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Rude of you to think I haven't seen other movies before.

I got the reference. It felt weird and out of place to do a Young Frankenstein but in an otherwise serious scene.

This whole movie was a slideshow of references to other, better films, with not nearly enough connective tissue to justify it.

07.03.2026 03:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Spoilers below

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So this takes place in a universe where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein but also Frankenstein is real? Did those moviegoers bring Molotov cocktails to the theater just in case? Astronaut is a weird profession to mention in the 1930's.

07.03.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Halfway through The Bride!, everyone breaks out into a musical dance number and Frankenstein's monster does "Putting on the Ritz." Which doesn't even crack my top ten list of strangest things to happen in that movie.

07.03.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll be in my office.

06.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

These are the adventures of the Starship Woke. Their continuing mission: do science, shoot lasers, and deliver little speeches about how bigotry is wrong.

06.03.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I don't believe in gatekeeping hobbies.

BUT ALSO

If you think that woke ruined Star Trek, you never liked Star Trek. Get the fuck back on the other side of the gate where you belong.

06.03.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

The Klingons aren't evil, even when they are the antagonists. And they've done a big face-turn in the lore.

Trek has very few truly evil antagonists. The Gorn are the closest, with no real redeeming qualities.

06.03.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

tbh, the franchises wouldn't be compared as often if they had different titles.

06.03.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We all stan Marc Alaimo, but that's because he plays a compelling villain. Much like Bryan Cranston.

06.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Those are fake fans. It's absolutely impossible to watch a lot of Star Trek and miss the woke. You would have to be blind, deaf, and drunk.

06.03.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

(if I'm wrong about there being unironically pro-Cardassian Trekkies, don't correct me; I'd rather not know)

06.03.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I like Star Trek and Star Wars, but the fandoms are completely different, in that Star Wars has a sizeable "the Empire did nothing wrong" contingent but not a single Trekkie says the same thing about the Cardassians.

06.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0
The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells!  There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. 

The front  inscription reads:
PICTOS VICTOS
HOSTIS DELETA
LVDITE SECVRI

Translated as: β€˜The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’.

Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads:

β€˜UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as β€˜Use happily; may you live well’.

Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: β€˜The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: β€˜UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as β€˜Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman β€˜turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

πŸ“· LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology

05.03.2026 13:39 πŸ‘ 912 πŸ” 276 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 49

Denis Villeneuve's Snow Crash.

05.03.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

My daughter: in the TLC song β€œNo Scrubs,” what do they mean by β€œscrub”?

Me: Honey this is the one and only pop song in history that opens up with a dictionary and thesaurus entry.

04.03.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 684 πŸ” 141 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 6

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

04.03.2026 01:28 πŸ‘ 2590 πŸ” 553 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 23

I don't think that cat is getting enough exercise either

04.03.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Lofi Girl from that YouTube channel that plays tunes to relax and study to

Lofi Girl from that YouTube channel that plays tunes to relax and study to

I've been watching this chick study for hours and she hasn't taken a single poop break

04.03.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Who tf called it an "accretion disk" instead of Hole Foods

03.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sol Ring should be banned in Commander. It's more powerful than most of the Power Nine and the only reason it was ever legal is that it was cheaper than the Moxen.

03.03.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I assure you, she regretted nothing.

It wasn't the first fucked up thing she did, or the last, nor even the worst.

03.03.2026 02:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
03.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Jesus Christ. I'm sorry.

03.03.2026 02:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've come to envy the generation too young to remember 9/11.

03.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway. I skipped class seventh period to sneak onto the library computer and that's how I found out.

My aunt worked in the Pentagon at the time so there were a few hours where I wasn't sure if she was alive or dead.

03.03.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

For years I fantasized about going back to my high school reunion just to track down that principal and call her a bitch

03.03.2026 01:58 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was 17. My high school principal decided to hide the news from us. TVs were removed from classrooms. Teachers were forbidden to talk to us about it. By lunchtime rumors reached a fever pitch. Someone said "they" were bombing Quantico and kids who had parents on base were crying in the hallway.

03.03.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
Tom Paris (legally distinct from Nick Locarno) is in the Voyager mess hall drinking whatever piss water Neelix is currently passing off as coffee. He's waving like a dweeb at whoever just walked into the room

Tom Paris (legally distinct from Nick Locarno) is in the Voyager mess hall drinking whatever piss water Neelix is currently passing off as coffee. He's waving like a dweeb at whoever just walked into the room

logging on

03.03.2026 01:45 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
roadhouseendgame
i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

whoops

24.02.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 3475 πŸ” 1145 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 39

All fash are clowns

02.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0