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I got one for black Friday


Tobe Hooper got the idea for The Texas chainsaw massacre when he was stuck in line with the black Friday shoppers, it was so crowded he had thoughts of just cutting through everyone... litteraly with a chainsaw from the hardware department.
 
According to ancient texts, the hardass, bloodthirsty Spartans were quite renowned throughout Greece for being surprisingly competent comedians. The Spartans, essentially being an entire culture of mercenaries, naturally saw a lot of really fucked up shit in the countless campaigns they were involved with, and so it was very common for the soldiers to develop a smartass, sarcastic sense of humor as a way of coping with all the tragedies they witnessed and keep each other’s spirits high. This was something that was greatly encouraged and practiced by the higher-ups in the Spartan military, since they believed the ability to think up jokes on the fly was a very effective way of training soldiers to think and act spontaneously in dangerous situations.

Spartan soldiers would also groom and braid each other’s hair before they went out to battle. This was done as a way to calm their nerves before battle and strengthen the bond between the men so they’d work together better.

Sparta is one of history’s shining example of wholesome bro culture and it almost makes up for how fucked up they could be.
 
The scene in Terminator 2 where the T-1000 duplicates the security guard and kills him wasn't done with special effects. The actor playing the security guard had an identical twin brother, so they just got him to play the role. Similarly, the deleted scene where Sarah Connor reprograms the T-800 was shot as if it were reflected in a mirror, but that's actually a body double for Arnold, and Linda Hamilton's twin sister, a nurse, who did the scene as a favor to her sister.

Personal fun fact: I own all of the Lego Pirate System sets and will not part with them, even under pain of death.
 
Santa giving bad children coal is loosely adapted from the German version of santa who worked with the krampus. In cultures that use the krampus mythos the coal left in children's houses "marked" them as a house for krampus to visit
 
All of the original Ramones, Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny and Tommy have been dead since 2014, the first three all dying within three years of each other from 2001-2004 with Tommy tapping out in 2014.

However, all the other temporary members who adopted the name and played in the band are still alive (Marky, Richie, Elvis and C.J.).

And Epstein didn't kill himself.
 
Moby Dick was originally a commercial failure on its initial publication and wasn't critically well received until well after Herman Melville's death. A fate shared with many so called works of "great American literature" this was done partly by Europeans especially the still sore about the revolution British trying to paint the young United States as a "boorish and uncivilized" nation incapable of contributing to literature or culture in a significant manner.
 
The word for bread is "Pan" in:
Spanish
Portuguese
French
Japanese
Korean
Esperanto

In Eastern European languages, it's something around "khleb", and in Germanic languages, it's something around... well, "bread", since English is Germanic.
 
Devil May cry started out as a possible 4th resident evil game. When the game strayed too far from the resident evil norm rather than scrap the project it was salvaged and repurposed into the game we know it as today.

Similarly, final fight was originally going to be the third game and finale to the street fighter series but was reworked into its own series loosely connected to the street fighter series.

The original Dead Rising was originally a failure in its native Japan. Due to being exclusive to the Xbox 360 (itself a series of failures in Japan) and for being "too American."
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
That's pretty weird indeed. I guess they have some non-sexual reproduction like "cloning" themselves like certain types of insects?
The sexual reproduction would then just serve to add benificial traits into the mix every now and then.
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Yep, computerized models suggest that sexual reproduction results in much faster evolution. This also implies that evolution selects not just for the viability of an individual lifeform but also for it's ability to evolve further which is pretty weird. There's no direct selection pressure for such a thing, quite the opposite it makes reproduction harder.

One hypothesis about why this happens is called the red queen hypothesis. Loosely it's that organisms are in an evolutionary arms race. It's named after the Alice in Wonderland quote "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
 
Jasonfan89 said:
Devil May cry started out as a possible 4th resident evil game. When the game strayed too far from the resident evil norm rather than scrap the project it was salvaged and repurposed into the game we know it as today.
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I remember being shocked at that until I actually played the game and realized that it made a lot of sense.

With a little tweaking, you could very easily make DMC1 a survival horror game, what with its Gothic architecture and use of fixed camera angles. Hell the first few minutes are atmospheric and creepy until you actually start fighting. There are even some survival-horror esque death scenes (I once lost to Phantom and he just fucking devoured Dante whole).
 
DrJonesHat said:
The scene in Terminator 2 where the T-1000 duplicates the security guard and kills him wasn't done with special effects. The actor playing the security guard had an identical twin brother, so they just got him to play the role. Similarly, the deleted scene where Sarah Connor reprograms the T-800 was shot as if it were reflected in a mirror, but that's actually a body double for Arnold, and Linda Hamilton's twin sister, a nurse, who did the scene as a favor to her sister.
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The same pair of twins (Don and Dan Stanton) who played the security guard also appeared in Gremlins 2, playing underlings of Christopher Lee.
 
Dr. Sol Gordon, who had a PHD with much of his works dealing with family issues and child abuse, was known to molestyoung male students who he mentored. Despite this, he appeared in two videos on stranger danger, one featuring Henry "The Fonz" Winkler called Strong Kids, Safe Kids, a must-watch for the average Kiwi. This special also features a hilarious song by a man in overalls talking about private parts while sitting in a playground.

 
Jasonfan89 said:
Devil May cry started out as a possible 4th resident evil game. When the game strayed too far from the resident evil norm rather than scrap the project it was salvaged and repurposed into the game we know it as today.

Similarly, final fight was originally going to be the third game and finale to the street fighter series but was reworked into its own series loosely connected to the street fighter series.

The original Dead Rising was originally a failure in its native Japan. Due to being exclusive to the Xbox 360 (itself a series of failures in Japan) and for being "too American."
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Also fun fact about Dead Rising: it was originally going to be a sequel to an obscure gladiator-themed game, but due to the poor reception of the original it was scrapped pretty early into development. Thankfully, Capcom took interest in the game’s engine , which was designed around fluid movement and combat and was specially tuned to allow a massive amount of models on the screen at once, and they decided to rework the game into a zombie sandbox game set in a mall, taking obvious inspiration from Dawn of the Dead.

Another interesting tidbit: during the early planning stages of Dead Rising, Frank was going to walk with a prominent limp in the first half of the game from him leaping out of the helicopter onto the roof of the mall in the opening, and the mission where you go to the supermarket to get medicine was originally going to be the point where Frank would find a brace and be able to walk normally. The developers thought that giving the main protagonist a handicap in the beginning would up the sense of helplessness the player would feel in the beginning, and the brace allowing him to move normally would represent the point where the player would finally feel comfortable with the mechanics and thus could finally play more aggressively. This was scrapped obviously because it would’ve made the game a fucking slog to get through in the beginning, but interestingly enough Frank’s running animation in the final game is a sped up version of his old limping animation, which suggests the devs were too busy to animate a new running animation, so they just sped up the old animation hoping nobody would notice.
 
Count groudon said:
Also fun fact about Dead Rising: it was originally going to be a sequel to an obscure gladiator-themed game, but due to the poor reception of the original it was scrapped pretty early into development. Thankfully, Capcom took interest in the game’s engine , which was designed around fluid movement and combat and was specially tuned to allow a massive amount of models on the screen at once, and they decided to rework the game into a zombie sandbox game set in a mall, taking obvious inspiration from Dawn of the Dead.

Another interesting tidbit: during the early planning stages of Dead Rising, Frank was going to walk with a prominent limp in the first half of the game from him leaping out of the helicopter onto the roof of the mall in the opening, and the mission where you go to the supermarket to get medicine was originally going to be the point where Frank would find a brace and be able to walk normally. The developers thought that giving the main protagonist a handicap in the beginning would up the sense of helplessness the player would feel in the beginning, and the brace allowing him to move normally would represent the point where the player would finally feel comfortable with the mechanics and thus could finally play more aggressively. This was scrapped obviously because it would’ve made the game a fucking slog to get through in the beginning, but interestingly enough Frank’s running animation in the final game is a sped up version of his old limping animation, which suggests the devs were too busy to animate a new running animation, so they just sped up the old animation hoping nobody would notice.
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Also the photography element was going to originally be a lot more elaborate,Frank was going to have a tripod handy and everything for taking pictures which also doubled as the only weapon in the game that wouldn't break but was also the weakest as a result. Although it was scrapped the tripod would be made into a weapon in dead rising 4.
 
Jasonfan89 said:
Cept the Aztecs didn't do with good intentions, it was so that after the person was sacrificed they'd have plenty of "flesh" to go around. Their bodies were thrown down the temple steps and then carved up like any butchered animal and the parts cooked for a feast.
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Aztecs had human meat markets and specialized human meat butcher shops. You could pick a live slave in a cage and the butcher would prepare fresh meat for you on the spot.

Aztecs had a God of flaying call Xipe Totec. As you may have guessed sacrificial victims to Xipe Totec were sacrificed through flaying. But the funny part is, priests of Xipe Totec would later use the skin as a body suit, decorating the skin with flowers and wearing it for a whole month.

Aztecs were very into skull racks called tzompantli. The largest excavated one is only 650+ skulls as far as I know, but there are spanish reports of giant ones that supposedly had tens of thousands.

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West africans were also fans of cannibalism. Some west african tribes were known to breed east africans like cattle, including feeding them with a specific diet of certain herbs and plants to make the meat sweet and delicate. This went on for ages and could have contributed to why east africans look so... east african.

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West africans were using science to groom east africans into trannies way before the jews decided to do the same thing with whites
 
Oskar Dirlewanger said:
Aztecs had human meat markets and specialized human meat butcher shops. You could pick a live slave in a cage and the butcher would prepare fresh meat for you on the spot.

Aztecs had a God of flaying call Xipe Totec. As you may have guessed sacrificial victims to Xipe Totec were sacrificed through flaying. But the funny part is, priests of Xipe Totec would later use the skin as a body suit, decorating the skin with flowers and wearing it for a whole month.

Aztecs were very into skull racks called tzompantli. The largest excavated one is only 650+ skulls as far as I know, but there are spanish reports of giant ones that supposedly had tens of thousands.

tzompantli-1-768x529.jpg


West africans were also fans of cannibalism. Some west african tribes were known to breed east africans like cattle, including feeding them with a specific diet of certain herbs and plants to make the meat sweet and delicate. This went on for ages and could have contributed to why east africans look so... east african.

1470605075143.jpg


West africans were using science to groom east africans into trannies way before the jews decided to do the same thing with whites
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That's why I eat Jewish food, they wouldn't poison what's made for their own kind would they?
 
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