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I spent my whole Thanksgiving playing Pokemon Sun. It was totally worth it.

Yeah, I saw the snaps too, and I don't think they're that big of a deal.

I basically spent it doing two things:

1. Eating too much (I had two separate Thanksgiving dinners and I have enough leftovers for like three more meals)

2. Pokemon Moon

Still gotta play PKMN Moon, it's burning a hole in my bag. So much intrigue, so many things I can say I recognize.

I also ate a lot. Got to see the extended family again. Some doing good, some not so good.

Thanks. We'll see if I ever get around to finishing it, though.

What's it about?

edited 26th Nov '16 4:23:45 AM by OdieFromTheOz

Well that was deeply unpleasant amounts of homophobic

Remember when Kevin Smith had some modicum of respect? I don't.

Kevin Smith is one of those people who I know by reputation but I don't know of anything he actually did. If that's his work, then I'm thoroughly unimpressed.

Kevin Smith is more of a relic from the 90's indie boom, to be honest. His debut, Clerks, is considered to be a masterpiece of 90's indie movies (never seen it so can't comment). Smith apparently had filmed it for less than 30,000 dollars with a bunch of his friends, and it ended up becoming one of the big indie films from the 90's. I think he came into popularity from the same wave of directors that included Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.

Outside of that, he directed some fairly popular Gen X movies like Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma (which I genuinely like), helped give Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Jason Lee their start, and created two popular characters, Jay and Silent Bob, who appeared in most of his films (he played Silent Bob, his best buddy Jason Mewes played Jay). The Clerks animated series is considered a cult classic that was cancelled after two episodes (of six that were made) and Adult Swim reran it quite a bit. He was also pretty famous for being one of the biggest nerd figures in popular media, and he did a lot of tours of speaking engagements where he recounted stories and such (check out his story on that Superman film he almost made with Tim Burton and Nicolas Cage, it's pretty crazy).

His downfall was because of his ego getting to where he began quite the feud with critics, to the point where he refused to screen his movies for them anymore, him getting introduced to pot by Seth Rogen, and some infamous incidents (some problem with a plane seating that involved his weight, I think, some weird auction bid to piss off critics for...some reason, the entire behind the scenes mess that was Cop Out, and maybe some other things I might be forgetting). At this point he's just making silly indie movies for his core audience of fans and they're really bizarre. This one he made called Tusk is some surreal horror movie that he literally made after a podcast discussing the idea, and it's something about a guy getting turned into a walrus by a crazy guy who cuts off his legs and sews walrus skin onto him.

That was well explained. Thank you. Can't say I've ever heard of any of those movies though.

edited 26th Nov '16 6:56:07 PM by LordVatek

Dogma is where the Buddy Christ meme comes from. It's a religious satire with Alan Rickman as the voice of god, the Metatron, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as two fallen angels who try to abuse a new religious rule made by a priest played by George Carlin (yes, that George Carlin) to absolve their sins, which would make God (played by Alanis Morrisette) wrong, which would cause all of reality to be destroyed, Chris Rock as the 13th apostle, Salma Hayek as a muse who became a stripper, and Jason Lee as a suave demon who manipulates the plot. It's actually not that bad.

edited 26th Nov '16 7:00:29 PM by AdricDePsycho

Sold.

It really is a good time.

Technically he's God's messenger Metatron. They explain in the film that every human account of talking to God is either them actually talking to Metatron on God's behalf (because God's voice will kill you if you hear it) or some crazy guy who just thought he heard God.

Smith always came off to me as a guy who peaked early. Good film making gradually eroding into mediocrity. Also Kevin Smith Huge Jorts◊.

In a way he's kind of like Don Bluth, except without the studio interference crapping on him. Especially because yeah even without execs railing on him, Bluth's films were always "out there" sometimes that worked, sometimes it really didn't.

Kevin Smith also wrote the Guardian Devil Daredevil story, a poorly received Black Cat series, and a poorly received Batman series where Batman pees himself.

...Do those even qualify as jorts when they're that long?

The bagginess and location of the crotch seems to make them Jorts rather than Jongs.

Well with reception like that, it looks like my dreams of creating a Watersports Batman comic have now been dashed. A shame.

Sorry

(Shakes Fist at Bocaj).

...Do.... do I want to know the context?

The context was Batman relaying a story to another hero about how even Batman could goof early in his career.

I think it was referencing an event in Batman Year One where he scared some mobfiosos by exploding a thing except in Kevin Smith's story Batman used too much explosives and peed himself a little because he was standing too close.

Oh, here's an explanation.

edited 27th Nov '16 6:01:13 PM by Bocaj

Oh yeah, Ron Glass, Shepard Book's Actor from Firefly, just passed away.

Oh. Not going to lie, while I'm relieved that it wasn't disgusting, I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't crazier.

I'm so sorry to hear that. He was always one of my favorites.