Best posts made by insomniac7809

@Aria Related peeve:

fuck-fucking fucker fuck my fucking eye fuck

If you ever wonder just how much contempt Hollywood producers hold for their consumer base, consider: they used Sam Witwicky as the audience identification character.

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

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

If you ever wonder just how much contempt Hollywood producers hold for their consumer base, consider: they used Sam Witwicky as the audience identification character.

At that time in our nation's history, Sam Witwicky was perfect audience identification character.

"He's sexist, dumb, helpless, self-entitled, and a bully. Michael Bay really gets me."

@Tributary This is not an unfamiliar issue.

Can we be sure things exist when I'm not looking at them?

So, the Boys are back (the boys are back the boys are back and...)

Really liking the way they changed up Stormfront from the books, the way they handled the fallout from the S1 end... a lot of it very real even when it's an invulnerable man in primary colors.

Kinda wonder if they're gonna do more with The Deep than watch his off-the-rails spiraling irrelevance to everyone else's storylines. Like, I'm enjoying his plotline so far, but while everyone else has a whole interrelation of plot and character elements, he's just doing his own thing in Sandusky, Ohio. (But I presume they are building up to something.)

Still as relentlessly dark and gory as ever, but like with S1, they're restrained with their excesses in a way Ennis never was, which lets the commentary and emotional impacts hit the mark much more directly.

...also oh my god the fucking diaper babies in the Amazon reviews giving it a 1-star for doing half the show in weekly releases instead of a bingable dump.

The "zombie" thing is really, really overstated in general as far as psychiatric medication goes; the field isn't as old as you'd think, and the general understanding of "on medication" as meaning "zonked-out and numb" is kind of a legacy of the really early approaches. It's not entirely out of date, but it's not going to be something to worry about if you're on ADHD meds.
If you do get side effects, it's more likely to be the exact opposite.

ADHD meds are speed. They're designing some different approaches, and setting them as slow-release so you get more through the day instead of dosing all at once, but most all medication for ADHD is some kind of amphetamine. I haven't noticed anything much in the way of side effects, but you're more looking for reduced appetite, insomnia, general "you are taking stimulants" effects.

I've found that it helps with adulting in terms of... generally letting me keep track of what I'm doing and at least get started on a task. Or at least stick to it once I get over the insurmountable "start doing a thing instead of flitting between five things I should be doing" hurdle.

Full disclosure, first time around I thought it wasn't doing anything and was dumb so I stopped. It was the people around me who noticed that I'd gone off and needed to start again. (Only took like... three years?)

"You've cancelled a couple of appointments."

"Yeah, sorry. I got called in to work, and my schedule got messed up when I had to cover someone stuck in quarantine. And I've got some problems with keeping track of schedules. I'm, y'know, seeing someone about it."

@roz said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

Mira Furlan from Babylon 5

"In the place where no shadows fall."

No age at all, goddamn.

So in recognition of goddamn everyone telling me I needed to, here and elsewhere, I finally sat down and watched She-Ra.

And yes, it was very, very good. I felt a lot of emotions about princesses with rainbow powers and ridiculous goofy names.

(seriously Bo or Beau would still be a pun)

My only quibble would be that... well, people were making comparisons with AtLA above, and in both of them I just felt like they would have been better with a full episode of denouement after the climactic confrontation. Just, with a cast this sprawling and so many emotional threads going the length of the series, I feel like they deserved a full episode's worth of resolution.

But overall, great characters, great conflicts, some remarkably heavy stuff while still being appropriate for children. May, y'know, have prompted a Single Manly Tear or two.

Also really liked how it reframed some character traits in the main cast into character flaws that are usually presented as categorically heroic traits.

***=Spoiler***

Oh, and a few things that I still just find so very amusing. Brightmoon's dungeon. Entrapta's realization of which side she's on. Everyone's interpretations of Catra in the D&D epsidode. Bow's refusal to cover up his abs.

There's an artist who goes by Adhd_Bri on Twitter that has a bunch of these.

***=Long***

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

The flaws in democracy have been apparent since the first one was thought up. Plato wrote about it. Aristotle wrote about it. Extensively. It always, always leads to power creep and oppressive tactics. It's just inherent in the nature of the system.

Bearing in mind that part of the problem Aristotle and Plato had with democracy was that the "natural slaves" of the world got uppity rather than gratefully submitting to their betters, of course.

@derp Well, yes, but even then, when a classical Greek elite talks about "saving" the hoi-paloi from their own bad decisions, a lot of the time what they mean is "the year their harvest failed I was gracious enough to offer them a ruinous loan, they accepted rather than starving out of their own free will, and now apparently I'm not even allowed to enslave them on their own lands to collect on the debt. What's happening to this polis, I ask you."

@ominous Underrated film

@ominous said in Random funny:

@greenflashlight
They're being too clever for their own good. Humans love right angles. We surround ourselves with them even though they're unnatural.
Behold the bane of Dracula!

Response to an older post, but:

This is the vampire conceit behind Peter Watts' Blindsight and Echopraxia. His vampires are a subspicies of humans that evolved a protein deficiency that required predation on other human beings. They developed significant strength, sociopathy, hypersavantism, and the ability to hibernate when prey was scarce to make themselves able to survive as predators of human beings. They also developed, do to a quirk of their optical processing, a glitch where filling the majority of their visual field with intersecting lines triggers a fatal grand mal seizure.

Yes, this makes it impossible for vampires to survive around human settlements, which is why they went extinct.

But Quinoa Is Supposed To Be Healthy Sausage Casserole

1 cup quinoa
1 tbsp olive oil
1 lb sausage
1 onion
Sliced mushrooms (optional)
1 egg
Salt to taste
2-3 cups shredded cheddar cheese

Preheat oven to 400F. Boil quinoa with 3 cups of water until fluffy.
Dice onion. Heat olive oil on skillet and sauté over medium heat. Add mushrooms and sausage and cook until brown.
Scramble egg with salt.
Combine cooked quinoa, sausage, mushrooms, onions, egg, and 1-2 cups cheese. Move to baking dish and cover with 1 cup cheese.
Bake for 25 minutes until golden brown.

This Is Killing Me Creamy Chicken Parm

4 tbsp butter
2-3 boneless chicken breasts
1/2 onion
3-5 cloves garlic
1 cup long grain rice
2.5 cups chicken stock
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
salt to taste
1 tsp herbs du provance

Dice onion, garlic, and chicken breasts. Melt butter over low heat in skillet. Add onion and raise heat to sauté. Add garlic and cook until fragrant.
Add chicken until surface is cooked, stirring occasionally.
Add rice, stock, salt, and herbs and bring to boil. Cover and cook until liquid is gone.
Add cream and parmesan, stir until cheese is melted and rice is coated.

@23quarius said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

So while where the "line" is is not clear to me here, it does fall somewhere along the lines of "If what you are doing poses a threat to people other than yourself". If you're the one who stands to get hurt, no, you should not be expected to know how to guarantee your own safety. If you're part of the chain of potentially posing a danger to someone else who is not yourself, you should be expected some minimal training.

The line is between having another pair of eyes on someone else's work and having the work of a professional undone, checked, and redone by an unqualified member of another profession.

You brought up checking the chamber, but what would that have told anyone? That there was a round in the chamber, obviously, but there was supposed to be. The issue is whether the rounds were blanks, dummies, or live rounds, and an actor isn't going to be able to tell the difference there without unloading the weapon, looking at the bullets individually, and putting them back in.

So the idea of having actors check the rounds would mean taking the weapon that was prepared in advance by a professional, and then having it unloaded and reloaded in the middle of an active set by someone in the middle of doing their actual, completely different, job.

This would void the production insurance and get any set that tried it shut down. And it would be right to do so.

I haven't seen Carnival Row, so I can't make a direct comparison, but China Meiville's The City & The City was a wonderful bit of hardboiled fiction in a fantastical setting. (There's a BBC adaptation, but I haven't actually seen that either.)