thepetemurray-darlingbasinauthorithy
The Pete Murray Darling Basin Authority
thepetemurray-darlingbasinauthorithy

If I ever start a religion, it will probably be around classic Simpsons eps. 

- The AV Club 

That’s bad. 

Heh. Blade Runner came out when Neuromancer was at the printers for its first run - but of course, well after he’d written it, IIRC. Gibson said he had a moment of abject panic in a movie theatre when was watching Blade Runner and thought “Oh shit, people are gonna think I ripped this off.”

“Lies! Lies and calumny!”

Israel also doesn’t see mass starvation of particular ethnic group as genocide, but here we are. 

The toppings contain potassium benzoate.

I can see “Oooh! Let’s make him a serial killer!” being the exact sort of shit take Netflix would have on Ripley.

I really don’t see how being a felon prevents you from starring in Home Improvement.

But it comes with your choice of topping! 

Is...is that a euphemism?

Never mind - this was a wrong post. 

Whoops. Wrong post. 

The frogurt is also cursed.

Season 3 will definitely be the end of euthoria though.

What I’ve come to realise is that most of the internet considers a “good actor” to actually mean “HEY I RECOGNISE THIS ACTOR AND I LIKE THEM FOR REASONS NOT WHOLLY RELATED TO ACTING AND ALSO THEY ARE ACTING THE SAME AS THEY ALWAYS ACT AND THAT IS COMFORTING TO ME WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE I HATE BEING EXPOSED TO ANYTHING

I get the feeling it was a bunch of 30-something TV writers sitting around the writer’s room all trying to loudly come across as how “cool” they were in high school and that they were absolutely not dorks.

It’s like old-school level design. Every year or so I go back and play No One Lives Forever, and the lack of HUD markers, combined with level design that (overtly) built to be a Video Game Level™ - they feel, at least on a normal playthrough, like believably real spaces. There’s looping, backtracking, the need not to

Paste is charging eight fucking US bucks a month! Look, I like commenting here, but not for $96 per annum. Maybe - maybe - $8 a year, if they have the content to justify it, but that’s doubtful considering they’re buying 2024 AVC and not 2014 AVC.

Books. They’re, um, they’re like movies. Well, movie scripts. But written differently. And the pictures form in your head. When you read them.