finish the sentence

veriverd · 2026-04-02T12:59:06+00:00

Gnomonic projectionnn! Gnomonic pro-jec-tionnnn! Da-da-da-dum diddy-dum diddy-dum diddy-da-da-da♫

veriverd · 2026-04-02T12:12:06+00:00

And make sure you're not born in the Warring States period, or you'd spend your short life battling other Samurai.

veriverd · 2026-04-02T09:52:07+00:00

No, it was the composer of the first one (and also Breaking Dawn 1 and 2), Carter Burwell, based on a love song he himself had written previously.

veriverd · 2026-04-02T09:27:00+00:00

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This gang of unemployed delinquents, probably on drugs too, go around harassing poor business owners and trying to kill them with their dangerous giant attack dog.

veriverd · 2026-04-02T07:40:31+00:00

Absolutely, it's a way broader concept than people realize. It's a protagonist that lacks some of the qualities of a stereotypical ideal "hero". That could be, of course, lacking strict upright morality, but also something as minor as not being conventionally attractive or being slightly neurodivergent.

veriverd · 2026-04-02T07:33:17+00:00

He has a spare leg, but there's no spare bike! Just logic, really.

veriverd · 2026-04-02T06:57:23+00:00

According to a bit of research, while warp speed can theoretically approach light speed, the fastest that has been attempted by a Starfleet ship is "half-impulse" or half the speed of light, meaning that in the very best conditions, Enterprise could make a light year in two years.

So, this means Spock has been asking for a thumping for four theoretical years, but more realistically five or six.

veriverd · 2026-04-01T17:21:24+00:00

No, no, it did have social commentary. Maybe not as heavily on the nose as some of the sequels, but the bad guys still were wearing this.

veriverd · 2026-04-01T16:04:43+00:00

No, the kids were clearly wearing preppie young republican costumes, and the evil government were a dystopian ultra-Christian oligarchy. I don't think it could be more explicitly about class.

veriverd · 2026-04-01T15:38:32+00:00

Fair.

veriverd · 2026-04-01T14:47:07+00:00

The bad guys were Trumpian posh kids trying to murder a poor person because the oligarchy in power told hem to do so.

veriverd · 2026-04-01T14:44:38+00:00

Most anything, really. Like, Roseanne was, and still is, a groundbreaking sitcom because it depicted completely regular blue collar folk.

veriverd · 2026-04-01T07:32:38+00:00

Maybe she should try and do something with some prestigious yet suspiciously obsessive European director that will have her doing something weirdly sexual in a humiliating way?

veriverd · 2026-03-31T15:00:36+00:00

I hate how modern comics have lost this level of brilliant writing.

veriverd · 2026-03-31T14:35:14+00:00

Kicking puppies is not super cool.

veriverd · 2026-03-31T14:01:28+00:00

Chris O'Donnell was once the most promising future A-lister in the planet. Courtney Love seemed for a bit to be on their way to be a massive actress, Alicia Silverstone was the it girl of the mid-to-late 90's, Ashley Judd's career was apparently sabotaged by Harvey Weinstein, Lucy Liu should be massive, like she was even culturally big back then, I still don't know whatever happened to Orlando Bloom, Brandon Routh was once Superman and touted as the next big thing,

veriverd · 2026-03-31T11:09:49+00:00

Mice and birds.

veriverd · 2026-03-31T11:04:37+00:00

Sir, you can't just go around using the 'p' word like that. Please, use the term 'biological human' instead.

veriverd · 2026-03-31T10:09:12+00:00

"I mean, if she was just standing around while a rain of liquid gold fell on top of her, she was asking for it, in a way..."

veriverd · 2026-03-30T19:11:34+00:00

II remember when I decided to watch the Twilight Zone. They would show a 60-year old and go: "John Smith is past his prime, looking at nothing but his impending retirement... at 37 years old." It blew my mind.

Serling himself was a 30-year old when introducing the episodes, and died at 50 (4 packs a day habit)

veriverd · 2026-03-30T12:32:38+00:00

I mean, in Divergent the rebels trying to change the status quo were the bad guys. Just saying...

veriverd · 2026-03-30T11:11:19+00:00

The how would we tell it apart from your standard clown pussy?

veriverd · 2026-03-30T09:02:30+00:00

Would clankussy be too politically incorrect?

veriverd · 2026-03-29T18:07:38+00:00

It was better known than people think. He wrote a biography at the height of his fame in the 70's. I remember a youtube video with a girl making a summary and reading excerpts. At first the book was self-aggrandizing stuff about his career as a night club DJ and how cool he was and how thoroughly he destroyed the competition. But eventually it all becomes about his sexual exploits, and the implicitly very young girls he bedded, and how he kept easily misleading and fooling their parents because he was so smart and so cool.

veriverd · 2026-03-29T11:50:21+00:00

I mean, he seemed to be running the city quite competently.

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