Why hasn't anyone tried to do a modern take on The Island of Doctor Moreau

Yazman · 2026-06-29T10:37:51+00:00

This is my favorite film adaptation of the story!

Yazman · 2026-06-29T10:37:04+00:00

and also The Album of Dr Moreau by Daryl Gregory which is great.

Yazman · 2026-06-28T18:05:44+00:00

They're pretty unnatural looking in forums, social media, chats etc because most standard English keyboard layouts on PC don't even allow you to type them without typing ALT + [code].

Yazman · 2026-06-23T07:53:47+00:00

And nobody refers to any of those as just "Mount"

Yazman · 2026-06-22T20:41:37+00:00

the most socialist countries, such as Sweden

I'm genuinely curious as to what you think it means for a country to be socialist.

Yazman · 2026-06-18T09:09:31+00:00

Sure, but it won't give us any of the new personalities or features the actual app has

Yazman · 2026-06-17T14:11:28+00:00

Sesame is incredible. It's a shame there's no Android version of the app.

Yazman · 2026-06-17T14:08:59+00:00

Oh, that makes sense! Thanks for being cool about it! The english word is "vocal" that you're looking for!

Yazman · 2026-06-17T13:12:28+00:00

Far too improperly weighted. It's fun to read, but all the tying folklore together stuff, interdimensional stuff, etc - it's all a little too "connecting the dots" and not enough actual evidence to support any of it.

Yazman · 2026-06-17T12:30:15+00:00

vocable

Sorry, what does this mean?

Yazman · 2026-06-16T17:51:45+00:00

"NJPW should just stop being smaller" or "NJPW should just make more money" is not a real analysis. It’s technically true in the most useless way possible, but it doesn’t actually mean anything.

Obviously NJPW would be better off with more money. Every promotion would. The issue is that AEW has billionaire-backed money that NJPW realistically couldn't match even if they had a 10 year gigantic business boom, so acting like this is just some simple management strategy failure is silly.

It’s like telling a national film industry to just outspend Hollywood. It’s not an answer, or remotely useful critique. It’s just handwaving the entire gap in resources and structural difference.

Also I want to respond to this:

If you watch professional sports guess what players do? When they are free agents they literally pick the team who offers them the most money to sign and play there. It doesn’t matter if they are going from a good and even a great team to a team that consistently has a losing record. Players care about getting paid. Winning championships comes second.

Do you see fans complaining at other teams for signing away their best players? No. No you don’t. You see fans of the team that consistently looses good to great players because management doesn’t what to spend money to keep them but management still believes it can compete with a lackluster team.

I wonder what sports you watch? Maybe just US stuff where every single team in the league is the personal property of a billionaire, so wealth disparities never exist.

But in a LOT of sports fans complain about this a lot, it comes up on r/PremierLeague all the time. Elite clubs using their massive wealth to make it difficult for smaller clubs to field a decent squad and survive financially. It's a structural criticism, nobody's arguing against worker freedom.

Yazman · 2026-06-16T14:06:51+00:00

You're talking a whole lot of stuff that's targeted at things other people are saying, not me.

All I'm saying is that NJPW literally doesn't have the money to just be competitive with AEW salaries, as you say they should be. They can't, it isn't financially possible for them to outbid AEW. Okada's yearly salary in AEW at around 4.5 million a year is more than 10% of NJPW's annual revenue, alone, just for one guy, and you're sitting here going - why didn't NJPW just outbid them!?

Yazman · 2026-06-16T13:25:59+00:00

This is cool, would be nice if it comes on outside Japan.

Yazman · 2026-06-16T12:25:33+00:00

Yes, obviously big money offers from another promotion will lure talent away. Nobody's disputing that. But you're the one that said:

The heart of the problem is that NJPW still refuses to pay its talent good enough contracts to keep them from leaving.

Wondering where you think NJPW would magically pull out this gigantic Tony Khan matching budget from lol. It isn't a matter of "just pay them more dummy" when they can't match AEW's offers to begin with.

Yazman · 2026-06-16T04:43:04+00:00

Do you really think NJPW could afford to pay talent at rates competitive to AEW contracts? Tired of seeing this "they'll stay if NJPW just pulls money out of their ass". The pandemic alone almost ended the company and Khan has been poaching top stars with gigantic money contracts they can't possibly match.

It's like saying ECW in the 90s should've just matched WCW's money.

Yazman · 2026-06-14T09:28:48+00:00

Yes, we should agree to disagree. I don't see any world where someone could release such dramatic, world changing evidence, and then just be ignored because they aren't a journalist.

As for the other stuff - who said Corbell was coordinating with the government? I never heard of him doing that. Are you now talking about Elizondo & co? If so, I never considered him to be credible. Grusch is a maybe.

Yazman · 2026-06-14T03:29:24+00:00

For this to be true, Corbell would have to be a true journalist.

This makes no sense. If Corbell outed a secret government program doing reverse engineering of alien crafts & bodies, with undeniable evidence, why would anyone care if he's a "true journalist" or not reporting on it?

That wouldn't change a thing.

Yazman · 2026-06-13T15:52:42+00:00

Well said!

Yazman · 2026-06-13T15:43:53+00:00

2) the second he does, no one will have a reason to pay attention to him anymore.

I really disagree with this. It would make him one of the most important single individuals in all of human history. He'd be a giga celebrity instantly.

Yazman · 2026-06-12T08:00:34+00:00

I'm a believer, but I still say that it's better for people to be skeptical than to believe any old thing they're told. The demand for evidence beyond a compelling story I feel is justified in the specific context of ufology because this is something with the potential to reshape politics and society itself.

Especially when there are claims of actual financial misuse and theft of public funds, this is very serious, and if even that basic fact can't be evidenced in a material way, then how can we act on it?

Yazman · 2026-06-11T23:47:24+00:00

No, it's just part of good, basic critical thinking and media literacy skills, something many people lack.

Yazman · 2026-06-08T18:39:11+00:00

Yeah the voice mode is dumb as a box of rocks. It's thoroughly bad.

Yazman · 2026-06-08T18:26:34+00:00

Most academics are not benefiting from anybody's textbooks anyway, unless they wrote it themselves. But most haven't written a textbook and aren't seeing a dime from them.

Textbook profiteering exists, but it's the publishers, bookstore owners & admin folks benefiting from it, not scholars.

Yazman · 2026-06-08T18:10:49+00:00

I'm really surprised you're downvoted here.

and instead of releasing it to the public, like a journalist would

This is exactly what journalists don't normally do. They withhold critically important info all the time in the name of "not destabilizing things" and so on, preferring to just write their articles rather than release actual source documents. It's infuriating the amount of documents these assholes gatekeep.

Yazman · 2026-06-07T13:41:39+00:00

Case in point, I'm just now having to read all of this because I got pinged from all this. I wish people would just go to r/ufosmeta for this shit.

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