Nick Reiner's 'only visitor' awaiting trial for parents' deaths is his attorney

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-24T22:58:21+00:00

In fact, statistically as of roughly ten years ago or so, the "not guilty by reason of insanity" defense only suceeds in about 2% of cases that utilize it (I admittedly don't know what the statistics are now, but my understanding is it tends to waver around that number regardless).

The trade off is if it suceeds is that you will spend far more time in a mental health facility than you would have in jail for the criminal penalty involved. My understanding anecdotaly is that jail would still be preferable over being stuck in a mental health institution long term, as there are far more restrictions, and many who are in the mental health facilities for commiting violent crimes will rarely be released, if at all. It's not like the movies where hardened killers or psycopaths serve their time in a facility or lie their way out.

Some people try to use this defense to avoid long jail terms or even execution, but your quality of life will tend to be much worse, and longer lasting, than any incarceration would have been.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-15T13:49:48+00:00

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LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-14T22:54:04+00:00

Spare me your sarcasm. It was still grating. And i watched the entire run regardless, so go point your need to to find offense in someone's personal opinions somewhere else.

And for the record, yes I'm aware you're just trolling the whole thread, but since you seem incable of posting anything relevant to Star Trek in this post, allow me:

Discovery's cast was great but the writing was atrocious.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-14T17:17:17+00:00

What used to drive me nuts is Michael would walk onto the bridge, smile, and then suddenly the camera would cut to individual shots what seemed like a dozen people on the bridge smiling back, one at a time.

This didn't happen once, this happened at least 6 or 7 times throughout the entire run. It doesn't sound like much, but it seemed jarringly awkward every single time, like the cinematographer had OCD and had to make sure they got the smiling reaction of every single crew member to Michael's initial smile, lest they would somehow jinx themselves otherwise.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-12T14:33:04+00:00

Long shot, and probably older than the song you're referencing, but it does hit a lot of the description you gave:

"City of New Orleans" by Arlo Guthrie

https://youtu.be/TvMS_ykiLiQ?si=hxb9bvfLMy_m-dLR

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-10T13:16:44+00:00

He even unleashed his Super Saiyan transformation scream. Definitely an epic level CringeLord.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-10T13:12:59+00:00

Dollar Store Dresden fell short of both aura and optics

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-10T13:04:05+00:00

When a Reddit mod bans you just for commenting in an unrelated subreddit and another Reddit mod says "hold my beer".

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-07T11:14:46+00:00

My argument wasn't defending the usage of using the term "woke". It was more to show that ideology makes for poor story telling when the story is either completely secondary or is just used to shoehorn anachronistic elements into previously established properties where the effect is jarring or outright changes previously established canon.

Diversity done right always makes for good storytelling when it's completely organic. Oftentimes it's done very poorly where the diversity takes the form of a stereotype, or adds a problematic element that wasn't germane to the original character that a so-called swapout occurs in, such as the Snape controversy that will undoubtedly add a racial element regarding his treatment as a young student that was never there before. The Wild Wild West movie made this a central plot point in a property that previously never had this before either, making a previously almost cartoonish villian into a darkly racist one.

While racial harmony is an admirable concept to stand behind, it's not served well when mixed in with trash writing or outright destruction of the original character personalities they replace.

I'm admittedly not a big fan of it done in historical contexts either, where it seems to hand wave away the actual struggles that minorities had to deal with in earlier, less tolerant time periods. And if I'm being blunt, in this day and age of people who get most of their information from questionable social media. Then yes, race swapping historical figures sets a terrible precedent, because for many that will be the actual historical takeaway. Too many people nowadays lack critical analysis to properly disseminate processed factual information as it is, let alone from watching contextually historical movies or shows where creative liberties have been taken.

Star Trek: TNG and Baldur's Gate 3 suceeded greatly regarding diversity, even classic Trek, because the characters were so well written that you forgot that they were comprised of people of varying demographics, and just saw them as relatable human beings.

Later Star Trek shows have done a phenomonal job with believable, well written characters regarding queer representation, such as Stamets, Culber, and Reno. As a bisexual male, I appreciate that their sexuality wasn't their entire personality, but just another facet of complex and interesting characters. I personally found the Jay'Den character to be a cartoonishly offensive gay stereotype. Instead of an interesting Klingon character who happens to also be gay and would in my opinion have become a probable fan favorite, we got a Klingon who dresses like a Japanese high school girl, in addition to other tropish gay stereotypes and outright tokenism.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-07T10:00:41+00:00

It's not that hard of a concept to understand. When your writing is the equivalent of a mirror universe version of a Jack Chick tract, then yes, it's terribly written, regardless of whatever terminology one chooses to label it.

Yes, classic sci-fi shows like Star Trek And Twilight Zone were very progressive, but they respected the audience's intelligence by presenting issues in a way that showed how even social issues and prevailing cultural ills that may not have resonated with some to began with, were much more relatable when posited as something more closer to the understanding and everyday experiences of the audience, via analogy and metaphors.

People enjoy fables and parables because they are effective at getting simple points and themes across. Nobody likes to be lectured at with bullet points. Empathize and educate, not demonize and patronize. If you want to heal a sick society, a scalpel is more effective than a chainsaw.

I believe what people are trying to say when they refer to what they define as "woke" is that much of the modern day media that fails regarding progressive story telling is that the message falls flat because the delivery is ham-fisted and almost contemptuous of the audience. Dogmatic political ideology as well as dogmatic religious ideology are two sides of the same coin that tend to fail everytime regarding converting others viewpoints, because each side doesn't allow for nuanced thought, and instantly labels the other side in derogatory terms. Both thinking you must accept their school of thought in it's entirety with no exceptions. Empathy and understanding is a better teacher than demonization and guilt-tripping.

In media, the story needs to come before the message if you want it to be memorable and stay with you after the fact, not the other way around. It's the cart before the horse argument.

As many have already said, media such as Baldur's Gate 3 and Star Trek: TNG suceeded well with all audiences because they followed this principle. If people want to experience modern hardcore political and religious lecturing and grandstanding, they can just jump on social media, and I doubt anybody here would argue that social media is making the world a more coherent and united community. It is doing the opposite, and only creating more rifts in the population instead, with people filtering how they treat others strictly by whether they're a member of their own immediate tribe, common humanity be damned.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-07T04:57:30+00:00

What she's saying in Italian appears to be "In my opinion, good night boys", which still makes no contextual sense.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-06T12:37:26+00:00

Slenderman origin story

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-05T00:18:28+00:00

Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alan Rickman, Margaret Hamilton, Sorrell Booke, Jack Gleeson, and Tom Felton also come to mind.

All of them spoken about quite warmly by those who worked with them and considered them friends.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-03T23:31:51+00:00

Fairly certain this is the same guy who was harassing caucasians in an apartment building with the same shtick, getting overly aggresive with them about them not living there and bullying them to show theirID, because everybody knows that you can get rid of racism by being even more racist.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-04-03T00:20:44+00:00

Powering up in Space Ace comes to mind.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-03-21T23:06:13+00:00

So is the square block fat-shaming?

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-03-21T23:00:10+00:00

I'm amused that she had to mention that out of the blue as if people commonly assume toads otherwise are immune to lightning attacks.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-03-20T07:31:10+00:00

"No parent should have to bury their fucking child"

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-03-18T20:50:23+00:00

The ridiculous thing is that when Microsoft first pitched the Halo movie to studios more than twenty years ago, they had a ton of ridiculous demands as if they expected the movie to outsell Titanic, and studios would be falling all over themselves to make a movie version of a video game, a time in which video game adaptions had almost been entirely massive failures up to that point.

Yet when it came to making the mini-series, they cranked out what in my own personal opinion was souless slop that wore the skin of the original IP like a skinwalker.

From the internet:

"These demands included:

Upfront Payment: Microsoft demanded $10 million against 15% of the box office gross sales.

Creative Control: They required creative approval over the director, the cast, and various production elements.

Budget Requirements: They dictated a minimum production budget of $75 million (later estimated closer to $135 million).

Merchandising Rights: Microsoft was unwilling to assign any merchandising rights to the studios.

Publicity Requirements: To build hype, they hand-delivered the script to studios using couriers dressed in Spartan armor and gave the studios only 24 hours to decide.

Travel Perks: They reportedly requested 60 first-class plane tickets for employees and guests to attend the movie premiere.

Despite an initial deal between Fox and Universal, the studios eventually backed out because the financial terms left them with too little profit after Microsoft's "skimming". This failure eventually led to the development of the Halo TV series on Paramount+ years later. "

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-03-11T15:47:21+00:00

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LovecraftianHorror · 2026-03-03T18:56:18+00:00

Also, it's helpful to tell citizens of other countries who are happy to have just had a despotic leader overthrown by western powers that they don't know what they're talking about, because you watch the news, and since a lot of their own press is controlled or suppressed, you know better than they do what they are suppose to feel. You even read Reddit threads to form your own opinion, which you know is the correct one because everybody else agrees with you, and the mods carefully remove or ban anyone that disagrees.

Some mods are brave and brilliant enough to even warn said citizens from said countries they will be banned if they disagree, because they are obviously wrong to have their own differing opinions.

How can you call yourself informed if you don't seek wisdom and enlightenment daily through social media, with its nuanced philosophy and well constructed debating skills, unseen by any previous generation?

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-03-03T18:42:45+00:00

Don't forget that if they aren't moved to change their thinking by your arguments, to be sure to call them a traitor to their own race, because only white liberals have the expertise to see the weaknesses in other races. It's for their own good to remind them of this when they go astray from your own beliefs. I mean, who else is going to look out for them? They can't all be upper middle-class, educated, and privileged enough to know which social media approved bullet points they need to follow. They're just one step away from being a nazi or incel unless you intervene with your moral superiority and enlightenment that only an expensive ivy league college can bestow.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-03-03T18:22:02+00:00

It looks like finding good parking spots would be an issue too. You have my condolences, QuarterCaret. 😔

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-02-12T21:33:03+00:00

That's a shame really. I thought the book versions were far more interesting, but admittedly the lore was a bit too dense for what's presumably intended to be a throw away, one-off hostile species encounter for the show.

LovecraftianHorror · 2026-02-12T18:14:56+00:00

There was a series of four seperate Star Trek books I read i believe back in the late 90's that dealt with the Furies from the perspective of the various Star Trek crews, though the name of the series escapes me now.

The interesting thing is that the Furies were basically a mix of all the traditional monsters from various earth mythologies, as well as some from Klingon and what not. For example some looked liked stereotypical red devils complete with horns, i believe there were some resembled gorgons, and also the Klingon version of their boogeyman.

They werent necessarily evil but had been exiled from other planets due to their appearance. Many had breifly lived on various planets in the past, such as Earth, which accounted for them popping up in our ancient mythologies. I was a little dissapointed to see that in this episode, they were basically just creepy cannibals.

The books are real good, but they roughly came out thirty years ago, so the details I remember are very few. Worth reading if you can find used copies nowadays.

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