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33 votes
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The GOP dog caught the car. Again.
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How to fake your way through Hegel
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"Rebel Moons": An abridged screenplay
Voiceover: In space, there is SPACE WAR. Once there was a king or something, but he died. Honestly, it doesn't really matter. The Space War continues. [We open to shots of bucolic farmland -- in...
Voiceover: In space, there is SPACE WAR. Once there was a king or something, but he died. Honestly, it doesn't really matter. The Space War continues.
[We open to shots of bucolic farmland -- in SPACE.]
Village Chief: Everyone! We have to make love so the harvest gods make our crops grow! (This is a real line from the film.)
Village Chief: I am going to talk for a bit about religion. It will never come up again in any way for the rest of the movie, and our folksy ways will seem a lot weirder when the main characters walk to a spaceport that's, like, 20 miles away. But that doesn't happen for like another 30 minutes of screentime, so I'm going to go for it.
[Suddenly - Nazis in SPACE. They were presumably mentioned in the opening narration.]
Admiral Noble: Everything about me screams evil. Give me your grain.
Village Chief: Oh, uh, we don't have any.
Gunnar: Even though it's been shown that the whole village loves and trusts the village chief, and he explicitly told me not to do this, I will publicly contradict him in front of Admiral Noble and suggest that we sell the Nazis some of our massive amounts of grain.
[Admiral Noble kills the village chief. He demands all of the grain!!! He leaves some Space Nazis behind for the purposes of terrorizing the village and then leaves while they.. grow the grain? I guess?]
Gunnar: Noooo the consequences of my actions!
[The Space Nazis are evil to the villagers and also each other. They have a robot. He is conflicted about things.]
Robot: Have you heard about the king?
Village Girl: No.
Robot: There was a king. All we combat robots had a prophecy about how he would have a daughter. Then he did. Then they both died. We decided to stop fighting because all the light had gone out of the world.
Village Girl: Well I think you're carrying the light inside you, Nazi Robot That I Just Met.
Robot: That's kind of a weird thing to say, but thanks.
[The concept of combat robots who prophesy, worship a human god-king, and can choose not to fight - by far the most interesting idea in the movie - is never touched again. The Nazis try to rape the village girl, in case the audience needs a reminder that they are evil.]
Old Villager: Kora, when I found you on that crashed ship being all badass and stuff, I thought you were a badass. Please help us!
Kora: No, I don't feel like it. I'm going to leave. If the Space Nazis learn I'm here, they'll kill all of you. Wait, are those guys going to rape that village girl? Well, if I don't help, it'll introduce some moral ambiguity to my character, and we can't have that, so....
[Kora beats the shit out of the Space Nazis, mostly in slow motion. The robot helps, then runs away. He is never seen again, which is very confusing for the watchers since he has had a significant amount of the dialogue thus far.]
Kora: Well, shit.
Gunnar: We have to go find some more fighters to protect the village!
[Gunnar and Kora walk to the spaceport.]
Kora: The Space Nazi Emperor found me as a child and raised me as his daughter. I had to become an assassin or something. Now you know my darkest secret.
Gunnar: Honestly, I'm not surprised at all.
[They go to a bar. A weird alien disses Kora. She shoots him and a bunch of his friends in slow motion, but not before giving them lots of chances to surrender because she's a good guy.]
Kora: Anyway, now that those guys are all dead, we're looking for the super secret rebel leader. You know, the one whose very name means death to mention. Does anybody know how to find him?
[Kai stands up. Kai is sketchy and rougish.]
Kai: Yeah, I do. Plus I have a spaceship, which is convenient. We just need to run some errands first.
Kora and Gunnar: Tight.
[They visit a variety of locales. At each one they find a new member for their crew. Each new character gets a five-minute fight scene in slow motion. None of this is relevant to the plot. None of them get any more lines in the entire movie, because we have a lot of exposition to dump.]
Kora: At one point I was the bodyguard for the princess. She had space magic. It was wild. Anyway, just wanted you to know.
Gunnar: Wait, didn't that robot imply that the king and his family got killed, like, a hundred years ago?
Kora: Nah. Well, maybe. Don't worry about it.
[The crew finds the rebel leader.]
Rebel leader: Fuck off, we don't want to help you and your shitty village.
Gunnar: ...please?
Rebel leader: Good point. Okay, I am going to go help these guys. Team, this is exactly what we have been working towards. Who wants to come with me?
[Basically none of the rebels go with him.]
Rebel leader: Fair enough.
[They go to somewhere. Suddenly, Kai betrays the crew! And the Space Nazis are there!]
Gunnar: What the hell, man? You've acted sketchy this whole time, and now you're just going to go ahead and do an obvious betrayal?
Kai: The space nazis didn't just destroy my planet. They tortured every man, woman, and child living on it first. (This is an actual line from the film.)
Kora: Okay...? You'd think that would make you hate those guys instead of work for them, but whatever I guess.
Kai: Anyway, the whole point of all of this is that I want to collect the bounties on all of these rebel fighters I took you to visit, and I figured they'd come with you when you asked. Because I know your secret identity as the adopted daughter of the space emperor!
Kora: Wait, so you knew where they all were the whole time? And instead of just selling that information you cooked up this insane plan to bring me to them so that they'd join my crew? Why?
Kai: Don't think about it too hard.
[For inexplicable reasons, Kai and the Space Nazis force Gunnar to execute Kora instead of just doing it themselves. Or not doing it, since the whole point of the plan was to take her alive. But wait! Gunnar sets her free instead!]
Kai and Noble: Oh, bother.
[There is a fight. The good guys win - in slow motion. The rebel leader dies, but since he is one of a dozen minor characters, the audience doesn't really care.]
Djimon Hounsou: Guys, this is awesome. It could start a whole... rebellion! I know it doesn't seem like a big deal, but actually it really IS. (This is an actual line from the movie.)
Djimon Hounsou: I am wasted in this film. Also, Snyder paid how much for me and gave me literally 35 words of dialogue?
[The Space Nazis get the body of Admiral Noble. They pump him full of juice and he has a vision of the Space Nazi Emperor. At one point the closed captions read "astral ice crepitates," which is just incredible.]
Space Nazi Emperor: I am going to briefly recap the backstories of all of the crew, since you probably forgot as they haven't spoken since they were introduced.
Space Nazi Emperor: Ok, now that that's over - find them!!!
[Admiral Noble comes back to life. The heroes ride horses through a sea of grain, despite this ostensibly being a movie about space. The last shot in the film is of a Nazi Robot in the grain holding a stick and wearing antlers on his head. It is unclear why.]
THE END
60 votes -
Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
5 votes -
Extreme metal guitar skills linked to intrasexual competition, but not mating success
28 votes -
MIT PhD student hacks Apple Vision Pro days after release, reveals potential jailbreaks and malware threats
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Grammys: Taylor Swift wins Album Of The Year for ‘Midnights,’ setting all-time record
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
10 votes -
Over two percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin
42 votes -
Everyone’s a sellout now
33 votes -
US rail safety legislation still stalled one year after East Palestine Ohio disaster
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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets. Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
16 votes -
Can you beat Uncharted 2 without guns? | VG Myths
9 votes -
A reasonable configuration language
16 votes -
At least six Kurdish fighters are killed in a drone attack on a Syrian base housing US troops
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UK professor suffered discrimination due to anti-Zionist beliefs, tribunal rules
20 votes -
The Memories - Higher (2011)
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How US anti-abortion ruling spurred federal action against the location data industry
24 votes -
US Republican congressman from Georgia jokes about dropping migrant from helicopters echoing extreme right Pinochet meme about political violence
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A handful of highly skilled artists in Ghana are behind some of the most imaginative, beautiful and exaggerated film posters. These posters are hilarious, captivating, colorful and highly impressive.
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Secretive US right wing advocacy group promotes model legislation to limit public nuisance claims like those responsible for tobacco and opioid verdicts
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Tildes Book Club - Spring schedule (Updated Feb 2, 2:19 UTC)
The results are in, and Dispossessed was the clear favorite with many strong contenders. It looks like quite a few people are interested in participating. There was a tie for third place so we...
The results are in, and Dispossessed was the clear favorite with many strong contenders. It looks like quite a few people are interested in participating.
There was a tie for third place so we will start with four books.
Edit
We will discuss Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell in early March,
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke in Mid April,
The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin in Late May
And Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir at the end of June.We will discuss Project Hail Mary in early March
Cloud Atlas in mid April
The Dispossessed in late May
and Piranesi at the end of JuneAt that point I plan to hold a voting thread for fiction and a voting thread for nonfiction and discuss/vote on how frequently to read nonfiction. Please feel free to renominate your favorites that didn't get chosen.
I'm looking forward to this. Thanks for participating.
26 votes -
It's fair to describe schizophrenia as probably mostly genetic
18 votes -
‘It’s a big vision’: are Gotham FC building a super team for the ages?
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Album of the Week #18: Portishead - Portishead
This is Album of the Week #19 ~ This week's album is Portishead - Portishead Year of Release: 1997 Genre(s): Trip Hop Country: United Kingdom Length: 50 minutes RYM | Listen! Excerpt from Vulture:...
This is Album of the Week #19 ~ This week's album is Portishead - Portishead
Year of Release: 1997
Genre(s): Trip Hop
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 50 minutes
RYM | Listen!Excerpt from Vulture:
The album makes total sense, but how does it sound? One could argue that Portishead can be more admirable in theory than in practice. Created in direct opposition to the twinned principles of quick profit and easy pleasure, it’s a masterpiece of painful rigor. With the exception of “Undenied,” the album’s exhilarations, though plentiful, are inseparable from its harrowing politics and embattled nature. Utley’s riff on “Cowboys” is fit to saw through steel; Barrow’s beat on “Elysium” counts its measures with an alarming or bomb-adjacent urgency; Gibbons’s voice, shorn of comforting accompaniments, is charged with a kind of grievous purity throughout, reaching heights of agony unheard on Dummy.
Discussion points:
Have you heard this artist/album before? Is this your first time hearing?
Do you enjoy this genre? Is this an album you would have chosen?
Does this album remind you of something you've heard before?
What were the album's strengths or weaknesses?
Was there a standout track for you?
How did you hear the album? Where were you? What was your setup?--
Album of the week is currently chosen randomly (via random.org) from the top 5000 albums from a custom all-time RYM chart, with a 4/5 popularity weighting. The chart is recalculated weekly.
Missed last week? It can be found here.
Any feedback on the format is welcome ~~
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Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs
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What ecelebrity did to my brain
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Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll
51 votes -
Gåte – Ulveham (2024)
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Tildes Gaming Club, February 2024: Legacy
Tildes Gaming Club is a monthly space to play and discuss games that fit a loosely defined theme. I see it as a gaming counterpart to our current Album of the Week, Movie of the Week, and Book...
Tildes Gaming Club is a monthly space to play and discuss games that fit a loosely defined theme.
I see it as a gaming counterpart to our current Album of the Week, Movie of the Week, and Book Club series. Instead of everyone focusing everyone on the same game, however, we're all focused on the same core theme, and we independently choose a game (or games) that fit the theme.
To participate, play at least one game that fits the monthly theme, and talk about it here. You can make one post summarizing your game(s), or you can make multiple posts as you make your way through the game(s).
This month's theme is: Legacy
The theme is open-ended, and it’s encouraged that you interpret the theme however you like. If you need some ideas to get you started:
”Legacy” Ideas
You might play a game that…
- left an important mark on gaming history
- remains infamous today
- is noteworthy for its cultural context, especially in hindsight
- is part of an established, long-running series
- has characters that spawn multiple generations
- runs on old, outdated hardware
- was for an older operating system
- is an older/downpatched build
- requires some modernization to appreciate
- is no longer available to buy
- has the word “Legacy” in its title
My goals for the Tildes Gaming Club are the following:
- I'm hoping this can be a fun way of choosing something to play.
- I'm hoping this can bring a group/community aspect to people independently enjoying their hobby.
- I'm hoping this can yield some interesting discussions about different themes.
18 votes -
How bad is Tesla’s hazardous waste problem in California?
15 votes -
Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
12 votes -
Ultra-rapid MRI while singing and speaking
9 votes -
New Grammy category for African music: nominations ignore almost all of Africa
13 votes -
Fifty years since Sweden first introduced state-funded parental leave for couples to share – pioneering policy offers some surprising lessons for other countries
19 votes -
Apple Original Films’ ‘Argylle’ with C+ CinemaScore and near $17m opening isn’t cutting it at weekend box office
17 votes -
Reigning World Rally champion Kalle Rovanperä will begin his partial 2024 WRC campaign at Rally Sweden this month
8 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
30 votes -
How Australian undercover police ‘fed’ an autistic 13-year-old’s fixation with Islamic State
26 votes -
Grindavík in Iceland now lies empty. Its people have fled and are beginning to face up to the realisation they may never be able live there again.
25 votes -
The US hasn't seen syphilis numbers this high since 1950
19 votes -
The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019)
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Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (January 2024)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one.
36 votes -
Pew Research data on how many countries people have travelled to
25 votes -
Julius Baer is another facepalm for Swiss banking
6 votes -
Only the Middle East can fix the Middle East – The path to a post-American regional order
11 votes -
Tildes Minecraft Survival Bi-Weekly Thread
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The home-working revolution is harming younger workers: Bosses who insist on a return to the office are demonised — but turning up is better for your career
18 votes -
Why car insurance in America is actually too cheap
20 votes