I mean, true talk here, "Shada" isn't all that great a DOCTOR WHO story in *any* version. We didn't need most of the reconstructions they *have* done, and we certainly don't need more.

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Awesome headline writing. Direct and to the point. No notes.

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I’ve said it before, but the SCREAM films are a really consistent and great four-film series. A perfect horror tetralogy.

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You know I gotta go with the Lucc'!

Speaking as a GenXer, Mummenschanz was, is, and will always be pure nightmare fuel.

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100% likelihood these guys would try to have a legitimate conversation with a Furby

"For the first time, I read/watched HARRY PO..." Blocked.

New category to block: People that say things like “AI has been added to your breakfast cereal. Do you think this is good or bad, I really want to hear your opinions.” There’s only one correct answer, which is “Fuck AI,” and I think you know that. Blocked.

Happy Twin Peaks Day!

It's crushing to be excited about projects celebrating creativity, like say for example an upcoming documentary about women in horror, and then see that they used fucking gen AI to make their poster. They could have hired an artist to share her vision of the topic, but no. Fuck AI.

You can watch the entirety of a "fun volleyball movie" and still have time to make yourself a snack to enjoy with the next episode reveal announcement. (Go watch SPIKER is what I'm saying.) www.rifftrax.com/spiker

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No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

For the record, you are an actor that's always been on my radar as someone that improves everything he shows up in, from APOLLO 13 to THE X-FILES to 12 MONKEYS. Good to see you here too.

I would love to see this reflected in an actual board meeting. Like, the sales manager pumping up the team with projections like, "OK! So, last year we sold enough donuts to make it halfway to the moon. This year, we're GOING TO THE MOON! I'm talking a GALAXY OF POWDERED SUGAR!"

Every episode of Unwrapped, has at least one brand rep who describes production quantities in the weirdest metric. "If you stretched them out they'd go from NY to LA 6.5 times." "If you melted it down, it would fill a football field." "It's like 3 Empire State Buildings of candy every year."

It's only because we just watched the ANTM documentary this week that I just realized this random fact during our current viewing. The Pink Pelican - the "he throws ice cream at me, daddy" shop from DANCIN': IT'S ON - is currently owned by America's Next Top Model Cycle 10 winner Whitney Thompson.

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Definitely one way I saw the show back then!

STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES has always been canon. But also, canon doesn't matter, because whatever you want it to be is what it is. It's all made up. So just be happy is what I'm saying.

Oh, sure. When a baby monkey does it it's cute. But when I try to bring this with me to the grocery store it's all, "Ma'am can we call someone to come pick you up?"

Every time I see a former colleague write some bullshit LinkedIn post about "responsible" or "thoughtful" use of genAI, I get pushed closer to full-throated screaming at them in public. I just want to ask every single one of them what they think they're going to get in return for their souls.

“What happens?” They just use something else and adjust the game accordingly, because like everything else in our world, it’s all bullshit we made up?

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This entire thread.

Rob is a whole mood on tonight's episode of The Traitors

I'm not a sports guy but it seems to me that this kind of genuine unbridled emotional joy, generated by actual human achievement, and not data centers, is something we really need to see these days.

Every joyous celebration of creativity is a welcome breath of fresh air.

I got turned down for a job as a cashier at my local grocery store because they said I had too much professional experience and they worried I would just quit to take a marketing or editing job. And I'm like, there ARE no marketing or editing jobs. That's why I'm applying to be a grocery cashier.

This. First bit of news from this revival that made me wince. It's a shame.

Jonathan Coulton is the Ernest Cline of Guitar Guys. Just a snide, winking little dipshit for Millennial Dilberts. Also, he still owes me a parking lot fistfight.

OH GOD NO WHY

For me, he’ll always be the Pallid Man from the 12 MONKEYS TV series. Maybe somewhere, sometime, the cycle will begin again.

So if you’re an AI guy who is miffed that we loathe your product, sorry, not our problem. As the meme goes, that’s not how any of this works. Go raise another 900 trillion in funding, make everyone else love and want and PAY for you (you know you have to do this eventually!) and leave us out of it.

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Me, every time someone aggressively tries to insist I'll be "left behind" if I keep refusing to use AI.

Upon sharing this headline with @positivelynatalie.bsky.social , her immediate reaction was: "Put it BACK in the ice cave!" And don't get me started about that gravity hole under Antarctica...

It's one of my all-time favorite movies since childhood, and I love it unironically (but will very willingly joke about its excesses as well, as we should).

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You know, the weird thing is that I love GODFATHER and plenty of other film classics as well as TV gems he did, but for some reason, the one Duvall performance I’m thinking of today is him reading Moby Dick to Ron Eldard in DEEP IMPACT. A simple, warm, sad, funny moment between two human beings.

I might implement this same test. The way Mathews so caringly caressed the face of a fallen fellow sailor in his Sinbad movie demonstrated the kind of person he was in and out of character.