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Lady I get that carrying groceries on the bus is a pain but maybe find a way to manage them that doesn't involve taking up all the bench space at the bus stop.

There's four seats. For people. Not your bags.

@Coin said in Wildly Out of Context:

@Auspice said in Wildly Out of Context:

From a coworker:
'The trick is to get so overwhelmed that it doesn't even matter anymore. That's where I'm at.'

Are we working together? Am i your co-worker?

Do you look like a ginger Daniel Radcliffe in his mid-20s?

I'll throw the evil cheesecake haters a bone here...

I hate pie.
Dry crust + hot, squishy fruit. Ugh.

@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I'll throw the evil cheesecake haters a bone here...

I hate pie.
Dry crust + hot, squishy fruit. Ugh.

Sugar cream pie is the shit though.

But it has no fruit.

I consider stuff like chocolate meringue and their ilk different from 'pie.'
When people talk about pie, 9 times out of 10 they mean the stuff packed with fruit that is invariably paired with a dry-ass crust.

And yeah yeah all the 'but that means it wasn't made well!' claims. I've heard them. None of those people have ever given me a pie that isn't still super dry with hot, squishy fruit inside.

@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:

Would love to know if they liked the original production.

Still, I’m probably going to enjoy it.

I like Cats.

I read another article on how it's being panned and they said a lot of it comes down to, a) poor marketing, b) that Cats has been, for a long while now, a joke in pop culture.

People don't want to admit they like even the broadway show, so it forms a sort of... kneejerk of HA HA NO I DON'T LIKE THAT GARBAGE ISN'T IT GARBAGE WE ALL THINK SO YEAH TOTALLY as people refuse to listen to it, etc...

It was surreal at first, but the soundtrack is def. solid.

Part of why I can 'see' the shift is that I used to do some small theater performing and my audition piece was 'Someone Like You' from Jekyll and Hide. Other theater people recommended it to me because a) it's an alto-soprano piece so I'd show my range, b) it's known without being one of the 'big' songs out there, so it'd be a spark of 'oh! this is different!'

This was 15 years ago. And I think now critics (as @Lotherio was saying) feel a need to prove how 'cool' they are. Cats? YAWN.
And this happens to p much every musical-turned-film. I give you the Rotten Tomatoes scoring for 2005's Phantom of the Opera:

Critics had nothing good to say, but audiences clearly enjoyed it.

@Derp said in Wildly Out of Context:

@Auspice said in Wildly Out of Context:

"...it absorbs all the bad energy and reduces radio waves"

WAT.

Let me guess. It's also all natural and fat free.

considering I work at Whole Foods? Probably.

@reimesu said in Good or New Movies Review:

I am REALLY tired of hipster douchebags droning on and thinking it's a critical review, when all it is, truly, is yet another douchebag thinking he's an edgelord.

Shhhh. Let people like things.

This is why a review is supposed to cover more raw specifics. Who wrote the movie. Who directed the movie. Which actors are in it and what else have they been in that a reader might recognize.

Then you can go into some specifics. Use of tropes. Cinematography. Soundtrack choices. Pacing. But it should all be presented in a way that still allows a reader to make up their own mind. It's a very hard balance to strike (informative without being biased), but it is doable.

Too many reviewers now want to force readers to think like they do and have the same preferences they do.

I, on the other hand, enjoyed Rise of Skywalker.

It wasn't perfect. The pacing dragged a couple times and I think they should have tightened it up into 2 hours.
There were a few dropped plot threads I'd have liked more of.

But I went in as the person who grew up with Star Wars. The person who has terribly fond memories of watching it on VHS every chance I got. Who had an Empire poster that was an original theater poster. Whose first midnight movie release was one of the prequels because even disliking them, I still give each one a chance.

And in that vein....it worked. My inner child was happy. It continued the Hero's Journey vein that began all the way back with New Hope. Would I change things if it were me? Sure. Little more of this or little less of that.

But overall... I enjoyed myself. I dunno that I'm in a rush to see it again (my 'would watch again' movie rn is 1917), but I liked it more than TLJ. I'll say that for sure.

@Groth said in Good or New Movies Review:

@ZombieGenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Jaded I agree. Like it or not TLJ happened. By ignoring it you're not going to appease the people who did not like TLJ because of how you're going to have to drag out your new story with exposition and you're also going to ostracize the people who did like TLJ. It's a lose/lose. I think it would have been best to just springboard off of TLJ and tell the best story you can from there.

What is there even in TLJ to springboard off? TLJ basically neutered/killed all the villains and all the plot threads from The Force Awakens.

just think RoS could've been 2.5 hours of casino planet

@Wizz said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Thankfully, with the weighted blanket, I'm taking ambien even less frequently.

I really ought to try one, but I get so hot when I sleep that it usually wakes me up just with a regular one. Kinda worry I would be a sweaty restless mess, haha.

I do wake up usually at some point to kick it off, but initially settling in? Ohhhh man.

Just get a fan!

Sparkly green scarf ftw

@Aria

This is about the only project where it works. Knitting it alongside a solid allows me to use larger needles and fewer stitches. It also gives it structure to behave.

I make these scarves every so often because they're easy (size 10 needles, 15 stitches) and fun. It also works out to be a decently warm (without being TOO warm) scarf.

@ZombieGenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:

Sorry for saying something else you don't like. Know what might help? Putting up a list of thoughts and opinions people are allowed to have that don't ruffle the feathers of people like you. It'd make everyone's life a lot easier.

I'll set bags of trash outside my door to take out in the morning or after work.

Twice now I've gotten home, intent on grabbing it....only to find someone already did.

I dunno who is taking out my trash for me but I sure do appreciate it.

@Macha If you need to chat day-of, feel free to PM me. I'll be home and packing to move all day. I've got nowhere to go / no one to see either.

@Ghost said in The Work Thread:

and another guy called out sick.

Calling out sick on a holiday?

@Ghost Years ago I got to sit and talk with David Weber (author of the Honorverse novels) at length about writing. What it is to be an author. His experiences. etc.

He told me how he was once approached to write a series of books about Leia. And initially he was thrilled: he was being asked to write in the Star Wars universe!!!

but then he found out that- oh. Authors within SW were very very very very closely controlled by Lucasfilm. If he'd agreed, he'd have been given a very specific formula, every plot point, etc. It'd basically be ghostwriting in a sense. Other people would decide everything that happened and he'd just connect the dots.

So none of the books written pre-Disney are truly the author's own creation. They're just putting someone else's story (Lucafilm) into their own words.

@Ghost Well, he's also not Lucasfilm, solely. It's quite likely that it was handed off to another team that controlled it all. Sure, his company, but someone else's circus.