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by Dantes
Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:25 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: The Motion Picture Arts Thread
Replies: 4853
Views: 235629

Re: The Motion Picture Arts Thread

Jeb Bush 2012 wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:55 pm
Dantes wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:44 pm

Is this a joke or are you serious?
it's a joke (about duncan idaho)
Thanks. I just did not see it.
by Dantes
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Headline of the Day
Replies: 4357
Views: 274650

Re: Headline of the Day

mindwarped wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:45 am 80-year-old man pleads guilty to genetically engineering giant hybrid sheep in 'audacious scheme,' DOJ announces
Okay, I finally got around to reading this. It's less genetic engineering than it is illegal selectively breeding.
by Dantes
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:44 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: The Motion Picture Arts Thread
Replies: 4853
Views: 235629

Re: The Motion Picture Arts Thread

Jeb Bush 2012 wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:59 pm
Blissful wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:48 am they keep advertising dune near me and the logo scans as DUNC to me because of how they stylise the font
that's foreshadowing for god-emperor of dune
Is this a joke or are you serious?
by Dantes
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:08 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: Headline of the Day
Replies: 4357
Views: 274650

Re: Headline of the Day

Is he Scottish?
by Dantes
Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:40 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Headline of the Day
Replies: 4357
Views: 274650

Re: Headline of the Day

Crunchums wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:27 pm
seathesee wrote:VP Prospect Aaron Rodgers
uh
Yeah, that came out yesterday. Supposedly he’s considering Rogers, or Jesse Ventura.
by Dantes
Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:30 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949431

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

Doug wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:13 pm
I am in tears
I don't think that's a particularly fair characterization of Haley, but the joke is nonetheless quite funny.
by Dantes
Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:21 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949431

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

Skeletor wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:45 pm
Dantes wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:58 am Plus woke is kind of a stupid sounding phrase. I’d rather call them Jacobins. It’s a better description.
i think "woke" is a pretty cool word
It sounds absolutely ridiculous coming out of the mouth of Fucking Fuck Ted Fucking Cruz to Fucking Hell.
by Dantes
Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949431

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

Khaos wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:44 pm theyve already used it to put an isis supporter under house arrest
That is troubling.
by Dantes
Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949431

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

Plus woke is kind of a stupid sounding phrase. I’d rather call them Jacobins. It’s a better description.
by Dantes
Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949431

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

Plus woke is kind of a stupid sounding phrase. I’d rather call them Jacobins. It’s a better description.
by Dantes
Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949431

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

Plus woke is kind of a stupid sounding phrase. I’d rather call them Jacobins. It’s a better description.
by Dantes
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:48 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Google makes everything worse
Replies: 3546
Views: 147195

Re: Google makes everything worse

All the babies.
by Dantes
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:35 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Google makes everything worse
Replies: 3546
Views: 147195

Re: Google makes everything worse

Wendy's abandons dynamic pricing scheme once it realizes how often they gotta change those signs It's in the article. The signs are going digital and they're tying them to AI! FUCK THE WORLD. HELLO, DANTES WOULD YOU LIKE ANOTHER SPICY CHICKEN SANDWICH LIKE YOU HAD LAST TIME I am increasingly willin...
by Dantes
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:34 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Google makes everything worse
Replies: 3546
Views: 147195

Re: Google makes everything worse

Did I ever tell you guys about the Trader Bar? It looks like it's closed now but there used to be a bar in Melbourne where drink prices were constantly changing and there was a ticker showing all the prices. During happy hour the market "crashes". Good gimmick. That's actually a cool gimm...
by Dantes
Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:52 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Google makes everything worse
Replies: 3546
Views: 147195

Re: Google makes everything worse

pterrus wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:46 pm Wendy's abandons dynamic pricing scheme once it realizes how often they gotta change those signs
It's in the article. The signs are going digital and they're tying them to AI!

FUCK THE WORLD.
by Dantes
Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:49 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Google makes everything worse
Replies: 3546
Views: 147195

Re: Google makes everything worse

I just watched a video on how a lot of stuff at Disney parks now uses dynamic pricing and predictably the conclusion was that it ends up being very anti consumer relative to what it was previously but people pay it anyway. There aren't a lot of ready alternatives to Disney. Wherever you find a Wend...
by Dantes
Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:46 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Google makes everything worse
Replies: 3546
Views: 147195

Re: Google makes everything worse

https://www.aol.com/news/wendys-start-testing-uber-style-094524709.html By 2025, [Wendy's] will begin testing dynamic pricing, which is a time-based pricing strategy that companies use to increase or decrease prices for their services or items depending on the time and demand. It is similar to &quo...
by Dantes
Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:07 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: the smallbox moving picture with sound thread (telly vision)
Replies: 2245
Views: 211395

Re: the smallbox moving picture with sound thread (telly vision)

I saw the new Taylor Tomlinson special last night. It was good, she is funny. But when she got to the part about how introverted she is, all I could think about is how you guys would call bullshit on her immediately. Yeah, I don’t get that. Extroversion/Introversion isn’t about being able to put on...
by Dantes
Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: the smallbox moving picture with sound thread (telly vision)
Replies: 2245
Views: 211395

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Ashenai wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:52 pm
pterrus wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:37 pm Don't stop now, episode 6 is where they fly in the huge handcuffs.
there are two ways to read that sentence and one of them is much funnier
The deeper you go in the cave, the more you learn to appreciate 50 Shades Darker?
by Dantes
Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: the smallbox moving picture with sound thread (telly vision)
Replies: 2245
Views: 211395

Re: the smallbox moving picture with sound thread (telly vision)

Does the cave belong to Plato?
by Dantes
Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:58 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: the smallbox moving picture with sound thread (telly vision)
Replies: 2245
Views: 211395

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Doug wrote: Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:10 am True Detective season 4: If enough people are sad, maybe it will add up to something
Time is a flat tear.
by Dantes
Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:56 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949431

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

Doug wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:39 pm
:rofl:
Ha!
by Dantes
Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:15 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: The Motion Picture Arts Thread
Replies: 4853
Views: 235629

Re: The Motion Picture Arts Thread

s. goblin wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2024 1:25 am i was just thinking about how steve jobs destroyed the world, and there's actually a really good movie from canada of all things called Blackberry about, uh, Blackberry
I actually want to watch that, I just have not had a chance.
by Dantes
Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:46 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: I need a thread to post non sequiturs from children's books
Replies: 35
Views: 4871

Re: I need a thread to post non sequiturs from children's books

Crunchums wrote: Sat May 22, 2021 2:11 am Calvin and Hobbes is the best
by Dantes
Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:41 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: the smallbox moving picture with sound thread (telly vision)
Replies: 2245
Views: 211395

Re: the smallbox moving picture with sound thread (telly vision)

Crunchums wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:09 pm
Dantes wrote: The time he destroyed a computer by french kissing into a suicide spiral.
i request elaboration
He French kissed a female android, which caused confusion and strange feelings. Eventually she tries to kiss her creator the same way and while doing so fires a phaser vaporizing them both.
by Dantes
Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:54 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: the smallbox moving picture with sound thread (telly vision)
Replies: 2245
Views: 211395

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Capt. Kirk was really good at convincing computers that they were evil, wrong, or self-contradictory and needed to die or kill themselves. He did this to: M-5 Landru Nomad The androids who had captured Harry Mudd (in this case, Kirk had help from the whole bridge crew) Sometimes, Kirk couldn't talk...
by Dantes
Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:55 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: the smallbox moving picture with sound thread (telly vision)
Replies: 2245
Views: 211395

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Hyphen-ated wrote: Sun Dec 31, 2023 3:38 am
Ashenai wrote: Sun Dec 31, 2023 2:49 am (And is also unusual in that the adaptation is the better one.)
The Green Mile is the one I always think of
Die Hard
Fight Club
No Country for Old Men
The Godfather
Jurassic Park
Shawshank
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Silence of the Lambs
by Dantes
Sat Dec 30, 2023 6:52 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: the smallbox moving picture with sound thread (telly vision)
Replies: 2245
Views: 211395

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the boys is...good-ish? its no invincible the thing about garth ennis stuff is that it's all very garth ennis The TV show is completely different from the comic, though. As in, you can't even get spoiled for one by reading the other. Every single character and plot point is unrecognizable. I slight...
by Dantes
Fri Dec 22, 2023 3:42 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: The Motion Picture Arts Thread
Replies: 4853
Views: 235629

Re: The Motion Picture Arts Thread

Doug wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2023 1:49 am The orc makeup in Two Towers is so good that people unconsciously assume the actors are actual orcs
I don’t understand, are you saying that’s not what a kiwi actually looks like?
by Dantes
Wed Dec 20, 2023 3:30 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949431

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

what'll be bigger, girlfriend chatbots or boyfriend chatbots This should be present tense, and it's the latter by quite a lot. Sexbots with physical bodies might flip this around, who knows, but text-based intimacy has always been something that's more appealing to women than to men (and most women...