You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The top image is Thompson Library's reading room in its original 1913 configuration. The left two images are how it existed from the 1960s into the 2000s, when they split it into two floors to gain extra space...but totally destroyed the aesthetics of it in the process.
The color image is from the 2009 renovation, when they restored the reading room to its original state. It really is quite beautiful.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
the other canonical Moffat stories being "The Girl in the Fireplace" and "Blink", incidentally, though i've always been a big fan of "The Eleventh Hour", myself.
He also did "Silence in the Library" and "forest of the Dead". Which are the first two Dr Who episodes I ever saw.
i am unsure whether those two qualify as 'canonical' given the backlash over River and the somewhat controversial ending.
i liked them, nonetheless.
Fair enough. I enjoyed them too, enough that I'd probably put them in my top 10 of Dr Who episodes. Though I will say that I really enjoyed the basic premise of River Song's character, I'm not huge on the direction that Moffat went with her character.
it was an interesting idea. kinda wonder why they hadn't done something like it before.
i've kind of lost track of exactly how River's story went in the end, but how much i liked her as a character depended heavily on the episode in question
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what the highest point of rationality is?
What really makes you more rational than anyone else?
Hating Homestuck.
It’s in the Sequences, look it up. Something something blue green politics something tribalism something cryogenics is totally real guys something Roko’s Basilisk
Political satire is based in telling the audience how silly and facepalm-worthy everything is. It lets the audience feel above the silliness, wise to the "joke of the world".
Flawless characters are seen as unbelievable and un-relatable but the opposites (characters with no virtues or redeeming traits) are not.
There's a general sense of the golden mean, that nothing is pure and that everything has good and bad. Everything's muddled and not absolute. Thus, we believe that everything is flawed.
And, if you don't believe in a future, all you have is the now (indulgence) and the past (nostalgia).
Add to that the uncertainty generated by yearly crises (I think that the United States has been in a state of Crisis since 2001) and perceived threats to the way of life. Also, frequent exposés of terribleness, and infrequent examinations of good works.
The internet is full of terrible things and dreck. We are bombarded with hopelessness and evidence of awfulness. That which is good is not publicized or celebrated, but almost deliberately ignored.
Of course, many of these things go back decades (threats to the way of life? Red scare).
A content and optimistic populace is not one that is uncertain enough to be good customers.
i dunno, i think villains who are purely evil for its own sake without any kind of reason or motive seem kind of unrealistic, about on par with flawless heroes
i dunno, i think villains who are purely evil for its own sake without any kind of reason or motive seem kind of unrealistic, about on par with flawless heroes
This is true but I think it's sort of a flawed logic in that it revolves around realism being the point.
Oftentimes I think stories would be served well by being less realistic.
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i've kind of lost track of exactly how River's story went in the end, but how much i liked her as a character depended heavily on the episode in question
night
@EPITOME
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
And it's out.
(and yeah, agreed, fuck)
also i wish i knew where my old children books are (probably in a dumpster) because i want to see which spelling my st#in books were in
We can hope, we can choose to be hopeful.
You know what the highest point of rationality is?
What really makes you more rational than anyone else?
Hating Homestuck.
It’s in the Sequences, look it up. Something something blue green politics something tribalism something cryogenics is totally real guys something Roko’s Basilisk
I think that, well, cynicism sells.
Political satire is based in telling the audience how silly and facepalm-worthy everything is. It lets the audience feel above the silliness, wise to the "joke of the world".
Flawless characters are seen as unbelievable and un-relatable but the opposites (characters with no virtues or redeeming traits) are not.
There's a general sense of the golden mean, that nothing is pure and that everything has good and bad. Everything's muddled and not absolute. Thus, we believe that everything is flawed.
And, if you don't believe in a future, all you have is the now (indulgence) and the past (nostalgia).
Add to that the uncertainty generated by yearly crises (I think that the United States has been in a state of Crisis since 2001) and perceived threats to the way of life. Also, frequent exposés of terribleness, and infrequent examinations of good works.
The internet is full of terrible things and dreck. We are bombarded with hopelessness and evidence of awfulness. That which is good is not publicized or celebrated, but almost deliberately ignored.
Of course, many of these things go back decades (threats to the way of life? Red scare).
A content and optimistic populace is not one that is uncertain enough to be good customers.