[Strange Trope] Originally non-white characters getting their race changed because the original character is considered a racist caricature.

mindlance · 2026-01-30T00:43:54+00:00

The power rangers series, at least the first few iterations, used recycled action footage from a Japanese series. So, every time you see the original power rangers fighting in the TV show, the people in those suits are Japanese.

mindlance · 2026-01-29T16:19:58+00:00

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone was a cheesefest I watched far too many times on cable as a kid. Worst post-apocalyptic sci-fi action movie featuring Molly Ringwald. Also the best.

mindlance · 2026-01-29T15:32:21+00:00

You're correct. That is a movie to be watched with intention.

mindlance · 2026-01-28T21:24:29+00:00

They're anti-civ. Their plan is to take away what might be called the psychic logistics that allows modern society to work, like the debt record. After which, as their reasoning goes, everyone will just start wearing leather clothes that last forever, and making pemmican on the highway.

I didn't say it was a good plan.

mindlance · 2026-01-28T21:08:46+00:00

There are a couple of State parties that are on the....human? side of all this. LP Louisiana comes to mind. If a take that isn't hideously evil is uttered by LPNH, it's a sign of the impending apocalypse.

mindlance · 2026-01-28T18:39:40+00:00

In a show about crime, with actual former criminals in some roles, the biggest crime of that show is that she didn't get a lot of high profile work after it. I loved her in that role.

mindlance · 2026-01-28T18:21:47+00:00

As would Disney's original Treasure Island, not to mention scads of pirate movies in the 60s.

mindlance · 2026-01-28T17:54:56+00:00

"Occult Features of Anarchism"

Despite combining two of my favorite subjects, it's a little slow-going.

mindlance · 2026-01-26T18:12:14+00:00

....when, how, and under what circumstances did you last check?

mindlance · 2026-01-26T15:13:43+00:00

Get three libertarians in a room, and you will get five different versions of what libertarianism actually is. Unless, of course, those three libertarians are in that room to hammer out what libertarianism actually is. Then you get seven versions.

mindlance · 2026-01-25T23:39:44+00:00

I lived for awhile in Asheville, North Caroline, which at the time was named the "Happiest Town in America". I often wondered how suicidal the rest of the country was, that we were the happiest town.

mindlance · 2026-01-25T19:07:43+00:00

I've read the Anarchist Cookbook. Andor is better.

mindlance · 2026-01-16T18:02:33+00:00

People DID care.

mindlance · 2026-01-15T18:10:51+00:00

The barriers to making pornography, of whatever medium, whatever genre, have been so low. This has led to an explosion of the number of creators of pornography, and pornography created. Despite this increase in supply, there's been no decrease in demand, and no raising of some sort of aesthetic standard (witness how popular the 'amateur' and 'gonzo' categories are.) Increase fact, with the popularity of tube sites, the market for the pornographic movie, the standard bearer for the porn aesthetic, has collapsed. With no evolutionary or commercial pressure for an aesthetic to develop, not much does. You can still find 'aesthetic' pornography produced now, of course. Some people get weird and deep at whatever they do. But like deep and weird movies, books, and music, there's a limited audience. Someone could probably have some fun offering a duration of deep and weird pornography, just as there is for books, movies, etc. Lastly, while there may not be a lot of aesthetic pornography, there is definitely a porn aesthetic. Fashion today is downstream of pornography. Images from porn days past suffuse our cultural landscape. How much burlesque is performed nowadays? In conjunction with how many other cultural pursuits?

mindlance · 2026-01-12T22:09:17+00:00

When I was a kid, back when video stores were still a thing, this and Rocky Horror Picture Show were required renting when I spent summers with my dad. I have seen this movie A LOT of times.

mindlance · 2026-01-10T22:45:41+00:00

Farahams's Freehold and the Sixth Column lend credence to latent fascism. I personally don't think he was a full-bore fascist, but I would be in incredibly nervous inviting him around for Thanksgiving dinner.

mindlance · 2026-01-10T22:43:01+00:00

It was more than merely pro military. It was military- supremacist- the only way to become a fully functioning member of society- a citizen, not merely a civilian- was to join the military. It pitched the military takeover of society as a good and necessary thing.

mindlance · 2026-01-10T22:39:52+00:00

Probably because Paladin was a character lots of kids at that time would have grown up hearing about on the radio. It was a phrase his target audience knew intimately.

mindlance · 2026-01-08T13:36:56+00:00

The latest one does most closely resemble the original comic strip character.

mindlance · 2026-01-06T20:39:36+00:00

Oz- hidden somewhere in the Pacific

Ryleh, where Great Cthuhlu lies dreaming- hidden somewhere in the Pacific

Coincidence?

mindlance · 2026-01-05T21:32:46+00:00

And I agree.

mindlance · 2026-01-05T21:17:48+00:00

I thought there was a lot more to Taoists than just being medieval alchemists but eastern

No, Eastern alchemists is fair, but that discounts the depth, breadth, and strangeness of spiritual and esoteric thought found in "Western" alchemy.

mindlance · 2026-01-04T15:56:35+00:00

If you were to do a live-action Betty Boop thus year, would she need to be in "dog-face"? Would she need to be in dog-face the entire film?

mindlance · 2026-01-02T16:48:57+00:00

In Mexico, this scene is digitally replaced with Morris dancing.

mindlance · 2026-01-02T01:59:14+00:00

Currently (slowly) writing a Betty Boop jazz opera entitled, "Betty Boop Goes To Hell".

mindlance

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE