Posts made by Ganymede

@auspice said in Good TV:

It's been said, repeatedly, that a large part of WB's issue with DC vs. Disney's with Marvel is that Pixar/Marvel (and part of why the partnership has worked so well is both studios took the same approach pre-merger) always gave a single person creative control / the buck stopped with them. WB has a board of directors at the helm over their movies who make decisions based on marketing.

I disagree. I am of the opinion that the DCCU is failing because, unlike the MCU, the execs at WB decided it was a bad idea to actually give each of the main members an origin tale so that you would actually give a shit about them.

Prior to The Avengers, Captain America got one film, Thor got one, Iron Man got 2, and the Hulk got 1 or 2, depending on your perspective. Either way, when The Avengers opened, you had a feel for the characters and their background, and didn't need to waste time in the film going through that.

With the DCCU, you had Man of Steel, and then Dawn of Justice. Aside from Snyder's terrible direction, the central protagonist in Dawn of Justice -- Bruce Wayne -- is largely an enigma before he is launched into this head-to-head confrontation; although you generally know who Batman is (who doesn't?), it's pretty clear that there are a lot of bits and pieces of information missing about him, making him hard to relate to (beyond the fact that he's fucking Batman, but the Nolans still presented his background in Batman Begins).

Then you have Wonder Woman, which was magic because DC did what Marvel/Disney does and allow the directors to see their creative vision through.

So, Justice League has a lot of problems without even discussing the script. Aquaman has zero movies; The Flash has zero movies; Cyborg has zero movies; and Batman, arguably, has zero movies. You have to wedge some of that into the movie, and that's going to make it rushed and jumbled. Whedon didn't have to deal with that when he did The Avengers. Add to it Snyder having to drop out -- and good for him for doing so for the right reasons -- and WB should have fucking delayed the project to get their shit right the first time.

I would have zero concerns about Disney/LucasFilm delaying Han Solo due to the massive changes in direction.

It's theorized that a large part of why Wonder Woman did so well is they thought 'eh, female hero, female director, no one's gonna like it anyway. let's just get it over and done with so we can prove it won't do well.' and they let Patty Jenkins actually do her job.

Yeah, well, serves them fucking right.

I'll admit that I was a bit leery when I found out Sir Kenneth Branagh was going to direct Thor, but, boy, was I wrong.

@faceless

Equally unnecessary: Ludacris freestyles Anna Dewdney's beloved children's book.

@auspice

It's so angry!

@coin said in Good TV:

I only watched the first season because I was watching it with @Eerie and then real life forced her to ditch me ;__________; but that show should definitely have been called "The Adventures of Kublai Khan and his Dumbass White Friend".

If this show was so named, I'd watch it every day and force my kids to do so as well.

@surreality said in Good TV:

The scene that always makes me cringe?

The Babadook, when the kid starts screaming in the car.

@ixokai said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:

I find myself agreeing with @Tempest here.

I haven't run the metrics here, but isn't it equally likely that the activity that would have been in the Hog Pit or elsewhere has instead been directed at the Administration on MSB thread?

Plus, that would be ignoring the thread on Elsa's misbehaviors, the fun stuff about United Heroes, the posts here, on The 8th Sea.

There's only so much time in the day.

@sunny

I hear you. That's what my partner gets a lot, and it sort of pisses me off.

The difference between doctors and lawyers is that one's customers are in severe pain. I mean, eventually my clients hurt, but that's when they get the invoice. For doctors, it's a doubly-whammy.

Basically, me coming home every day.

@auspice said in Regarding administration on MSB:

It's all about the right music with me. The right song hits on my walk home and I'll start running.

For me, it's Lose Yourself or Through the Fire and the Flames.

Yes, my running speeds vary.

"I love you, fuzzball."
"I love you too, trash panda."

@saosmash

MDMA got you feelin' like a champion /
The city never sleeps; better slip you an Ambien.

TAKE OFF THAT DAMN HAT.

@mietze

Honestly, I haven't had much problem with this. Then again, I use a battle axe.

@Sunny

Sorry to hear about all that. One "good" thing about having a partner that's had cancer eleventy-billion times is that they super-scan her every single time she gets a minutiae of pain. So, they tend to find causes of pain easily. Last time she was in, she had a cyst like that on an ovary that she still has for some stupid reason because it's not like she has a fucking uterus any more.

@bored said in Regarding administration on MSB:

Also, it seems necessary to point out that a mod is not a normal poster. They are a person of public interest. That means that their behaviors are obviously going to be under general scrutiny.

I think you mean "greater" scrutiny.

This is an important point. This is something I think the three mods are trying to feel out.

Arkandel, Auspice, and I talk regularly over PM. We don't always agree. Sometimes we wait for a consensus to act. Sometimes we don't.

I'd have a new set of Rules of Engagement drawn up, but for the fact that my work days have been bitching, and, with the holiday season and having to prepare for it, I am very drained at the end of the day, and just feel like working out and singing karaoke.

I think what Thenomain was getting at before was that this thread -- all of it, the good, the bad, the ugly, the veiled insults, the kicking, the shoving, the shouting -- is good. And it's good because we're still doing it, posting up pictures of puppies, tossing in GIFs, and, at least from my perspective, getting a wide range of opinions and perspectives from the members.

@kanye-qwest said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

This is not that complicated.

So, we are playing hot or not?

Gosling has a modern face.

I also have no idea what is being discussed.

@bored said in Regarding administration on MSB:

Bold mine. Did you guys actually discuss this and agree on it? Because the placement seems so obviously silly, and your wording makes it seem like it wasn't as much of a group decision as it's being presented as.

The post was made between the time I learned of what was brewing on Stranger Than Fiction and when I responded to Arkandel and Auspice. It was discussed thereafter. It was not a unanimous decision.

I have already said that I'm not going to step in to moderate in the Hog Pit, and how I will moderate the Advertisement Thread. I would not have posted anything.

I can understand the rationale of a decision and find it reasonable even if I would have done something else that is also reasonable.

@auspice said in Good TV:

It's really hard for me to explain. Because it's not that it was a fight scene. I enjoy fight scenes. I love writing them, for example. They're full of energy and exciting. The adrenaline rush and... I mean, in Luke Cage, the Bring Da Ruckus scene? Fuck yes, love that scene.

It's because it's not a fight scene. It's a murder scene.

The difference between a fight and a murder is subtle. A fight is where there is a contest between relative equals. A murder occurs when a victim has no real chance.

This scene made my partner uncomfortable (she's a rape survivor). For her, she suffered disquiet because she knows how it feels to be powerless to stop something.

For me, I think that's the distinction you're looking for.

@auspice said in Random links:

Some days, I'm the Monkey Brain.
Others, I'm the Lizard Brain.

Gany Brain: Add to clothes in washing machine. Turn washing machine on. Eat sustenance. Rub one out. Repeat.

@saosmash said in Regarding administration on MSB:

I thought in this case that the error was giving credence to a complaint without any reality behind it, thereby loaning it legitimacy it might not otherwise have.

This is a reasonable conclusion, but it is true that, in the past, predecessors of this forum have gone to games to "raid" them, so to speak. There was talk of this earlier, which was dissuaded by Arkandel. To deny the possibility of a WORA cabal lurking here to commit nefarious things, however remote, is to deny that past.

So, I think it was reasonable to say, as an official statement or otherwise, that the vast, vast majority of us, if not all, do not support this behavior. Its placement is questionable, but I understand and support the sentiment behind the decision to say something.