A couple months ago, a buddy of mine went to a local D&D event. The event was large enough that it had some corporate sponsors, including Comcast who provided internet service for the event to promote its Xfinity product.
The marketing team from Comcast decided that one of the best way to spread the word at the event was to pass out free swag in the form of some custom d20 with “Xfinity” on them.
Of course ad space is somewhat limited on a d20 (what with all those pesky numbers and such) so where to put it?
Well it wasn’t on the 20…
…it was on the opposite side.
Now to be fair, I can imagine somebody on the marketing team thought, “Hey, we’re #1! That’s the best right?”
But I just can’t help appreciating the humor of seeing “Xfinity” every time someone rolls a critical fail.
absolutely nothing in a video game has set a tone as well as asgore smashing the mercy button at the start of his fight and thats just a fucking fact
Please elaborate. I want to hear more about what you think of this.
not to be serious about epic divorce man but like. the asgore fight is more or less the payoff of the advertised theme of undertale – “you don’t have to kill anyone”, and he does the most to challenge this theme, not just to the player but on a personal level, since the running motif of undertale’s monsters is that they don’t want to kill you either, but they have to or less they will never be free.
the scene beforehand, where small shock plays, is given additional context on replays and knowing how chara, flowey, asriel, and frisk all relate to each other – asgore is looking at someone who looks identical and acts identically to his child who, from his perspective, died of an illness that he could not prevent, and he has to kill them again
it is as equally “you cannot spare me” as it is “i cannot spare you”, which when juxtaposed against how asgore never uses attacks that are aimed at the player directly, creates the mood that is “neither of us want to be here but we have to be for there to be a future at all so someone needs to fucking die already” and its really fucking good
In Osmosis Jones (2001) a statue of a sperm cell can be seen that is labeled Our Founder.
In Pulp Fiction Vincent Vega is constantly on the toilet. One of the side effects of heroin abuse is constipation.
For Interstellar, Christopher Nolan planted 500 acres of corn just for the film because he did not want to CGI the farm in. After filming, he turned it around and sold the corn and made back profit for the budget.
In The Movie ”Unthinkable” You See A Guy Try To Defuse A Nuclear Bomb With Excel.
In The
Lost World: Jurassic Park, the ship that brings the T-Rex to San Diego
is called the S.S Venture, which is a reference to King Kong, in which a
ship called the S.S Venture brought King Kong to New York.
If you watch the film with headphones or properly placed surround sound speakers, every time we see Baby in Baby Driver (2017) wearing only one of his headphones, you’ll hear the song he is listening to through that ear only.
In Team America: World Police, the Paris ‘set’ has a floor made of Croissants.
They couldn’t hide the camera in the doorknob’s reflection of this scene of The Matrix, so they put a coat over it and a half tie to match with Morpheus’.
This Wolverine Easter egg in the opening credits border of The Greatest Showman.
In Saving Private Ryan, a medic gets hit in the canteen. Water first starts to pour out then blood.
In
The Truman Show, the travel agent kept Truman waiting because she has
never needed to show up for work before. Also she is still wearing her
makeup bib since it was a rush job.
In
Die Hard (1988), Alan Rickman’s Petrified Expression While Falling Was
Completely Genuine. The Stunt Team Instructed Him That They Would Drop
Him On The Count Of 3 But Instead Dropped Him At 1.
In
‘The Avengers’, there is a small screen showing the heat signature in
the room where Loki is being held which shows that he has a cold body
temperature because he is a frost giant.
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The White Witch’s crown melts as her power dwindles.
Farquaad kills Mama bear to use as a rug in Shrek.
In The Avengers, Hawkeyes states that “They can’t bank worth a damn, find a right corner.” Jarvis proceeds to plot a route around a corner for Tony.
In the Last Jedi, the door for Luke’s shack is made out of a panel from his X-wing.
In
The Shawshank Redemption (1994), the DA who arrests the sadistic
Captain Hadley can be seen reading the Miranda rights off of a card. The
scene is set in 1966, the same year that Miranda v. Arizona court case
made the act mandatory when arresting a suspect.
The skeletons from the pool scene in Poltergeist were real, as they were cheaper than rubber skeletons at the time.
In Back to the Future, when Marty travels to the past and runs over one of the trees, the name of the mall changes.
In “The Fifth Element,”
Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, and the Brooklyn Bridge appear to
tower above the landscape because the sea levels have dropped
significantly, with the city expanding onto the new land.
In the
Matrix, Morpheus asks Cypher for his phone, Cypher hesitates pulling his
hand out of his pocket because earlier he dumped his phone so they
could be tracked. Fortunately, Trinity immediately gives her phone to
Morpheus.
In Django Unchained, A Man Asks Django What Is His Name Is And How It
Is Spelled. “The D Is Silent”, The Man Responds “I Know”. This Man Is
Franco Nero, The Original Django From The Original 1966 Film.
In Monster’s Inc (2001) Mike has 3 sticky note reminders to file his paperwork in his locker, which he later forgets to do, driving the plot of the movie.
In lord of the rings you can see that gandalf carries his pipe in his staff.
I’ve been doing a lot of work over the past year concerning confidence and self-esteem. It’s been difficult to tell myself positive things when I don’t actually believe them. Some days I can’t get to positive and have to settle for neutral, but that’s still way better than leaning into negative thoughts and putting myself down.
Recently I’ve been having more good days, and though I’m sure there’ll be ups and downs I’m still proud of the effort I’ve been investing in myself with the help of therapists and friends. To those of you also faking it til you make it, you’re worth the work too and I wish you all the best.
Reblog for the morning crowd, and for the little mug edit that (imo) really cleaned up that background swirl 🙂
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