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I use a signed language daily and after long days signing I'll forgot English words and attempt to use onomatopoeia to describe shape and function "Where's the flimerty flap?" "Huh" "DW got it" 
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CainFortea posted:Eh. People forget words for things all the time. poo poo just today I had to ask my office mate for a "spring but wound wrong" because for some reason I blanked on paperclip. Did the same thing last night trying to think of the word obituary. I was going "you know, the epilogue someone gets in the paper"
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Oct 9, 2021 23:24
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Hokkaido Anxiety posted:I wondered what weird rear end donuts Japan had for the longest time after watching Pokémon as a kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RentKWlhUXc This was an April fool's joke
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Oct 9, 2021 23:47
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BOOTY-ADE posted:This reminded me of a post I saw somewhere of a guy & his wife who were cooking in the kitchen & he asked for the "meat tweezers" (tongs) Friend of mine wrote her shopping list down and then went to the store. When she got to "sugar", she couldn't read it right, and wondered what "soogare" was. It was perfectly legible, as sugar. But her brain kept giving her "soogare"
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Oct 10, 2021 05:47
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Jestery posted:"Where's the flimerty flap?"
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Oct 10, 2021 08:05
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Escobarbarian posted:Sean Connery retired after League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which I don’t think anyone could blame him for. Cameron Diaz retired after Annie but no-one noticed because she was never very talented He um...he actually came out of retirement for one more movie in 2012. https://youtu.be/a20oRLJ4v4s 
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Oct 10, 2021 08:41
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Jestery posted:I use a signed language daily and after long days signing I'll forgot English words and attempt to use onomatopoeia to describe shape and function When I'm doing physical labor I forget all the proper words for everything. I'll call a pallet-jack a push push, a forklift, the forky thing. A box cutter is a cut-cut. Everything else is called a fuckit. "Can you hand me a 9/16ths fuckit?" It's a weird habit as I am normally quite loquacious.
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Oct 10, 2021 15:55
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Vandar posted:He um...he actually came out of retirement for one more movie in 2012. He deserved that to be his last role, imho.
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Oct 10, 2021 17:01
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Taeke posted:They're saying that often in translations when the original is an estimate the translation will be a conversion of that estimate but be too exact. Ooh okay thank you
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Oct 10, 2021 19:18
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Memento posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RentKWlhUXc The best joke Babish will always be the cake he made in the third week of April one year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfn-LC254Hk
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Oct 13, 2021 21:08
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There's a fun little moment in "The Truman Show" that can be read one of two ways, both of which fit this thread. Ed Harris's director/producer character Christoff re-introduced Truman's "dad" to the show in an effort to get Truman to stop trying to leave/break out/find out what is going on. An interviewing is talking with him about this, and asks how they'll explain where his dad was for 20+ years, and Christoff answers "Amnesia" and the interviewer responds (paraphrasing), "Oh, brilliant." The first way to interpret this is that the interviewing is just slobberin' the ol' Christoff knob. He is constantly referred to as a genius, amazing artist, etc... so even if he comes up wit some hackneyed, daytime TV-esque reason like "Amnesia" everyone acts like he's the first person to think of that. Or, the more subtle way to read that, is that there IS no more regular daytime-TV/soap operas. The Truman Show is the #1 show in the world, but it airs (essentially) 24 hours a day, and some of the "prime" material would be mid-day, presumably. So there's a good chance, since it's been airing since the late 60's, that regular soap operas just don't exist anymore, and a lot of the "wackier" plots they had (which tended to include things like amnesia) never wormed their way into the psyche as such a cliche, so in a way, Christoff really IS a genius to think of it.
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Oct 15, 2021 20:23
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It's kind of funny how the opening to The Grand Budapest Hotel just straight up shows you the conclusion to the story right away. Not just from the fact that Zero obviously comes out of the story extremely rich but with how "Boy with Apple" is just hanging in the concierge office.
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Nov 11, 2021 05:03
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DrBouvenstein posted:There's a fun little moment in "The Truman Show" that can be read one of two ways, both of which fit this thread. It’s one of my favorite alt realities I like the implication that the news regularly reports on the Truman show Like all media is centered around this one television show
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Nov 19, 2021 00:42
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Possibly subtle TV moment: the Futurama episode where the crew have their ageing process reversed has Leela take advantage to give her childhood a do-over now she actually knows her parents, and find they aren't strict enough for her liking. (Unclear whether they're indulgent because they're just happy to have her, or they aren't bothering to show authority because they know she's mentally a functional adult) That said, either way 'No beer until you finish your tequila!' is hilarious in context, but actually makes sense- the old adage goes: 'Beer before liquor, never sicker. Liquor before beer, you're in the clear!'
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Nov 29, 2021 16:33
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Subtle bit in the Wheel of Time show. In one of the nightmares Perrin has, there's a very obvious moment when the man with fire for eyes shows up right in front of him and is gone again just a few frames later. It's very obvious. What I *didn't* catch until I saw it for the 3rd time, is that the man with fire for eyes is creeping on Perrin in the window before then.
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Nov 29, 2021 22:05
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A lot about Bane in The Dark Knight Rises makes sense when you realise he's literally almost always high on a constant stream of aerosolised painkillers.
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Dec 1, 2021 15:26
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Here's a fun little Christmas detail. During the Jim Carey iteration of The Grinch, the Whos are shown having a wild Christmas party during the origin reveal scene. Notably there is a quick cut showing a large amount of keys being deposited in a bowl...
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Dec 11, 2021 05:16
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Incel resentment is canon now
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Dec 11, 2021 05:22
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The Grinch was actually invited but he deemed the whoettes all "4s" and "stacys" and unable to comprehend his high IQ
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Dec 11, 2021 05:53
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The Grinch was rightfully ostracized from the neighborhood after his last heated gamer moment.
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Dec 11, 2021 06:06
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Inzombiac posted:The Grinch was rightfully ostracized from the neighborhood after his last heated gamer moment. Does that involve the gamer word?
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Dec 11, 2021 06:11
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Beachcomber posted:Does that involve the gamer word? I don't see how it couldn't.
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Dec 11, 2021 06:15
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Milo and POTUS posted:The Grinch was actually invited but he deemed the whoettes all "4s" and "stacys" and unable to comprehend his high IQ So he was just prepping to be Robotnik?
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Dec 11, 2021 11:25
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I just watched the Hugh Jackman movie Reminiscence and thought it was quite interesting, a film noir style story set in a mid-apocalyptic setting with Nolan-style future tech but that's used less obnoxiously. The whole idea is that Hugh runs a company that lets people relive chosen memories, and they monitor them via a large 3d hologram display showing what they are seeing. The world is a Miami that's partially been eaten by the ocean due to global warming loving the tides, causing a much bigger class divide than usual, and the US has become basically nocturnal because the daytime is just too hot to be out in comfortably so all work is done at night. Something I like is that instead of focusing on the cool future tech and overcomplicating it, they keep it simple and go backwards, with other dives into memories throughout the movie being done with older or more primitive techniques, and it has a neat mystery surrounding the femme fatale "Dame that walks into his office late at night and stirs poo poo up" as he pieces her story together from varying memories from varying people after she disappears.
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Dec 11, 2021 12:38
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Reminiscence feels like a Nolan flick because it was made by the same people that did the TV show Westworld (Lisa Joy and Christopher Nolan's brother Jonathan).
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Dec 11, 2021 16:15
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Android Apocalypse posted:Reminiscence feels like a Nolan flick because it was made by the same people that did the TV show Westworld (Lisa Joy and Christopher Nolan's brother Jonathan). Westworld S1 is a flawless masterpiece, S2 is incredibly bland with one standout episode, and S3 is beneath contempt. Where on this scale is Reminiscence?
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Dec 11, 2021 17:27
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Torquemada posted:Westworld S1 is a flawless masterpiece, S2 is incredibly bland with one standout episode, and S3 is beneath contempt. Where on this scale is Reminiscence? Well in my opinion I liked the world building around the environmental stuff, the technology was easy to understand and had room for interesting moments of "noticing things that the person actually there didn't" and there was interesting stuff with other methods of reliving the past like the rich woman who had trouble letting go of her dead husband so built a whole stage in her mansion and hired actors to pretend to be him so that she could act out her happiest memory with him.
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Dec 11, 2021 18:06
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Torquemada posted:Westworld S1 is a flawless masterpiece, S2 is incredibly bland with one standout episode, and S3 is beneath contempt. Where on this scale is Reminiscence? I didn't feel like I wasted my time watching it, but it didn't stick with me. Edit: Oh! There is also the underutilization of Thandiwe Newton, so definitely season 2. deoju has a new favorite as of 01:14 on Dec 12, 2021 |
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Dec 12, 2021 01:10
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Torquemada posted:Westworld S1 is a flawless masterpiece, S2 is incredibly bland with one standout episode, and S3 is beneath contempt. Where on this scale is Reminiscence? You're probably referring to the Ghost Nation episode, but I like the one with the Delos copies too.
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Dec 12, 2021 01:12
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christmas boots posted:You're probably referring to the Ghost Nation episode, but I like the one with the Delos copies too. I also liked that one, but if you removed the Ghost Nation episode it wouldn’t save the series for me.
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Dec 12, 2021 09:38
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christmas boots posted:You're probably referring to the Ghost Nation episode, but I like the one with the Delos copies too. Which one was the Delos copy one?
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Dec 12, 2021 10:01
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Memento posted:Which one was the Delos copy one? I don't remember the name of it, but isn't it when it delves into how they're developing various James Delos AI copies, and they freak out when they learn what they are?
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Dec 12, 2021 10:32
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I don't remember the name of it, but isn't it when it delves into how they're developing various James Delos AI copies, and they freak out when they learn what they are? Oh yeah I thought it was a reference to the company. And yes, that episode loving whips. I think it's the only one I rewatched.
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Dec 12, 2021 11:01
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Torquemada posted:I also liked that one, but if you removed the Ghost Nation episode it wouldn’t save the series for me. Fair, that one was just a solid piece the whole way through
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Dec 12, 2021 11:04
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The first shogunworld episode is pretty decent too. Otherwise it’s a very annoying season
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Dec 12, 2021 14:20
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I don't remember the name of it, but isn't it when it delves into how they're developing various James Delos AI copies, and they freak out when they learn what they are? They're pretty cool with what they are. What they aren't is that the project is failing and has been for a long time. Every model is tested with the same scenario and every one gets torched. Later on Bernard runs through the wrecked up abandoned mess but my memories of this are vague so I could have all of this wrong.
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Dec 12, 2021 21:27
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:They're pretty cool with what they are. What they aren't is that the project is failing and has been for a long time. Every model is tested with the same scenario and every one gets torched. Yeah, he does, and there's one that's been there, alone, for decades I think, and he's understandably livid and insane. The entire plot is kind of nuts to really think about.
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Dec 13, 2021 01:29
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Yeah, he does, and there's one that's been there, alone, for decades I think, and he's understandably livid and insane. yeah he's gone full Sam Neill in Event Horizon by that point you never go full Sam Neill in Event Horizon
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Dec 13, 2021 03:18
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Should I watch season 1 of Westworld or heist read a synopsis of the series?
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Dec 13, 2021 05:04
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Season 1 is pretty good! Watch it with subtitles, because everyone mumbles.
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