The perfect man doesn’t exi–
“Justin Long said that Ben Stiller’s approval is the only thing stopping a sequel”
“A small aspect of the pistols in Counter-Strike 2 directly references Half-Life star”
“My wife and I recently took our three kids to see The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
“It’s a miracle this game exists — and maybe fate”
“Elon Musk’s Twitter Has Been More Compliant with Government Requests, Not Less”
This has been stuck in my head all day; now it can be stuck in yours, too.
I don’t see how a Dodgeball sequel can be any good in today’s unfunny/PC Hollywood.
☝️
Do they even make comedies anymore that are funny?
I thought they had moved on to making dramas that you just have to laugh at.
Of course they do, don’t be silly.
I really enjoyed the recent Operation Fortune (Statham/ Ritchie). More of an action comedy but a lot of good lines. Stuff like Free Guy was pretty funny too. Not sure about other new releases I’m looking forward too, but I can get a lot of classics on the cheap.
The first one sucked, so there’s really no hope for the sequel.
Dude.
I’ll proudly pull a full UCS when it comes to comedy. Movies can be funny, but comedy movies are almost always awful and cringey.
The last movie I laughed at (that was marketed as a comedy) was probably Blazing Saddles.
I’m probably easy — UHF, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist leap right to my mind. The Decoy Bride was probably a rom-com than a straight comedy — but I find it amusing all the same. Ghost of a dead cow haunting a toilet as a running gag… come on…
Dr. Strangelove
Drowning Mona
A Fish Called Wanda
Throw Momma from the Train
(with a nod to the links) This Is Spinal Tap
The Pink Panther (and A Shot In The Dark)
Neighbors (the ’81 one)
Office Space
Airplane!
All the Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies made me laugh.
Excuse me, is that your minkey?
I thought you said your dog does not bite
That is not my dog.
Kung Pow!
Gopher chuks!
Super Troopers.
Okay, I forgot about Super Troopers. And A Fish Called Wanda.
Maybe I just hate Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell.
There’s Something About Mary?
The only Will Ferrel movie I’ve ever liked is Stranger Than Fiction.
I still can’t believe that movie was ever made.
Young Frankenstein came after Blazing Saddles.
And Idiocracy wasn’t funny, in that dark, this is what the future will be way?
Now, Talladega Nights was only marginally funny – but the outtakes at the end redeem the movie completely.
Blazing Saddles came out in February of 1974.
Young Frankenstein came out in December of that year.
What an amazingly productive year for Brooks.
I can’t think of anything with Ben Stiller in it that didn’t suck.
Obligatory: “His wife, most likely.”
I hope she sucks.
When that dude appears on screen all comedy potential evaporates in a cloud of hammy slapstick.
*Tropic Thunder has entered the chat*
TBF, that movie is not funny _because_ of Stiller. But he’s in it. Same for Zoolander.
Mystery Men shovels Tropic Thunder upside the head — though you could argue it was the rest of the cast that carried that one.
Greg Kinnear plays a great idiot.
Likely my favorite scene.
“Aww….dang!”
No. It was campy fun, I’ll give it that. But Tropic Thunder was brilliantly subversive and subversively brilliant.
“What do YOU mean, “what do you mean, ‘you people’”?!
+1 Les Grossman
^This
Tropic Thunder
Zero Effect
The Cable Guy
I liked Meet the Parents when it came out, but I was 14 and I don’t think I’ve rewatched it since. The sequel sucked.
I’ve never seen it… are you saying I dodged a bullet there?
Dodgeball was funny. Office Space was an all time top 20 comedy.
Team America, Beverly Hills Cop, Something About Mary and Raising Arizona also come to mind as post Blazing Saddles great comeidies.
Yes to Raising Arizona.
Also O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Great movie. It doesn’t leap to my mind as a comedy, but more as a Coen Bros movie. Nonetheless it probably would be properly categorized as a comedy. I also absolutely loved Barton Fink.
I had no idea what I was watching when my wife got it, but I laughed hard at some of the scenes.
Team America was very funny – watched it with a bunch of guys during a National Guard drill weekend.
No love for Idiocracy?
More memorable than crack-up funny.
I recommended it to a guy at work. Every time I walked past his desk after he would say “go away, ‘baiten.”. Nobody else knew what it meant.
My wife still throws out an uPPP-GRade.
Living the pimp life?
None whatsoever. Unfunny, unwatchable.
Life of Brian came out after Blazing Saddles. And included this fucking bit of prescience.
Everyone here is dead to me – not one of you mentioned Galaxy Quest.
I hesitate to enter this fray because de gustibus something something but…
Good one.
Up there with Wanda in my book.
There is a difference between censorship and censorship requested by the government and regulatory compliance. Naturally the media isn’t going to differentiate.
It’s the Media Research Center, so hardly a neutral POV, but…
STUDY: Twitter Censorship Shockingly on Rise After Elon Musk Takeover
Smaller than I anticipated either way. I’d like to know the selection criteria, but I’m not going through that. Study also notes change in audience number of the censored accounts. Much smaller follower base.
Thanks!
Does culling bot accounts count as censorship?
From my skim of the summary they were real accounts.
Noted something related to an uptick on anti trans “hate” speech.
Was not going to go farther.
That is a very disingenuous article. The fact that he is handing over information, is totally different from allowing takedown requests. That article deliberately obfuscates the truth. The very structure of the article is designed to be confusing about whether we’re talking about government take down request, or government request for information.
I’m shocked.
/not really
Elon also took down a bunch of pedo/antifa accounts.
As noted, much depends on the government request. Subpoena? Yeah, you’re gonna comply.
And I doubt the gov disinformation crowd has been neatly as active lately.
Ironically but not surprisingly, Twitter is run more efficiently under Elon.
I’m not trusting any reporting on this topic.
Come back to it in say 15 or 20 years and maybe we’ll get something approaching unbiased.
I see this as an absolute win
I just want community gungame servers. Or at least up the max players on shitty Arms Race and add more than 3 maps.
*triggered*
Ugh. Yes.
When you run through both mags you have to switch to your ke-ber
Hm… does it exist if it’s restricted to a platform I can’t/won’t access? 🤔
Is that the modern version of the old “tree falls in the forest with no one to hear” chestnut?
First-world koan.
The game does look up my alley and this publisher seems to eventually get around to releasing their stuff on PC, so there’s that I guess.
Oh shut the fuck up, douchebag. As if your Colombian ass is any closer to Italian than Chris Pratt. And he’s not even playing a live-action version, it’s fucking voice acting.
I refuse to watch Ice Age ever again because the sloth should have been voiced by an actual sloth rather than Leguizamo.
Narrator: Mario and Luigi are not, in fact, Italians. Or humans.
Riven!
This has been stuck in my head all day; now it can be stuck in yours, too.
Are you kidding! It’s wonderful!
Much better than that fucking Buckcherry song, right Chafed?
Whoever wrote those lyrics is a genius.
“This movie is average popcorn fare,” Boogie says. “You are to go in and forget the world exists for 90 minutes.
Which in today’s day and age makes it anti-woke.
And exactly what most movies are meant to be.
Thomas Massie on bump stocks.
COOL LINK BRO!
A bureaucrat in Texas made dune buggies illegal with a poorly swiped pen. Same shit.
You’d think Massie would have been in government long enough to have heard of FYTW clause.
Drunk Houston woman Kristina Chambers plows Porsche into man on first date, killing him: cops
Perfect NYP headline. Dude was on a first date with somebody else. This drunk woman with whom he had no relation mowed him down.
So better headline “Drunk driver kills pedestrian”.
“Drunk woman complains she can never meet a man, Porsche gets to him first….”
You were supposed to plow Porsche, not get plowed by a Porsche.
I hate to be callous, but that guy was a perfect physical manifestation of the soyjak.
Also, I guess this proves the old adage: You never get a second chance to make a first impression…
Headlines must be clickbait. This Is The Way.
Da wae?
I don’t know where you found that young man, but you put it right back!
I used to think that was the worst meme spawned in the last decade. I still do, but I’ve come around to it for troll value.
By the by, I’m officially property shopping now. Medicaid finally told me to stick it, and some unexpected expenses left me with a smaller budget than I was anticipating, but there’s still a few east TX possibilities, the Wichita Falls area, and the panhandle. If you can tolerate fielding some stupid questions, shoot me an email at rTtsVtYpKxR5PwT3zf@protonmail.com
I responded.
I dated a girl in high school with the last name of Porsch (no e).
She was actually really fucking hot.
The weekend is upon us, and you all know what that means! GlibZoom starting at 8:00 PM Eastern for all your real estate woes sympathy, unqualified fashion advice, frozen sandwich meal critiques, hijinx, and snark. Actually, the meeting is up already and will run throughout the weekend; Neph is on vacay and was kind enough to setup one of his autozooms.
Pretty dead at the moment.
ABC just straight up censors RFK interview:
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1651773745336295425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1651773745336295425%7Ctwgr%5Ee8af2db97bf216b99590ae39942d3de6230155cb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fanthonyblogan.com%2Fabc-news-heavily-censors-rfk-jr-interview-over-misinformation%2F
Ah, so THAT’S how the media’s going to handle it.
Whoops, sorry about that. Link’s crazy long.
Keep digging your own grave, the MSM.
They honestly see themselves as The Keepers of Truth, don’t they?
Not just the keepers. The mothers. Just like mothers, they created truth out of thin air and birthed it into the world. It’s only rational that they would want to see their truth grow and prosper.
Does the shocking rise in Twatter censorship have anything to do with the viewpoint of those newly censored twatterati?
I dated a girl in high school with the last name of Porsch (no e).
Not Portia?
Speaking of A Fish Called Wanda…
Soothsayerbot says, “Buybuybuy!”
Ahead of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting next week, JPMorgan Chase unveiled a new artificial intelligence-powered tool that digests comments from the US central bank to uncover potential trading signals.
JPMorgan economists used a ChatGPT-based language model to assess the tone of policy signals from the remarks, according to Bloomberg, analyzing central bank speeches and Fed statements going back 25 years.
Heads we win, tails you lose.
I thought the robots were going to need to put up a little more of a fight to become our overlords. I guess not.
I for one have ALWAYS said that Skynet would make for a kind, benevolent, wise and noble. I just wanted that on record.
I for one welcome our AI overlords as well.
They honestly see themselves as The Keepers of Truth, don’t they?
Stop squirming around in your high chair and let them spoon feed you exactly what hey think you ought to know.
FYTW
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/nyregion/gas-stove-ban-ny.html
New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Buildings
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a state budget deal on Thursday with the first statewide ban on the use of natural gas in new buildings.
Nobody wants to take away your gas stove.
It will get worse.
Narrator: Climate change and consumer safety are not serious priorities.
I am just waiting for New York to build a wall around the city to keep out migrants and the hire a guy named Snake Plissken as city manager. Then the prophecy will be fulfilled.
Kathy is the governor. You’re going to need a bigger wall.
More Games
Checkers! With guns!
I’m in.
#metoo
They blew the obvious Risk/Ukraine/Seinfeld reference.
And I would have gone with “Dungeons and Diversity.”
That makes me want to find a copy of Shogun game.
I am not STEVE SMITH. I just type like him.
The only Mario Brothers movie I’m going to watch.
I thought it was going to be Rule 34.
If it had been any link but YT I wouldn’t have clicked.
I link to Robot Chicken, not Choking Chicken
I need to seed the media with a story about how Gen Z likes to work at home in the nude.
We won’t kink shame you, RJ.
There is so much shit flying around, I just feel like planting stories. Have some fun with it!
Seed…plant. These euphemisms!
Watching 2025 Armageddon from Asylum. OMG. I may inflict this on the hapless Thursday night crowd.
Oh wow what a trailer
Michael Paré is still around?! Li’l rhywun remembers him.
Does the entire Glibertariat go to ground at 6:00? This is bizarre.
We are still alive.
Maybe we just need to eat supper.
That’s when the simulation has to restart the servers for maintenance.
I just be chillin in the zoom
The D&D movie won me over with the first joke. Chris Pine is trying to talk his way into a parole (or early release), but he is concerned that a member of the parole board (“Jarnathan”) is absent. He asks about this “Jarnathan” several times as he tells his backstory (he uses the word).
In a previous scene, he tells Michelle Rodriguez that Jarnathan will get them out of prison.
My expectation was that Jarnathan was a friend of his, or someone he bribed to help them make parole.
When Jarnathan arrives, he is revealed to be a tall, blue-feathered, bird man. Pine is overjoyed, and gives Jarnathan a hug, then shouts the signal to Rodriguez. They both hold on to a very surprised and alarmed Jarnathan and hurl themselves out the window, while urging Jarnathan to fly. He manages to glide to a landing, and Pine and Rodriguez abandon him as he rolls around on the ground, moaning.
As they are defenestrating, one of the other parole board members says, “But, we approved your release!”
Err, spoiler alert.
That reminds me: at the end of the movie, they have to kill the last dragon so that the evil prince—who has part of the dragon’s heart inside him—will die for good.
It turns out that a he bad guy is the hero’s father.
Also, “Rosebud” is actually the sled one character had as a child.
Also, one character was a ghost all along, but didn’t know it.
Also, one of the love interests freezes to death as the boat sinks.
Also, the statue they were after the whole movie turned out to be a fake.