Upcoming Feature: Newsletter
This here is a feature I've never really thought about until now, but I'll be implementing it within the end of this month for reasons we all can agree upon: The October Challenge.
The gist of it is this: At the end of every month, me or a mod will submit a newsletter that will target all valid users who subscribe to the newsletter (and have NOT been active in say a week's time) and it will email them with a tally of their unread notifications, followed by a memo of any notable upcoming events (challenges).
I'm a bit too drunk at the moment to finalize this, but I'll be sending the emails before the end of the month to try to lure our lost TE users back for (as tommix says) the most wonderful time of the year.
The newsletters will note the duration of a user's absence, the tally of their unread notifications, the message of upcoming events, and a link to unsubscribe to the newsletter.
There are a few downsides to this. Emails sent through my webhost are slow and might bog down the server, especially for 100+ users (I plan to default all valid users' newsletter subscriptions to ACTIVE for this initial event, and log all of the unsubscribing users so I can cry about them later). I've had issues with sending automated emails before, especially since TE is considered PURE TRASH and will likely end up in the spam folder, but it's worth a shot, right?
I aim to be transparent with my fellow trash fiends, so lend me your thoughts on this or any of my endeavors so we can get a good turnout for this year's TE October Challenge.
I really fucking LOVE this challenge, and the shallow turnouts always break my heart, so this shit better help, or else I'll drink myself to death. And if we get a good turnout... I'll still probably drink a lot.
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Apology (1986)
Anyone remember this made-for-cable slasher film? I haven't seen it for a long time (once around the time it was made and then again in very poor quality on YouTube quite a few years ago) but thought it was above average. I don't think I ever saw it mentioned on the old horror board or here. It's strengths were the somewhat weird premise (performance artist opens up a telephone service where people can call in and admit to committing various sins, and inevitably a serial killer of gay men calls and confesses each time he kills), a fairly good cast (including Peter Weller and the screen debut of Chris Noth), and Billy Ray Weeks being pretty creepy as the killer. The special effects, especially the bizarre art project that looked like something out of Dune or Stargate, were fairly good too. Lead actress Lesley Ann Warren is badly lit and even more badly dressed, but I still like this movie enough to be wishing for a Blu-ray release. To my knowledge it's only ever been released on VHS and is hard to find.
Anyone remember this made-for-cable slasher film? I haven't seen it for a long time (once around the time it was made and then again in very poor quality on YouTube quite a few years ago) but thought it was above average. I don't think I ever saw it mentioned on the old horror board or here. It's strengths were the somewhat weird premise (performance artist opens up a telephone service where people can call in and admit to committing various sins, and inevitably a serial killer of gay men calls and confesses each time he kills), a fairly good cast (including Peter Weller and the screen debut of Chris Noth), and Billy Ray Weeks being pretty creepy as the killer. The special effects, especially the bizarre art project that looked like something out of Dune or Stargate, were fairly good too. Lead actress Lesley Ann Warren is badly lit and even more badly dressed, but I still like this movie enough to be wishing for a Blu-ray release. To my knowledge it's only ever been released on VHS and is hard to find.
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Disturbing Adam Sandler story
I would have said that that was not even possible, but this is a genuinely freaky, disturbing story about something that Adam Sandler claims actually happened to him. Yeesh.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1243955/trivia
I would have said that that was not even possible, but this is a genuinely freaky, disturbing story about something that Adam Sandler claims actually happened to him. Yeesh.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1243955/trivia
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The Room - Lost Vampire Subplot
Maybe Johnny is vampire. We'll see...
Apparently, this was a real subplot that was dabbled with in the 500-page pre-film novelization of the movie, but here's a bit from some random site I saw:
https://www.factfiend.com/room-almost-flying-vampire-car/
Maybe Johnny is vampire. We'll see...
Apparently, this was a real subplot that was dabbled with in the 500-page pre-film novelization of the movie, but here's a bit from some random site I saw:
https://www.factfiend.com/room-almost-flying-vampire-car/
Specifically after bemoaning to a producer that a scene depicting a confrontation with a drug dealer wasn't dramatic enough, Wiseau asked if it would be possible to use CGI to have the climax of the confrontation be his character's car flying off into the sky. The stunned producer simply asked Wiseau "but why though?" to which he responded "maybe Johnny is a vampire".
As you've probably gathered given everything else we've said about him today, Wiseau never saw fit to explain to anyone on set why owning a flying car would suggest that his character was a vampire and had to be talked out of including the scene by Sestero. Wiseau eventually relented, though not before suggesting that they spice up the scene by having one of the actors fire an actual real handgun into the sky. When it was pointed out to Wiseau that this was all kinds of illegal he relented and instead gave the actor an airsoft replica pistol and told him to use it to scare the shit out of the other actor in the scene as he mugged for the camera.
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Total Recall
So I went to this place called "Rekall" to get some good ol' fake memories about a fictional adventure, and I tend to forget how great this movie is.
Arnold tried to make this movie for about ten years before putting it in the hands of Paul Verhoeven, relatively fresh off of his last sci-fi epic RoboCop. It's a match made in heaven. Trivia states that Arnold was an option to play RoboCop, but due to his sheer size, that wouldn't have been the best mash-up. Total Recall is a better fit for him as a regular guy named Douglas Quaid who has a good life. His wife is hot and he's got walls made out of TVs in his home, but that's not enough. He dreams about Mars. A lot. So much so that he needs to fake a vacation there, but he'll also be faking a vacation from himself. Or is he?
This movie has a lot of cool things going for it. It's set in 2084 with space travel, Mars colonies, mutants, psychics, sluts, and in a typical Verhoeven fashion, it's violent as hell. I love the bystander on the escalator being used as a human shield and getting shot like fifty times.
The sci-fi aspects are among my favorite of any science fiction movie. The look of Mars is great, the weird futuristic tech and robotics are always fun to watch, and the outdated practicality is fun to ponder about. Like the cars for example. They're very bulky and square, and this is supposed to be future-tech? Kind of the opposite direction if you ask me. And when he opens the briefcase to get instructions about removing the bug in his head, that laptop-esque device is huge. And so is the bug in his nose. Stuff will be so much smaller in 2084.
I watched an interview with Arnold on a restrospect of his career, and when he gets to Total Recall, he mentions how it was remade and deemed it stupid. Arnold doesn't bullshit, but when he does, it's very funny. I watched this movie with commentary once, and when the Tristar horse logo rolls in the credits, Arnold blatantly claims that it's him. I died laughing when I heard that.
It's a great fuckin' movie. There are noticable goofs at time, but like old Dean Lerner says, "If you're looking at the wires... you're a freak." Some of those goofs add to the charm in an era where people didn't give as much of a fuck.
Specific goofs I'm referring to: when he takes off the fat lady's robotic head, the mechanisms go deep into the center of the piece. Cut to... Arnold's head fills out the head unit almost entirely. The mechanism would be going through his head, but it doesn't.
The next big goof is when the men surround Quaid's holograph and shoot through it, the bullets don't pass through it to kill any of them. What gives?
And on a final note, Kuato on the guy's chest always reminded me of melted Chucky from Child's Play 2.
So I went to this place called "Rekall" to get some good ol' fake memories about a fictional adventure, and I tend to forget how great this movie is.
Arnold tried to make this movie for about ten years before putting it in the hands of Paul Verhoeven, relatively fresh off of his last sci-fi epic RoboCop. It's a match made in heaven. Trivia states that Arnold was an option to play RoboCop, but due to his sheer size, that wouldn't have been the best mash-up. Total Recall is a better fit for him as a regular guy named Douglas Quaid who has a good life. His wife is hot and he's got walls made out of TVs in his home, but that's not enough. He dreams about Mars. A lot. So much so that he needs to fake a vacation there, but he'll also be faking a vacation from himself. Or is he?
This movie has a lot of cool things going for it. It's set in 2084 with space travel, Mars colonies, mutants, psychics, sluts, and in a typical Verhoeven fashion, it's violent as hell. I love the bystander on the escalator being used as a human shield and getting shot like fifty times.
The sci-fi aspects are among my favorite of any science fiction movie. The look of Mars is great, the weird futuristic tech and robotics are always fun to watch, and the outdated practicality is fun to ponder about. Like the cars for example. They're very bulky and square, and this is supposed to be future-tech? Kind of the opposite direction if you ask me. And when he opens the briefcase to get instructions about removing the bug in his head, that laptop-esque device is huge. And so is the bug in his nose. Stuff will be so much smaller in 2084.
I watched an interview with Arnold on a restrospect of his career, and when he gets to Total Recall, he mentions how it was remade and deemed it stupid. Arnold doesn't bullshit, but when he does, it's very funny. I watched this movie with commentary once, and when the Tristar horse logo rolls in the credits, Arnold blatantly claims that it's him. I died laughing when I heard that.
It's a great fuckin' movie. There are noticable goofs at time, but like old Dean Lerner says, "If you're looking at the wires... you're a freak." Some of those goofs add to the charm in an era where people didn't give as much of a fuck.
Specific goofs I'm referring to: when he takes off the fat lady's robotic head, the mechanisms go deep into the center of the piece. Cut to... Arnold's head fills out the head unit almost entirely. The mechanism would be going through his head, but it doesn't.
The next big goof is when the men surround Quaid's holograph and shoot through it, the bullets don't pass through it to kill any of them. What gives?
And on a final note, Kuato on the guy's chest always reminded me of melted Chucky from Child's Play 2.
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String together movie titles: The Game
List a movie title and use the last word in the title as the first word in another movie's title to make the longest, most ridiculous movie title out there.
Example:
The Premature Burial Ground: The Nihgts of Terror Training Day of the Dead Man Walking Tall
and don't reuse a title. Let's see what you can come up with.
List a movie title and use the last word in the title as the first word in another movie's title to make the longest, most ridiculous movie title out there.
Example:
The Premature Burial Ground: The Nihgts of Terror Training Day of the Dead Man Walking Tall
and don't reuse a title. Let's see what you can come up with.
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Sci-Fi / Fantasy Challenge
Because somebody's got to host it.
No exceptional rules this year. 1 point per minute, movie or tv counts.
EDIT: It appears that the title of the thread isn't enough to indicate that the movies or shows watched must be of the SCI-FI or FANTASY genre.
Begins 12am September 1st
Ends 6am October 1st
The winner gets fakes money.
Make your spots.
Because somebody's got to host it.
No exceptional rules this year. 1 point per minute, movie or tv counts.
EDIT: It appears that the title of the thread isn't enough to indicate that the movies or shows watched must be of the SCI-FI or FANTASY genre.
Begins 12am September 1st
Ends 6am October 1st
The winner gets fakes money.
Make your spots.
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A word from box...
Not much news going on lately as I indifferently approach the would-be best time of activity for the site. I think COVID made a lot of people even too lazy for the internet, but we'll cross our fingers that the October Challenge shows the return of at least a few familiar faces. Try to spam it to your friends and family. If you have ideas on how to make October great again, then speak up.
As I juggle my time between stupid work and stupid school, I am (slowly) working on some dumb shit I may as well mention.
Users will have a credit and inventory system, basically trash dollars to gamble and buy virtual items here on TE. While some of these items will have site-specific shennanigans attached to them, most of them will be used in a D&D/pokemon type of collecting/battling system I'm working on. However, instead of collecting pokemon, you'll collect people and characters from the TE database, and you'll battle other users and their random-ass trash characters.
To me, this is a stepping stone project to further game development, but I'm in no rush to spit out something subpar just yet. I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
Part of the appeal is also to generate activity, perhaps through the characters that are collected (relevant topics, reviews, etc) as well as giving incentive for challenge participating. I think it can be fun, but it makes more sense in my head than to spin it into a yarn that makes sense on here.
In my obsessive stupor, I've also been nerding out over Marvel Comics as I try to sort through character lists. That company is a glorious mess, but they must be awful to work for. The movies left out so much.
Tronald Dump vs Sleepy Joe Hiden, Batman has COVID, masks masks and more masks, racism galore... 2020 needs to fuck off.
Not much news going on lately as I indifferently approach the would-be best time of activity for the site. I think COVID made a lot of people even too lazy for the internet, but we'll cross our fingers that the October Challenge shows the return of at least a few familiar faces. Try to spam it to your friends and family. If you have ideas on how to make October great again, then speak up.
As I juggle my time between stupid work and stupid school, I am (slowly) working on some dumb shit I may as well mention.
Users will have a credit and inventory system, basically trash dollars to gamble and buy virtual items here on TE. While some of these items will have site-specific shennanigans attached to them, most of them will be used in a D&D/pokemon type of collecting/battling system I'm working on. However, instead of collecting pokemon, you'll collect people and characters from the TE database, and you'll battle other users and their random-ass trash characters.
To me, this is a stepping stone project to further game development, but I'm in no rush to spit out something subpar just yet. I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
Part of the appeal is also to generate activity, perhaps through the characters that are collected (relevant topics, reviews, etc) as well as giving incentive for challenge participating. I think it can be fun, but it makes more sense in my head than to spin it into a yarn that makes sense on here.
In my obsessive stupor, I've also been nerding out over Marvel Comics as I try to sort through character lists. That company is a glorious mess, but they must be awful to work for. The movies left out so much.
Tronald Dump vs Sleepy Joe Hiden, Batman has COVID, masks masks and more masks, racism galore... 2020 needs to fuck off.
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What movies have you bought lately?
Since I haven't done this in so long, I'm just saying lately instead of this week. I've really been busy with a lot of other things.
I have bought a lot of movies in the past few months.
The Candy Snatchers (Blu-ray)
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Ward (Blu-ray)
An Ideal Place to Kill (Blu-ray)
Shut In (Blu-ray)
The Wind (Blu-ray)
Phobia (Blu-ray)
The Limehouse Golem (Blu-ray)
Bloodtide (Blu-ray)
The Spell (Blu-ray)
Death Occurred Last Night (Blu-ray)
Dark Was the Night (Blu-ray)
The Keep (DVD)
Toys Are Not for Children (Blu-ray)
Baby Sister (DVD)
Backcountry (Blu-ray)
Pets (Blu-ray)
White Line Fever (Blu-ray)
The New Kids (Blu-ray)
Dead of Winter (Blu-ray)
Devil's Honey (Blu-ray)
The Call (Blu-ray)
Hoax (Blu-ray)
Olivia (Blu-ray)
Gutterballs (Blu-ray)
Euro Sleaze Collection (Sinful Dwarf, Hanna D and Sister of Ursula) DVD
Since I haven't done this in so long, I'm just saying lately instead of this week. I've really been busy with a lot of other things.
I have bought a lot of movies in the past few months.
The Candy Snatchers (Blu-ray)
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Ward (Blu-ray)
An Ideal Place to Kill (Blu-ray)
Shut In (Blu-ray)
The Wind (Blu-ray)
Phobia (Blu-ray)
The Limehouse Golem (Blu-ray)
Bloodtide (Blu-ray)
The Spell (Blu-ray)
Death Occurred Last Night (Blu-ray)
Dark Was the Night (Blu-ray)
The Keep (DVD)
Toys Are Not for Children (Blu-ray)
Baby Sister (DVD)
Backcountry (Blu-ray)
Pets (Blu-ray)
White Line Fever (Blu-ray)
The New Kids (Blu-ray)
Dead of Winter (Blu-ray)
Devil's Honey (Blu-ray)
The Call (Blu-ray)
Hoax (Blu-ray)
Olivia (Blu-ray)
Gutterballs (Blu-ray)
Euro Sleaze Collection (Sinful Dwarf, Hanna D and Sister of Ursula) DVD
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Super Hero Draft
Okay everyone, since the superheroes seem to be the topic of choice lately, I thought we could do a super hero draft. If you're interested sign up here and I will get it started once we have enough participants.
Okay everyone, since the superheroes seem to be the topic of choice lately, I thought we could do a super hero draft. If you're interested sign up here and I will get it started once we have enough participants.
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