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I quite seriously have no fucking idea why Joe burned the truck, or why no one seemed to be talking about it afterward, or what the deal with the observatory was (AV Club says maybe his mom works there?). I was half-convinced that they were going to pull a "Joe never really existed" moment at the last second.
posted to FanFare by Etrigan at 11:24 AM on August 4, 2014

His particular computer is also fantastically seizable! A feature!

I could see Apple's marketing sith-lords seizing on that.
"The Macintosh Portable: fantastically seizable!"
posted to FanFare by The Legit Republic of Blanketsburg at 8:46 AM on July 22, 2014

Fantastically Seizable will be the name of my chiptune ska cover band.
posted to FanFare by Etrigan at 9:15 AM on July 22, 2014

I don't know... I think flickering lights or a slamming door would probably send him running for that room because it's the only thing on his mind.

The 414s are a central concept of this episode which means that the real world's computer pop culture has to exist inside the show... which means that even non-computery people have seen WarGames and know what it means when a sudden room full of dudes in suits are barking orders and yanking terminals up off of desks.... [more]
posted to FanFare by SharkParty at 6:27 AM on July 22, 2014

Berry's voice is overdubbed on the show. I think pretty much everyone's voice is.

One of my favorite subtle jokes in Darkplace is that I am fairly certain that Liz Asher is supposed to be American.

To be clear: Alice Lowe is not playing an American character. She's playing an English television actress who is playing a nurse who is supposed to be American.

I get this sense both from the fact that she went to Harvard... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FAMOUS MONSTER at 6:20 AM on October 9, 2013

The tie-in video game is out.
posted to MetaFilter by rifflesby at 11:28 AM on May 29, 2015

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TRACKING
posted to MetaFilter by wenestvedt at 8:23 AM on May 29, 2015

I haven't watched it yet, but what I've seen reminds me of the Aussie series Danger 5.

Jason Trost, director of The FP, posted this on his Facebook:

Kung Fury rant:

(Disclaimer: I realize I'm reading into this way too much and I probably sound like a jealous, bitter old asshole, but it's something I need to say)

I'm writing this because I've gotten countless fans writing me, "Isn't... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 12:13 AM on May 29, 2015

BETWEEN THIS AND FURY ROAD MY CAPS LOCK IS GETTING A LOT OF WORK.
posted to MetaFilter by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 11:20 PM on May 28, 2015

The Hasselhoff video is pretty fantastic as well.
posted to MetaFilter by latkes at 10:17 PM on May 28, 2015

I went into this knowing nothing, expecting to watch a minute or two of nostalgia-based humor, and move along. Of course, I ended up watching the whole thing, because it was great.

"What are you going to do?"

"MY JOB"

I love how he opened his car door by shooting it.
posted to MetaFilter by Edgewise at 9:39 PM on May 28, 2015

When you think it can't get anymore ridiculous, it does. Bravo! The slowly moving and burning! baby carriage was great.
posted to MetaFilter by njohnson23 at 9:00 PM on May 28, 2015

We're experiencing that part right now.
posted to MetaFilter by maxsparber at 8:38 PM on May 28, 2015

"Before I could pull the trigger I was struck by lightning and bitten by a cobra."
posted to MetaFilter by mhoye at 7:45 PM on May 28, 2015

Loved it to pieces, everything I hoped it would be and more. Old-school cell phones are way more magical than I remember!
posted to MetaFilter by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 7:34 PM on May 28, 2015

Too many departures from the books.
posted to MetaFilter by uosuaq at 7:06 PM on May 28, 2015

"Knock knock."
"Who's there?"
"Knuck...les."
posted to MetaFilter by A dead Quaker at 6:45 PM on May 28, 2015

Could have also been a tracking issue. They seemed to have a lot of those.
posted to MetaFilter by weston at 6:33 PM on May 28, 2015

It's only 30 minutes long?

It was 90 minutes long, until they hacked time.
posted to MetaFilter by zippy at 6:11 PM on May 28, 2015

Also on Steam: movie and game
posted to MetaFilter by zippy at 6:03 PM on May 28, 2015

The other interesting thing about Chomsky to me is that I sat next to him on a trans-continental flight from Boston to Seattle back in the mid-nineties, and I had no idea who he was. (I saw the IPA on the paper he was proofing and asked what he did for a living, and he said "I'm a linguist.") I has picked up a copy of Wired in the airport to read, and he and I had a really interesting discussion about it, about how difficult it was to tell the articles from the advertising, about how... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by KathrynT at 5:02 PM on May 29, 2015

It never fails to amaze me how brilliant people on the left seem to be at the task of undermining everyone who is working towards the same goals they are out of some insane fidelity to the moral purity we're supposed to have, in contrast to that of The Enemy™. If we're making any progress at all, it's largely because The Enemy™ has finally fallen to the infighting virus, too, and are wasting their energy arguing over the kind of stupid niggly bullshit that we love above nearly all... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sonascope at 6:11 AM on May 29, 2015

Actually this reminds me a lot of Normon Solomon's argument that Dilbert is a palliative at best and a reinforcer of the system Adams purports to mock at worst.

OR we just aren't genius enough to understand it.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton at 11:50 PM on May 28, 2015

Yes, let us rail against the inventor of the Fuck-You-Logy and somebody who picked a fight with all of Australia because they don't behave exactly as you want them to based on your misreading of a scene from a movie.

Anybody who's ever heard John sing on The Bugle knows that he walks into the Last Week Tonight office every day with loyalty, hustle, and respect on his sleeve.
posted to MetaFilter by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 11:44 PM on May 28, 2015

It's really hard to pick a favorite moment, though the plug for cell phones out of nowhere comes on strong.
posted to FanFare by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 7:35 PM on May 28, 2015

Hackerman uses Java a decade before it exists because he's just that good.
posted to FanFare by ckape at 5:01 PM on May 30, 2015

Guys, this is the worst, dumbest movie, and I cannot adequately express to you how much I want it to be feature-length
posted to FanFare by DoctorFedora at 7:10 AM on May 30, 2015

I was just musing about that, notreally; the web I used to be excited about doesn't really exist anymore. I thought we were at the beginning of something amazing, but it's pretty much come and gone; Metafilter is one of the few remaining pieces.
posted to MetaFilter by Mars Saxman at 4:19 PM on May 30, 2015

Daily reminder that Vin Diesel is a unique and wonderful presence in action movies, and that he also has a reputation for being a pretty decent human being in real life

There's no joke here, I just think that Vin Diesel is awesome
posted to MetaFilter by Sticherbeast at 4:01 AM on May 26, 2015

I can see Fury Road radically changing he Bard role.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:48 PM on May 25, 2015

Ok, how awesome would a game of D&D with Vin Diesel, Dame Judi Dench, Stephen Colbert, Patton Oswalt, and Ta-Nehisi Coates be?

I'll play a bard and just sit in the corner and watch.
posted to MetaFilter by nubs at 7:29 PM on May 25, 2015

the following is absolutely true: Vin Diesel apparently got Judi Dench hooked on D&D when they were filming CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK. Which tickles me in a place I can't reach.
posted to MetaFilter by EmpressCallipygos at 7:25 PM on May 25, 2015

Canonically he is Skype DM during all imaginary friendships with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:22 PM on May 25, 2015

Vin Diesel would be an awesome DM.

'You're in chains.'

'I flick the knife into the air with my feet, then kick it toward the guy against the wall, severing his cranium at the jawline.'

'And I'll allow it. Roll for initiative!'
posted to MetaFilter by obiwanwasabi at 7:16 PM on May 25, 2015

This kind of celebrity crush is basically all of my celebrity crushes. I know I've really gone over the moon about someone when I've stopped objectifying them (well, likely just their butts) and begin crafting elaborate scenarios of deep discussions, picnics and epic times at the slightest provocation.

Imaginary Really Good Celebrity Friend Stock Fantasies, fill in whoever you want:

-On a +4 hour flight, you find yourself bumped up to first... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mizu at 8:26 PM on June 12, 2014

I have a daydream where when we're playing D&D the doorbell rings and Vin Diesel's outside being like "Uh, my car broke down, can I come in and...hey, wait, are you guys playing D&D?" and then he joins us and is like "Oh my goodness Mrs. Pterodactyl, what a creative campaign. I can tell you put a lot of thought into this and it was worth it; the gameplay is superb." And then we become good friends and Ludacris and the Rock start hanging out at our house being... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 8:15 PM on June 12, 2014

This show does seem to be improving, slowly, but in my house we are still rooting for Cameron and Donna to ditch everyone else and go start their own company and the show can just be about them.

My partner has almost stopped yelling at the bad un-compilable code, which either means they're getting better about real code, or that he's just been worn down and doesn't have the energy to fact-check the tech details anymore.
posted to FanFare by Stacey at 12:18 PM on July 8, 2014

Ways in which the start up castle resembles a murder house
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 8:48 AM on May 23, 2015

Remember when he did a week of shows from London, and once per episode all week long, Dave would earnestly introduce another megastar:

"I am humbled and honored to welcome, Queen Elizabeth the Second..."

"Ladies and Gentlemen, The Beatles!"

The camera would pan to the stage, and in plain white text at the bottom of the screen it would say "Queen Elizabeth II" or "The Beatles" or... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by General Tonic at 11:11 AM on May 14, 2015

Buses are notoriously social creatures and will often move together in small packs.
posted to MetaFilter by bgal81 at 3:30 PM on May 21, 2015

IMO. nothing, and I mean nothing, will ever top the theft of Letterman's truck, and the dramatic, shenanigan-filled trial that followed. (previously)

Yes, I know this wasn't on Letterman's show, but that whole escapade just kills me every time I watch it.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by magstheaxe at 5:47 PM on May 13, 2015

I'm totally going to say that at work on Monday.
posted to MetaFilter by double block and bleed at 8:16 PM on May 16, 2015

Artw: ""it's XML, I know this!"

/walks willingly into dinosaur pit."

Yeah, most big corporations don't seem to have discovered JSON and RESTful interfaces yet, but they love them some shitty XML.

Or in CSIspeak: "I'm uploading well-formed XML to their mainframe in the cloud! They've accepted my encryption certificate file! Looks like it's going to order 23 units! Time to make it... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by double block and bleed at 8:14 PM on May 16, 2015

I want William Gibson to write an episode. Or, crap, Warren Ellis.
posted to MetaFilter by sleeping bear at 8:05 PM on May 16, 2015

"it's XML, I know this!"

/walks willingly into dinosaur pit.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:04 PM on May 16, 2015

Scene: Five people in an office wearing earbuds, sipping bottled water, staring intently at computer screens and occasionally typing. Two others are gathered at one workstation.

Programmer 1: My request always returns an error from them. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. My requests are valid.
Programmer 2: Their xsds are bullshit. They say the <Date> element is required, but it's not. Leave it out and turn off validation. It will... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by double block and bleed at 7:59 PM on May 16, 2015

CSI: CRIME @ THE SPEED OF THOUGHT
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:40 PM on May 16, 2015

No one should expect anything more from a TV show made in 2015 with the word "cyber" in its title.

CSI: Information Superhighway
posted to MetaFilter by Aya Hirano on the Astral Plane at 6:26 PM on May 16, 2015

The thing I don't get is - what a weird move for Patricia Arquette to make.

cf. Michael Caine: "I have never seen [Jaws 3], but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."
posted to MetaFilter by asterix at 6:22 PM on May 16, 2015

pro-cop propaganda

copaganda, surely.
posted to MetaFilter by poffin boffin at 1:32 PM on May 16, 2015