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
Waitrman , Waiterman, check it out!!
What is it Chef?
W'ere finally rebranding
Introducing our new logo: The SIXTY THREE SINGERS REGSAURANT
63 singers? that's more than the previous five!
how'd you do it?
well, i went do dollar tree and bought $400 worth of blank notebooks
go on
then i decided to us e the blank notebooks to porp up my computer monitor
oh yeah, you just got a new domputer, didn't you?
it'ss the leatest technology
"A 486 runiing Windows 95"
Time to play super fun games on it
Yeah! Like Math Wars!
What is math warts schef?
it's a game where you use calculus to shoot people with an assault rifel
sounds excellent
where can i purchase this game?
the 63 singers restaraunt!
wait, we sell gamse now too?
of course/
what did you think i'm holding in my hand right now
it's a stack of cheese slices, chef
of course it is
that's exactly the same thing as a video game, as far as the irs is concerned
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
Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic! I allow my website to burn to the ground so YOU don't have to!
Well, I may have just shot myself in the foot then. I revealed too much about my ex boyfriend to him, and now I think I've scared him off. Good going there, Toolsie.
I have one friend who was way into the second Alice movie. But then she also, really likes Disney in general.
I recall people talking about Beauty and the Beast around when it came out (mostly just in the context of "maaaaaaybe I'll see it") but pretty much not at all since.
i've heard the version of Trust in Me, it's kind of interesting. Sterling Holloway lisped the whole thing through and turned it into a funny number. Scarlett Johansson plays it almost entirely straight, but for a little bit of a hiss on the last line she could be singing a lullaby, and the result sounds so sinister, it's really cool.
i caught the tail end of the live action Alice in Wonderland on tv one time, it was ok but i vastly preferred the animated movie's take on that universe
i have never been able to bring myself to watch Maleficent because i like Sleeping Beauty too much
Even if you don't watch it, other people will, and they will be influenced by it, and then the great metaphysical concept that is Popular Culture will subtly but firmly swing against you, and the prison cell that houses your soul will be crushed ever smaller.
when pop culture takes a swing at you, you roll with the punches
nah but like, there's plenty that's popular that i wouldn't recommend subjecting yourself to, e.g. The Big Bang Theory or Sword Art Online, but i'm not sure why that's threatening rather than maybe slightly irritating
i mean i'm a little more mixed than that i guess, Disney adaptations have a way of eclipsing what came before, like they did to the entire genre of fairy stories, and are currently doing to the Marvel superhero universe
and when an adaptation is made, the original still exists, but it might plausibly change how you look at it, so i guess that's a threat in a sense
like that Peter Rabbit movie? that kind of bothered me, if only in that i'm like, who looks at something as gentle and benign as Beatrix Potter's stories and has the impulse to assault them like that? i just don't see what the need was for it
you realize that feeling "threatened" by media not being to your taste is completely ridiculous, right
like, just don't watch it. Watch other things.
The story still exists. Entertainment has power, especially when it has millions of dollars behind it, and an audience of everybody. Entertainment is incredibly influential on the way that people think.
i mean, you'll probably be happier not watching it than if you watched it
i dunno, this might just be cuz i'm a bit of a loner, but i find that if i don't watch something then generally it doesn't affect me very much, even if it's popular; like, for all i know Maleficent might be atrocious, but having never seen it i rarely have any reason to even think about it
Our actions are conscious choices, reflecting the sort of world we want to live in, the sort of life we want to lead, the sort of values we hold.
Entertainment is such a massive industry, and has so much influence, that it must be held accountable.
There is nothing, nothing, nothing I can ever do in my life that will have such an impact on the world as a single television show or book or movie, nothing that will reach as many people; and, honestly, that thought terrifies me.
I wanted to be an author when I was younger. Actually, I've wanted to be an author for most of my life.
I no longer want to hold that kind of responsibility. I don't want my errant whims and opinions and fantasies and worldviews to flood the world, I can hardly stand some of the opinions I had five years ago. And, given my hatred of certain fiction, I would be a hypocrite to indulge in creating fiction.
I no longer want to have a Wikipedia article, or to have my name appear in The Library of Congress. I want my name to only appear one more time in the newspaper, in the Obituary, preferably not within eighty years of now.
The world is like Michelangelo's David: Something to be preserved, but not changed, and never ever touched directly, because there's no way to improve it, and a million ways to make it worse. Can't even stand too close to it, because the very presence of people tarnishes.
you realize that feeling "threatened" by media not being to your taste is completely ridiculous, right
like, just don't watch it. Watch other things.
The story still exists. Entertainment has power, especially when it has millions of dollars behind it, and an audience of everybody. Entertainment is incredibly influential on the way that people think.
"Just don't watch it" solves nothing.
right, being deliberately misinterpreted is one of the reasons I stopped coming here.
I never said that. All I meant is that there's no point in whipping yourself into a foaming fury over every single cartoon that exists that you don't like.
There's a world of difference between "Not all of this is worth-getting-upset-over" and "none of this is worth-getting-upset-over", and I thought you meant the latter.
I'll try not to flip off the handle and jump to conclusions so much.
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you gotta go over 10 to get the "long" tag from me
Like, seriously aside from Maleficent I have seen nobody irl talk about them in *any* context
I recall people talking about Beauty and the Beast around when it came out (mostly just in the context of "maaaaaaybe I'll see it") but pretty much not at all since.
I did see the previous live action Jungle Book.
...maybe a little
there's always one