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- Comment on "So I should just sit down here while you paint my por - oh you're done" 1 day ago:
Frank Forde, the fifteenth prime minister of Australia.
Not sure why the pose, though I wonder if the artist was making working from a photogrpah that would have hit the eye better as a moment in time. It’s not a world apart from this 1949 portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt though, who must have bee real fuckin’ tired of holding that page just so if she was posing real-time.
- Comment on Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs 2 days ago:
Pretty sure. It was a 32 oz bottle on the same shelf as all the cocktails and blends.
Now, to be fair, some people do recommend cutting pure cranberry juice with seltzer or water, but it was not specifically a concentrate.
- Comment on Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs 2 days ago:
“Made with real juice” does not mean it was made with the juice on the label. For example, a pineapple fruit juice may be more apple juice than actually pineapple juice
This gave rise to an amusing misunderstanding in our house. My wife asked for “Cranberry Juice, but 100% juice, not the cocktail; that’s too sweet.” I dutifully went to our store and found the Cranberry Juice cocktail, and also the juice that was mostly apple and white grape juice, because that’s always what they use here when they can. I thought, surely this must be very nearly as sweet, and kept looking. I eventually found the small, expensive bottle of 100% cranberry juice with no other juices and no sugar added.
This was a mistake.
Pure cranberry juice is not popular as a casual beverage for a reason. It is nasty. It tastes like I imagine the least dangerous acid kept behind the counter at the chemistry lab supply company tastes: safe for human consumption, but just barely and definitely deserving to be there behind the counter.
- Comment on i hate this meme 3 days ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I mean, dial it back a few notches, and I feel this way unironically. Good show, if not great, definitely within the spirit of the comic, clapping back at certain “fans” was fine by me, and the Madisynn and Wong interactions were fun.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
“While initially gleeful at the imminent damage to his competitors’ brand, Kool-Aid Man would soon be confronted with the irony inherent in his own vast advantage in consumer mind-share.”
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
It’s still a bit small, but pressure treated being a little smaller than framing lumber is not necessarily a secret:
- Comment on "What The Heck Is That": Dune 2's Black & White Planet Initially Scared Warner Bros. 1 week ago:
That makes the scene for me. “Just” black and white would have communicated certain things, but it wouldn’t have been the intentional uncanny valley that starting from IR was. These two movies aren’t perfect, but like LOTR, they may be very nearly the best possible adaptations that will appeal to a large audience.
- Comment on Just horse girl things 1 week ago:
Another chance to post a Corb Lund song for you techno-loving tech dorks*? Yes, please.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mEJUEOq2G8
*-Though we can all agree Nashville radio country sucks. It really, truly does. Also, don’t ask me about how British and Irish folk music started dancing with African and then African-American musical forms in the 1700s and never stopped, and when combined with post-world war 2 countercultural neo-folk ethos and wider availability of higher education, resulted in a re-valuing of linguistically and psychologically complex lyrics within a subset of the “hillbilly music” genre, which then stewed for a decade or more in boomer rock-n-roll, all resulting in deeply satisfying mélanges of poetry and fiddles and banjos and electric guitars. Cuz, you know, I’m not a dork.
- Comment on I have amblyopia. Is this accurate? 2 weeks ago:
For film purposes though, it’s an excellent way to keep the image filling most of the screen and to communicate the subtle contextual implications of the character’s using binoculars rather than a telescope.
- Comment on Star dates – is one day equal to 0,07 SD in TNG? 2 weeks ago:
Because Stardates in the 24th Century are based on a complex mathematical formula, a precise correlation to Earth-based dating systems is not possible.
Hand successfully waved.
- Comment on Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny? 2 weeks ago:
For some reason I was determined to get through the first one. Took me 5 or 6 sessions. It’s awful. Jupiter Ascending and Valerian are both masterpieces by comparison.
- Comment on Mufasa: The Lion King | Teaser Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m sure it’s going to be a theatrical release. I’m just predicting it’ll come and go without mattering much before heading off to the D+ library, but I’ve been wrong before. 😊
- Comment on Mufasa: The Lion King | Teaser Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Is this a prequel? Maybe I’ll be wrong, but I reckon this one’s just D+ seatfiller.
Now that said, there is something I think we often lose in our siloed communities is that there are different calculations involved for entertainment primarily aimed at children. There is an interplay between what you can get parents to sit through, balanced with the fact that by definition the audience cycles out after a few years and is not super sophisticated.
You still only really get one bite at the apple for a theatrical release, because I think the parents have a sort of reflexive rejection of seeing literally the same movie that they know has already been released and sense that once something goes to home media, it should by and large stay there (even the infamous “Vault” was never well liked). But something that’s technically “new,” even if it brings almost nothing original to the plate, that seems to cross a mental barrier where parents are willing to sit through it. They might not go to see a re-release of B&tB, but remake it in live action with Hermione, and at least it’s not something you could watch at home. Maybe you can’t bring yourself to pay to watch creepy soulless Lion King CGI mockumentary twice, but if Snotley and Ambrynnnn are asking to see the new one with a different voice cast and reconfigured set pieces, then… fine… whatever, maybe some of the jokes will make us smile.
- Comment on Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny? 2 weeks ago:
Still better than Rebel Moon.
- Comment on So that new game's fun huh 2 weeks ago:
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I gave you an antipodean upvote, buddy!
- Comment on Listen, libs... 3 weeks ago:
Dad?
- Comment on Deadpool & Wolverine | Trailer - SDF Chatter 3 weeks ago:
Since nothing matters in the MCU anymore, let’s at least make it a romp. Looks fun.
- Comment on This manhole placement is more than mildly infuriating 3 weeks ago:
I choose to believe this one was done specifically to fuck with OP and ruin their day.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What have you been watching this week? 17th of April 3 weeks ago:
Finished/caught-up:
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Fallout - As a fan of the games, excellent. I wonder if someone not invested in the lovingly re-created universe and the lore would have found it as engaging.
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Rebel Moon - It took me literally 5 sessions, but I did it. I watched the whole thing. I am a sci-fi space opera loving nerd, so I needed to finish it, but good lord what a beatdown. I have no current intention to start part two. Somebody needs to do the math and tell me what the run time would be with no slow-mo.
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Star Trek Discovery - It is finally hitting its stride now that it’s winding down. Has any ST show ever had to reinvent itself so thoroughly and more than once?
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Bad Batch - It is what it is, a decent continuation of certain plot threads in The Clone Wars, and Filoni has clearly been tasked with rehabilitating the sequel trilogy as he was with the prequels. I fear this generation is lost for the ST, and I say that as someone who liked TFA, loved TLJ, and kinda sorta eye-rollingly tolerated TROS. Time will tell if there is a cohort of Gen-Z and Alpha kids who want to love them and will latch onto the Filoniverse to help justify that.
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X-Men 97 - Good, but a bit overrated from what I’ve seen. Not my particular set of Nostalgia goggles to put on, though I remembered the original fondly enough.
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Ghosts (US) - A guilty pleasure. It’s nowhere near good enough to recommend generally, but I love the concept and find it charming in spite of myself.
Re-watch/catching up:
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Call the Midwife: Somewhere in S4 now. I am invested, but sometimes in spite of myself, you old bean, you old chum, you cheeky monkey. I do want to punch Vanessa Redgrave every time she reads off middlebrow half-poetic nonsense while the rest of the crew writes, directs, and acts out a vignette that portrays that exact sentiment with (slightly) more eloquence and (just barely) more subtlety. You can also tell that about halfway through S2, they were just about over it with spending time with the births themselves: I SEE THE HEAD! ONE MORE PUSH! MEET YOUR BABY!
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Star Trek Enterprise: 3/4 through S1. I only watched the first half of S1 in the original run. It has a real problem with Archer being an ass, with Rick Berman being a sexist creepo, and with mad-libs script edits to replace 23rd century technobabble with 22nd century technobabble, but that goes hand in hand with it also clearly being a bunch of Star Trek people doing a Star Trek, so it’s… fine? I skip the song most episodes, but every once in a while I let fake Rod Stewart serenade me with the bizarrely inscrutable notions of “faith of the heart.”
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The Good Place - re-watch. Slowly introducing my 10yo to this one, strategically skipping a scene here or there (looking at YOU, Mindy St. Clair!), and not worrying about when her attention drifts, but generally I’m really pleased at how invested she’s getting in Eleanor and the gang trying to sort out how to do the right thing. Also, it really holds up, and the big reveal really was thoughtfully set up to the point of being a bit telegraphed.
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Derry Girls - re-watch, for about the third time. Pop it on whenever I want a chuckle and a time filler that never insults its audience. It never disappoints upon re-watch, and the third season is slightly weaker but not weak, and also has Liam Neeson.
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- Comment on Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew 4 weeks ago:
Technically, I never said whose Plan A…
- Comment on Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew 4 weeks ago:
For Ireland at least, it seems you’re not wrong.
- Comment on Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew 4 weeks ago:
Now that said, potatoes only is probably not a great “Plan A.”
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 4 weeks ago:
It’s the “avoid tolls” part. I didn’t even know you could have the primary lanes of an interstate be a toll road, but I guess so.
- Comment on Let's just have a friendly chat 4 weeks ago:
Mormon Jesus packin’ heat. Feels appropriate.
Fuckin’ Del Parson, man.
- Comment on Title* 4 weeks ago:
When she was little, my kid used to watch a Canadian show on PBS Kids called Odd Squad. It was about kids running a MiB style organization that solved math-based cases of “odd” stuff happening. I chuckled when they pretty much did this exact plotline.
- Comment on Netflix’s New Film Strategy: More About the Audience, Less About Auteurs 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason? 4 weeks ago:
I think all the other comments have some validity. In particular, the most famous or readily available (and certainly the most readily available for free) translations often were done by a “classy Englishman from the 1800s.” In the case of Latin and Greek, sometimes it was the 1700s.
Another point not yet raised is that the languages will simply convey different things in a single word or phrase, and if you want to maintain that meaning, sometimes tone will take a backseat to linguistic data. Good translations will provide context for what the tone and intended audience would be, as far as we can tell, and also for the translator’s methodologies and biases.
This introduction to a modern translation of Cicero gives, I think, a fairly decent rundown of the difficulties inherent in this process. It is a Google Books link, fair warning.