Since I’ll be spending most of today in the air, as it were, there probably won’t be much in the way of other articles posted to the site. Though I’ll try and check comments from time to time, and will have access to email whilst in airports. Provided said airports offer free wifi. Or are in Canada.

That said, here’s a couple of amusing things I’ve tripped over in the last few hours.

Ten film & television scenes that were more real than you might’ve known.

I knew about the scene from The Two Towers, where Viggo Mortensen broke his foot (and screamed like he had) after kicking that Uruk-hai helmet. But some of the rest caught me rather by surprise.

Also, Stanley Kubrick was an asshat:

…enforced method acting, which involves surprising actors with unscripted material or setting up particular conditions, usually to breed either friendship or contempt. A notable example would be Stanley Kubrick’s verbal and mental abuse of Shelley Duvall to evoke a more compelling performance as a broken, terrified wife in The Shining.

This is also awesome…

Ye olde gangsta!

Speaking of which…

Several of my friends got a kick out of this back in 1993/1994.

Not amusing: Syrian forces instructed to limit themselves to killing fewer than 20 protesters per day.

I don’t…I can’t even…that’s not a d…what can you…uh…yeah, okay, I guess that’s how dictatorships work, but that doesn’t mean the directive makes any kind of sense. Or is pacing yourself and limiting the rate at which you gun down and stickbeat your own people the key to avoiding having the US intervene on their behalf?

Why, GOG, why? Why do you have all the other [insert word here] Quest games that Sierra made, but not the Quest for Glory titles?

This seriously bugs me; those five games were probably my favourite games to play (after the various Ultimas, of course). Who is the hangup here? Is GOG having trouble getting the games to work? Are Activision just being asshats about releasing that IP for digital distribution? Seriously, guys…I will give you my money. Just…get this figured out, okay?

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