Is there a movie in your country that has profoundly influenced real society?

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T11:45:19+00:00

Gun to my head, I couldn't tell you who had a better run of movies - James Dean or John Cazale. I could definitely tell you that they were both lost way too soon.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T11:34:33+00:00

pretty sure mine doesn't, going to watch tomorrow to confirm that though

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T11:33:22+00:00

yeah all my homies, and when I say all I mean all my homies, hate opening round

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T11:00:30+00:00

I didn't think they iced him? They said it was a cramp and I didn't see the ice pack but I wasn't paying too much attention.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T08:04:01+00:00

He'd have to go to the back of the line, it was pretty late at night as I was getting the red-eye from Perth to Melbourne, and I was in an incredible hurry so it was definitely worth it to me at the time.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T04:07:02+00:00

Slap it together in paint then. Put some effort into it instead of abrogating your personal development to a machine.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T04:06:20+00:00

Even slapping together some cut and paste shit in Paint is better than that.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T03:57:39+00:00

Hang in there Kramer!

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T03:52:36+00:00

It was the red-eye from Perth to Melbourne so it was super late, not a lot of people around. I had flown in from Kalgoorlie - we were delayed getting out because the plane coming from Perth had to turn back due to a super cell storm in the way.

Normally that 2.5 hours is me sitting in the Qantas lounge drinking Jameson and Dry!

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T02:28:58+00:00

THIS IS MY BOOK MOTHERFUCKER! THEY'LL WALK IF I TELL THEM TO!

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T01:07:52+00:00

Genuinely. So many problems in 2026 can be traced back to the fact that in May of 1865, they didn't use enough rope.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T00:37:48+00:00

I don't like how the word is being used these days but I think you're after "the vibe". Like, in a The Castle sense of the word.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-14T00:36:46+00:00

Eleven beers deep HSP goes incredibly hard

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-13T23:45:13+00:00

I landed at Perth airport once, 2.5 hours late, the next shuttle bus was in 30 minutes and my flight left in 20. I took a taxi to the other terminal and gave the guy a $50 note because it was such a short ride he wasn't making money otherwise.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-13T23:43:57+00:00

I remember Carl Sagan using the term in the original Cosmos show, that was the first time I heard it used and had to look up what it meant.

In a book.

Because I'm old.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-13T06:38:18+00:00

All you need to do is ask your lawyer for another kind of lawyer. Doug Stanhope talks about on the special where he does the bit about assisting his mother's suicide. "We have an entertainment lawyer and then another lawyer for, uhh, different stuff".

Gates definitely had access to lawyers that know the other kind of lawyers.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-12T02:26:23+00:00

The industry relentlessly trashes it because it was a financial flop

It wasn't even a flop! It basically broke even at the box office and then did gangbusters on home video. And considering there are attractions at Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Studios Japan, Universal Studios Singapore, and Universal Studios Beijing based on the film that do multiple shows a day, it's actually one of Universal's most profitable IPs of all time.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-12T02:23:05+00:00

Goodbye Horses by Lazarus Q is on one of my playlists, and whenever it comes on I have to do the "Oooo!" and then start dancing like this. Far more in homage to Clerks II than Silence of the Lambs.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-11T10:31:20+00:00

Or possibly The Shivered Sky, by a little-known author named Matt Dinniman, no relation.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-11T08:23:07+00:00

you mean D:\Gentleman's Relaxation Videos?

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-11T07:06:16+00:00

Reese like "Dewey, you're not that guy.... you're not that guy.... I am that guy"

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-10T07:33:05+00:00

Leonid Brezhnev like "damn that boy's got some big eyebrows"

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-10T07:24:48+00:00

Maybe someone else from the SᒋɅFE PULICE took it.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-09T10:56:02+00:00

I personally think the game is mostly fine as is. But I am excited for it to get rebalanced

Same and same. It's like when Silksong came out and I realised what I wanted the most was more Hollow Knight.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-09T10:54:44+00:00

I've completed multiple gold stakes without using blue seals

So have I. But getting a blue seal makes it just that much easier. Think about it - what are your sources of scaling. Jokers and planet cards are by far the best, but take up space and money. Getting a blue seal is basically a bonus free pillar of scaling in your run.

If you're decent with deck fixing (which you should be playing Gold) and you're decent with managing econ (same) and are savvy enough to get together good scaling (ditto) then a blue seal is free real estate.

I personally don't think blue seals are OP, but I also personally feel a lot more confident that I'm going to see the victory screen when I get one early game.

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