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One thing I found funny watching 3 Body Problem was the realization there’s a very specifically sized knit cap that’s visual shorthand for a character having cancer. I imagine it came to be from people losing their hair from chemo and having to wear the hat to stay warm. In 3BP he eschews radiation and still has a full head of hair, but he starts wearing the hat anyway because that’s what you do when you have cancer I guess.
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Groovelord Neato posted:I know. I've seen the film. 3 and Three both mean III
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Only a couple episodes into it, but they made some smart decisions in adapting 3 Body Problem -- mainly not holding back on Ye Winjie's identity and actions, and the nature of the problem in the video game. The book makes a mystery out of all these things, and the show would not have been able to sustain these for 8 episodes. And they're compressing the future characters into the present ones, cancer guy, CIA guy, Jin/Xin being the protagonist from the very start. They don't need these characters for a long time but they're already laying the brickwork. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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https://twitter.com/MaxCEEUpdates/status/1769778377542504644 Attention X JAKK , this is happening!!!
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Groovelord Neato posted:IAnd they made the Netfllix title 3 Body Problem. The book title is Three Body Problem in English
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Khanstant posted:3 and Three both mean III I only recognize the number threeve
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Rocky V plus Rocky II equals...Rocky VII: Adrian's Revenge!
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Lord of the Rings Part Deux: The II Towers
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Non Compos Mentis posted:seems like a real good idea to have your series open with people cheering on while a teacher gets beaten to death The series has a lot of connection to the cultural revolution, both in the brutal killing being an inciting event for the "humanity sucks" action of telling the aliens to come get us and also the general paranoia of the ultimate weapon being to basically tell on someone which will both draw negative attention to you and your target, and the only safe course of action being to keep your head down. Also the idea that doing what you need to do to survive can make you morally inexcusable to people who didn't have to live through the same circumstances. There's a Chinese saying I've heard a few times that's something like 'a good person can be old but there aren't any old people that are good' (because the current ones all had to make it through the cultural revolution). It's stuff I've seen related to the cultural revolution before so it's neat to see it given a sci fi framing. Obviously if you're Chinese you have to step extremely lightly when dealing with these themes.
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I watched the first episode of 3 Booty Problems because of the response itt, and I'm getting a real "god's not dead" vibe from how these scientists are portrayed. it's the only way to explain why they're so casually bummed that their careers are completely upended by unexplained phenomena. "oh no science can't explain the particle accelerators, that sucks. so weird." feels like the show is aiming to do the whole damon-lindelof-y "maybe it's not god. hmm, but, what if...? can your science explain... thiiisss??? hmmmmm????" if you're a scientist in that situation you're either very publicly losing your mind or loving elated. (and don't bring up the scientist who committed suicide, it's effectively text at this point that she did that because of the spooky numbers, not out of professional anxiety or mental illness.) I'm sure there's some cultural commentary or context from the original work that I'm missing, or that is missing in this adaptation so far. But frankly I went in with little faith in the guys who drove game of thrones off a cliff because they thought they were going to direct a star war, and who wanted to do an adaptation of an alternate history american confederacy, and I feel like I'm being set up to feel very vindicated.
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BreakPoint posted:https://twitter.com/MaxCEEUpdates/status/1769778377542504644 Mindy Kaling must be stopped at any cost. *Aims radio telescope at the sun and invites aliens to eat the whole drat planet as long as they get her as part of the deal*
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There are maybe 50 Mindy Kaling fans in the world, and they all review TV shows professionally.
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Velma season 2 totally got greenlit on the back of the initial "hate watching" and I'd be shocked if it gets any further than that. In other news, a somewhat more interesting "look who hates this" marketing campaign just dropped: https://twitter.com/NomiMalones/status/1771632844692967814?t=jYewy-FCotdM2QtRX2SLSg&s=19 (I have no idea how "real" these ads are, but that barely means anything these days anyway) edit: For those who aren't Twitter-poisoned enough to know this, apparently the alt-right has seemed Sydney Sweeney "anti-woke" because she's blonde and has boobs, or something. I dunno it's bizarre and I wish these people would just admit they're horny Sir Lemming fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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kalel posted:I watched the first episode of 3 Booty Problems because of the response itt, and I'm getting a real "god's not dead" vibe from how these scientists are portrayed. it's the only way to explain why they're so casually bummed that their careers are completely upended by unexplained phenomena. "oh no science can't explain the particle accelerators, that sucks. so weird." feels like the show is aiming to do the whole damon-lindelof-y "maybe it's not god. hmm, but, what if...? can your science explain... thiiisss??? hmmmmm????" if you're a scientist in that situation you're either very publicly losing your mind or loving elated. (and don't bring up the scientist who committed suicide, it's effectively text at this point that she did that because of the spooky numbers, not out of professional anxiety or mental illness.) Yeah in the books I hated every single character as well as the general society the characters existed in. Other than that they were good. I should really try watching the show.
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Sir Lemming posted:Velma season 2 totally got greenlit on the back of the initial "hate watching" and I'd be shocked if it gets any further than that. the left one is real
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Sir Lemming posted:Velma season 2 totally got greenlit on the back of the initial "hate watching" and I'd be shocked if it gets any further than that. whoa some dudes on twitter hated the movie, check it out
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Sir Lemming posted:Velma season 2 totally got greenlit on the back of the initial "hate watching" and I'd be shocked if it gets any further than that. I assume they said to make 2 seasons at once before anyone saw the first one to like it or hate it.
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Gripweed posted:There are maybe 50 Mindy Kaling fans in the world, and they all review TV shows professionally.
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Sir Lemming posted:In other news, a somewhat more interesting "look who hates this" marketing campaign just dropped: Looks like they hired the Your Mom Hates Dead Space campaign marketers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKkPFDEiC6Q
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Sir Lemming posted:Velma season 2 totally got greenlit on the back of the initial "hate watching" and I'd be shocked if it gets any further than that. I will watch that this weekend, which I'm now realizing is easter
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kalel posted:I watched the first episode of 3 Booty Problems because of the response itt, and I'm getting a real "god's not dead" vibe from how these scientists are portrayed. it's the only way to explain why they're so casually bummed that their careers are completely upended by unexplained phenomena. "oh no science can't explain the particle accelerators, that sucks. so weird." feels like the show is aiming to do the whole damon-lindelof-y "maybe it's not god. hmm, but, what if...? can your science explain... thiiisss??? hmmmmm????" if you're a scientist in that situation you're either very publicly losing your mind or loving elated. (and don't bring up the scientist who committed suicide, it's effectively text at this point that she did that because of the spooky numbers, not out of professional anxiety or mental illness.) The explanation is pretty dumb. The aliens have what amounts to a magical probe that flies around loving up our scientific instruments all the time. I was expecting something more interesting and disturbing.
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Walter Peck in 1984: (literally gets a load of marshmallow goo dropped on him after seeing a gigantic marshmallow man walk down the streets of New York City) Walter Peck in 2024: "No eye witnesses."
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I blame Stranger Things for igniting a renewed nostalgia baiting interest in Ghostbusters treating it as a beloved family values classic.
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Sir Lemming posted:Velma season 2 totally got greenlit on the back of the initial "hate watching" and I'd be shocked if it gets any further than that.
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lmao i am real sorry for making a stupid joke and creating an even more stupid (somehow) derail
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Hackers film 1995 posted:yesterday i was talking to someone about beetlejuice and then it became about how much we love michael keaton and then i just rewatched birdman for the 50th time. jesus i love that movie. this may be one of my favorite scenes in any film ever. i love birdman so much
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I just found out Arnold’s character’s name in Commando is “John Matrix.”
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they completed this "franchise" as a 2d sidescroller or some poo poo
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Sunk Dunk posted:I just found out Arnold’s character’s name in Commando is “John Matrix.” Every 80 action hero was named John. John Matrix John Rambo John McClane
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reignofevil posted:they completed this "franchise" as a 2d sidescroller or some poo poo
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penny arcade? Jesus I haven't been to their website in years. Aside from PAX are they still even remotely relevant?
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I didn't mean to start a conversation about penny arcade or their game I just thought that ad was funny
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Sunk Dunk posted:I just found out Arnold’s character’s name in Commando is “John Matrix.” Welcome back Sunk. So glad you could make it!
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hope wired user ddf is still homicidally mad about penny arcade to this day
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We should cut down the penny arcade chat and pivot to slash dot.
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Matt Baume has a great piece about a historic British film that helped bring down that county’s ban on homosexuality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0nkN8MabA Wildest aside from this is how there was a film version of The Trials of Oscar Wilde that had to depict him as straight.
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Jose Oquendo posted:penny arcade? Jesus I haven't been to their website in years. Aside from PAX are they still even remotely relevant? I'm pretty sure they sold pax to reedpop (a corporation that puts on nerd conventions). That should have made them each enough money to retire and raise their kids. Bloggers as influencers teetered out once people could make a living from youtube and the audience didn't need to do the work of reading anymore.
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Cubone posted:I didn't mean to start a conversation about penny arcade or their game I just thought that ad was funny cuboned again
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Vakal posted:Every 80 action hero was named John. Fuckin lazy rear end boomers
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