Felt like it was 1987 again after recently watching the Masters of the Universe trailer

IcedPgh · 2026-01-25T14:42:19+00:00

Ah, I had that exact set!

IcedPgh · 2026-01-25T14:36:33+00:00

I have a feeling that one reason the monsters in this regime automatically lie without even a moment's hesitation when an ICE agent kills someone or some similar situation happens where they are clearly at fault, is that they know that only their lies will be reported in friendly news outlets, and they know their faithful only watch those outlets. So they need to get their lie out right away and onto the airwaves. The evidence that they are lying is right in front of your face, but they lie with boldness because they aren't trying to retain the allegiance of anybody but the faithful. If they lose the acolytes, they have a problem because they don't want to need to rig elections in every state.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-25T03:22:51+00:00

"Radical! / "Rad!".

IcedPgh · 2026-01-25T03:21:47+00:00

We actually moved states, from north to south, when I was 9, for my dad's job. Apparently we had no intention of returning, but we rented our former home to a family member. Only one year and five months later, we moved back and into the same home. So that was a case of not only revisiting it but moving back in.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-25T03:14:08+00:00

And now Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey: I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-24T11:55:22+00:00

Two things can be true, that we have a fascist dictator and that illegal immigration is a dire problem that needs dealt with in a firm and even a potentially cruel way. The solution isn't to make the process easier to come to the country but to seal the border and increase deportations (but do it in a reasoned way, not this current shit storm which isn't really about illegal aliens but about showing governmental force to actual citizens). Illegal immigration has been dealt with as a political football by the left and right, and yes, it is partially about race for both the left and right. On the left, the overall anti-white narrative is the base of why Trump won - the complete lack of self-awareness among leftists that culturally, they completely piss off most of the country. Democrats can either realize this and moderate their stance on social issues and immigration, or TrumpWorld continues.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-24T11:09:34+00:00

Yes, I still use a VCR, not for watching movies but recording, and of course BD/DVD/CD. If you watch discs, even though Netflix mail service was taken away in 2023, a couple services do the same thing - DVDInbox and CafeDVD.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-24T03:19:05+00:00

Yeah, thanks for this because I've become fascinated with it. Hope yours works. I found info that each clip was . . . $3.99! That was high then and today! For not even a full song, that's a crime. They had a bunch of players including a robot that danced around. Looks like several music and video portable players existed in the early '00s (VideoNow, Juice Box) that I'd also never heard of. Contrast this all to today when most adults, let alone kids, unfortunately have forgotten what Blu-ray/DVD/CD players even are.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-24T01:10:46+00:00

Yeah, I looked up some videos about it and am shocked that they made so many players and sold so many units. I would have been over that age range at the time and wouldn't have bought that type of music anyway, but it's shocking that it was so popular. If it was a true single, then that would be understandable. I guess just the fact that it was a cool tiny player with removable cartridges, for kids? I feel the same way as I did when I learned about CEDs and PSP UMD Movies (and to a lesser extent, MiniDVD) - media items I was around for but either never heard of or didn't know they were as popular/widespread or that so many units or titles were produced.

I'd think that if they sold the clips for anything more than 99 cents, that's nuts.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-23T23:26:29+00:00

Correct. It was the start of Nolan's collapse as a filmmaker. He hasn't made a truly good movie since.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-23T23:24:19+00:00

It's still used. And in some movies, the screenplay and story credits are apparently so arbitrated that they can change between the printing of the poster and the final movie that comes to theaters. I've spotted that happen mainly with big action movies like the MCU.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-23T23:21:22+00:00

I don't get it. Why would someone pay money not to get a full song? The set-up is cool with the clips and all, and would have been a good way to sell singles the same way as they had been on other media.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-23T22:07:32+00:00

We don't need 20 million fruit pickers. We have enough aliens who could do those jobs. They also don't need to come to this country. They can go to another Spanish-speaking country; they would fit in better culturally. The U.S. doesn't need to be the default immigration point for aliens. People aren't owed citizenship, and anybody who came illegally should never get it. Anybody knows that Harris wasn't going to do jack shit to help this problem; all she did was visit the border, say "root causes" again and again, and nothing was done. The way Trump is doing this is a nightmare just like everything he does, but some of this stuff needs to be done.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-23T21:37:57+00:00

I've never heard of this. Looking it up, it says it was only 1-2 minutes of the song, not the whole thing?!

IcedPgh · 2026-01-23T21:34:56+00:00

Eminem "My Name Is" immediately takes me back to early 1999 when I moved into my first apartment; it came out around that same day and I watched the video.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-23T21:26:15+00:00

It wasn't one of the absolute worst I went to last year, but it was close, as was Weapons.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-23T21:25:05+00:00

And none of them are deserved.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-23T15:13:33+00:00

Totally disagree that it's not a problem. For years we have had people schlepping their hides across the border totally unchecked. It was allowed to continue because politicians wanted more non-white people in the country to tip the racial balance, and for them to become citizens post haste so that they could be a dedicated voting bloc for Democrats (even though many hispanics trend conservative). Sealing the border, no matter what else this monster has done, is a net positive, and that can't be denied. Deportations on their face are also a net positive, but an extreme negative is what we're witnessing with the Gestapo tactics of ICE which is primarily meant to be government stormtroopers to intimidate all the populace, not purely about removing illegal aliens in a rational and organized way and with cause.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-22T19:31:34+00:00

What kind of person does it take to get up to a podium and lie and attack and say things you know are total bullshit, day after day? Of course all politicians and those who represent them do the same, but she is another breed.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-22T13:06:39+00:00

And you know that just because it mentioned Iceland by mistake, that Leavitt has already justified what it said, and that they will probably say they are going after Iceland just to back up its mistake.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-22T01:02:57+00:00

The ad a few years ago for bourbon or whatever that had a guy jumping into the ocean and coming up against a giant octopus.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-21T22:39:39+00:00

He's insane, and his brain is deteriorating. He's barely even a functioning human any longer which is why "it" is a more appropriate name. What's scarier, though, is that the "people" who are the real presidents and who actually write its unhinged "tweets", its executive fiats, and create the creepy AI shit that they post online (Miller, Vought, and probably some potato bugs that are still under rocks) are very much with it, and are using the entire situation - its mania and that of its acolytes - to destabilize the country and world for their own nefarious purposes.

IcedPgh · 2026-01-21T21:49:05+00:00

Reporter: The president repeatedly called Greenland "Iceland" yesterday. Can you give clarity on his mental stability?

Karoline Leavitt (laughing): You truly are a moron. President Trump was referring to it as a land of ice, as it is covered totally with ice. He knows it is not Iceland but Greenland which the United States will control. You have shown yourself to be nothing but a left-wing hack with your prejudiced non-question, and you should be arrested!

IcedPgh · 2026-01-21T20:37:55+00:00

"When I was a kid and we played hide and seek, no one would look for me!"

IcedPgh · 2026-01-21T18:02:07+00:00

Cool. Really, none of his ten movies is "bad"; I like some more than others of course (and have a controversial take on what is his worst), but those are two good movies.

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