Unscheduled Offworld Activation
I know things about things.
I love movies, video games and soup.
Harlan Ellison was pretty sure I stole his wallet.
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- No house rules is a start but it inevitably boils down to a gameplay moment around the third lap, where nobody has a compete monopoly, and everyone has to argue out some terrible deal in order to move to the phase where people start getting eliminated and it’s like who is the biggest sociopath.
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- 15 year old me, carefully stacking up the bills I put into the bank so I can overpay for properties and run myself out of cash early…aww beans, I’m bankrupt already!!
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- I learned many decades ago by playing fucken monopoly of all games that eliminating players from a game before the game is over sucks for everyone. But if you need to have those stakes, Sentinels of the Multiverse has an acceptable band aid solution where eliminated heroes still contribute.
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- Abrams just…cannot figure out why people like things and all of his crap is exactly this bad. It’s maddening that he gets to do all this cool stuff. Maddening. Anyway, on to MI4 tonight, which is the start of them being actually great, like MI1 was before the weird misfires of 2 and 3.
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- The action sequences are choppy, badly lit, and far too heavily edited for how good Tom Cruise usually is at action sequences. And critical plot elements depend on the shitty tv writer defibrillator fantasy where they’re just magical electro shock thingies that can do anything a tv writer imagines.
- It’s filled with scene after scene of evidence that JJ Abrams neither comprehends the idea of a spy movie, nor what people might like about mission impossible, or even how story elements fit together to form a coherent plot.
- Remember that summer when Panera had the caffeine drinks that were exploding kids’ hearts? David Zazlav is still mad that wasn’t his idea, so he’s been trying to do that with hbo
- I saw that stupid tens of billions of Tesla robots quote and like. Man. Half of humans cook their dinner over a fucking campfire. So you’re telling me the people who have homes with electrical outlets are going to own three of these fucking things per human! He’s just so unfathomably stupid.
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- The video game you took a break from forgetting all the stuff you also forgot is a garbage idea for toilets and a recipe for returning players uninstalling that shit and never looking back. It should be thoroughly mocked to his face by everyone he tells it to.
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- What the heck else are they going to do with both of their awkward ass hands on camera!
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- I love you fucken nerds
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- Before MI7 came out, I went through the other six, and made a list of Ethan Hunt’s superpowers, and what movies he used them in, and they forgot for FIVE MOVIES that he could do close up magic, and then he uses it again in MI7 and I almost cheered in the theater.
- We are beyond foreign interference at this point. We're watching a President invite a foreign government to buy him off. American values are actively being flushed down the toilet by this corrupt President.
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- Fucken Tommy Tuberville basically shut down the entire department of defense under Biden by himself!! Unilaterally, his fucken party didn’t even seem to want him to do it, he just did it.
- If you cave and talk the cops out of fear or weakness, I have sympathy. If you talk at length to the cops because you know you are just the bro to stand up to tyranny, and you talking at length to the cops is fighting the power, you’re a dipshit.
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- I’m also not aware of who Lawrence odonnel is, and I use twitch and didn’t recognize the guy except that he has what I assume is his on stream personal’s tough guy voice dialed up a little too high for this situation
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- I have long held that Ethan Hunt has some levels in the Fast/Furious Automancer class, enough to pick up traits like, if he collides with a vehicle, it takes all the damage for him, and he always has a clear path through any intersection, while his pursuers do not.
- THIS 1. When people lose their healthcare, the costs for people who still have healthcare go up 2. Many hospitals rely on patients with medicaid. Big cuts to medicaid close hospitals 3. Higher medical costs mean people have less money for other things, hurting/ruining UNRELATED small businesses
- Tying up a bunch of the affordable care act’s affordability with the Medicaid expansion was a key compromise to get it passed, because republicans knew red states could just reject the expansion and drive up costs. What happens to the ACA when Medicaid is gutted?
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- At least 16 was around my Saturday average working conventions like pax east and nycc. We would eat like 4,000 calorie dinners Saturday night and still feel hungry, events are brutal.
- True story: When I was a contractor at a NASA facility I kept M&Ms on my desk. A civil servant I worked with ate a few one day. The next day I came in to find a pound bag on my desk. He wanted to "reimburse" me because he didn't want the few he ate to be seen as a gift. Anyway
- Ages ago I worked on a project to renovate a county park, and lunch meetings were always easiest to schedule, and the county rep paid for every one so they wouldn’t have to worry about it being seen as improper.
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- They are are SO AFRAID that this time when they go to abduct someone, the victim will try to defend their first and fourth amendment rights with their second amendment rights.
- Today’s rant is about how hospitals torture people by keeping them NPO for surgery (nothing by mouth) but the evidence for that is terrible and in fact it causes more harm than good! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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- I haven’t yet had to see a doctor who refused to mask because it’s woke dei crt yet, but I’ve definitely seen a ton of nurses on dating apps who have stuff like “masking is for low-T cucks” in their bios
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- You got a real chocolate/peanut butter situation here with syphilis and coliform
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- Look, I’m not saying you have to wash your hands between dissecting corpses and delivering babies, but you should at least piss on them or something right?
- Like, I’m sure there are probably some pretty good surgical ideas that predate the x-ray machine, but I don’t need much convincing when you tell me one is bad.
- I started reading the article and they already had me on board when they said 1883 is when the only tea or beef tea thing started.
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- What general area are you looking at? There’s a lot of NYC, and I don’t want to give you like 400 hours of activities 60 miles apart, you know?
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- P cool to have a fake doctor tv host tell Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk that diabetics should just go suck shit and die and stop shoveling them buckets and buckets of profit every month. I bet they love that as much as I do.
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- This “interview” WHEN WILL YOU WEAR WIGS youtu.be/IfhMILe8C84
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- And then of course, Simon Pegg is like hey guess what a-holes, Star Trek Beyond IS that much much much better movie that scene actually belongs to, and to prove it, I’m going to bookend Kirk’s hero journey with it: Tell me you didn’t get chills at the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
- I showed my 10yo the new OK Go video. Then I showed him the treadmill one. And then he asked to see a Backstreet Boys music video. He's now very interested in seeing more music videos from "a long time ago" (sob). Help me assemble a list of significant/awesome music videos. For his education.
- I don’t know if that ATARASHII GAKKO! video was influenced by Intergalactic from Beastie Boys or if it was influenced by the original Japanese stuff that influenced the Beastie Boys, but either way Intergalactic is still worth mentioning. youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g
- Basically everything Daft Punk has ever done has been great from top to bottom, somehow, but the video for Da Funk was just got damn something else. A dog man with an ankle cast walking around town with a crutch and a jam box? Amazing. youtu.be/mmi60Bd4jSs
- I remember seeing this video and being absolutely captivated by the music, animation and how far you can get being a just okay dancer. MIA - Galang youtu.be/DCL1RpgYxRM
- It isn’t old, but the song and video both absolutely fucking rule. ATARASHII GAKKO! - Tokyo Calling youtu.be/pHMH408ltEM
- Of course there’s Sabotage from The Beastie Boys, notable for the wigs, fake mustaches, and the Boys themselves doing all of the stunt driving in the video. youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE
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- Also fwiw, the video is just whatever, but Space Age Love Song is an all time great song, and much better than I Ran, despite not being a big hit back in its day. youtu.be/gOK3rqVgN2I
- Look, Steal My Sunshine by Len is not a great music video, but it's somewhat notable in that they 100% knew they were a one-hit wonder, so they basically just took the record label's music video money and went on vacation and rented scooters and jet skis and shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fz...
- No music video education is complete without Jamirquai - Virtual Insanity. There was a whole making of about how they shot this that's mind bending. The camera is attached to the frame with the walls, and there's a gang of dudes moving that whole false room around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkI...
- Regular stuff, driving around town on your piano. Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwke...
- They probably don't know who Christopher Walken is, BUT THEY SHOULD. Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim ft Bootsy Collins www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDI...
- I did not remember the satanic panic disclaimer at the front of this. Bonkers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnq...
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- For my previous job in the NJ suburbs, I had to do site visits to places we were going to do construction work, and my (old, white) coworkers were always like "be careful, that's a rough neighborhood" when they meant "non-whites live there". It was wild how racist they all were.
- Thunderbolts was shockingly pretty good? The cast is all great, and Florence Pugh in particular was a good choice for who would put the future of marvel movies on her back after they just kind of threw The Marvels to the wolves.
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- Also hey, great job by the npr team using a shot of Three Mile Island for the photo on the article. Extremely solid choice.
