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Why link to Encyclopaedia Britannica? Take the entry on Caroline of Brunswick. The text is almost word-for-word straight from the 1978 Micropaedia (my brother bought the whole thing when it was new, I like to keep it around), with only one sentence changed and it's been split into paragraphs. It has no sources,…

George_Liquor, Eric J.; Yeah, I strongly suspected Bell was behind it, but looking back on that time period I'm not convinced that it was better to build these silly things instead of going up against Bell. Bell and the Commission that was supporting their monopoly's interpretation of the law was insane; they took the…

Don't forget Croupier, The Bourne Identity, and Gosford Park. Clive Owen had an astonishing run for a good stretch there. Though, man… I wish I liked Shoot 'Em Up. I do. But I don't. It tries too hard instead of relaxing and letting the fun happen like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang does.

The first fax machine using phone lines was in 1964, with a much better model in 1966. Bullitt (April 1968) has a good scene with one of them, down to the guy taking the phone receiver off the machine once it was done. Very, very loud, but surprisingly compact, about the same size as a printer/scanner. I doubt a…

What, is depression a problem? Yeah, yeah it is. Ridiculous and pointless and dangerous attempts to treat it are also a huge problem.

Ahahaha, that is hilarious crisis management. The projector room must have been exactly like a Mel Brooks film, everyone screaming and running around with their hands in the air as they stumble with reels and pull film around the furniture and people. Then the film tightens as it runs through the projector and the…

I understand that it's a lot like State of Decay, where the game isn't actually all that good, it's clunky, and there's not much to keep you playing, but the mechanics are interesting, innovative, and fun. What I've seen of it though makes me treasure how vibrant and colourful Dead Rising 1 and 2 (and the deranged DLC…

Oh they made one, but they had to change the name to The Last of Us for some silly reason.

It has been, but it looks like Disqus censored your embedded video. I think I'm still in the whitelist here, so this should work:

There's a lot of resistance to that thing in the larger modern publishers, because they want people to keep coming back to a series instead of paying attention to names that could change over to another developer they don't own. The only exceptions I can think of are in Japanese companies, for directors like Suda…

God, I hope they just use the trailers as source material, as we really don't need another racist and misogynistic zombie movie. We don't need an emotionally complex one either really, but at least there's value and potential in that beyond mindless CGI violence.

Hey, let's talk about the movie. I think the people in the future don't want to stop the plague. They've convinced Cole they can't so they're not even going to try. But the reason isn't that they couldn't, but because the apocalypse gave them absolute power over the remains of humanity and they can't give that up;…

I think you're reading a lot into that. It would be giving the movie credit it doesn't deserve to not mention that its plot skeleton comes from a different film. But yeah, I like La Jetee okay, but it's just interesting and rather cold and clinical. I love 12 Monkeys, for all the things it adds to that skeleton. Brad…

They might as well do it in French if they're gonna be that wacko!

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

If your figures are correct, you could pay for an eight hour lunch for $9.60, and you'd still be drawing your regular pay! Dwight Schrute, you genius!

Hand-waving it away as "oh physics work differently there" is treating the material like it would be that flexible to arbitrary changes. I don't know, you were being sarcastic so it sure is hard to tell exactly what you mean, but that's my read on it.

Tolkien meticulously established exactly what magic could do in his world and he kept as rigidly to it as he does everything else in the books. It's actually disrespectful to the work to say that he just made shit up as he went along; that's not how good fantasy writing works.

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