Partner: Did you have a good Christmas?
Me: Yes.
Partner: Even if I didn’t get you anything?
Me: You’ve given me two children. That’s all I need.
Partner: That’s sweet.
Me: Thank you.
(Dramatic pause.)
Me: Toil and pain make me stronger.
Partner: I hate you.
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!
I don’t really need to ask. I’m a partner. I do what I want.
But I am beholden to a partner in life, and she demands that I spend some time with our brood.
I do love my brood and my partner, but the former need discipline and the latter disappointment.
I get to go to work tomorrow, though, so not all is lost.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Because sometimes parents are bullshit.
This from the generation that has the audacity to say:
I prefer to say it this way:
I don’t really have a point other than some people with families and friends would rather be at work during the holidays.
Don’t mind me, honestly. I dislike the holiday season immensely. All of this cheer and time off makes my blood boil.
When I was younger, I honestly preferred to work than spend time with family. And my friends spent time with theirs.
This year, I watched my kids all day. With two trials coming up in two weeks, I would have preferred work.
@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:
Those content creators, the actors chased off of social media, and the people who play wanted to be a part of Star Wars to keep it going even though the prequels were horrible? I respect them. They're keeping the candle lit. We are all on the same team, and Disney is working to keep it going, too.
And this is why I find so much wisdom in Ratatouille.
I’m going to interject to suggest that franchise directors are more hamstrung creatively than cinema directors.
Knives Out was fantastic, but it was all Johnson. I like Abrams just fine, but he’s working within the confines of a franchise. Nolan had an aberration to work with because Batman is fucking Batman, and I doubt his skills would have worked with Green Lantern.
So I think material is very important. And yes you need the right tool for the material.
@TheOnceler said in Good or New Movies Review:
People should go see Knives Out. It's Rian Johnson finally recovering from the stumble of making a critically acclaimed billion dollar movie.
Stolen.
@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
ETA: Also a lot of 'it's all right to not know' and 'it's all right to grieve'. These things are sometimes most important for someone to hear, even if it is less immediately comforting than something like 'Jesus wanted another angel' and similar.
It’s my first Christmas without my cat. It’s my kids’ first Christmas without our cat. They still ask when he’s coming back, and it is all I can do not to cry about it.
Those fucking garbage children, I love them.
@ZombieGenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:
Anyway, it was an interesting discussion. Now it's just devolved into typical MUSB BS. A shame.
If you say so. I haven’t seen the movie yet. I can’t intelligently engage in the discussion, even if you can.
And you still can. No one is stopping you but you.
Everyone is welcome to have their opinion. I’m good with that.
That opinion can also be a negative one. That’s cool too. We can’t all like everything. That would defeat the purpose of entrepreneurship.
But in my old age, I have come to embrace the old Southern lady in me that has come to believe with much introspection that little comes from voicing a negative opinion. What’s the point? Do you seek to discourage someone from spending their money on what they might enjoy? Do you feel a surge of joy crapping on someone else’s work?
I will concede there is something amusing in squelching what others enjoy. There is a delight in ridiculing or shaming another for enjoying what you find puerile, tasteless, or, Heaven forbid, Republican. And if that’s what it is about, go for it.
Let’s not pretend it is somehow noble or sacrosanct, this desire to crush what others have probably taken a great deal of time and pain to construct. As someone else wiser than me taught me: let people enjoy what they want.
Sometimes that requires us to withhold our opinion, no matter how correct we may think it to be.
I am reminded of the oft-maligned suggestion that if one thinks they can run a game better they should make one of their own.
It is very, very obvious that he's played the games because he nails Geralt exactly. You can't get that kind of characterization just from reading a script or a book. They better pay him whatever he wants because he is now the defining Geralt.
Gonna post up this sick and simple shortbread recipe.
1 cup of softened butter.
1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
2 3/4 cups of flour.
1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
1/2 tsp of peppermint extract.
Everything except the flour into the stand mixer. Mix until creamed nicely. Add equal amounts of flour in three portions. Stir with stand mixer.
Put into 13” x 9” baking pan. Mash and flatten into flat dough. Jab with fork several times. Bake for 35 minutes at 300 degrees F.
Cut into squares after out of the oven. Cool for 20 minutes.
You’ll thank me. This takes about an hour to bake.
In the context outside of a courtroom, the listener has to determine if there is an intent or not. That determination has to be made from available facts.
Going back to my story, it’s really not about a lie, intent, or deception. It is about whether one should be gracious and accept an undesired product from a loved one rather than point out that you told them what you actually wanted. Because doing the latter is a very quick way for that loved one to stop doing you favors.
I continue my rampage against these ignorant lackwits who pass themselves off as credible reporters or critics.
Who is The Witcher for? Shit, Danny, do some fucking research. The English translation of the Polish novels correspond with the release of the first Witcher game. Every salient benchmark rises after 2007.
Fucking idiots.
Anyhow, back to what I was getting at, here's a review from some shit at eFilmCritic. Go ahead and read it.
Have you read it?
Remember all the shit we give people for purple prose? About how they seem more in love with what they say and how they say it than any of the substance they are purportedly commenting on? That is this. Being ignorant of the context of the musical and then commenting on it is sort of like criticizing the verbiage of a Shakespeare play-to-film without understanding that it was written in iambic pentameter. And this sort of opinion piece born from ignorance is the same shit that so-called politicos thrive on, or use as a basis for their beliefs when trolling on internet forums.
I get it, I get it. "A film should stand well as written and not require the audience to know the background to be enjoyed." That is all trite when it comes to adapting something from one medium of expression to another, which is the case here. And as much as I want to gloss over the criticism with good humor and my usual "I don't give a fuck" this sort of shit bothers me more these days whilst the United States is mired in some stupid impeachment scandal.
Get educated before you shoot off at the mouth, you ignorant fucks. People's livelihoods are affected by your ignorant opinions.
"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new."
