Yes, but Republicans do what they want with no consequences, so check and mate.

Fun fact: Zero Hour is so unintentionally funny they lifted a lot of it verbatim and Airplane! is technically a remake. They had to buy the rights.

Interesting suggestions. They’re not what I typically consider in this particular style of parody movies because they’re a lot less slapstick and absurd but instead are very targeted mockeries of a single concept or style. Worth watching for sure, but I know they wouldn’t scratch the same itch for me.

Couldn’t remember it well enough but I’d let it slide on the list based on what I do recall.

Omitted because I haven’t seen it, not explicitly as a snub.

I actually haven’t seen it. Didn’t care much for the Wayans brothers’ humor, so I sat that out until Zucker took over.

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I’m really interested in this game, but a “hands-on” from the Sony PlayStation Blog is pretty much an ad with extra steps.

Still a thing? Not really. But as mentioned, there was definitely a lot worth seeing after Airplane!

Great:

• Police Squad! (TV)
• Naked Gun x3
• Hot Shots! x2
• Spaceballs!
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• Young Frankenstein
• Top Secret!
• Scary Movie 3/4
• Airplane!
• Kentucky Fried Movie

Worth watching:

• Jane Austen’s Mafia!
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It
• Angie Tribeca (TV)
• High School High
• Not Another Teen Movie
• Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in The Hood
• Scary Movie 1
• Wrongfully Accused
• Repossessed
• Spy Hard (edit)

Garbage Tier:

• Anything ending with “Movie” that hasn’t been listed yet
• Anything with Leslie Nielsen that hasn’t been listed yet

I loved 3, liked 4, and was really disappointed by 1. Skipped 2 and anything after 4.

Turns out, after 2, the Wayans brothers stepped away and David Zucker directed with Pat Proft co-writing, which gave it a lot of DNA from the glory days of Naked Gun and Hot Shots!

Same thing happens with social security numbers!

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Instead of watching whatever the hell this ends up being, just read this ancient and hilarious screenshot Let’s Play. I guarantee it’s more entertaining, especially if you remember early 2000’s internet, before it turned into <gestures at everything>.

https://lparchive.org/Oregon-Trail-(by-Chewbot)/

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Check it out, it just shows up as asterisks when I type it.

It’s like Max Payne 1, only better in every conceivable way. It’s the perfect sequel.

Edit: I envy you getting to experience it for the first time!

Max Payne 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. It’s the only game I ever finished, then beat 2-3 more times in succession on increasing difficulties just to get a different ending.

Absolutely. It definitely takes some delightful liberties with WHY Blackbeard takes a liking to Stede and why Stede leaves his family in the first place, but the overall arc is based on a true story.

Stede Bonnet was a wealthy landowner who walked away from his family to buy a boat and become a really bad Pirate of the Caribbean. Blackbeard ran into him, took his ship, decided for some reason he kinda liked the guy, taught him a few things about piratin’, then went his own way. Bonnet did better after that, but he was eventually captured and hanged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stede_Bonnet

Were you looking for a story of inspiration and success instead of history’s worst midlife crisis? If so, oops.

Bet you’re fun at parties.

Yes. The writing is on the wall, I think. Between Valve and Microsoft, I think the line between console and PC is about to blur, hard.

Valve starts selling a new generation of Steam Machines, Microsoft develops a handheld and pivots the Xbox brand to be a PC gaming label standardized to a handheld and set-top form factor, and suddenly Sony and Nintendo are swimming in a much smaller ocean. The PlayStation 6 not being PC-compatible suddenly makes it “a weird non-PC” instead of a category leader, and the Switch 2 by all accounts just becomes an echo of the previous generation, treading water on Nintendo franchises.