I’ve heard some podcasts with people who say “arright” every single fucking time they pause. It’s so damned annoying. Maybe it’s a regionalism.

Phil Tippet designed a stop-motion puppeteering system for the dragon in the movie Dragonslayer that moved the model while the camera shutter was open, creating motion blur naturally. Without this idiotic soap opera look. And that was back in 1981.

Walmart is basically where people go to act out in real life how they behave on the internet.

Lain and Big O both had the same scriptwriter, BTW.

Speaking as the guy who translated both Lain and SAC, you have it backwards. I did the sub translation first, and the dub script was made from that. That’s how it’s always done. I guess it’s possible that some compilation rereleases that are on store shelves these days repurpose the closed captioning track from the TV …

Good luck finding either season with the original soundtracks, though. Both opening themes were lawyered out of existence (the first was ... let’s say an homage to Queen’s Flash Gordon theme, and the second was pretty much identical to that of an old Gerry Anderson show called UFO), as were a few incidental music cues…

I had to fast-forward through any scenes that Bishop was in because every time I see/hear him, I want to smash his hipster head in with a brick. The visceral hatred is instant. I haven’t had that reaction since those Dr. Squatch Soap ads on Youtube with the equally punchable hipster.

I also like “in testing, this new CPU returned respectful results” (instead of respectable).

It’s a thing. All of these are the result of people not reading books. They’ve never seen the words in print (I mean actual edited, published material, not internet posts), so they just repeat what they think they heard. It’s the telephone game in action.

“The TENANTS of a genre” (tenets)

The amount of liquid in the bananas will vary with size and ripeness, I’d say. More liquid = gummier bread. I use the America’s Test Kitchen recipe, which calls for microwaving 5 bananas for 5 minutes, straining the liquid from them (about 1/2 cup), and reducing that to 1/4 cup before adding it back to the banana pulp.…

A shareholder summed it up pretty well at an earlier meeting. Activision exists to funnel money into Kotick’s pockets. End of story.

I only knew Amanda Waller from the animated Batman shows - a hardass, but not evil - and then this movie version straight-up murders a room full of junior FBI agents in cold blood. That mostly made me hate the writers.

Geez, I had no idea he was Swedish. I’ve only seen him in For All Mankind and Altered Carbon.

A reboo-quel.

During his last “We’re sorry, we can chaaaaaaange!” performance, he reminded me of the skeezy mechanic at a backwoods gas station in a horror movie who steers unwitting victims towards the local cannibal family. Replace cannibals with sexual predators, and I guess I wasn’t too far off.

But I heard that was socialism and made the baby Jesus cry. /s

College athletics is gonna be interesting going forward, with the NCAA’s new name-image-likeness monetization rules. But from what I’ve seen at my local Big 10 school, the kids’ order of focus quickly became sports -> tiktok to boost their brand ->>>>>>>>>>>>>> school. I’m all for them finally getting a cut of the big…

Same goes for Talibangelicals: “We’re a savagely oppressed, powerless minority, so we deserve special protections” AND “This is a white, Christian country, so everyone has to do what we say.”

Naturally, one of the morons filmed himself doing it, and - shocker - is in pics with a Trumper congressman.