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Inzombiac posted:Has there ever been a movie where some time-travel shenanigans cause someone to lose and appendage and they don't react in horror? Not time travel, but the biggest "thing was changed and nobody mentions it because to them it was always that way" I can remember is the introduction of Dawn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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DecentHairJelly posted:The stigmata scene is where that all falls apart. Ah totally forgot about that part
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Sep 6, 2018 23:29
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Coffee And Pie posted:The movie left most of it out I think, but I recall John Dies At The End having some fun time fuckery (late in the book they make reference to a character who was there the whole time but gets erased from existence, which is why he’s never mentioned) The movie didn't even touch on it. I read the book when it was an website long-form thing with animated GIFs and all that. I haven't read it in print so this is going off of very old memories, which is ironic. In the book, the shadow men painfully slice and cut people out of reality, consuming them, and everybody forgets they ever existed. They fade from photographs and memories. John and David had a friend who worked with them on their occult investigations when they were younger and didn't take is seriously and he got erased. They are the only two who remember him at all and they often share stories of what the three of them did together because nobody ever will. I will never forget the graphically written scene of the dental assistant who was murdered by the shadow men. Zaphod42 posted:Ah totally forgot about that part Redeemed by strangling himself in the womb, though. "gently caress this gay earth," indeed.
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Sep 6, 2018 23:33
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rydiafan posted:Not time travel, but the biggest "thing was changed and nobody mentions it because to them it was always that way" I can remember is the introduction of Dawn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. One of the early episodes of Torchwood had something similar. The monsters of the week modified everyone's memories (or maybe time traveled. Doctor Who Universe) to pretend that they were part of the Torchwood team from the beginning. They even had slots in the opening credits. Since it was like the second or third episode, I wrote off the new character problem as having not learned who they were among the cast yet. It was handled in a pretty cool way, IMO.
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Sep 7, 2018 00:00
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Imagined posted:
What if we live in a country that literally isn't on the map 
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bike tory posted:What if we live in a country that literally isn't on the map Another entry for http://worldmapswithoutnewzealand.tumblr.com/
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Sep 7, 2018 00:45
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Samuringa posted:Another entry for http://worldmapswithoutnewzealand.tumblr.com/ https://youtube.com/watch?v=HynsTvRVLiI
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Sep 7, 2018 01:14
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bike tory posted:What if we live in a country that literally isn't on the map haha you gonna cry new zealand? Hey fellas check it out, new zewland having a sook!!!
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Sep 7, 2018 05:02
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Nth Doctor posted:One of the early episodes of Torchwood had something similar. The monsters of the week modified everyone's memories (or maybe time traveled. Doctor Who Universe) to pretend that they were part of the Torchwood team from the beginning. They even had slots in the opening credits. Since it was like the second or third episode, I wrote off the new character problem as having not learned who they were among the cast yet. It was handled in a pretty cool way, IMO. Buffy also did that with the "Superstar" episode where perennial loser Jonathan made himself everyone's ideal person and leader of the Scooby gang. The only thing I really remember about that episode is at the end, after they break the spell, and Xander says, "But if Jonathan was a fake, then who starred in the Matrix movies?"
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Sep 7, 2018 06:44
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Inzombiac posted:Has there ever been a movie where some time-travel shenanigans cause someone to lose and appendage and they don't react in horror? There's a mission where you travel to the past to witness an important event. Your main associate is missing an arm and eye as an indirect result of what happened that day; her friend disappeared and she was attacked looking for him. If you safely remove that friend from the proceedings in the past (and the game never even tells you you can do this), you'll return to the present to find her arm and eye fully intact. No one ever mentions anything because it's always been this way.
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Sep 7, 2018 07:01
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Aleph Null posted:I will never forget the graphically written scene of the dental assistant who was murdered by the shadow men. I've not read the book in a long time and I know some stuff was cut between web to book and even MORE was trimmed in re-releases. I remember the stuff about a 3rd friend, but nothing about the dental assistant. What happens? My IIMM is how John and Dave are too handsome and charismatic in the film.
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Sep 7, 2018 11:05
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Fringe had a whole season with the ‘person erased from timeline’ conceit as arc-story and it worked fairly well as far as I remember.
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Sep 7, 2018 11:32
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Rick and Morty also had an episode where parasites were trying to take over the world (but were limited to the house), and they infiltrated by making you remember your past history with them. They were undone because the characters realized that they didn't have any bad memories about the parasite characters, since they were just trying to make you want to keep them around by being "attached" to them.
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Sep 7, 2018 13:54
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Inzombiac posted:Has there ever been a movie where some time-travel shenanigans cause someone to lose and appendage and they don't react in horror? More time travel stories need to gently caress about a bit more beyond the usual 'go back in time to change the future' plot I ran an RPG for a few years and one of the major recurring NPCs was a daemon that kept popping up at different times/places. Time was linear for the daemon, but he experienced it in a different order for the players - i.e.: he remembered events that hadn't happened yet and similarly the players would remember him but he didn't recognise them because he was still early on in his personal timeline. The first time the daemon met one of the players he went "how come you've got your eye back?" which of course led the player to believe he was immortal so long as he still had two eyes (a device shamelessly stolen from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). It was a running gag that the daemon, while extremely powerful to the point he was able to conquer entire cities by himself 'back in the day' (which could be past or future from the players' point of view), would inevitably do something to catastrophically self-own every time they ran into him, resulting in him going back to the equivalent of hell and then popping up elsewhere in the campaign.
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Sep 7, 2018 14:04
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Jumanji 2: Welcome to the Return of the Jungle had time travel fuckery which didn't make any sense because one of the characters survives the game and is sent back in time to when he originally entered and happens to live in that same town at the same address and they all share a knowing wink and a couple of words and presumably never talk to each other ever again.
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Sep 7, 2018 14:04
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A bit of a meta joke in that pretty much all of the parasites took forms strongly reminiscent of the wacky gimmick characters added to comedic nuclear families. Also, one of them was an actual wacky gimmick character retconned into the family that specifically threw them off.
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Sep 7, 2018 14:04
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Jumanji 2: Welcome to the Return of the Jungle had time travel fuckery which didn't make any sense because one of the characters survives the game and is sent back in time to when he originally entered and happens to live in that same town at the same address and they all share a knowing wink and a couple of words and presumably never talk to each other ever again. It's literally magic, and also pretty much exactly in line with how it worked in the original movie.
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Sep 7, 2018 14:05
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bike tory posted:What if we live in a country that literally isn't on the map Are you a cartographer or a new zealander?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's literally magic, and also pretty much exactly in line with how it worked in the original movie. Did Robin Williams go back in time too? I haven't seen the movie in ages but I thought the ending was different. Welp 
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Sep 7, 2018 14:07
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Yeah he goes back to the moment he used the game. He married the girl and they become successful, which gives them the opportunity to stop the parents of the kids from going on the trip that kills them.
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Sep 7, 2018 14:13
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Did Robin Williams go back in time too? I haven't seen the movie in ages but I thought the ending was different. Yup, that was kind of the point; you play the game and it can potentially last decades but once you win everything rewinds but you don't forget.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Did Robin Williams go back in time too? I haven't seen the movie in ages but I thought the ending was different. Robin Williams went back to being a kid. Kirsten Dunst and the other kid were still born but never played Jumanji, and Robin Williams was able to save their parents from dying in a plane crash or something because he knew they were orphaned. In Jumanji 2, I just figure the 3 kids would be the only one to remember that the house was spooky, their entire timeline changed. Time Travel is loving weird.
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Sep 7, 2018 14:15
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AFewBricksShy posted:Kirsten Dunst and the other kid were still born but never played Jumanji I imagine most still born children are unable to play boardgames
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Sep 7, 2018 14:18
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Guess I really need to re-watch Jumanji. Right after I re-watch Small Soldiers
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Sep 7, 2018 14:34
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There was a Mark Millar comic where a supervillain defeated the hero by travelling back in time and molesting him when he was a child, so that when they confronted each other in the future, he would have a psychological advantage over the hero. Now, you may ask, "Why would anyone write that?" and the only answer I have is, "Mark Millar.  "
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Drunken Baker posted:I've not read the book in a long time and I know some stuff was cut between web to book and even MORE was trimmed in re-releases. I remember the stuff about a 3rd friend, but nothing about the dental assistant. What happens? Dave is in the chair and the shadow men, who nobody else can see, start slicing of parts of the dental assistant's body. Blood everywhere, but only Dave can see it or hear her screams. Everybody else ignores it and acts like everything is fine.
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Sep 7, 2018 14:43
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The more I see that Fantastic Beasts movie the more irritated I get with Newt. That stupid loving look he always has on his face like he's a permanently confused toddler. Why do so many movies think "eccentric" has to mean whatever the hell childish thing they were going for with his character?
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Sep 7, 2018 15:32
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Aleph Null posted:Dave is in the chair and the shadow men, who nobody else can see, start slicing of parts of the dental assistant's body. Blood everywhere, but only Dave can see it or hear her screams. Everybody else ignores it and acts like everything is fine. That definitely didn’t make it into the release version of the JDatE book. The shadow men only threaten Dave at the end, and from your description the third friend’s part is noticeably chopped down as well - there’s no mention of him during the main story, but Dave brings him up at the end while talking to the reporter in a “My memories tell me there were five of us - but I keep dreaming about the sixth guy who didn’t make it, and there’s nothing but the dreams to tell me he existed!”
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Wheat Loaf posted:There was a Mark Millar comic where a supervillain defeated the hero by travelling back in time and molesting him when he was a child, so that when they confronted each other in the future, he would have a psychological advantage over the hero. Her, not him. It was in The Authority, the villain in question is the evil Doctor and he does it to the Engineer. It's still less stupid than the booby trapped incestuous vagina baby, but then the entire of Nemesis was loving stupid and even the artist screwed up a lot.
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Jedit posted:Her, not him. It was in The Authority, the villain in question is the evil Doctor and he does it to the Engineer. It's still less stupid than the booby trapped incestuous vagina baby, but then the entire of Nemesis was loving stupid and even the artist screwed up a lot. My mistake - I've not read it in a while and for some reason had the idea in my head that it happened to Midnighter.
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Jedit posted:booby trapped incestuous vagina baby 
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yeah I eat rear end posted:The more I see that Fantastic Beasts movie the more irritated I get with Newt. That stupid loving look he always has on his face like he's a permanently confused toddler. Why do so many movies think "eccentric" has to mean whatever the hell childish thing they were going for with his character? That's just what Eddie Redmayne's face looks like
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Sep 7, 2018 16:26
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Yeah, what even the gently caress?
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Sep 7, 2018 16:55
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Guess I really need to re-watch Jumanji. Right after I re-watch Small Soldiers Don't rewatch small soldiers it doesn't hold up lmao
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Sep 7, 2018 17:09
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Zaphod42 posted:Don't rewatch small soldiers it doesn't hold up lmao But I must.
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Sep 7, 2018 17:24
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Zaphod42 posted:Don't rewatch small soldiers it doesn't hold up lmao You shut your mouth.
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Sep 7, 2018 17:30
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marshmallow creep posted:Yeah, what even the gently caress? Sorry, I forgot to mention that the girl is underage and her brother is gay. This robs the description of much needed context.
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Sep 7, 2018 17:37
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Armacham posted:That's just what Eddie Redmayne's face looks like He was originally meant to be Matt Smith.
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Zaphod42 posted:Don't rewatch small soldiers it doesn't hold up lmao Nah bro, Small Soldiers rules
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marshmallow creep posted:Yeah, what even the gently caress? Mark Millar basically sat down to write the edgiest evil batman he possibly could and succeeded.
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