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The Wizard said:
Only if you're using it to gamble for money. Japan has some weird laws.
If you see a pachinko parlour, its either illegally operating, or exploiting a loophole in the law. Basically, when you play, your "prize" are tokens. When you're done, you get to take them with you as you leave. Fortunately enough, there just so happens to be a totally-not-affiliated shop just next door that will buy the tokens off of you.
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No, I mean, like banned outright recently. Because I heard Konami had to change the way how they rape Silent Hill and MGS.
 
David s Goyer originally meant for the character of Abigail Whistler in Blade Trilogy to be Rachel Van Helsing (a character from the Tomb Of Dracula comics Blade originally appeared in) but he had to change it when word got to Goyer the movie Van Helsing was in production. Wesley Snipes has less than a hundred or so lines in Trinity and barley any of them are full sentences.

Also if you know anything about the production of Blade Trinity you'd know how it ended up such a mess. Wesley Snipes claimed half the crew and cast were racists and yet he called Goyer and Ryan Renoylds "crackers." He refused to speak to anyone directly on set, often he'd write stuff on sticky notes to talk and even then refused to answer to anything but "Blade" and seemingly never broke character. Despite this Snipes would often show up do a few close ups and deliver a few lines then disappear in his trailer for hours smoking weed. It got so bad body doubles had to stand in for snipes in almost every action or non speaking scene.
 
horrorfan89 said:
Also if you know anything about the production of Blade Trinity you'd know how it ended up such a mess. Wesley Snipes claimed half the crew and cast were racists and yet he called Goyer and Ryan Renoylds "crackers." He refused to speak to anyone directly on set, often he'd write stuff on sticky notes to talk and even then refused to answer to anything but "Blade" and seemingly never broke character. Despite this Snipes would often show up do a few close ups and deliver a few lines then disappear in his trailer for hours smoking weed. It got so bad body doubles had to stand in for snipes in almost every action or non speaking scene.
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There was also that infamous scene where Blade's eyes are closed and open to reveal CGI monstrosities because Snipes refused to open his eyes for real while they were filming the scene.
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
There was also that infamous scene where Blade's eyes are closed and open to reveal CGI monstrosities because Snipes refused to open his eyes for real while they were filming the scene.
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No wonder he quit acting (kinda) after trinity. He was acting like a total primadonna and a spoiled hollywood brat. They really should have just retitled it Nightstalkers, had Wesley's role reduced to a Cameo and mad it about Hannibal King and Abigail.
I've heard Snipes is actually hoping to return to the role in an MCU reboot but not only is he way too old for the role but I doubt anyone will want to work with him after all the shit he pulled.
 
The last film ever rented from an official Blockbuster (meaning an actual company store, and not just a business that was licensed to use the name and logo) was the movie This is the End.

Beautiful.
 
British boarding schools used to have this thing called fagging. A junior student would be a senior student's servant. The senior was called the fag master.
 
The reason why it is common for old buildings, monuments, etc. to have Masonic symbols carved into them is because the majority of the earlier Freemasons were....you guessed it, masons, architects, carpenters, etc. It was the Mason equivalent of group graffiti, "X was here," Sub 2 Pewdiepie, and so on.
 
In america, one of the ways to make some VERY EASY illegal money is by robbing a registered sex offender. Their address and their height, size, muscle is easy to find and they don't own guns. Plus you're morally justified doing it.
 
A lot of the props in Frankenstein's lab in young Frankenstein (1974) are the same props from the actual Frankenstein (1931) movie from 43 years prior
 
The Seinfeld muffin-top episode at the bakery was about foreskins and adrenochrome.
 
Certain surnames like Miller, Baker and Cooper where originally names that designated ones trade. Eg Someone named Miller was an actual miller by trade.


Interestingly enough, the name Chandler, was originally the name given to a candle maker.
 
The movie industry fought VCRs tooth and nail when they came out. A Supreme Court case ruled recording a show for later viewing wasn't copyright infringement. Then the studios realized they could make more money by releasing movies that were no longer in theaters on VHS. When DVDs were in development, the industry had learned its lesson and threw its full support behind them which is why they took off so quickly.
 
horrorfan89 said:
Certain surnames like Miller, Baker and Cooper where originally names that designated ones trade. Eg Someone named Miller was an actual miller by trade.


Interestingly enough, the name Chandler, was originally the name given to a candle maker.
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I don't know how it was everywhere but here the process of last names came through identifiers. If you were Anders, son of Magnus then then at one point it got jotted down as Anders Magnusson (notice that there's to S, american Anderson is AndersSon and so on). Other than that people got a last name based on locations where they live like "Berg" (mountain), Beck (brook), Brook (beck) and so on. It was a census thing, good to know if there is peasants to round up for war.
 
To any kiwis in New Jersey who are familiar with the mr softee trucks every summer the iconic jungle used to have actual lyrics

The creamiest dreamiest soft ice cream,
You get from Mister Softee
For a refreshing delight supreme
Look for Mister Softee

While Micheal Bloomberg was NJ giver he intially intended to ban the jingle as "nosie pollution" but was shot down by backlash from NJ residents. As a compromise he allowed trucks to play the jingle while driving but not while idling to attract customers
 
The REM song "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" has a dark and sordid past, with multiple stories.
There is the Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_the_Frequency,_Kenneth?) stating:
I wrote that protagonist as a guy who's desperately trying to understand what motivates the younger generation, who has gone to great lengths to try and figure them out, and at the end of the song it's completely fucking bogus. He got nowhere.
— Michael Stipe
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Then there is a somewhat whitewashed story hinting at the real origin:
"One night in October 1986, Rather was walking down a Manhattan street when he was punched from behind and thrown to the ground. His assailant kicked and beat him while repeating, "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"

The real story was scrubbed from the Web 1.0, in the early 2000s. The Red Ice article hints at it. I am recalling this, so please excuse...
Dan Rather was invited to a closed presentation in 1986 at a NYC university. A neat invention was shown, capable of listening to Moscow local TV and radio broadcasts (local, non-SW). This being the last days of the USSR (1986), KGB agents in the USA were in a panic, attempting to seal any leaks of the incoming collapse. Dan Rather was mistaken for one of the researchers at the University (Kenneth ...) and was attacked by a KGB agent. The agent was desperate to understand the technology - but citizens and Police arrived on the scene and he absconded. William Tager was blamed for the attack, but used a patsy. As an apology to Dan Rather (in the late 90's), Russia dedicated a memorial satellite to Dan Rather containing an acoustic guitar donated to the USSR during the Beatles tour.

So. I apologize for the lack of clarity. What is the actual Fun Fact?
Fact: There are 3 different stories behind the origin of "What's the Frequency Kenneth"
Fact: Dan Rather WAS involved with this song, and he performed it WITH REM in 1995 (poorly) at MSG (during a sound check), and was shown on the David Letterman show.
Fact: Wikipedia is NOT telling the other stories, but briefly mentions the attack on Dan Rather. Why?

Questions: Was Rather attacked by KGB in 1986? Why was Dan Rather being called 'Kenneth' as he was attacked? Why does Wikipedia ignore the 'other' story? Why was the complete story whitewashed and scrubbed?
it's a weird, but neat one...

Fun Fact: Mike Mills (bass) screwed up the timing towards the end of the song, due to being in intense pain from acute appendicitis. His appendix almost burst, and luckily, the band rushed him to the hospital.

edit: The weirder aspects of the story are also hinted in the song: "Butterfly decal, rearview mirror..." This rabbit hole goes p deep.
 
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Back in the day when some people programmed with BASIC, they actually had programs in magazines you had to copy to make your own programs. I had a Halloween pumpkin program one year that showed a bright well done pumpkin on your monitor. They suggested you put your monitor in the window to show it off. I ain't luggin' no 40+ pound monitor around. What the hell is wrong with people?
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Did the program though. ... Shut up, it was a simpler time.
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Wraith said:
Back in the day when some people programmed with BASIC, they actually had programs in magazines you had to copy to make your own programs. I had a Halloween pumpkin program one year that showed a bright well done pumpkin on your monitor. They suggested you put your monitor in the window to show it off. I ain't luggin' no 40+ pound monitor around. What the hell is wrong with people?
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Did the program though. ... Shut up, it was a simpler time.
It looked like @horrorfan89's current avatar.
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I made a Missile Command clone from a magazine. There were also a series of books that had a story but periodically had a program that the main character had to write to overcome an obstacle.
 
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