I do this intentionally sometimes, for shits and giggles, but Poe’s law guarantees that someone will inevitably miss the joke.
Edgar Allen Poe was a lawyer?
Haha i le trolled you!!!
Fuck, you whooshed me.
Lawyers don’t write laws, dumbass.
Edgar Allen Poe was a legislator.
What did he translate again?
No no you’re thinking of translator
What Poe did was amplify or switch electrical signals
No no you’re thinking of transistor.
What Poe did was transmit radio and television signals.
No, you’re thinking of a transmitter.
Poe liked to wear women’s clothes.
Annoying reddit shit
Shhhhh, it’s ok to let people have silly fun.
Poe was my sister?
When I was a kid, we went to see a play with my class.
Someone complained that is was a cheap copy of Lord of the Rings.
It was The Hobbit.
Time loops aside, they’re not entirely wrong. LOTR is an upgraded version of The Hobbit that hit a lot harder.
I think The Hobbit was written for children while LOTR was written for adults.
This. Also, my 12 y/o is getting into fantasy stuff and has us watching The Hobbit movies (Iʻd only ever seen the first one, when it was back in theaters). All the cringey stuff in that movie totally fits with the “younger” tone of the book. The problem is stretching a kids book into a twelve-hour trilogy of films imho. (Okay, that and the completely unnecessary romantic subplot that includes a version of Legolas that might as well be a completely different character than what we see in LOTR)
The LOTR movies were good, but The Hobbit trilogy was an obvious attempt to just milk more money out of Tolkien fans.
I’m still pissed that you could see what was going on in The Hobbit films, 2/3 of it should have been pure darkness. They butchered the source material worse than Kubrick!
This had me thinking of Avatar (blue alien one) and the Unobtanium bring called unobtanium.
That still pisses me off. I get the reference, and it’s still stupid. Then again so are the humans in that movie. They just had to nudge an asteroid so that it hit the area, then moved in with no local xenos or wildlife anywhere nearby. Nobody ever should have had to fight a single space smurf. I hate poorly written villains.
Scientists are nerds, if a scientist in real life discovered a naturally occurring room temperature superconductor they would absolutely call it something nerdy like unobtanium.
It is worse than that.
Assuming similar solar system formation physics as ours, there would have been plenty of unobtanium in the remnants from the forming of their solar system.
They shouldn’t have even needed to land.
My introduction to unobtanium was The Core, which is a bad movie, but one of my favorite movies lol
I think it’s silly that they used the term as a term in a movie like that when it’s a trope term, but we have billionaires naming surveillance companies Palantir and the tunneling companies Boring Company. It feels somewhat accurate in that sense. Someone sort of vaguely nerdy, out of touch, and giving something a name that’s just way way way too on the nose.
Doctor: “You have an oedypian complex.”
Oedypus: “I have a what?”
Doctor: “You heard me, motherfucker.”
“This comment really shows you have a ZeroGravitas complex,” They said in reply, their JackbyDev complex showing plain as day.
Something something literacy in America… 😒
Does it mean the word mentee is wrong? (please say yes even though that’s not how language works so I don’t feel stupid for not having known it in high school)
basically “why’s pythagora using the pythagorean theorem??”
I had a friend do this. Not in the theatre, but a week later when we were talking about the movie. I wasn’t sure how to tell him without embarrassing him, but he joked about it himself later.
the seinfeld isnt funny trope
When you show your buddy The Matrix for the first time and they complain that it overuses bullet time effects.
To be fair, I thought that the first time I saw it back in 1999.
(I’ve never been a fan)
Ahhh a Dark City fan.
betting we’re gonna get this kinda feedback on the Neuromancer tv adaption
Wonder what percentage of people will claim it’s a CP2077 ripoff lol
… there’s gonna be an adaptation of Neuromancer?! 😮💨
yeah the first real trailer dropped the other day
I was in a game store and I overheard a couple of guys learning how to play Netrunner (a cyberpunk hacking game) and one of them laughs and says “So, this is what happens when you can’t get the Shadowrun license!”
I coulda swore there was a legit Shadowrun rule set back in the day…
Oh I hope so. Can’t wait to hear someone complain about the dub or the way they jack in to a cyber deck being a copy of the matrix.
I’m just excited for all the “historically accurate” cyclops, witches, demi gods, and magic objects that the conservatives are going to have in their AI remakes!
/s (just in case)
I’m just upset that they left out the wordplay on Odysseus telling the cyclops that his name was nobody
Agreed. I think it was a shame to leave that section out as it illustrates Odysseus’ cleverness and hubris, the attributes that both help and hinder his journey. It also demonstrates the complicated nature of heroism investigated in the epic.
Odysseus shows great intelligence in introducing himself as Nobody and again in saving the surviving men. He also can’t resist shouting back his name and taking credit once he’s out of immediate danger. Had he not shouted his name back, Polyphemus would have been unable to call down a curse upon him, and by extension, all his men.
“Oh please. He’s saying his name is Nobody? Like the Bob Odenkirk movie? Come on !”
Presumably the cyclops will just be a guy who lost an eye.
spoiler
(That is, before
OdysseusNobody got to him.)
This reminds me of a road trip I took years ago with my best friend. Dude is an awesome guitarist but a little musically uncultured. He likes what he likes and other stuff might as well not exist. Well I have a much wider palate for music than he does and most of the time when we are hanging out, he discovers new music.
We were driving down route 66 and crossing into Texas on our road trip and the song “Free Fallin’” comes on. Immediately he pipes up and says “ah, man this is the worst cover of this song I’ve ever heard. The quality makes it sound like it was recorded in the 70’s or 80’s and you really just can’t replace John’s voice.” I pulled over the car and began interrogating for clarity.
“John who?”
“Mayor? The original is so much better than this.”
“You think John Mayor wrote Free Fallin’?”
“What do you mean?”
“I really really need you to think about why this song sounds ‘older’ than John Mayor’s Free Fallin’.”
“Oh…”
I haven’t let him live it down. Every road trip we have been on since, I make sure the original is on the playlist somewhere. It was out of character for him to be so confidently incorrect.
Sounds like your friend handled being wrong with a lot more grace than you handled being right
You and your friends don’t make fun of each other? It’s all in good fun.
In the pre-internet-as-weʻve-come-to-know-it days, there were actual YEARS of on/off debate between my best friend and I over who first sang “I Shot the Sheriff.” He was convinced that Bob Marley was covering Clapton. I told him repeatedly that this was nonsense. I happened to be in a record store, looking at vinyl (this was in the days of CDs; I owned no turntable but I like flipping through the bins) and I came across the Clapton album that had his cover of “I Shot the Sheriff” on it. Sure enough, in plain English, underneath the song title were the words “written by R. Marley.” So I bought the record for the sole purpose of laying it in front of him to prove to him that Clapton was covering Marley.
“Whatever bro, Iʻve seen the Cream album where it says Clapton wrote it.”
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That used to be my attitude about the Dragon Quest series, that they always felt so generic. Wasn’t aware of how pioneering the series was.
As someone who spent a full time jobs worth of hours playing Dragon Warrior (NA release) III on my Game Boy Color… you couldn’t pay me to play that game again lol.
I once spent 2 weeks grinding in the final boss area because I didn’t recognize some obscure graphic on the wall to be doors to the final boss. Needless to say the final battle was anti-climactic.
That Socrates guy doing the Socratic method?? C’mon. Ancient Greek philosophy should learn to name their characters better.
;3
