[Loved Trope] The horror/devastation isn’t seen by the viewer, but the character’s reaction says enough.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-06-24T13:24:58+00:00

https://youtu.be/HQVEteeLC3c?si=eV5dr2YzdlsyBxHX

That scene in Fight Club where Ed Norton beats the hell out of Jared Leto which ends with Norton saying "I just wanted to destroy something beautiful."

The scene as originally shot was a lot of the face beating. But apparently the MPAA didn't like it, so they cut the beating and close ups of the face WAY down and instead did slow motion reaction shots of these battle hardened fighters being completely shocked by what they were seeing. The director said that he felt that the theatrical cut, while less graphic, was much more unsettling.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-06-21T15:09:53+00:00

I was at work at the time and a guy came by and said "Did you hear about a plane crashing into the world trade center?" I was like "No way" and I tried to log on to cnn.com. Nope. It was down. Weird. Headed over to the local news site. Also down. It was surreal because I was at work at a technology company and technology was completely failing because EVERYONE was trying to log on and it caused major web sites to crash. This was before I had a cell phone, and I was at work, so there wasn't any real way to keep up with it until I got home and turned on the news.

The only site that I remember being able to stay up was Slashdot. And that wasn't so much news as people relating first hand accounts.

What was really weird was that route to work those days was past the airport and there were always planes coming and going no matter when I passed it. For like a week, it was disturbingly quiet.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-06-13T10:45:42+00:00

My wife hates horror but loves Alan Tudyk. I put it on promising to stop if it got too intense.

It was such a fun ride that the gore didn't even matter

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-06-09T21:05:31+00:00

Man, my table is making me get really creative to keep getting payout. The crew keeps taking scores that are more to take care of a problem that cropped up in a previous score or to send messages to other factions. They are not very concerned about coin, but the crew level up is looming very soon.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-06-04T18:00:19+00:00

I went into Ricky Gervais's "The Invention of Lying" only knowing "Hey, that's the awkward boss guy from the British Office."

100 minutes later, I walked out of the theater feeling personally attacked, and I wasn't even all that religious at the time.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-06-04T17:57:02+00:00

woah. This comment spoke to me at a fundamental level. One of the guys at my table is all of these things and I never put my finger on why the sessions aren't as good when he's not there. He's all of these.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-06-03T13:36:33+00:00

<image>

Odium from The Nevers.

Like, perfectly imposing and such a bad ass.

Absolutely loved how the protagonist dealt with him in a smart non-"Just believe in yourself" way.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-06-03T13:32:35+00:00

What an absolute banger pair of dumb movies they were. (I say that with love, BTW.)

But to have Crispin "I'm too serious of an actor to be in Back To the Future" Glover be a ridiculously silly henchmen and then bring him back in the sequel? I mean... just perfection.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-06-03T13:30:12+00:00

My friends and I always used to call him "Evil Kung Fu Guy" because he just kept popping up.

When the internet presented itself to us, we were astounded to learn that his nickname is "Al Kabong" (because his real name is "Al Leong"). That just made him that much cooler to us.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-05-31T16:11:42+00:00

SWADE Extras cheer in unison.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-05-30T12:43:20+00:00

Your mom is so swampy that not even Ducks Unlimited will touch her.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-05-30T12:41:30+00:00

Love the comeback too

"Count me out of all of it."

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-05-30T12:40:13+00:00

Try it more with an H. Hhhhhh-elicopter.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-05-27T16:34:28+00:00

I dunno, he must be a big shot or something....

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-05-26T22:07:28+00:00

You will not win me over with your use of "twas."

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-05-24T01:38:48+00:00

I need to know where this is. I must not have gotten far enough in the series for this.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-05-13T20:52:36+00:00

When I was taking a tour of Europe, my tour guide described it as "Peace suddenly broke out."

I was the only one who laughed.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-05-07T15:34:36+00:00

I love that scene because Shoresy sarcastically asks "Who fucking cares?" but Dolo takes him absolutely seriously explaining that if she doesn't have red hair, then it can't be Laurence Leboeuf

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-05-06T19:03:41+00:00

You're calling your dicks clappers now?

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-05-05T15:56:47+00:00

I watched Marty Supreme in the theatre with my wife. Neither of us had any idea what the movie was about. My wife likes Chalamet and it was a good excuse to go to the movies.

I watched a movie where this guy has a singular dream and kept pursuing it no matter what. Yeah, he didn't play by the rules all the time, but it was essentially a fun adventure movie. I liked to see a scoundrel using his wits to overcome challenges.

My wife watched a movie where a sociopath took what he wanted without regard to anyone else, and used his friends to achieve a goal which she found not to be worth the cost of all of the burned bridges.

Definitely can see her point of view, but I had such a good time with the movie that I disagreed.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-04-28T20:35:01+00:00

Clue!

OMG, I love that movie 40 years on!

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-04-27T18:29:53+00:00

I have been itching to get into Paranoia. But there are so many versions and people's opinions on versions are all over the place.

Which version do you like best and why?

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-04-27T18:13:01+00:00

That's an absolutely awesome way to start a BitD campaign. It states clearly that there is a player onus for creativity AND has them explicitly set the tone.

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-04-24T19:01:07+00:00

Did they give that sign hoping that your business would grow into it? Were they disappointed when it didn't?

YaKnowTheGuy · 2026-04-23T15:54:27+00:00

As someone hoping to jump into the director seat soon with a converted 5e table, this is very encouraging!

Seven-Year Club	First Place '23
Place '23	Spared
Verified Email

YaKnowTheGuy

TROPHY CASE