I think he was using the SoCal definition of "NorthEast", meaning anything to the north or east of L.A.

On the other hand Aliens also has adult lessons that haven't been learned. Hudson in the drop ship bragging to Ripley about all the high tech the marines had, for example. Which turned out not to be so useful in practice. Obviously Cameron was making a statement about the Vietnam War, but it's also applicable to our…

I wonder if "Spiraling Shape" was intentionally meant to be Mythos-inspired. "Nobody knows what it is but everyone says it's great" reminds me of "Have you seen the Yellow Sign?", and while I'm not sure if the Yellow Sign was actually ever described by Chambers, the Call of Cthulhu RPG depicts it as a somewhat…

Except that only is true in a vacuum, not in the pressurized environment of a space ship. Well, Ripley ejects the Alien into space, I suppose. Are its screams the ones not being heard?

If only Alien wasn't so *boring* though. Really, except for the amazing chestburster scene, not much happens, nor is it particularly scary in any way. It had nice visuals, but that's Scott for you - his background was in set design, and even in his movies that are far better such as Blade Runner, you can see…

And the "Space Hulk" franchise is likewise an Aliens inspired subfranchise of the High Fantasy In Space franchise that is Warhammer 40k

Yeah, I really liked the world of capitalism and colonialism that the first two movies presented. It reminded me of the real life East India Company that colonized India, and which had its own armies and bureaucrats that were outside of the British government. While people doing bad things for nationalism is bad,…

So if Alien was a horror movie, Aliens an action movie, what could they have done for Aliens 3? A musical?

But he's not a teen! The sex=death trope only applies to teenagers, especially at summer camps usually.

Not to mention the current use in the sense of people extending the PTSD metaphor to things that remind them of any traumatic event in their past. Yes, sometimes this seems a little absurd (and that's where the mockery began) but it isn't hard to understand that a rape victim might find a rape scene in a movie rather…

Yes, I remember those. She also had a few computer games back in the day — a text adventure game Personal Nightmare (1989) and a couple of early first-person games — Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1990) and its sequel Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus (1992).

Edison certainly had assholic tendencies, and except for his early work which he did himself, was really more of a Steve Jobs-type figure who was the public face of thousands of anonymous employees rather than an inventor himself. But the simple "Edison displaced Tesla from history and now we need to restore the…

I've always gone with just saying I'm Jewish, which generally gets most evangelists to back off (I'm actually from a mixed Jewish-Catholic-Protestant family but don't actually practice any of them).

So a corkscrewed penny is worth a buck?

In the literal sense, yes of course — they kind of got rid of them in 1917.

Not as weird as the galaxy's only Black man being apparently Armenian based on his last name in ESB.

To be fair, most of the titular friends were also horrible people, so it makes sense as a suggestion.

Nonsense. I'm sure if it was renamed the Depends Adult Undergarment Tower the name would catch on right away.

That first one is really the informative one. I know lots of people who think Ouija is just folklore, not a modern invention with actual IP attached.

You guys should really get back into the dyeing business. Robin Hood looked sharp in his suit of Lincoln green.