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Jeff Vandermeer made up a fake freshwater squid in a book and people believed it really existed and now he feels bad

tetris 

saw some footage of tetris 99, and realised that it would confuse me a lot.

I'm so used to TGM's system:
• Fast drop goes instantly to the bottom, does NOT lock the piece
• Slow drop goes slowly down, but DOES lock the piece.

But T99 has the opposite - fast drop locks, slow drop does not.

It would take so much time for me to unlearn that muscle memory

@monorail yeah, I generally prefer the episodes where they talk about not-deadly disasters, like the Advanced Passenger Train or the Costa Concordia

@witchfynder_finder it's astoundingly shocking!

How on earth did the first book even find any success if it's written like this!

@witchfynder_finder that was definitely the thing that I noticed the most - the prose fails on both the moment-to-moment level AND on the paragraph level AND on the telling-a-worthwhile-story level

re: DVDs and Behind The Scenes 

I forgot blooper reels!

There used to always be a blooper/outtake reel.

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re: DVDs and Behind The Scenes 

The bluray of Doctor Who series 12 is a really big disappointment to me, because of this.

• There's commentary on the first 3 episodes, and nothing on the 8 others.
• There's a "closer look" for each episode, which is a 5 minute thing which mostly is just clips from the episode and the main cast explaining the narrative, with about 30 seconds total of actual behind the scenes stuff.
• Absolutely nothing else.

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DVDs and Behind The Scenes 

One of the major disappointments of streaming services taking over is the huge reduction in quality of the Behind the Scenes stuff that's bundled with DVD/blu-ray releases nowadays.

It used to be that, if you bought a DVD of a tv series, you'd get:
• audio commentaries on every episode
• behind the scenes on set footage
• discussions with crew and cast
• vfx breakdowns
• creature/set/costume design bits

But now, you get almost none of that.

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