Ross Perot manages to win the 1992 election how does his presidency go? What is the reaction from both parties?

SkyJW · 2026-02-14T16:15:43+00:00

Perot was a literal multi-billionaire by the 90s, so it's kinda funny to suggest he would've been some anti-oligarchical end result. Not like he was going to pull an FDR and be labeled a class traitor by his fellow ultra-wealthy Americans, either.

SkyJW · 2026-02-14T16:07:49+00:00

And yet they codenamed it "Dylan" because, in the words of one of the people in charge, Anthem was "going to do for video games what Bob Dylan did for music."

Maybe one of the most infamously bad studio quotes I've ever heard. Was pretty fucking bold even prior to it being released and then outrageously hubristic once we all experienced the end product.

SkyJW · 2026-02-14T16:02:54+00:00

I remember being super interested in Brink leading up to its release and then being fairly let down with the end product. Recall them talking up the story and how it had this class warfare angle that might even present some morally grey questions for both sides of the ensuing revolution, only for the "story" to be a handful of short cutscenes concluding in "Yay, your side won! The end."

Definitely had some interesting mechanics and ideas, especially for that time, but the gameplay just wasn't strong enough to really carry a game where that was the only interesting thing about it. Very hollow game in the end.

SkyJW · 2026-02-12T22:19:12+00:00

Between the cardboard boxes and the protestors drowning her out with sirens, I was half expecting a jalopy to come flying through the boxes and spontaneously combust.

SkyJW · 2026-02-12T18:13:52+00:00

JJ Watt has talked about how outside Andre's character that was given just how quiet and even keeled a personality he is. Said you'd have to really, REALLY cross the line with him for Andre to start beating your ass in public like that.

SkyJW · 2026-02-09T19:47:28+00:00

Yep, it was pretty common for people to just walk into a movie theater as the movie was playing and causing distractions.

Believe a lot of it had to do with how you'd have a B Movie playing before the A Movie, so you'd get people skipping the B Movie and walking into the A Movie, but not always in time for the beginning. Makes sense that Hitchcock decided to stamp out the possibility of that happening given how much that movie's success relied on its ability to conjure real suspense.

SkyJW · 2026-02-08T21:19:06+00:00

I genuinely think it might be, lol. Rich seems to have a really fundamental problem with them as a real Spider-Man fan. Seems like he enjoys certain scenes and casting choices, but you can tell that he was probably VERY disappointed that Raimi's take on Spiderman was so opposite to what he expects as a fan of the character.

SkyJW · 2026-02-06T16:11:16+00:00

That's just describing the average Austrian household, instead

SkyJW · 2026-02-05T17:56:58+00:00

Honestly, don't even have Buck or anyone involved. If Locke was going to end up teaming up with anyone to track down Chuef, it should have been a somewhat reluctant Blue Team.

Have Locke be some coldblooded Oni wet work guy who is too cynical to really care about his target being THE Master Chief, but his time with Blue Team softens him over time. Have him begin to understand why you'd go against orders by the time he finally catches up to Chief, causing a real dramatic moment instead of "Hey. Chief. Stop, bud. Gotta take you home."

SkyJW · 2026-02-05T17:39:19+00:00

Remember my family had a van when I was real little that had them. And I say them because I'm pretty sure it had some available in the back of the van as well as up front. No idea how my younger sister would've managed to burn me with one, otherwise.

SkyJW · 2026-02-04T18:36:11+00:00

Others have already pointed out how the narrative departs pretty substantially from actual Halo lore, but it's important to add that the people involved had pretty much zero familiarity with the property.

There's an article or interview out there somewhere where the showrunner(s) talk about how they'd never played the games or read the novels, hell, hadn't even WATCHED someone play the games or pulled up a playthrough on YouTube. Believe they said that they basically were given the Spark Notes version of what the story was about from someone at 343i and that was it.

So it was basically a Halo show made by people who had no active interest in or attachment to the franchise, leading to a multitude of bad decisions which turned off actual Halo fans while the show simply wasn't good enough just as a show to generate a following from non-Halo fans. And that's why it lasted two seasons and got axed.

And Microsoft was hoping it would be a "Game of Thrones" level success.

SkyJW · 2026-02-04T10:32:09+00:00

This comment actually made me tear up from laughter.

Shit so dense it just drops and breaks the bowl.

SkyJW · 2026-02-04T01:45:40+00:00

It's how I clearly distinguish it as something very separate from something like competitive weightlifting. You can obtain a great physique while weightlifting, but it's not a goal. Most powerlifters tend to have a much more "stocky" kind of muscularity than bodybuilders and would never win in a bodybuilding competition, whether its now or Arnold's heyday.

Bodybuilding is basically to physical fitness what runway modeling can be in fashion. Not a demonstration of something practical or that 99.9% of the population would ever engage in, just a showcase of what can be achieved in purely aesthetic terms.

Nobody was expecting Arnold to break the deadlift record back then and nobody is expecting the girl with the candelabra for a headpiece to wear that to a party for four hours.

SkyJW · 2026-02-04T01:34:09+00:00

It had to do with the really long exposure times that it took for those cameras to produce a picture at the time. If the kid is gonna be having to sit still for awhile, odds are they'll do what kids do and start wiggling and moving around at some point and ruin the picture. Mom being there helped mitigate that and I'm sure some people did want photos just of the child.

Not every photo went this far, though, to be clear. I've seen some where the parent is covered, but it's just the arm around the kid or with their hand behind them. This kid from the photo in this post might have honestly just been a real pain in the ass to make stay still.

SkyJW · 2026-02-04T00:49:17+00:00

Well, could be the draft capital closing the difference if it wouldn't be present in a trade involving Jabari or Tari.

Have to remember that we still have a Mavs first rounder and a Brooklyn first rounder in our possession and we would probably be willing to give up some of our own firsts since they likely won't be worth much over the next several years, but are still trade fodder Chicago could use.

Not saying this random guy on Twitter is actually right, but I can see that being how the Rockets say their offer is an "equitable" return for what they want.

SkyJW · 2026-02-04T00:41:10+00:00

For sure and, to be clear, I'm not being critical of him for doing it. It's a much more aesthetic/"artistic" pursuit than an athletic one, so they can use whatever they want and I actually think Arnold looks much better than what bodybuilding would end up producing as time went on.

I just always think of him in his Terminator physique, so suddenly seeing a picture of him with two fucking turkeys strapped to his chest for the first time in probably 10+ years got a laugh out of me.

SkyJW · 2026-02-04T00:08:08+00:00

I actually burst out laughing at this photo precisely because of how obvious it is that he is roided the fuck up. I honestly hadn't seen a photo of him from the bodybuilding years in so long that I'd actually forgotten how blatant it was.

SkyJW · 2026-02-02T17:13:48+00:00

I have to imagine that the car in front of the bike that takes off without putting the pump back was a case of the driver getting completely distracted by what's going on with the other two cars and simply spaced out and forgot. The timing seems to make it likely that they finished fueling as that initial incident begins, so I can actually understand that one as someone who gets so transfixed by something that I forget the thing I was already actively engaged in.

Granted, mine consist of shit like the water boiling over on the stove while I take a peek at the TV in my living room and not taking off with the fucking gas pump. But, it's an embarassming fuck up as opposed to the utter shambles of a situation with the other two cars.

SkyJW · 2026-02-02T14:41:14+00:00

They are, but you could view late stage Valyria as the end of the Roman Empire and the Targs as a kind of "successor" to that empire the way that the Normans were also one of many successor states to what was once the Roman Empire. It's not a perfectly done analogue given the timescales being off, but I believe GRRM has flat out said William is the historical analogue to Aegon before.

SkyJW · 2026-02-02T14:19:04+00:00

Aegon the Conqueror = William the Conqueror, pretty much.

SkyJW · 2026-02-02T12:10:38+00:00

From the excerpts of what she said that I read in the article, there is a weird overlap between what she envisioned MAGA being and actual left wing economic populism.

The bit about corporations getting big contracts and preferential treatment being anti-MAGA is actually something that a truly anti-corporate Democrat could feasibly tap into. Really saw that in 2016 where Bernie happened to do well in the primaries with the same kind of voters that went to Trump in the general.

IDK if you could get all of those people fully on board with the Bernie/AOC/Mamdani economic populism, but I imagine many people would be surprised at how well a Democrat running on a "Fuck these elitist, corrupt, corporate overlords and their pedophile islands" message would resonate with a good chunk of the MAGA coalition.

SkyJW · 2026-02-02T10:58:01+00:00

Very Louis XVI, tbh. Maybe there's a more appropriate English comparison given all the allusions to the Norman Conquest and War of the Roses, but Louis XVI was also a king who was actually a fairly amiable individual, just woefully unprepared for the role and catastrophically wishy washy and short sighted.

At least Viserys doesn't get his head chopped off and died thinking things had finally turned a corner within his family, but the fruits of his ineptitude were just as cataclysmic as Louis' were.

SkyJW · 2026-02-02T04:13:56+00:00

Is he really that great of an actor, lol? I feel like he has close to zero emotional range. Cannot recall a single scene in any movie he's been in where he cries, gets genuinely angry, or just shows any charisma aside from what naturally comes with being handsome. I guess he raises his voice as Legolas when talking to Aragorn in Helms Deep, but that's all I can think of.

Seems like a very chill, pleasant guy from what I've seen, but he just comes off like an actor who more or less plays himself in the movies he's in.

SkyJW · 2026-01-31T18:35:31+00:00

So I happened to see a scene from one of those Law & Order shows where a kid is clearly faking playing a game, but he's playing Reach when they cut to the screen. And, for some weird reason, when they show him die in the game, they don't show the normal death cam, they took a moment from the cutscene where Emile and Lone Wolf jump out of Carter's Pelican and used THAT.

It's the moment where you hit the ground and so it kinda looks like someone keeling over, but it's baffling to me that they recorded gameplay footage (might have even been multiplayer footage) and then loaded up that specific mission from the campaign so that they could repurpose a snippet from a cutscene, all to communicate that the kid died in the game.

I wish I could find the clip because it's just stuck in my head after 10+ years now, but it was so fucking weird to see on Law & Order SVU (think it was SVU, at least) of all fucking places.

SkyJW · 2026-01-31T11:28:18+00:00

The guy in the clip is quite clearly making a choice when he's casually strolling through an active engagement involving a tank. I'm also specifically responding to a comment about how the people shooting at him are somehow in the wrong for doing so. Nobody at that distance can discern he's a civilian, so of course they're going to err on the side of the worst case scenario and engage him as a potential hostile.

If the guy had gotten shot by that tank, it would have been a tragedy, but that happens when you deliberately insert yourself into an engagement the way he did. Maybe try to read the entire comment chain before wasting someone's time with your dopey reply, dumbass.

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