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World's worst version of the cyberpunk future, yet again.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:08 PM on May 11, 2024

It never occurred to me that I didn't know what BASIC stood for.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:51 PM on May 3, 2024

Narc.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:41 PM on May 2, 2024

"materialized out of thin air" really is a weird way of saying "started going to church."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:37 PM on April 30, 2024

I don't know. I can imagine someone casually glancing at the rock and missing it. I don't know if I would have clocked that as a jaw without someone drawing my attention to it.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:13 PM on April 18, 2024

That's a good way to deal with a shitty situation.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:04 PM on March 20, 2024

Oh, James O'Keefe's tactics and aims are much, much, much worse than this. This is a simple prank.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 3:10 PM on March 16, 2024

O'Keefe: *completely destroyed ACORN by lying about them*
These folks: *made Tucker Carlson look like more of a dipshit than usual for falling for their prank*
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 3:37 PM on March 16, 2024

Between 2001 and 2017, crocodiles caused 21 deaths, total, for the whole of Australia. Not per year, total.

I was about to say that's surprisingly close to those due to the American alligator, but then I remembered the population difference between the US and Australia. Gators really are lazy bastards. (And we're not generally on the menu.)
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 6:22 AM on March 14, 2024

What a dick.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:47 PM on February 16, 2024

I made "mummy" and "tomb" and "phoenix" which is pretty metal.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:55 PM on February 10, 2024

I don’t know how much this is common knowledge, but in the Constitution, the amendment that banned slavery, banned it for everyone except prisoners. Knowing that, start reading about incarceration in this country.

That's the one thing that's weird as hell about Spielberg's Lincoln. It's so optimistic, but near the end Thaddeus Stevens reads the Amendment out loud and he gets to the bit about incarceration and it's this sudden sour note.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:08 AM on February 10, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:51 PM on February 7, 2024

☑️ I'm in this post and I don't like it.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:37 AM on January 28, 2024

How did I know there would be a ton of New Orleans photos here?
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:33 PM on January 26, 2024

Yeah, I first heard about Burning Man 20 years ago from the security guy at the Bourbon St. tourist shop I worked at. He went every year. I cannot imagine people in his income bracket being able to afford it now. My aunt who is a corporate consultant went last year though.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 7:53 PM on January 26, 2024

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posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:13 PM on January 25, 2024

I went to film school and ended up a web developer. Project managers often prefer to work with me just because I can speak human.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 7:50 AM on January 25, 2024

I read that headline and thought, "Oh, well this explains so much!" Then I read the article and thought, "Oh. That's not the drug I take. Back to the drawing board."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:23 AM on January 25, 2024

Can you imagine all the racist dog whistling if this had taken place under Obama?
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 9:46 AM on January 24, 2024

Trump called this guy "Meatball" and gets his endorsement anyway. This is almost as pathetic as when Cruz did the same after Trump insulted his wife. God, the GOP is gross.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:27 AM on January 22, 2024

"The newly uncovered fossils are the oldest record of preserved skin yet found, about 130 million years older than the previous record holder, containing not only the exterior texture of the skin but also the internal structure of the epidermis."

That is insane.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:30 AM on January 15, 2024

I don't know. Sounds like a croc to me.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:44 PM on January 10, 2024

A long while back a friend of mine was getting her PhD at UC Berkeley and was defending her thesis in front of an audience that included a guy who was apparently one of the biggest figures in the field of fluid dynamics. Afterwards I ended up taking a piss in the urinal next to his, which I thought was pretty hilarious. Anyways, on to the link.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:38 PM on December 17, 2023

LOL, Gamers Are Nervous ‘GTA 6’s Female Protagonist Is Trans
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:22 PM on December 5, 2023

He'll be fine. If nothing else he'll get a slot in "Dancing With the Stars" once they find out he was in the Bolshoi Ballet.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 7:44 AM on December 2, 2023

You mean of course President Schwarzenegger's term?

I remember it so clearly . . . um, I think?

Don't forget that there's a Schwarzenegger Presidential Library in Demolition Man.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 7:30 AM on December 2, 2023

ALIEN CUBED is great, no matter what people (including Fincher) say. Especially the Assembly Cut.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:32 PM on November 26, 2023

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A great lady, first or otherwise.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:20 AM on November 20, 2023

Haha. Jesus. Half of the time when I see a post that is totally my thing it's been posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries. Thanks for the link!
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:53 PM on November 19, 2023

In 1991 the famously corrupt Edwin Edwards won the Louisiana gubernatorial election against Grand Dragon of the KKK David Duke. There were hugely popular unofficial bumperstickers saying "Vote for the crook. It's important."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:26 AM on November 16, 2023

The completely dorky visual design and name of the Cybertruck may be the only thing I actually like about Musk.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:42 PM on November 10, 2023

INT. ANTARCTIC RESEARCH STATION - NIGHT

MacReady (Kurt Russell), a rugged, muscular American HERO, waves a flamethrower around a room of fearful, yet tough-looking SCIENTISTS. They're all tied up with NUCLEAR-GRADE ZIP TIES. Suspenseful MUSIC blares.

MACREADY
We're gonna draw a little bit of everybody's blood...

MacReady pulls out a huge, previously unseen BLOOD-EXTRACTING MACHINE. It's covered in lights and… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:12 PM on November 7, 2023

The best subcategory is where the villain is hanging onto the edge and the hero offers a humanitarian hand, but the villain refuses or causes themself to fall in some other way. This is a trope I approve of.

Christopher Lloyd in STAR TREK 3!
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 9:48 AM on November 4, 2023

Yeah, there's invisible CGI everywhere. Even Mad Max: Fury Road, rightfully known for its spectacular practical stunts, has plenty of CGI. Compositing, sky replacements, etc. Heck, there are scenes in Contact that were shot at the actual Arecibo Observatory where the giant dish was so rusty and dirty that it had to be digitally "cleaned up" in postproduction.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:52 PM on October 30, 2023

The Lord of the Rings films were really big in terms of popularizing extensive grading.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 7:20 PM on October 30, 2023

I think a lot of the "no CGI" stuff is a backlash to the Star Wars prequels, which were sort of the height of "we can do this all with computers!"

Because I'm that kind of obnoxious dork, I feel obligated to say that the prequels were absolutely packed with amazing miniature work. As I recall there were more miniatures in Phantom Menace alone than the entirety of the original trilogy. My… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:41 PM on October 31, 2023

Not to mention there were a bunch of miniatures in the Gore Verbinski Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and the Lord of the Rings movies were absolutely filled with them. Those were kind of the last gasps in terms of big budget Hollywood films using that kind of effects work.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 7:14 AM on November 1, 2023

Oh! I went to a talk by Fon Davis, an effects/miniature guy who's worked on lots of stuff, including Star Wars. I had no idea, but the Matrix movies had a ton of it. The big ship crash in Matrix Revolutions is an amazing piece of miniature effects.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 7:21 AM on November 1, 2023

I saw "Cambrian" and was expecting something about Anomalocaris or something, but instead this is about lame humans.

(Neat! Thanks for the link.)
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 9:50 PM on October 31, 2023

Via the Common Descent Podcast. Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:01 PM on October 30, 2023

I was homeschooled for part of high school. Luckily I was raised by two lefty atheists, but I get the side eye sometimes when people find out about that, and understandably so.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:31 PM on October 29, 2023

PICTURED: "not a huge moose by any means"

It's easy to forget how big those burly bastards are.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 3:30 PM on October 29, 2023

Awesome!
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 3:20 PM on October 29, 2023

I Am Ruby Bridges shares the story of the first black student at a previously all-white elementary school in Mississippi.

Quick correction. This was in New Orleans, LA.

They're all lumped together too - the books about inclusion and tolerance, the personal stories about being LGBTQ+, and the black and indigenous history books. Like each school board that objects to one of those things will object to all of those… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:30 AM on October 16, 2023

They rejected anti-bullying topics? Was there an ostensible justification?
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:55 PM on October 19, 2023

Of course! But do they actually state it that way, or is there some sort of lampshade.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 7:04 AM on October 28, 2023

Team monotreme!
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:57 AM on October 24, 2023

Clearly a good dog. Leonel’s parents? Not good people.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:53 AM on October 23, 2023

IT'S THE MOOOOOST WONDERFULL TIIIIIIME OF THE YEEEEEEAR!
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:22 AM on October 22, 2023