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"But why do we have to?"

"Because I'm telling you to, because my boss' boss said we had to, because her boss' boss said she had to tell us to. What the fuck do you think I get told?"

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

When a sequel to one of the best games ever made gets softlocked by a bug that will get patched next week some time.

See, this is why I just don't buy video games within six months of release.

"Buy a game that doesn't exist yet, at the most expensive it will ever be, for the privilege of being our unpaid QA!"

@WildBaboons

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@RightMeow said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I feel like I hyper-focus on all the things I should not. Then lack focus on the things I should.

Oh God yeah.

What's the best way to get me to do something I've been putting off for a month? Giving me something else I need to do by tomorrow.

@LittleLizard Nice.

Maybe keep the last caption up for a few more frames? I had to let it loop a couple times to catch it.

@surreality Someone should get on that.

@RightMeow The really good ones are when you see it in West Virginia...

But yeah, here in PA? Half of the southern border is with Maryland, which was loyalist but only kinda. (Their state song is still a call to secession complaining about the tyrant Lincoln.) The other half is West Virginia, which at the start of the war was just Virginia. Our heritage was getting invaded by traitors and being the place where they got slapped down.

Def. I mean, I also hope it's a good horror movie. Which it should be; they have a solid team working on it.

Have you seen the trailer/short film Nia DeCosta tweeted out? https://twitter.com/NiaDaCosta/status/1273293842113089536

@Rinel said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

But now I'm more confused, lol. I rarely miss deadlines, but that's because I tend to cram at the very last minute. Maybe I have mild ADHD? Talking about this is really weird because, like... some of the stuff is me to a T. All the time. Messy (more like absolute disaster) of a room, papers always everywhere, scattered, disorganized, make fancy plans and never go through with them, always forget to send thank you cards, bills pile up, etc...
But, like, at work? I'm fine at work. I mean, I get distracted constantly, but I get shit done on time, even though deadlines are really stressful. I don't know if this means I just have a mild form of the disorder or if being undiagnosed for 30 years means I developed coping strategies that let me function albeit miserably.

So, hm.

On the one hand (this is important) we are not healthcare professionals seeing you in person and it's a long-established truth that a layman or first-year student reading a medical textbook or the DSM will learn to their surprise that they have goddamn everything. We can't give a diagnosis.

On the other hand, what we're talking about and what you're talking about sound like a lot of my experiences, and it seems likely you have it too. Most psychiatric disorders are on a spectrum in any case, so sometimes teasing out the exact difference between a mild disorder and a personality trait is as much a definitional issue as anything, yeah? And if it is similar enough, we can at least share sympathy and coping strategies. (Although I don't recommend looking for those from me.)

And yes, as mentioned, a lot of us manage deadlines by using the stress-panic to cram it in at the last second. (Little anecdote: in college, I had one professor who was always annoyed with me because he kept getting A- papers from me that would've been a solid A if they were just proofread. The reason they weren't, of course, was that I'd finished the essays three minutes before class started and set them to print in the lab I passed on the way.)

Personally, I often do a lot better at work than otherwise because "do X thing in Y situation by Z time" is direct and manageable while "sort your fucking life out" is vague and undefined and open-ended and I'll get to starting it as soon as I'm done watching YouTube and shitposting on MSB.

And yeah, 30-odd years of coping strategies are a whole thing, which is why it's easiest to get an ADD diagnosis as a kid. It's a been a whole level of fun for me that, being resistant to medication or therapy already, I get psych people assuming an ADD diagnosis in my thirties means I'm cruising for drugs.

@Rinel
Okay, I feel like I must have come across much more harshly to the 1992 Candyman than I meant to. It is, as I've said, a personal favorite in the horror genre, which is itself a favorite film genre. I know exactly what scene you're talking about, and yeah, it's a really well-developed, thoughtful commentary on the material it's covering. I'm not dropping the P-word (I know that some people have; I wouldn't but it's not really my place to say; obviously Peele and Monkey's Paw had enough attachment to the property to secure it), I'm just saying that I really think a take on the material from the other side is a really cool opportunity.

Like, I don't try to read every piece of media as a direct allegory or a code; the joke about how it can be more than one thing wasn't really a joke. But just looking at the trailer for the new one...

The opening clip is a mixed-race, mostly-white group of teenage girls calling on the Candyman, with the one black girl involved showing up afterwards to witness what happens when they dredge up that old pain. The location is a gentrified Cabrini Green, with the whitewashed exterior of the church hiding a broken-down interior full of the sort of Candyman graffiti we saw in his shrine in the first film. We have a few people from the older generation, including Anne-Marie (Vanessa Williams) from the first film, who remember what happened thirty years back. Our protagonist is an artist whose history traces back to the first film, who finds himself obsessed with the Candyman story and uses it to create an exhibit featuring imagery of lynching victims (I really don't subscribe to 'interpret art as 1:1 symbolism code' but come on) and we have a scene where he looks in the mirror and sees Candyman reflected back at him...

And okay maybe you're the one over-analyzing 152 seconds of trailer footage did you ever think of that but seriously I am stoked to see this one.

@Rinel said in Good or New Movies Review:

ETA: I never watched the sequels, so how are they dealing with the whole, uh... replacement thing that happens at the end of the original film?

Up in the air is all we can say for now. Helen will be featuring in the 2020 film (she's been recast, from what we've been told); I think the idea is that she's become part of the story, but not a replacement.

She didn't feature at all, or even get a mention, in either of the released sequels; neither of them really seemed to understand what the first film was doing with Candyman-as-legend, and just sort of went with Candyman-as-ghost-or-some-shit-maybe.

They weren't good.

@Kestrel the_miracle_alligator really went all-in by taking Hildegard's instrumental tracks and covering Pumped Up Kicks in Anglo-Saxon.

Eall þá óþer cild mid findġum soccum
Sċulon betera rinnen fram minum earhum
Eall þá óþer cild mid findġum soccum
Sċulon betera rinnen, cwicra þon mín boga

@Wretched "how @Auspice said"

@Wizz On allreceipies it's sitting at 4.5 stars.

Finally got to see a scrip monkey doctor to get me back on meds after three years.

Just love how part of the process is "figure out if the psychiatrist your're seeing believes the DSM about adult ADD being a real thing."

I work in mall retail. It's pretty much a combination of anxiety that I have to work with the public weighted against anxiety that I won't have work if we go back into lockdown or the store closes.

I've also done so much less than I keep thinking I will with the free time I've wound up with. I haven't even gotten into things I really want to do. It's brought out the worst of my "oh, I won't put on a movie because I'm going to Productive, I'll just do this ten-minute distraction first." Do you know how much time you can sink into a series of ten-minute distractions on the internet?

So yeah, uh, I guess the answer would be "badly."

@too-old-for-this Even then, I feel like a question about what grans value to a temporary existence in an uncaring universe is a bit heavy for a job application.

@ganymede

Legit.

I loved the show, too. I really did. And (having looked up some comments from the showrunner) I absolutely agree that it's for the best that they didn't end with a flash forward; the glimpse of maybe we got was more than enough.

Just... more of a quibble than anything, the ending being on my mind as, y'know, the last thing I saw...

***=Finale talk***

But these are, ultimately, just niggles that I was left with at the conclusion, and if they aren't going to delve into them, then the generally upbeat, accepting, and loving finale was the way to do it.

The plot was great, the animation was great, I really cared about the characters. The cyclical abuse theme running through the villain side is definitely something that manages to be heavy without being inappropriate for the target audience. Really, there's so much going on with the characters, and especially the Adora/Catra/Shadow Weaver dynamic.

They even managed an episode where they do the thing where the main character sees something's up and her friends think she's seeing things, and make it not just be pure secondhand embarrassment that I hate watching.