As someone who helped a friend paint his life sized Tardis.. I had to chuckle at the shrine comment.
• Hasbro is actually making a Hungry Hungry Hippos movie. This is not a joke. This is a thing that is happening. I say we schedule the mass suicide for 1:30pm, so I don't have to do an FFF today. Who's with me? (Via THR)
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• Speaking of Hasbro, they've just announced a G.I. Joe Kre-O line, after denying they would ever make a G.I. Joe Kre-O line for over a year. Sure, the toys may be nice, BUT I'LL NEVER TRUST AGAIN. (Via ToyNewsI)
• So that Klingon band with the Wookiee bellydancer? Here's the Klingon band with a Klingon bellydancer. They're versatile!
• The Hobbit website has a riddle game, if you're interested. I fucking hate riddles, mostly because I suck at them and they make me feel stupid.
• Someone is making a Moby Dick-in-space movie called Mobius. The folks at Futurama, who made a Moby Dick-in-space episode, which was actually called "Mobius Dick," might want to give them a call. (Via The AV Club)
• Some people made a short video where they asked the question "Is Doctor Who a religion?" The answer is no, although this does mean that Jesus was a time-traveling space alien. (Via The Mary Sue)
• Laura "Thug Life" Shigihara took a minute from brutally running her criminal empire to make a metal Mega Man 2 medley with her pal Ferdk16. It's very pretty, and if you don't agree Laura will put a hit out on your entire family.
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If it weren't for the fact that the large scale Transformer Kre-o sets worked so poorly, I'd be hallooing that we finally had a decent possibility for a TF-G.I.Joe Crossovers line. (But don't get me wrong, I love Transformer Kreons...just not the actual construction sets.)
Hasbro is actually making a Hungry Hungry Hippos movie.
Explain..... Seriously I don't understand how this works.
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@Arsenal it is being done as a low budget little kid animated movie - which is actually pretty reasonable. Making the boardgame Battleship into a summer blockbuster - that's what's pants crapping insane.
They should make a horror movie out of HHH, though I guess the sight of hippos eating people wouldn't move a lot of games.
and lets not forget the original: Super Moby-Dick of Space that ate Lightning Lad's arm.
it ate his fucking arm, Rob.
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Problem with Doctor Who as religion is that "religions" in general fail (aka lose adherents) when their teachings don't work in the real world and thus do not inspire faith, and most faiths get around this by having rules that either contradict themselves or are so convoluted that it's impossible to follow them all and thus you are always in the wrong. Bonhoeffer anyone? Doctor Who's overly simplistic morality doesn't even work in the show. He's basically a pacifist, except when that's inconvenient, at which point the violence is rationalized - usually pretty weakly. It could be summed up as "Try to do the right thing, unless that's too hard or you don't feel like it, then just do whatever you want and justify it lame rationalization, but don't worry because any consequences are someone else's problem."
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@Gallen_Dugall I agree that over simplification of things can be dangerous, but, right now, even our math and science has some contradictions. Different rules for different situations. Hawkings Paradox bet basically said that conservation of data was invalid with black holes, basically meaning things could just disappear or appear in our universe. With quantum geometry we get Holographic theory but Quantum Geometry doesn't play well with our other physics and if we tried to use it for our basic mechanical world it would fail.
Not that I'm defending the Doctor Who thing, it's too simple with it's. "your all bad for fighting but I'm not"- thing.
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@Someguy I suppose I'm really arguing that the given definition of a religion is too broad. According to the video religion is mainly about shared experience and shallow morality. That's why I mentioned Bonhoeffer, real religion is hard and so people have morphed it into something easier by ignoring the parts that are too hard - or in the case of Islam declaring that those parts aren't valid. Most of what passes for religion now-a-days is little more than spiritual politics.
@NeoRickicker specifically the fringe "radical" Muslims picking and choosing which parts of the Koran they are going to follow for any number of rationalizations - most lamely that the last part of the Koran is somehow more valid than the first part because it was written later. They annoy me only slightly more than people who go to church because "It's a great place to do business."
@NeoRickicker I don't think he means Muslims of true Islam but those people who would misuse Islam's name. (I.E. take the Lords name in vain) Seems it's easier for a few to taint a name then the many who bring it light.
@Gallen_Dugall On topic of Islam, I have to ask, what do you mean by "declaring that those parts aren't valid"?
So... someone seems to have been watching too much Robot Chicken. Though their idea of a Hungry Hungry Hippos movie seemed bearable.
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Hungry Hungry Hippos the movie...my god. I hope the world ends before this monstrosity (Because it will be bad, make no doubt about that) is unleashed.
5 bucks that Michael Bay is involved somehow, the hippos are giant alien maneaters, and one of them explodes in the end.
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@realaregula I only hope the use the fan made photoshop poster. That is the only good here.
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@Lithroe @realaregula Also they're making monopoly and action man movies. That was in the tip that I sent in on the subject and which Rob apparently didn't read.
@realaregula @Lithroe Well, Pirates of the Caribbean was fun (not really deep) and that came out of an amusement park ride so I guess that it just takes a bit of writing and performance - probably best not to overthink it.
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@Gallen_Dugall @realaregula They've been trying to make an Monopoly movie for years. I figure it will turn out like Rat Race.
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@Gallen_Dugall @Lithroe ...how the hell do you make a monopoly movie interesting? You can't even make the game interesting!I mean, I guess if you tried to do something sort of like 'Wall Street' with it, MAYBE...
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@Lithroe @realaregula Unfortunately it is supposed to be animated and aimed at the 4-8yo crowd
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@Gallen_Dugall @Lithroe @realaregula HUNGRY HUNGER GAMES HIPPOS. THEY FIGHT TO THE DEATH.
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It sounds like Rob didn't watch that Dr. Who video, or at least he hasn't seen any of the other videos from that channel.
The "some people" he refers to is actually an amazing, PBS funded, youtube channel called "The Idea Channel". It's host submits crazy ideas that combine intellectual concepts with Nerd/Internet culture. You should really check it out!
You may not always agree with the idea of that episode, but they are ALWAYS well presented and well argued, AND thoughtful and open debate is not only encouraged in the comments, it is often ACTUALLY ACHIEVED!!!!
He even addresses some of the good comments at the end of the next episode. Honestly, the Idea Channel is one of the best things to happen to the internet since the invention of.....uh....sliced.....HTML.....Flash....bread? ...ok that last analogy got a little away from me.
Of all of the bullets in this posting, which one do you think prompted the "Insanity" tag?
