A stone cold quote machine

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• dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he has created?”

  —Steve Buscemi in a Spy Kids movie

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Spy Kids is the peak of art cinema.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean yeah.

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• Klear@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals."
  - K

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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    "1500 years ago, everybody “knew” that the earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody “knew” that the earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you “knew” that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll “know” tomorrow."

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    This one actually hit me pretty hard as a kid and laid a lot of the foundation for who I am as a person.

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    • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It's a good quote, and it's actually a little ironic because the line sort of proves itself, as it's actually a myth that people ever believed the world was flat pre-Columbus. Scholars have known the Earth was round for literally thousands of years; Pythagoras wrote about the curvature of the earth as early as ~500 BC. The roundness of the Earth was never really contested until the last 50 years or so.

      The myth stems from Washington Irving's book "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus", in which he completely fabricates the idea that Columbus argued with scholars about the shape of the earth (as well as several other stories with zero historical data to back them up). Everybody at the time generally agreed, before Columbus ever set sail, that the Earth is round. That misconception is relatively new, as the book was only published in 1828.

      Fact-checking was a much more arduous process back in the 1800s. Back then, you'd typically have to find a book to prove your point, so it's really no surprise that people just accepted these printed words as the truth, but in this case the book is just full of straight-up lies. Lies that eventually made their way into almost every school's history curriculum ever since. In fact, there are more flat-Earthers now than at any point in history, and we can probably directly blame Irving for that, for putting such a stupid idea into the public's eye in the first place.

      Interestingly, Columbus was actually WRONG about the shape of the earth. While most scholars accurately believed it to be spherical, Columbus thought the planet was pear-shaped. But "proving" that was never the point of his voyages, either way.

      15 minutes ago, some of you reading this "knew" that people believed the world was flat 500 years ago.

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    • restingOface@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “People are smart, they can handle it.”

      “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”

      **I do want to nit pick at the above quote and point out that 500 years ago everyone knew the earth was round, though heliocentrism was the new hotness.

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  • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think I quote any single movie more than MiB. Perfect comedy with some thoughtfulness. Great example of “believe it or not back in my day Will Smith was actually cool”. Edgar is the most incredible physical acting example ever. Everyone in that movie killed it.

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• QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This show went hard. Basically Disney’s answer to Batman TAS but also dumber in a fun way

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also a pretty blatant Ninja Turtles knock-off. A group of inhuman fighters living in New York consisting of an old mentor figure coloured brown, a leader coloured blue, a more hard-edge, rebellious character coloured red, an introverted tech enthusiast and a laid-back glutton, with their main link to the human world being a young woman with a job that frequently puts her in danger.

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    • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      but gargoyles only came out at night which makes them cooler which makes your point moot

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  • Town@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    polygon.com/…/gargoyles-animated-series-disney-pl…

    It almost became a much larger thing.

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    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing!

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  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Valve’s new game Deadlock features a playable gargoyle-brought-to-life named Ivy who’s art direction was very clearly “Make a Gargoyles fan character”.

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• fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ah yes, from the evil 90s,

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• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah but he’s not going to get very far.

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