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Entertainment > Games >
World of Warcraft >

https://ascension.gg/

A heavily-modified World of Warcraft 3.3.5 private server which removes the concept of classes, allowing the player to pick-and-choose abilities to create their own unique character. Another server has a random selection-and-choice concept which is very fun.

Has various challenge modes and the ability to rework a character back to level one for a reward.

While lacking some bits and pieces of convenience, it’s really quite good. Has some expensive pay-to-win. It’s ultimately not good because it has bonus experience available to all the players so there’s no actual authentic world, it’s just a bunch of overpowered characters smashing through everything; fail. Or play it single-player if you’d like..



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Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15435876/
https://www.hbo.com/the-penguin
https://www.dc.com/tv/the-penguin-2024

When the death of a local mob boss leaves a power vacuum, a lieutenant moves to seize his own piece of the pie.

Phenomenal acting, great writing; good all around. Let’s see where this one goes.



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Red vs. Blue꞉ Restoration - (2024 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31946567/
https://roosterteeth.com/series/red-vs-blue

Something about multiple AI personalities taking over a human.

Meh.

  • Trailer
  • IMDB has a rating of 16+ which to my knowledge isn’t a thing.



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Omni Loop - (2024 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28150132/
https://www.magpictures.com/omniloop

A dying woman does drugs and hallucinates that she’s a time traveller.

A tight time-loop movie that’s slow and mediocre.

  • Trailer
  • Not actually science fiction
  • Not actually a comedy



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Uglies - (2024 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13186604/
https://www.netflix.com/title/81002266

A classic ruined world utopic city movie.

It’s fair. It’s a basic young adult movie with some woke messaging and diversity casting in the old “rebel and save the world” template.

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  • Straight white Christian men are only bad guys.



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Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122690/

A freelancing former U.S. Intelligence Agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by the Irish and the Russians.

Moody and consistently-good. Lots of car chases.



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Entertainment > Movies >

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5730248/

A psychiatrist’s world is turned upside-down when his patients join a global trend of suicide and violence.

Moody and with great acting. This is definitely strange, especially because of its torturously patient story arc. I can’t recommend this for everyone because it’s more weird-drama than science fiction. It’s one of those “watch once” movies.



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Ergo Proxy - (2006 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791205/

Robots go mental and investigators try to figure it out.

Great world building, but everything is monotone and it goes totally crazy most of the way through. It would have been better if it stayed grounded in its initial location as the world-building was great there. Ultimately disappointing.



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Unbreakable - (2000 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217869/

An everyman is stalked by an unusual comic book collector who tries to convince him of his greatness.

Patient and coaxing; wonderful from many angles.

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  • Not inspired by any particular comic book, but on the idea itself.

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