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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Pocket (?) » Sun Feb 17, 2019 4:52 pm

Still, to actually shoot a whole scene that's not only not in the movie but would be anachronistic by a factor of half a century if it was? All to trick people into thinking it takes place in the present day and not 50 years ago because... marketing thinks they'll get more butts on the seats that way?

Oh, and also Sheeran at one point tries to convince Patel's character to change the name of "Hey Jude" to "Hey Dude", which does not strike me as something someone in the '60s would ever say.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by The Ghost of Ember (?) » Sun Feb 17, 2019 5:35 pm

the period piece version is the one that was scrapped in favor of a modern film

whether or not the beatles are the best band ever tm is not really the point of the story as far as i can tell, the vibe i get is its about achieving success via plagiarism and what that does to a person, and/or imposter syndrome

the beatles are the best ever conceit is just to give him something that is perceived by the modern audience as a 'sure thing' and also because its a british production
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:20 pm

Can I just say that I really hate people who go "why are you outraged at X when Y is happening?".

They DO know you can be upset at multiple things at once, right? I'm going to assume people who say this can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

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Post by Skipper (?) » Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:04 pm

It's just a very convenient way to ensure you never ever have to do anything about anything, because whatever's happening there's always something worse going on.

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Bigdog (?) » Tue Feb 19, 2019 7:32 pm

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Oh, and also Sheeran at one point tries to convince Patel's character to change the name of "Hey Jude" to "Hey Dude", which does not strike me as something someone in the '60s would ever say.
Well, there was an incident where a member of the local Jewish community chewed out McCartney because they interpreted 'Hey Jude' as a reference to the German word for Jew, rather than as the given name. They were a holocaust survivor IIRC so understandably it was something of a sensitive point.

Regardless, I think Hey Jude would be a good song regardless of historical context, probably a few others as well. Source: I was born in 1982 and I don't give a shit about 97% of the Beatles discography but I will na na na na na na na na so hard when it comes on the car stereo, you don't even know

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:07 pm

A timeline where George Harrison never gets rich enough to finance Monty Python’s Life of Brian is one I want no part of.
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Post by Auxiliatrix (?) » Thu Feb 21, 2019 2:11 pm

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A timeline where George Harrison never gets rich enough to finance Monty Python’s Life of Brian is one I want no part of.
The weird part is that Life of Brian would probably still exist in this universe. The idea seems to not necessarily be that the Beatles never existed, but that nobody has any record or memory of them existing. After all, there's an argument to be made that if the Beatles hadn't existed to begin with, then the world we have today and the music we have today would be different to a noticeable extent.

Also, in regards to the whole "the Beatles are the greatest band of all time" argument, we don't know for sure that people will enjoy every single one of the "new" Beatles songs, because for the most part, the trailer seemed to focus on the commercial "hits" rather than, say, some of the stuff off The White Album or "deep cuts" from their first few albums. I'd also refer to what Ghost of Ember said about the film's point potentially being about the "plagiarism" aspect.

I think the film could be fun. :pinkieshrug:
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Madeline (?) » Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:39 pm

It has to be better than Bohemian Rhapsody, because I was unaware just how bad that movie was until this morning. Highlights: Rami Malek isn’t awful I guess but he seems very bored and jaded, rapid cross cutting to hide the fact that a bunch of people sitting around a table isn’t exciting, and every biopic cliche in the book like it’s a Simpsons parody





It looks like a serious, earnest version of Walk Hard

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Post by Auxiliatrix (?) » Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:44 pm

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It has to be better than Bohemian Rhapsody, because I was unaware just how bad that movie was until this morning. Highlights: Rami Malek isn’t awful I guess but he seems very bored and jaded, rapid cross cutting to hide the fact that a bunch of people sitting around a table isn’t exciting, and every biopic cliche in the book like it’s a Simpsons parody
I didn't see it myself (for a number of reasons), but I was, originally, puzzled why it was nominated for "Best Picture", as the critical score wasn't particularly high and I know that the Academy doesn't tend to pick films out of sheer short-term popularity. However, seeing that the screenwriter behind the film (Anthony McCarten) is the same screenwriter behind Darkest Hour and The Theory of Everything, and that both of those films are biopic movies that were not only nominated for "Best Picture", but also featured a clear "Best Actor" contender, I think the decision makes a little more sense. Bohemian Rhapsody, from a pure outside perspective, looks exactly like the type of film the Academy would love.

Nonetheless, I think Yesterday is definitely trying something much different than Bohemian Rhapsody, and that there will, likely, be a lot more opportunities for this film to be creative and interesting (as opposed to having to adapt real life events into a "three-act structure").
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Pocket (?) » Sun Feb 24, 2019 10:37 pm

Imagine if Ask Jeeves had become hugely successful, and went on to launch their own brand of home assistant Alexa thingy. We'd have people around the world literally giving orders to "Jeeves."
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Mar 05, 2019 8:31 pm

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As a kid, I always confused Col. Sanders' tie as a stick figure body.

Please tell me I wasn't alone in thinking that.

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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Mar 05, 2019 8:36 pm

It sure would’ve made those Xiao Xiao fight videos interesting.
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Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:53 pm

oh gosh I remember xiao xiao, there were so many of those movies, and like, a couple games too? all based on these stick figures doing fighting game moves and stuff. It was so weird, 'cause it was one of the most popular things on the internet for a while.
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Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Wed Mar 06, 2019 1:22 am

I was way into stick figure and sprite-based fighting cartoons on Newgrounds back in the day. I honestly still think that plenty of them still have great choreography, even if the creator wasn't able to come up with much art on their own.

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Bigdog (?) » Wed Mar 06, 2019 1:34 am

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As a kid, I always confused Col. Sanders' tie as a stick figure body.

Please tell me I wasn't alone in thinking that.
It only really happened once I was an adult but I've definitely seen it a few times

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Mar 07, 2019 11:17 pm

At the convention I'm going to, Disney story artist and animator Floyd Norman is going to be a guest. I was thinking about how he worked on the "Fat Albert" special that came out BEFORE the TV show, and the crazy production that was. The clips I've seen of it looked real neat, too.

Then I realized that, given what happened with the character's creator, "Fat Albert" is pretty much the one nostalgic property that will NEVER, EVER be revived ever again :-I

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Post by Pocket (?) » Sat Mar 09, 2019 2:48 am

Anyone else remember LiveJournal? Remember how they had a feature where you could have more than one avatar at a time so you could pick which one to use for any given post or comment? So you could match the mood of your post and not be stuck attaching a picture of Rainbow Dash laughing to an angry rant or whatever.

I haven't thought about that in years, but now that I do, it's really weird to me that no other social network or forum engine has replicated this feature. It's the kind of thing one kind of expects to spread and become a standard once people get used to it.

Another thing they did was that whatever theme you set up your blog to use, your feed would display in the same style. Which probably did a lot to dissuade people from using particularly obnoxious custom themes.
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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:28 pm

Musical question ...

Is the fadeout dead? It seems like I don’t hear songs that end that way anymore. If so, what killed it?
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Post by Octavia (?) » Tue Mar 19, 2019 4:00 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:
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Musical question ...

Is the fadeout dead? It seems like I don’t hear songs that end that way anymore. If so, what killed it?
It's boring and really doesn't leave people satisfied. People remember the last thing they hear, and if it's got a succinct punch, it's a lot more rewarding than just a slow fadeout during a loop.

It's one of the first things I learned not to do when studying film scoring. The goal is to evoke emotion and fadeouts don't.
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Post by Vivianinatoga (?) » Tue Mar 19, 2019 6:37 pm

On a related note, attempting to listen to an entire Greatest Hits album from The Police's catalogue is nearly impossible.
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Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:25 am

The only thing that saddens me about fadeouts leaving is that means no more of those goofy fake endings where the song fades out then fades back in just to be silly.
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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:57 am

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It's boring and really doesn't leave people satisfied. People remember the last thing they hear, and if it's got a succinct punch, it's a lot more rewarding than just a slow fadeout during a loop.

It's one of the first things I learned not to do when studying film scoring. The goal is to evoke emotion and fadeouts don't.
That’s such a sensible answer, it’s almost disappointing. Like I was hoping for some music industry conspiracy behind it all.
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Post by ToastGhost (?) » Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:04 am

Nope, definitely no conspiracy. Move along. :liarjack:
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Post by Aramek (?) » Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:58 am

Octavia is clearly in the pocket of Big ASCAP!
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Heheh, big ass cap. :gotcha:
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Post by Weird Autumn (?) » Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:57 pm

ToastGhost wrote:
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Heheh, big ass cap. :gotcha:
Yo, fiddy, pop that big ass cap!

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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:39 pm

Aramek wrote:
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Octavia is clearly in the pocket of Big ASCAP!
Or maybe BMI or SESAC :liarjack:
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ToastGhost wrote:
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Heheh, big ass cap. :gotcha:
If you're wearing someone's butt on your head, I don't think it makes too much difference whether the ass is large or small.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:29 am

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Or maybe BMI or SESAC :liarjack:
I don't want to see what's in that sack :v:

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Post by Aramek (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:37 pm

Octavia wrote:
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Or maybe BMI or SESAC :liarjack:
MY BMI is also huge. :v:






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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Madeline (?) » Fri Mar 22, 2019 7:28 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
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I don't want to see what's in that sack :v:
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Post by ToastGhost (?) » Fri Mar 22, 2019 7:32 pm

No no, you're thinking of the nut shack, not the nut sack. Those are two very different things, but both horrible. :-I
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it's a nut snack

it's a nut snack

it's a nut snack

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Re: ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

Post by Madeline (?) » Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:10 am

I put a quarter cup of pumpkin seeds in a cup last night for a snack, and then went to bed without ever eating them

They sat on the counter all night and my mom was deeply confused by their presence

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Post by Madeline (?) » Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:11 am

also, you can get almost a pound of roasted pumpkin seeds at sprouts for $3.50, which is much cheaper than buying the “brand name” pumpkin seeds

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Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:16 am

I was going to wonder why nerd shit is so expensive, but then I remembered it’s because nerds will happily pay inflated price tags for things.

For example I’d love to own this because it’s not just 1984 served up on a plate yet again

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but it costs 320 fuckin dollars :bluh: even if you import directly, it’s still absurd. I can’t afford the normal retail ones any more, not when the prices keep going up and the money I can get has to be spent on necessities, not toys. The collectible ones are now in the LEGO realm of crazy prices. Hasbro just went “yeah, let’s just milk the middle aged dudes with six figure tech jobs before we go out of business. they’ll pay whatever and kids don’t buy toys”

There are diecast TF figures that don’t even transform that cost over a grand now

I kinda want to punch anybody who can blow that money on a single toy and not even feel it

How about donating that money to a food bank or a shelter, instead

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Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:17 am

sorry for the rant, here’s Megatron brushing his teeth because good dental care is important

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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:28 am

Madeline wrote:
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I was going to wonder why nerd shit is so expensive, but then I remembered it’s because nerds will happily pay inflated price tags for things.
I've been reading about this sort of thing recently. I put off my required freshman English writing class until this semester (technically good advice for registration purposes, but it becomes boring as hell when I have to learn about something I already know how to do) and for the paper we have to work on all semester, I chose to write about the expected value of MTG booster packs (which is why I've been posting about that game lately). The conclusion I come to is that even though the cards in a pack aren't typically worth the cost of the pack, people still buy them because cracking packs is fun and there's value to the cards other than their market price as collector's pieces. Still, what that leaves out is the fact that there's no other option in this game than to buy the cards from WOTC, unless you're going to risk buying counterfeit cards from China or something.
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