80 minutes? Maybe you accidentally watched Carnosaur?

Yeah… it's cool to see storyboards and script drafts and the like, but filmmakers (and novelists, and video game writers, and many other kinds of storyteller) conceptualize and then discard all kinds of stuff; I don't think it's really accurate to frame an unused idea for a potential ending as an 'alternate ending'…

On the one hand, it's bad that we've handed an arsenal of world-ending weapons over to an incompetent, erratic, wrathful man and his nihilistic white-nationalist pals. But on the other hand, we avoided electing a woman who ran a charity and sent emails.

Of course! We should base our political system on misinterpretations of things that Joe Biden said more than two decades ago. It seems so obvious now…

Aw they should've just gone with the American delinquent-vandalized version from the start. Then we could've had Ms. Fuckman, Jr. Fuckman, Baby Fuckman, Fuck-Land and, of course, Fuck-Mania.

I can't speak to the 'snowflake' thing, but my understanding is that SJW actually did start on the left, as a term for a particular sort of overzealous left-wing activist - people generally concerned more with fostering a sense of purity and self-righteousness than actually doing good in their communities, and who're…

Fate: The Manos of Hands

Those are some next-level old-time-y insults.

New The RIng movie soon, too.

Right after the election, a lot of people on the internet with knowledge of such things were warning us that authoritarian/fascist/etc. leaders tend to move fast. I thought I understood, but I guess I didn't really know what they meant until this past week…

Well fair enough… I don't know anything about it beyond those screen caps, but the images make it look like it's treating the shooting as a big joke; maybe it feels a lot different in context.

I know I should probably get hip to these modern RPGs, but I just associate RPGs with block-y, pixel-y graphics, and that's part of the charm: the contrast between the epic grandeur of the stories and the goofy simplicity of the imagery.

I hope that whoever made that game was very young at the time and now regrets it, and isn't some guy who still brags about, like, how edgy and hardcore he is.

Personally I'd rather just stick with the naive understanding that I have X many Twitter followers, without needing to know how many of those X are bots, accounts that haven't posted in years, marketing campaigns, crappy bands that follow everyone they can, etc.

The only one of those films I've seen is the first American one (The Grudge), and I remember feeling distinctly creeped-out by it. Like, it's not a masterpiece or anything, but it's memorable and scary - considering how disposable most horror movies are, that's worth something, at least.

So, here's a question for you: can you explain the concept of the 'ring' in the Japanese books and films? I've only seen The Ring (US), The Ring Two (US), and Ringu (Japan); in The Ring, there's a 'ring' motif running throughout the movie - both in terms of a telephone's ringing sound, and a ring of light which recurs…

I'll just take a minute to note that The Ring is a rare-ish example of a Hollywood remake that actually improves on the source material (Ringu). The Ring is, AFAIC, a genuinely great movie and quite frightening, too; Ringu is, for much of it, just kinda silly.

Oh yeah? Well you need to stop being a nerd like… like a nerd who needs to shut up. See I'm smart too, your books don't mean shit

The real story here is that someone made a trailer for a font.

Yeah I think a lot of actions that get considered 'evil' end up being due to selfishness and stupidity - the 'banality of evil' and all that - but some people are truly sadistic and would rather cause pain and suffering than not cause it (mainly if it gives them a feeling of personal power); it's uncommon, but it's…