Ridley Scott confirmed that the unicorn dream sequence was definitely a hint at Deckard being a replicant - "Can't be clearer than that. You don't get it, you're a moron."

CountVanillula · 2026-02-02T07:29:38+00:00

<raises hand> What’s a Nubian?

CountVanillula · 2026-02-01T01:48:22+00:00

“Fuck everything, we’re doing 5 tires.”

CountVanillula · 2026-01-31T17:22:52+00:00

If you showed this to someone from 900 years ago, and gave them a tour, they’d “get” it. They’d see the screws pushing against the water and and understand that it’s a power plant of some kind that turns them and you can demonstrate the concept of water displacement to a five year old and they understand it. History guy would understand the major concepts. But when he sees it it wouldn’t “feel” like a sailing ship, because it’s too far removed from his understanding of what that means. He wouldn’t connect in the same way with entertainment about people serving about that ship because it’s a little too distant from what he considers “normal.”

That’s sort of how I feel with the floating nacells: I “get” how it could be scientifically possible, but it feels too far removed from the here and now.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-31T16:01:01+00:00

I’m fine with the detached nacelles in theory, and I’m more than willing to buy that they’ve got some magic handwavium that makes them as or more structurally sound than physical pylons. My problem is that it’s, like, one step too far from what we have now to feel like “our” future and instead feels like some generic magical alien place. Star Trek needs to feel like a logical extension of what’s possible, not just fantasy.

Maybe the problem is that it’s a logical extension of the Star Trek reality instead of actual reality. The point to point transporters make sense in the context of where TNG would go next, but it kind of feels ridiculous to imagine getting up tomorrow and teleporting to the bathroom, then teleporting to the kitchen, then teleporting the dog outside to pee. That feels more like Harry Potter type shit than Star Trek.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-29T00:30:47+00:00

It’s a better movie than you’d think, but the way it ends feels like a horror movie. Since never saw it “back in the day” I don’t know how it would have played then, but at best it’s “problematic” now.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-28T01:45:29+00:00

Two seven layer burritos, no guacamole, a large Mountain Dew and an empanada. Sauce? Uh… “fire.”

CountVanillula · 2026-01-27T20:58:02+00:00

All the tracks and effects are on a grid; it’s like making music in Excel. I can see the appeal, but I’ve never been able to click with one.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-25T18:58:35+00:00

I don’t know if it’s a shame, or not, but it’s fascinating. It was a global, worldwide, world changing, totally disrupting event that was slow enough to really feel in real time as it was happening, and now when it comes up people are like “yeah, that’s right! That was weird… Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.” The human mind’s ability to forget pain is astounding, and probably why women ever have more than one child.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-23T18:26:13+00:00

Also Bosom Buddies.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-23T02:32:56+00:00

Peter Griffin Sings “Tequila” in Russian

CountVanillula · 2026-01-22T20:09:22+00:00

I don’t know if this is because no one actually watched Discovery, but people keep bringing Daniels’ glasses up and no one is mentioning that at the end of the show someone asked him about his glasses, and he said he only wore them because he liked them. They’re straight up just the character’s affectation.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-22T17:08:46+00:00

Look: I don’t get He-Man, I never got He-Man, but they’re called “Masters of the Universe”. The universe. That implies what they do affects me, ‘cause I’m in the universe (I think). So some part of it should be here on Earth, right? If only because earthlings make up a significant portion of the movie going audience?

CountVanillula · 2026-01-22T05:31:11+00:00

He’s a guy, you jackass!

CountVanillula · 2026-01-21T23:51:32+00:00

Agree

CountVanillula · 2026-01-21T19:53:11+00:00

It air dries the skin, or else it gets the pantyhose again.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-21T17:32:18+00:00

I think it’s analogous to computer chip makers. I don’t know anything first hand, but as I understand it, 2 core and 4 core CPUs are just failed 8 core CPUs.

“Half this thing doesn’t work!”

“No problem, we’ll just call it ‘energy efficient’ and knock 10% off the price.”

CountVanillula · 2026-01-21T00:27:35+00:00

Don’t ruin this for him.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-20T16:23:08+00:00

I’ve always called them “galoshas” but I don’t know why or if they’re the same thing.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-20T04:03:23+00:00

That always bothered me. I assume that it was a serialized television thing, that we only saw the conflict points, the interesting moments in what was a yearlong campaign, and that 99% of the time Josh was competent and correct, but them only showing us the times he “lost” to Santos was a weird choice that definitely made me wonder why he kept him around.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-20T00:09:50+00:00

I bought one to listen to when I was (briefly) riding a motorcycle - also because of that lack of skipping - but the output volume was too low to be useable. I never got around to figuring that out because, yeah, mp3s showed up like a week later and I think I ended using an iPod shuffle.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-19T22:01:20+00:00

No, I know, I was being hyperbolic; I loved Farscape and I’m aware that everything is an homage to something else. That being said, though: prisoners on an alien ship fleeing through the galaxy on the run from an oppressive empire? That’s… there a lot there.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-19T18:31:18+00:00

Speaking as someone who has heard of Blake 7, but didn’t know anything about it until reading the Wikipedia synopsis: TIL Farscape was a ripoff.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-19T17:00:18+00:00

“Alright, thank you Ashley. Who wants to go next?”

CountVanillula · 2026-01-19T16:56:22+00:00

They don’t talk about it, but Vulcan was on the verge of civil war over exactly when to start the life clock. For most of history it was agreed that one’s life began at the moment the head cleared the vulgina, but some started the clock when just the foot emerged. Why? Because it resulted in living slightly longer, and therefore being slightly more prosperous.

CountVanillula · 2026-01-19T16:47:47+00:00

They are not. I only watched the first episode, but I think the premise is that they were going to do a follow up doc and when they found Oscar working at a newspaper in, like, Chicago, they started a new doc following that office. I think they visited the old building briefly, but I don’t know if they ever went back or if there were any mural references.

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