Can we please fucking admit that personality tests when applying for a retail/service job; whether by design intention or mere prioritization of neurotypicality; are de-facto discriminatory against mentally ill/non-neurotypical people and should be outlawed?
And anyone who defends them with “But muh lazy workers/efficiency” deserves a fist in the fucking face from all the non-NT/mentally ill folks who’ve been kept from even a low-level job by that shit.
Nobody deserves to fucking starve because they can’t meet your neurotypical standards, all you little libertarian twerps who care more about markets than human life can FUCK OFF!
They’re a way of asking “are you something we discriminate against” whilst corresponding to the anti-discrimination laws. I mean that is straight up what they are. They’re not legally allowed to ask if you’re mentally ill, but they are allowed to ask about any potential consequences of illness you might have and then discriminate against those.
another thing is those tests can cause you to never be able to get a job since they’re shared with everyone who gets those tests for their company
While modern renditions of the theme song from the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon series often render the first verse as “catches crooks / just like flies”, the original lyrics state that Spider-Man “catches thieves / just like flies”. I kind of appreciate the directness there – like, this is a superhero who has a very clear idea of where his core competencies lie. Spider-Man deals with property crime specifically. Murderer on the loose? Sorry, folks – not his department!
One of the techie herose note some strarnge readings from Trapjaw, that seem to indicate he’s not acting of his own free will as a lackey of Skeletor.
They capture Trapjaw and try to fix him despite his protestations. It ends awfully. He breaks out going out a rampage that requires Skeletor and He-Man to work together.
In the end, its revealed that Trapjaw works for Skeletor out of gratitude because he restored his free will. One day while Skeletor was casually warping through dimensions looking for things that might be useful, he (literaly) ran into Trapjaw as he was acting as a one-man army in a gang war at the behest of his criminal masters.
Skeletor manages to win and gets Trapjaw repaired after investigating what the heck that was all about.
He-Mans friends apologize and Trapjaw accepts it mostly out of wanting to forget it happened than any sincere acceptance.
Now I’m of the opinion He-man shouldn’t get any darker than that one Psychonauts level, so most the violence in the flashback is implied with fire and screams.
And it works with giving him lots of wacky accessories. He designs lots of weird non-lethal weapon attatchments as a way to try and escape his past.
if Cranky Kong is in fact the original Donkey Kong, this implies a Warrior Cats-like naming system where members of the Kong Clan are given new appellations as they reach new stages of life and take on new roles within their society.
That is to say, Funky Kong is not merely “a Kong who is funky,” but he is the Kong who is the funkiest, and thus the inheritor of the associated title.
“Kiddy Kong,” we can presume, is the name given to all newborns, to be replaced with a temporary childhood name (a la Dixie and Diddy) after the next child is born but before they come of age and achieve a proper role within society.
if toho’s next godzilla movie isn’t called into the goji-verse, what’s even the point
I rember several fanfics about that actually. It was the Futurians fault.
You’re not talking about Godzilla: Time Wars are you?
Maybe? I’ve seen two different ones. One ended in a giant monster island in a merged timestream, one was more a meta-commentary on Godzilla’s changing narrative role. The latter was good until it got to Showa Godzilla’s deathbed scene where it got weird with a demon monster coming out of nowhere.
We all love disaster movies! The cool special effects, the underdog stories, the underlying themes of hope. As cool as they are, they do tend to use misconceptions about natural disasters. This normally wouldn’t be an issue since Hollywood will always embellish but it’s important to know the true science behind these phenomena should you ever encounter them.
1) Pyroclastic flows will kill you almost instantly, you cannot survive a direct hit
Movies guilty of this: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Dante’s Peak
Pyroclastic flows exceed 100km/h and reach temperatures over 1,000°C. You definitely cannot outrun it in either car or on foot. The boiling hot toxic gas, ash, and lava in the flow will kill you instantly and pummel your smoking corpse into oblivion. Sorry, Chris Pratt.
2) Tsunamis do not crest, they are more like a sudden flood than a wave
Movies guilty of this: Literally any movie with a tsunami ever
Tsunamis are massive and sudden floods caused by the displacement of ocean water due to earthquakes or massive landslides. They’re not tidal waves and thus do not crest. It’s poetic, but inaccurate.
3) Hail is always spherical and doesn’t fall in big cinder blocks of ice
Movies guilty of this:The Day After Tomorrow
Hail can get quite large and can definitely be fatal, but they are exclusively spherical. Hail is formed by water droplets cycling through the updrafts of a thunderstorm and the rotational movements make the resulting hail a ball.
Looks more like a stage hand is throwing the remains of an ice swan than a hail storm
4) You cannot freeze instantaneously. Not even in space.
Movies guilty of this: The Day After Tomorrow, Geostorm, The Cloverfield Paradox, Sunshine
Space, and certain places on Earth, can get exceedingly cold. The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was −89.2 °C. That’s damn cold. But you still wouldn’t flash freeze into a peoplesicle within mere seconds. Intense cold can kill you quickly if you’re completely exposed but it would still take time before your body would be a thoroughly frozen chunk of meat. As for space, it can get quite cold, but it’s also an empty vacuum. There’s nothing around you but empty void, which means there’s also nothing to transfer your body heat away from you. Without convection, your body heat would be lost via radiation and that can take a long time.
5) Earthquakes over 10 on the Richter scale are physically impossible on Earth.
Movies guilty of this: 10.5
You would need a massive fault line to carry that sort of energy. Something on the scale of going through the earth’s core. Which does not exist . Even then, if such an earthquake would occur, the planet would literally explode.A 15 magnitude earthquake would release energy on the magnitude of 1×10^32 joules. That, coincidentally, is the same amount of energy contained in the gravitational binding of the Earth. Simply put, anything greater than 9.9 on the Richter scale is impossible and would cause the Earth to explode.
6) California will and can not sink into the Pacific like a big slab, and it can’t break away from the rest of the US.
Movies guilty of this: 2012, 10.5
Most movies cite the San Andreas fault as the reason for the cleavage, but even this isn’t enough. The San Andreas fault is a transform fault, meaning the North American plate and the Pacific Plate are slowly horizontally grinding past each other, not pushing away. As California is a part of the greater Pacific plate, it literally could not snap free from it to “sink into the sea”. Because if the entire tectonic plate underneath California where to flip over and sink then the entire ocean would drain away into the mantle.
7) You can’t sink in lava. You also can’t stand near it without being burned.
Movies guilty of this: Volcano, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Lava is molten rock, and is incredibly dense. In fact, it’s three times as dense as humans, who are mostly water. If you were to cannonball into a lava pit, you would dip in a bit before bouncing to the top and floating. You would also burn up and die super quickly. Because fresh lava can exceed 1,200°C! Even standing a couple feet away from a lava flow, you would feel the intense heat radiation. You would lose your eyebrows and probably the top layer of your skin if you stood too close. There’s a reason why volcanologists wear protective suits. Sam and Frodo would have been roasted.
Can we make one of this but with Anatomy, biology and microbiology facts against Horror and Slasher movies?? Some mistakes are funny to watch but they’re so common that they became annoying.
I’d make an Anthology film called Seasons of the Grinch. Each would tell the story of the Grinch’s relationship with Who-ville. Spring would be when he moves into Mt. Krumpet, and the whos attempt to make friends with him (it doesn’t go well, but he does reluctantly keep the dog one of them gave him as gift). Summer would be a faceoff between the Grinch and the Cat in the Hat, who briefly enters Who-ville to do his normal bit of light mischief, and the two end up competing to see who’s the better trickster scourge. Fall would be an update of Halloween is Grinch Night, and Winter would be “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
It would keep the Grinch as a sort of inexplicable monster in the folkloric vein – a creature that isn’t to be slain, but rather out-smarted and perhaps eventually redeemed. We’d develop his character slowly without giving him a reason or excuse to be a grouch (since the lack of a clear reason for his grouchiness is a key character trait of his – removing it destroys the Christmas story’s potency), and hopefully by the end you’d get a story where the Grinch is a very complicated character whose redemption feels very earned. He’s a fuckup, but he’s a fuckup you want to see get his shit together, and that desire is what connects the four separate stories of the anthology – the overarching plot, the true story of the entire film, is of the Grinch finally getting his shit together.
I’d find ways to work in Eucariah and Cindy Loo Who into all four seasons, since they both play important roles in the Grinch’s story (one of the things I don’t hate about the adaptations is their expansion of Cindy’s role in all of this), and the Grinch’s relationship with Max would be fleshed out as well.
Every line of dialogue would be poetic – rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, consonance, all the good shit from Dr. Seuss’s books that adaptations inevitably cut because it would be too hard to reproduce and possibly be off-putting to people because it’s “weird”. And I’d find a good actor with horror credentials to play the Grinch – off the top of my head, I’m thinking either Ron Perlman, Keith David, or Robert Englund.
It would be very weird and experimental and it would never get funding, but hopefully it would do right by Dr. Seuss.
I’m thinking either Ron Perlman, Keith David or Robert Englund
… is there a d) all of the above for this? cos god do I wanna see all of these.
Robert Englund is the Grinch, Ron Perlman is the narrator, Keith David is the Cat in the Hat.
I know my posting or reblogging this image is like a bimonthly thing but it’s soooo important to me that you all know this is a completely real Family Circus strip posted on Halloween 2012
This is Tarkus for those of you who are unfamiliar
Monsters and Stuff 