• @aeronmelon
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    202 hours ago

    Conner: “No, they really like Kai Winn.”

    T-80: “…I’m calling CPS.”

  • @CptEnder
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    52 hours ago

    God I love Louise Fletcher though

  • Flying SquidM
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    293 hours ago

    Well, it looks like you all hated me so much that you’ve given me this award for it, and I’m loving every minute of it.

    – Louise Fletcher when accepting the Oscar for playing Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

    They couldn’t have found a better actress for that role. You could tell she was having a ball with it too.

    I hear, like most people who play villains that are easy to hate, she was a real sweetheart in real life.

      • Flying SquidM
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        42 hours ago

        That could be, but I also have to say as someone who has done it in VO roles that it is a lot of fun to play a villain because you get away with chewing a lot more scenery and your character is either so broadly-written that you can have fun with the broad choices or so complex that you have make a lot of fun with the details. And I know I personally have never played a role in between. I don’t know that the former really requires empathy, but you can still be hated for your roles when you play the former all the time.

        I imagine at her level, which I was nowhere near, she got to have fun playing the complex villain whenever she wanted after that Oscar. And if I had her talent, I would too.

        • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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          Won’t ask about roles or anything, but can you say what your favorite character was? Like, in a non identifying way?

  • teft
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    133 hours ago

    Example number 1000 why mimetic polyalloy is inferior to a changeling.

    Changelings do a little research before copying someone. Not this lazy bullshit that terminators do. Hell Miles didn’t even realize that his husband had been replaced by a changeling and they hung out for weeks.

    • @Thebeardedsinglemalt
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      133 hours ago

      Well…TBF the T-1000 didn’t exactly have 2 years and an expansive intelligence network to work from. And the only reason John Connor was alive to that point is he had a T-800 protecting him. In the span of a couple hours the T-1000 tracked JC to the arcade and almost turned him into swiss cheese if Model 101 didn’t show up at that exact moment.

      I’m sure many of us have seen the director’s cut, or at least the deleted scene after this conversation where the T-1000 goes outside and kills the dog because he won’t stop barking…and finds his real name on the collar.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 hours ago

        I’m not fully up on Terminator lore, but aren’t they from the future? Seems like they could probably have a pretty good idea on most things just from stored data

        • Tippon
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          82 hours ago

          Terminator 2 was made and set in the early 90s from what I remember. There was no stored data for most things, and if there was, it probably wouldn’t have survived the nuclear bombs that started the war with the machines

          • @Thebeardedsinglemalt
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            229 minutes ago

            Fully agreed. This was before the ubiquity of the Internet and mass storage of data.

            Although the T-1000 could have, and probably should have, at least given the house a once over

        • @[email protected]
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          32 hours ago

          Major plot point was using a phone book to find people. There wasn’t much stored data back then.

          Medical records for example mostly only go back to around mid 90’s digitally.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 hours ago

      I feel like much of my life has been a waste because I haven’t been apart of this debate before. Mimetic Polyallow ftw because you don’t have that long lead time.

  • @Thebeardedsinglemalt
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    83 hours ago

    I laughed way more than I should have when I saw a variation of this where the mom was a programmer and the trick was peer code reviews

    • @marcos
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      13 hours ago

      What she did? Actually reviewed the code?