The Last of Us coming to HBO

[crash_davis 23114]

2 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

maybe yall are overthinking it? i dunno

You mean a show based on a digital game takes liberties with reality? The fuck!

spoilers, kind of. 

Spoiler

 

[rage-a-holic 4452]

1 hour ago, Augustus said:

Wouldn't they have to hella evolve if they're gonna survive via flour/grain?  Just about anything that contains flour is gonna be baked/fried or otherwise cooked, yeah?

 

12 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Maybe the baking temp “activates” the spores, but once the fungi start to grow they can’t survive such temps?

It's a dumb plot hole, which is why I thought the old lady was infected by airborne spores in Ep 1. 

Nobody eats raw flour and they fight spores/infected with fire.

"This is a special fungus. 375F in an oven? No problem. Fire? That kills em."

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

You mean a show based on a digital game takes liberties with reality? The fuck!
spoilers, kind of. 
Spoiler

 

Hunter Schafer has been excellent on Euphoria. Not sure if she is the right fit for the part

 

[mdmost 43027]

Maybe everyone was eating raw cookie dough. 

[hayden_horn 11365]

10 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Maybe everyone was eating raw cookie dough. 

ma always told me that'd make me sick. never once made me sick. mom was a fucking liar. next you'll tell me there's no tooth fairy

[bernorange 8363]

If you make something in your kitchen using flour, chances are good you are going to have flour contamination around your kitchen.  If you aren't OCD about food prep, you might even touch your face without washing hands first.  I really don't have a problem with imagining plausible scenarios where the old lady that cooked something with contaminated flour might have exposed herself to the contamination.  

[rage-a-holic 4452]

1 hour ago, bernorange said:

If you make something in your kitchen using flour, chances are good you are going to have flour contamination around your kitchen.  If you aren't OCD about food prep, you might even touch your face without washing hands first.  I really don't have a problem with imagining plausible scenarios where the old lady that cooked something with contaminated flour might have exposed herself to the contamination.  

The wheelchair bound semi-vegetable old lady?

[henrygandorf 29194]

4 hours ago, huge said:

Also, havent human body temps been lowering, where the 98.6 we grew up with is now more like 97.5?

the older you get, the colder you get.

i'm always in the 97 point something range.

[bolverk 29708]

5 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

uh, yeah, i know she's british.  i said her accent was flawless, so that should've tipped you off that i knew she wasn't american.  she just looks really really british and it's distracting.

She looks more like a Habsburg to me.

[MissingInAction 25172]

3 hours ago, Augustus said:

That is seriously abnormal.

Apparently, many people think that the typical body temp is 98.6 throughout the day, but that's not the case it all.  It's just an average, as the temp ranges from around 97.5 to 99.5 over a 24 our period.

If your average body temp is 96.4, you'd be risking hypothermia at some point every day.  Have you tracked your temp over an entire day before?

Actually no idea what it is, but it's been around that the last two physicals I got. It's also been at 97.2.

Maybe I'm confused.. who knows.. don't wanna thread jack.

[Bateshorn 9929]

So I finally see episode 3 and drop in here to discuss how it’s a great episode with an excellent love story, and expect a bunch of prepper talk.  Instead I get an argument about flour and the origin of the zombies.

 

Never fucking change. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

So I finally see episode 3 and drop in here to discuss how it’s a great episode with an excellent love story, and expect a bunch of prepper talk.  Instead I get an argument about flour and the origin of the zombies.
 
Never fucking change. 

Back up a few pages.

[Bateshorn 9929]

1 minute ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Back up a few pages.

The hazard of the 3 days later. Still: flour.

[speed817 19439]

7 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

The hazard of the 3 days later. Still: flour.

You could always go to Texags and talk about the love story there.....

[Bateshorn 9929]

1 minute ago, speed817 said:

You could always go to Texags and talk about the love story there.....

[henrygandorf 29194]

upon rewatch, my favorite new moment is when bill pours the wine with his thumb in the punt like some upscale restaurant.

[Bateshorn 9929]

45 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

upon rewatch, my favorite new moment is when bill pours the wine with his thumb in the punt like some upscale restaurant.

I saw that. It’s the little things.

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[safe sex 11746]

7 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

 

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Hunter Schafer has been excellent on Euphoria. Not sure if she is the right fit for the part

 

Spoiler

Give the role to someone else imo. Hunter is too waifish for Abby

 

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On 1/30/2023 at 12:41 PM, hayden_horn said:

for those of you asking if that was in the game, i'll answer in spoiler tags, but i'm not spoiling anything, i don't think.

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it's like they took a very minor plot point that's fairly subtly touched on in the game, and expanded it beyond your wildest imagination to tell a whole story

On 1/30/2023 at 12:41 PM, hayden_horn said:

and they did it in a way that i don't think i'll ever see done again. 

that was incredible. just fucking incredible.

 

Anybody that's watched Mythic Quest, they did something similar a few years ago with a Dark, Quiet, Death, although that was only like 30 minutes long.

Spoiler

They took some initials that had been carved into a pylon running through Ian's office and fleshed it out into this incredible little story that had a great beginning, middle, and end over the span of several years, complete with a love story.

 

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[52-80 19226]

Ep 2. Stuck in a building with blind zombos. Why wont they do the obvious thing that they also didn’t do in A Quiet Place: misdirect the baddies with sound. Pffffft. 
 

Children are a weird thing because took me a while to realize this teenager playing Ellie was the little kid in game of thrones. Geez. 

[52-80 19226]

Also, Pedro Pascal plays a very similar to Prospect (2018) where hes protecting a teenage girl in a apocalyptic scifi setting

[Bateshorn 9929]

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Anybody that's watched Mythic Quest, they did something similar a few years ago with a Dark, Quiet, Death, although that was only like 30 minutes long.

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They took some initials that had been carved into a pylon running through Ian's office and fleshed it out into this incredible little story that had a great beginning, middle, and end over the span of several years, complete with a love story.

 

The Magicians did an episode called “A life in a day” where two characters are trapped in a pocket world and build an entire life and death together.  It was also similarly very touching and well done. 

[Native Horn 3512]

5 hours ago, 52-80 said:

Ep 2. Stuck in a building with blind zombos. Why wont they do the obvious thing that they also didn’t do in A Quiet Place: misdirect the baddies with sound. Pffffft. 

Stallone did this in Cobra when he distracted the psycho in the grocery store.  Popped open a yellow belly, took a swig, then threw the can a few rows over.  "You're the disease.  I'm the cure."  Absolutely horribad flick.

[Herpa Derpa 6129]

Crosspost from SNL thread. h/t @RPM

 

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[52-80 19226]

Ep3, great ep.
 

compound is secured on all sides, active defense measures are working, nic offermans got a scoped rifle and…hes standing in the middle of the street instead of being on his rooftop or behind a window?  Cmon man!

[LonghornSean 4021]

8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Anybody that's watched Mythic Quest, they did something similar a few years ago with a Dark, Quiet, Death, although that was only like 30 minutes long.

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They took some initials that had been carved into a pylon running through Ian's office and fleshed it out into this incredible little story that had a great beginning, middle, and end over the span of several years, complete with a love story.

 

TLOU show runner Craig Mazin also wrote the phenomenal Mythic Quest episode “Backstory” from season 2.

[henrygandorf 29194]

and houstonian josh brener (big head) appears in both. 

[ChickenSandwich 9849]

1 hour ago, Herpa Derpa said:

Crosspost from SNL thread. h/t @RPM

 

Rock bottom SNL

[HornOnTheBayou 8945]

15 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

upon rewatch, my favorite new moment is when bill pours the wine with his thumb in the punt like some upscale restaurant.

Yep. And turns the plate when he sets it down. He did that for the first and last meal. 

[rage-a-holic 4452]

6 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

The Magicians did an episode called “A life in a day” where two characters are trapped in a pocket world and build an entire life and death together.  It was also similarly very touching and well done. 

and was previously done in multiple sci-fi shows; Stargate Atlantis comes to mind as a recent one.

[Chewbacca 7782]

16 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

upon rewatch, my favorite new moment is when bill pours the wine with his thumb in the punt like some upscale restaurant.

And the first wine they had on the last night was the same wine they had on the first night.  This show does the little things so well.

[rage-a-holic 4452]

29 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

And the first wine they had on the last night was the same wine they had on the first night.  This show does the little things so well.

It's the exact same meal

[speed817 19439]

16 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

upon rewatch, my favorite new moment is when bill pours the wine with his thumb in the punt like some upscale restaurant.

This put Frank's gay-dar into overdrive.  He had to show Bill what he could do with his fingers over on the piano....

[Chewbacca 7782]

51 minutes ago, rage-a-holic said:

It's the exact same meal

I thought it might be, but they didn't make any reference to that.

[Red Five 40881]

22 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

I thought it might be, but they didn't make any reference to that.

They didn't say "Oh look, it's the exact same meal from 20 years ago" out loud, but I thought it was pretty obvious what they were doing. 

[52-80 19226]

On 2/1/2023 at 9:12 PM, huge said:

Also, havent human body temps been lowering, where the 98.6 we grew up with is now more like 97.5?

Why are you a climate denier

[huge 3795]

23 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

Why are you a climate denier

I am a data collector.  Be careful what you wish for.

[huge 3795]

25 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

Why are you a climate denier

Also I am very pro-conservation while also being pro O+G.  Maybe that's incongruent.  

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3 minutes ago, huge said:

Also I am very pro-conservation while also being pro O+G.  Maybe that's incongruent.  

was a bad joke, but anyway my wife says my body is pretty hot

[The Dude 1246]

14 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Anybody that's watched Mythic Quest, they did something similar a few years ago with a Dark, Quiet, Death, although that was only like 30 minutes long.

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They took some initials that had been carved into a pylon running through Ian's office and fleshed it out into this incredible little story that had a great beginning, middle, and end over the span of several years, complete with a love story.

 

I’m pretty meh on Mythic Quest but that episode was phenomenal 

[Scary Stranger 1715]

and was previously done in multiple sci-fi shows; Stargate Atlantis comes to mind as a recent one.

Rick and Morty.

[Augustus 3061]

On 2/1/2023 at 5:48 PM, MissingInAction said:

Actually no idea what it is, but it's been around that the last two physicals I got. It's also been at 97.2.

Maybe I'm confused.. who knows.. don't wanna thread jack.

 

Thread jack?

Dude, you could be the key to unraveling this whole mystery.

[Hornbeliever 712]

8 hours ago, Augustus said:

 

Thread jack?

Dude, you could be the key to unraveling this whole mystery.

Completely agree.  Also, let us know if you are straight, proudly gay, or the kind of gay that has to fast forward 3 seconds of a gay scene because deep down you realize you might catch it if you are exposed.

[Augustus 3061]

3 hours ago, Hornbeliever said:

Completely agree.  Also, let us know if you are straight, proudly gay, or the kind of gay that has to fast forward 3 seconds of a gay scene because deep down you realize you might catch it if you are exposed.

 

Straight, but I have a long association with professional musical theatre so that has confused people over the years.

[MissingInAction 25172]

On 2/2/2023 at 8:54 AM, Native Horn said:

Stallone did this in Cobra when he distracted the psycho in the grocery store.  Popped open a yellow belly, took a swig, then threw the can a few rows over.  "You're the disease.  I'm the cure."  Absolutely horribad flick.

Stallones portrayal of Sgt Cobretti was a true tour de force, so shut your whore mouth.

[hayden_horn 11365]

22 hours ago, Red Five said:

They didn't say "Oh look, it's the exact same meal from 20 years ago" out loud, but I thought it was pretty obvious what they were doing. 

it's always better to not insult your audience's intelligence. it's the same fucking meal. you don't need a neon sign saying "hey, look, it's the same fucking meal!!!!" nor do you even need frank saying something like "just like our first meal."

in case you haven't noticed non-verbal communication is a key element to this show, and was in the game, which is part of what made it so revolutionary.

[Augustus 3061]

2 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

it's always better to not insult your audience's intelligence. it's the same fucking meal. you don't need a neon sign saying "hey, look, it's the same fucking meal!!!!" nor do you even need frank saying something like "just like our first meal."

 

You mean you didn't care for House of the Dragon's non-stop exposition, apparently for the benefit of non-bookfags?

The Queen arrives at the wedding in a stunning green dress.  Please take note that we said GREEN.

"Hey look, she's in a green dress.  Do you know what color the flame of the tower in Old Town burns when they call their banners?"

"Green. It burns green.  Which one might reflect upon when considering her choice of a GREEN dress.  For example, she is perhaps metaphorically calling her banners, thereby setting up an ongoing conflict between herself/her supporters against Rhaenyra and those who support the Princess, who might select their own color to identify their allegiance.  Black, for example, but definitely not GREEN."

"Hmmm, I hadn't thought of that.  I was just curious about the flame.  But you make an interesting point."

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On 2/1/2023 at 2:20 PM, crash_davis said:

You mean a show based on a digital game takes liberties with reality? The fuck!

spoilers, kind of. 

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I think it's funny when they dropped the hint early on. Maybe episode one....someone asks her if she is having issues with a boy and she is like....uh....fuck no. 

[The Hot Dog Buffet 1291]

53 minutes ago, Augustus said:

 

You mean you didn't care for House of the Dragon's non-stop exposition, apparently for the benefit of non-bookfags?

The Queen arrives at the wedding in a stunning green dress.  Please take note that we said GREEN.

"Hey look, she's in a green dress.  Do you know what color the flame of the tower in Old Town burns when they call their banners?"

"Green. It burns green.  Which one might reflect upon when considering her choice of a GREEN dress.  For example, she is perhaps metaphorically calling her banners, thereby setting up an ongoing conflict between herself/her supporters against Rhaenyra and those who support the Princess, who might select their own color to identify their allegiance.  Black, for example, but definitely not GREEN."

"Hmmm, I hadn't thought of that.  I was just curious about the flame.  But you make an interesting point."

The show definitely needed some sort of explanation for the significance of the green dress, but providing it as the dress was being revealed was lazy writing. Should have had a conversation an episode or two earlier talking about the different colors of flame and what they mean, sort of how Game of Thrones explained a whole lot of things with Jon Snow's conversations with the maester at the wall.

[Doc Sam Beckett 5797]

Fast forwarding through the guys kissing and Frank wheelchair bound from HIV were both legit laugh out loud moments. Jesus christ