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found this slice of life movie from 2005 about some half-alien family, has anyone watched it before?

alt versions below the cut

It also marks the seventh day of protests held in honor of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. It’s been 634 days since Botham Jean was murdered by a police officer, 233 days since Atatiana Jefferson was fatally shot by a police officer, 2,123 days since Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer, and 2,146 days since Eric Garner was choked to death by a police officer. 

It has been five days since Tony McDade, a Black trans man from Florida, was shot and killed by a police officer.  

At the time of this post, it has been almost 19 hours since David McAtee was shot and killed by the authorities. 

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need…

a helmet.

[others laughing]

i need a helmet.

heathcliff: like a foot-

i don’t want-

heathcliff: football helmet or a?

LISTEN

heathcliff: medieval?

like a… good. like a st- like you-you know how sometimes you put helmets on people who are going into

dangerous situations

because they’re just

regular-ass people?

and not like

superheroes?

i need..

A HELMET.

heathcliff: ummm

I need a helmet!

heathcliff: okay! uh just a regular old helmet? or do you want a..

LIKE A GOOD HELMET

YA DUMB CAT,

A Helmet!

[travis laughing]

griffin: he looks kind of…

DON’T FUCK AROUND WITH ME. IM NOT HA- ST-STOKED TO BE ASKIN.

I NEED A HELMET, ALRIGHT?

I Need A Helmet!

heathcliff: um okaay..

griffin: he-he looks pissed off, he’s like

heathcliff: let me see what, lemme see

SHUT UP!

[others laughing]

HEY!

YOU TWO

heathcliff: lemme see what i can do

PIPE DOWN, ALRIGHT?

YUCK IT UP

I’M GLAD YOU ALL ARE STILL.

FUCKIN X MEN.

I’M JUST A REGULAR

DIPSHIT

AND I NEEDA FUCKIN HELMET.

griffin: uh he says uh-

I’m sorry,

CAT.

I need a helmet.

heathcliff: yeah, um, i get that, um… any sort of

PFFffFfFfFfFffFffTT

heathcliff: design considerations or…?

I might be wasting this not getting a

TOMBSTONE

now that i think about it.

[others laugh]

them shits is expensive

i-can you get me a

hologram tombstone?

NAHH

alright, you know what? that’s

stinkin’ thinkin’.

i’ll start with a helmet.

griffin: uh he dives down-

travis: and aubrey yells:

aubrey: VIKING!

griffin: he dives down and-

No, like,

cool…

griffin: he dives down into the abyss and uhhhhhhh takes a while down there? uh and you see like a few flashes of light and he uh comes back up. and i think he’s got like five or six different helmet designs and he’s like:

heathcliff: umm you seem like you’re having maybe a bit of a. bit of a

week

so uhhhhhhhhh i-i thought maybe you could. pick your favorite? maybe you could have some fun with that

griffin: and there’s like a… like you know like a motorcycle helmet, there’s a viking helmet for sure, there’s like a knight’s full helm with the like guard in front of it, there’s like a sortuva modern combat helmet uhhhhhh with like some like the netting wrapped around it, uhhhhh i think he offers you a few different helmet designs.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

aubrey, whispering: Viking!

ned, also whispering: Viking!

gimme the one that looks like a

skateboard helmet.

[clint laughing]

god, at least i can wear that to work

[laughing continues]

‘cause i’m skateboarding to

WORK.

by the way.

ned: so you can’t

run

without getting tired anymore?

I CAN’T LIKE RUN EIGHT MILES WITHOUT GETTING TIRED ANYMO-

ned: what happened???

aubrey: to be fair ned,

NED. NED. You’ve lit-

aubrey: ned you can’t either

YEAH. NED. YOU CAN’T RUN

EIGHT BLOCKS.

SHUT UP.

god.

NED.

ned: fine. okay.

uh,

made of flesh.

very vulnerable to

bullets,

and knives,

and um

fangs,

and acid

and poison.

so those are pretty much my only weaknesses.

i don’t know if i mentioned

fire

and blunt trauma

and drowning.

and bullets…

but those are my weaknesses.

Strengths include:

uhhh

large reservoir of

botanical information.

pretty good at

tony hawk pro skater 2.

less good at three.

i dropped off at three.

thaaaat iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiss…

it.

i-i played the trombone for two years.

i don’t know if that’s even.. gonna be..helpful

or not.

but that’s what i got, leo. i mean, that’s what i’m bringing to the table.

Ok so I’m gonna answer your last question first lol

The title “Game Changer” is definitely a little confusing because it implies that we actually change the game in some way, but we don’t. Well, most of us don’t. I think some of the bigger Game Changers have a little sway because they know the team personally and have been to the Sims Headquarters and stuff, but for the most part all we do is get early access so that we can provide our individual communities with a glimpse of the pack that goes a little more in depth than just trailers, that way people can see what’s included and decide if they want to buy it, and hopefully bring more people to the franchise in the process. And we definitely didn’t have anything to do with the rebrand, we heard about it at the same time everyone else did.

As for your first question, I’m gonna put it under a cut for a couple reasons: [a] Listen, I have opinions lol and [b] for anyone that is like me and is sensitive to colour contrast, I don’t want anyone getting a nasty headache or sore eyes if they don’t have to. Let’s do this!