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By nightflameblue (Mon May 19, 2008 at 04:28:03 PM EST) (all tags)
'Cause 9 out of 10 agree doing it the first time is just practice.


Let's see, there was something about fish and aquarium blah, blah and algae problems and otto cats and clean tanks and blah blah. And then fertilizer dosing and Ammonia-nitrite-nitrate being 0-0-0 for two days in a row which makes no sense at all.

Until it does make sense.

And then movies. The short version:

Snakes on a Plane - ruled once. Wouldn't rule twice.

Sunshine - awesome until they went all Hellraiser/Event Horizon on our asses, then it was just stupid. And the sun won't burn out, it'll grow and engulf us. Dur.

Speed Racer - better the second time. The last race still blew my mind and I was ready for it this time. Awesome, awesome, awesome. If I had time, I'd totally go over and over again until it left the theaters. More movies need to be this fun.

Work - Zippy sucks. I set him up for fail and he jumped through the trap. And then failed. And then failed again. And then failed some more. And BB and I were like, Yeah, suck it newb!

And I coined this to describe a situation in which Zippy gets asked by a user for the ability to post to Flicker:

And he'll be all, "yeah, no problem."

And the boss will be all, "yeah, that sounds like a good idea."

And we'll be all, "fuck you, I quit." Except we won't, because we're stupid.

And BB saw that it was good and deemed it worthy of being included with the Dead Horse poster in the hall of shame.

Then I wrote a thousand words about the secret of life, how to cure cancer, how to solve the constant state of crisis in the middle east, how to have sex seventeen times a day and still get all your work done, and how to prevent male pattern baldness.

And then the world was reset and ObviousTroll's agreement on the awesomeness of Speed Racer was lost to the world forever. Which just goes to show, the Wachowski's should have never reported the true state of the world with the Matrix movies. It pissed off the overlords that someone not only tapped in, but managed to get the word out.

Outz!

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I wish my wife agreed with that by debacle (2.00 / 0) #1 Mon May 19, 2008 at 04:58:16 PM EST
Seventeen times a day. Is that a challenge?

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie



That's not a challenge. by nightflameblue (4.00 / 1) #2 Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:01:37 PM EST
A challenge is when you tell the wife you're gonna rock her world for three hours and she tells you you won't make it half that.

And then, to prove her wrong, you take four.

The bad thing is, after facing a challenge like that, she never wants to challenge me again.

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If I told my wife I was going to rock her world by debacle (2.00 / 0) #3 Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:08:05 PM EST
For three hours, she'd promptly hire me a callgirl.

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

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See, my wife's mistake. . . by nightflameblue (4.00 / 1) #4 Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:20:18 PM EST
she thought I was bluffing. Which I was, to be honest, but I couldn't let her know I was once she thought I was. Now when I ask her about anything, "is that a challenge?" I get this look of fear from her like she's scared to death and she starts shaking her head no really fast.

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Oddly enough by debacle (2.00 / 0) #6 Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:25:04 PM EST
My wife sees perfectly fit to rock my world for three hours.

The double-standard, to this day, confuses the fuck out of me.


"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

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only 3 hours ? by sasquatchan (2.00 / 0) #10 Mon May 19, 2008 at 06:25:04 PM EST
man, I get 24/7 world rockin'...

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So di I by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #11 Tue May 20, 2008 at 07:38:54 AM EST
In the corner, arms wrapped around my head, repeating "The horror, the horror, I forgot the backups" as I rock, back and forth, back and forth.

Or maybe it's Hulver who does that.

Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)

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sunshine by MostlyHarmless (4.00 / 1) #5 Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:24:52 PM EST
I couldn't agree more. they did an awesome job right up until the point where they introduced the pointless, ridiculous, retarded and entirely unnecessary bogeyman that took the story from possibly becoming a classic work of SF into being a B-grade monster movie...

Not that I'm bitter or anything
--
[Mostly Harmless]


I heard nothing about this movie until now. by debacle (2.00 / 0) #7 Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:31:43 PM EST
It looks like shit?

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

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Sadly, you're right. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #9 Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:47:30 PM EST
But if they'd just changed one minor little thing about it, it wouldn't be. Unfortunately, this is one of the few times when I can't look past that minor little thing, because it takes the story from believably future-tense to stupid dumbass tense with no rest stops in between.

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What really bothered me. . . by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #8 Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:45:58 PM EST
I didn't mind that that dude managed to exist for eight years or however long it was supposed to be. It was all very plausable, what with the garden still being fully operational and all that. So sure, he suicide-pacts his group, gets out alive even if badly burned and fucked up, and lives for however long until Icarus II shows up. Then, he fucks with their plans, OK, I'm still with you. But, WHY THE FUCKITY FUCK DID HE HAVE TO BE ALL BLURRY AND OUT-OF-PHASE-WITH-REALITY EVERY TIME HE SHOWED UP?! He's just a burnt dude, it's not like he somehow became supahman just because he looked at the sun from too close. He's just a crazy dude.

Just had to get that out there. Because, really, if they just showed him just like everybody else past that first scene they revealed him in, where it's justified because of the ridiculous amounts of light in the room, I'd have probably been so-so on it. Making him out to be the boogeyman, like you said, was just stupid and ruined the entire premise.

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The Sun will burn out by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #12 Tue May 20, 2008 at 07:39:29 AM EST
After it becomes a red giant and engulfs us.

Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)



Well, sure. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #13 Tue May 20, 2008 at 08:00:01 AM EST
But that kind of negates the premise of this silly movie, traveling to the sun to kick-start it because it's getting weaker. Not that that's the worst part of the movie. One science mistake can be forgiven, no matter how horrendous.

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