Activity from ROU_Xenophobe

And the freefall blood glob* that goes splat when the thrust comes back. *I have their first album and liked them before they got cool and sold out [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by Jacqueline, grandiloquiet
FanFare comment - Last month

He was a leaf on the wind. [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by Jacqueline, Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug
FanFare comment - Last month

I mean, if you're sort of part of the ruling elite of the last remaining vestiges of an entire species and the entire Earth has just started burning everyone you know and love below you, are you really going to kick one more human out of the… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by audi alteram partem, mon-ma-tron
FanFare comment - 3 months ago

Holy shit I just read that the Big Bad, Immortan Joe, is played by Hugh Keays-Byrne WHO WAS THE FUCKING TOECUTTER. *explodes* [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by JohnFromGR, porpoise
FanFare comment - 5 months ago

My brain just went Moray? As in eel? or Scottish government? Oh, probably was going for mores. Helpful hints: When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. When you're swimming along and an eel bites yer bum, that's… [more]
favorited 147 times, recently by JohnFromGR, of strange foe, skoosh, bumpkin
FanFare comment - 5 months ago

Seriously, heaven is just like Earth, but without children or old people? And without being locked-in or comatose. And without being controlled and limited by your next of kin who hate you for what you are. And being able to talk to… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by caviar2d2
FanFare comment - 7 months ago

disclosure: biscotti occasionally breeds Swedish vallhunds, and I help a little with the stuff you can be smart-like-tractor for. Maltese have small litters, so as a wild-assed guess you're looking at something north of $2K for a puppy as a… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by fire, water, earth, air
Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Always a shame to see the kindness of strangers pushed aside in favor of litigation. How is it kindness? A bunch of people used his likeness for their amusement without his consent. That seems unkosher to me, and it's not crazy to demand… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

"If I'd really wanted to win, I would have. Besides, the moderator was against me. Besides, the microphone wasn't working." I ran out of gas! I got a flat tire! I didn’t have change for cab fare! I lost my tux at the cleaners! I… [more]
favorited 42 times, recently by Devoidoid
MeFi comment - 8 months ago

erhaps the lesson is not to buy a piece of furniture that has a human name. I would feel terrible throwing out "Peggy". Some of you are feeling bad for the lamp. That's because you are crazy! It's just a lamp and the new one is… [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by goodnight, Sphinx, mgar
MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Especially if you consider that by the time Paul actually becomes Kwisatz Haderach, the BG breeding program has probably produced a fair number of people who are almost KH's -- Count Fenring is explicitly described that way, but presumably… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by bombastic lowercase pronouncements
FanFare comment - 8 months ago

JUST EAT THEM ON A PLATE OH GOD YOU DON'T JUST HAVE HUSH PUPPIES YOU HAVE EXTRA UNNEEDED HUSH PUPPIES AND HERE I AM IN YANKEELAND WITH NO HUSH PUPPIES JUST PUT THEM ON A PLATE AND EAT THEM YES IT'S TOO MANY HUSH PUPPIES YES IT'S GLUTTONOUS BUT YOU… [more]
favorited 35 times, recently by A Terrible Llama
Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

It's interesting that because they have to be so committed to the Good Place, the Janet is programmed to think she's working for a Good Place, such that she brings Jason so the humans because that would make him feel less lonely. You would think… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by mmoncur
FanFare comment - 8 months ago

So there's that moment when Ethan Hawke sees himself when he was Sarah Snook and thinks back to how miserable and betrayed she felt when her lover knocked her up and abandoned her and he realizes for the first time (because he can't recognize his own… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by lalochezia, Proofs and Refutations
FanFare comment - 9 months ago

The first and likely last time you will see Buffalo, NY portrayed as the warmer of two locales. The bit where she opens the front door and can't leave because snowstorm? Took my suspension of disbelief and cracked it over my head. Ain't… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by mmoncur, naoko
FanFare comment - 9 months ago

I mean how are they going to fill the 4-6 hours it seems like PHC eats up on both Saturday and Sunday? With programming? Hell, just with dead air? Lambs being slaughtered? Prairie Home Companion is just visceral proof that lots of… [more]
favorited 33 times, recently by AsYouKnow Bob
MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Ah, hard sci-fi. So much for the expense of special effects being the limitation. They're pretty open that they want to be sort-of-hardish but know that telling their stories means some handwavy bullshit... and their solution is to just not… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by jedicus, The corpse in the library
FanFare comment - 10 months ago

SPACE drugs. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by jedicus
FanFare comment - 10 months ago

You can't beat "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" for a very short story (beware pop-ups) Except that nobody actually shows why the kid needs to be in the basement. Which is to say, it's so far into the land of didactic fables… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by y2karl
MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Let us all remember Vigorous Hand Job Guy. Here is an interview with the actor who played Vigorous Hand Job Guy. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by caviar2d2, Mavri, ejs, antinomia
FanFare comment - 11 months ago

I suppose the issue is that it feels like everything has to be a tentpole action movie anymore. It's really created a monoculture in movies where it all looks like it's being sliced off this one, never-ending Loud Loaf-o-CG and Fistfights… [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by vasi
MeFi comment - Last year

I don't mean to be a dick, and this is a show that demands a lot of attention and not in an entirely good way, but even though TheWhiteSkull's comment says "potential spoiler" I don't think there's anything in it that you can't get out of… [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by rory
FanFare comment - Last year

It's one of those things where I tried to explain the plot to my wife, and it took some selling. "Theon Greyjoy just fucked with the wrong Mexican." [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by epj
FanFare comment - Last year

This isn't an etiquette thing; this is a workplace thing. Obviously, etiquette-wise, she's wrong to expect replacement [unless burrs are so strange and out of place where you live that you ought to have warned her they were out there, but that seems… [more]
favorited 20 times, recently by equipoise, Barbara Spitzer, wenestvedt
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Also we are finally getting Sweary Grandma. [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Ivan Fyodorovich
FanFare comment - Last year

His chances might be slim in a shelter, but slim is better than none. Nope. A low-stress weekend at home with the owner followed by humane euthansia is better than a stress-filled week followed by euthanasia. Dogs are about quality of life,… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by Recliner of Rage
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

You're not a bad person if you're not willing to impoverish yourself or otherwise undergo severe hardship for a dog. (Flipside: you are a bad person if you put down a dog that you could give a few good-quality years to because you want to… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Recliner of Rage
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

I kept waiting for the humans to get studied... It's already studied a few hundred thousand Belters. [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by any portmanteau in a storm, grandiloquiet, zippy
FanFare comment - Last year

In at least one version of the screenplay, he would read a little bit every day in the library and they would have showed him sad on the day he read the last page in the last book. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mmoncur
FanFare comment - Last year

So when I hear "misogynist film" maybe I'm not calibrated to what should be the norm nowadays. I get this. The movie wants to show you that their society is a depraved pack of slavers, so it shows you women being murdered… [more]
favorited 21 times, recently by naoko, seasparrow, rustybullrake, rue72, Popular Ethics
FanFare comment - Last year

TRUE FACT: Peggy + Stan = that couple from Joy of Sex. [more]
favorited 23 times, recently by GrammarMoses, penguin pie
FanFare comment - Last year

But if you buy Tolkien's way of thought, that's not the end result. The end result is [Catholic eschatology translated to middle-earthian terms]. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by plep
MeFi comment - Last year

We're still impressed with our Shark, at least for the price. Must be 5 years old now? Also if you are getting a carpet cleaner and can afford the $400, do not fuck around with anything less than a Bissell Big Green. Holy fuck, the shit I have… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by VyanSelei
MeFi comment - Two years ago

I don't get it. We don't give other films this kind of (purely hypothetical) consideration. I agree, but I think it's a little important to make a distinction between simply bad movies -- hollywood makes scads of those every year -- and… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by ricochet biscuit
MeFi comment - Two years ago

Well, it is fiction, so yeah I would have preferred that Leckie invent a pronoun, once that wasn't already used in English. That would have really been interesting as all gender assumptions in would have been throughout all the books. I… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Emily's Fist
MeFi comment - Two years ago

What I really want to know is, how are they going to translate this into a movie? It wouldn't be that hard, I don't think, except that obviously pretty much everyone would end up being visibly one sex or the other. There's a bit in AJ… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Emily's Fist
MeFi comment - Two years ago

The movie is certainly consistent with it being a Reichstag fire, but on the other hand I think a sort of Occam's Razor favors the simpler theory that the Citizen Federation is run by chuckleheads. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by infinitewindow
FanFare comment - Two years ago

until Wallace acquires Tyrell Corp and discovers that in the archives... Comments like this are why the movie has The Blackout. but this is stupid because if they wanted replicants that could breed, you'd just not code in the sterile… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by seasparrow
FanFare comment - Two years ago

I mean, yeah, it's SF biology so it's almost certain to make zero sense whatsoever. But: logistics of stashing the horse for K to retrieve Wossname Deckardsdottir just left it there exactly as in the memory and never had the chance to… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by seasparrow
FanFare comment - Two years ago

From that: "A titanic seawall encircles Blade Runner 2049’s Los Angeles, protecting its snowy streets from the catastrophically risen Atlantic tide." Who wants to tell them? [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by seasparrow
FanFare comment - Two years ago

I think that is the intention of Joi. She is one caste lower than even K - K (a lowly 'skinjob) is able to buy her. However, the moves that the film makes, make us understand that Joi has developed a personality too. I'm less sure of that?… [more]
favorited 24 times, recently by seasparrow, figurant
FanFare comment - Two years ago

Digital Spy: Can we talk about a big problem with Blade Runner 2049? I don't think those people saw the same movie I did? Wallace has a bit of a god complex after his farming thing, and sees himself on a mission. He wants to push… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by seasparrow
FanFare comment - Two years ago

Naomi's success was a nice emotional payoff but felt extremely contrived. I agree, but the two moments -- "We all did!" and "You not finished yet." were really good. I mean, yeah, crassly manipulative. But good anyway… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by miratime, lord_wolf
FanFare comment - Two years ago

The fact is that women buy the clothes that they want to buy Even if you want to go down that revealed preference route, it doesn't tell you that women buy the clothes they want to buy. It tells you that women judge the utility from one… [more]
favorited 28 times, recently by clew
MeFi comment - Two years ago

I just think Aghdashloo didn't quite deliver it right. Perhaps she over-rehearsed it but it came off kind of vaudville, a bit too much. Perhaps if she'd gone with quiet anger instead of loud anger. So I will admit I am pretty far down the… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by miratime, Space Kitty, The corpse in the library
FanFare comment - Two years ago

Where I think he overextends his point is in justifying leaving Caleb to die* because he is (a) someone who will only ever see her as a robot, and further (b) someone who could potentially "out" her as a robot. I got two things… [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by Athanassiel
FanFare comment - Two years ago

Just as any discussion of feminism must be turned to OMG HOW WILL THIS AFFECT MEN? IMPORTANT MEN LIKE ME!, any discussion of race or ethnicity must be turned away from stupid, boring, irrelevant questions about how minorities might deal with racial… [more]
favorited 106 times, recently by tomboko
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

I just question if suing will be teaching him a lesson in how to deal with frustration, disappointment, and anger appropriately. Why should he be taught a lesson in frustration and disappointment? I see it as learning a lesson in how to… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by secretseasons
MeFi comment - Two years ago

Is this salt being added for flavor or to speed up boiling? Salting water would raise its boiling point and so make it take longer. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
MeFi comment - Two years ago

We just binged the season and I so I want to hold up the bit about the English show Tahani likes -- it ran for sixteen seasons; they made nearly thirty episodes -- as the point where I cackled like a madman idiot thing. [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by MiraK, It's Never Lurgi
FanFare comment - Two years ago

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