thank you, american side of the family, this shirt is nice, but i'm a xs/s in british sizing and this american medium makes it look like i am wearing a bedsheet.
i wear smalls in allllmost everything except for t-shirts because i still have a bit of a belly and also i have a longish torso proportionally speaking so size small t-shirts can tend towards being too short
you know, it's not hard to see the stuff in jurassic world complaining "how are dinosaurs no longer exciting enough" as "how was the first jurassic park not exciting enough"
An incredibly unsubtle metanarrative that the movie only pays lip service too. Jurassic Park was a movie, in part, about the unpredictability of nature and its apathy towards our sense of morality. Jurassic World was a movie where Good Dinosaurs kill the Bad Dinosaurs and convert a Bad Dinosaur to a Good Dinosaur through the redemptive power of killing another Bad Dinosaur.
Also the only death the movie seemed to actively relish was the British lady, which is lovely.
Actually it's about how much content consumers love consuming content, and they should all die for that.
Which is a harsh message, but one we need.
But it didn't commit to that moral. I felt like its character inconsistencies (The park owner going from not caring about money at all to not wanting to kill the iRex because it was too expensive to resenting the people's need for spectacle to actively participating in the engineering spectacle, Pratt railing against the weaponization of dinosaurs despite being the one who uses them as weapons in the end) framing issues (the female lead did /absolutely nothing wrong/ but was put in an unsympathetic light, Pratt was a sexist cock but treated like a lovable hyper competent nice guy) and general resentment of its audience both stands in stark contrast to its predecessor (Jurassic Park wasn't genius or anything, but it at least respected its damn audience) and never really outweighs the moral that it kinda-sorta goes for.
I find it troubling that you were okay with the moral "Content Consumers must die" as well, anyway.
i just don't understand how investment in a fictional world can be creepy or contemptible
for me it's the easiest, most natural way to engage with a work of fiction, it's the way that feels most right to me
and i can well understand how, if you want to see more of the setting and characters you liked, a bad or unfaithful adaptation would be a disappointment
of course some people generate lengthy tirades about how awful the unfaithful adaptations were, and then watch the next one, and generate more tirades, and so on endlessly
such people could benefit from the gentle reminder that it's all fiction anyway and 'canon' is an imaginary concept and they are under no obligation to watch anything more
but i'm not sure why this needs to be so savagely attacked
i just don't understand how investment in a fictional world can be creepy or contemptible
for me it's the easiest, most natural way to engage with a work of fiction, it's the way that feels most right to me
and i can well understand how, if you want to see more of the setting and characters you liked, a bad or unfaithful adaptation would be a disappointment
of course some people generate lengthy tirades about how awful the unfaithful adaptations were, and then watch the next one, and generate more tirades, and so on endlessly
such people could benefit from the gentle reminder that it's all fiction anyway and 'canon' is an imaginary concept and they are under no obligation to watch anything more
but i'm not sure why this needs to be so savagely attacked
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 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
Who here still has a MeredithChat account from back when Princess M tried to make that a thing?
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Whenever this comes up, Myr always replies willfully with abtrusive things or non-answers and basically just does not want to explain his position, or expects these to do so for him.
We should just ignore him whenever he brings it up.
He hates it, we don't, let's move on for fucking ever.
Also, Eastern philosophers vs. Western philosophers? Not even going to watch that.
Whenever this comes up, Myr always replies willfully with abtrusive things or non-answers and basically just does not want to explain his position, or expects these to do so for him.
We should just ignore him whenever he brings it up.
He hates it, we don't, let's move on for fucking ever.
Also, Eastern philosophers vs. Western philosophers? Not even going to watch that.
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
Chairwoman Anonymous sez: less bickering, more secret society stuff
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I find it troubling that you were okay with the moral "Content Consumers must die" as well, anyway.
Anything that harms their staid complacency is good.
i just don't understand how investment in a fictional world can be creepy or contemptible
for me it's the easiest, most natural way to engage with a work of fiction, it's the way that feels most right to me
and i can well understand how, if you want to see more of the setting and characters you liked, a bad or unfaithful adaptation would be a disappointment
of course some people generate lengthy tirades about how awful the unfaithful adaptations were, and then watch the next one, and generate more tirades, and so on endlessly
such people could benefit from the gentle reminder that it's all fiction anyway and 'canon' is an imaginary concept and they are under no obligation to watch anything more
but i'm not sure why this needs to be so savagely attacked
and yes i thought the ending fight was silly, but it made me laugh so that's no bad thing imo
it sure must be interesting, and perhaps exciting, for a comic book fan who wants to know what superhero films are coming out in the future
it is quite uninteresting to me, a person who does not care about superhero films
if this is about 'the next few years of your life' well that's silly phrasing but that's really all it is
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
It's a subject that hits a nerve for me.
i couldn't stop
i did not have that reaction to Jurassic Park, although to be fair i was somewhat younger when i watched it
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead