fantastic_four

I love this too. This was particularly true on the threads that relate to a television show or movie I hadn't had time to watch yet and I would wait until I had watched it to click into the thread so as to avoid spoilers. With the old board I had to guess where I had left off, but with this one it remembers it for me.

I get why you would like that aesthetic, but the problem is that if you turn on round avatars there is no option to use any other shape. With the square avatars you can still get a rounded effect by taking whatever image you want to use for your avatar, make it fit into a circle with an image editor, and then set the background around the circle to be transparent. So your avatar can be circular if you want it with square ones set, but if you set it to round, there is no option to make it square. I like square because it's more space efficient and gives you more room for creativity. HTML layout is in rectangular blocks no matter what you do; a square lets you use all of the space your image will take up anyway, whereas a circle hacks off corners and makes them unusable for your image.

I do like the popular thread section in that right-hand list though. And it doesn't get in my way since thread titles have a limited length anyway. That's on a desktop, though. I can see it forever being in the way on the small screen of a phone.

I don't see that right-side list on the forum list page anymore today. I think it was there yesterday or the day before though.

The old forum had a bunch of what it referred to as "stylesheets" you could choose from to customize colors, font sizes, and spacing; the stylesheets it offered are shown in the screenshot below. I did a web search and founds lots of existing IPS themes out there you can add for us to choose from. Can you browse through those and add them for us to choose from? Just doing that could make a lot of people happy who are complaining about color, font sizing, and whitespace issues and do the work for you that you're currently thinking will be manual. If anyone is reading this and is interested in browsing the available themes, do a Google search on "ips themes" and look at what's already available out there. If you see any nice ones please do share them.

He thought he was going to be in movies that were critically acclaimed like the Nolan Batmans or the post-Avengers Marvel movies. Turns out he wasn't so he's got to want out.

Nothing changed. He explicitly said he was doing BvS as redemption for Daredevil, and that there was no point in doing it if it sucked. Welp, it sucked, at least in all the ways that matter to him. He's got to be thinking exit.

We all want money, but it's clear he's a fan and wants to play a major character in a really good superhero film. I bet he's rolled around Marvel possibilities in his mind since they've got their stuff together. The most likely hole he could fill is Captain America if Chris Evans leaves, but I'm not sure he's a fan of that character.

Ben Affleck isn't happy with audience and fan support only. He wants to be loved by everyone, critics included. His roles in BvS, SS, and JL were already agreed to before the crappy BvS and SS reviews were in. His thinking is entirely different now.

I'd be far more surprised if he DIDN'T want out since it has turned out to be the same mess that Daredevil was for him all over again.

He sold it to Miramax before it was ever released, same with the others that aren't his. I'm sure he'd never want to tick them off since he's credited the studio and Harvey Weinstein for decades as being responsible for the start of his career.

He was pissed about his promised salary on Clerks after it became a hit, but supposedly Kevin Smith made up for it by paying him more on Dogma back in 1998/1999. He played Randal in a video game last year and has previously said he would do the film, so I'm not sure it's him. He did say a few years ago he wouldn't do it but subsequently changed his mind. Maybe he changed it again.

I hope the fat-chinned guy isn't Mojo. The Mojoverse is so out there I would expect the show to lose a big chunk of their audience if they introduce it.

Others don't see many of the people David sees, so that question never would have occurred to me.

Yea, people usually just left quote nesting in in worthless ways that wasted screen space. I used to mostly deleted all interior quotes aside from the two most recent, i.e. the post I'm responding to and the post that one was responding to because that's usually all the context you need to understand a response. Few people used nested quoting well.

So, here's the most pertinent question about the show--which characters are part of David's consciousness and which are real? All the government agents he fried were real. I'm pretty sure Aubrey Plaza is in his mind because we never see her interact with anyone but David. Syd Barret seemed real because other characters in the show acknowledged her physical presence and talked to her. But by the end I'm not sure she was real anymore. Seemed like she died and was absorbed by David during the show. Those two people who helped him escape and the woman he met at the end I can't say for sure. I assume the black guy and woman are part of his consciousness since they were hurling government agents around with telekinesis that only David should have been able to do. Melanie Bird, the older woman he met at the end, I have no idea...I assume she's real but she might not be. She could be his mom and he absorbed her early in his life.

Yea I figure that fat-chinned guy is Mojo too. Seems strange to introduce a wild character like him into this already hugely trippy, hard to follow story.

OK, I'm not attached to my old account. What. The. F.

Why is there a 1 at the end of my username?

+1 Water Cooler is gone?!?!

He doesn't need BvS for that. He's gotten virtually every major studio to bankroll one of his films at some point. Warner Brothers is lucky to have him, not the opposite. Although they might be re-thinking that after they bankrolled "Live By Night" and it just bombed at the box office. I'm sure the money is nice, but Ben Affleck has always been a comics fanboy like us. It's clear that part of his motivation is that he just likes superheroes and likes the idea of being a part of the heroes he grew up loving.

Not by Ben Affleck's standards. He said for years he was proud of Daredevil and loved being in it, but now years later he's been more candid about his regret about the film's critical reception. As long as he's in these DC films we won't hear his real thoughts, but he clearly works for critical acclaim. He's said it repeatedly and exhibited he has a talent for it with his films from the past decade.

y'all don't seem to realize that the people you're point-counterpointing with on this stuff DON'T think any kind of mess exists. one rated the "ultimate" b v. s at 9.0 on a 10 point scale. he left a single point in there for the godfathers, etc. to reside. Fans are certainly free to live in a world separate from critical acclaim if they want, but Ben Affleck clearly doesn't live in that world so that's what matters within the context of guessing what he's thinking with future DC projects. He specifically said that the reason he took on Batman was for redemption for Daredevil's poor reception, so the fact that the critics slammed BvS even harder than they did Daredevil means we definitely do have a sad Affleck. I say this as a fan of that Daredevil movie, so I certainly get being a fanboy. It isn't that I think the film was all that magnificent, it was just magnificent to me because as a huge Daredevil fan I was thrilled to see him debuting on the big screen. And I still find large parts of it to be an entertaining watch despite all the issues it has. And of all the issues the film has Ben Affleck's performance wasn't anywhere near the top of that list, so as was the case in BvS, he doesn't have much to feel guilty about. He did fine in both roles.

Authors are usually the person the least satisfied with any work they produce. For an author to then lose control of that work I'm sure it's even worse. This just looks like a nightmare for Affleck he wishes he could wake up from that started in his mind the week BvS was released and the reviews were in the crapper.

All I can think about when I think of Wonder Woman is how great Suicide Squad looked after the first trailer or two.