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Re: The blunt obligations of The Running Man almost overwhelm Edgar Wright

Andrew Farrell — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:05:37 -0000

I get what you're saying, but after the ascending trajectory of his first four films this millennium, I think Wright's already a legitimately strong action director - just not one that directs a lot of good straight action films.

Re: What era of World of Warcraft is your WoW?

Andrew Farrell — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:18:47 -0000

I played off-and-on from launch through to the end of Cata, killed Neltharion (on normal), then took a loooong break, coming back towards the end of Warlords.
My timing there sucks, and that's probably the reason that the answer isn't Mists - I dug everything about that content, but I didn't even get to see the Vale in its original state!
But I was there at the start of Legion, clustered together in Crystalvale Dalaran as it made the jump to the Broken Isles, and that's my era - four good-to-great levelling areas, Suramar (I know it was divisive, but it's also storytelling on a scale that Blizzard hasn't done before or since) and three consecutive end-of-raid cinematics which amazed in content and execution.
I didn't buy BfA, just bummed around grinding old expansions for six months then let my sub lapse, and it's only a month ago that I resubbed and started pushing through the last three expansions - they're good! But they're not Legion .

Re: How many more Seasons of Diablo 3 do you think we'll have, and how much more wild can they get?

Andrew Farrell — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:00:54 -0000

DH (and Monk for the Conquests), that is

Re: How many more Seasons of Diablo 3 do you think we'll have, and how much more wild can they get?

Andrew Farrell — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:00:01 -0000

I still have two stash tabs to come, having missed a fair few seasons. I've been trying to avoid the chars with new sets, but ran Necro in Season 19, so it'll be Demon Hunter Natalya in Season 20.

For 21 I'd assume that, since it will have the last two sets, they'll a) be the Haedrig's Gift this week and b) have the Set Dungeons set up. I might well be wrong! But if that's the case then I'll knuckle down and try to take the new sets past the season journey and all the way to 100.

Re: How many more Diablo Seasons do you think we can get?

Andrew Farrell — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:26:45 -0000

The upcoming season has new sets for 2 of the 7 classes, so it seems reasonable there'll be at least three (including the upcoming)

Re: What do you think about Diablo 3’s Seasons?

Andrew Farrell — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 03:53:47 -0000

Mostly they sell it - The 'Eternal Collection' with the base game and both expansions is £35 on Battle.net for PC, £30 on PS4, and a slightly weird £37.72 on Switch. The big bumps for all of those will be past by now, but there'll still be some trickling in.

The real reason for a burst of care this late in the cycle, I suspect, is that they originally expected to be able to be selling us Diablo IV at this point, but that's a few years off, so spending some money on the old property to keep the customers from drifting off into other ARPGs is a good investment.

Re: What do you think about Diablo 3’s Seasons?

Andrew Farrell — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:01:38 -0000

The follow-up question should be, if you wanted more from Seasons, would you be willing to pay for it? I think the seasons and the TLC we've got over the last year are amazing considering the last time I gave them money was in 2017.

Re: <i>Eat That Question</i> explores Frank Zappa in all of his cranky, cynical glory

Andrew Farrell — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 07:47:34 -0000

He's a bunch of things - I think it's worth separating out Zappa as talking head from Zappa as musician from Zappa as lyricist. I love the first, am immune to the charms of the second and loathe the third.

Re: Major life changes

Andrew Farrell — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:43:53 -0000

Good luck! When I faced the prospect of buying a house in Dublin a decade ago, I, er, moved to London? I may have lost my notes on why that seemed a good idea.

Re: Furious 7 / The Dissolve

Andrew Farrell — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:59:25 -0000

I thought Djimon Hounsou's motivation was the same as presumably most of the criminal underworld - he just happens to be the one that actually has Ramsay at the start. Later, Shaw calls him in because Shaw is by and large a solo operator, and could do with an army to distract Mr Nobody and the gang. Shaw then offers to take on Dom, as that's his main goal, and it makes it slightly easier for Hounsou to go after Ramsay - he presumably thought that Hounsou would underestimate him and not turn the God's Eye on Shaw immediately.

Re: Furious 7 / The Dissolve

Andrew Farrell — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:51:29 -0000

Joker's not a bad call, in fairness - there's a whole segment of "incredibly dangerous psychopathic villain" that's lain fallow since The Dark Knight (which is by coincidence the only other 7th film to have made more money than this), which Statham stepped back into the shoes of, starting from that amazing first shot. They say that when the Joker enters the room, everyone present should immediately consider their death - he definitely brought some of that (and such tailoring!)

Re: Blackbeard Blog: Is public opinion rational?

Andrew Farrell — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 04:58:46 -0000

There is also the question of whether the correlation is useful - rising unemployment may mean that more people think it's the thing they should be concerned about most, but that doesn't mean that it actually is.

Re: The Dissolve

Andrew Farrell — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:33:52 -0000

"(Or “Annie B.”—get it???)"

(raises hand) I don't get it.

Re: Dumb And Dumber To / The Dissolve

Andrew Farrell — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:51:02 -0000

"their unexpectedly funny 2012 revival of The Three Stooges"

*needles scratches off record*
*screech of brakes*
*triple-take*

Re: Believe Me / The Dissolve

Andrew Farrell — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 03:04:34 -0000

I'm not sure that 'beguiling' means what you think it means - I mean, it does for me, as I'm very fond of movies that are less interested in a consistent tone than in being interestng, but in the context of your review...

Re: Minimoonstar

Andrew Farrell — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:25:04 -0000

You kind of can, by the medium of one of the weirdest special effect decisions ever: http://trailers.apple.com/t...

Re: Screw Rock 'n' Roll - For the other blog, I am doing a Year End America...

Andrew Farrell — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:05:04 -0000

I'd be quite glad if we don't hear from Rick Santorum again, but I suspect that he (and possibly a few backers) are waving around the prospect that he was the conservative alternative to that damn RINO Mitt Romney. I mean, I don't think he'll go the distance or anything, but we might well have him and his horrible views to kick around a bit more.

Also hi! Good to meet you in Sydney.

Re: http://cureforbedbugs.tumblr.com/post/13608709331

Andrew Farrell — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:47:07 -0000

There's Judgement Day, an actual Moore / Liefield joint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Imaginary Communities #1

Andrew Farrell — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:34:54 -0000

and the troll, like any member, has only a short lifespan

But the troll, not playing by the rules, will be back next week with a new name? As will beloved posters, eventually.

Re: http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/867758852

Andrew Farrell — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:44:58 -0000

My understanding is that you'd be annoyed that a lot of these places aren't Proper North :)

Re: Realism In Research: Why Is A Survey Like A Dalek?

Andrew Farrell — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:53:40 -0000

Real-world referent for surveys = people with clipboards saying "sorry could I ask you a question?" while the entire population of the planet speeds past scowling!

Re: http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/641056001

Andrew Farrell — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:30:02 -0000

ILX => The only way to win is not to play!

Re: http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/640167741

Andrew Farrell — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:36:56 -0000

This is totally The Lex as a football fan, well done all concerned.

Re: http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/622212387

Andrew Farrell — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:59:50 -0000

For a starter, no need to worry about whether anything's been sold to anyone other than white folk!

Re: http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/613048529

Andrew Farrell — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:02:19 -0000

...except of course that's a screenshot from the website of the product. Nemmind.