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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

If three people host a podcast all three should be in a constant state of paranoia about being betrayed by the other two

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 17h

"But first, a word from our sponsor..."

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 18h

I thought it was a really obvious tale saying it's bad to escape into nostalgia/pop culture instead of focusing on real world politics. The world clearly got worse because people cared more about electing Wil Wheaton Internet President!

But then I found out the author just loves 80s pop culture

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 19h

Michael Crichton's dad, telling him why he should focus on medical school instead of writing novels:

Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 5d

"Invoking the Shaggy Defence around the wife, eh? Classic Rick The Chick Magnet!"

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 10d

One day he'll believe he's surpassed Arnie in Hollywood and embark on his carefully polled political career where he's chosen a side based on how likely he thinks he'll get a presidency. It will fail and then we will finally see the man he's been hiding under the PR all these years

He'll be free

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 10d

This is sacrilege

You're supposed to put it in coffee!

www.atlasobscura.com/foods/kaffeost

Kaffeost

In northern Scandinavia, cups of coffee get enhanced with cheese.

www.atlasobscura.com

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 11d

That show was far too prescient for such a silly concept. You could easily tie it to the Soft Disclosure conspiracy theory revolving around Stargate SG-1. The bugs got through the Stargate and they tried warning us without coming clean about the aliens

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 11d

The Ronald McDonald House charity started running when he was a kid, to help parents have a place to stay near the hospital where their kids were

He's managing to be a bigger clown than Ronald McDonald himself!

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 11d

Rush is such a good casting that I am now surprised he hasn't already done it, it feels like he must have!

Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 12d

Now that I think about I think the character's brother wore the same type of outfits and that dude looked fine somehow, so you're right

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 12d

The costume department made him look really stupid, tho, so that was fun

Picture of Michael Rapaport drom the set of Justified. He's sitting in front of an airboat and looking into the camera, attempting to smolder but only managing a gormless expression. He's wearing a dark brown plaid shirt with the arms cut off, to show off his pasty biceps and shoulders. At the edge of the frame you can see a hint of the big leather bracelets he wore.

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 12d

He was the big villain for a whole season of Justified, which is the biggest part I've seen him in

He was meant to be a scary Floridian swamp guy showing up in Kentucky and he could not pull it off AT ALL, it the worst acting in the history of the show. Dude was outshone by literally everyone

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 15d

It's actually a knockoff made of cheap brass that oxidises really quickly, especially in sweaty hands

Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 16d

We should have had a Die Hard/Gremlins crossover since they're both Christmas comedies

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 17d

I hate to say it but I recently listened to Small Gods and I think Serkis managed to overact, something I've never seen with an audiobook before. Nighy does the footnotes and every time it made me wish he'd done the whole book

But it was still listenable where a robot voice wouldn't be!

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 17d

Reddit loves to reference 'the poop knife' and for YEARS I assumed they were talking about him

The Reddit story isn't as good

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 17d

Loved the chapter of Atlas Shrugged where she had a random cigarette salesman make a long speech to the MC about how smoking totally isn't an addiction and thus a weakness, but actually smoking makes you like Prometheus because you've captured fire at your fingertips and it makes you think good

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 18d

Which is why I don't get how he hasn't made a Creature From The Black Lagoon remake yet. You just know he'd invent a new underwater camera and diving rig just to make it look as good as humanly possible, creating a new hit Halloween masterpiece!

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 18d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 18d

I can't believe they just doxxed Catherine Zeta-Jones like that!

Cover of the 1996 version of Titanic, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Peter Gallagher. Their big heads are at the top, above the title and the ship sinking, fire belching from the smokestacks.

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 19d

The computer they're in is running out of ram, causing the programs to lag when there's lots going on like during fight scenes, causing the slowmotion!

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 19d

I converted all the bandcamp flacs I had to opus and mp3 to try it out and the size difference really got staggering after a couple of albums!

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 19d

What you wanna do there is go with opus, since a lot of the videos have it. Better sound/size. Unless you're actually putting them on an mp3-player that can't handle such a modern codec, of course

It's incredible how many opus tracks you can fit on a phone

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Spooky Wullie @daftwullie.bsky.social · 19d

You just made me imagine a sequel made by Zack Snyder. He'd embrace the music video aspect because that's what he does best and somehow create the first hit Tron movie, against all odds

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