The book is fine. The opening pages tell us clearly that we are nuking bugs on planets with intelligent beings, using all the ammo (because it’s too expensive to return with nukes) and leaving for another planet with bugs.
After that we jump to our protagonist, who is being brainwashed in high school.
Finally, Heinlein was writing his father’s worldview and wanted to take it to its logical end.
I love that book and movie.
There’s a theory that the main character actually is suffering from cancer and that the love interest is also a lens for him to confront who he really is.
Fascinating how that upends it all, but I am not sure I believe it.
It’d be even more amazing if the original owner was still around and then it was stolen.
SCP was kinda my entrypoint into creepypasta, so I appreciate the clarification. Wouldn’t have known there was a prior inspiration to it.
Looks like the IKEA SCP as a movie.
I’m a Community superfan. Still waiting on the movie.
This makes perfect sense given the massive purchase they just… hey, wait a minute…
There was an elephant too?!
I think it’s just tier enough.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a Daredevil parody/love letter.
They get their powers from the same accident that gives Matt Murdoch his.
Mentor? Splinter / Stick. Enemy? The Foot / The Hand.
I am like you and cannot stand a dirty glass piece. I evaluate each new purchase in part based on how hard it will be to clean.
But at first I didn’t notice the community, and all the sparkly glass arty pieces around the house are cleaned by my wife.
And some men wonder why some women would choose a bear.
I find Skippy to be a bit too oily, but they aren’t very different in taste.
I’m outraged at the neutrality of this headline!
Yup, I am always playing with nonsense lyrics and scatting.
Idris Elba shows up a lot because it’s a fun one to scat.
My wife likes Skippy, I like Jif.
We keep a jar of each around and use each other’s in a pinch.
I do love the Warhammer comparison though. My wife and I have a D&D collection. She does not play D&D. Her part of the collection is the Lego D&D minifigs.
It’s so bad it’s laughable but not good. I do not regret watching it.
Spoilers: the aliens want our data and succeed. Now we have no data (because they somehow stole it all from everywhere rather than just copying it) and can’t even contact one another because our contact info is all data and is all gone.
This is totally forgotten two scenes later and he is making calls again.
It was also sitting unreleased until Amazon bought it, so there are a ton of BAD product placements, in an intentional way out of frustration from having to do them. At least that is my head canon. Considering data mining is at the heart of the incomprehensible plot, they really seem to be telling Amazon to go fuck itself.
I am a hobbyist writer.
I have a ton of great ideas that I do not have the talent to bring to fruition.
I don’t know which is the best.
Good but not great. They dump the battlesuits entirely. For budget reasons this makes sense at the time but that investment in equipment (and to a lesser extent the soldiers within) shows the cost of space travel and how we are spending insane amounts to kill space bugs that are on most worlds.
But they, in turn, use the infantry rush of unarmored soliders pretty well to show the cost of war.
The use of propaganda in the media mirrors the indoctrination well enough. It keeps the audience from completely getting on board with the propaganda since it’s so on the nose. (Some will still swallow it, the same way some people saw The Boondock Saints as an awesome hero flick rather than an over-the-top action comedy.)