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AngryRobotsInc posted:I will admit it very rapidly goes real backwoods once you leave the city I live in. Hell, we got a little lost going to a school function in the city proper, and ended up on an actual dirt road, so there's that too.
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My town isn't as big as some, 100,000 people, but driving around there are moments where if you take this left turn, you're in a very built up, urbanized area nearly indistinguishable from portions of Houston or Dallas, but if you take that left turn, you're suddenly deep in some weeds and there's a million dollar McMansion across the street from a dilapidated trailer, with no sign of major infrastructure that you know for a fact is right around the bend. All inside the loop, so well inside city limits. That's always impressed me.
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marshmallow creep posted:My town isn't as big as some, 100,000 people, but driving around there are moments where if you take this left turn, you're in a very built up, urbanized area nearly indistinguishable from portions of Houston or Dallas, but if you take that left turn, you're suddenly deep in some weeds and there's a million dollar McMansion across the street from a dilapidated trailer, with no sign of major infrastructure that you know for a fact is right around the bend. All inside the loop, so well inside city limits. That's always impressed me. That's basically the city I live in, too. One way, any typical small city (we're less than 100,000 here). The other way, oh dang we in the woods. And god help you if you get lost in them woods, because you're probably not getting a cell signal.
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Aug 5, 2021 19:37
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Hallmark Christmas movies are great because they allow you to briefly escape the crushing emptiness and complete self loathing that characterizes your entire life. By “your” I mean the people reading this, not me.
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oldpainless posted:Hallmark Christmas movies are great because they allow you to briefly escape the crushing emptiness and complete self loathing that characterizes your entire life. yeah I would never watch something like that either
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Aug 5, 2021 20:34
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The best part of hallmark Christmas movies is being slowly driven insane by the Christmas ads. I’m looking at you, Hyuandai.
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Aug 5, 2021 20:46
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The best part of hallmark Christmas movies is being slowly driven insane by the Christmas ads. https://youtu.be/WcEylCwkSxE
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bobjr posted:https://1900hotdog.com/2021/06/upsetting-day-last-ounce-of-courage/ lol holy poo poo quote:What happened was, Last Ounce of Courage broke so many laws during its marketing campaign, it lost $32.4 million in a settlement.
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AngryRobotsInc posted:That's basically the city I live in, too. One way, any typical small city (we're less than 100,000 here). The other way, oh dang we in the woods. And god help you if you get lost in them woods, because you're probably not getting a cell signal. About 15 years ago I was working a temp job with a company that had been contracted to enhance the 911 system in the rural mountainous part of Virginia I lived in at the time. I lived in a fairly small college town (maybe 50K when school was in session) and it wasn't hard to drive ten minutes and find yourself somewhere that looked largely untouched by the 21st century. Well this job involved riding around the county testing radio signal strength and the week or so I did it I found out I'd barely scratched the surface. I think it was the definitely not legal trailer park whose boundaries were marked with skulls* on pikes that stood out the most. *Fake** **I think
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oldpainless posted:Hallmark Christmas movies are great because they allow you to briefly escape the crushing emptiness and complete self loathing that characterizes your entire life. More like oldchristmas.
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docbeard posted:About 15 years ago I was working a temp job with a company that had been contracted to enhance the 911 system in the rural mountainous part of Virginia I lived in at the time. I lived in a fairly small college town (maybe 50K when school was in session) and it wasn't hard to drive ten minutes and find yourself somewhere that looked largely untouched by the 21st century. If we're thinking of the same mountainous rural college town in Virginia, I live in the area. While I can't confirm the trailer park, I 100% believe you that there's a place here that's like that (or was). There is a rumor in my area that in the mountains there is a legitimate branch of the KKK with an effigy of a black man hanging somewhere up there. According to legend even cops are afraid of going to some of these very rural areas. Neither of these rumors being true would surprise me at all. Virginia is the kind of state, like you said, where you can head 5-10 minutes out of a relatively populous area and find yourself in Deliverance central.
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The best Hallmark/Lifetime movie is The Spirit of Christmas because it was obvious they came up with the name first and worked their way back from there. The main female character is a busy lawyer (drink) who goes to a small town (drink) the week before Christmas (drink) to appraise an inn that's possessed by a hot ghost. Together they solve the mystery of his death, and he's no longer stuck haunting the inn. But instead of vanishing and going on to heaven or whatever, the movie ends with them deciding to date. No, it's not explained how this will work. Merry Christmas.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:If we're thinking of the same mountainous rural college town in Virginia, I live in the area. While I can't confirm the trailer park, I 100% believe you that there's a place here that's like that (or was). This was a subplot in Justified, the Margo Martindale ran holler where the law didn't really go.
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pentyne posted:This was a subplot in Justified, the Margo Martindale ran holler where the law didn't really go. Coincidentally, this area is also a holler - 'Bacon Holler' (or 'hollow'?).
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marshmallow creep posted:My town isn't as big as some, 100,000 people, but driving around there are moments where if you take this left turn, you're in a very built up, urbanized area nearly indistinguishable from portions of Houston or Dallas, but if you take that left turn, you're suddenly deep in some weeds and there's a million dollar McMansion across the street from a dilapidated trailer, with no sign of major infrastructure that you know for a fact is right around the bend. All inside the loop, so well inside city limits. That's always impressed me. Plenty of Houston is like this too tbh hyperhazard posted:The best Hallmark/Lifetime movie is The Spirit of Christmas because it was obvious they came up with the name first and worked their way back from there. I can't believe Hallmark made a movie about Jesus beating up Santa
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bobjr posted:https://1900hotdog.com/2021/06/upsetting-day-last-ounce-of-courage/ This was more amazing than I thought, holy poo poo that ending is insane
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Reminds me of Newsradio Aces High posted:I feel this way every time people say there is nothing to do in my hometown, a city with a population of 1 million and about 1.5 for for the GMA. But it's Canada so if you don't live in Vancouver or Toronto (I guess Montreal counts too) you're from a small town hawowanlawow posted:Edmonton or Calgary? Lol https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/cattle-lead-edmonton-police-on-merry-chase-1.1365534
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I guess cows don't get loose in Cowtown, they got that poo poo on lock. Calgary's ungulates-run-amok news stories are generally about loose moose. Which makes sense, considering. E: agh I copied the .ca link (Toronto restaurant) instead of the .com (Calgary theatre) Phy has a new favorite as of 03:31 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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Phy posted:I guess cows don't get loose in Cowtown, they got that poo poo on lock. Calgary's ungulates-run-amok news stories are generally about loose moose. Which makes sense, considering. Toronto is a fair ways away from Calgary.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:If we're thinking of the same mountainous rural college town in Virginia, I live in the area. While I can't confirm the trailer park, I 100% believe you that there's a place here that's like that (or was). There are areas like that in Montana. My EMT friends found out I'd been taking photos near one of them, freaked out, and gave me their list of, "Places we will only go with a police escort" so I wouldn't do it again.
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I remember that both the x-men and Spiderman went to the calgary stampede, giving me the belief as a child that it was some kind of world-class spectacle.
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hyperhazard posted:The best Hallmark/Lifetime movie is The Spirit of Christmas because it was obvious they came up with the name first and worked their way back from there. That sounds a lot like an old movie called The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. It's a romantic comedy about a woman refusing to move out of house haunted by an old timey sea captain. It's way better than it has any business being.
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Phy posted:I guess cows don't get loose in Cowtown, they got that poo poo on lock. Calgary's ungulates-run-amok news stories are generally about loose moose. Which makes sense, considering. It's because we have cops on horses. I've seen them a few times up the street from my house. And if they think horses aren't intimidating enough, they cruise around in their million dollar armoured car instead. Seen that at the Tim Horton's a few blocks away a couple of times.
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Picnic Princess posted:It's because we have cops on horses. I've seen them a few times up the street from my house. And if they think horses aren't intimidating enough, they cruise around in their million dollar armoured car instead. Seen that at the Tim Horton's a few blocks away a couple of times. What's really funny is when stampede rolls around and the horse cops start wearing the hats Literal cowboy cops Was it you who called the performative ruralists "yeehawboos"? I know I didn't invent that myself.
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I actually hadn't seen that one, it's great because it's true. So many country boy yahoo wannabes that haven't kicked a single cow pattie in all their life. The horse cops in my neeeeeighbourhood totally wear the cowboy hats outside of Stampede. Although it's been a couple years since I've actually seen them. Guess they moooooved on the other pastures.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:that's not unique to the South, sadly, people say Pennsyltucky for a reason A good rule of thumb is to turn back whenever you start seeing Sheetz instead of Wawa. Antifa Turkeesian posted:I remember that both the x-men and Spiderman went to the calgary stampede, giving me the belief as a child that it was some kind of world-class spectacle. I was visiting family in Canada in the early 90s, and I don't remember much but I did get a free copy of the spider-man at the calgary stampede comic.
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There's a lot of rumblings about how Y:the last man should have stayed in the 2000s. And uh, probably. Written by a cis dude in the early aughts, probably not great. But then people started sharing panels and bits that I had completely forgotten in the last 15 years. And hooboy. https://twitter.com/SeanRMoorhead/status/1423428383296278533?s=20 And there's a bit with a trans man's girlfriend using slurs and misgendering him after his death.
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Or the fact that they're not trans men but pretending to be men because their girlfriend have hang ups about being with a woman.
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If Whedon hadn’t been so totally disgraced, you know he’d be the one assigned to this adaptation. The comic always felt like it had Whedon affinities to me.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Or the fact that they're not trans men but pretending to be men because their girlfriend have hang ups about being with a woman. I haven't read it since it came out, and this is the most I ever felt like that tiktok "Spring break at sex times high" guy
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I mean stuff like this seems like stuff they can just not adapt?
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It is a post apocalyptic comic book. It must be adapted. That they have waited this long is all you could hope for.
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i feel like the whole disaster genre should take a break for a few years, given how 2020 showed how many truely loving stupid people there are.
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No I mean none of the stuff posted seems crucial. Adaptations are already pretty lose with that stuff so they don’t need anything. Look at the Boys they cleaned that adaptation up a lot. Which is good, because that comic was gross
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CharlestheHammer posted:No I mean none of the stuff posted seems crucial. Adaptations are already pretty lose with that stuff so they don’t need anything. Or the pre-teen orgy in It, which every adaption ever has said, um....no thank you.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Or the pre-teen orgy in It, which every adaption ever has said, um....no thank you. I always thought the 90s one included last-minute pre-battle line from the one guy saying that he'd never had sex with anyone as 100% confirmation that there was no child orgy in that version of the story.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I always thought the 90s one included last-minute pre-battle line from the one guy saying that he'd never had sex with anyone as 100% confirmation that there was no child orgy in that version of the story. I always interpreted that as him coming out, just SUPER awkwardly. Which the modern movie drove right into.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:This was more amazing than I thought, holy poo poo that ending is insane I was introduced to this movie because of the ending below, I just didn’t know how crazy the entire movie and production around it was https://twitter.com/jackdwagner/status/1208174810066350080?s=21
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bobjr posted:I was introduced to this movie because of the ending below, I just didn’t know how crazy the entire movie and production around it was Well that's 2 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.
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CharlestheHammer posted:No I mean none of the stuff posted seems crucial. Adaptations are already pretty lose with that stuff so they don’t need anything. It's not, it's just a bit of world building and wasn't intended to be transphobic but can be read that way. the character in question stumbles on Yorrick pretty early in the series as a side story about how people are coping. They reveal that some of the women weren't adapting very well so other women starting cutting their hair short and wearing fake beards to look more masculine to help them adapt. It wasn't really sexual identity and more performative like drag.
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