GiantRobotTRex
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- Comment on is "oh boy" considered a gendered term? 1 week ago:
That’s actually why Mr T adopted his moniker.
I think about my father being called “boy”, my uncle being called “boy”, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called “boy”. So I questioned myself: “What does a black man have to do before he’s given respect as a man?” So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T, so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is “Mr.”
- Comment on Chemistry 2 months ago:
That was when he took LSD for the first time intentionally. There was one time before that when he absorbed it accidentally.
- Comment on My Empire of Podsols 3 months ago:
People say this a lot and I believe it’s based on this quote:
I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn’t mine anymore… It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure.
Many people seem to interpret “that song isn’t mine anymore” to mean “that song is now Cash’s”. But here’s another quote:
Then I got a CD in the post. I listened to it and it was very strange. It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song. I’d known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive.
To me, that doesn’t sound like he’s saying it’s Cash’s song now or that Cash’s version is better. It’s more that Cash proved to him that even though this was a deeply personal song about his own life and struggles that he’s not the only one capable of doing it justice. He realized that other talented artists can take that song about him and transform it into a song about them. The song’s not his anymore because it could be anyone’s song.
- Comment on Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty 3 months ago:
The player believes that this transformation feature is in Bloodborne but wasn’t ever added to the playable game.
Uhh… What? It was added in the DLC with the Beast’s Embrace rune. Equip that rune and the Beast Claw and voila! You’re now a beast.
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- Comment on Vin Diesel’s New ‘Riddick’ Movie Moving Forward for Fall Shoot 6 months ago:
No worries. You had the spirit of the story basically right even if you had the details wrong.
- Comment on Vin Diesel’s New ‘Riddick’ Movie Moving Forward for Fall Shoot 6 months ago:
He got the rights to the franchise in exchange for a cameo in Tokyo Drift.
- Comment on Vin Diesel’s New ‘Riddick’ Movie Moving Forward for Fall Shoot 6 months ago:
No, the studios probably don’t think it’s a good idea.
Vin Diesel really loves Riddick. It’s his passion project. Universal was willing to let the franchise die after two films but he wasn’t, so he did a cameo in Tokyo Drift in exchange for the rights to the franchise. Then he independently raised funds for the third film and fronted a bunch of his own money, going so far as to mortgage his house to keep the production afloat.
I’m sure it’s the same with this fourth film. The series was never all that profitable so the studios wouldn’t push to make another one. It’s gotta be Vin Diesel pushing to have it made because he personally deeply cares about the franchise.
- Comment on Alien: Romulus | Teaser Trailer | In Cinemas Aug 16 8 months ago:
You didn’t like Aliens?
- Comment on Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here? 1 year ago:
I just finished reading that earlier today. What a coincidence!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Then what kind should I use instead?