LET THEM SHING. 

The milsim game Operation Flashpoint had it play, with quotes from various world leaders, during the installation of the game. That was the first place I heard it, and it was awesome. 

It really is the best. I’ll give ‘em that.

It kills me that the goddamn Russian national anthem is so much better musically. Granted, it was purpose-built rather than glomming a shitty poem onto a weird and clunky composition, but still.

Totally. That “no true Scotsman”/NotAll[Whatever] shit causes endless problems because it allows people to individually disclaim anything that casts a bad light on whatever group they’re a part of.

Not to mention that our national anthem is fucked. “Girt”? Girt?!?

It also helps when your anthem is as good as Advance Australia Fair.

“That was not me last night.”

It’s a dumb little ritual we need to go through at the start of games

I wonder if anyone’s created a fan-edit of LOST that would cut out the bloat and subplots that went nowhere. The ending would still suck, but it would be a better experience getting there.

I think writers and producers would do well to tailor the length of the series to fit the material.  The old Marvel Netflix series always had a problem where they’d hit a climax around Episode 6, then fumble about for another 3-5 episodes in search of a real ending.  

A friend of mine who’s going through a really tough time right now had tickets to their Adelaide show. I’m not saying this is the worst thing that’s happened to him recently, but it sure doesn’t help.

Going through this with a re-watch of Lost (my fiancée hadn’t seen it), and holy SHIT the bloat. Each season could lose at least six hours and be fine. 

Nothing in Jingle required a former Mr. Olympia, but there he was. You could’ve put Bill Murray, or Steve Martin, and it would’ve been...perfectly fine, but nup. The Terminator. It was a pure comedy role, not an action role. Nothing in it required the audience to believe that it was a bodybuilder doing all the stuff,…

I love that in JATW he’s...a local mattress salesman. There were dozens of musclebound Reagan-era action heroes but very few of those actors’ careers survived the 80s but Arnie had more to him than sheer beef.

Well, of course it just turned out to be a regular Friday, after the resistance sent a T-800 back in time to help Sarah and John Connor avoid being killed.

I think there was a brief part in the film where they try to convey that he fools everyone by just enthusiastically talking about the product. He’s telling his family his cover story and he just goes into all the boringness of software and they stop paying attention. 

Pretty cool that they’re releasing this on August 29, the date of Judgment Day in the Terminator movies.

That was a wonderfully loopy episode. “I wanted to be Michelle; I wanted to be the one with the tambourine.”

bill paxton describing jamie lee curtis as having ‘an ass like a 10 year old boy’ remains the craziest thing in this movie.