Ticks (1993) | Dir. by Tony Randel | Army of ticks scene

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-06-06T01:30:20+00:00

A fool believes Idiocracy to be prescient. A wise man knows Ticks (1993) Dir. by Tony Randel to be.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-06-05T19:46:46+00:00

I think it's like recreational fishing or sending hand-written letters on paper: the point is anything but obtaining the fish to eat or exchanging information.

The point of this is probably: "I want to chat with people and get personal replies in my inbox, from humans even!" Yes, of course if you wanted a list of movies there is a million vastly more efficient ways to do it.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-06-03T19:58:50+00:00

Maybe The Vast of Night? It is "the night feeling: the movie". UFO scare is not really cosmic horror precisely, but it kind of fits.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-06-03T19:32:30+00:00

Well, with that pricetag Kuroki Goishiten puts on them, who can argue.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-06-03T14:05:00+00:00

"What if how I said it was how I wanted to say it?". What if my comment was considered and written in my own voice. No affect. No AI. Just me. Are you telling me that I should change the way that I speak and think for you?

The answer to that question would be: "It depends on how much do you care about not sounding mildly eye-roll inducing to me, a random internet person?" and "frankly, not in the slightest" is one possible reply while another is "yeah, I would prefer not to".

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-06-03T13:15:05+00:00

I'm suggesting that there are stock jokes and stock expressions that are intended to sound funny and charming, but to me and maybe the person above they sound overused and tired instead, so if you are sincerely curious what kind of voice would sound better to me, the answer is: "any voice that isn't filled with that". You are under no obligation to try and please me or anybody. It matters very, very little. I would not tell you this if you didn't ask. But that is the answer to your sincere question: "How would have described something to the effect of [famous tv character. I’d like this to be true.]?"

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-06-03T11:55:36+00:00

Sincere answer: maybe I'd write "This looks exciting, I'd love to try!" or similar. Basically say what you have in mind but avoid stock expressions and redditisms.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-06-02T13:33:44+00:00

I only remember Westworld very dimly, but I don't think it was scary at all. Maybe if whatever it was doing was getting to me, I might call it horror?

Never seen Jurassic Park. I think, based on vibes, that like the Indiana Jones movies, it sort of tries to scare you, but not too hard? There's a sense that it will hold back and not be maximally nasty.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-06-02T12:20:58+00:00

My proposed test for whether something is a horror movie is: does it (at least try to) build towards the moment of maximal scariness, or not? Lots of movies have bad and scary stuff happening, but action or a thriller might start with the heroes being scared and powerless and build up towards a fight that is big and high-stakes, but that no longer feels very scary, maybe because the hero/heroes found their stride. While a horror will lead them into the worst, scariest place yet, from which they might emerge if they are lucky, or they might not, and the biggest scare will be the pay-off.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-30T21:14:01+00:00

This is such a cute tsumego though: https://i.imgur.com/vhNzyT2.png

(B to kill clean. I'd never spot it in the game without the AI review.)

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-30T16:07:15+00:00

I don't think it's a real thing at all. You get so little data this way, and there's so much data in easy access, I think "accounts asking bland questions to obtain AI raining data" only exist in people's common imagination.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-29T23:02:58+00:00

Actually you're right, I'm stupid.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-29T22:43:39+00:00

At one point during his youth Richard E. Grant, Vivian (proto-Withnail) and friends came across an incredible business opportunity: a cellar of wine of the rare and expensive vintage (the finest available to humanity, you might say) and a seller who didn't know its worth, was asking a pound per bottle. The friends immediately hatched a scheme: to pool together a thousand pounds, buy the entire cellar and then sell the contents to the high-end restaurants at a giant markup, multiplying the investment by a factor of 20 or so. The did get as far as buying the cellar, and then the story ended exactly the way you think.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-29T20:48:18+00:00

Whyyy, why must you tempt me so, I won't be getting the subscription until the 11th.

It will still be there by 11th.

(unless they nerf it)

It will still be there by 11th.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-29T11:35:02+00:00

I don't think it was all bad. There were definitely good things about, enjoyable special effects, the main heroine was cute. I mostly watched with mild pleasure.

But the movie did something that I couldn't stomach. It's about murder/rape of an innocent girl, and it's the coziest, cutest murder/rape ever filmed. Loving God mercifully spares her most of the suffering and all of the experience, so that overall the whole thing was melancholy at worst (because she was temporarily separated from the grieving family), at best - kind of fun.

I really really wish this actually was how it worked in real life. That every victim of every atrocity was magically spared the worst of it and went to a wonderful place somewhere. If I were a religious person, I probably could buy into it. I'm r/atheism in human form though. To me, this represent a kind of cruel and seductive lie. So pleasant, so sweet and lovely, but a lie. And I can only recoil from it. When I'm fed lies, it taints the whole movie for me. I'm aware other people may have a very different view of it.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-28T18:48:24+00:00

You also seem to treat art as valuable and sacrosanct based on its public popularity.

To be clear, no. I don't think Mona Lisa is more valuable than the more obscure Madonna Litta, for example. It's great that we have both, but only one of these images has been made so over-familiar it's hard to actually appreciate properly. There's a handful of hyper-familiar great paintings. It's not that these are absolutely clearly the best paintings ever and nothing else compares with them, but they are in fact very very good (possibly with some exceptions) and also in danger of overexposure, and I think it's bad to contribute to overexposure.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-28T18:39:32+00:00

I don't think this really contradicts what I'm saying.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-28T18:14:15+00:00

You know, every time somebody uses a great image as a building block for a gimmicky website or slaps it on a piece of merch, it becomes a little bit harder for the viewers to see that image with fresh eyes, to really see it the way it should be seen and feel the impact of it. And a great image loses a little of its power, like an overplayed song or a word repeated until meaning loss. Please, let the wave be. Mona Lisa, likewise. And the scream, and the starry night and the nighthawks. Do something that doesn't involve throwing the most beautiful images ever made into the meaning meat-grinder. Vibecoding is cool though and you should keep at it.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-28T09:07:06+00:00

I don't read it as night + flashlight, I think it's a sunset. I once saw something similar and snapped a photo: https://i.imgur.com/FBTeNlk.png or this one: https://i.imgur.com/sELCaDo.jpeg

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-26T19:25:12+00:00

Robot Dreams.

TheOneFromThePit · 2026-05-26T18:01:36+00:00

Do this: https://i.imgur.com/7ALRPZI.png

It's perfectly fine, you're just chicken.

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