Scary Movie 3. Among many reasons that’s a film you shouldn’t watch as a child, that was my introduction to the Ring, and I had a TV in my room.

Oh, I know. And I double checked wikipedia to see what the critical response was. Carrie Fisher liked how it looked. Reviewers said it was “weird and unsettling”, “particularly plastic” or “distractingly artificial.”

I don’t think “if at first you don’t succeed” applies here. Like, I’m annoyed they tried once. I think a more applicable adage is “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

With Disney capital to pay for high-end technology that looked amazing, we found the result was passable at best. Peter Cushing’s estate, run by his former secretary, said it was okay, but the overwhelming response from audiences was that it was disrespectful.

We know we couldn’t, and we know we shouldn’t. So let’s not.

Remember that time they used CG to bring back Peter Cushing in Rogue One? Remember how bad it looked? Remember how disrespectful it was? Maybe we shouldn’t do it again.

Yeah, this question is like being asked “what’s your favourite STI”. They’re all unpleasant, so I’d rather not have any.

I’m willing to bet there was some islamaphobia in those rejected screenplays.

I don’t know about being a flat earther, but I know for a fact they’re a moon landing denier. Very unkeen on evidence, that one.

…You just answered your own question. He was delivering supplies. That’s the point.

Although, in the case of oxygen, he was picking up trash (carbon) to take out with him. And he went through the whole place to make sure he got it all.

A man enters a room and leaves with a box. In the process of picking up the box, he became a man carrying a box. This is not transmutation.

I put some beans on my toast. In the process, it becomes beans on toast. This is not transmutation.

Two things became one combination of two things. Neither thing has fundamentally changed.

There was a Dara O’Brien bit from a while ago where he said about herbal medicine “We tested it, and we called the stuff that worked ‘medicine’. Everything else is a nice herbal tea and some potpourri.” Same basic idea.

Instead of making assumptions and asking “why did people”, start asking “did people”. The answer is no, they did not. Nobody has changed sides.

The cat stops talking.

You son of a bitch

Cats speak french, except in any situation where they can be recorded or transcribed, or when a french speaker can hear them. They also aren’t very good at speaking french, but it’s impossible for anyone to know that.

The camera shows the wheel break from the track, throwing the hero and the henchman to either side of the room. It cuts to the carriage in chaos, with people panicked at the motion. Then it cuts to you to break the tension.

Checks out.

While the ghosts don’t activate the pellets, they also don’t eat the regular pellets. They interact with nothing but Pacman, the only living thing to be found. Even if they could, the only effect is to weaken the ghosts, so they have no reason to.

If the pellet changed Pacman, it makes no sense that he could eat one ghost and not another. And yet, when a ghost respawns, Pacman is unable to eat that one, even as he manages to eat the others. The change has to be within the ghosts, reverting with time or with resurrection.

As such, we have no reason to believe Pacman can eat any ghost unless that ghost reacts to the power pellet. Whether those ghosts react to a power pellet? Insufficient data for meaningful answer.

Consider how eating the power pellets turns the ghosts blue, and how the ghosts regain their original colour when they respawn, even within the power pellet timer. The natural conclusion is that the pellets don’t change pacman, but change the ghosts.

As such, unless the power pellets affect ALL ghosts the same way they affect the pacman ghosts, pacman could not eat any ghost other than the pacman ghosts.

I was trying to be absurdist instead of realistic, and I had no idea who Kristi Noem was before you commented that. Why is reality so absurd?

First of all, while I am strongly left-wing, I phrased it in a way that either side could be seen as the dog kickers. You assigned the parties to each side. You assigned the right wing to be the dog kickers.

Second of all, you definitely have met the people who lie about being centrist. You just didn’t realise it, because they lied and said they were centrist.

Third of all, and perhaps most important… Imagine a scene in a movie where a man is kicking a dog. Then another man walks by, looks the dog in the eyes, and keeps walking. That second man didn’t kick the dog, but they are just as cruel as the man kicking.

I don’t give a shit what the tax policy surrounding the dog kicking is; it’s still evil. And if you don’t do what you can to protect that dog, no matter how little that may be or what it might cost you, you’re evil too.

I want you to imagine two political parties: The Petting Dogs Party and the Kicking Dogs Party (for the sake of conversation, I have not assigned them to any real world party). Obviously, the PDP would consider anyone who joins, or even supports, the KDP as being horrifically evil. Like, if you wanted to show a character is evil in TV, you have them do what the KDP do all the time. It’s literally cartoonishly evil.

Now, in the political context of America, there are only two parties. The only way the KDP don’t gain power is if the PDP gain power instead. So anyone who doesn’t help the PDP gain power is either supporting or allowing the KDP to gain power.

In this context, a centrist will usually fall into one of the following categories:

• They refuse to vote for either side, allowing the dog kickers to kick dogs.
• They lied about being centrist because they don’t want to admit they kick dogs.
• They lied about being centrist and are trying to convince more people to kick dogs.
• They openly kick dogs, but insist it’s normal to kick dogs, so the KDP is the centre.

As you can see with those categories, it’s a sliding scale of evil. The only non-evil option is to not kick dogs at all, which requires voting for the PDP.

Of course, if you have a Looking At Dogs Party, it gets messier. You’ll often see people vote for the LADP where they would have voted for the PDP just so the KDP doesn’t get in. But in America, the LADP does not exist.