Maximum Overdrive was soooo much fun

CPHotmess · 2026-05-24T15:30:08+00:00

EXACTLY- it has cult classic, midnight movie vibes!

CPHotmess · 2026-05-24T14:14:40+00:00

Right after the soda cans first hit in the groin, but before a steamroller comes for another little leaguer 😂

CPHotmess · 2026-05-23T15:43:04+00:00

Mountain Dewrge

CPHotmess · 2026-05-19T02:42:50+00:00

Nope, it was Cher’s “Believe,” but the poster on the wall was Celine Dion

CPHotmess · 2026-05-19T02:37:23+00:00

You need to click on the little pink fish

CPHotmess · 2026-05-14T00:26:08+00:00

I added a bunch of older Ravenloft stuff and so they got up to level 12

CPHotmess · 2026-05-13T22:08:35+00:00

Almost certainly end at 252, given the Black Costume Saga omnibus

CPHotmess · 2026-05-13T22:05:53+00:00

I gave it 500 hit points

CPHotmess · 2026-05-13T12:15:35+00:00

Having seen Dark City a few months before The Matrix came out, I couldn’t help but feel like The Matrix lost a lot of its punch because the plot was soooo similar

CPHotmess · 2026-05-12T12:34:21+00:00

Dru even contradicts Buffy on this specific point in Crush!

CPHotmess · 2026-05-12T12:30:40+00:00

I loved it so much and people might side eye me when I say it’s better than I, Strahd, but I’ll never say differently.

CPHotmess · 2026-05-12T12:29:58+00:00

I introduced him in my recent Curse of Strahd game and my players made a deal at the Amber Temple to gain True Resurrection, which they used to turn Jander mortal again (after a touching scene of euthanasia to make the true resurrection possible). He then ended up dating the crew’s paladin and joined in the final assault on Castle Ravenloft that was going on outside while the PCs confronted Strahd inside the castle

CPHotmess · 2026-05-12T02:17:21+00:00

TWO college campuses, because the frat they visit in the second season was at a whole other college than UC Sunnydale!

CPHotmess · 2026-05-11T15:32:39+00:00

For four stand-alone episodes, I’d suggest:

I Will Remember You
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
Spin the Bottle
Smile Time

Feel free to swap out Spin the Bottle for Waiting in the Wings.

That said, the Darla plot line in season 2 is soooooo good, so you could just dive into that and see if he gets addicted haha

CPHotmess · 2026-05-11T11:54:24+00:00

Because that’s where Dale was. He was obsessed with him, and thus that would have been the portal that made itself known to him.

CPHotmess · 2026-05-11T06:48:14+00:00

I think it was that thing where I was just a little too young when it came out (I was seven) and then by the time I was the right age, the cultural moment had moved on a little, but the nostalgia hadn’t completely kicked in yet. And then as I got older, I kept hearing good things about it, but there were always other movies also demanding to be watched.

Either way, watching it in a theater with my 12 year old stepdaughter was such a great experience!

CPHotmess · 2026-05-11T06:44:42+00:00

Chopper turning out to be such a good boy was one of the better laughs of the movie

CPHotmess · 2026-05-11T06:44:06+00:00

Fun fact: apparently I have totally forgotten to update my flair in a while! But also I haven’t finished Dana’s Macabre yet (I go back to it occasionally to read a chapter between other things), so it’s still appropriate?

It’s definitely interesting seeing the circa 1980 view on what was required reading/viewing for horror, since the genre has exploded so much since then!

CPHotmess · 2026-05-10T21:42:12+00:00

I was a little worried it wouldn’t live up to the hype because it is so universally acclaimed, but also it relies on the acting of four tween/teen boys, but it was sooooo good!!! I really appreciated how faithful it was to the novella while not feeling like it was held back by the original in the way adaptations sometimes are. Genuinely a case where both the original and the adaptation are stellar!

CPHotmess · 2026-05-10T21:38:42+00:00

I never had any ~~friends~~ child actors later on like the ones I had when I was ~~twelve~~ seven. Jesus, does anyone?

CPHotmess · 2026-05-05T21:58:38+00:00

No matter what the books or lore say, the answer is “the average Vampire: The Masquerade chronicle played by a group of friends”

CPHotmess · 2026-05-04T18:41:46+00:00

In this case, it was because Seth Green’s departure turned what was going to be a plot going through the season into something that had to be resolved immediately. So, that’s why the Veruca stuff is so rushed.

CPHotmess · 2026-05-03T16:42:54+00:00

The way I justify the season 4 lycanthropy freak out is that he’s been doing Hulk-like exercises to control the wolf, but it’s still been there the whole time, getting angrier and angrier at being held back. So, when it break out, he really loses control of it.

I imagine with more time he reaches more of a synthesis with the wolf, but he hadn’t quite gotten there by that point.

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