gregorynyssa: So apparently, Waterworld was a rip-off of Mad Max.
gregorynyssa: Sixteen years before the premiere of Waterworld, George Miller launched
gregorynyssa: an action franchise set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Waterworld differs
gregorynyssa: from the Mad Max series in some major ways (while Waterworld’s setting
gregorynyssa: is an endless sea, most Mad Max movies take place in the desert), but they
gregorynyssa: both imagine a primitive, violent future. Waterworld still gets compared to
gregorynyssa: Mad Max today, and the similarities aren’t a coincidence. The script’s
gregorynyssa: original writer Peter Rader said the idea for Waterworld was conceived as a
gregorynyssa: Mad Max rip-off in 1986 following the success of 1981’s Road Warrior.
thimbronion: lekythion progress: Refactored a rather large lisp function into smaller functions while debugging several urls in the logs missing from the index.
thimbronion: It turns out that my copypasta regex for matching urls was a piece of shit. Currently using the very simple regex found in the logotron source with much better results.
Vexual: I haven't read or watched Riverworld. Waterworld is similar to Mad Max, but Costner gets about in a 60 ft trimaran @ 30 knots, whereas Gibson has a V8 ford.