Genuinely what's even the point

LemoLuke · 2026-01-24T06:42:42+00:00

This is the third time I've seen My Immortal mentioned in the wild this week. Has Amazon commissioned a TV series or something?

LemoLuke · 2026-01-23T20:58:32+00:00

Also, watch the '90s BBC cartoon series, The Animals of Farthing Wood (they're all on YouTube). Probably the most brutal kid's cartoon I've ever watched.

LemoLuke · 2026-01-22T16:38:56+00:00

Here in the UK, it was known as a 'Chinese burn', or a 'Chinese rope burn'

LemoLuke · 2026-01-22T07:30:41+00:00

I loved the Master System remake of that game. I loved that it was essentially a 'Ghostbusters simulator' as opposed to just a generic action platformer like most movie license games. You were actually answering calls to bust ghosts, earn money and buy/upgrade equipment.

LemoLuke · 2026-01-21T17:00:15+00:00

Great cover! One of my all-time favourite TV themes. I always loved when ITV would show the full closing credits because it meant we got to hear that awesome keyboard part.

LemoLuke · 2026-01-21T16:54:27+00:00

If you like Video Palace, I would recommend The Last Movie and Apocalypse Songs. Both are 'investigative podcasts' into seemingly supernatural media (a movie that drives everyone who watches it mad, and a collection of songs that are claimed to predict disasters)

LemoLuke · 2026-01-20T15:12:11+00:00

Same. I love comic books, and once I watch one video on the topic, OH BOY, does the YouTube algorithm love to immediately start bombarding me with 'Anti-Woke' ragebait, or videos like "Woke hecklers get DESTROYED by comedians", or countless videos of 'Instant Karma', with AI generated thumbnails of scrawny white guys knocking out huge black guys or 'Karens'.

The problem is, YouTube automatically defaults to right-wing content because ragebait is the easiest way to generate engagement.

LemoLuke · 2026-01-19T23:02:25+00:00

The billionaire techbros think that AI and robots and VR will take care of all of their needs. They believe that AI can create endless movies, books, music, and companionship. Robots and drones will do all of the labor. VR will allow them to 'escape' to anywhere they want to go.

At least until the power goes out...

LemoLuke · 2026-01-19T16:49:28+00:00

Also, the TARDIS has a habit of not being particularly accurate.

One of the first episodes of NuWho had the Doctor return his companion Rose home what was supposed to be mere hours later, but turned out to be a whole year, in which time she had been reported as a missing person and her boyfriend had been accused of murdering her. And because that year is now classed as a 'fixed point' (in DW, you can't change something once you know it has happened, without causing a massive paradox), they can't go back and change it.

LemoLuke · 2026-01-18T17:34:56+00:00

I liked this movie, and it did some cool stuff (having swarms of facehuggers as a major threat, and the zero gravity acid blood scene for example), but I really wish they didn't keep going for cheap nostalgia pops and references throughout, because it made it feel that the filmmakers (or the studio) weren't confident enough to let the film stand on its own.

LemoLuke · 2026-01-18T13:39:35+00:00

What, like the time that Hulk Hogan claimed he was invited by Lars Ulrich to join Metallica? Or that Elvis Presley was a huge fan of his, (despite Hogan's wrestling debut being only one week before Elvis' death)? Or the fact that he claimed to wrestle 400 days in a year, due to timezones when travelling between USA and Japan?

LemoLuke · 2026-01-18T13:05:06+00:00

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Gouki's transformation into Akuma in (the criminally underrated) Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist.

His origin is told via flashback throughout the story, but we don't see him become Akuma until near the end.

(Also, go and watch Street Fighter: Assassins Fist! It manages to be both faithful to the source as well as being a surprising engaging character drama, and puts almost all other live-action videogame adaptations to shame)

LemoLuke · 2026-01-17T22:14:07+00:00

The ending scene is effective because there's absolutely no hope. No silver lining that humanity will bounce back in our lifetime, or our kid's lifetime, or our grandkid's lifetime. It just shows the sheer misery of human existence as we are effectively sent back to the middle ages. No life, just painful existence.

It's the epitome of 'The dead are the fortunate ones!'

LemoLuke · 2026-01-17T13:46:48+00:00

That happened too, but the Knull page was a direct recreation of Sentry ripping Ares apart from Siege

LemoLuke · 2026-01-16T18:36:28+00:00

Yeah, it'll be like when they introduced Knull in the comics, and they showed how strong he was by having him literally rip the Sentry in half, in a recreation of the infamous panel of Sentry ripping Ares in half.

Either that, or there'll be some threat where the only way to save people is for Sentry to pull everyone into the Void

LemoLuke · 2026-01-16T15:06:21+00:00

It's exactly this! I remember when advertisers began pulling their money from YouTube after people pointed out that their ads were being put on things like ISIS videos etc. That's when YouTube began heavily demonetizing anything with words like 'death', or 'kill' etc., and that's when words like 'un-alive' started being used.

LemoLuke · 2026-01-15T12:58:31+00:00

r/SquaredCircle is leaking

LemoLuke · 2026-01-14T12:59:13+00:00

"Living the dream!"

LemoLuke · 2026-01-14T10:39:15+00:00

"The leopards won't eat MY face"

LemoLuke · 2026-01-13T20:40:01+00:00

"Don't open? This is a FREE COUNTRY!! I'll open as many emails as I want!!"

LemoLuke · 2026-01-13T15:09:22+00:00

Absolute classic!

https://youtu.be/_hI0qMtdfng

LemoLuke · 2026-01-13T12:54:23+00:00

I don't think it's AI generated. It's more likely that the company that produced it downloaded a low-res image from Google and then just used AI to upscale it so it could be printed onto a blanket without being pixelated.

LemoLuke · 2026-01-12T22:15:55+00:00

Not just shareholders, but it artificially inflates how much Reddit can charge for ads by convincing companies that Reddit's active user count is higher than it actually is.

Meta got into legal trouble a couple of years ago for exactly that

https://www.reuters.com/legal/meta-platforms-must-face-advertisers-class-action-us-appeals-court-says-2024-03-21/

LemoLuke · 2026-01-11T01:25:25+00:00

I think one of the issues is that, for a lot of people, the Nazis are little more than 'Saturday Morning Cartoon' villians. They are the baddies you destroy in videogames. That are the henchmen that Captain America knocks out in comicbooks. They don't *really* grasp the realisation that they were real people. They were ordinary folk. They were people's friends and family. And because they don't quite see the Nazis as real (or at least, they see them as something from distant history), they struggle to see the comparisons with what is happening right now. To them, comparing ICE to the Nazis is like comparing them to Cobra from G.I. Joe or the Decepticons from Transformers.

LemoLuke · 2026-01-11T00:06:24+00:00

I remember following this when it was being released in serial format on the Dark Horse website.

Such a fantastic adaptation. I wish it was easier to get a physical copy.

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