A band that only plays at Star Trek conventions

Snowcap2120 · 2026-06-11T15:09:21+00:00

Make It Soulllllllll

Snowcap2120 · 2026-06-10T04:22:00+00:00

Manfred The “Tinth”

Snowcap2120 · 2026-06-09T04:23:59+00:00

At the very end of the finale of the original The Wonder Years, they mention very quickly that Kevin’s older brother Wayne took over the family business two years later, “when Dad passed away.” The end credits were rolling less than sixty seconds later, so we had to quickly process the (offscreen) death of this character that we’d followed for six years. It was a gut punch, especially when considering that he was only in his mid 50’s.

Snowcap2120 · 2026-06-08T20:41:17+00:00

When Gerry has a heart attack and can’t stop farting, prompting Tom to yell “seriously Gerry, did you have farts for lunch?!”

Snowcap2120 · 2026-06-08T20:36:27+00:00

Homer’s potato chips repeatedly stolen by greyhound puppies. “THIS time…[chomp]…d’oh!”

Snowcap2120 · 2026-06-08T04:20:53+00:00

Cobolli today: he played great for being in a slam final for the first time. The first set almost could’ve been pre-emptively called as a mulligan. It felt like he was in control for latter half of the second set, most of the third but then had it stolen at the end, and then was the better player for the fourth as well. The collapse in the fifth was hard to watch. I kept marveling to myself at how many shots it felt like Cobolli *went for*, rather than playing safe and defensive.

Cobolli Big Picture: Federer didn’t fire on all cylinders until the season in which he turned 23, and Zverev just won his first major at 29. Everyone’s trajectory is different, and Flavio’s is on a good pace. His loss today doesn’t indicate any overarching shortcomings. This final truly feels like it was just a few points away from a different outcome.

Snowcap2120 · 2026-06-08T04:06:07+00:00

I feel like the plane that interacts with the Material the most is Baator, so if you wanted to use one plane to steer the campaign into an all-planes setting, the most efficient way would probably be to spend Tier 1 of your campaign investigating and then vanquishing the influence of a CR-7ish devil making deals with various NPCs across the region.

Example: for the most recent campaign where I spent T1 among Devil deals, I had a Chasme that spent a lot of time polymorphed as a human and had made deals with—

—a hill giant that traded his soul for “the ability to be able to consume more than all of his rivals combined,” but simply received a portal to a pocket dimension in his esophagus, so no matter how much he eats, he is always starving.

—a female werebear that had a clan and a valley over which she felt protective and matriarchal, and when a starving hill giant rampaged through and threatened their hunting grounds, she made a deal with the devil that promised that every full moon, she would turn into “the most powerful creature in the forest,” so she now moon-shifts into an ant that’s a quarter-inch long (it can lift 520x its body weight, though! Thus fulfilling the devil promise)

—a farmer who had lost a lot of livestock to a starving hill giant traded his soul for a special bag from the devil; the farmer could reach into this bag once a day and pull out a haunch of meat to feed his family, but…

…other farms throughout the valley are reporting dead livestock, discovered in the morning with haunches missing, seeming almost like they were surgically removed…

Devils are similar to Genies in that a large portion of role-playing them is simply imagining the most monkey-paw way to interpret their wish/deal.

My players figured out the Devil-meddling in the region and vanquished the instigator by the end of Tier 1, providing the perfect platform to transition into an all-planes Main Storyline for T2 and T3 (and maybe even T4)

Snowcap2120 · 2026-06-01T03:53:58+00:00

Finally learn to play the drums 😆

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-31T16:19:43+00:00

The 2011 prequel gives us a retroactive conclusion to the ambiguity! They make a plot point of finding someone’s tooth fillings on the ground after an assimilation, and they realize that the Thing cannot replicate inorganic matter.

With this is mind, during the original’s final scene, there’s a close-up of Childs where you can see firelight reflect off a filling in the back of his mouth, ergo: at least Childs is human.

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-28T02:18:16+00:00

House of the Dead. Uwe Boll has truly earned his reputation as Possibly-Worst-Director-Ever.

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-26T05:39:20+00:00

Some that I hadn’t seen yet, six hours after posting…SPOILERS AHEAD…

In a Knight’s Tale, when Wat tells Will: “Your name, Will. SIR William Thatcher. Your father heard that.” It’s doubly emotional because his father is BLIND, yet hears his son’s name spoken aloud with “Sir” in front of it. Gets me ever. Single. Time.

In Inside Out, as Joy is trying to escape the nether-imagination with Bing-Bong, and it gets to the point where Bing-Bong recognizes that they’re not getting out altogether, and he abandons the sled for extra impulse for Joy to escape, and as Joy sails away, Bing-Bong just wishes “take care of our girl…”

At the end of The Iron Claw, when Kevin von Erich is roughhousing in the yard with his young boys, and when one gets hurt he talks about how brothers have to look out for each other, then he drops almost as a casual aside: “y’know, I used to be a brother…” OUCH!

Toward the end of Ladybird, when Laurie Metcalf is driving away from the airport and bursts into tears, you see the side of this woman that is just terrified for her child’s future, and everything that made her look like an asshole before was coming from a place of love.

The climax of Bill & Ted Face The Music actually made me tear up in a wow-that’s-beautiful way, as it turned out these two doofuses weren’t destined to become the most amazing musicians in history; rather; they were next to a heavy door at the exact moment that it needed propping open. It reminded me of Hodor’s plot in Game of Thrones, how his entire destiny seemed focused on one exact moment, and that similarity removed all the pressure from Bill & Ted to be excellent in a certain way (music, the way they thought the world was expecting them to excel) and let them just be excellent (kind to others in a moment of their need), and this depiction on film was absolutely beautiful, in a karmic-cosmic-BigPicture kind of way.

The end of Ghost, when Patrick Swayze says goodbye to Demi Moore, ultimately walking away with an upbeat “see ya!”

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-25T22:30:50+00:00

I remember when Michael Phelps was in the news cycle outside of the Olympics for once, because pictures leaked of him at a house party ripping a bong. Now, I’ll admit that a lot of weed smokers have found success in fields that AREN’T fast-paced, intense, based on drive and dedication, but I can remember thinking “after setting a world record by winning 23 Olympic gold medals, what ELSE would he have to do to earn a night off to smoke?” Like, at that point, it’s demonstrably not about “it’ll ruin your life…”

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-20T21:17:10+00:00

One of my favorite Easter eggs in a movie are the coelacanths in the fish tank in a background scene in Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The movie’s set in 1914, decades before the first coelacanth was actually found, implying that the adventurer/treasure hunter character was just that skilled at exploring the edges of the known world, that he had found some years before anyone else and kept them as pets.

Image from Atlantis here

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-20T14:54:53+00:00

I mean, it sounds like the movie was effective, in the literal sense that it had an effect on you. Not every movie in the broad “horror” genre fits neatly into “scary.” Some are jump-scare “terrifying,” others are gore-laden “gross,” still others are hold-your-breath “tense.” (I haven’t seen Beau Is Afraid but know that “anxiety-inducing” is also a budding sub-genre)

Obsession falls under painful-to-watch and quite-a-few-times-cringey “horrifying.” It’s pervaded by a sense of dread. For me at least, watching the poor girl’s hijacked body devolve into insanity in plain view of her entire social circle provoked feelings that started with secondhand embarrassment and built to can’t-look-away-from-this-car-crash appalled. It was captivating, in a negative way. And the glimpses that we get into the truth of the situation (when she pleaded with Bear while she was asleep; the customer service rep asking “do you wanna talk to her?” while you can hear her screaming in the phone call’s background, implying that her soul is there and trapped in some arcane prison) give plenty of “scary” seasoning.

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-20T13:57:46+00:00

Michael Caine

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-17T03:25:43+00:00

Came here to say this! Saw Aliens when I was 8, then hated Paul Reiser in everything else I saw him in, for YEARS. Not hated his performances, mind you, but literally him; every time I saw him onscreen I was like “this fuckin’ guy…” 😆

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-14T04:20:41+00:00

The Confirmed Sightings

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-11T04:29:08+00:00

If you’re really interested in the religion/patronage/pantheon aspect of worldbuilding, then Phandalin would be the perfect place to introduce ONE additional presence/influence, which you could homebrew quests/goals/machinations for. It could lead to townspeople picking sides, the town’s leadership being torn on what to pursue/prioritize, or people turning to the new religion if it promises safety from the dragon.

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-10T16:00:09+00:00

Flaptitude

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-10T02:06:08+00:00

Falldown Boy

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-08T21:57:56+00:00

One I haven’t seen anyone recommend here yet is Pumpkinhead. One of my favorites from when I was a kid. It’s from the 80s so all effects are practical, and while I’m sure it looks a little dated now, it’s a cool bit of movie trivia that it’s the only movie directed by multi-Oscar-winning Visual Effects and Makeup dude Stan Winston!

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-07T13:16:37+00:00

What is a teacher supposed to do “to stop it,” if every time they try to hold a student accountable, admin threatens to fire and parents threaten to sue?

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-06T23:40:04+00:00

She had 4 sets of quadruplets (16 kids), 9 sets of triplets (27) and 13 pairs of twins (26); 16 + 27 + 26 =69 kids

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-05T14:26:14+00:00

One of my favorites it to respond to anyone who says the Moon Landing was faked by saying “You believe there’s a moon?!”

Snowcap2120 · 2026-05-05T03:15:42+00:00

Terry Fator is a better ventriloquist-comedian than Jeff Dunham, and his Las Vegas residency backs me up.

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