I binged it. I was happy. It wasn't perfect, because it couldn't be, but it was good, and that's enough.
I think Gaiman has grown up a bit, become a bit more Pratchetty, a bit less angsty. There are some happy endings that didn't happen in the book, and I liked it. I also like how a joke about Queen being absolutely inescapable in the late 80s turned into an awesome classic rock soundtrack.
Side note: I never realized Good Omens was published the year I was born.
That’s how improv works. And that’s how MUSHes work.
And, more generally, how decent people work.
Late to the party re: fluency.
I think you misread the statistic, or the statistic was improperly reported. Susie Dent (she of 'Countdown' and '8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown' fame) estimated that the average English speaker's active vocabulary, i.e. the words you use, is about 20,000 words, while your passive vocabulary, i.e. your active vocabulary plus the words that don't have you reaching for a dictionary, is about 40,000.
So yes, you absolutely do know 20,000 English words.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix had 7,908 unique words. Extract a few dozen fake words (squib, muggle, etc), and you see just how many words you read without thinking about it. And there are so many words in English. We have words for everything. Plus, once you hit a certain point in vocabulary, you start being able to put together words by looking at their etymology and related words. For instance, say you know "hemo-" means "relating to blood." Suddenly you know hemoparasite, hemoparasitology, hemoparasitologist, hemopathology...
You've probably never seen the word "hyperpermeabilized" before in your life, but I'm positive that you instinctively know it means "the state of something that has been made really permeable." Because you know "hyper-" means "really," you know "-ized" means "done something to," and you know what permeability is.
It's not a democracy, but horseshit is still horseshit, and while viewers are not owed anything, the whole "GRRM is not your bitch" argument is disingenuous and grating.
No, GRRM does not owe me anything. But when you create a story, there's an expectation that you'll finish it. Do I want GRRM to kill himself finishing his child molestation epic? Not really. Do I think that it's appropriate to hand off your work to someone else when you decide you don't want to work on it any more? Yes. I think that's not only acceptable, but laudable.
And I reserve the right to call a creator who decides to call it quits halfway through mean names. Because while he doesn't owe me anything, I don't owe him my respect, either.
Wait shit I came on here to talk about good TV.
CAN CHERNOBYL PLEASE STOP MAKING ME SAY "OH NO" OUT LOUD
Before now I didn't even know Lucifer was based on a comic. I thought it was just yet another procedural with a random twist.
It's based on a (IMO generally 'meh') comic that is a spinoff of (IMO the absolutely amazing) comic Sandman.
Mazikeen looks like this in the comics, for the record:
***=Comic-book half-head-rotting-off-demoness gore***
Does Lucifer have Mazikeen in it, and if so, how does she deal with the whole half-rotting-face-mushy-garbled-speech thing?
Absolutely. It's been a big boost to my mood this past year and a half. The only thing I struggle with is knowing that I need to improve how I RP and also knowing that I have unrealistic fears of people disliking me--so I worry about what is actual dislike/bad RP on my part vs. what is my imagination.
I think the solution is just to get people you like and trust to give you advice, though!
You aren't wrong. The hype over the Impossible burger is that it's competitively priced. Burger King is about to roll out an Impossible Whopper nationwide.
I don't think factory farming is ethically defensible unless you're willing to say that torturing animals for pleasure is ethically permissible. But I eat factory farmed food all the time. I'm a hypocrite.
I have no compunction whatsoever about killing and eating animals per se; it's their living conditions that concern me. Also, the environmental effects.
To that end, I'm beyond happy to see alternatives like the Impossible burger arise, though frankly I'm unironically hoping for monstrous flesh-vats of meat that can be continually carved away at for product.
Oh, as for what I eat--literally anything under 1900 calories per say. More peanut butter and jelly sandwiches than I should.
Ho-lee piss does spironolactone make you have to pee. All the time. No wonder trans people are so up in arms about bathroom bills. We really have to use the toilet.
Yes, but you also just showcased how absolutely stupid that particular plot point was.
Add me to the train of "now watching Deadwood because it actually is getting an ending."
I'll admit my religion has me sort of lukewarm to His Dark Materials. The ending just seems needlessly and hamfistedly antitheistic (which of course is the point), much like Lewis throwing Susan under the bus (or out of the way of the train, I suppose) seemed needlessly preachy.
I think it might actually just be bad writing, though, because even in my atheist years I was pretty unimpressed with the ending. The setting as a whole, though, is great.
Speaking of YA adaptations to the screen: Sabriel when
Am I angry? No. The show has been rolling downhill too long for me to be angry at this point. I was angry last season. I'm just sad that two showrunners with more ambition than ability rushed the ending to a story that I cared about. It's not the destination that matters. It's how you get there. I feel like I just read a six part book series where the sixth book got skipped.
Because that's exactly what just happened.
@Lisse24 It really is phenomenal. Painful to watch, at times, but an amazing study in dramatic irony.
@Rinel said in Game of Thrones:
I have heard that the ending of the season has been leaked. I have been exposed, unintentionally, to what an anonymous rando on the internet claimed to be the ending based on those leaks.
Said ending was so absurd that I do not think the anonymous rando was correct. But if the anonymous rando was correct?
HOO BOY
The anonyous rando was correct. Lol. What a complete disaster of a final season.
Pbbbbth. No.
With the exception of Space Station 13, where the perpetually angry doctor and surgeon extraordinaire Caroline Treeby pops up all across the universe and timeline on pretty much every server. But in an actual, persistent game? No. New world, new concept.
@Derp said in Game of Thrones:
@Rinel said in Game of Thrones:
lodestar
Yeah, you're a lawyer. Lawyers are the only people I see ever use thos word.
It's an archaic nautical expression!
@Roz I think this just makes me more upset, honestly. I watched the scene with Robert and Barristan talking about their first kills (aka the GODS I WAS STRONG THEN scene) the other day, and I was struck by just how much better even the simple dialogue was.
