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Donald Trump Becomes President Again, Here's Why And How America Needs To Go Forward: A Looney Analysis

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The pageantry known as the American Presidential election has just concluded its latest iteration and the winner is Donald J. Trump, who defeated Kamala Harris the incumbent Vice President. This outcome has caused quite a stir despite its predictability, and the reactions range from humourous to deranged. Image Source As someone who resides outside of the United States of America, my life will be indirectly affected by the chaos caused by the next President of that country. However, I do have some thoughts on what happened, and why, starting with this: Kamala Harris was the worst possible candidate to compete against Donald Trump Image Source The Democrats have been in deep shit for some years now with a poor roster of Presidential candidates. If anything, they are as dumb and blinded by agenda as they accuse those who support Trump. I get that they want to make history by trying to get a woman elected into the Oval Office, but they keep backing the wrong candidate at the wrong time. I...
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Venom - The Last Dance: Movie Review

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All good things end, and this movie marks the final curtain of Tom Hardy playing Venom, the iconic anti-hero character from the Spider-Man comic universe. The final instalment of this trilogy is titled "Venom: The Last Dance", and that's pretty much what it is — one last song to end a fun night. Despite the ongoing struggles with interconnecting storylines between different intellectual properties across Sony and Marvel (aka Disney), the Venom saga finds itself infected with the same virus of lazy storywriting with another lame attempt at recreating the kind of synergy achieved in the core Avengers films. As the finale to a rather well-received trilogy that debuted in 2018, this one needed a strong story but all the elements feel discordant. There is little to tie it all together and the only saving grace for the movie is the performance of Tom Hardy as both Eddie Brock and Venom (yes, he delivers the voice of the bombastic symbiote himself which gets punched up for that ...
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Deadpool & Wolverine: Movie Review

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The Merc with the Mouth is finally back! And he's got his best friend (from the comics) with him, one he's mentioned with thinly veiled envy since the first one premiered in cinemas in 2016. Just like that first one was released on Valentine's Day as a love story,  "Deadpool & Wolverine" arrived just in time for Friendship Day as perhaps a buddy movie of the ages. Ever since the first news dropped about Hugh Jackman reprising the role of Wolverine in a team-up for the next Deadpool movie, the anticipation from fans across bases was tense, and the build-up was worth it as this movie delivers everything needed for the full climax. The third instalment of Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool movies comes on the back of Disney acquiring Fox Studios and thus allowing previously IP-locked characters from the MARVEL comics to finally appear side-by-side, and Ryan aka Wade makes sure the viewers know about that too. There's one keyword that explains the plot - the Marvel c...
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How A Brand Image Can Be Ruined By Its Own People

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In a highly competitive business environment, the only sustainable option is to build a brand that attracts certain types of buyers with quality products catering to their interests. Or to put it simply, brand image is key for long-term success. Unfortunately, too many brands make simple mistakes that can undo years of marketing exercises and not even realise it. The one I want to talk about here is how brand image is ruined/tarnished by its employees and affiliates.  I recently attended the Indian MotoGP and due to event circumstances, my tickets were adjusted to a different stand at the Buddh International Circuit. Mind you, these were far from the more affordable tickets and had a lot to live up to. My new seats were in a stand that had been rebranded as the Yamaha stand with massive tapestries and flags all around. The MotoGP is a three-day event with the main race on the final day. The first two days, casual fans did not bother to show up so that meant the stand was at half-ca...
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Fast X: Movie Review

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This is it, the final instalment of the Fast & Furious franchise that started all the way back in 2001. To be precise, it's the first part of the tenth and final instalment in the series. There was a lot of build-up around this one with various petrolhead circles making plans for group viewings. But I wanted my Fast X experience to be as unadulterated as possible. I did not even watch a single trailer and did not have any inkling about what to expect in terms of stunts and new characters. I did not mention story plot expectations because I knew that there probably wasn't going to be one, not really.   Everything from hereon can be considered a spoiler, so skip to the final para for a rating/assessment. The "Plot" The central storyline, if that's what we can call it, for Fast X gives us a flashback to 'Fast Five' (arguably one of the best movies in the series in terms of heist sequences). We are treated to some tear-jerking flashbacks of Paul Walker as ...
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I Spent The Last Day Of 2022 By Myself. It Was Great!

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There's a lot of pressure on most people for how they spend December 31st, better known as New Year's Eve. If you're a family person, you're guaranteed to spend quality time with your family as the bare minimum, maybe with some close relatives, or with another friend who also has a family. If you're with a partner, the least you might do is plan a nice dinner together with some drinks, maybe invite some close friends who are also coupled up, or at least one single person of each sex in case they might find each other's loneliness/availability attractive for the night. If you're just a person who is social, you try to organise a New Year party with friends of all sorts, or at least get invited to one. And if you've got no one to spend time with, you probably spent it in a desperate search for some sort of social gathering or event that would make you feel like you were part of something. A good chunk of New Year's Eve celebrations are for the last cat...
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Celebrating 10 Years Of Forza Horizon: One Of The Best Driving Games Ever

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The category of racing games has been dominated by a handful of franchises over the last couple of decades. I've been lucky to play one or more editions of these games. Like any form of entertainment, video games cover a wide span of genres with sub-genres within them. In the broad category of racing games, there are two broad factions: Arcade and Simulations. Most competitive driving games offer a close-to-reality simulator experience, often with cars and tracks directly from global motorsport. Meanwhile, an arcade-style racing game needs to offer more in terms of entertainment as well as engaging driving physics. So, when XBOX needed a platform-exclusive title to expand on the success of its Forza Motorsport racing simulator into a more fun-to-play racing game genre, it gave us one of the best open-world driving games ever: Forza Horizon.   The title made its market debut on October 23, 2012, and it is now in its fifth generation, i.e., Forza Horizon 5. Developed by Playground Ga...
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