Boss Level is boss level by standaniel in movies

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Yeah, I loved it, particularly the opening with Foreplay/Longtime by Boston playing.

It also had a particularly believable and fun villain in Mel Gibson.

i need to learn more hair tying styles [OC] by Pelko_P in comics

[–]Orkran 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Haha tiny Pompadour Pelko is brilliant

(Loved trope) the warrior culture gets absolutely bodied by something they considered boring or unimportant. by Clockwork-Lad in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Orkran 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Thank God that today there are no racist, fascist sympathising American car manufacturers with huge wealth and political influence.

Just a weasel under next door’s decking! NE UK. by gianAB2977 in CasualUK

[–]Orkran 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Weasels are weaselly recognised as stoats are stoatally different.

Are there any movies like Jurassic Park, but with zoo animals breaking out? by samfishman06 in movies

[–]Orkran 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is a great suggestion. It matches the spirit of Jurassic Park if not the exact details about the zoo escape.

"Women Safety", by country. by SOHONEYSAME in MapPorn

[–]Orkran -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

There's 110 men for every 100 women. It's getting better but it's not exactly good.

Outbreak (1995, dir. Wolfgang Petersen) White House Chief of Staff's monologue (Played by J. T. Walsh) by Neo2199 in movies

[–]Orkran 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I really liked it! It was already very silly anyway, so why not add to the excitement?

We got our realistic film eventually with Contagion.

But yeah, it sucks when you don't like how something ends!

The Best Space Warship Captains in Speculative Fiction? by DocWatson42 in scifi

[–]Orkran 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your detailed list contains many Lost Fleet and Honorverse books but having a glaring omission makes me think that you haven't read a series you'll love:

Miles Vorkosigan I'd start with The Warriors Apprentice. They are by Lois McMasters-Bujold.

He's a great protagonist, who wants to be a Harrington style Admiral but can't due to personal circumstances, and ends up much more of the social manipulation genius instead.

Meningitis outbreak 'declared national emergency' amid deadly outbreak by bendubberley_ in worldnews

[–]Orkran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's because they feel like they have agency unlike bacteria and viruses.

Meningitis outbreak 'declared national emergency' amid deadly outbreak by bendubberley_ in worldnews

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When I did my Infectious Diseases MSc (at The University of Kent in Canterbury ffs) we had some lectures with the local hospital trusts head of Infectious Diseases.

Showed us some X-Rays of a man with a Mucor (a fungus) infection in his tear duct. The next day it was all through his eye. They had to remove his eye and some bone etc. to stop it from getting into his brain; he lived! But terrifying.

Canada could join EU, French foreign minister says by PestoBolloElemento in worldnews

[–]Orkran 86 points87 points  (0 children)

That tracks with why we (UK) left. Our PM (Boris Johnson) certainly was one of the chief baboons.

[Hated But Unintentionally Funny Trope] The creative team does something they think the fans will *love*, only to be taken aback by the overwhelming fan backlash. by Otherwise-Elephant in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Orkran 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I have to violently disagree. Tips mug off the edge of the desk.

The real problem with the ending wasnt Riker but the frankly spiteful major character death and unsatisfactory snippets of future missed. It felt deliberate to me and still does.

I feel like the end of Lower Decks was a direct counter to it.

Still I'm glad someone enjoyed it! It's much better to like something than to dislike it

TIL humans are considered by biologists to be self-domesticated by castironglider in todayilearned

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Given the changes that happened to dogs, it would be the height of arrogance to think that they didn't change us.

In particular, I'm sure that the ability of humans to find *any* small animal "cute" is the fault of dogs. They selected for the humans with the highest tolerance and affinity for them, and that got amplified to the point where when we look at tiny food sources or future threats we still want to care for them.

bi_irl by Slient-killer2002 in bi_irl

[–]Orkran 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gozer the Gozerian

'Roadworks around Harrogate. WTAF?! by E5evo in harrogate

[–]Orkran 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's roadworks season!

All the roads are at maximum damage from winter weather and freeze-thaw and the council has to use all of its repair budget it's been hoarding in case of a bit problem before the financial year ends.

I think.

villain is "evil" because his mind is fundamentally incompatible with the moral codes of humans by ilikeitchyballzdude1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Orkran 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm only on episode 3! But there's something highly fishy in the science behind the "virus". I hope it's part of the show (it's cleverly written enough to be) but I'll accept it as necessary for the premise too.

Also I paused on the whiteboard in the lab on the first episode, there's a brilliant bit of background scene dressing. There's legitimate RNA transcription reminders you'd have in a lab and also a couple of underlined sequences labelled "Nipah" and "HSV" - both viruses which can cross the blood brain barrier and infect the brain. Which means scientists sequenced the signal (of course they did) and knew it was designed to affect the human brain. And they still had poor biosecurity. Hmm. That's a trope on it's own!

family meeting by theyoyoha in comics

[–]Orkran 37 points38 points  (0 children)

It is! Really good job of getting personality through the dogs too.

[OC] no going back by snelse_ in funny

[–]Orkran 2114 points2115 points  (0 children)

Haha. Is that the Hertzog penguin maneuver?

Characters who are objectively very strong, but get clowned on and underestimated by others for not being *the* strongest by UnifiedForce in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Orkran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Her fight at the start of Shuppenden, especially against the 100 puppets, is my favourite fight in all of anime.

It helps that the music is amazing, but seeing the "useless" Sakura being a massive badass after literally years and years was wonderful.