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  • My theory, at least for purposes of The Terminator, is that after Judgment Day, there were some human holdouts in Austria who sent troops to help fight Skynet, so that's why an Austrian accent would be assigned to an infiltration unit.

    I have nothing to say about Terminator 3. That was like three or four timeline modifications later. There's bound to be some reality degradation.

  • I was hanging out with this woman and we made some boffer swords. Now, these are soft... ish. They're made from half-inch PVC with foam pool noodle on top and the whole thing wrapped in duct tape. You can take a direct hit from one of these without it seriously injuring you, but it's not exactly pleasant. She had little to no experience with larping, but we took them out on the driveway and went at it a bit. I accidentally, and I really want to emphasize that, accidentally hit her full in the face with this foam bat. I apologized and we went again... and then I full-on hit her in the face again. And I apologized, and she smiled, and we continued to have a good time sword fighting.

    So anyway, we got married and our daughter is almost five now.

  • There's a proposed amendment that would permit a person to be elected president for a third term, but not if they have already served two consecutive terms. It's literally written so that Trump could run for a third term but Obama couldn't.

  • I love both. The movie is legit cinema from the director of The Crying Game. He got a performance out of little kid Kirsten Dunst that raised the bar for what can be expected from child actors.

    The show also is fantastic. It incorporates the idea of people having preexisting notions of what the story should be into the story itself in a really interesting way. It gives itself a framing device (the titular interview) that also has stakes, so it's not just cutting back to people talking in a room getting away from the interesting story in the past. The performances, the set and costume design, the gore effects, they're all absolutely brilliant. The only complaint that I have is that it isn't longer... there are a couple of spans of time that they gloss over in a scene or less that could have been entire multi-episode arcs in and of themselves. That said, wishing that there was more of a show isn't really that bad of a complaint.

    I've heard that some people are very not happy with the show, which I suspect is because it made really strong decisions about how to adapt and reinterpret the material, which is bound to upset some people. I don't try to convince people to change their aesthetic opinions, but I think the show is amazing, and I can't wait for the third season.

    The less said about Queen of the Damned, or the AMC show Mayfair Witches, the better.

  • Things that freaked H. P. Lovecraft out:

    • Geometry
    • Stars
    • Cool air
    • Subways
    • Old houses
    • Corners of rooms
    • Violin music
    • Flute music
    • The very concept of dreams
    • Realistic paintings

    It would be easier to list the things that didn't freak Howard out.