Sandro

Sony dropped nuke after nuke. The Last Guardian, Horizon, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Shenmue III, Uncharted 4. GAWD DAYUM I SAY.

Here's the mode and map I played six weeks ago.

You can't pilot the AT-AT in the Walker Assault game mode, but you can fire the guns. People took that and started saying none of the vehicles are pilotable. It's a fucking DICE game, of course they are.

Good. Very, very good.

Yep. That's what it looks and plays like guys. I'm actually crying.

All the buildup just to throw that storyline away? Melisandre showing up just in the nick of time to work some of her witchcraft stuff? No fucking way he's dead. Jon Snow may be dead, but at the very least I expect we'll be saying hello to "Lord Stoneheart".

I don't believe anything. Sam said Jon always comes back. I believe in Sam.

Ryan Miller is no longer a quality starting goaltender in the NHL, this is a fact that you and many other hockey fans are straight up ignoring. His win totals were inflated by a 10-0 start where the Canucks where scoring four or five goals a game. He was still allowing two to three on a consistent basis, he just had incredible run support. Let me remind you that when Miller lost early in the season, he lost big. Like, five goals in one period big. His numbers in the 10 or so games leading up to his injury were atrocious. He ended up posting a .911 save percentage and a 2.53 GAA last season. Those aren't the numbers of a quality starter. Hell, those aren't even the numbers of an average starter. Now he's 34 years old and coming off of a severe knee injury. He was below-average this season, and he's going to continue trending downwards, and he's ridiculously overpaid at $6 million for two more years and is going to handicap this team with his play and with his cap hit unless he's moved. Markstrom has played 50 games in the NHL, it's not like he's got five games spread out over the course of three years. I think he absolutely has all the tools, I'm questioning whether he has the toolbox/mental fortitude to be able to put it together handle the pressure at the NHL level. I'm not sold on that, not to the point where I'm moving the "sure thing" in Eddie Lack for a second rounder at best. Thatcher Demko is 19 years old and still has at least another year of college before he even thinks about turning pro. Barring a miracle, it's not like he's going to just make the jump to the NHL either. Joacim Eriksson isn't even a good AHL goaltender and he's expected to go run and hide in Sweden this off-season. Joe Cannata isn't even on the radar. The Canucks have gone from maybe being the deepest team in the league in goaltending to the exact opposite of that in three years, and it looks more and more likely they're going to lose their best goalie for the third year in a row.

Except we don't really have great goaltending in the system. Right now we have a younger, improving goalie who looks ready to be a #1 in Lack. We have an aging, below-average goalie on a massive contract with Ryan Miller. And we have a young, unproven goaltender who hasn't been able to put it together in the NHL in Jacob Markstrom. The Canucks had great goaltending three years ago when they had two elite NHL goaltenders and an top notch AHL goaltender in the system. The only "elite" goaltender in their ranks now is Markstrom's elite AHL play, which is part of why he's so damn befuddling.

No it is not. The market is shit for goaltenders right now, he's not going to get good value for any of them. Lack is the only one who's given any reason to believe he's capable of carrying the load going forward. Miller is probably on his last contract. This is a terrible situation.

Logjam. Lack may get the "best" return, but the return will still be shitty. He's the best goalie they have, and the only real hope if they want to be a competitive team for the next five years, which by all accounts they want to be.

Coming out and saying SO AND SO IS DEAD like it's a fact is very different from "someone is hurt real fuckin' badly and we don't know if he's alive or not". I suppose both are spoilers, but the former is simply an incorrect statement.

Who's going to take an aging, below-average Ryan Miller for $6M a year for the next two years? Please, let Jim Benning know who is willing because we really need it. Markstrom has an intriguing set of tools that I don't want to give up on, but I also don't have the confidence that he has the mental fortitude to cut it in the NHL. Plus, he still has quite a few holes in his game that aren't exposed as much in the AHL. As soon as he gets into an NHL game, the increased speed (both in terms of skating and puck movement) make his troubles moving laterally in his crease painfully apparent. Right now, Lack is the best goalie we have and the best option for the next 5-6 years while we wait for Thatcher Demko to (hopefully) develop into the goalie of the future. He put up a .925 save percentage (or in around there) after Miller went down to injury. He still got up to a .920 on the season overall, even after a really rough start. It's not like Lack isn't still improving either. He's 27 years old and right about to hit his prime, he loves the city, and he seems like he's able to handle to intensity of the media. Something Luongo didn't figure out how to do until his last couple of years as a Canuck, that Ryan Miller has never figured out, and that -- as suggested earlier -- I don't think Markstrom has the ability to handle. Lack is my choice moving forward, but I'm honestly terrified that Benning is going to run with Miller and take a chance on the massive risk that is Markstrom, and get a 2nd or 3rd round pick for Lack and nothing more.

It should be Miller but since Benning fucked that one up real good, Markstrom.

Pretty sure they've confirmed she's cut from the show entirely. If she's not there on Sunday, I'd expect that will hold true. Also the other thing you're all bitching about isn't really a spoiler because it's not exactly true either. Plus, GRRM and D&D would be stupid as fuck to do it for reasons that have already been discussed.

Stannis is no longer the Mannis. I'll be okay if Ramsay flays him.

I got invited to an E3 event but I can't go.

Tanev is one of the best defensemen in the entire league when it comes to suppressing the other team's forwards.

Max hasn't been the main character since the first film, he's purely the vehicle through which we witness the world he lives in. I have absolutely no issue with him sharing the lead with Charlize Theron's Furiosa. P.S. Borderlands is basically Mad Max the video game, not the other way around.

You're taking a joke and blowing it way out of proportion.

No thanks.

It depends on what you consider a master class. It's the best action movie since The Matrix, it's one of the highest rated films of all time (#10 on Rotten Tomatoes, #30 on IMDb) and I would argue it's the best movie of the year so far. Of course the action and stunts are mind-blowing, but that's not all it has going for it. The world building is incredible, the plot is simple but engaging, hell, Miller sets up so much about the world in the opening shot. There's a surprising amount of character development (especially for Nux and the wives) as the film progresses as well. There's real humanity to the movie, and the amount of detail put into the cult/religion of the War Boys is insane. They may not spoon feed the story to you, but it's absolutely there. It throws things at you and expects you to keep up, and it's honestly refreshing to see a movie treat the audience like they're intelligent people. Of course it's well-acted as well, this is a cast that's headlined by Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, and Nicholas Hoult. There's very little dialogue throughout the film and the actors are able to convey so much with looks, mannerisms, grunts, etc. Hardy especially, he has his opening monologue and then what... Maybe ten lines for the remaining hour and 58 minutes? I think it's also worth mentioning that once you get Rosie Huntington-Whiteley away from Michael Bay and those god awful Transformers movies, she can act too! Amazing what having a good director can do. The use of CGI to complement the practical effects was phenomenal. Check out some of the behind the scenes info on how they pulled off the stunts, or Miller's manipulation of the frame rate to achieve the desired look he wanted. It's all pretty crazy stuff. Tom Holkenborg's soundtrack is awesome and complements the film perfectly, I loved the way they integrated the drums and guitar from the Doof Wagon. The camera work and cinematography as a whole was jealous. They didn't mask the action behind close ups or shaky cam tactics like so many action movies, just gorgeous wide shots of ridiculous vehicle stunts and a tanker full of gasoline exploding in the middle of the desert. So yeah. Maybe it's not Citizen Kane or The Godfather, but Fury Road is an incredible movie. Every little nuance and detail was very deliberately done the way it was, something that is only possible because Miller had been trying to get this movie made for something like 15 years. EDIT: To cement these thoughts, you should have seen social media in the lead up to the 15th. People in the industry were losing their minds over it. Rian Johnson, y'know, the guy who's writing and directing Star Wars Episode VIII said "GEORGE MILLER JUST TOOK US ALL TO SCHOOL." Patton Oswalt was losing his mind over it, Jay Baruchel called it a masterpiece, and a whole bunch of other people were getting retweeted and showing up in my feed just showering praise on it. While I'm sure a host of other stuff will get all the award recognition at the end of the year, I guarantee that Mad Max: Fury Road will end up being viewed as the most important film of 2015 in addition to being one of the best. Up-and-coming filmmakers are going to be citing Fury Road as one of their biggest inspirations 20 years from now.

You have failed at life.

Seeing Kesler lose felt so good. So good. Almost Mad Max Fury Road good, but not quite.