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"How can you be miserable when you are a shining example of fortitude and perseverance?

Are you not doing what you want?
Do you not believe in your own standards?
The only people who can be miserable are those that abandon the tenets, rules, ideologies, etc. they set up for themselves in pursuit of fleeting pleasure.

Lament not for the realization that has come upon you, instead embrace it headlong and understand that you are a better man, a better person, for not lying to others, for not deceiving both them and yourself.

Never lower your standards, for that is where true misery arises."

Got this off of ol' 4chan back in the day. I have huge collections of things like that.
 
Something I learned the other day, but Bowling for Soup's 1985 is actually a cover of a song by SR-71.


Some of the lyrics are different, but this version predates Bowling for Soup's by several years (EDIT: no it doesn't, it came out the same year. I mixed up the year SR-71 formed with the year the song was actually released).

And keeping with popular covers, the Buggles' classic Video Killed the Radio Star was also a cover. The original version was by Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club.


I grew up with both these songs so learning that they were covers was insane to me at least.
 
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despite its marketing pushing how its the "choice beer of Australia." Fosters beers are actually hated by Australians and seen as the drink of drunks and working class trash. Similar to how we in America associate Budweiser with rednecks or colt 45 with "homies in the hood."
 
horrorfan89 said:
despite its marketing pushing how its the "choice beer of Australia." Fosters beers are actually hated by Australians and seen as the drink of drunks and working class trash. Similar to how we in America associate Budweiser with rednecks or colt 45 with "homies in the hood."
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Colt .45 deliberately sought out a black market by using Billy Dee "Lando Calrissian" Williams in their ads for years, with the slogan "Works every time."
 
At the very end of The Polar Express Santa's reflection can be seen on the bell.

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AnOminous said:
The problem with that movie is the animation was incredibly good for the time, but just good enough to be uncanny valley as fuck.
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Back when it was new I thought it looked so real. Today the animation looks quite dated. The faces are the most scary. I still like the movie but it shows why the full on motion capture never really caught on.
 
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The problem with that movie is the animation was incredibly good for the time, but just good enough to be uncanny valley as fuck.
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It was mo-cap though. The uncanny valley mainly comes from the character models and from their eyes not focusing on anything.
 
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It was mo-cap though. The uncanny valley mainly comes from the character models and from their eyes not focusing on anything.
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They look like soulless zombies. There are other issues with it too like the weird Santa Nazi rally at the North Pole.
 
ICYMI, Ming-Ming the elf in Elf (the red manager elf that talks to Buddy about his quota) is the actor that played Ralphie in A Christmas Story.

Also, I believe Monster House is mocap, but I think it has aged well. Make of that what you will.
 
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Clockwork_PurBle said:
ICYMI, Ming-Ming the elf in Elf (the red manager elf that talks to Buddy about his quota) is the actor that played Ralphie in A Christmas Story.

Also, I believe Monster House is mocap, but I think it has aged well. Make of that what you will.
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Speaking of monster house dyk it takes place in the 80s? I hadn't realized it until fairly recently. The movie is so we'll written you don't notice it's a period piece unless you really pay attention to tiny details like technology or cars clearly not matching what was available in 2005-2006
 
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Speaking of monster house dyk it takes place in the 80s? I hadn't realized it until fairly recently. The movie is so we'll written you don't notice it's a period piece unless you really pay attention to tiny details like technology or cars clearly not matching what was available in 2005-2006
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Woah what the fuck. I feel lied to almost.
 
Clockwork_PurBle said:
Woah what the fuck. I feel lied to almost.
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well; nobody not even the adults have cell phones, the arcade game at the pizzeria is clearly an 80s one and chowder's seen playing an atarti 2600 game, Skull's demo is on a cassette tape. I've heard people say its either 1983 or 1987 based on the Halloweens in those years falling on Saturdays those years.
 
horrorfan89 said:
despite its marketing pushing how its the "choice beer of Australia." Fosters beers are actually hated by Australians and seen as the drink of drunks and working class trash. Similar to how we in America associate Budweiser with rednecks or colt 45 with "homies in the hood."
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It's hard to even *find* Fosters if you wanted to in Australia, both on tap or cans, at least where I am. No one drinks Fosters.
If you want an ubiquitous Australian mass produced domestic beer it would have to be VB (Victoria Bitter).
Now that's some working class bogan shit.

Tiffany's #1 hit "I think we're alone now" was a cover too, by Tommy James and the Shondells:

 
when mad max was first distributed in America, the diolouge was dubbed over by American actors to cover up the Australian accents and slang. the original Australian audio wasn't made available in the us until 2002. despite the road warrior and thunderdome not being dubbed.
 
Arnold Schwartzennfaggot was in a commercial in Nippon for an energy drink to keep office workers going as they are worked to death. In one scene he's in one of their autistic trains and some ugly ass nip woman with ugly short hair accuses him of touching her and screaming "ecchi!" Bitch was uglier than a night of passion with sarah silverman and amy schumer without making them wear full-body paper bags.
So Arnold is partially responsible for many Japanese office workers killing themselves from overwork while he collected a paycheck.
Fudge you, arnold. Burn in hell you busted tire.
 
Krampus was the first mainstream Christmas horror movie (not released direct to video or indie) released since the first black Christmas remake in 2006. ironically it was followed by the release of another black Christmas remake* four years later.

*by remake I mean, blumhouse being preachy and making a girl power fantasy movie then attaching the name black Christmas to it to try and sucker horror fans into seeing it.
 
There is another word for puppy - "whelp." Similarly, "whelped" or "whelping" is used to describe dogs giving birth.

The Borzoi is my favorite dog breed. Borzois were originally known as "Russian wolf hounds" as they were used to hunt wolves. Naturally, they are some of the fastest dogs, clocking in between 35 MPH and 40 MPH. They have a life expectancy of 10-12 years but have lived for longer.

The following Borzois appear in notable works of fiction:

Boris in Lady and the Tramp (1955).
Rocket, Missile, and Jet in Ginga Densetsu Weed (anime & manga).
Digger (played by a Borzoi named Uncle Zeke) in 101 Dalmatians (2002)

A Borzoi appears as a World Dog Council Delegate in Cats and Dogs, one appears in All Dogs go to Heaven (1969), and a pair are seen in the Capitol in The Hunger Games.
 
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