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Biz ([info]bizzle) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-08-13 07:49:00


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But what are your thoughts on homosex?
Sci-fi writer John C. Wright does not approve of the Sci-Fi channel's apparent pandering to the "homosex" crowd.

The head of Sci-Fi channel has contritely promised to include more homosex in future shows, and to do it nonchalantly, just as if this abomination is normal and natural and worthy of no comment. The shows will not actually come out and say sexual perversion has no bad side effects. They won't actually lie and tell you homosex won't destroy your life. But they will imply the lie. They will play along.

Homosex. It's almost kind of catchy!

I'd like someone, anyone, to explain to me how my culture reached a position where a public entertainment company can be criticized for failing to contribute to the moral decay of the land, and that the criticism would be taken seriously, and the company would cringe and promise to do better.

Someone explain to me by what series of events persons with serious sexual-psychological malfunctions would somehow be awarded the status of moral arbiters, something like priests and confessors and sages -- except that the passkey to being a guardian of public conscience in our age is the absence of moral value, not the presence.


Explain they do. As soon as the post is referenced in a MetaQuote, the dissenters are off to reply to Mr. Wright. The initial reaction is small, but promising. Most responses are rational and non-inflammatory. Others are quite succinct and curt. A number of users coming in presumably through MetaQuotes announce Mr. Wright's loss of a potential customer, as long as Mr. Wright does indeed use their filthy, filthy Leftist dollars.

Come, my liberal leftist comrades! You openly boast of your superior intellectual power and more profound moral sobriety than we mere working Joes of flyover country (including working Joes like me with a doctorate in law who works in DC). You have anointed yourselves our superiors: that means you are smart enough to explain it. By what logic is the sole and single standard of virtue in your world view an absolute devotion to vice? By what logic is the sole and single sin the sin of having standards of virtue, what you call being intolerant?

'dem sure be fancy words.


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[info]rhosyn_du
2009-08-13 10:53 pm UTC (link)
My favorite is still 10.5. Earthquakes chasing trains! Preventing earthquakes by fusing a fault line with nukes! It's comedic genius, man.

I haven't quite managed to bring myself to watch the sequel yet, though.

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[info]miraba
2009-08-14 12:43 am UTC (link)
Preventing...earthquakes...by...KJfwljkre rejkf;dckh jhkv dfghk hk

I'm sorry, the brain you are trying to reach is currently out of service.

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[info]rhosyn_du
2009-08-14 01:21 am UTC (link)
For four hours. And there's a fabulous "touching" moment when the hero makes a basketball reference right before sacrificing himself. It's seriously one of the best bad movies ever made. Right up there with the one with the bouncing, flaming skull, the name of which currently escapes me.

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[info]sistercoyote
2009-08-14 11:32 pm UTC (link)
I don't remember where I got this, but here:

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[info]miss_padfoot
2009-08-14 05:18 am UTC (link)
I love that one. Definitely one of those so-bad-it's-good movies.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2009-08-14 09:56 am UTC (link)
Wait. I thought 10.5 and 10.5 Apocalypse were NBC miniseries that Sci Fi is obsessed with rerunning.

...I'm ashamed to know this and consider it one of the better minis since NBC stopped doing the mythology/fairy tale ones. *waves tiny 10th Kingdom flag*

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[info]rhosyn_du
2009-08-14 06:50 pm UTC (link)
Was it NBC? I think I saw it on Sci Fi and just assumed they'd done it. But now I have someone else to blame!

And, dude, 10th Kingdom was awesome.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2009-08-15 12:54 am UTC (link)
Yep, totally NBC. I remember because I sadly cleared out my nights to watch it. Sci Fi just reruns a lot. They also rerun that one in NYC, too. I love them for the bad factor.

10th Kingdom...I want a second one. Badly. But I never will get it. *sigh*

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[info]ladyvyola
2009-08-14 02:22 pm UTC (link)
I will never forgive NBC for 10.5.

I know they were going for a documentary-esque feel and wanted to ratchet up the tension as much as possible, but overdoing a technique lessens its impact and renders it meaningless. There is no reason at all to use a shaky hand-held cam and rack-focus in EVERY SINGLE SHOT. I was motionsick in my own living room. I mean, WTF? All it conveyed to me was that the camera man was drunk and possibly the editor, too.

Also no excuse (and keeping with the drunk theme): Kim Delaney. I should not be wishing that the main character die a fiery death.

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[info]veleda_k
2009-08-14 03:50 pm UTC (link)
I find your icon to be strangely accurate and character appropriate. Ukoku: precursor (and patron saint) to the internet troll. Except more awesome.

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[info]rhosyn_du
2009-08-14 06:51 pm UTC (link)
The Minus Wave is sort of like a giant rickroll if you think about it long enough.

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[info]rimrunner
2009-08-15 08:51 pm UTC (link)
The Space Needle falling over and hitting something that a) is demonstrably not in the direction it ostensibly falls, and b) should have collapsed already, as it's built of brick.

(If a quake big enough to basically destroy the city hit Seattle, the Space Needle would likely still be standing. Of course, anyone unlucky enough to be in it at the time would be pureed...)

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[info]frequentmouse
2009-08-17 04:37 am UTC (link)
Yea, it would be a lot like being on the business end of a stick blender.

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