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Esroc posted:Not really an irrationally irritating thing but I'm binging Rescue Me on Netflix and on at least two occasions so far the character Lou has called the character Tommy "Denis", who is played by Denis Leary. That's usually the kind of mistake that gets edited out and I don't think I've ever seen a show or movie before where an actor called another actor by their real name and it got left in, much less twice. "I'm using internet search provider Bing to watch television. I use Bing as a verb." What part of my brain do I need to stab to not read binge in the inflected verb form as this?
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I'm watching the first episode of Ascension. It seems awfully dangerous and not at all conducive to the long term survival of the human species to maintain rigidly kept social classes on board what is perhaps the last chance for mankind's survival. Because that has never lead to strife in the past. It does make for interesting and diverse set pieces and varied wardrobes, though?
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Esroc posted:It's still great TV but it's made me wonder if television developers these days take into consideration how binge-watching will affect their show. Most Netflix Originals, like Orange is the New Black and Sense8, seem to hold up really well being marathoned all over a weekend and I wonder if that's intentional or just luck. Don't forget that unlike literally everybody else in entertainment, Netflix dumps a whole season at a time. They know what they're doing. They have tons of metrics to track what users are watching and how, at this point they probably have a far more accurate view of viewer preferences than any cable channel having to go off Nielsen ratings.
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Frostwerks posted:I'm watching the first episode of Ascension. It seems awfully dangerous and not at all conducive to the long term survival of the human species to maintain rigidly kept social classes on board what is perhaps the last chance for mankind's survival. Because that has never lead to strife in the past. It does make for interesting and diverse set pieces and varied wardrobes, though? Boy are you in for a surprise.
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Aug 10, 2015 16:22
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Not so much irritating as just really dumb. In the opening scene of The Devil's Advocate, a courtroom listens silently as a young girl describes her sexual molestation at the hands of her math teacher. In the next courtroom scene, Keanu Reaves dances around the kid with legal fancy-footwork and makes her out to be a liar. That's all fine, but from the very beginning of the scene the audience in the courtroom gasp and whisper in disgust. This doesn't happen when Keanu alleges she is lying, it happens as soon as he alleges that she might have been kept behind for bad behaviour, then again when it becomes clear she passed a note in class. It's so loving dumb.
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Aug 11, 2015 12:43
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Polaron posted:Boy are you in for a surprise. ..the spirit of communism prevails? I don't know if that is the preferable alternative.
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I'm up to season 2 episode 5 of Hannibal and I think I might need a break soon. I severely doubt any home freezer could pull that sort of thing off in the given timespan, but more than that, where would you even get all those plexiglass sheets on such short notice? Also, same episode, they deck Will out in the full straightjacket/mask/cart regalia, wheel him to the crimescene, then Jack lets him out. The crime scene is up a set of curved stairs. That's just being a dick to the orderlies on purpose. I like all the references to familiar scenes and elements of the films, but that particular one was forced and overdone. That episode just wasn't very good as a whole.
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Aug 11, 2015 13:51
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You kind of just have to ignore the logistics of how anyone sets up their murder tableaux because it never makes sense.
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Aug 11, 2015 14:31
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Hannibal is pretty great but yeah don't think too hard at it. The answer to every "but why does..." is always magic. Or just because. Or maybe because it's a cooler story and presentation than if it were a real-life police procedural.
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Aug 11, 2015 15:42
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muscles like this? posted:You kind of just have to ignore the logistics of how anyone sets up their murder tableaux because it never makes sense. Yeah, I think of Hannibal as taking place in a sort of heightened, magical-realism universe. Logic and the limits of space-time can be skirted around as long as it benefits aesthetics, themes, or storytelling.
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Aug 11, 2015 16:02
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For the plexiglass I'm now imagining a deleted scene that takes place in a Home Depot and is a 1:1 recreation of the "stay out of my territory" one in Breaking Bad.
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Aug 11, 2015 17:06
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In Pacific Rim the Russian robot is called Cherno Alpha. Chernobyl isn't in Russia!
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Aug 11, 2015 17:32
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Gargamel Gibson posted:In Pacific Rim the Russian robot is called Cherno Alpha. Chernobyl isn't in Russia! "Cherno" is Russian for "black", so it could just be that! (who am I kidding, its head is obviously a nuclear cooling tower)
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Aug 11, 2015 18:29
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Any resemblance to power plants, active or decommissioned, is purely coincidental.
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Aug 11, 2015 18:34
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Gargamel Gibson posted:In Pacific Rim the Russian robot is called Cherno Alpha. Chernobyl isn't in Russia! Where the gently caress do any of the Pacific Rim robot names come from? Cherno is probably the closest one to making any kind of sense. Seriously the US official robot is called "Gypsy Danger" ?? That ... seems a bit racist?  My original guess was that it was military alphabet code for some G.D. acronym (like GOD drat ROBOT or something) but that'd be Golf Delta, not Gypsy Danger. Japan's is called "Coyote Tango". Okay what in the gently caress? First of all, that's a terrible name for a giant robot. Its not intimidating at all. Maybe just "Coyote" or something like "Ghost Coyote" and now we're talking. But its Japanese. Is that a translation? "Tango" is a translation? So was the name "Japanese Fox Dancer" if you translated it directly or something? Or did they just name it in English? Australia's is called "Striker Eureka" which is again a loving horrible name. Striker is okay but Eureka? Great scott! China's is "Crimson Tide" which just makes me think of tampon commercials. Probably the most intimidating name of the lot, and Crimson has maybe something to do with China? Its all over their flags and stuff. Its a lovely connection but again, and a tide isn't exactly very intimidating, but they do fight in the water so its the best of the lot. Just shows you how wholly terrible they all are. Maybe the wiki will have some information quote:In the original screenplay for Pacific Rim, Gipsy Danger's key signifier and namesake was the image of a pinup decal featuring a "buxom Gipsy riding a bomb". Respectively, its pilots, "Raleigh Antrobus" and Mako Mori, were referred to as "Roma 1" or "Roma 2"[11], "Roma" being the short hand term for the Romani people that live in Europe, the Americas and Asia.[12]  Just massive ignorance and really terrible awkward naming. loving great work guys. The wiki goes on to say it was named for some WW-2 engine designer and the guy had no clue that it was a race, but then naming the people Roma 1 and Roma 2 kinda makes that all bullshit. It was a pejorative. Seriously the Jaeger names in Pacific Rim sound like thoroughbred horses. Comeon seabiscuit, comeon Whykickamoocow, comeon daddysprincess you beat that Kaiju! Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 18:51 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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Aug 11, 2015 18:45
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The Jaeger names were badass actually.
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Aug 11, 2015 18:51
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Really? I thought they were all painfully stupid, even as I was watching the movie in the theater. I guess I'm just a weirdo. Then again the whole movie was pretty stupid, but that was kinda the point.
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Aug 11, 2015 18:57
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Zaphod42 posted:Really? I thought they were all painfully stupid, even as I was watching the movie in the theater. I guess I'm just a weirdo. If you had a giant, Chinese, three-armed, red Jaeger you would call it something else instead of Crimson Typhoon?
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Aug 11, 2015 18:59
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I like the Jaeger names myself - they generally sound like the kind of vague, utilitarian codenames that military robots would have - but I mean...the Gipsy complaint is legit. I think it's pretty well-known that that's an offensive term in this day and age.
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Aug 11, 2015 19:10
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I hope Zaphod42 never reads the names of stuff in Gundam, his head would probably explode.
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Aug 11, 2015 19:16
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quote:the etymology behind the term "Gipsy" was in fact pejorative REALLY?!?!?
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:REALLY?!?!? Are you European? As a dumb fat American child my only exposure to the word "gypsy" was Esmerelda in the Disney version of Hunchback of Notre Dame. I wasn't even clear they were an actual group of people, as opposed to a word for "drifter," for many years.
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Patattack posted:Yeah, I think of Hannibal as taking place in a sort of heightened, magical-realism universe. Logic and the limits of space-time can be skirted around as long as it benefits aesthetics, themes, or storytelling. Like how Hannibal somehow put a loving tree in the middle of a parking lot with nobody noticing. Or just recently when Will created the elaborate butterfly tableaux out of junk in the wine cellar.
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Aug 11, 2015 19:59
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Gypsy just means spooky carnival traveler to most Americans, we don't really have all the other prejudices for the most part Until I saw some show on TLC about gypsy trailer trash, I didn't even know that was a demographic here
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Aug 11, 2015 20:03
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Zaphod42 posted:
Those words don't mean anything here. It's like how in Britain they say fag when they really mean Prime Minister.
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Aug 11, 2015 20:40
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Old books in our house made me thing swarthy meant "untrustworthy" considering how often they were thieves.
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EmmyOk posted:Old books in our house made me thing swarthy meant "untrustworthy" considering how often they were thieves. Oh man, this too. I thought it meant "big and mean" because characters described that way were always bad people somehow. What a strange coincidence!
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ElGroucho posted:Gypsy just means spooky carnival traveler to most Americans, we don't really have all the other prejudices for the most part Yeah but people do say "I got gipped!" occasionally, and thinking about it the entomology of that is probably pejorative even if its not used that way in the states anymore. Its like saying "you jewed me on this" except in the states one is politically correct and the other isn't. Its not like there aren't Romani in the states, we just don't care.  Twitch posted:I hope Zaphod42 never reads the names of stuff in Gundam, his head would probably explode. You know you can talk straight to me instead of the 3rd person right? And if you think you have examples of ridiculous gundam names, post em? Just saying "haha your head would explode" is pretty dumb. Like what? Zeta? Zaku? Heavyarms? Wing zero? Gundam names go from badass to dumb, but none of them are pejorative at least  Jokes on you I've seen plenty of Gundam and I don't even know what you're on about.
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Zaphod42 posted:
Crimson Typhoon, which it's called because it's the three-armed one with the buzzsaws. 
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Polaron posted:Crimson Typhoon, which it's called because it's the three-armed one with the buzzsaws. Ah, you're right my mistake. Okay that one has a good name then. (Although I already concluded as much) The rest are garbage.
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Half the usernames on this page would make bitching cool Jaeger names. And the other half has potential if you just randomly mix and match the names.
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Aug 11, 2015 21:28
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Grandels Dad would be a sweet jaeger name.
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Zaphod42 posted:You know you can talk straight to me instead of the 3rd person right? And if you think you have examples of ridiculous gundam names, post em? Just saying "haha your head would explode" is pretty dumb. I was just trying to make a joke, no offense was intended. I mean more the names of people from Gundam, than the actual Gundams. https://jphinano.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/presented-without-comment-a-partial-list-of-silly-gundam-character-names/ Twitch has a new favorite as of 21:41 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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Twitch posted:I was just trying to make a joke, no offense was intended. I mean more the names of people from Gundam, than the actual Gundams. quote:Agrippa Maintainer Okay there are some pretty loving weird names in here that I hadn't heard. quote:Full Frontal Uhhhhhhhhhhhh what. Anime is weird. Still, the reason it bothered me so much with the Jaegers is they're like... major sources of pride for a whole country. They cost a major fraction of each country's GDP and their your savior from the Kaiju. So they should probably have pretty politically neutral names, maybe even inspiring. Like I would expect "OPERATION KAIJU FREEDOM"  instead of "Gipsy Danger".
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Zaphod42 posted:Australia's is called "Striker Eureka" which is again a loving horrible name. Striker is okay but Eureka? Great scott! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion
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Nerd! Yeah that's actually kinda clever, good to know. Way too clever for a dumb movie about giant robots though.
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I hope we aren't looking for symbolism or meaning in a 100% anime fan service movie
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ElGroucho posted:I hope we aren't looking for symbolism or meaning in a 100% anime fan service movie You're just mad that my SN would be a cooler Jager name than yours. But really the movie was aimed at the typical 12 year old kid. So all the names sound loving awesome if you look at it from a kid view.
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I was hoping one of them would have a normal name, "This is Cherno Alpha a brutal war machine, this is the great Crimson Typhoon, and this is Jeremy"
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I think at one point they came out and said they basically made the jeager names because they thought they were cool and didnt really think about it until later.Zaphod42 posted:Like what? Zeta? Zaku? Heavyarms? Wing zero? Gundam names go from badass to dumb, but none of them are pejorative at least Neo Mexico's Tequila Gundam piloted by Chico Rodriquez. Also come on, "Elbow Smash" is the best Gundam character name.
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