Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:25 am

I suspect that he's padding the story out to make money.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:31 am

That's the thing. If it is all about the benjamins (which is fine, I prefer my artists to be sell-outs rather than doing it for the art) then he should be creating more content rather than dragging it out. 8-Bit Theatre and Bob and George were pretty much nothing but padding but it was entertaining padding so I didn't mind.

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:37 am

Don't get me wrong, I understand perfectly the desire to make money. Just make it entertaining.

K · Post by K » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:09 am

Ok, just watched the first episode of MTVs new Teen Wolf show online. So terrible......

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:25 pm

Today's Shortpacked! comic made me smile. It's going here instead of 'rocked you' because it's a hateful, schadenfreude kind of smile instead of a 'I unironically enjoyed this' smile. The whole Amber/Mike storyline makes me want to retch and is easily the worst thing about this comic. Anything that increases their unhappiness makes me excited in ways I don't understand.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:58 am

Watched Transformers 3 the other night. It was... bad. Much trivial human bullshit in the Giant Robots movie, practically no giant robot bits that weren't mindless action.

But the thing that really fucking pissed me off, Optimus goes into "Fuck it, we're done, they don't deserve mercy anymore, lets kill some decepticons" mode, and then completely fails to kill any decepticons because he favourse headshots.

Of all the dismembered, destroyed robots, only three would actually have died. Starscream got blown up by a post-balls drop Sam, a random autobot got hit by a rapid oxidation weapon that completely destroyed him, and Q, autobot techy, got a huge hole blown through his torso.

Why do I say this? Sparks. The whole of a Cybertronian is their spark, CPU, Memory, Power, Mind. The body? A useful shell. The head? Sensory equipment. The chest? Where the fucking spark is (usually) located! Headshots do not a cybertronian kill! Dismemberment does not a cybertronian kill! Ripping off a cybertronian's head accompanied by electronic entrails does not kill! Destroy their spark, destroy them!

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:44 am

The new teen wolf is terrible. But surprisingly, ABC family has a show called "Nine lives of chloe king" which is about catpeople.

Which is pretty damn good actually. Still a teenie bopper show but the plot and the action show that it's worth it.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 10:03 pm

Cynic wrote:The new teen wolf is terrible.

So, they're keeping true to the spirit of the original?

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:41 am

It's basically Twilight.

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:59 am

The book Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson. It was described to me as being like World War Z but with robots. A better description would be a hackneyed rip-off of World War Z with pretty lame robots. I can't believe I made it through this book, I must be really bored.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:19 am

An ancient memory was stirred in my subconscious.

Anyone remember there being a 'Honey I Strunk The Kids' Live Action show? I don't think it was that but I want to say it was. For some reason I just had a half-asleep/half-awake memory of some little kid with glasses screaming extremely politically incorrect epithets at Leprechauns, which I will not repeat.

Is this a real thing? I... I hope it is, it implies bad things about me if it isn't.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:58 am

Lago PARANOIA wrote:An ancient memory was stirred in my subconscious.

Anyone remember there being a 'Honey I Strunk The Kids' Live Action show? I don't think it was that but I want to say it was. For some reason I just had a half-asleep/half-awake memory of some little kid with glasses screaming extremely politically incorrect epithets at Leprechauns, which I will not repeat.

Is this a real thing? I... I hope it is, it implies bad things about me if it isn't.

There was. I remember being, oh, twelve or around there and seeing the mom get a froglike/chameleon-like whip-tongue. When her husband worked out how to fix it, she said she'd hold off on it until she could play with it, then kissed him with that whipcrack-sound it made.

I seem to remember a lot of innuendo in the show that you could catch.

Surprised you didn't Wikipedia it, Lago old bud. Hell, I found a page for Bump in the Night on Wikipedia.

PhoneLobster · Post by **PhoneLobster** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:58 pm

There was a weird science tv show. It ran for multiple seasons.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:42 am

While the king in "Le Chevalier d'eon" was Rainbow fabulous. The kinda half-hearted attempt at discussing the real life spy Eon's transsexuality as the ghost of his sister overtaking his body every so often for revenge is starkly different.

When I first heard of the show, I thought they would kinda address the fact that the historical Eon actually asked the court to allow him to dress as the woman that he felt he was.

edit: WHy is this guy such a god damn pansy?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:43 am

I've been watching Captain Planet, since I heard they're working on a live action movie, and I hadn't seen it in about two decades, so, what the hell.

It's ridiculously anvilicious, propaganda-y, and makes no damn sense, but, well it has it's moments (Duke Nukem singing in a hot shower was kinda funny).

But no, the moment that finally got me to post, Hoggish Greedly gave his son a custom built hyper polluting car "with options!" for the kid's birthday. The kid takes a liking to Linka soon as he sees her, and eventually kidnaps her for a ride in his car, where he hits a button that restrains her completely.

This car has kidnap restraints built into it by the kid's father.

Hoggish Greedly gave his son a rape-mobile for his birthday.

Wat.

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:17 am

Had a particularly good rant about my disappointment of the anime Index.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:59 pm

read the passage a mediocre post-apocalyptic vampire book that is largely tl;dr and only gets good in the latter 300-400 pages

they discover a way to get all the benefits of vampirism without the insanity, bloodlust, and dying in the sun, and one of the characters destroys it. everyone is okay with this decision

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:51 pm

Psychic Robot wrote:read the passage a mediocre post-apocalyptic vampire book that is largely tl;dr and only gets good in the latter 300-400 pages

they discover a way to get all the benefits of vampirism without the insanity, bloodlust, and dying in the sun, and one of the characters destroys it. everyone is okay with this decision

Because Transhumanism and Immortality are bad. For some reason.... fucking death cults...

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:12 pm

immortality fucking rocks.. I'd happily live a few million years.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:37 pm

Topless Robot just caused me to watch a clip from Tutenstein.

Lets.... take it from the top.
*As the clip starts, the other main characters are waiting for the freshly animated mummy to get out of the bathroom. ...an undead character, whose internal organs are almost wholly removed in it's creation, has to piss.
*When the mummy comes out of the bathroom, he's drying his hands. A 3000 year old mummified corpse just immersed it's hands in water, and still has them.
*The mummy speaks english. (minor, but still nonsensical.)
*The mummy mentions his own decaying flesh. This means the royal embalmers fucked up. I don't know about King Tut, but I'd be pissed as hell.
*The mummy's embalmed organs in the canopic jars maintain their function, but are inexplicably putrid.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:40 pm

Black, Latino, and Homosexual Spider Man?

The later is perhaps only implies as of yet, but Miles Morales has replaced Peter Parker in then Ultimate Fallout series. I'm going to wait until they relase the official backstory, but I'm guessing it's got to be a lot better than what they did to poor Peter.

(Look, Peter, we're going to give you these bizzare powers you don't understand and don't want, but if you pass one criminial by the street, we're going to fuck up the only person who ever cared for you, your uncle "Gentle Ben" and YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LIVE WITH THIS GULIT FOREVER. Ha ha, that's your backstory, you're already fucked and we proudly will proclaim that on every front cover!)

Hell, at least The Bat Man wasn't responsible for the death of his parents; he just witnessed it as a child.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:50 pm

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/32371/origina ... 1262105600

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Aug 03, 2011 3:00 pm

sabs wrote:immortality fucking rocks.. I'd happily live a few million years.

I wouldn't. I'm not happy with my life NOW, why would I want a few million years of the same shit?

Whatever · Post by **Whatever** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 3:50 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I wouldn't. I'm not happy with my life NOW, why would I want a few million years of the same shit?

Okay, when do you want to die?

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 3:56 pm

Whatever wrote:
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I wouldn't. I'm not happy with my life NOW, why would I want a few million years of the same shit?
Okay, when do you want to die?

The Count has expressed the Q dilemma, the problem of experiencing an aleph null order of infinity, that is an infinte number of year after year of the same old shit.

Whatever has expressed the Q solution - just end it all.

It's not really a good solution at all.