Very true - though as an American living in Europe I’ve come to realise how much you guys actually love us. You do love to whine more than maybe anyone else in the world, and we’re usually right at the top of your list of favorite things to whine about. Without America just think how bored you’d be!

Who gives a shit?

“Sluts it up”

The whole game was a training exercise, with Raiden / the player as an unwilling participant in a Snake-trainer, modeled after the scenarios in MGS1. It was the first big budget post-modern video game. And it was fantastic.

As much as I love Furiosa, I’m glad about this. She had that triumphant final scene, and I’m happy to leave the character there. The alternative is forcing her into stories where she has nothing to do, artificially creating sequels or prequels or sidequels, each of which runs the risk of ruining what made her so great…

“Roll for initiative.”

To answer your first question: It’s been coming back up on ‘Recommended Stories’ lately. I’m guessing people are finding this article while looking for horror videos & such (Halloween being the closest holiday coming up, Yom Kippur & Columbus Day notwithstanding), seeing your comments, and feeling like ‘dispensing…

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Locally for any observer there will be relic electromagnetic radiation, omnidirectional, and with a thermal spectrum with tiny anisotropies (and possibly large ones depending on one’s motion; typical observers on earth will detect a very clear dipole anisotropy because of the aforementioned 370 km/s, for instance,…

Fair enough. The internet is hardly the best place for a reasonable debate. Especially since I basically just post on here while I’m at work (to escape hearing about what my co-workers had for dinner last night or whatever minutae) so I’m undoubtedly a little testy. Apologies if I was a dick!

Must I point out the obvious - they couldn’t put it in a movie if it wasn’t true!

Pretty much all decisions made in this.

After spending so much time on last weeks puzzle, I’m having a lot of trouble trying to figure out how I’m supposed to do this one:

A Lovecraftian jump scare would be that the suited gentleman at the end was actually a black man.

Interstellar is only ostensibly a hard SciFi movie. But the true theme of the movie isn’t physics, black holes, worm holes, and other assorted holes, but instead it’s about love being as strong of a force as gravity.

“Antman” even earned it less. “Interstellar” spent a lot of time playing up that relationship in the first act and built on it in the second whereas Scott’s relationship with his daughter is pretty by the numbers.

I wanna see people be this cynical about the story of darlings like Bloodborne or Dark Souls.

I gotta be honest here, I see no difference whatsoever. Perhaps it would help if the source image weren’t saved in FREAKIN’ JPG FORMAT!

I was late to Lovecraft...I first read a couple of his stories a few years ago when I bought an August Derleth paperback for fifty-cents (that I later found on Amazon for $30 or something ridiculous). Later I bought the “Library of America” collection.

Lovecraft didn’t really write horror stories. He wrote stories that conveyed dread better than anyone else. He lacked the plotting of Poe, but created better “horror” atmosphere than anyone else I’ve read. He also flipped the traditional heroic narrative from “people should know” to “no one should know and they should…