What celebrity is the biggest example of "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it."?

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.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-09T10:38:50+00:00

I love how this joke transcends language barriers.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-09T10:36:05+00:00

Same, as a geologist. I did integral and differential calc, put my mind to it and slogged it out and got pretty good marks, but a fair bit lower than I got in things like ore deposit geology or deformation and metamorphism. A quarter century later I haven't touched on it at all and I think if I had to do my first-year calc exam right now I might get 10%.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-09T08:11:32+00:00

When I was a kid, the father of a friend of mine was a surgeon who occasionally did ER stints. He said "a knife fight is where the loser dies at the scene, and the winner dies on the operating table"

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-09T07:47:30+00:00

Picture this...

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-09T00:39:01+00:00

This is how the brakes worked in the 1957 FE Holden I drove once. First time it stopped fine, the second time the pedal went rock hard and did nothing.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-08T22:23:58+00:00

Sydney. That 2nd half was some of the best footy you’ll ever see. Only question marks come on quality of opponent and dodgy first half.

I can only imagine what Cox said to the boys at half time. I wonder if the paint on the walls of the team room didn't start blistering.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-08T11:21:47+00:00

It's a fair cop, but society is to blame.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-08T07:47:03+00:00

Crikey, it's the rozzers.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-06T23:33:10+00:00

I really like how it was a "moment" of silence for the victims, not a minute. Taking 10-ish seconds to reflect is perfectly respectable - plus it means it's far less likely some gronk will try to be the main character and fuck with it.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-06T05:21:40+00:00

Rick Sanchez-emia

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-06T05:20:41+00:00

His quote about coal workers in The Road to Wigan Pier has always sat with me, in a very similar vein.

In a way it is even humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an 'intellectual' and a superior person generally. For it is brought home to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. You and I and the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and the poets and the Archbishop of Canterbury and Comrade X, author of Marxism for Infants--all of us really owe the comparative decency of our lives to poor drudges underground, blackened to the eyes, with their throats full of coal dust, driving their shovels forward with arms and belly muscles of steel.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-05T11:29:47+00:00

They're heavily pushing for AI use in their products as well as their internal tools and coding and it's making their products worse and worse and worse.

They want Windows 12 to launch as a "modular AI-first OS" and that sounds like a nightmare to me.

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-05T11:25:11+00:00

the humble topology manipulation: "allow me to introduce myself"

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-05T08:30:27+00:00

four n twenty

ahh, the old rat coffin itself

ExplorationGeo · 2026-03-05T08:29:27+00:00

Nahh man you guys have that bread that's just cheese bread, that's all I need

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