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Dec 21, 2018 01:21
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Tbh every chess scene ever filmed is the worst. You can always tell it was written by one of those chess guys who think it's some ultimate strategy showdown. Being good at chess is like having a high IQ. It doesn't actually mean anything, but people still think it does for some reason.
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Dec 21, 2018 01:26
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Tbh every chess scene ever filmed is the worst. You can always tell it was written by one of those chess guys who think it's some ultimate strategy showdown. Being good at chess is like having a high IQ. It doesn't actually mean anything, but people still think it does for some reason. Person of Interest and Mr Robot have good chess scenes. In PoI it's one character teaching another until the second character becomes better than the teacher, and it ties into the philosophies of the characters ("don't treat people like pawns") and the themes of the episode ("you can't predict everything"). It's not meant as a showdown at all, and there's no emphasis placed on the actual moves. In Mr Robot most of the games are artificially constructed stalemates which would never occur in actual play, because it's one person playing against himself and stalemate is the only option consistent with that. Doctor Spaceman has a new favorite as of 01:42 on Dec 21, 2018 |
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Dec 21, 2018 01:38
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Anglo-saxons are cooler than vikings.
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Dec 21, 2018 01:50
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Theon’s dick is the only one we see, and considering how that worked out... Hopefully Jamie and Brienne will have another swordfight onscreen to establish whose is bigger tho
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Dec 21, 2018 02:46
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Tbh every chess scene ever filmed is the worst. You can always tell it was written by one of those chess guys who think it's some ultimate strategy showdown. Being good at chess is like having a high IQ. It doesn't actually mean anything, but people still think it does for some reason. spoken like someone who's never seen the chess episode of Lexx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvfOgglcR_w
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Dec 21, 2018 02:48
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Lexx did an entire episode that was just a chess game, showing every move, and it was better that 95% of tv show's best episode
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Dec 21, 2018 02:51
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I feel like I need to watch Lexx because I really love Farscape, but whenever anyone recommends it there are always so many caveats that I haven't felt compelled to give it a chance.
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Dec 21, 2018 02:55
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I feel like I need to watch Lexx because I really love Farscape, but whenever anyone recommends it there are always so many caveats that I haven't felt compelled to give it a chance. Watch this episode. Base your decision on whether or not to watch the whole show on your reaction to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n7iIYhjiSQ
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Dec 21, 2018 03:06
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Watch episode one, just be aware that season one is four movie-length episodes so make sure you've got time for that.
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Dec 21, 2018 04:07
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Tiggum posted:Christmas in Killarney is a terrible song. From a ways back, but I'd rather listen to Christmas in Killarney on a loop for a week than that loving Italian Christmas Donkey song even once.
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Dec 21, 2018 04:08
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Lexx kicks rear end, even if it does get loving absurd toward the end. I wish it was still on Netflix.
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Dec 21, 2018 04:40
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Mu Zeta posted:The chess scene in The Wire is the worst It was the best scene in The Wire The Musical, though. Chess is a metaphor for druuug deals!
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Dec 21, 2018 07:44
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Caufman posted:It was the best scene in The Wire The Musical, though. No I'm sorry, Bubbs stop doing drugs is the best part of that musical. Bubbles is the best part of everything.
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Dec 21, 2018 12:48
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Tiggum posted:Game of Thrones also didn't invent [“sellsword”]. I was surprised the other day to learn that, per Oxford Dictionaries, GRRM did invent the word. Shakespeare used “sell sword” as two words, and in a different sense from what I can tell. https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.oxforddictionaries.com/amp/2017/04/25/game-of-thrones-words-swords-sorcery/
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Dec 21, 2018 12:53
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Wheel of Time were honestly better reads than GoT/ASoIaFaTaDXYZ.
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Dec 21, 2018 16:17
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While cis people should never play trans characters in movies, I don’t think there’s a problem with straight people playing queer characters. Queer people have been playing straight characters basically since movies started.
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Dec 22, 2018 00:16
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I don't like the monopoly of British accents in historical dramas, especially swords and sandals Ancient Rome stuff. The USA identifies itself with Rome more than anyone else so we should just start doing them in American accents.
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Dec 22, 2018 00:28
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't like the monopoly of British accents in historical dramas, especially swords and sandals Ancient Rome stuff. The USA identifies itself with Rome more than anyone else so we should just start doing them in American accents. No, they should be done in modern day Italian accents
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Dec 22, 2018 00:31
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That would just sound like a bunch of mobsters
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Dec 22, 2018 00:32
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The best ancient Rome epic was the one with Cato played by Christopher Walken. He used his normal voice, and Caesar’s wife had an unexplained italian accent despite being another roman aristocrat.
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Dec 22, 2018 01:01
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Mu Zeta posted:That would just sound like a bunch of mobsters This is a negative?
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Dec 22, 2018 01:17
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Bafangool, brute?
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Dec 22, 2018 01:20
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Henchman of Santa posted:This is a negative? Yeah it would just remind me of Tony Soprano stuffing his face with gabagool and meatball sandwiches, not a dude designing an empire.
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Dec 22, 2018 01:32
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Maybe this is unpopular but I think any historical movie would be made better by everyone having s boston accent. I love it.
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Dec 22, 2018 01:34
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The best handling of historical accents is Borgias: Faith and Fear, whose cast had an ecclectic mix of European accents, except Rodrigo Borgia/Pope Alexander VI who had the most distinct General American accent I've heard. Edit: Seriously, if you have Netflix watch the first few scenes and try not to burst out laughing when he starts speaking; then watch the rest because it's actually a good show. MizPiz has a new favorite as of 04:14 on Dec 22, 2018 |
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Dec 22, 2018 04:11
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But The Borgias, also released in 2011, has Jeremy Irons, so it's objectively better.
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Dec 22, 2018 05:22
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Death of Stalin was perfectly fine with everyone just using their own accent so I'd like to see more of that. Maybe because it was a comedy, but, whatever.
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Dec 22, 2018 05:35
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I like when they do that, because you can differentiate between the different American and English accents, and kind of laterally transfer that to imagining people speaking Russian in different accents.
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Dec 22, 2018 05:41
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Queen Combat posted:But The Borgias, also released in 2011, has Jeremy Irons, so it's objectively better. It really isn't. As good as Jeremy Irons, John Doman is the better Rodrigo. Plus Faith and Fear is the rawer and more true to life version of the two; the other is indistinguishable from any other historical prestige tv show.
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Dec 22, 2018 05:52
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Jeremy. Irons.
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Dec 22, 2018 05:59
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Queen Combat posted:Jeremy. Irons. wasn't as good as John Damon Edit: I'm willing to blame the showrunners for his performance since they dropped the ball with pretty much everything else
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Dec 22, 2018 06:04
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starkebn posted:Death of Stalin was perfectly fine with everyone just using their own accent so I'd like to see more of that. Maybe because it was a comedy, but, whatever. One notable exception was Jason Isaacs Jason Isaacs posted:In real life, Zhukov was the only person who was able to speak bluntly to Stalin. So, I thought, well, who are the bluntest people I’ve ever met in my life? They’re all from Yorkshire. The accent is shorthand for: no loving around, I’m going to tell you what’s what.
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Dec 22, 2018 06:10
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fizzymercy posted:No I'm sorry, Bubbs stop doing drugs is the best part of that musical. Compelling point and hard to argue against. Although Lawrence Gilliard Jr.'s voice and lack of eyebrows just make me go 
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Dec 22, 2018 19:43
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In The Last Kingdom the point is made many times that the main guy is particularly useful because he can speak english and norse. They even bothered to have the saxons use english accents and the danes use scandinavian accents, since of course the whole show is just in english. But translation issues never, ever come up. Even when dudes who should definitely not speak norse get captured by danes. There's even a part where they are speaking to a cornish king, and the king is using a priest to talk to them back and forth, so I though "oh, finally, the language thing might...." NOPE the king speaks english with a welsh accent and understands everyone, he was just being a dick. Ignoring medieval language issues in your dumb historical fantasy is fine but then why have any characters mention it?
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Dec 22, 2018 21:03
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Target is intentionally training it's cashiers to bag groceries poorly so that people will use the self-checkout aisles and then Target can fire the cashiers.
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Dec 22, 2018 21:17
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Since we're adding strongly suspected conspiracy theories: The execs of those stores where parents tart up their daughters get kickbacks whenever a pedophile is arrested for cause.
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Dec 22, 2018 21:23
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If self service things were really self service I wouldn't mind using them. At my store when you go up to one an employee swoops in and is like "here let me scan these for you" while making dumb small talk. At best you go to a place where you can scan your own stuff but it has a camera showing you a feed of yourself while an employee hovers around staring at people, treating everyone like probable criminals. The first time that happened was the last I'll ever use it, it's better to just go into an aisle because at least there's a counter separating the two of you so it's less awkward and you don't feel like they are assuming you're trying to steal something.
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Dec 22, 2018 21:25
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Tubgoat posted:Since we're adding strongly suspected conspiracy theories: The execs of those stores where parents tart up their daughters get kickbacks whenever a pedophile is arrested for cause. Is that a genre of stores? And how would you make money off of someone getting arrested?
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Dec 22, 2018 21:30
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yeah I eat rear end posted:If self service things were really self service I wouldn't mind using them. At my store when you go up to one an employee swoops in and is like "here let me scan these for you" while making dumb small talk. At best you go to a place where you can scan your own stuff but it has a camera showing you a feed of yourself while an employee hovers around staring at people, treating everyone like probable criminals. The first time that happened was the last I'll ever use it, it's better to just go into an aisle because at least there's a counter separating the two of you so it's less awkward and you don't feel like they are assuming you're trying to steal something.
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Dec 22, 2018 21:30
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