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    Dsmvwl  Admin  Promote to frontpage Approve user Ban user ×
    Image of rotwang rotwang
    02:11 PM

    In reply to Korean Pig Monster Movie "Chaw" Goes Splatstick
    Erm, Razorback anyone?

    Ah, m_faustus got there before me. Your comment promoted, sir/madam.
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    Edited by rotwang at 12/17/09 2:21 PM rotwang was starred rotwang was unstarred
    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11:19 AM

    In reply to Korean Pig Monster Movie "Chaw" Goes Splatstick
    I didn't know SyFy broadcast in Korea.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/15/09

    In reply to Humans Are the Monsters in Revamped Horror Posters
    The Evil Jaws poster should feature a dude stuffing his face with English style fish and chips while a cook fillets and batter dips a shark in the background.
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    Image of collex collex
    12/15/09

    In reply to Humans Are the Monsters in Revamped Horror Posters
    Is it it me or does the woman in King Kong poster looks like she wants to tickle the poor gorilla to death?
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    Image of gd01skorpius gd01skorpius
    12/15/09

    @collex: Haha totally, and it looks like he's into it!
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    Image of atomier atomier
    12/15/09

    In reply to Urban Monsters Love To Stretch Out Their Tentacles Across The Cityscape
    I'll draw some more breasts next time.
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    Bootknife-Jackson approved this comment atomier was starred atomier was unstarred
    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    12/15/09

    @atomier: i find its a pretty universal guideline....
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    12/15/09

    In reply to Humans Are the Monsters in Revamped Horror Posters
    Nice try. The best one is the Tarantula.

    The other two need help.
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    Image of AngriestGeek AngriestGeek
    12/15/09

    @Hamslicer: Exactly. The "King Kong" one should have been about humans abducting their young or something we actually do to them, like animal testing. Same with the sharks.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    12/15/09

    In reply to Humans Are the Monsters in Revamped Horror Posters
    Sign that these are all B movies: The Human Being is listed as "in his most terrifying role" in every one of them.
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    Image of Mr.Gawn Mr.Gawn
    12/15/09

    In reply to Humans Are the Monsters in Revamped Horror Posters
    "it turns out.... it was human"
    (after mixing the most evil... stuff together)
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    12/15/09

    @Mr.Gawn: "Saw it coming!"
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    Edited by Zombie Ms. Skittles at 12/15/09 11:33 AM Zombie Ms. Skittles was starred Zombie Ms. Skittles was unstarred
    Image of Mr.Gawn Mr.Gawn
    12/15/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: HEY you lost your star?? or you never had one....

    or youve jus always been a star in my eyes
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    Zombie Ms. Skittles promoted this comment Mr.Gawn was starred Mr.Gawn was unstarred
    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    12/15/09

    @Mr.Gawn: I have a star on Jezebel and a star on Lifehacker, and apparently one in your eyes, but not one on io9...yet.

    (although through a nifty little loophole I am able to promote comments if I respond to them via Jezebel or Lifehacker)
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    Edited by Zombie Ms. Skittles at 12/15/09 12:39 PM Zombie Ms. Skittles was starred Zombie Ms. Skittles was unstarred
    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/15/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: I was pretty excited to find that loophole. :)
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    Ruthless, If you let me was starred Ruthless, If you let me was unstarred
    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    12/15/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: It's a pretty kick-ass loophole and one I try not to abuse too much.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/15/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Me neither. I've only used it maybe 3 times. Nice to have in my back pocket though.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/15/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Hmph. I have a star on io9 and Kotaku, and it doesn't even get me a freakin' LOGIN on any of the other sites.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    12/15/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: You should start a holy war then. Lucky me, I don't even try to login to the other sites and I used to comment infrequently on io9 before the revamp, so I may not have a login on Kotaku or Gawker.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/15/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Ehh... wars are so tiring and time-consuming.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/15/09

    In reply to Humans Are the Monsters in Revamped Horror Posters
    i thought the point of art was to incite thought. "humans ARE the monster" is pretty ham fisted
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    Image of VisibleHand VisibleHand
    12/15/09

    @GreyHammer: Except that these are cinematic role-reversals! What if the woman just wants to be loved, and the gorillas are the real monsters, destroying what they fear? Perhaps the human's rampage was brought on by tarantulas Playing God with Things That Spider Was Not Meant To Know!

    ...plus, of course, the point of movie poster art is to incite one specific thought, specifically "Oh, cool, I should buy a ticket for that." Subtlety is rarely their strong point.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    12/15/09

    @GreyHammer: Maybe thats the point. Science fiction is filled with ham fisted social commentary. This is a commentary on the commentary.

    But what if it goes further than that? This is commentary on commentary on commentary on commentary on commentary.

    That just wrinkled my brain.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/15/09

    @OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: very meta.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    12/15/09

    In reply to Humans Are the Monsters in Revamped Horror Posters
    The human Jaws should be more a gourmand who loves Sharkfin Soup or an old person with a cane who needs their shark cartilage pills.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/15/09

    @ManchuCandidate: I was kind of hoping they went with 007's Jaws.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    12/15/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Get out of my mind!
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    12/15/09

    In reply to Humans Are the Monsters in Revamped Horror Posters
    arent these poster from the scary door?
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    Image of TwiceDead TwiceDead
    12/15/09

    In reply to Humans Are the Monsters in Revamped Horror Posters
    Tarantulas are endangered? Good.
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    Image of ExtensionOfBob ExtensionOfBob
    12/15/09

    @TwiceDead: But they're so cute and fuzzy!
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    ExtensionOfBob was starred ExtensionOfBob was unstarred
    Image of TwiceDead TwiceDead
    12/15/09

    @ExtensionOfBob: Cute, fuzzy and WRONG.

    Four legs good, two legs bad, eight legs WRONG.
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    RandomFrequentFlierDent promoted this comment TwiceDead was starred TwiceDead was unstarred
    Image of BrendCh06 BrendCh06
    12/15/09

    @TwiceDead: What!? Tarantulas are majestic creatures, sir.
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    BrendCh06 was starred BrendCh06 was unstarred
    Image of TwiceDead TwiceDead
    12/15/09

    @BrendCh06: By majestic, do you perhaps mean WRONG?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    12/15/09

    @TwiceDead: Haha - Nothing like a play on a George Orwell quote to start the day off right. Nicely done.
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    Edited by RandomFrequentFlierDent at 12/15/09 6:46 AM RandomFrequentFlierDent was starred RandomFrequentFlierDent was unstarred
    Image of TwiceDead TwiceDead
    12/15/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: I'm sure Orwell would have said it if he'd been allowed to write the sequel to Animal Farm:
    Arachnid Farm - brimming over with WRONGability.
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    Image of BrendCh06 BrendCh06
    12/15/09

    @TwiceDead: By majestic I mean beautiful and better than Luke Skywalker.
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    BrendCh06 was starred BrendCh06 was unstarred
    Image of TwiceDead TwiceDead
    12/15/09

    @BrendCh06: I suspect that Luke might win in the standard tests for WRONGness on the grounds that he doesn't have eight steenkin' legs.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    12/15/09

    @TwiceDead: What about six legs?
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    Image of cletar cletar
    12/15/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: That's more than four, and thus wrong.
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    Image of TwiceDead TwiceDead
    12/15/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Six legs are you know, Okish, I guess.

    So, we're up to:

    Four legs good, two legs bad, six legs, you know, okayish, eight legs WRONG.

    Any more questions?
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    Image of BrendCh06 BrendCh06
    12/15/09

    @TwiceDead: You know what else he doesn't have? A DAD!
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    BrendCh06 was starred BrendCh06 was unstarred
    Image of TwiceDead TwiceDead
    12/15/09

    @BrendCh06: This is not technically true, Anakin lacked a dad, but Luke was unfortunately well equipped in the dad department. Whereas no one would admit to being a tarantula's father.

    "That's my son over there."

    "Which one?"

    "You know, the WRONG one."
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    Roklimber promoted this comment TwiceDead was starred TwiceDead was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/15/09

    @TwiceDead:

    "Whereas no one would admit to being a tarantula's father."

    I beg to differ, although the baby I adopted (see video) isn't a tarantula.
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    Image of TwiceDead TwiceDead
    12/15/09

    @Roklimber: But it's not a tarantula, is it?

    *shivers and flees the scary spider video*
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/15/09

    @TwiceDead: "But it's not a tarantula, is it?"

    No. Tarantulas are harmless, so what's the fun in having them?
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    Image of TwiceDead TwiceDead
    12/15/09

    @Roklimber: Not death. Not death is a great deal of fun.
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    TwiceDead was starred TwiceDead was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/15/09

    @TwiceDead: If not being dead is so much fun, why have you been twice dead then? Are you a masochist, by any chance? :)
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    Image of TwiceDead TwiceDead
    12/15/09

    @Roklimber: There are two inevitabilities in life... Hell, taxes aren't fun either but most of us have paid them more than twice.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/15/09

    @TwiceDead: If you don't live in Denmark, then you don't know what high taxes are. DK has the largest tax rate in the world.
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    Image of TwiceDead TwiceDead
    12/15/09

    @Roklimber: Which is why I'm sure you understand that just because something is not fun (like death) it cannot always be avoided :)
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/15/09

    @TwiceDead: Ok, this is getting to be way too philosophical a conversation for a snowy night. :)
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    Image of Evin Evin
    12/15/09

    In reply to Urban Monsters Love To Stretch Out Their Tentacles Across The Cityscape
    Um, you have no idea how fucked-up it is to see my best friend's art on the front page of this website. Especially since it had nothing to do with me.

    What the fuck. Wow.
     Reply
    Bootknife-Jackson promoted this comment Evin was starred Evin was unstarred
    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    12/14/09

    In reply to Urban Monsters Love To Stretch Out Their Tentacles Across The Cityscape
    I quite like the tanks. They look like concept art for "Heavy Metal." Except, you know, no breasts.
     Reply
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    Image of Trystero Trystero
    12/10/09

    In reply to A Giant Tentacle Monster Defeats An Oil Rig
    Pishaw. That's nothing compared to the giant, oil-refinery-hating polar bear on the back of the Jethro Tull album "Stormwatch."
     Reply
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