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A lot of adaptations of lovecrafts work like reanimator and from beyond like to add in copius amounts of sex, violence and gore. Ironically Howard Phillips lovecraft himself was repulsed by sex and sexuality and may have been asexual. In addition he refused to add gorey descriptions of his creations often making them as vauge as possible because he personally believed horror was more effective when you only have a vauge idea of what it is your looking at.
 
Pigeon On A Stick said:
We're in the middle of a sixth major extinction event, the Holocene. Marine species are becoming extinct thirty-three percent quicker than before humans existed, and certain organisms are being discovered and destroyed so quickly science hasn't even had time to give them names.
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When did the sixth mass extinction begin?
0.01 million years ago

Holocene extinction
 
A couple facts about night of the living dead (1990)

Columbia pictures agreed to distribute the film because they had previously turned down buying the script for the 1968 version from George A romero.

The film was originally meant to start out in black and white then change to color after crediting the original story to Romero and John Russo


Was the first directorial effort by Tom savi who did the special effects makeup for the original films sequel dawn of the dead.


The actor who played johnny in the 1968 version Russel striener has a Cameo at the end of the movie as a sheriff speaking to a reporter and was a producer on the film alongside original writer John Russo


George A Romero has a Cameo as the voice of an anouncer on a radio towards the end of the film and penned the screenplay.

The film marked the the first time Romero and Russo had worked together on a film since the original.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
That made me think of another movie that not many people have seen, some people here have seen it without a doubt but it is generally unknown: The Wizard of Speed and Time.

It was shot/produced over several years and the story of the movie was based on the experiences of the writer/director/actor getting screwed over in Hollywood. It's a comedic and lighthearted film that becomes very meta, the people he chose to play the guy that screwed him out of his rights in real life, the guy that fucked him over when it comes to money in real life, went on to fuck him over just like the people their characters were based on. So it's a movie based on a true story that also turned out to be prophetic, that must be some kind of temporal incest.

It's a fun movie and well worth watching if you own a working Laserdisc player or have a bittorrent client installed.
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Or you can buy the DVD as a double feature with "The Toxic Slime Creature."
 
If your electrical outlet isn't working, and the breaker hasn't tripped, it can normally be fixed by taking the outlet out, removing the wires, snipping off the bare metal from the wire, and stripping the end of the wire so fresh metal is exposed and reassembling it.

Takes less than 5 minutes, and can save you over $100 in calling someone out to fix it.
 
Not Really Here said:
If your electrical outlet isn't working, and the breaker hasn't tripped, it can normally be fixed by taking the outlet out, removing the wires, snipping off the bare metal from the wire, and stripping the end of the wire so fresh metal is exposed and reassembling it.

Takes less than 5 minutes, and can save you over $100 in calling someone out to fix it.
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Is this really 'dark knowledge' now?
 
Not Really Here said:
How is saving at least $100 not a fun fact?
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I get what you're saying, but it's less 'fun fact' and more 'handy tip'. Most of the fun facts are interesting but useless information - yours is just practical advice.

So by being useful you're actually posting in the wrong place - though the same could be said about the Farms in general.

Anyway - fun facts: the measurement on those foot gauge things at a shoe store are in barleycorns, the indentation between your nose and your upper lip is a philtrum, and the symbols used to replace swearing in comics are grawlixes.
 
"Bug in the system" has a very literal origin. In 1947, computers used to be huge and fill up entire rooms. A moth entered the US Navy's MK 2 Aiken Relay Calculator and had to be removed. A technician made a note calling it the "first actual case of [a] bug being found" and reported that the computer was "debugged." "Bug" and "debug" would go on to become common computer lingo.
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Not Really Here said:
Just between you and me, I left out an important part that makes it super fun for me.
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Well... Lemme guess...
1) Make sure the circuit is dead- slap that breaker OFF! LOCK OUT-TAG OUT. Use a multimeter or 'chicken-finger' to test. Test Twice.
a) If the circuit is wired backwards - you may get a 'hot return' CHECK CAREFULLY. Correct at the panel.
2) Unscrew the plate, Unscrew the outlet.
3) Make sure you have enough excess wire to strip and reseat. Get a replacement receptacle. Only costs a few $$. Old recepticles (25 yrs+) DO fail eventually.
4) Understand your 'hot' from your 'return'. Honor the color code. Black = hot, white = return, Green = ground. Red = switch, other colors = other switched circuits.
5) Upon reassembly, determine if you are using the screw terminals or the plug-ins. Strip and insert to the correct amount of bare.
6) No ground? MAKE ONE. Ground your receptacle to the conduit, box, or grounding rod nearby.
7) On US receptacles the 3rd prong (ground) is always on the right. Don't be sloppy.
8 Use electrical tape around the screw terminals and any exposed wire. Just good practice.
9) Slap the breaker back on, wait for sparks.
 
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YuGiOh was originally supposed to be a horror manga about a introverted and often bullied boy named Yugi Muto who solves an ancient artifact puzzle, which unlocked a spirit who would take Yugi's body as a host. The spirit would reveal himself if Yugi was in trouble and had tendencies of an anti-hero. The original anime adaptation made by Koei also followed this format.
As the name implies (King of Games), in the beginning Yugi played all sorts of games and the Shadow Games the dark spirit challenged people to had very dire consequences for the loser, ranging from intense psychological torture (for example, one victim would feel the painful sensation of burning to death despite not actually being on fire for the rest of his life) to dying (one boy was swallowed whole by a monster) to being sent to some mysterious hellish dimension.
However, one of the games showcased which was a card game was so popular with readers that it eventually stole the whole show and YuGiOh ended up as the colorful pieces of cardboard which is one of Konami's remaining sources of income along with pachinko machines.
 
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yoshitsune said:
YuGiOh was originally supposed to be a horror manga about a introverted and often bullied boy named Yugi Muto who solves an ancient artifact puzzle, which unlocked a spirit who would take Yugi's body as a host. The spirit would reveal himself if Yugi was in trouble and had tendencies of an anti-hero. The original anime adaptation made by Koei also followed this format.
As the name implies (King of Games), in the beginning Yugi played all sorts of games and the Shadow Games the dark spirit challenged people to had very dire consequences for the loser, ranging from intense psychological torture (for example, one victim would feel the painful sensation of burning to death despite not actually being on fire for the rest of his life) to dying (one boy was swallowed whole by a monster) to being sent to some mysterious hellish dimension.
However, one of the games showcased which was a card game was so popular with readers that it eventually stole the whole show and YuGiOh ended up as the colorful pieces of cardboard which is one of Konami's remaining sources of income along with pachinko machines.
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I thought pachinko was banned in Japan now?
 
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