wjrii
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- Comment on How would he have 6 limbs otherwise? 1 day ago:
It clearly pissed him off enough that he refuses to finish the next book.
- Comment on How would he have 6 limbs otherwise? 1 day ago:
Perhaps the wings are articulated ribs?
- Comment on To save the superhero movie, we need to bring back themes 2 days ago:
I think we definitely want the same thing, at least.
I’m just backing up the (now absent, LOL) person you originally replied to. I think you can – and in Marvel’s case maybe you should, since they are no longer drawing on zeitgeisty, recognizable versions of their comics characters – think about what you want the story to mean at least as early as you do the events that happen in it. King is a talented writer, no two ways about it, but I don’t think you necessarily doom a script to be bad by starting with something like, “I want to tell a story about dealing with the conflict between who we wish we were and what life made us into.”
I reckon that for King, setting events into motion and figuring out the right traits to get characters through them (or to their natural stopping place), or what themes give those particular events meaning, that works for him. If they want to have him write the next Avengers movie, I’d be all for it, LOL. I just don’t think his approach is the only way to go about it.
- Comment on To save the superhero movie, we need to bring back themes 2 days ago:
Maybe the themes in a Marvel movie will be more universal and rather broadly drawn, but to avoid overstaying their welcome with a rote and repetitive “peril-catharis” cycle, the action needs to be in service to something compelling. Otherwise, it just sort of sputters to the finish line because ultimately we’ve seen the stories before. To the extent he’s not just talking out of his ass, King’s describing a workflow, not a philosophy.
- Comment on To save the superhero movie, we need to bring back themes 2 days ago:
Beyond anything else, this is also what infected the Star Wars franchise, except there it was even worse because so much of the connective tissue was relegated to novels and comics. At least with Marvel you can keep up just via TV and movies.
Dumped into a new series of films that rehashes the first? Explain it in a bunch of mediocre books! Sequel that thinks that setup was boring (and tbf, it was)? Build up to it in a crappy comic! Petulant manchild takes the worst possible lessons from the first two? Set it up in a video game, lift the plot from old comics, and then tell your animation wunderkind that his entire live-action career will now be to “fix it.”
Disney owns the lion’s share of the blame for both franchises malaise, but fan culture enabled it by obsessing over everything, not insisting on tight storytelling (the number of online people who believe that no deleted scene is too awkward to be edited back in is… disconcerting), and whizzing their pants in glee with every easter egg or end-credits stinger. Honorable mention to Peter Jackson with the LOTR extended editions and ROTK’s eleventy-billion endings that (LOL) still somehow omitted the Scouring of the Shire.
- Comment on To save the superhero movie, we need to bring back themes 2 days ago:
How to write okayish page-turners that are far from the only valid way to approach literature?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I have it on good authority that you’re old.
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- Comment on Also available in chocolate. 1 week ago:
The UAE in general is an interesting experience. I’ve only been once, but my wife has been several times for work.
The face they want to present has a kind of a Pan-European middlebrow banality (i.e. you want to impress many people who may or may not be all that thoughtful and who definitely speak many different languages and have different cultural touchstones… I am thinking of stuff like the old BASF “nothingburger” ads), combined with an American-like sense of recklessly cheerful enthusiasm for development and economic growth, but wrapped in a cloak of religiosity and always with a barely concealed underpinning of oligarchic authoritarianism.
To be perfectly honest, it felt a lot like what I expect the evil, but less mustache-twirlingly evil, hope America will be. Still open for business, and even superficially welcoming, but with true wealth only going to those selected by the entrenched power structure, with all others allowed to serve at their pleasure and under a bedrock expectation of not disturbing their preferred social order.
- Comment on Also available in chocolate. 1 week ago:
I’ve had chocolate made with camel milk. It was good, though being positioned as a premium thing it probably would have been just as good with cow milk.
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 1 week ago:
Love After Lockup is full of extremely healthy relationships.
Yes, yes, I know, and in fact one does lost interest after a while. Still, some reality trash can be interesting in the first season or two when they’re gathering the initial crop of free-range crazy instead of raising their own herd. Frankly, I’m surprised we haven’t seen a proper “SovCit” reality franchise.
- Comment on *56k modem noises* 1 week ago:
56k modem noises
I particularly remember the heart-dropping feeling of the repeated changes in pitch as it negotiated a lower baud rate to account for the shitty wiring my dad DIY’d.
- Comment on Molly of... McKinley? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 1 week ago:
TIL James Taylor has a song called “Country Road.”
It is not about West Virginia.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
I mean, he did go to the notorious third-tier toilet known as… Yale.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
Yup. The word “legitimate” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, and he’s just hoping that no one asks the follow up, “How do we determine whether a use of power is legitimate?”
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- Comment on Crisps. 1 week ago:
You seem pretty heated about it.
- Comment on Might be fun idk 1 week ago:
The pace of American football is utter shit, and I think it relies too much on in-game coaching, but the actual strategy and feats of athleticism are equally impressive to any other version and have their own charm, but none of it is important enough for me to tell anyone they have to give it a try.
- Comment on What job do you need this hard hat for? 1 week ago:
If they got pissed off enough, I bet you were glad you had it.
- Comment on What job do you need this hard hat for? 1 week ago:
Dude… ANY job.
- Comment on ‘Pre-sales are bigger than Barbie’: Bridget Jones 4 set to break box office records – despite no US cinema release 2 weeks ago:
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I have no intentions of seeing this.
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Unironic “Hooray” for cinema tuned to regional tastes!
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- Comment on Reddit Refugees 2 weeks ago:
Yup, and even if they never use it, now their investors and advertisers know they could do it as soon as it’s commercially preferable.
- Comment on Why are dwarf planets not considered planets but dwarf stars are considered stars? 2 weeks ago:
In addition to the other people you’re hearing, “dwarf planet” also has specific criteria associated with how the body interreacts with its solar system. A dwarf planet has to orbit its star directly and be big enough for its gravity to have pulled it into a roughly spherical shape, but small enough that it hasn’t cleared its orbit.
A dwarf star is just a star that’s not particularly big and bright for whatever reason. While the terminology is similar, the usage is very different.
- Comment on I made the clues as hard as possible so my teacher won't be able to solve it 2 weeks ago:
So only someone who knows your exact sense of humor and thought processes is ever going to get any of these other than possibly adorable fascist Flareon. Got it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I say this out of love, by the way. Growing up, my friends all said “pulling a wjrii” meant announcing some non sequitur that was only revealed as a joke after I explained at least three silent leaps of thought that I assumed were self-evident.
- Comment on I made the clues as hard as possible so my teacher won't be able to solve it 2 weeks ago:
I have an 11 year old. I would have been fine with the silhouettes only if not for motherfuckin’
spoiler
Leafeon. Forgettable little thing.
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- Comment on Leaked footage of Henry Cavill's screentest for James Bond(Casino Royale) 2 weeks ago:
Who knows what state the script was in at that point, and that particular scene would be fine. It’s got some catchphrases, some punny flirting, some “I know that you know that I know…” spy talk, and some plot gobbledygook. It’s like a Bond canvas and the last thing to add is the actor’s take on the part.
I can also kind of see why he didn’t get the role. Not quite nailing the Brosnan cheek or the Craig surliness, and the particular type of in-between feels a bit flat. I know a lot of screen tests are meant to be low-key, but I didn’t get a lot from the clip. I reckon he’d pull off a much better take now, judging by UNCLE and Witcher, and he fits the age audiences have come to expect anyway. Probably also best to grab a haircut and shave (other work permitting) before screen-testing for James Bond, as the look is a huge part of it.
- Comment on Disney+ Lost 700,000 Subscribers in Final 3 Months of 2024 2 weeks ago:
Yes, mostly, and that context is critically important, but the “line goes up” crowd will not be happy and will probably do something to change it. Possibly something okay-to-good, but probably not.
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, OP should just find a hot-swap Keychron they like and call it a day. If the keeb bug bites, it’s plenty good enough not to find embarrassing. If it doesn’t, it’s a solid and repairable board to use for a long time.
