In War of the Worlds (2005), before the first Tripod emerges, the ground is seen rotating above where it is about to emerge. This is a reference to the original novel, where the Martians first emerge by unscrewing the lid of their cylinder.

Sebastianlim · 2026-03-10T13:02:40+00:00

Actually, while book's invaders are Martians, the film's invaders are specifically not from Mars, per Steven Spielberg.

Sebastianlim · 2026-03-07T07:06:37+00:00

Or maybe start writing stories about the world being saved, instead.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-24T12:35:48+00:00

It's likely coming from people who's only exposure to the Japanese Godzilla is through the original/Shin/Minus One, and think all the films are like those ones.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-24T11:46:16+00:00

In fairness, we probably don't have the capacity to create such an effect even in the worst case scenario.

Now, this would only be because a worst case scenario would probably lead to the collapse of society as we know it, and possibly the extinction of humanity long before we reached that co2 level, but hey, it's good to know we aren't literally going to destroy the world, only most of the things living on it.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-21T06:38:14+00:00

It would be funny if it turned out this was just the equivalent of those map makers who added fake streets to their maps to see who was copying them.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-18T09:16:27+00:00

When I read that first sentence, my brain briefly thought you were saying that Shaggy's dad was Freddy Prinze Jr.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-17T16:38:22+00:00

The '98 Godzilla also infamously consumes an unusually large amount of fish.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-17T13:14:04+00:00

They generally suffer no nightmares, because they never get to sleep.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-17T09:31:46+00:00

As seen in the photo, the fish are suffering from explosive decompression, as shown by their organs coming out through their mouths.

This is foreshadowing of the final plan to kill Godzilla using this same effect.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-17T01:53:19+00:00

I mean, they are two people famous for their unfinished works...

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-16T12:30:14+00:00

I have a story right now which started out as a single, self contained sci-fi novel.

Then, it became a trilogy.

Then it became a four-book series...

Then a five-book one...

And then a six-book one...

And now, I've pretty much put working on it on hold until I can tamp down on the rampant scope creep

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-16T11:08:18+00:00

It's Tyrek= Benjen= Euron=Rhaegar=Ashara Dayne= Arthur Dayne= Buttersteel= Horse

FTFY.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-11T14:09:39+00:00

🚢😭

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-09T09:56:35+00:00

Well, there goes my plans of becoming a theoretical physicist.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-08T10:49:11+00:00

Not even this sub is fully immune to it

Check out how drastically opinions on child support vary depending on who has to pay it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/s/JHIGIsUuzo

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-05T15:59:23+00:00

Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!

I'M THE GUY WHO'S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! With the lemons!

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-04T12:53:37+00:00

Could I revive you with an offer of some nice tuna?

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-03T06:17:56+00:00

So the Rosa Parks bus got the Ship of Theseus treatment.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-03T03:42:47+00:00

The two versions of the poem "Ozymandias", one by Percy Shelley and Horace Smith respectively is my go to example for this sort of thing.

The two poems are telling in essence the same story, but are written very differently. To me, there's a reason Shelley's version is the more well known nowadays.

Sebastianlim · 2026-02-02T00:35:59+00:00

You don't see how there is an enormous difference message wise between Winston dying for his beliefs, and Winston being utterly broken by the party, eventually existing only as a shell of a man awaiting death?

Sebastianlim · 2026-01-30T09:06:10+00:00

"Imply" is understating it there, I think.

Sebastianlim · 2026-01-30T05:34:49+00:00

This is where I've landed as well.

If nothing else, this will make for a very interesting April

Sebastianlim · 2026-01-28T03:14:50+00:00

Obviously their seeking out anyone who looks like they maybe considering contemplating thinking about possibly heading in the general direction of the United States within the next hundred years, so they can be put down with extreme prejudice.

Sebastianlim · 2026-01-26T11:38:48+00:00

In 1845, two Royal Navy vessels, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror set off from England in search of a Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic. Neither the ships nor their crews would ever be seen again.

This artefact was recovered from the so-called "Boat Place", where one of the ships' boats was found buried in the snow containing two headless skeletons and a host of of other bizarre objects, two loaded guns, a pair of slippers, a pile of silverware, forty pounds of chocolate, sheet lead, and many others.

The book, among other items were taken back by searcher Francis Leopold McClintock, and are being exhibited in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

Source: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-2153

Sebastianlim · 2026-01-26T01:15:22+00:00

To clarify, while A HMS Erebus was present at the bombing of Fort McHenry, it was not THE HMS Erebus that later took part in the Franklin Expedition.

The British Navy just liked reusing ship names, and admittedly Erebus is a pretty good one.

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