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Didn’t he also write one of his critics into one of his books as a pedophile or something?
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Xenomrph posted:Didn’t he also write one of his critics into one of his books as a pedophile or something? yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(novel) posted:Michael Crowley of The New Republic alleged that, in retaliation for his having written a negative review of Crichton's previous novel State of Fear, Crichton named a character with a small penis who rapes a baby after him. From page 227: "Alex Burnet was in the middle of the most difficult trial of her career, a rape case involving the sexual assault of a two-year-old boy in Malibu. The defendant, thirty-year-old Mick Crowley, was a Washington-based political columnist who was visiting his sister-in-law when he experienced an overwhelming urge to have anal sex with her young son, still in diapers." Both the real and the fictional Crowley are Washington-based political columnists who had graduated from Yale.[24] it stands tall as one of the laziest, pettiest retaliations in literary history
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Sep 25, 2019 18:04
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Lmao holy poo poo, it’s worse than I thought. 
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Sep 25, 2019 18:09
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Yeah, it wasn't even like a villain character or anything, it was literally just a 1-line "well gently caress you too," unrelated to anything. Wouldn't that be ground for a libel suit?
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Sep 25, 2019 18:19
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Wouldn't that be ground for a libel suit? The guy he wrote about would have had to argue in court that he had a small penis (seriously): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule
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Sep 25, 2019 18:22
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Yeah, it wasn't even like a villain character or anything, it was literally just a 1-line "well gently caress you too," unrelated to anything. As I think about it, wouldn’t Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy take the trophy for literary pettiness? Didn’t Dante work like dozens of his contemporaries into myriad circles of Hell?
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Sep 25, 2019 18:27
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Xenomrph posted:As I think about it, wouldn’t Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy take the trophy for literary pettiness? Didn’t Dante work like dozens of his contemporaries into myriad circles of Hell? Yes. In the notes from the Musa translation, he covers how tons of people he hated were named or implicated to be in Inferno and Purgatorio, especially several Black Guelphs and Ghibellines, and especially Pope Boniface VIII. I also have a hypothesis that a modern Dante would have been redpilled since *Abloo Bloo Bloo* "Beatrice doesn't notice me" and he tends to run away crying a lot when he sees her (La Vita Nouva). The North Tower fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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Sep 25, 2019 18:31
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The North Tower posted:The guy he wrote about would have had to argue in court that he had a small penis (seriously): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule lol
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Sep 25, 2019 18:46
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The North Tower posted:Yes. In the notes from the Musa translation, he covers how tons of people he hated were named or implicated to be in Inferno and Purgatorio, especially several Black Guelphs and Ghibellines, and especially Pope Boniface VIII. I mean that's less redpill stuff and more that it was really popular to have an unrequited "love" at the time dante wrote that. Something about unobtainable purity or somesuch.
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Sep 26, 2019 03:49
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FoolyCharged posted:I mean that's less redpill stuff and more that it was really popular to have an unrequited "love" at the time dante wrote that. Something about unobtainable purity or somesuch. Yes, yes, courtly love, love from afar, and all that stuff about love as pure as one would love God. Let me have my fun and imagine some 4chan poster being Dante’s modern incarnation and writing a 14,000 line poem about the
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Sep 26, 2019 04:45
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Xenomrph posted:Didn’t he also write one of his critics into one of his books as a pedophile or something? Also forgot to add Michelangelo painted Biagio da Cesena as Minos in his Last Judgement, complete with the ears of an rear end and a snake biting his dick. Being a petty person has a long history.
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Sep 26, 2019 04:48
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The North Tower posted:The guy he wrote about would have had to argue in court that he had a small penis (seriously): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule I don't think you have to argue that the libelous parts are true though, because that's really stupid.
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Sep 26, 2019 05:13
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How much money are we talking about here because I’ll let everyone think I have a micropenis if there’s a decent payday. Also apparently the two kids from Jurassic Park are offering to be in the new movie too. All we need now is a CGI Gennaro like Obi-Won whispering “coooooupon daaaaaaay...”
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Sep 26, 2019 22:01
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Krispy Wafer posted:How much money are we talking about here because I’ll let everyone think I have a micropenis if there’s a decent payday. Would unironically love this. Hed likely not be CGI, but auto-erotica.
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Sep 26, 2019 22:10
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Just read the book. It ruled. Even when compared to the movie, Dennis Nedry gets hosed up. Reading number two, like 10% in and it’s ok so far.
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Sep 26, 2019 22:11
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Rolo posted:Just read the book. It ruled. Even when compared to the movie, Dennis Nedry gets hosed up. Yeah, Nedry’s death in the book always stuck with me as being crazy. You know, holding his own intestines and all that.
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Sep 26, 2019 22:17
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If you can make eighth graders read Where The Red Fern Grows, Dennis Nedry can hold his own intestines.
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Sep 26, 2019 22:20
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Xenomrph posted:Yeah, Nedry’s death in the book always stuck with me as being crazy. You know, holding his own intestines and all that. Also similarly Wu getting disemboweled and trying to push the raptor’s head away while it starts eating him.
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Sep 26, 2019 22:24
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Crichton really had a thing for disembowelment when he wrote jp didnt he?
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Sep 26, 2019 22:35
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The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you.
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Sep 26, 2019 23:10
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oldpainless posted:The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. More like oldpainful.
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Sep 26, 2019 23:13
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oldpainless posted:The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. 
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Sep 26, 2019 23:30
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FoolyCharged posted:Crichton really had a thing for disembowelment when he wrote jp didnt he? I thought it was pretty gruesome at first but the guy has an honest knack for describing people getting hosed up by dinosaurs and that’s awesome.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:06
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Disembowelment is awesome and should be in every film/book/children's tv show.
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Sep 27, 2019 10:47
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The North Tower posted:I also have a hypothesis that a modern Dante would have been redpilled since *Abloo Bloo Bloo* "Beatrice doesn't notice me" and he tends to run away crying a lot when he sees her (La Vita Nouva). Beatrice had been dead for years when he wrote about her, and in life they were both married to other people. Redpillers deeply resent the people they claim to want to gently caress, and whatever Dante's doing, it ain't that.
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Sep 27, 2019 12:28
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oldpainless posted:The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you.
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Sep 27, 2019 13:15
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I kind of hope Grant’s part in the movie is just Sam Neil on his farm showing off his animals.
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Sep 27, 2019 13:22
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bobjr posted:I kind of hope Grant’s part in the movie is just Sam Neil on his farm showing off his animals. And he does a little dance in an advert telling the world it's healthy to eat dino-meat.
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Sep 27, 2019 13:24
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So if Jurassic Park really happened would paleontologists be out of work like Grant says or would some people still want to see artisanal dino bones? Grant and Sattler are going to working poo poo office jobs when they get called up to help with the new dinosaur invasion.
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Sep 27, 2019 15:03
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Krispy Wafer posted:So if Jurassic Park really happened would paleontologists be out of work like Grant says or would some people still want to see artisanal dino bones? jp dinosaurs arent authentic dinosaurs but they would draw a public consensus of close enough when it comes to bone displays. besides the only genetic verification of whats authentic or not would only be as accurate as the jp (1) dinosaurs themselves anyway. but not the later henry wu monsters
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Sep 27, 2019 15:57
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The main reason I'd actually watch Fallen Kingdom is for Wu BD Wong has been on a Bad Guy Character streak and I am on board
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Sep 27, 2019 16:08
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Hot take. Jurrasic worlds were both fun and good. The second one being secretly Dino Crisis owns. Especially when you understand they were just making things shaped like dinosaurs cause that's what the public wants. And Wu just going hog wild off the rails making monsters just flows really well. Bombadilillo fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 16:11
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Snow Cone Capone posted:The main reason I'd actually watch Fallen Kingdom is for Wu It's funny how as a kid even before becoming familiar with the book character I remember seeing that guy in the movie and remarking to myself about how he seems to fulfill a major role but is a bit character. Then wondering if he ever got work again.
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Sep 27, 2019 19:52
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Wicker Man posted:It's funny how as a kid even before becoming familiar with the book character I remember seeing that guy in the movie and remarking to myself about how he seems to fulfill a major role but is a bit character. Then wondering if he ever got work again. hell yeah he did 
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Sep 27, 2019 20:05
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Wicker Man posted:It's funny how as a kid even before becoming familiar with the book character I remember seeing that guy in the movie and remarking to myself about how he seems to fulfill a major role but is a bit character. Then wondering if he ever got work again. The curse of the asian actor
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Sep 27, 2019 20:14
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He was legitimately great in both HBO's Oz, and the Father of the Bride movies for vastly different reasons.
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Sep 28, 2019 16:43
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BD Wong did more than 140 episodes of Law & Order: SVU, he isn't hurting for money.
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Sep 28, 2019 17:28
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I'm not even mocking, he was awesome on both Gotham and Mr. Robot He loving nailed Hugo Strange
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Sep 28, 2019 18:55
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:He was legitimately great in both HBO's Oz, and the Father of the Bride movies for vastly different reasons. Oh poo poo, he was Martin Short's assistant. I never made the connection. I remember him being one of my favorite characters in the movie. Just sorta pops in there and you think he's going to have a larger part and no.
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I know I'm overthinking things but I've always wondered what would actually happen if you put dinosaurs millions of years and eras apart into the same ecosystem like Jurassic Park does. Like what chance does a Jurassic Period sauropod have against a superpredator like a T Rex? There were giant sauropods in the Cretaceous but not many in the Rex's hunting range. Or in reverse how would an Allosaurus get along hunting Ceratopsids, like that Battle at Big Rock short film? The movies never really talk about how this artificial ecosystem would struggle from what are essentially dozens of invasive species all competing with each other. As a theme park that's fine, but in the wild on Isla Sorna or now the mainland I'd really like to see how the ecosystems adapt or fail to adapt to new species.
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