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"Man or Innsmouth-Man?" - Nietzsche, Also sprach Shub-Niggurath

The producer (Sam Esmail of MR. ROBOT) for the Universal/Peackock BSG series says its a new story set in Ronald D. Moore's BSG universe, and reports are that Moore has given the show his blessing. I hated the pilot movie for Moore's BSG and never watched another minute of it, but good news for its fans, I guess.

The maze puzzle hidden within an early video game I always liked Entombed.

Sid Haig Probably best remember now for his recent films with Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses, Devil's Rejects) but known for his many years of television and film work. Low budget films like Spider Baby - Big budget films like Swashbuckler or tv shows (genre and non-genre) like Jason of Star Command and many other shows (Man from U.N.C.L.E., Batman,Mission Impossible, Gunsmoke, Six Million Dollar Man, etc) and movies (including a small part in Diamonds are Forever, Kill Bill, Bone Tomahawk, Swashbuckler, Foxy Brown, THX 1138, etc) I had the pleasure to meet Mr. Haig several years ago and besides being a fun storyteller, he was generous with his time with his fans. RIP

Pong, First video game I ever played. Asteroids and Warlords on the Atari 2600. One of my uncles had a 2600 and we played four player Warlords a lot when we visited. Adventure on the Atari 2600 - beat it and found the "secret" by myself. Quite chuffed over that at the time. There was a proliferation of local arcade in shopping centers that had video games; remember playing Crazy Climber and some of the off-brand Pac-Man titles that I think were technically bootleg mods and Mr. Do's Castle. Spy vs Spy on the Commodore 64, playing against my brothers with the winner being able to keep playing and losers switching. Phantasie as the first RPG I tried playing that I had some success on (had tried Ultima but wasn't good at it). Loved that I could have monsters in my party! I remember the first time I solved a particular puzzle in Time of Lore that had vexed me regarding needing a weapon to advance and the relief I'd felt after hours of trying to solve the puzzle. I remember playing Bruce Lee and my brother vowing to play the Green Yama to help me beat the game and then always double crossing me (until I got good enough to deal with it and still beat the game). I remember my mom and dad coming into an arcade (rare!) to watch my brothers and I try to beat Dragon's Lair (and later Space Ace) on the large TV screens they had set up so other people could watch the game as it was being played (crowds gathered around it just to watch). I remember when the Street Fighter II Championship Edition came out having a series of tied matches with an opponent using M. Bison where I finally lost because I butterfingerd the attack that would have tied us the last time (and got me the win). I broke the reset button on my SNES because when SFII came out I kept messing up the code to unlock the bosses and kept reseting until I got it right. Playing Golden Axe in a small pub in the UK. Had a Shining Force II game where I'd gotten every character to level 99(!) by retreating in the last battle repeatedly to build up each team member. Also participated in building a FAQ for rec.arts.games for SF II, my first experience with trying to connect to game fans online. Being shocked at how poor the translation for Breath of Fire II was (to the point that I'm still not exactly sure what happened in it at the end). Console war fights on rec.arts.games and the fights with Working Designs/Victor Ireland over their translations (particularly their use of humour and pop-culture references that were very different from the actual Japanese games). Fallout, BG and IWD brining me to the old Interplay threaded forums before Black Isle started their message board...

This is the Political thread, not an episode of Scooby Doo. Let's forego attempts to prove the Ghost of Elias Kingston is really Stuart Weatherby. Or for that matter psychoanalysing other posters.

Sounds like a cult.

Seems legit. 👍

I meant "aliens" not "UFOs"

They confirm they are real videos from the navy showing unknown aerial phenomenon, as I understand it, rather than confirm the objects in the video are ufos.

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Straws really only make sense to me for thick drinks (like milkshakes) that you'd otherwise have to eat with a spoon. Or if you're Archie. But...they don't really make a lot of sense otherwise, IMO.

C'mon, cult leader is the place to go for attention. Sure its hard to start up, but face it - your word will be theophilosophical law if it works. RE: Trump's weather map: IMO while silly of Trump there are 1,000s of projections run about hurricane's paths, and given its trajectory to FL I'm sure some of them had paths to Alabama on them. Probably not in magic marker, though. Personally I'd class The Last Word as a talking head op-ed, not a news show. YMMV (and I confess to only a passing familiarity with the show as I've never watched MSNBC). But to the larger point, press - even the old established press - have printed stories they've had to retract because they didn't hold up under scrutiny. I suppose you could argue how involved the institution was in the publication with respect to culpability, but retractions aren't just for mis-identifying the third person on the left in a photo, or misspelling people's names. No system or institution is infallible.

To me, I think the point Gromnir is raising is this: If the National Enquirer (Daily Mail, Weekly World News, or other local variants of tabloid sensationalism) reports that [Big Name Celebrity] is on their death bed, it doesn't mean that [Big Name Celebrity] isn't on their death bed. The problem is that people are taking the idea of media bias and using it as an excuse to reject facts because of the source (particularly egregious when the facts are reported on by multiple outlets) Theoretically, as I understand it, lawsuits would be the remedy to media violations of the law. Journalistic ethics would also require certain steps to be taken to ensure that all sides of the story are accounted for. The problem (IMO) is that people have equated talking-head opinion shows with news. Opinion shows are not news, will never be news and freedom of speech means that someone is allowed to hold and express their opinion provided it doesn't go into slander or making statements that incite crimes or otherwise do harm (like the proverbial shouting fire in a theater when there is no fire). But because of the need for news networks to provide content, the easiest way to fill hours is with talking head op-ed shows.

Junji Ito has been resistant to an animated series (there was a live action movie in that adapts part of the story, but ends different as it was produced before the end of the manga had been made). Ito is apparently a fan of director Hiroshi Nagahama if the articles I read are accurate, which is why he agreed to it. While I've liked most of Ito's work Uzumaki is a particular masterwork.

Marvel has seven Captain Marvels(!) so its understandable as to why they discussion of them can be confusing (and that's without even bringing in the two non-Marvel Captain Marvels). I do think that there is sometimes a pull in media to try and present female characters as less flawed than similar male characters for fear that they aren't representing women well by creating a flawed character. That said I think with Wonder Woman there's only so much room to maneuver in terms of the character and flaws. Carol Danvers has a hugely messed up backstory that in the comics has allowed her to be a flawed character when they transitioned her into the Captain Marvel role, but in the movie she mostly comes off as stubborn (but right to be stubborn) a trait she shares with Rey so far in the Star Wars films.

Don't make any sudden moves, I think Mr. Mind has been found...

Ren defeated Snoke. Ren and Rey beat the Red Guards though, so she wasn't completely worthless in that sequence, but she picked a fight with Snoke and lost and would have been dead or turned if not for Ren. IMO that's a defeat for her even if she ultimately escaped with her life. Based on your argument, you could argue that Luke defeated Palptine because he walked away from it (carrying Vader, who did all the heavy lifting in the defeat of Palptine). Or that Anakin defeated Dooku because he walked away from it (despite his major contribution to the fight being loosing a limb). Although I'm sure we can all agree Anakin clearly lost against Obi-Wan because he wasn't walking away from that de-feet. I took the training to be less about Rey not needing training and more about Luke having come to the conclusion that he wasn't a teacher (and indeed doubting that teaching the Jedi ways was the right thing to do anymore). If she knows good from evil, what more can books tell her about the light or dark side?

Del Toro's Pinnoccio is for Netflix, not Disney. It'll be animated via stop motion.

So far Rey has lost the fight she tried to pick with Snoke, didn't get the training she was looking for from Luke, and got saddled with Kylo Ren and Finn. So I'd argue she's on trajectory to be just as much a loser as Anakin (lost the fight he tried to pick with Dooku and Obi-Wan, didn't get the relationship he wanted with Padme, was saddled with Jar Jar Binks) and Luke (lost the fight he tried to pick with Vader and Palpatine, didn't get the training he wanted from Yoda and didn't get the relationship he wanted with the Princess because she turned out to be his sister, and was saddled with C-3P0, the biggest buzzkill droid in the galaxy). All she needs really at this point is to pick another losing fight and to make a bad relationship choice, and they've given her three good candidates for the later, if not the former (Finn, Po, Ren). 😛

Not really what I'm talking about regarding traditional story telling with respect to serials and heroic adventure, but since you've went with comparing my statements to portrayals of character with respect to race and gender and poor/disrespectful portrayals of same, I'm done trying. With respect I never said that anyone couldn't dislike those elements in Star Wars, I was trying to state why they didn't bother me. The stories are pure pulp. Expecting Shakespeare is folly. IMO.