Belltower

Welcome to the "learned from this post that the first major live-action feature film adaptation of a pre-existing video game franchise was a dystopian cyberpunk AU of Super Mario Bros. for some inexplicable reason" club.

sabrieterrhisken

I do believe the stink of this movie saved us from some far worse projects. I have no idea what those would have been, but I believe.

Are you kidding? This film was the vanguard; it may have tanked in theatres, but the novelty of it led to a number of bandwagon-jumping projects in following years. After Super Mario Bros. dropped in 1993, we had Double Dragon and the Jean-Claude Van Damme Street Fighter in 1994, then Paul W S Anderson's Mortal Kombat in 1995; the unexpected commercial success of the latter film was reportedly the deciding factor when Angelina Jolie accepted the lead role in Tomb Raider a few years later, which in turn kicked off the second wave of major live-action video game adaptations in the early 2000s that gave us the Resident Evil films.

humans should be able to do a special Ultra Sleep after major life accomplishments where you're just out for like 32 hours or something and then you wake up fully refreshed in every way

Idk what kind of sleep marathons you're all having in the notes but when I sleep for 12+ hours I feel like shit afterwards.

it's been months and I'm still baffled by how this one-sentence post keeps getting so many responses that go "this exists except without the last part of the sentence"

mapswithoutwyoming

there should be a tumblr without piss poor reading comprehension

we already have that except with piss poor reading comprehension, which i assume is like an extraneous detail rather than a major part of the point you're making

charlesoberonn

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

but only once.

akilah12902

Some Yu-Gi-Oh! bullshit right there

tamagotchi

There was a girl on neopets a few years back who had a pet tick. She'd post pics of it in polly pocket playsets. I gotta find it again it sounds too fake

tamagotchi

bogleech

It's probably more likely this person just played with and photographed a tick once for a gag, or if it went on for years, different ticks of the same species. I grew up on a property where you could find a wood tick in no time if you went looking and all furred mammals that had been outside would be guaranteed to have some.

This definitely appears to be a wood tick, still full of blood, probably off a dog or cat.

However, if you did keep a freshly fed tick like this, you might never have to feed it again. They can go months or years without feeding, which is pretty standard for blood-feeding invertebrates.

Vampire bats have to feed every night or starve to death very fast, because "warm blooded" animals with bones just burn that much more energy compared to most life on earth.

In terms of establishing the fundamental aesthetic of the 1990s strand of cinematic cyberpunk, the 1993 Super Mario Bros. adaptation is probably up there with Johnny Mnemonic and Lawnmower Man influence-wise, as much as we all hate to admit it.

facultativeactivity

What the fuck

Welcome to the "learned from this post that the first major live-action feature film adaptation of a pre-existing video game franchise was a dystopian cyberpunk AU of Super Mario Bros. for some inexplicable reason" club.

pokemonunderground

Unlicensed Pokémon mugs.

Source: xenonibs on Reddit

i’m sorry people keep calling you instant loss girl they simply do not understand your appeal. your indomitable spirit cannot be satisfyingly broken off screen anyways, like why would you skip over seeing the fire burning in your eyes when you’re overpowered and the way it goes from unwavering determination to indignant resentment to a resigned and simmering anger. you’re so proud and so strong, watching you loose slowly, watching you be forced to come to terms with how out of control you are in a situation, watching your resistance become more angry before you start giving up, it’s the fun part.

can you post more of your fighting game losses?

.... There is a perverse energy coming off this question.

yellow-cat

FUCK. i think i have to learn blender

hamblimp

the humble manual smoothie maker after they break their hands:

yellow-cat

every day i log in here and get beat up by genies

picsthatmakeyougohmm

hmmm

tmnt-pizza-party

TMNT: Empire City VR (2026) has no business being as funny as it is.

boardsdonthitback

Jackie Chan, Benny Urquidez - Dragon's Forever (1988)

Sinking into the couch, taking a deep breath, and muttering "I completed a PhD and a web serial already this year, I'm still overachieving even if I do Literally Nothing of note for the rest of it" as I get visibly annoyed about relaxing

piecesofliquid

throwing this video essay at you like a grenade

huh, seems familiar

boardsdonthitback

Sammo Hung, Chin Ho - Ghost Punting (1992)

man i do kinda want to play the black flag remake is the thing

jesus christ nevermind

this is probably a great argument if you see a games company as a machine that produces content and not a place of work that people rely on to have income so they can sustain themselves long-term

boardsdonthitback

Yuen Biao, Dick Wei - Rosa (1986)

Whatever else you can say about Johnny Mnemonic, you have to give it credit for establishing "the best hacker in town is a dolphin, and no, that's not some weird Canadian drug culture slang, we mean a literal dolphin" as a recurring trope in the cyberpunk genre.