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Kathleen Kennedy is to weird internet nerds what Anthony Fauci is to antivaxxers - a dedicated professional with decades of largely-unsung work under their belts, who all of the sudden ended up with targets on their backs because the worst corners of the internet needed a lightning rod for their grievances.

VFalcone posted...

Too bad they ruined that and basically made the Mindflayer just be some dude's profile pic and not an actual real creature.

True, sadly. But I'm holding out on a sliver of hope that the Mind Flayer could still end up being the ultimate big-bad. Vecna's already gotten his ass whupped once by our heroes (even if he ultimately accomplished his goal), and he's going to need a power boost in the final season; so it could turn into one of those 'villain doesn't realize the power he's unleashed' scenarios where he binds more closely with the Mind Flayer and the Flayer has enough sentience of its own to take over.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/2/AARIckAAE_cu.jpg

Speaking as someone who doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground in terms of finance, that $700b figure seemed too big to be believed, so I looked into it. TIL that Tesla's market cap jumped from a measly $75b to over a frickin' trillion in two years and then fell back to just under $400b two years after that.

Other:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/9/AARIckAAE_ch.jpg

I realize that attempting to cite Stranger Things as being genuinely frightening would get me laughed out of town, but in terms of design it's pretty hard to top a giant nightmare spider-squid-tornado in my book. Especially when it rears up in the distance and turns towards Will for the first time.

Evil_Nice_Guy posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/2/7/AAfdDqAAE-zj.jpg

"Trick or Go-Fuck-Yourself."

"When I started my playthrough of Symphony of the Night as Axe Man, I didn't know what I was getting into."

HairyQueen posted...

The genie in Aladdin does this frequently, the writers later admitted they didn't realize it wouldn't make sense in the setting

That's one of the best things about Aladdin though, even discounting the fact that anachronisms are far less frowned upon or even encouraged in zany comedies. What makes it even better is that Aladdin actually plays along with Genie's madness in a couple gags, even though Al would have no way of knowing who Pinocchio was or how a pull-chain lamp works; a more standard story would have Al just stare blankly at the Genie during those moments.

I'd like to meet his tailor.

Cocytus posted...

Remember the end when Chris Farely is dancing in ecstasy with the penguin? lol

I always got the impression that the penguin started giving him a handy right at the end of that shot, based on the look on Chris' face.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/7/1/AARIckAAE_bT.jpg

Literally green with envy.

itcheyness posted...

Well then maybe he should spend five hours every morning carving *that* into his face.

I love that his character arc culminated in faking his death, dying his hair, starting a new life...but he still kept the star-shaped sideburns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOQq7GQISsI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1itZiNY5pY

(Treehouse of Horror quote in honor of Halloween)

"This sandwich tastes so young and impudent! Seymour, what's with the good grub?"
"Well, perhaps I ought to let you folks in on a secret. You remember me telling Jimbo Jones I'd make something of him one day?"
"...Are you saying you killed Jimbo, processed his carcass, and served him for lunch?!"
*taps nose*
"Ha!"

"Next on News 9, a shocking story of power and corruption involving a hotel tycoon, and how his 27-year-old millionaire son cheated his way through elementary school!"

Norm McDonald: "Now, now, maybe it's somebody else!"

Should've gone for broke, looked the interviewer dead in the eye, and said 'whew, holy shit, crack a window if you're gonna do that in here!'

boomgetchopped3 posted...

Typical bitter comedian with no talent. Thinks hes too edgy when in reality he just sucks. His own younger brother Neal Brennan doesnt even talk to him

Oh shit, this guy is Neal Brennan's brother? I can see which one got all the talent in that case.

(for those of you who don't know, Neal is the co-creator of Chappelle's Show)

I do love it when junkies die.

roflmao, I get it! He's being a washed-up attention-starved hack writer who couldn't get a laugh during a nitrous oxide leak ironically!

SiO4 posted...

Considering they basically invented muti-tracking I would say that alone affects what is done...actually overdone nowadays.

Not to mention the popularization of the idea of an LP over a single.
Effectively invented the idea of and album cover that wasn't a stock photo of a band.
Pretty much the only band that stopped touring half way through when the band was still together.
They popularized the idea of a concept album...I know Petsounds did come out first.

Really, the affected music, and the music industry as a whole.

Also had a huge influence on what would later become music videos.

And this is just a personal observation, but I think the Help! and Yellow Submarine movies were progenitors for Monty Python's style of silly deconstructionist humor.

Hmmm...not quite as impressive as my mind's eye had hyped it up as being, but still pretty much a must-buy.

Was hoping it would be 3-story. Tall walls and narrow rooms make it a bitch to fit my man-sized hands in there to rearrange minifigs.

1) Final Fantasy VI
2) Fallout: New Vegas
3) Super Metroid
4) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
5) Chrono Trigger

Ms. Lippy's car...is green!

"That's for employing me for eight years!"
*literally burns a bridge after driving over it*

A certain song off the White Album is arguably more relevant in Current Year America than it ever was before (though you have to take the lyrics literally).

Nostalgia versus original concepts is not a guarantee of quality one way or the other. Ducktales 2017 was heavy on nostalgia-bait, and it was excellent.

I'm almost positive I beat SNES Lion King on a rental back in the day. I'm 100% sure I made it to the final boss, and I'm pretty sure I successfully kicked-flipped ol' Scar off of Pride Rock. Didn't realize it was such a feather in my cap, lol.

Mr_Karate_II posted...

Return of The Jedi was much harder in my opinion.

I made it all the way up to the Falcon escaping the exploding Death Star but could never make it past that stage. Looking back on it with adult knowledge, I assume there was some acceleration button I wasn't pressing, and the flames gobbled me up too quickly. I don't remember Vader being particularly tough, but I do remember the Emperor being quite challenging.

Smackems posted...

I did a sexual

At least your sex life is still far more interesting than Sunhawk's.

"Tonight on Wings...eh, who cares."

I can think of precious few things he could do that would actually hurt him among his base. Getting caught in a lie over sending weapons to wartime Israel might just be one of them.

At first I didn't remember this at all, but the 'Hey!' cutscene was a big ol' wave of nostalgia.

Alteres posted...

That game was fun in the turn off your brain and use the weapon cheat kinda way.

The guns were the fun part, the levels were blah and the platforming was a nightmare.

Yeah, I used cheat codes way more often than not in that game. And I typically skipped level 3 entirely (I think there was a way to warp to the end of the stage?) due to the nightmarish platforming towards the end. Turok's blood-curdling scream whenever he plummeted to his death certainly didn't help.

Here's an accurate recreation of the mind games TC is attempting to play with his fellow posters ITT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLcAu1VuP0w

NightRender posted...

And Mike's most pivotal character moment (killing Werner) is tied to the dumbest, nobody-asked-for-this plotline (digging a fucking hole).

I still don't know how I feel about having a multi-season B-plot devoted to the 'who built the Batcave' conundrum, especially when it still isn't built by the time said arc concludes.

I definitely like it in theory, at least. I was certainly thinking about it recently while watching Stranger Things S3 with the whole massive secret underground Russian base in Indiana, lol.

It just dawned on me that 'meatless hot dog' is a pretty good euphemism for not a whole lot going on upstairs. As in, "that boy ain't got any meat in his hot dog."

Friendly reminder that the titular character of the show Chowder kept a sentient fart cloud as a pet and named it Kimchi.

The MCU puts out two bad Thor movies, and no one bats an eye. The guy who made the best Thor movie puts out one bad Thor movie, and EVERYONE LOSES THEIR MINDS!!

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I assumed it was in mockery of that 'were the Beatles ever really talented' topic from a few days back.

Doom_Art posted...

trump trump trump

There goes alt-right Doom_Art talkin' 'bout Trump again.

I don't know what Otger is, but it sounds cathartic as fuck.

Explosives are probably my 'favorite' weapons to use, even if they're not my most commonly-used weapons due to general scarcity of ammo.

I quite randomly watched it when it was linked in a different CE topic last night. Couldn't say for sure why I got this impression, but it kinda felt like a tween-friendly version of Superjail. Some of the jokes were funny and I was so sure that some of the VAs sounded like big-name actors (even though they weren't).

Was Michelangelo ever really talented

Did he even know how to use Photoshop

CNN: "And here's a headline article on why that will actually hurt you."

(I know I already got ninja'd on this, I just wanted to single out CNN specifically)

name_unknown posted...

Tim Scott doesn't understand if he wins, big if, the GOP primary he needs black voters to beat Biden. Denying the past and current racism does him no good. Stop and frisk is something he would support.

The one thing that genuinely worries me in general is that Democrats still have a bad habit of taking PoC votes for granted. For example, the DeSantis camp made some big headway in his reelection with community outreach and events in Florida Latino communities. Granted, his campaign had a shitload of money to throw around on such events while the Crist campaign was flat broke, and just like in the OP the actual messaging / politicking probably rang hollow when faced with even the bare minimum of skepticism; but also like the OP addressed, the simple fact that the GOP is giving a shit to attempt to make these inroads will resonate with people.

DarthAragorn posted...

She's married and I can't imagine her not taking her husband's name if that was her birth name

Dammit, good point.

Im disappointed with the speech, said Kimberly Wimberly, who attended the speech with her husband, Roderick.

I sure hope she gave her parents hell for that.

GranAures posted...

"Do not injest this product."
"Yes, I ate this whole tube of Preparation H cooling gel and I still have these hemeroids. But I sure can whistle real good."

One of my pharmacist friend's favorite stories is how a young woman came in complaining that her contraceptive gel wasn't working - turns out she had been spreading it on toast and eating it.

Pro-sex and anti-sex cultural attitudes come and go in waves, and we've been in an anti-sex wave for many years now that has yet to crest.

Pun intended.

tremain07 posted...

We can barely investigate the republican party and their fascist bullshit the church is full of powerful influential people with connections just like the Catholic church, everyone knows they pack dirty as fuck but there's so much corruption and dirty business in all of these that it will never be stopped let alone go away

Plus the key difference between the MAGA cult and the Church of Scientology is that the latter actually has competent litigators.