Line #73 Quotes/HarsherInHindsight


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5	!!{{Literature}}
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7	->''"Yesterday's entry sentences me to a prison of remorse for the rest of my days. How perversely it reads, how flippant I was!"''
8	-->--'''The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing''', ''Literature/CloudAtlas''
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10	!!LiveActionTV
11
12	->''"You got trapped''\
13	''You got broke''\
14	''It was only meant to be a sort of joke''\
15	''But the joke... isn't funny... anymore."''
16	-->--[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWYRvrCOFWM "The Joke Isn't Funny Anymore"]] from ''Series/FraggleRock'', "Mokey's Funeral"
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18	->''"Let us dive right in this week, with the 2016 election, or, as it's increasingly known, 'America's fucktastic ''Cirque de Dismay''.'. The big news this week surrounded UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, a punchline that is quickly becoming a nightmare. Like if you said: 'take my wife, please', and then she was actually kidnapped by ISIS."''
19	-->--'''Creator/JohnOliver''', ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''
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21	!!{{Manga}}
22	->'''Angol Moa:''' Let's say your actions, uncle, [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs are made into an anime TV series on Pokopen.]]\
23	'''Keroro:''' Hmm... yes! We do have a lot of kiddie fans.\
24	'''Angol Moa:''' If that were to happen, and the contents were too violent or inhumane, it wouldn't make a good impression, and might violate some broadcast regulations.\
25	'''Keroro:''' Hmm... that is possible!\
26	'''Angol Moa:''' And [[DiscussedTrope what if, by unfortunate coincidence, a similar incident were to occur around the same time it was broadcast on your show]]?\
27	'''Keroro:''' I... I don't even want to think about it!
28	-->--''Manga/SgtFrog'', Encounter 75: An Invasion of Convenience?
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30	!!TabletopGames
31	-> ''The [previous paragraph about a US agency confiscating the files for the third Grimtooth book] was an amusing joke when we wrote it back in 1986. However, with the invasion of the Creator/SteveJacksonGames offices by the Secret Service this year, along with the confiscation of all copies of their planned MediaNotes/{{GURPS}} Cyberpunk game book (under the claim that it was a 'handbook for computer crime'), suddenly the joke is less funny. It was just a joke. Honest. [[UnInstallment There was no third book of traps]].''
32	-->--'''Rick Loomis''', forward to ''TabletopGame/GrimtoothsTraps Fore''
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34	!!WebOriginal
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36	->''Every year since ''Series/GameOfThrones'' debuted in 2011, we’ve heard about how many ''Game of Thrones'' [[BabyNameTrendStarter baby names there are]], and every year, I think, “Boy, shouldn’t you wait for the show to end?” [[BabyNameTrendKiller This is why, people. This is why.]]''
37	-->-- '''[[https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/5/13/18617316/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-5-recap-the-bells-winners-losers Vox]]''' review of Game of Thrones episode [[Recap/GameOfThronesS8E5TheBells The Bells]]
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39	->''"It got to a point where I didn't like it anymore." That statement, uttered by Music/{{Avicii}} in Levan Tsikurishvili's documentary, refers to his stunning 2016 decision to retire from touring. But it takes on a haunting new dimension in the aftermath of his suicide two years later.''
40	-->--'''[[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/avicii-true-stories-1170365 Frank Scheck]]''' on ''Avicii: True Stories''
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42	->''It premiered in 2015 and has some...interesting parallels to [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic the events of the past year]]? Tinfoil hat wearers might try to call this "predictive programming," but regular hat wearers would just call it an unfortunate coincidence.''
43	-->-- '''WebVideo/DrewGooden''' discussing ''Series/TheLastManOnEarth'' in a 2021 video
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45	->''"I was going to make some joke about how Urkel could beat us all up now -- but he was recently arrested for domestic battery, so suddenly that doesn't seem funny any more."''
46	-->-- ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19001_17-images-that-will-ruin-your-childhood_p2.html 17 Images that Will Ruin your Childhood]]
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48	->If you enlightened viewers in the modern age of less blurry screenshots are seeing some eerie parallels between the [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Corrupted Blood incident]] and [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic certain real life current events]], you aren't alone. In fact, academics took an interest in the incident for what it might tell us about real-life pandemics, particularly the sociological effects. But others argued that [[RealityIsUnrealistic it taking place in a video game with zero real-life consequences limited the usefulness of the data]]. After all, [[TemptingFate it's not like people in the real world would just casually blow off an official quarantine order when there’s honest to goodness life and death on the line]]. [[SarcasmMode Dear me, no!]] And as for [[{{Troll}} the people who'd get the infection and try to pass it to others deliberately]], why ''that'' would require nothing less than a ''fundamental'' breakdown of education and governance. [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough Surely people understand that there are no hard resets in]] RealLife? (Unless you count tactical nuclear strikes.) Yes, I suppose this episode is more of a "Let's all laugh at a humanity that never learns anything, tee hee hee..."
49	-->-- '''Yahtzee''', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB3jOD2wjUc World of Warcraft: The Corrupted Blood Incident]]"
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51	->''Two jocks in letter jackets immediately decide to bully him as part of the ongoing Coat Wars, and Slater responds by pulling out a goddamn gun and firing blanks in their faces. In the next scene, one of the titular Heathers scoffs at the thought of J.D. getting any punishment worse than a brief suspension, and Veronica finds his antics both hilarious and kinda hot. And indeed, J.D. is allowed to return to school without any consequences, which makes it pretty easy for him to murder three students before attempting to blow the whole place up and finally committing suicide via bomb vest. You can probably see why this film didn't age well as a comedy, but aged fantastically as a grim portent of the dark future to come.''
52	-->--'''{{Website/Cracked}}''' on how the movie ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' has not aged well past the Columbine Massacre.
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54	->'''Sonic:''' You should be in prison!\
55	'''Sonichu:''' Yeah, I was in prison!\
56	'''Sonic:''' How did you escape?\
57	'''Sonichu:''' Uh, well, I didn't, someone bailed me out!\
58	'''Sonic:''' WHAT!?\
59	'''Sonichu:''' Yeah, they did it while I was making this--\
60	'''Doobus Goobus:''' ''(normal voice)'' --CARTOON! I've-- I-I-I don't know how to end this! ''(stutters)'' I had this planned, like, a week ago… [she's]-uh-[she's] out there! [She's] out in public, [she's] out of prison! WHAT DO I EVEN DO--!? ''[[NoEnding (cartoon ends)]]''
61	-->-- '''WebAnimation/DoobusGoobus''' [[https://youtu.be/Mfc4BNNiCME does]] ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'' only to learn that Chris-Chan was released from prison while he was making it
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63	->"So I'm about to review ''Film/DieHard'' on the Nintendo. But before I begin, I think I need to adress the... kinda disturbing, maybe offensive nature of the... front cover. ({{Beat}}) ''What does this remind you of?!"'' (shows the front cover, depicting the burning top of the Nakatomi Plaza with the darkened middle stripe being even darker than on the film front cover, giving a even bigger resemblance of two equally tall buildings burning at the same time)
64	-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''' - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL0YWB8wMDs Episode 28]]
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66	->"Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax Jet, if I'm opening a supermarket for him... That one didn't age quite so well."
67	-->-- '''Webvideo/{{Jontron}}''', [[https://youtu.be/BnpdoAIhiyo?t=125 reading quotes]] from ''Creator/GwynethPaltrow'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnpdoAIhiyo Gwyneth Paltrow's "Goop"]]''
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69	->'''Screenwriter Guy:''' So in [[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2 the next movie]] they want to storm the Capitol!\
70	'''Producer Guy:''' [[MadLibsCatchphrase Oh, storming the Capitol is tight!]]\
71	'''Screenwriter Guy:''' [[CharacterCatchphrase Yeahyeahyeah!]]\
72	''(beat)''\
73	'''Producer Guy:''' ...That's gonna age well, right?\
74	'''Screenwriter Guy:''' What is?\
75	'''Producer Guy:''' That sentence I just said. That's gonna age well? That's gonna age okay?\
76	'''Screenwriter Guy:''' Why wouldn't that age well?\
77	'''Producer Guy:''' I don't know, I just got [[WashingtonDCInvasion this weird feel]]-- It's probably nothing.
78	-->-- ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings: Film/TheHungerGames Sequels''

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