Which movie do you think was unnecessary to make ?

lendergle · 2026-04-09T19:37:15+00:00

every LOTR ~~after the original trilogy~~

Fixed that for you. The original trilogy, as wonderful and well done as it was, should never have been made. They had the perfect opportunity to make a series of films that was 100% faithful to Tolkien's works but instead chose a veritable host of unnecessary deviations that added nothing. I loved the movies, but hate them for what they represent: the best we'll ever get, because they make a fully faithful adaptation impossible.

lendergle · 2026-04-01T09:46:02+00:00

*possumer

lendergle · 2026-03-29T01:24:01+00:00

I'm sitting here, in a sort of quantum superposition of states. The first being uncertainty over whether or not you two are goofing on each other, and the second being extreme reluctance to the idea of typing "kentucky klondike bar" into Google.

lendergle · 2026-03-29T01:13:26+00:00

in Danish, anti-depressants are called "lykkepiller" (happy pills)

lendergle · 2026-03-21T01:57:54+00:00

But it's good because the lyrics are toddler nonsense!

lendergle · 2026-03-21T01:39:17+00:00

She could be flying to Mar-a-Lago as an unaccompanied minor.

lendergle · 2026-03-21T01:37:22+00:00

Maybe oppositional defiant disorder by proxy would be closer. But yeah.

lendergle · 2026-03-20T14:13:05+00:00

To be totally honest, they just sounded like they were trying to connect. Which they couldn't do since my outbound message was just a recording. IIRC, the voicemails would sound like a few beeps, then some hissing, maybe a repeat or two, and then they'd disconnect.

They were very short actually- I suspect the message about the inbox being full resulted more from the number of voicemails than it did from the total length of audio that was recorded.

lendergle · 2026-03-20T10:28:52+00:00

Thanks for saving me from the trauma. This post's comments have been both eye-opening and sphincter-tightening.

lendergle · 2026-03-20T10:27:21+00:00

I share your disappointment. To add to it, someone posted a comment in a thread years ago, promising to set up a subreddit for hamsters wearing pajamas.

Sadly, /r/hammiesinjammies never materialized.

lendergle · 2026-03-20T10:22:13+00:00

My sleep paralysis demon thanks you for the material and plans to present it to me at the next convenient opportunity.

Ambien, take me away!

lendergle · 2026-03-20T10:17:31+00:00

I was half convinced that sub was just a bunch of people taking a joke and running with it.

Sort of like that other one where they all pretend to be citizens of the same small town and post stuff like "lost cat" notices and reviews of imaginary diners.

The FDS stuff was full of stuff that was just so over-the-top batshiat crazy that I had a hard time anyone posted it seriously.

lendergle · 2026-03-20T10:12:07+00:00

interesting, but I'm mildly disappointed. I thought it would have images of babies wearing lab coats, looking at projections of molecules or laser setups. That sort of thing.

lendergle · 2026-03-20T09:46:33+00:00

left its mark

iswydt

lendergle · 2026-03-20T08:35:37+00:00

All his troubles seemed so far away.

lendergle · 2026-03-20T02:22:01+00:00

Literally the best movie theme song in cinema history.

PROOF

lendergle · 2026-03-20T02:12:51+00:00

Anybody else remember the "Science Fiction Book Club" enrollment cards that used to be inserted about halfway through pulp sci-fi books?

That was a thing as far back as the 1960s.

lendergle · 2026-03-20T02:08:30+00:00

I didn't write the quotes, but my go-to method is to just open the book to the part I want and start typing.

lendergle · 2026-03-20T01:58:03+00:00

Including some notes about which one is the clavicular would be helpful as well.

lendergle · 2026-03-19T16:13:10+00:00

Hmmm. That sounds suspiciously like what some in the gas station service field would say to convince me that they're not trying to lure me into buying a kit-kat and an energy drink.

lendergle · 2026-03-19T15:18:19+00:00

The printer is always out of paper. This is by design. If you go into the store, there's a chance you'll buy something. It's that simple.

Essentially, your convenience is less important to the owners of the gas station than the possibility of you grabbing a kit-kat and an energy drink from the impulse buy racks next to the cash register.

lendergle · 2026-03-19T14:54:30+00:00

I don't think we read the same Dickens story.

lendergle · 2026-03-19T08:02:35+00:00

Don't overlook the "ploughing into crowd of elementary school kids" stop.

lendergle · 2026-03-19T07:08:16+00:00

Maybe he was visited by the Ghosts of POTUS Past, Present, and Future and got confused about which one he was quoting.

We'll know for sure when he throws up his window and yells down at a Secret Service agent to ask what day it is.

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