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I think it’s very very obvious to anybody who’s looked into this movie on social media that it will be getting review bombed. I can’t say for certain whether it will be a good or a bad movie, but sadly it seems as if many people have already made up their minds and are going to try and wreck it, many of those being people who will not pay to see it in the first place. I hope final ratings and box office can do it justice because I always feel terrible for the people who put in so much work and then have people tear their movie apart before they’ve even watched it. Feels like that’s happened to every big movie this year.

I’ve always had a couple of issues with surviving in fights, mainly due to the slow response time on stims and the limited ability of dodging. With stims, I press the button and have to wait for the entire animation to play and I die in that space all the time. In my opinion, BD-1 should just inject you immediately when you press the button on the third game. With dodging, I feel it’s just not effective enough. I can be spamming that button for ages and it gets me nowhere, sometimes even putting me in danger from an even greater threat. Combat would be a lot better in the third game if these two things were improved to work the way I had expected rather than always being so slow or ineffective.

They are so horribly common these days. Whether it’s fandom wars, hatred for new movies or shows, it’s happening absolutely everywhere and it’s completely discrediting the accuracy of pretty much all ratings sites. IMDb very much included. It’s a real shame as it used to be a nicely measured and generally fair site but it’s like every time I click on anything and scroll down to the ratings nowadays, there’s just an absolutely enormous spike of one star ratings often combated by a large spike of tens with little to no numbers in the middle. It’s just fuelling internet hatred and “validating” negativity. Things like this really need moderated or ratings sites are going to die out entirely and start being taken less seriously than they are even now.

As far as I can remember, we’ve only had two pre-finale regenerations in the show’s history. Hartnell into Troughton and Davison into Baker. We always know the Doctor is going to regenerate at some point and when it’s almost always in the finale nowadays it isn’t as big a shock. I’m glad Tennant stayed on for Journey’s End, but I’ve always wondered what would’ve happened if he had turned into Smith at the end of The Stolen Earth.

I think a mid-season regeneration in future would be a cool and unexpected twist. Perhaps the Doctor doesn’t get to have his usual goodbye routine as he does these days, it’s just like when Tennant got shot by a Dalek at the end of The Stolen Earth and he is forced away from a body that he loved. Or he once again refuses to regenerate but has to give in to save a burning world or something. I like the way regenerations in NuWho have gone so far, I think all the Doctors reached a natural and fitting end, but I’d like something shocking like this to happen in future.

I am a boy and have wanted my bellybutton pierced for years. Always been way too scared to ask my parents and I was wondering when is actually the best age to do it because I want it to look perfect and beautiful and not migrate or anything. Advice? I have never had a piercing before.

I’ve really been struggling in the last few years to figure out what my sexual orientation is like. It’s been all over the place lately. At one point I thought I was gay, then I went back to being straight, then I thought I was bi, straight again… it’s so confusing. There was a period when I believed that I was just convincing myself I wasn’t straight to seem more interesting, but very recently I’ve been finding myself attracted to men and women. My best friend is quite physical and a bit flirty and he sort of put his hands around my waist and leaned his head over my shoulder last week. And I just wanted nothing more than for him to kiss me.

I really wouldn’t mind knowing who I am. I’m not the sort of person who would be shy about my sexuality or anything like that, I’d just sort of let it explain itself to the world and not make a big deal out of it. I do have anxiety, but strangely enough this seems fine. It’s not something I worry about. I just want to know for sure. Is there a phase in the life of all teen boys where they get attracted by anyone? Never been in a romantic relationship before, so maybe I just crave the drama. I’m really just not sure. Do lots of straight people go through this? A lot of questions, I know, but I just like to know things and hear what people think.

This is sort of a mix of how much I enjoyed it and how good I actually found it to be. Season 2 episode 7 is the only episode I actually dislike and I have an enormous soft spot for the first few episodes of season 3. I love the gorgeous visuals and fun summer vibes.

I think season 4 episode 8 ‘Papa’ is the most underappreciated of the show and The Bridge and The Rightside Up, while far from my favourites, are massively overhated and for the most part, I enjoy both of them. Season 5 on the whole is my least favourite season, but I will defend it until my last breath. Season 1 is, and has always been my favourite season. Just can’t beat the vibes, the story, that mysterious feel that the other seasons just couldn’t quite capture as perfectly.

This show is so special to me, and for all its flaws I will always love it for the joy it brought me. It remains my favourite show and I cant wait for the next rewatch.

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Been rewatching season 9 lately and I never realised just how much I absolutely hate her. I can understand why she‘d be angry at the Doctor, but there are so many characters who would act so much better than her. For the record, I love season 9 and I think she’s a nicely written character for the most part, but she is absolutely insufferable to me. Does everyone else feel the same, or is she actually quite well liked here?

The internet just loves to be negative these days, and it’s sad. Game of Thrones, The Boys, and of course Stranger Things, people like to act like these shows are universally hated just because they had divisive endings and they’ve turned hate into a trend. It’s so tiring. Even when there’s more than enough existing proof that even Stranger Things 5 is generally liked by more people than hate it, these people still deny it, still shut down any compliments towards season 5, act like the entire show is ruined because of a disappointing ending and state their opinions like gospel.

This sub is basically an escape and a much nicer peak at the real world where people don’t just hate because they can. Praise and criticisms are given exactly where it’s due, there‘s no forced hatred, people haven’t just created an account for Reddit or Twitter or wherever because they want to be negative. I guess the internet is just a sad place these days, and anybody who lives in the real world knows it’s not like that at all. I like it here the most because I can actually just have an intelligent conversation with somebody with a balanced opinion. Someone who actually decides for themselves what they like and dislike rather than having the internet decide for them, as a sad number have.

I see this so often, people acting like IMDb ratings are definitive on what everyone should like. Seen comments around the place like “Stranger Things sucks because it has a slightly lower IMDb rating than Breaking Bad”, or something along those lines. Telling people they don’t have good taste if their favourite show is anywhere outside of the IMDb top 10 or something like that. Just feels like everything is being compared with Breaking Bad or The Wire nowadays and it’s just tiring.

I don’t know, just felt like putting it out there. They’re so important to me. They just feel like the clothing that best represents who I am and what I need my clothes to feel like.

I don’t want this post to offend anybody so I’m going to try and write it in as polite and sensitive a manner as possible because I want it to be clear that I am an enormous supporter of this community.

I do hold issue, however, with the way some people are throwing around the term “homophobia.” Around Reddit, I’ve seen people using it all over the place and it feels so unearned. An example would be in the Byler section of the Stranger Things fanbase. This isn’t an attack if there are any of those people reading this, but I’ve been accused of homophobia for simply saying that the show was not homophobic and that Byler was never going to be endgame. A ship between a character who, to me, was very clearly established as straight from the start, and a gay character who has a crush on him. There are many other instances where I’ve felt the term “homophobia“ is being used far too lightly, but this is the most relevant experience to me.

Its felt like a lot of people, mostly younger ones but a few adults, are abusing the term and are just calling anybody who disagrees with them on anything a homophobe. I’ve even seen people who have confessed to being queer getting this treatment and I’ve seen one gay person say that the behaviours of these people are embarrassing to the community. There’s an opinion around that the term is being devalued and people are taking it less seriously because of how much some people online are abusing it. I’m sure nobody wants that. Homophobia is a very serious thing and should always be addressed, but I do very much agree with the idea that if the term is being abused, it starts to lose its meaning. People online spending so much more time directing it at, for example, a TV show that did actually give gay people representation instead of at evil politicians like Donald Trump who are actually homophobic. It feels slightly insulting to people who have been actual victims of homophobia to have such a serious term being thrown around at anybody without always having a good reason behind it.

I’m not a person who is certain of his sexuality. I could be straight, there was a time I thought I was bi, a time I even thought I might be gay. I’m still working it out. But I’ve been faced with homophobic slurs before and I’ve equally been accused of homophobia for simply disagreeing with someone about a fictional gay character’s ending in a work of fiction. How do other people feel about this? Is there a wide opinion that this term is being misused, and is this potentially harmful to the global view of the seriousness of homophobia?

So I’ve just started my final year of education and for my English course I have to write an essay on a piece of literature. The essay has to be roughly 3500 words long and can cover literally any aspect of any book. Obviously my mind went right to Stephen King. So many excellent novels. So I was wondering what people thought would be the best thing to write the essay on. Nobody better to ask than a community of the man’s biggest fans. My favourites are IT and 11.22.63, but I’ve only read a handful since I started in December 2024. I could write on a book I’ve done already or I could find another. What novels and specifically what aspects do you guys think would make a strong essay?

“The Fugitive Doctor was part of the Timeless Child storyline introduced in Jodie Whittaker’s second series. Most of us probably inferred, since this was all about the Doctor’s origins, that she predated what we’d previously been told was the First Doctor. Not so quick, Says Chris Chibnall! As plans were drawn up to expand the world of this recently revealed incarnation in a series of Big Finish audios, the former showrunner decreed that we shouldn’t be too certain about where she fits into established lore.“

From issue 613 of the official Doctor Who magazine. Maybe it means nothing. It slides in with much speculation so it’s probably not bringing a lot of new info to the conversation, but I thought it was worth sharing to any who haven’t seen it. I’ve always been of a mind that Jo Martin’s Fugitive Doctor is yet to come, but I guess we’ll see.

Genuine question because I only like the first game and I love the second…

I wasn’t so certain on what the ending meant, did Amy want the Doctor to tell her story to her younger self to stop her ever living it? The whole paradox thing led to our version of Amy travelling with the Doctor and growing old and dying with Rory, and the younger version of Amy didn‘t have to live that? Is that basically it? I wasn’t entirely sure what that part was about.

Specifically in the ice caves and the tombs, I’ve been EVERYWHERE around them, the pre-existing holomaps provide absolutely no indication of what I’ve missed and I’m just incredibly confused on how to find what I’m looking for. any advice?