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It's hard to believe that the nuclear holocaust that Skynet launched, leading to humanity's war against the machines, happened 15 years ago today.  :party:

Hope you're all staying safe, and keeping out of the sight of those pesky terminators.  :guncannon:

'Course, if you want a "real" judgment day, the next one is expected to occur in just under four months; that's when the whole expiration-of-the-Mayan-long-count-calendar will drop just a few days before Christmas. If it's anything like Y2K or the two dates that Family Radio outfit set last year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction), you won't even know it happened...  :hmm:

'Late

I don't know who is worse, Skynet or the crap Umbrella pumps out.

Cant wait till later this year when the world ends. Actually I don't trust information from a dead group of crazed people that sacrificed themselves in mass suicide. Maybe if they drank Kool Aid and all wore the same pair of shoes I'd trust their information a little more.

Will have a case of beer and my shotgun at hand in case anything gets out of control from the anarchy that may ensue later this year. I'll go into Judge Dredd mode at that time and yell out loud. "I am the law!"

Will have [...] my shotgun at hand in case anything gets out of control

You're gonna need something more powerful than that to stop the terminators.

Like a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vxK4kf4AqA 


I'll go into Judge Dredd mode at that time and yell out loud. "I am the law!"

Are ya gonna say it the same way Stallone does in this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itmNiTwHOsM

'Cuz if you did-- well, it'd be kinda hard to take you seriously...

I'll just camp. What the hell it works in video games for a cheap kill. I'm gonna be screwed if I have to fight Terminators. Maybe I should stockpile EMP grenades for them.

15 years ago on this day I had a bunch of friends over and we had a Judgement Day party, which mostly consisted of watching Terminator 2.

Glad you pointed it out though, I would have missed it this year if not for you.

I'll trust the science on Dec 21st.  The apostles were promised that they would see the end of the world in their lifetime 2,000 years ago, and prophesies have just gotten more elaborate and numerous since.  Because I've been expected to worship something or be considered evil, I'll follow the Sun, my source of life's, timeline.  Hey, guess what!  We're looking at about 4,500,000,000+ years of bliss.  Nice!!!  Plenty of time to test the Twinkies theory.

That's what I'm all about-- reminding people of the truly important dates in pop-culture history.

After all, it's not like yesterday, which marked the 49th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with about 200,000 people in attendance, had any real significance to it...  ;D


Yeah, and merely touching a medikit instantly brings you back to full health, too.  ::)

Far be it for me to say this, but... ya might wanna lay off the vidya games for a while.  ;)


Well, if you're gonna be "considered evil," you're in good company-- George Carlin was a sun-worshipper, too... or so he claimed in one of his routines.

However, he prayed to Joe Pesci... which is what everybody should do as far as I'm concerned.

He might look shrimpy, but he carries himself in such a way that you absolutely DO NOT wanna piss him off.

So you'd better pray... that he doesn't break his foot off in your--


That anything like the "Twinkie defense?" (http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.asp)

Joe never has returned my calls about the neighbor's dog.  Must be busy.

I'm proud to say now, that I survived the 2nd Impact, Judgement Day, and multiple returns of Christ.

The latter I thank our savior Randy Macho Man Savage for dying on our behalf to stop the impending apocalypse.

Contractual obligations require me to weigh in on eschatology matters. ;)

The Apostles were promised the beginning of Christ's Kingdom and Christ's authority on earth within their lifetime, which many then assumed to be Christs Second Coming.  They missed that whole 'I'm sending a helper, the Holy Spirit,' bit, and the explanation that the Holy Spirit that once only resided in the hearts of Prophets and Priests would now be available to any professing faith in Christ, thus ushering in an entire Kingdom of God's people instead of a nation guided by a few higher-ups.  In true Captain Planet fashion, Jesus was saying that after He ascends, 'the power is yours!'

There's even a bit of dark comedy in John 16 where Jesus's friends were asking Him specifically when they'd see Him again, and He says, "in a little while," and they're like, "a little while? what the heck does that mean? You're doing that whole parable talk again"  And Jesus replies, "OK, you're going to go through a bunch of crap and grieve and be miserable, then we meet back up at the end of time and you're going to be overjoyed.  So just ask for that joy now." 

Then His friends say, "See, was that so hard?  You just need to speak plainly."  To which Jesus replies, "Yeah, you still don't get it.  You're all going to split and leave me alone.  But its cool, we still win in the end."


Technically, we've only survived multiple theories about the timing of the return of Christ, and since the book these folks claim to believe specifically says more than once that it'll happen "thief in the night" style and 'no man knows the day' (Matthew 24:36) I'm not going to put much stock into the ideas of someone who didn't apparently read the whole thing.

As for the Great Randy Savage Apocalypse Sacrifice?  May we all live by his immortal words, "Dusty Rhodes, do you think you're what our forefathers were thinking about when they thought up the American Dream? Ooooh, yeah, I don't think so."

http://www.searchquotes.com/quotes/author/Macho_Man_Randy_Savage/

Skynet = Apple

Get it?

Judgment day will come, sooner or later.

Just two months to go, guys.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49494036#.UISRTGe9xVU

Make the most of it!

This will be just like Y2K.

Remember what happened when it hit midnight, NOTHING!

Isn't it true that the Mayans didn't have leap years? If not, then we would have already passed December 21, 2012 a long time ago.

That's what they want you to think...  :tinfoil:

According to one 2012 theory the Earth's polarity is going to switch. No electronic devices will work. I guess we chose the wrong hobby considering the circumstances and possible effects.

I'll be sure to play this when doomsday occurs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDncRIq64Lo&feature=player_detailpage

I thought Detroit was normally that way, doomsday or not?

Yep it sure is.

Just like Oakland ;D

God, don't remind me...

The last time I was in Oakland, I took BART up to see a WWE house match with a friend at the Oracle Arena, where the Warriors play. After the event, I'm sitting at a bench on the platform, waiting for the next train to take us back home, when I noticed a guy sitting about eight feet away from me...

...and, lying on the bench between us, well within reach, was his machete.

Needless to say, I was prayin' he and I weren't gonna board the same train...

...for about ten minutes.

At one point, one of the BART transit cops walked up the platform stairs, saw the guy and the machete, and very discreetly walked back down the stairs. Probably went to call in the REAL five-o I suppose.

As you can imagine, I haven't been anywhere near Oakland since.

Yeah I live two miles west of Detroit and believe me those two miles are a night and day difference. The only time I really go to Detroit is for sporting events or the North American International Auto Show in downtown.

Detroit's violent crime rate is down 10% from last year, yet were still #1 in the most violent city category.

Livonia (Where I live) has been noted as one of the safest cities in America with a population of approx 100,000 and an area of 36sq miles. The worst thing that happens in Livonia is someone gets caught selling pot once in a blue moon. Not much of a crime.

Once you leave the actual city limits of Detroit and enter the Metro areas it's quite a nice city. And Downtown Detroit is a very nice part of Detroit, the the residential area of Detroit sucks and their is no defending them.

You can go from run down slums to mansions in a mile or two in my area.

So yeah I can say I'm not livin' in da hood. 


Oh and to stay on subject I offer you this awful song that relates to this subject
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzU9OrZlKb8&feature=player_detailpage

This is more like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXEhejNvjd8

That just means those collections that have a lot of cardboard are going to skyrocket in price!

and you weren't like, "Zoink! Hey! (now) Free machete!" ?

I was more like, "I sure hope nobody notices that I'm sitting in a puddle of my own fear-urine."

But hey, why can't the apocalypse have an upbeat soundtrack?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

Because Saxon kicks ass!!

Here we go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDKxz4xzjc0

But what about...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY

One month left.

You'd better give thanks tomorrow, my fellow yanks 'n' rebs, 'cuz it very well may be your last.

Um, not to bum you out or anything...

about fucking time. Bored as hell lately.

I swear, from this day forth if I see a Mayan I'm going to kick him right in the sweetmeats.

Technically, according to actual Mayans and scholars this whole 'doomsday' scare is just a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar.

TIME TO BE A BUZZKILL!

Near the end of this year the Mayan calendar calculates the end of the current astrological cycle, depending on who you talk to it is the Age of Pisces, the Age of Aquarius should follow it. Now I'm going to blow some minds. Pisces is a fish, since astrological ages last a bit over 2100 years we can look back in history to find a major event that occurred roughly two millenia ago.

[img width=650 height=270]http://www.superchrist.com/images/fish_black.gif[/img]

Oh right, the advent of Christianity. Aquarius is a human. So what this new age could mean is a true age of man, not of myth.

Kind of ancient news there bud.

About 5 years ago, history lecture, some dumbass asks if the Mayan doomsday prophecy is real.

Class halts, professor is an expert on pre-Columbian cultures in Central and South America. Dumbass keeps trying to make it sound like the doomsday talk on Fox News is the correct interpretation. Professor verbally owns her, class laughs hysterically, she is never seen again.

I thought I'd celebrate the original day of infamy by letting you all know that you've 2 weeks left.

Hopefully, those who participated in my Holiday Give-Away will receive their claims before then.

BTW I still have a few tchochkes left, if anybody who's not already called dibs is interested.

http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/zagnorch/It-s-Uncle-Zagnorch-s-2012-Holiday-Give-Away-2359.php

HEY YOU HAD THOSE VAN HALEN THINGS LAST YEAR!

The real reason the mayans died
http://zombieresearchsociety.com/archives/1688

Spaniards bringing disease had NOTHING to do with it. The mayans would have predicted that. You can't predict zombies though.

I was going to mention the same thing.

Romero did.  I saw thousand of those damn things at the store today, and because of his movies I knew that smashing them in the faces with pies was both effective as a defense and comical.  Worked perfectly and I was able to escape with my life (and wares).  

All the Mayans ever did was run out of room for a calender and die.  Stupid Mayans...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClA6nICLFHw

This year, I even offered both sets together, and there weren't any takers.

I have one more gambit, though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfUM5xHUY4M

One week to go, folks.

Even though last weeks ' USA Weekend newspaper supplement stated that the whole deal was preposterous, it leades me to wonder if it wasn't just some sorta propaganda designed to lull me into a false sense of security.

[img width=700 height=753]http://www.usaweekend.com/content/images/121209cover.jpg[/img]

Go BANANAS over this holiday dessert...

...Assuming we make it to this holiday Christmas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5zFnGRaO0E

this guy has awesome majora's mask remixes and is releasing a "Time's End" album for the 21st

I suggest everyone open their Christmas gifts now and enjoy them while you can.

Well, our fellow RFGentlemen west of the IDL should be feeling the wrath of the apockyclypse pretty soon, now.

Especially Australia, a place that knows a little something about that kinda stuff--


What's that, you say? The Mad Max movies aren't documentaries?  :o

?

Nobody is saying that. Sometimes Zag, I don't know were you come up with this stuff.

I'll buy some La Fin Du Monde (The end of the world) beer tomorrow and enjoy it to the last drop. After all it's only a fitting brew for the time.

Neither do I.

And that's pretty freakin' scary.



Methinks I'll do the same.

Probably while watching the first two Terminator flicks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGrH901xMFI
That's the second-greatest opening credits sequence of all time right there.

^ Lets do a online cheers tomorrow Mr. Norch. What do we have to lose?

Even if the world doesn't end we will enjoy a good brew.

We have to do it quick. I will apparently die 3 hours before you. Unless the Mayans don't use time zones then were in it together.

Edit: I'll just play my Pitfall: The Mayan Adventures on my 32X when the world ends. Hopefully the Mayans will cut me a break.

Gotta go out in style.

I'll have my zapper ready for the zombie ducks.

I've got something similar to the zapper... Only it's called a 12-Gauge shotgun.

Cheers to my fellow RF Generation members in the highly unlikely event the world ends soon.

Time for my La Fin Du Monde beer.

[img width=700 height=525]http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w462/RazorKnuckles/monde008_zpsa570a930.jpg[/img]

I'm enjoying a Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale. Lets celebrate!

Thanks for joining in nupoile. Time to celebrate indeed.

I have some wines from 1990 (my birth year), maybe I'll open one... or three... of those tomorrow.

All I've got in the fridge is some screwdrivers. Heck, I'll grab one and down it in celebration. Cheers!

Thats the spirit you guys! Cheers!

[img width=700 height=525]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8363/8292407679_f52609d2f6_c.jpg[/img] (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetechchef/8292407679/)

Thats awesome nupoile. Can I have a screwdriver? Wait a minute, I may choke on that. Not the kinda screwdriver I was lookin' for.

I'll call your screwdriver, and raise you my alcoholic cat:

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rgAwdwqf-nI/UNPmlyqPu2I/AAAAAAAAArI/Eescy9FYotA/s800/WP_000570.jpg)

She was corrupted at a young age. When she was a kitten, our roommates (her previous owners) had a bottle of Goldschlager without the cap on a table, which she ran into (rambuncious kitten). It spilled on the wall and carpet, and instead of letting it go to waste, she decided to drink everything that spilled. Drunk kitten, but no permanent issues besides a taste for alcohol.

^Huh, Smirnoff makes a Screwdriver? Didn't know that. They make some of the only 'alchoholic' drinks I care for. May have to try that some day.

And Nupoile, you should really slow down there, bud. It's probably unhealthy to have more than one of those at a time. Or, you know, any at all. :D

Here's to hoping an ancient zombie Mayan returns to earth..
And holds a news conference to explain our misguided attempts to understand their calender and eschatology... ;)

Smart ass.

Actually, I'm just jealous 'cuz ya beat me to it.

On another note: what, no Phillipses?

Yeah, I found it the other day. I can't stand much alcohol besides vodka, and it sounded interesting. Not a bad taste, and no one else in the house wants them, so it works out for me.

Raz and slackur, you guys were right, uhg, those screwdrivers were too much. They just don't sit right.

Shadow, hope kitty is doing good. If your screwdrivers were like mine, I bet kitty is having a pretty tough time this morning.


Pfffft! Only the good stuff here.



 :P

AAaaand, here's another 'end o' the world' video, music by nifty artist Plumb, set to the very cool Animatrix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg4WLGmLu7U

Worst end of the world ever.

I'd reserve that for the last one. ;)

Every self-respecting cocktail fan would make his own cocktails. Or have them made by someone else who knows what to do. Those pre-mixed drinks for the lazy really aren't the real thing.

As a man who holds a Mixology Certificate and yet has very little interest in drinking, I concur.  And yet, I do enjoy the occasional Smirnoff Ice or Mike's Hard Lemon/Lime Aid.  With an actual bartender, a decent Mai Tai, or even a good Rum and Coke, can still be tough to come by.

Mello Yello is still my liquid poison of choice. :P

Elitist.


Poseur.


*SIGH*

Well, this is turning out to be another "judgment day" bust.

No mass plagues or pestilence.

No seas turning blood red.

No weeping or gnashing of teeth.

Not even so much as a stubbed toe.

The Mayans were trollin' us from beyond the grave, apparently.

As opposed to... ?

UPDATE: I've already got a couple selected libations and a certain game I'll be playing to celebrate this great day of eschatological proportions.

And if we're still here this time next week, I'll tell y'all about it.

Looks like we made it to the 22nd. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

still 2 hours 38 minutes to go on the west coast.

Whelp, time to go through the internets Rolodex to find out the next-- ah, here it is:

http://formerwhitehat.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/oops-i-did-it-again-i-mean-its-supposed-to-be-2013/

May 19th, 2013 it is then.

See y'all then...

...if not sooner.

Somebody needs a better secretary if they can't get their appointments right.

Dude probably figures he's gonna get it right one time, eventually.

And when he does, you're gonna be sorry you doubted him.

On the bright side, I now have now time to renovate my armageddon bunker.

Are you gettin' it?

ARMAGEDDON IT!

Really gettin' it?

YES, ARMAGEDDON IT!

C'mon, Steve, get it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jTGVx2ATLI

EDIT: So much for this forecast.

[img width=672 height=449]http://mariopiperni.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Maya_Dec21_21.jpg[/img]

Nothing happened; back to work you.

HEY NOW!

Time to celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of humanity's war against the machines!

How y'all doin'?

We would so be watching T2 tonight but we are watching a three year old instead.

Don't worry, we'll watch it this weekend.

Hmmmm, now I feel like I'm cheating judgement day.

Wow, has it really been 17 years since the war against the machines began?

Where does the time go?

Where does time go? The whole thing has to do with time travel. Did you not pick up on that?




This year we had a choice. The 2000 Ultimate Edition DVD or the 1991 LaserDisc.

[img width=640 height=285]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5579/15062760726_a26cd54a49_o.jpg[/img]
_{The DVD case is soooo shiny}


The Ultimate Edition was the first DVD I ever bought. I'm pretty sure I've seen it every year since. Probably more often than that back in the halcyon days of only owning a handful of DVDs. My wife has only ever seen that version of the movie with its 19 or so minutes of extra footage.

Since we got the LaserDisc version this year, and because, lasers, we went with the big disc.


[img width=640 height=234]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3881/15085762325_aff40eeab6_o.jpg[/img]
_{At first I thought this was going to be a Rambo movie}


One thing LaserDiscs often have in contrast to DVDs is a wider dynamic range for the audio, meaning the quiet parts are quieter and the louder parts are louder. We've noticed this before on the couple other movies we have on both LD and DVD but on Terminator 2.......it's AWESOME!


[img width=639 height=295]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3896/14899075109_83cb2ea2fc_o.jpg[/img]


The transitions from quiet parts to loud ones is great. It's the audio version of when movies go from long dark scenes to bright day ones, or like in Pitch Black where the screen fades out to complete blackness.


[img width=639 height=343]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3879/15085763375_9194b7a3b8_o.jpg[/img]

[img width=640 height=295]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3917/15085404822_6eb1dff464_o.jpg[/img]
_{After walking through the worst clean room set up ever.....}


My wife was really into it. She even let social media know how great the sound was on this version of the movie, more than once.


[img width=640 height=354]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5587/15062761416_62887809ed_o.jpg[/img]
_{It's only like the best arcade game ever}


At one point our 1400 watt subwoofer shook something off a shelf so we decided to take a break and make popcorn.

[img width=640 height=853]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5558/14899181388_bd84f3218a_o.jpg[/img]
_{I got a little sumpin' extra!}



This version of the movie also has that one guy in it......

[img width=640 height=325]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3856/14899181178_2532aa6129_o.jpg[/img]




Yeah, pretty sure he was known for being in Double Dragon:

[img width=640 height=319]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3849/15085761795_9c3dea2de0_o.jpg[/img]




Anyways, this is one of those movies we watch on a certain day every year, thanks for the reminder Zagnorch!

[img width=640 height=336]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3918/15085403372_ee5cde8a73_o.jpg[/img]

Hey now!

Just a week to go until the 18th anniversary of the war against the machines. Well, according to the first two Terminator flicks, anyway. You know, the only two worth watching?

Meanwhile, there's a new "IRL" Judgment Day approaching: an asteroid impact set to occur some time between the 15th and 28th of September.

http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/the-truth-about-the-september-2015-asteroid-impact.html

G0dd@mmit, why does this civilization-obliterating event have to (sort of) coincide with the release of the new Skylanders set?! Hopefully, I can complete the Adventure mode before Lucifer's Hammer strikes. This is a bunch of bull$#!+...

Happy Judgment Day, everybody! I wish you the best apocalypse ever!

Wow... who would have imagined that we'd all still be here 20 years after the war against the machines began.

I love yooz guys...

I have no time....


....except to hotlink to this image:



[img width=700 height=407]https://i.imgflip.com/1793u4.jpg[/img]

Everyday is Judgement day at the courthouse.

The war against the machines is now old enough to tie a few on... in the U.S. at least.

Or it would, if the entire surface of the earth wasn't a scorched, irradiated hellscape...

It's that time of year again!

Ummm.... hello? Nupes, are you there? Buddy? Pal?

My mom called today Judgement Day I am sure. She is a teacher and it was the first day of school.

MORTAL KOMBAT!

Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the smoke haze from the nearby lightning complex fires, it actually feels like Judgement Day around my neck of the woods.

But hey, if you gotta shelter in place, why not watch the first two Terminator flicks-- along with the director's cut of the original RoboCop-- to pass the time and get your mind off of the awful stuff happening outside? Heck, I'll even throw RoboCop 2 onto to the watchpile. Sure it had its flaws, but I thought it had some good moments and concepts. And how could you not love the awesomeness of the climactic battle with stop-motion RoboCain?

But for the love of God absolutely do not-- DO NOT!-- watch RoboCop 3, or the 2014 remake, or any of the other Terminator flicks. 'Cuz if you do, you're liable to welcome Judgment Day with open arms.

Right, Nupes?

I would agree with you wholeheartedly, but since this is the internet I can't do that and have to call you all sorts of things and talk about how wrong you are.

So look here you humpenscrump, T3 is a fine movie and worth watching....

I think the internet law is that I have to miss-spell things too...

Its mostly a good movie. I mean thier're are parts anyways, the crane chase scene for one. Uh, and, I'm sure there are others.

Wait, it's one of the few movies to actually show on-screen Armageddon, that's a thing. A thing worth watching a movie for.

You know what, you Robot loving, Cybog hugging elitist?......I got nothing, you're pretty much spot on.

Um, while I'm here deciding whether to watch T2 on Blue Ray for the bestest in video quality, or Laser Disc for the way better audio dynamics, I want to take a Pitch Meetings jab and be like, "wow wow wow, wow" or like, "so you can all the way get off my back about that," but years from now, in 2029 for example, you'll have change your avatar for the millionth time and no one will get the reference.


 

Hey now,











Changing avatars a million times (and esoteric YouTuber references) is...






And here's the reason why those references are so esoteric:




ANYway, time for me to get all the way off of that thing until next year...


...'Late

Um... Nupoile? You there?

You, uh... you gonna watch your T2 laserdisc?

Yeah, always!






Which one?

[img width=379 height=640]https://nupoile.thetechchef.net/cache/media/IMG_7627_640.jpg[/img]




Or maybe you mean DVDs?

[img width=455 height=640]https://nupoile.thetechchef.net/cache/media/IMG_7629_640.jpg[/img]


Actually that top one is T1. And I thought we had that on LD but it seems not, and I also thought we had these on Blu Ray but we're lacking those too. Sheesh, I need to get some more media....and I'm getting old and forgetful.

The Wife says we're watching T1 this year. So I guess the answer to your question is 'no.' 

Don't you think it's weird they never made any more of these movies? They're great! Seems like they could have kept the series going.

Oh Nuuuuuupoile... where aaaaare you... it's that time of year yet again...

Nupey Dupes? You there?

Man, where could he be? I'm starting to get worried...

I feel like you warned me about this day, more than once.....

Oh, thank goodness, there you are! Where you been, huh?! You had me worried sick...

I've been holed up, it's those bots man, they keep coming after me......you wouldn't know anything about that would you?

Hey now,



Only if they're from either Cybertron or Detroit... and maybe GoBotron.

I'll be back.

It's that time of year again...

Terminator 2 rules.

Wait a minute... you're not Nupoile!

Is it National Slurpee Day?

You can't spell Slurpee without P-E-E.  :D

What kind of rules are those? Keep most of your weaponry in a hole in the desert? When it comes to transportation, prefer motorcycles? When engaging with the enemy, don't bother taking cover, just walk right over to him?

Yes, precisely.

Maybe the rules regarding the T-1000's limitations? As advanced as a mimetic polyalloy is, even it can only do so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWw5wuBPs4


There was one rule that was changed between the theatrical release and the extended cut, however: the Terminator's ability to learn new things... and not be such a dork all the time... by resetting his processor switch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTOK89w8h0


BTW the mirror "reflection" in this scene is actually Arnie, Linda Hamilton's twin sister, and Eddie Furlong's stand-in, while the real Linda Hamilton and Eddie Furlong are yanking the Terminator chip out of a life-like mock-up of Arnie's head. Some brilliant work by Stan Winston (RIP) and his talented practical FX cohorts.


Speaking of twins and practical FX: Linda's sis would show up later as the T-1000 disguising itself as Sarah Connor to lure out John during the climactic steel mill scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kug8mJ8WiM


My God, I know way too much trivia about this flick... almost as much as I do about RoboCop.

Remember when Robocop shot that dude in the dick?

Fuck yeah.  Makes me squirm every time I see it.

Well then, you definitely DON'T want to see the fan-remake scene from the fan-remake movie...

...which you can watch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKPJbYTxno