@Lotherio said in Good or New Movies Review:
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
but by their own sins and self-judgment?
Like the first 20-30 books in the first run of new mutants? Where it's the demon bear that's after Dani that's stimulating those fears?
I never read the original run. So this looks like a translation of that series?
@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
Well that looks pretty awesome. Rahne's supposed to be gay for Illyana, though, not Dani.
Anyone else getting a Silent Hill 2 (the game, not the movie) vibe from it? Like the facility is haunted not by a ghost or demons, but by their own sins and self-judgment?
@Auspice said in Firefly - Still Flyin':
She insisted it was because she loved our plots and RP and it was fun, but I always wondered (and still do) why she didn't just ask to watch.
I feel like this specific instance and the general concern are symptoms of a single problem: that the staff/player hierarchy creates a divide between the two groups. As a staffer, you are removed from the general player experience because you have information players don't (the intentions behind the rules), and players have information staffers don't (the effects those rules have on the play experience regardless of intention) that they're mostly afraid to share for expectation of reprisal.
Fixing that might be beyond the scope of this thread, though.
@Roz said in Firefly - Still Flyin':
There's a lot of things that people think "pretty much everyone knows," but I think that's kind of bad to assume.
For example, I am horrified to learn of this, because if spying on PCs is as rampant and expected as people make it sound in this thread, then every complaint I've ever lodged has been documented by some creeper on staff and they just refused to do anything about it. Now I can't stop wondering how many of the requests that I produce logs supporting my case were made by people who already knew what had happened but were looking for excuses to protect their creepy friends by creating hurdles for me until I tripped over one of them, thus providing a pretext to drop the case.
This probably has nothing to do with the game being discussed but is upsetting enough I had to say something.
It doesn't happen enough to set a trap, it was probably just somebody not realizing it wasn't theirs.
Maybe it is a mark of my gluttony, but I have never in life opened my lunchbox (or whatever), looked at what's inside, and said, "Huh, I don't remember making this, but it must be mine so I'll just go ahead and eat whatever it is."
@Testament said in Depression Meals:
@Kanye-Qwest People who are so depressed they operate on automatic pilot and just go through the motions. Because one grey, bland day is just the same as any other grey bland day in the monotony of a life without meaning, in world that is ultimately uncaring.
I've done a lot of things I honestly can't recall when it got that bad. Things bought and food made that I don't honestly remember doing the day/night before.
I still don't remember a lot from those times. It's all a colorless blur.
Seconded. Depression steals my ability to think, which steals my ability to consider other options, leaving me to follow the habits I've ingrained in myself; thus making cooking technically possible.
@Derp said in Depression Meals:
I make this a lot. Like, a LOT a lot. Because it's yummy.
RIGHT?!
Second, you should add both garlic and red pepper flakes to the oil. Maybe not much, but you want a bit of heat in it.
I've never regretted red pepper flakes, but I've never found it necessary either. With a whole head of garlic in there, it has that nice garlic burn throughout the oil.
I am not yet vegetarian, but I'll have to start working on it until a president is elected who believes meat should be inspected.
@Kestrel said in Depression Meals:
What do you guys eat when you literally can't be fucked to make anything difficult?
Realistically? A bag of potato chips, or drive-thru.
A super easy comfort food recipe is pasta aglio e olio, though. While you boil a box of pasta al dente, heat half a cup of olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat, crush a head of garlic into the oil and brown it (most recipes tell you to slice it, but that's a suboptimal way to get the garlic evenly spread, I say), and toss the pasta into the garlic-infused oil. Juice a large lemon into it. Most recipes tell you to add a ton of parsley, and you can do that if you want, but it's not crazy necessary. You have a meal full of carbs and heart-helpful garlic that takes maybe twelve minutes to wake.
What's the minimum lore investment to be able to play? The references to in-canon historical events make me worry.
@Wizz said in Random funny:
It's been argued facetiously and completely seriously that Batman is the only reason his rogues gallery continues to exist. Like he's basically deliberately keeping these severely mentally ill people in an institution he knows for a fact is understaffed, with corrupt/incompetent management, because he needs to justify his own hobby. He's simply too efficient otherwise and he has a small army of proteges, the only reason crime exists at all in Gotham is a fabrication to keep one insanely wealthy man pumped to the gills with catharsis in what is essentially his own private theme park.
As best I recall, these arguments came after his wealth became incalculable. Like, when he becomes the sole provider of funding for the Justice League with its teleportation technology, its moon fortresses, its Death Star cannons, and whatever the hell else, Bruce Wayne's wealth became infinite; which means he could have paid every criminal in Gotham enough to satisfy them, paid Arkham enough to provide bleeding edge medical treatments and security, paid the government enough to fund social programs that make crime irrelevant, &c &c &c. A man who can afford to single-handedly fund the construction of a moon fortress while still having enough left over to give himself private stealth bombers shaped like his insignia is a man who doesn't need to punch neurodivergent people to try to solve a city's problem; he just does it because he wants to.
I've heard Little Women is this generation's The Godfather. I'm eager to watch it.
@Kestrel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@GreenFlashlight don't ever quote Ben Shapiro @me, you sick fuck.
@Kestrel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I made a New Years Resolution to stop arguing with strangers over the internet.
That's a stupid resolution. Here is a list of forty-six reasons why you are wrong to make such a resolution.
@Jennkryst said in Good or New Movies Review:
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
In other, late news, the new Star Wars movie is pretty alright.
So alright, in fact, that the writers are trying to throw everyone else under the bus to justify why it is so bad, up to and including blaming Carrie Fisher for 'how hard it was to write scenes and dialogue to integrate archived footage of her'.
I have not seen those attempts at bus-throwing, so cannot comment beyond saying what the writers say or do not say to control the PR does not affect my analysis of the movie's execution.
@Groth said in Good or New Movies Review:
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
See also the rainbow-colored Mickey Mouse hats they sell during Pride Month. I think I mentioned those already but can't be bothered to check.
That is blatant profiteering merchandising. Not a statement of support.
So, to be clear here, you're saying Disney wants people to say to themselves as they purchase these products, "Ah, yes, this hat is definitely not intended to be perceived as a sign of support for the people to whom it is targeted?" That is the attitude Disney is trying to foster, is it?
@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
In the first place, I do not care about a person's intentions when compared to the outcomes of their actions. If you only accidentally hit me in the nose, does my nose stop bleeding once I know it wasn't your intention?
I think you are taking this a bit too personally.
I don't mean Frozen. I mean this thread's comments.
Okay. What would you like me to do?
@Tempest said in Good or New Movies Review:
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
Then they can have my money and my support in time.
Am I missing something or is this being said after seeing 2 new Disney movies in the span of what, a
weekmonth?ETA : F2 came out last month my bad.
Don't remember saying I paid for the tickets.
@Derp said in Good or New Movies Review:
Or, you could just be looking so hard that you're suffering a confirmation bias.
I could be, but I'm not. I didn't go into this looking for visual vagina metaphors or songs about how the protagonist is trying to fight down her feelings but she just can't because though they're scary and will throw her life as she's always known it into chaos they still represent her inner truth that she can no longer suppress. Those things are in there whether I am looking for them or not.
@Groth said in Good or New Movies Review:
When has Disney ever said they are an ally?
See also the rainbow-colored Mickey Mouse hats they sell during Pride Month. I think I mentioned those already but can't be bothered to check.