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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #60 on: Jul 10, 2016, 11:31:52 PM »
I love the Ghostbusters game. It is a shit ton of fun.

But I'm curious what part Rodent got stuck on?

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #61 on: Jul 12, 2016, 12:02:08 AM »
The busting ghosts part.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #62 on: Jul 12, 2016, 08:16:06 PM »
How were you trying to download it? (Just curious.)
Keepvid.com. It usually works pretty well.

But I'm curious what part Rodent got stuck on?
It's been awhile, but it was during the street battle in the early going. I got tired of slogging through it and trying to figure out which way to go. I hate not knowing what I'm supposed to go in a game.
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #63 on: Jul 13, 2016, 03:55:30 PM »
How were you trying to download it? (Just curious.)
Keepvid.com. It usually works pretty well.

Ok, just wondering. Did you ever try anything else?

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #64 on: Jul 14, 2016, 07:11:27 PM »
The one where you put "vd" in front of "youtube" in the URL. But it was an ad nightmare.
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #65 on: Jul 14, 2016, 11:13:07 PM »
I had no idea what you were talking about when you mentioned Huey Lewis, but I didn't question it, I just kept reading. Today someone else made a similar off-handed remark about that, so I had to look it up.

All these years, and I never knew that was a thing. I mean, you can kind of hear it. It gets a lot dicier, though, when you learn that they originally wanted Huey Lewis to do the Ghostbusters theme.

But I wouldn't know any of that without Wikipedia.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #66 on: Jul 17, 2016, 03:38:09 AM »
I want a new drug. One that won't make me sick. Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #67 on: Jul 19, 2016, 04:30:24 AM »
So, I ended up reading this: DON’T “HANG OUT” WITH WOMEN – GO ON DATES.  I do find it sound advice, if only because I've ended up going on "dates" and I didn't even know they were fucking dates.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #68 on: Jul 27, 2016, 09:31:31 AM »
But I'm curious what part Rodent got stuck on?
It's been awhile, but it was during the street battle in the early going. I got tired of slogging through it and trying to figure out which way to go. I hate not knowing what I'm supposed to go in a game.

You didn't get very far. I think that is even before you fight Stay Puft.


It is kinda funny that Ley Lines are important to the plot of the game. So much so that they even lay out a drawing of the ley line on a map of New York to pinpoint the source of the ghost activity. Which sounds an awful lot like what they did in the New Ghostbusters movie. Course in the game it centered on Central Park instead of some hotel.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #69 on: Jul 27, 2016, 10:11:44 PM »
It's been awhile. I may have to pull it (and my PS3) back out and give it another go.
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #70 on: Jul 31, 2016, 02:02:37 AM »

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #71 on: Aug 01, 2016, 12:14:04 PM »
You stick with your own kind.  The dog doesn't get to sniff your ass either.  Think of his feelings.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #72 on: Aug 09, 2016, 05:12:01 AM »
So boo-hoo, Hulu will be pay only.  Is anyone here actually affected by this?  When I tried Hulu years ago, you had to pay to get it on your TV.  Outside of a free trial.  And it was a shit-sausage on my Wii at the time.  Sure, I could just hook up my comp to my TV but I don't want to bother with that.  Imo, that already makes it "not free."  Crackle's free.  It's lousy but it's free.  Maybe making it a pay service only will mean they'll stop pretending they have episodes of shit instead of a bunch of trailers and clips.  And more than once I tried to watch a show only to be redirected to the website for the show.  Fuck you, Hulu.  I imagine an influx of cash can only improve them at this point.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #73 on: Aug 09, 2016, 11:46:43 PM »
Found Rumble.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #74 on: Aug 14, 2016, 01:46:48 AM »
The Bee Gees mother died.  She was a dinosaur.  95 years old.  Like most old people, I had assumed she passed away long ago.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #75 on: Aug 14, 2016, 02:26:10 PM »
Age can be weird. Like, would you expect someone born in 1921 to still be alive today? Not really.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #76 on: Aug 15, 2016, 06:23:59 AM »
I'm only impressed when they manage to maintain some quality of life in the process.  Otherwise, you're just following your natural instinct to not-die.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #77 on: Aug 16, 2016, 02:09:10 AM »
Age can be weird. Like, would you expect someone born in 1921 to still be alive today? Not really.

Stan Lee is still alive and he was born in 1922

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #78 on: Aug 16, 2016, 11:29:54 AM »
My Granny was born in 1923, and she could probably kick all of our asses. She stands as proof that one can survive on abject hatefulness alone as necessary.
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #79 on: Aug 16, 2016, 03:23:20 PM »
My Granny was born in 1923, and she could probably kick all of our asses. She stands as proof that one can survive on abject hatefulness alone as necessary.

She sounds powerful as fuck.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #80 on: Aug 23, 2016, 03:40:09 AM »
Femme!busters bombed busters, I guess.  Although Sony's all "no, dude.  no, dude, we merched the fuck outta that shit so it's not that bad."  Well, not as hard as Big Fucking Giant or Fucking Why Would You Remake This Ben Hur.  But, perhaps a silver lining in the current talk about animated projects.  Always interested in animation, of course.  Whether or not it'll be any good is another beast entirely, but I'm still interested.  Now, someone insisted that Femme!busters actually did worse than Tarzan, the latter being a more definite domestic bomb.  So I looked up the numbers on IMDB:

Femme!busters
Budget: $144,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $46,018,755 (USA) (15 July 2016)
Gross: $123,933,072 (USA) (19 August 2016)

Tarzan
Budget: $180,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $38,135,000 (USA) (1 July 2016)
Gross: $125,440,608 (USA) (19 August 2016)

Ghostboobsters was a bigger opener than Tarzan but not by much and then still fell short on it on total domestic take to date, although neither domestic take is that hot given those over-inflated budgets.  Shit, you could make 5 Deadpools outta their combined budgets!  Why the fuck are the budgets so goddamn high?  Does the catering bill include caviar and foie gras?  FFS.  Neither one made back their budget in domestic.  Both bombs!  Worth noting tho':

Ghostbusters:
$193,786,077 (Worldwide) (15 August 2016)

Tarzan:
$312,750,024 (Worldwide) (4 August 2016)

This makes Tarzan actually look impressive, but we don't know how much of that tally is considered an actual profit given that international bo takes a higher cut.  Never mind marketing costs for either picture.  Sony squawks about merchandising so, yeah, merch is probably the only thing that kept their heads up on this one.  Funny how Tarzan is being made as a huge bomb and Ghostbusters' failure is almost being kept under the rug.  I know if I went and told 'casuals' that it bombed, they'd react with disbelief.


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The sad thing Ghostbusters will result in another "dem womens can't carry a pict-ture" moment when the casting was uninspired to begin with.  Is there any crossover appeal between fans of Ghostbusters and the audience who likes Melissa McCarthy enough to give her hits like The Heat?  I liked The Heat and I still didn't want her in Ghostbusters.  Even so, the picture was so risk adverse.  It should've killed Melissa off and made her into a ghost.  And then the picture was from the writer of The Heat AND the director of The Heat and written by both of them?

You know what, by themselves, none of those are bad.  Nothing wrong with the writer of The Heat writing Ghostbusters or the director of The Heat directing Ghostbusters.  But... if you put sugar, flour, and butter together, you're gonna get a cookie.  Even if you do it out of order, you're still gonna get a fucking cookie.  Don't put the same ingredients together and expect to get something different.  Don't paint it with green frosting and call it Ghostbusters.  No one wanted "The Heat but with ghosts."

And then this whole fucking film just felt so rude to minorities in the whole "Let's just cast one.  Let's put her on the side of the poster while the three white chicks gets the middle.  Let's not make her a scientist because black people don't science."  What were they thinking?  When minorities are buying a huge number of the movie tickets?  People can argue that wasn't what it was but that's what it was because it happens over and over and over again.  No Latinas, no Native Americans, no Asians?  Not one of those?  And we can say "Nuri, stop talking about race bloob bloob bloob" but how much fucking fun could we have had with that?  Just in my culture alone there's so many stories and kooky superstitions and at least one curandera.  There's more than enough supernatural stuff to make a fresh narrative that would've put butts in seats.  Goddammit, I almost want to write my own fuckin' Ghostbusters... but I won't 'cause omg fuckin' ghosts.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #81 on: Aug 23, 2016, 03:44:47 AM »
Oh, yeah, and on Ambler Heard again... the buzz is that she's donating her settlement to charity.  Which is sooo fake.  Come on, lady, your lies are smacking you in the face and it's time to attempt to save your career.  She's dating a billionaire now, btw, so seven million is chump change to play with the public's heartstrings and earn her some good pr.  Also, it was supposed to be donated to a battered women's charity but is now going elsewhere.  I wonder why... (partial screen shot from DM article's comments sections)
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #82 on: Aug 23, 2016, 07:02:19 PM »
Regarding race in casting, I think you hit the nail on the head on it when you mentioned using the race of a character as a story enhancement (see, I read the rant!) rather than stroking the pelt of the political correctness beast. There racial stuff we can all laugh at without malice because we're all in on the joke, but creators are so scared to go there for fear of alienating segments of their audience (RE: losing money) or having SJW/keyboard commandos organize against it (RE: losing more money) that they can't bring themselves to do it in any sort of mainstream manner. So they go to old cliche crap, like a fat black chick doing the "no you di'in't" head wag, expecting people to find it funny for the millionth time.

Go out on a fricking limb for a change. Subvert expectations: imagine Egon as the exact same character, except played by Cedric the Entertainer or some-such. Then you open up a whole new dimension to explore with everyone being amazed every time he opens his mouth. Introduce subtle innuendo: hint that Slimer is the ghost of Liberace so Peter can off-handedly wonder about that whole "he slimed me" incident. Try less utilized tropes: make Janine Chinese so she can go all tiger mom on Peck.

But anyway. There is so much we can laugh at without even being "racial" with it. Human beings still find a lot of the same things to be funny despite the regular shit we put ourselves through. It's such a simple and profound truth. You don't have to pander. Just be funny.
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #83 on: Aug 24, 2016, 03:09:34 AM »
So, I don't think black MJ was brought up here yet.  I mean, Zendaya's MJ, right?  The media's got me confused.  When she was first casted, I was actually hoping she might be White Tiger.  She better have red hair.  I have a feeling she won't tho'.  :(

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #84 on: Aug 25, 2016, 02:27:14 AM »
Holy shit.  Leslie Jones' website* was hacked and personal info was posted along with nudes.  NUDES.  This pic has never been more appropriate.



*It actually looks more like it was just a tumblr with a domain parked on it.

Is all this really because she doesn't meet standard beauty ideals or what the fuck ever?  I can't think of anything she's done herself to cause such vitriol.  What about the three white chicks that were with her?  They didn't ruin your childhood, too?  And when these people get hacked, is it really just their password getting guessed somehow?  Be it through a program or stalking or whatever?  I can't help but think some of these people's passwords are "password" or something.  Like I was tying to help a family friend with something and her password was "password."  Then again, I don't know how any of this iCloud shit works.  Or how the fuck the hacker(s) got scanned copies of her DL and passport.  Unless those were just sitting on teh cloud.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #85 on: Aug 26, 2016, 02:52:50 AM »
I don't really want to see any of those women nude. I doubt any of them has a "nude model" physique. You know, like most people.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #86 on: Aug 27, 2016, 01:27:14 AM »
"Those" women refers to the Ghostbusters, you mean?  Not even Kristin Wiig?
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #87 on: Aug 27, 2016, 06:44:38 AM »
I don't find her physically attractive. She reminds me of someone's goofy aunt.

She's a funny, talented actor for sure.

The thought of seeing her naked, though? I don't know. It would be like seeing my mom naked. No thanks.

Am I weird? Probably.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #88 on: Aug 28, 2016, 02:47:30 AM »
No, it makes perfect sense to me actually.  I don't see any of them as wank material either.  I was just making a joke.   :D

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« Reply #89 on: Aug 28, 2016, 09:26:40 AM »
I'd hit that.