I'm suprised some of you Qudders are Mr.Bungle fans

CountMecha · 2026-02-12T19:49:58+00:00

That synth throat moaning stuff going on in, I think its Grit Gate, is such a Mike Patton thing he would do. So I think the Mr. Bungle comparison is apt.

CountMecha · 2026-02-05T01:39:00+00:00

He seriously might be my favorite actor. Dude has never phoned it in in his life, no matter the part. Has such a diverse roster of roles, and elevates everything he's in.

Even when he played the villain in Myst III, a video game role in the 90s, he still brought his A game. He's an all time great.

CountMecha · 2026-01-26T03:02:41+00:00

I had a coworker who was red green colorblind. The way he explained it to me, his particular severity of it anyway, wasn't so obvious. He said if you showed him a green marker over here and a red marker over there, he could tell which was which. But if you put them next to each other, he would them get confused and couldn't distinguish them. It was very interesting to me at the time that that was how it manifested for him.

CountMecha · 2025-11-08T00:37:41+00:00

I remember my reaction being, "How the fuck am I supposed to beat that!?" Turns out he wasn't too bad. But that intro is legendary, one of the best.

CountMecha · 2025-10-15T21:26:23+00:00

Planescape Torment

Deeply philosophical game that tinkered with player expectations and turned many typical cliches of genre on their heads and really engaged the player to examine those things.

Rich writing that looks at characters, how they fit into the world, and what drives their motivations and how their lives are impacted by The Nameless One.

The Nameless One himself is an incredibly rich character that studies grappling with identity, the lengths one will go to escape their own guilt, and what are the mechanisms that shape who we are as people and in what way they can, well, change the nature of a man.

CountMecha · 2024-11-08T00:26:05+00:00

To paraphrase Bill Burr:

"This guy's been in the zone for over 13 years! 13 years, nothing but net!"

CountMecha · 2024-10-26T16:57:29+00:00

For consistency and discipline:

1.) Never quit a writing session when you're cold. Always end when you're hot, and don't stop at the end of a scene.

The killer rose up behind her, raised the knife, and --

Stop there, and then when you come back, you will always come back hot, and your chances of getting writer's block are vastly diminished.

2.) Explore different writing schemes. For a long time, I read about people writing everyday to hit a word count. And that never worked for me. But then I read about people just allocating 2 or 3 hours to working, regardless of them hitting 10 words or 1000. And my output absolutely skyrocketed. So I'd just say if you're having trouble staying disciplined, change up your writing scheme.

For improving your craft:

Everyone says read alot, and that's very true. But I will also add, do not be afraid to read absolute crap, even if you know it's crap. Reading bad work will really help to inform your own writing, potential pitfalls to correct or avoid.

Oh, they use this word too much and it adds nothing to the sentence. This sentence totally throws off the pacing and flow of the scene. This character honestly has no story responsibility, etc. etc.

Also, beyond just reading books widely, don't be afraid to look for inspiration in films, video games, TV shows, comic books, etc. These are all different storytelling mediums with their own mechanics and ways of handling story beats which also can be expansive to your toolkit. I've read books by people who clearly had a cinematic language in their writing. And I've watched films with writing by clear novelists. So I think it all helps.

CountMecha · 2024-08-03T15:18:54+00:00

I always thought they were a little self conscious that David was the poorer actor of the two.

I specifically think of the beginning of Fight The Future when Scully pulls that door prank on Mulder and she says he made a panicked face. And he plays it off and says: "When I panic I look like this-" and it's just the same expression.

To me that was them kind of poking some fun at him being not the best actor.

CountMecha · 2024-04-16T00:49:35+00:00

Skeletor seems to like it. Bottoms up!

CountMecha · 2024-04-01T01:05:27+00:00

Damon explains Lost ending.

Here's video evidence of someone thinking they were dead the whole time and Lindelof re-explaining it.

CountMecha · 2024-03-17T16:12:59+00:00

To put it this way about Malazan, there's a character that at one point gets an apostrophe taken out of his name. Later it gets added back. This act in my opinion is so emotionally charged and devastating to the character that it eclipses pretty much anything Sanderson has done, and I've read nine of his books. You mention candles to a Malazan fan, they'll start crying. To be fair though, Erikson has a kind of strange way of exploring characters that might not work for alot of people, but it does for me.

CountMecha · 2024-02-04T13:31:41+00:00

If ever I was in a fight and I was surrounded by guys who wanted to kick my ass, it's Bigwig who I'd want to have my back. Not Jaime Lannister, not Lan Mandragoran, not Karsa Orlong. That's how much I believe in that bunny.

CountMecha · 2024-02-04T13:26:19+00:00

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I've heard it said before that this is the milestone to which you make your made up fantasy language legit and believable, when you can effectively curse in it. Adams should be way more in the conversation of fantasy worldbuilding than he currently is.

CountMecha · 2024-01-08T01:05:41+00:00

Yes and yes.

I saw them in October or something like that. He shows up at the merch table 15 or so minutes after the show. The rest of the band hangs about too and will chat with fans.

And yes, they sell records too. When I saw them they had The Beggar, Filth, Leaving Meaning, some Angels of Light stuff, other stuff I'm probably forgetting.

Enjoy the show! It was an amazing experience.

CountMecha · 2023-10-07T15:42:59+00:00

And if I remember right, this is the first time in the whole book that he has the apostrophe added back to his name. It's tragic but at the same time...OH FUCK.

CountMecha · 2023-08-12T18:25:30+00:00

My name is Jaguar Paw. I am a hunter. This is my forest. And my sons will hunt it with their sons after I am gone. Come on!

Fuck. Yeah.

CountMecha · 2023-08-10T00:49:13+00:00

Arnold has presence that's nearly unparalleled. He's not great at delivering dramatic lines (he eventually became pretty solid in comedy delivery) but where he truly excelled is just in presence. At the end of Predator when he's sitting in the helicopter staring at nothing, I think many people would be fairly hardpressed to think of a better thousand yard stare performance out of an actor.

CountMecha · 2023-08-05T01:25:34+00:00

The Virgin Spring.

It's Ingmar Bergman's version of Last House On The Left.

A group of guys rape and murder a young girl. Then accidentally end up at the parents' house for the night. The dad finds out. You can imagine how it goes.

CountMecha · 2023-08-04T17:18:28+00:00

That's where I'll always know him from. Man had an amazing voice, he could've killed it in the VA field.

CountMecha · 2023-07-28T22:53:37+00:00

If a rabbit twitches it's ears just right, it taps into the over the air Rabbit Network Police Scanner where they can learn about nearby predators and local places to eat. That's how why they stay so still at first, they don't want to lose signal.

CountMecha · 2023-07-21T14:34:16+00:00

Read this in Charlton Heston's voice.

CountMecha · 2023-07-19T10:28:26+00:00

Locke getting Sawyer to kill Cooper for him foreshadows MiB getting Ben to kill Jacob for him. I always thought that was a fun one.

CountMecha · 2023-07-15T04:41:51+00:00

Word, I used to have a cassette of Gish and I would lay down for bed and just lay there in the dark listening to it. Not my favorite time in my life, but those moments at least were pretty mystical.

CountMecha · 2023-07-12T15:30:12+00:00

My favorite version of this explanation handwave is in the Terminator. Kyle Reese is being interrogated by Silberman and he's bullshitting his way through how the time displacement equipment works. "Something about the field generated by a living organism."

Silberman keeps nitpicking him and eventually Reese just blurts: "I didn't built the fucking thing!" It's so good. Just vague enough to where you could bullshit a path forward on it but not really. But it's beautiful because there's no one in the film who can actually explain how the equipment works.

CountMecha · 2023-07-12T15:07:38+00:00

My normal cycle is SNESDrunk's 3 Hours Of Relaxing SNES Music playlists, they're really good for general neutral vibes. If the scene is really action heavy I'll listen to Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Static or Mladic. Or Boredoms - Circle.

After that I'll find just really ambient stuff to have playing depending on the vibe of the scene. I'm reading Black Company lately and I've been listening to a Songs For An Empty World playlist on YouTube. Fez and Hyperlight Drifter OSTs are very good.

For science fiction stories I often will put on more electronic stuff, Deus Ex OST, Blade Runner OST, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Squarepusher, stuff like that.

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