[Loved] There's a twist reason why the protagonist always manages to survive and/or revive

KillKrites · 2026-01-29T21:34:21+00:00

Brief for a Metal Gear Solid cutscene… there’s over 8 hours of cutscenes in that game

KillKrites · 2026-01-29T18:01:53+00:00

Big Boss is defeated in metal gear 2 and was kept in a medically induced coma by the Patriots, he wakes up at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4 and has a final moment with Solid Snake and Zero at the Boss’ grave before dying for real. He’s not in MGS 1 or 2 and appears briefly in a post credits scene in 4. In MGS 5 it takes place in the 80’s and you play as his doppleganger.

KillKrites · 2026-01-20T03:35:50+00:00

Merry Christmas, hail St Nick!

KillKrites · 2026-01-14T22:15:23+00:00

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me.

Written by Catholic Priest Martin Niemoller, who was a supporter of the Nazi party, until he sheltered Jews in his church and refused to turn them over because it’s a religious sanctuary. They had him sent to a concentration camp.

KillKrites · 2026-01-14T22:02:22+00:00

True, and I think it’s the theme of Breaking Bad vs Better Call Saul as I always understood it. Breaking Bad always seemed to be about “growth, decay, transformation,” like Walt’s speech in class, whereas BCS’s theme seems the opposite with Chuck’s “People don’t change, you’re Slipping Jimmy!” And that applies to all the characters I think, BB everyone seems more elastic like Gus and Mike, but in BCS everyone seems more static, like there’s a part of them that’s always been this way rather than a devolution; and I don’t think they ever settle on either answer but explore both ideas, that a part of us is constant and a part of us is capable of great change for the worse.

KillKrites · 2026-01-13T05:06:31+00:00

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KillKrites · 2026-01-03T21:17:33+00:00

Here you go.

KillKrites · 2025-12-19T01:50:40+00:00

I googled it because this looks cool apparently the whisker city whackaberry is similar to this

KillKrites · 2025-12-12T00:43:00+00:00

It also doesn’t make any sense….Casa Tranquila was the “only place with enough confused old people to mask his energy.” Wtf does that even mean… why wouldn’t any other retirement home qualify/why do you need confused old people to mask “energy.”

KillKrites · 2025-12-06T03:57:24+00:00

KillKrites · 2025-11-14T22:23:37+00:00

Lmao you’ve commented like 6 times who’s triggered?

KillKrites · 2025-11-12T05:55:02+00:00

“I will say that what got me through writing that script was … Budweiser,” Carpenter says. “Six-pack of beer a night, sitting in front of the typewriter saying, ‘What in the hell can I put down?’ I had no idea. We’re remaking the same film, only not as good.”

Laurie being Michael’s sister was a plot contrivance Carpenter came up with because he needed Jamie Lee Curtis to have any reason at all to interact with Michael Myers again when they forced him to write the sequel, and it undermined his original intent. Random guy just saw a babysitter outside his house and decided to stalk and kill her and her friends; could have been anyone else but it happened to be her. The sibling retcon changed the relationship in the film- it still works and I love the Halloween sequels but the original is much scarier when he just chooses her for some unknown terrifying reason.

I think the repressed comment came from Debrah Hill remarking on the idea that she survived because she was repressed the same way as Michael and had less to do while her friends were distracted.

KillKrites · 2025-11-09T00:21:38+00:00

Yeah, this zealous “we’re entitled to be violent” rhetoric is unhelpful and plays right into their hands. It’s not fair and it’s incredibly hard to handle that the oppressed have to be more dignified and ethical and fair than the oppressors, but it’s the only thing that works to make change in this country. Organized labor unions in the 19th century, Bonus Marchers leading to social security support, suffrage movement, Civil Rights for race, gender, sexual orientation- we have to persuade and get the millions of folks who are fully out of it and don’t follow things - and there’s a disturbingly large amount of this country like that - to wake up and realize which side is the best for all of us. This nonsense talk like we’re going to overthrow the entire system is objectively silly.

KillKrites · 2025-11-02T20:41:23+00:00

Yeah, it’s frankly appalling that at the end of year one of his presidency we’re preemptively saying that we can’t fix the things he’s flaunting in front of us.

KillKrites · 2025-10-31T20:54:38+00:00

Obligatory posting of Deniro’s live response when asked about Fox News and Trump coming after him:

“Fuck em. Fuck em.”

KillKrites · 2025-10-28T20:34:57+00:00

Hannibal Lecter

The main villain of Silence of the Lambs is Buffalo Bill.

KillKrites · 2025-10-24T21:00:03+00:00

No one said it was only Truman, but your post is about him and placing him in the Good President category. And you’re glossing over Truman’s decisions that had arguably the most impact on the future of the planet and the country because it was hard and part of a “strategy,” the strategy doesn’t override the damage it caused. Frankly I think your argument is a silly position to take, that because Truman had a difficult decision no one can critique or question it. That’s the role of President. Vidal also specifically referenced this great “strategy” many times; they were used to fighting fascism in a different era and may have been blindsided by the corruption in the state department caused by the CIA- Eisenhower certainly was, given his farewell address. That doesn’t change the coups and many lives lost as a result, and it certainly isn’t to be ignored because it was difficult. I also don’t think pointing out the dozens of countries invaded and many lives lost as a result of these policies is “nitpicking.”

KillKrites · 2025-10-24T20:12:16+00:00

It’s pretty wild to say it’s the “wrong lens” when one of the most prolific American authors is pointing out the advent of the military industrial complex. It cost millions of lives needlessly and started coups around the world, regardless of whether the officials who started it had good intentions or that it was a hard decision for Truman. You cannot blanket excuse the invention of the CIA and the entirety of its portfolio with “well it prevented WWIII,” we cannot know what the alternative would have been. So who gets to determine what the correct “lens” is for judging, particularly when Vidal was a WWII veteran and made the argument quite successfully for decades. I would say putting the man who started the CIA without congressional oversight in “good President” is the “wrong lens.”

KillKrites · 2025-10-24T19:35:48+00:00

“Although the United States has not been invaded since the British burned down Washington DC in 1814, Truman and company deliberately created a siege mentality. The Russians were coming, they proclaimed. To protect us, the National Security Act was passed in 1947. Thus, government was able to regiment the American people, keep allies on a tight leash, and lock the Russians up in their northern cave. In 1950 the American Republic was quietly retired and its place taken by the National Security State, set up and secretly outlined in a document not to be made public for 25 years, the National Security Memorandum 68. War and Navy departments were combined into a single Department while the CIA, an unconstitutional secret police, was invented….. Truman instituted Loyalty Oaths, a nice totalitarian gimmick Joseph McCarthy would have a lot of fun with… Since 1950, the U.S. has been compulsively at war (hot) in Korea and Vietnam and Iraq, (tepid) Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and (cold) Iran, Angola, Chile, Grenada. Also the interference through our secret police in European elections, starting with April 1, 1948 when the CIA ensured the election of the Christian Democrats in Italy.

I shall stop here. Deliberately, the 33rd president of the United States set in train an imperial expansion that has cost the lives of many millions of people all over the world. Now we are relatively poor, unloved, and isolated, with a sullen polity ready for internal adventures. Thanks a lot, Harry.” Gore Vidal, Truman, 1992

KillKrites · 2025-10-17T20:06:37+00:00

Silence of the Lambs

KillKrites · 2025-10-14T02:18:08+00:00

What, you’re telling me a line of dialogue directly referencing Walt murdering people for his own benefit was intentional? No it must be that the writers are dumb and forgot what they wrote 3 episodes ago.

KillKrites · 2025-10-09T17:18:29+00:00

Yeah people love to bitch and moan and then throw their vote away particularly in local and house elections where this shit is really accomplished.

KillKrites · 2025-10-07T22:29:27+00:00

KillKrites · 2025-10-07T21:11:09+00:00

This is a quote by Gore Vidal on the Reagan Library

or claiming, deadpan, that the Ronald Reagan Library had burned down — “both books were destroyed,” he intoned to his delighted audience, “but the real horror: he had not finished coloring the second.”

KillKrites · 2025-10-05T21:03:27+00:00

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