU @mtgjp “All around the world”? What about in southeast asia?
@paulcatiang Alt + 0151 — use the numpad
@SaffronOlive Wait, are bolt counterspell and swords allowed in historic brawl then?
Planning for a stricter lockdown less than a week after starting this ridiculous bubble, without even waiting to see the effects, reeks of making shit up as they go along, just reacting to the numbers without any real analysis or planning.
It always feels weird for me when the PH president exercises a line item veto, since presumably Congress has balanced the bill as a whole. This is an unusual power, Wikipedia only lists 3-4 countries that allow line item vetoes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto
Quoted manilabulletin's tweet:READ: President Duterte vetoed nine items in CREATE law, including hike in VAT threshold on real property sale, redundant incentives for domestic enterprises; automatic approval of incentive application (📷: Roque) | @GenKabiling
Note that the PH isn’t one of those listed in the Wikipedia article! I think I’ll attempt to edit Wikipedia today.
So what does that mean? Are we never getting iOS/Android versions in SEA? Will they (Tencent) release it later? Or there’s no word at all?
Has anyone in SEA been able to get the mobile versions? I’m from the Philippines, me and my friend in Singapore both can’t find the app on the stores. Even when using a direct link, the stores will just say Arena isn’t available in the country/region. Any others from SEA countries have any luck?
Have they released any official word on this? Or is there any WOTC staff here who can shed some light on why it’s not available in SEA?
So annoyed that the MTG twitter accounts have the audacity to claim Arena is now available “everywhere” on mobile when it’s definitely not.
@mtgcolorpie I would guess Negate more likely than Mana Leak
So @MTG_Arena why isn’t your iOS app available in my region? #mtgarena
Bond movie no. 5: You Only Live Twice (1967). Such Japan. Much wow. Cringe at trying to pass Bond off as Japanese. Introduction of secret volcano lair trope. Ninjas with guns! First screen appearance of the head of SPECTRE, inspiration for Dr Evil.
That endgame scene of ninjas invading the secret volcano lair reminded me of the Simpsons episode You Only Move Twice. Bond’s “wife” never named despite being only Bond girl to survive the movie.
Why it’s hard to trust either the Chinese government or Sinovac, exhibit 22,316
Quoted rthk_enews's tweet:The #HongKong government stops a doctor from giving out #COVID19 jabs after he allegedly told people that the BioNTech vaccine has a much better reputation than the one made by China’s Sinovac. https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1582148-20210323.htm
Give people aid so they can stay at home, you cowards
Quoted PhilippineStar's tweet:READ: Amid rising COVID-19 cases, NEDA acting secretary @_karlchua says the issue now is the total health of the people, including hunger and other sickness apart from COVID-19. Localized lockdowns and managing risks should be the focus. | @maureensimeon
Whenever I deliver any software to clients I should go “Please enjoy the gifts from me, please make a commitment that you will take care of this code, you will take car of this database, you will take care of these bugs..”
Quoted paulcatiang's tweet:Managed to get the receipt for the crass display by @DOTrPH. Remember, the people’s taxes paid for those and continue to put food on your tables, you ungrateful public servants.
By the way, we’ve lost so many hours in traffic thanks to your incompetence. Umayos nga kayo.
@paulcatiang Wait so there’s no free movement even within the “bubble”?
now that people know who both thanos and darkseid are, it’s time to bring back the greatest parody comic of all time
PH quarantine levels:
Extremely Confusing Quarantine
Generally Confusing Quarantine
Medyo Generally Confusing Quarantine
Medyo Generally Confusing Quarantine ver 1.1.1.1 FINAL FINAL NA TALAGA
I’ve got to get better at marking funny things I read on Twitter so I can reference them later
Bond movie no. 4: Thunderball (1965). This is the first one I didn’t like very much. Too many boring/confusing underwater parts. There’s a jetpack! Wasn’t there an atomic bomb aboard that boat when it exploded? And did they just leave the guy who helped Domino escape floating alone in the ocean?
@paulcatiang might be a while before I consider the other books in the trilogy haha
Huh, just found out someone with a nontrivial following on PH twitter has blocked me. Not anyone I know personally and not anyone I remember getting into any argument with, but still curious as I find myself largely inoffensive lol. Still, achievement unlocked I guess?
Star Trek episode where a magician named Robert Angier accidentally time travels to the Enterprise in the 23rd century. When Scotty explains the transporter to him, he weeps.
Oh wow, when people joke about not having seen the homepage, I thought they meant the logged in home page with the Top Questions list. I really have never seen this before!
I changed my Windows color preferences to Light mode for like 10 minutes to test something and I was like “How do people live like this?”
Bond movie no. 3: Goldfinger (1964). Lot of the classic Bond tropes introduced. Bad guy’s plan was actually pretty good, even had the escape contingency. Disappointed he did not have an actual gold finger. Great fight between Bond and Oddjob.
A bit worse off, since we didn’t have a pandemic in 1985 afaik.
Quoted LaTtEX's tweet:Massacres openly conducted by the police and military. Opposition figures in jail. A dying but belligerent despot. Deputies jockeying for power. A crashed economy. Infrastructure projects burying us in decades of debt.
Aminin na natin Pilipinas, bumalik lang tayo sa 1985.
@Westraid there’s a lot of these movies though, gonna take a while to get through them!
James Bond movie no. 2: To Russia With Love (1963). This one actually had more bits that felt like actual espionage. And Bond didn’t need to get captured this time!
They should release the 3 Kaldra equipment into historic one at a time, one every three years or so
Is there any good privacy respecting recaptcha alternative?
Haven’t seen any of the pre-Brosnan Bond films, so I started today with Dr No (1962). Pretty good, but if this were a modern film, I’d have expected some kind of plot twist with Honey Rider, like maybe she would have turned out to be the actual Dr No
As pandemic lockdown nears one year, Malacañang says: ‘We were excellent’ #COVID19Quarantine https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/08/21/as-pandemic-lockdown-nears-one-year-malacaang-says-we-were-excellent
[Team Camote] - StarCraft 2 Showmatch - hungryroy (me) vs tzia_n #starcraft2 #gaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bINjaPjt1M
The rest of our games are in this youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5c1J8DcHGjdzou13Vcn9eydWENvFb652
#WandaVision spoiler-free review:
Looking forward to Falcon and Winter Soldier next!
“We have said goodbye before, so it stands to reason…”
“…we’ll say hello again.”
Ladies and gentlemen……..”What if Wes Anderson directed X-Men?”
Ugh, my bad. I posted the Feb 28th drawing into the Feb 27th thread instead. Thanks for checking, have reposted it into the correct thread!
