I thought that was what Haven was for....

Knock yourself out. I'll shoulder the blames of the weary, wasted blah blah blah.

I'm so tired.

I blame Haven for Hesster being so tired.

Yuggoth... is a strange dark orb at the very rim of our solar system... There are mighty cities on Yuggoth—great tiers of terraced towers built of black stone... The sun shines there no brighter than a star, but the beings need no light. They have other subtler senses, and put no windows in their great houses and temples... The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious cyclopean bridges—things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before the beings came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids

—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Whisperer in Darkness"




http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/26/tech/i...rticle_sidebar

I will now adopt this theory until it us proven otherwise.

Cool news!

Char-Vell got me a Lovecraftian planet for my birthday. What did the rest of you do?

...tried to kill you with a stake. But it was just a prank!

You forgot to cut my head off and put garlic in my mouth.

I wasn't going to take the prank THAT far!

I forget if it was this thread or another where this conversation started, but this is as good a place as any to continue it:

I finally got my hands on the Carpenter "The Thing".

I wasn't blown away by it or anything. I'd seen parts before, including the defib scene. If I'd never seen it before, I'd see how that would have been a big deal. It's possible that the reviews and stuff had me expecting too much.

What is really interesting to me is that I found the old special effects WAY more disgusting than the CGI stuff. The dog scene and the defib scene were stomach-shockingly nasty, and similar stuff from the p-rema-quel didn't get to me.

I kinda want to go back and watch the p-rema-quel again, though. I'm looking on it a bit more kindly.

The only really big problem I had with the movie was the ship that Wilford Brimley made. That part was a stretch.

It was also difficult to keep track of all the characters beyond Snake, The President From Clear And Present, Diabetis, and Goliath. I kept getting the other guys confused with each other. Carpenter admits as much in the commentary, so I felt better about it after hearing that.

I've gotten the impression from Vlad that one characteristic that we share is that of "purist".

If you're not going to do it right, by our definitions, then don't bother doing it.

In 99% of the movies I've seen, practical effects > cgi all day long.

I guess the 70s Kong is part of the 1%.

It was on TV recently, and I left it on while I was working on other stuff, and YEESH some of those effects were cringe inducing!

I read that the latest Captain America movie tried to do more traditional effects instead of CGI. I thought it looked great.