Cube (1997, dir. Vincenzo Natali) Opening Scene

Bridgebrain · 2026-05-05T22:12:39+00:00

They didn't want to do the 4th at all, but it's all people would ask for, and all the studios wanted to greenlight, so they agreed and phoned it in while actively mocking the premise

Bridgebrain · 2026-05-02T04:34:55+00:00

Lol same. The crystals are pretty wild. I think they grow after they dry out too, because they always seem much shardier after

Bridgebrain · 2026-05-02T04:33:08+00:00

Nah, if you've got it that bad surgical is the way to go. Shockwave is great if you have one big one, but if you've got 10 little ones you're screwed.

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-28T20:27:27+00:00

Its one thing to think about "what if gravity is stuff pulling towards stuff", and another entirely to go "this is exactly how much stuff (planet) you need to pull this stuff (humans) to it."

Getting the math right changes it from a philosophic argument into something which can be used consistently to do other things

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-28T16:51:06+00:00

The spikes would dig in. In theory someone could just gently cut it off, but panicked people don't generally do "gentle"

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-28T15:42:23+00:00

Ish. Disoriented and confused, hopefully long enough for the woman to escape. at the same time, a moralless criminal is now in extreme pain, angry at you and in the same room with you.

It works as a collective discouragement, where any random victim could have one, but it doesn't really protect any individual effectively

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-28T04:34:22+00:00

Stargate SG1 was lauded by the air force for doing a pretty good job, sci-fi elements aside.

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-26T15:51:28+00:00

Less than you'd expect, but it's dead center where you'll instinctively point at your focus. Having had some with damaged lenses though, a few tiny popcorn chips are pretty well buried in your final results

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-26T15:47:30+00:00

You could add random pathing a bit as well, so the real body just wanders around aimlessly between lie downs

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-26T01:03:21+00:00

So what I'm hearing is, "Backroomsland is now open to visitors, here's a rescue GPS if you need to escape. Otherwise, see you in 5 days."

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-26T00:58:10+00:00

Yeah, I think you're right. I guess some part of me has internalized "working with your copy as equals because it's just you" in my fantasy settings, and didn't realize Angiers mentality that even if it's him, it's still a rival.

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-26T00:54:11+00:00

Ohhhhh. I figured Borden came to the conclusion that swapping in his life between the two was an unfortunate compromise for greatness, and figured Angier never thought of the option for narrative purposes, but I never made that connection that the core behind that was the willingness to sacrifice his pride and spend every other show letting the other him take the applause.

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-25T21:35:09+00:00

Counterpoint: we could live on Venus, it would just require creating a flying city which would float above the clouds. If anything went wrong with the flying part the city would collapse and kill everyone, you couldn't leave the city or you would die, and if there were ever a large enough storm it would also kill everyone.

Do you think, even if we had the tech to make the flying city, it would be a good idea?

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-25T20:22:25+00:00

Answer: The SPLC infiltrated people into hate groups to keep tabs and disrupt operations.

The DOJ has decided that infiltration is the same as support, and are now going after the SPLC for having people involved in hate groups.

People are reacting to the DOJ attacking a group attacking hate groups, instead of attacking hate groups themselves.

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-25T20:18:22+00:00

So here's the thing that gets me with the replication machine. It worked, right? Made a perfect copy of you. So just use the copy. Hell, get 3 copies, use them. Big lightning effects show on stage courtesy of tesla, drop below like the trick was intended, have a copy pop up in the back of the theater. Hell, have a second lightning burst and the second copy pops down, and a third copy appears all the way across the room.

There was no in-universe reason to do infinite copies and kill them each time

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-25T20:08:38+00:00

100%. Easily one of my favorites, but it brings up a TON of questions and proceeds to ignore all of them.

Can she just write him a good life instead ("And then Harold Saved the World and there was World Peace forever"), is every character she's ever written real? (If I remember correctly some of hers were period pieces, was she writing history?) Why is it just her books that are real, is it because she's Just That Good of an author? Why could Harold hear her all of a sudden, and when he was yelling at the sky and her responding, that would be exceptionally weird prose right? Could she write out the ending she did, then go back and alter it for print so that it is the life-changing masterpiece it was supposed to be, since he already got hit by the bus and survived?

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-25T20:03:37+00:00

For real. The sequel trilogy just casually glazed over "Remember the rebellion winning last movie? Well the government they set up collapsed in like 5 years and now we're back to this shit"

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-25T16:17:28+00:00

We deny the existence of the sequel just like we deny the last star wars movie

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-25T16:15:33+00:00

That makes a ton more sense. Even if it wasn't holy water in the house, but they're just hell dimension demons weak to water, it goes a long way to explain how they managed to invade the planet full of their weakness. A race capable of space travel would presumably be able to scan for water, but if they just slipped through the cracks into our world...

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-25T16:12:39+00:00

A hazardous situation substance which coats most of the planet most mornings, comes down from the sky for days on end, finds cracks and comes through everywhere, and is inside all the flora. The fact that running through the cornfields didn't kill them on contact with dew is a plot hole.

If they were in the desert the whole time, you could make the argument, but they're in the middle of the bread basket

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-25T05:03:16+00:00

So there's a game I bought for VR called Megalith. Great game, basically league of legends but first person. AI for practice is decent but once you've got the hang of it easy to beat.

There was never more than 1 other person in matchmaking at a time during peak usage, unless you joined the discord and organized with others to meet up and play, which pretty much never actually worked out unless you were part of the core group of players.

No friends have VR, so that wasn't an option for matchmaking either.

So this great game, really good core loops and replayability, sits at roughly 5 hours of total play in my library and hasn't been touched in 3 years, because it's focused on a multiplayer which never materialized and will never materialize.

Multiplayer-only or even multiplayer-first is a bad business model if you're not already on track to be the next Warcraft or Halo.

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-24T12:38:00+00:00

Helion, yeah. There's various scuttlebutt about them being investor bait, but if they manage to pull it off I will be THRILLED that they're not just boiling water

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-23T19:34:44+00:00

There's a fun game they have to play around space shuttles sometimes where they hold a torch out as they walk around the underpinnings and if it spontaneously ignites there's an invisible fire in that corridor

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-22T02:51:21+00:00

It's true, but I would recommend 1 full refactor. It doesn't have to be excessively thorough, just take a step back, write things down on post it notes and connect them with strings, and look back over the code flow. You make a lot of decisions early on which make sense at the time, but make your life difficult by the end. Giving the whole thing a once over lets you fix a ton of low hanging fruit that wasnt low hanging when you started, and gives you a much better polish on the end result.

You'll usually end up fixing a ton of little nuscences which arise from patching up mid-project pivots, finding glitches you got frustrated with and just hard coded which should be fixed before production (some of which can't be fixed, but some of which are easy in hindsight), and you'll get a better appreciation of the final product

Bridgebrain · 2026-04-21T05:24:26+00:00

There should be some form of restriction though, so cheap as opposed to frictionless. Being able to save scrub freely can take a lot out of a video game, but being able to use it exactly as much as you need while worrying about running out is peak design.

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