As an europoor I have limited insight into how good the announced people are, so I would appreciate some opinions. I know Gaetz, he seems like a good pick for just about anything. Tom Homan sounds based, so that also looks good. What do you guys think about the picks so far?

I have two young girls in my extended family, ages 8 and 10. I have been gifting / recommending them movies, TV shows, and so on that is as free of current year as possible. The older one has shown interest in reading manga, which I know nothing about, so I am turning to you fine gentlemen in hopes of getting some quality reading for her.

Some points to consider is that it should be something that is translated to local, which is probably the more popular stuff. She has also shown interest in horror movies and such, so some scary / spooky / supernatural elements I guess are fine. Bonus points for having good father figures, I found that to have a good effect on girls.

Not sure if anything else is of import, so, if you have any recommendations, fire away!

Thanks!

I have just started Nightmare of Decay, a retro looking FPS with scarce resources. As someone who had quite a bit of fun with old school shooters, this promises to be quite a lot of fun. Just before that I have played Forgive Me Father, another old school shooter with an interesting aesthetic, this time of the Lovecraftian flavour. Not sure what I will play next, but probably something other, than shooter.

Looks like something that might actually be worthwhile to watch.

Maybe I am just out of the loop, or fail to connect the dots. What's with a whole bunch of gaming companies laying off people or canceling projects? Is it simply the bad economy all over the world? Because that has been going on for a while, so why so many companies doing this just now, and all at once? A lot of games have been shit too for a while, so it's probably not that either. Do they have to publish quarterly reports in the upcoming days, and are trying to get ahead of the bad news by pretending that they have already done something about the issue?

The main protagonist's gay brother gets a pride Christmas ornament from his mom, and then the married lesbian couple shows up, one of whom is the main protagonist's aunt.

I am not the target audience of this movie.

A couple of days ago I have posted about how this show is not worth your time, based on two of three total episodes.

Maybe the first two were written by a woman and the last by a man, but instead of a lot of boring talk by a lot of boring characters you get a lot of action in ep3. While it is still TV-show quality, some of it is pretty good.

If we got just ten minutes of what is most of ep3 in the previous two, with less talk and less angry ugly strong women the show could have been quite good.

Two episodes in of what will be three total. 130+ mins of stuff.

There is a grand total of one action sequence, early in episode one, that could be in a John Wick movie. But even that would probably be one of the worst in all of the action sequences of the franchise.

Mel Gibson is the main villain, but it is nothing to write home about.

The guy they got to play young Winston was a good pick. Some of his backstory with his brother is decent.

And that is pretty much it. You get to see a pair of tits, but even that is nothing memorable.

In return for this very short list of kind of positives you get to have a lot of angry and ugly women beating or overpowering men, sometimes several. There aren't really much in terms of badass men after the first episode either. In a John Wick spinoff...

It feels like they are trying to make Charon gay, but did not really commit to it. The guy playing him also doesn't at all feel like he could grow older to become Lance Reddick (RIP). There is a lot of talk, but it does not feel like they have really expanded the lore in any meaningful way. A lot of characters talk a lot, and you will care about very little of those characters and all the talking going on.

There is a drag queen in the first episode, played by an IRL drag queen, but I only noticed this in the credits.

There is probably more to mention, but I cannot be bothered any more.

It's not worth your time. You are better off rewatching any of the movies, even the one you like the least.

I will finally get a new PC after quite a few years, and am wondering about the title question. Not planning on using Win 11 any time soon, which I believe requires it. I will probably still use the same high seas win 10 for the foreseeable future.

I have heard quite a few people suggesting to check if TPM is enabled in the BIOS, and to disable it if it is because of privacy concerns.

Thoughts?

Didn't really feel like an Evil Dead movie at first, but grew on me, especially by the end.

Two early mildly woke sentences is all I noticed we could have done without.

Ended up being gory AF, which I liked a lot.

I have been thinking about getting a new PC for some time, and if I do get one I would also get a new monitor, and so on.

The reason I am unsure is that I am far behind on games that are demanding. I still have not gotten to play Nier: Automata, Sekiro, Terminator: Resistance, Outer Worlds, Marvel's GotG, to name some that I plan to play at some point.

I have a 1070 now, which has been more, than enough to handle anything so far.

Even though prices have been going down, and might go down even further, the 30XX cards are still pretty expensive, and I don't see that I would really need one.

RTX also does not look like it's worth spending so much on a VGA.

So I could stick with what I have, as there are still many games for me to get to that runs just fine on the 1070, or maybe get a 2070 for example. With 40XX coming out and 30XX cards going down in price the 2070 might not be a worthwhile investment, even if I keep every other part of the PC.

Any thoughts?

Got it recommended by a normie, so I am suspicious. Especially since it is Nickelodeon, but it is also from 2005-2008, so maybe it is not woke. Still can be shit though, which is why I am asking.

Douglas Murray gives a decent explanation here, but surely there are even better ones out there.

Edit: Drinker has a well thought out video too.

I have two young girls in my extended family (10 & 7), and I have been gifting / recommending older content (The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, Road to Avonlea, and the likes) to them to keep away the worst of modern entertainment.

It seems though that all of their class mates have been watching Wednesday, and the FOMO is powerful with them, so now they want to watch it too.

They would be better off watching the two 90s movies, but even that might be too early at this age.

Anybody who has seen the show, how strongly would you recommend against it? Not just in general (might be too scary for them), but because of the current year bullshit.