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AceOfFlames posted:I stumbled across one of these videos while searching for cheap recipes but immediately shut it off because it looked like a parody a la HowToBasic. Is this legit then? His cooking stuff is genuine. It's basically the kind of stuff my grandmother made only with lots of doctorskaya kolbasa mixed in which I don't think we have in the UK as I don't have a sklep near me. I like them because Russian stuff seems like English stuff in that it uses a very similar set of ingredients. I want to try making his Plov at some point cos it seems like something I'd really like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdQzjaevXQ His habit of eating mayonnaise with everything though I think is just a personal thing  Jaeluni Asjil posted:Actually... no.. I've never read HP and believe me I tried very hard. Even tried listening to Steven Fry audio (20 years ago don't hate me), tried the films... nothing. I felt I was some kind of bad person for just not appreciating it until I came to UKMT You're not missing much. It's an alright YA series for the first few and then it gets dumber and I stopped reading it because it was bad. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Aug 31, 2019 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:quiz machines pub quiz machines always beat drunken me by phrasing questions like 'what's the tallest British mountain?' its Mount Hope, in the british antarctic territory
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Coohoolin posted:lol i'm watching the awful tom cruise mummy movie, imagining the producers being like "yeah so archaeologists are cool, but you know what else is cool? SOLDIERS" so they made the two grave robbing guys into... archaeology soldiers. 
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OwlFancier posted:You're not missing much. It's an alright YA series for the first few and then it gets dumber and I stopped reading it because it was bad. Yeah, I think that if you weren't into it as a kid it definitely wouldn't have any value now. Even when I was a kid I managed to notice obvious seams in the writing, the most obvious being how Rowling will suddenly come up with a new made up word and have every single character in the world start using it once its explained to Harry (for ex. "Death Eaters": Before Book 4 they simply called them "Voldemort's followers" but once that term is introduced no one ever calls them anything else ever again) Not to mention how Harry himself is just not that great of a protagonist. It's kind of hilarious how Snape at one point claims "[Harry] has fought his way out of a number of tight corners by a simple combination of sheer luck and more talented friends. He is mediocre in the last degree." because he is 100% right. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Aug 31, 2019 |
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otoh Thumb People and Gammons.
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so what's the chance this is brexit's peak stupid and it'll be better from here on
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AceOfFlames posted:Yeah, I think that if you weren't into it as a kid it definitely wouldn't have any value now. Maybe being 37 when it came out didn't help  though friends my age did manage to get into it. One is a bit obsessed and doesn't get that I'm not.Tijuana Bibliophile posted:so what's the chance this is brexit's peak stupid and it'll be better from here on We can hope. Is hope a lie?
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Coohoolin posted:lol i'm watching the awful tom cruise mummy movie, imagining the producers being like "yeah so archaeologists are cool, but you know what else is cool? SOLDIERS" so they made the two grave robbing guys into... archaeology soldiers. The funniest poo poo I find with that Mummy movie is that Universal were planning to do a shared cinematic universe, à la Marvel using the Universal Horror Monsters (Dracula, Wolfman, Gillman, The Mummy, etc - I mean technically they did actually crossovers with each other in some of the later, really bad films) and managed to poo poo it up, not just once, but twice. This is the official trailer they put out when announcing it. This is NOT a parody. That embarassing music and editing was approved of by the studio. The planned order was: Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisble Man, and the Bride of Frankenstien, with the Wolf Man, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Phantom of the Opera, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame planned after those four. Anyway the first was to be Dracula Untold. It's boring and bland as gently caress, with the idea that vampire Charles Dance was going to assemble a Monster Squad, and that was going to be followed by the Mummy, and kickstart the "Dark Universe". Reaction was luke-warm to negative so they scrapped that, and decided to start afresh with the Mummy which was now the "first" in the Dark Universe shared cinematic universe. And then that sucked so loving hard they've put that concept on hiatus, and are just focusing on individual remake films. Last I heard anyway. Jaeluni Asjil posted:Actually... no.. I've never read HP and believe me I tried very hard. Even tried listening to Steven Fry audio (20 years ago don't hate me), tried the films... nothing. I felt I was some kind of bad person for just not appreciating it until I came to UKMT I was the target age group when it came out, and it's fine as simplistic YA fantasy fiction. The writing got worse as the books went on, but not like the worst thing ever. The problem is when people have tried to apply its weird sterile politics to real life, or when JK Rowling tries to claim that it's the wokest thing that ever woked. Briefly, without going full "Beep boop what is this thing you humans call fiction" Methods of Rationality bollocks, the actual politics in the books is pretty hosed. It's a highly segregated secret society based of either blood purity, or magical purity (and that's not just the villains - that's the actual fundemental of the society itself), with their own system of law, although apparently the non-magic government also knows about it. Or something. There's also a literal slave race who are abused by the bad guys...and also the good guys, but it's fine when they do it because they honestly love being slaves and the good guys don't beat them. Going by the films alone, it's apparently post-racial, but still has miscegenation in the form of non-magic people marrying magic people (at least in America). Also magic Hitler analog wants to enslave the non-magic people...to stop the A-bomb and the holocaust. (Speaking of utter trainwreck films). tl;dr It's largely a victim of its own success - and can't live outside the first few books she wrote - another reason those Fantastic Beasts films are barely watchable outside of some pretty visuals.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:so what's the chance this is brexit's peak stupid and it'll be better from here on Bitch it’s not even October.
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Pesky Splinter posted:tl;dr It's largely a victim of its own success - and can't live outside the first few books she wrote - another reason those Fantastic Beasts films are barely watchable outside of some pretty visuals. Fantastic Beasts would probably be trash either way but for the life of me, I don't understand why Rowling has to write the screenplay for these movies. Writing screenplays is completely different from writing novels and her lack of skill at the former is apparent. Can't she just pull a GRRM and hand some notes to an actual screenwriter? Hell, even freaking E. L. James only served as a producer on the Fifty Shades films (though she apparently had near-unprecedented creative control). AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Aug 31, 2019 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:We can hope. Is hope a lie? come on now 
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You could possibly argue that as Rowling got more used to fame and fortune she veered away from the quite collaborative plot resolutions of the first couple of books and more towards harry is just such a magic wonder child that he can solve problems by his innate wonderfulness. Cos yes he does basically win by dumb luck, especially early on, which is how everyone actually wins IRL.
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oh god another one "Where's Harry Potter when you need him" - where's that Brexit Party membership form....
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:come on now Who is standing outside my house and screaming “forget 2017”??? Show yourself coward, I will never forget.
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Wanting literal magic and/or a shadowy cabal to "fix" things into being 2012 forever is basically the pinnacle of centrist thought so the HP obsession makes sense
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Tesseraction posted:In JESUS CHRIST news, Jereme Soule, the composer to the Elder Scrolls and Guild Wars series, has been outed as a rapist and abuser https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1166106560809992192?s=19 https://twitter.com/derangedpoetess/status/1167855630385909760
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OwlFancier posted:You could possibly argue that as Rowling got more used to fame and fortune she veered away from the quite collaborative plot resolutions of the first couple of books and more towards harry is just such a magic wonder child that he can solve problems by his innate wonderfulness. I would say the only time in which he showed a minimum of proactiveness was when he was giving those underground DAtDA courses in Order of the Phoenix and even there he had to be pushed into doing it (though it does tie in with the "the best ones suited for power are those who never sought it" theme). Every other time he has no clue WTF he's doing.
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AceOfFlames posted:Fantastic Beasts would probably be trash either way but for the life of me, I don't understand why Rowling has to write the screenplay for these movies. Writing screenplays is completely different from writing novels and her lack of skill at the former is apparent. Can't she just pull a GRRM and hand some notes to an actual screenwriter? Yeah, I mean the Harry Potter films were just that; actual screenwriters adapting the stories - Rowling apparently got final approval - but it still wasn't her writing them. Ignoring the actual narrative structure of the Fantastic Beasts films (there isn't one), how the actual thing works from scene-to-scene makes much more sense in a novel, and yeah it's super apparent that she's just not good at writing in the screenplay format. Jaeluni Asjil posted:oh god another one "Where's Harry Potter when you need him" - where's that Brexit Party membership form.... Don't you mean...Slytherin membership form. 
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another political wiz kid lofted up as the true master of no 10? just like andy coulson? it's like people who think lynton crosby is a genius. no it's not hard to win an election when the opposition sucks and you can just say "MIGRANTS STEALING MONEY" to boomers over and over again.
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Chuka Umana posted:where are these rumors of calling an election on thursday? You just read one. I’m assuming Mason has some sources, seems like a dumb tactic to pretend there’s a rumour about it. It is still just that as he says though, a rumour, but there has been a lot of posturing towards one recently. OwlFancier posted:Dominic Cummings is the prime minister now? Paul Mason being a believer in great man theory isn’t all that shocking tbh.
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Apraxin posted:This definitely isn't an appropriate circumstance for a 'that escalated quickly' joke, but I'm not sure how else to react to this, jesus christ: It's gonna escalate further because now zoe is gonna get a shitload of hate and harassment
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Guavanaut posted:Johnson is Premier In Name Only Really.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:It's gonna escalate further because now zoe is gonna get a shitload of hate and harassment Yeah Christ, I regret reading the replies to that tweet.
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Welp they just deleted their twitter right as I was googling who they were. Probably a good move. Social media is scary poo poo.
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Pochoclo posted:Welp she just deleted her twitter right as I was googling who she was. Probably a good move. Social media is scary poo poo. She's the initial victim of the g-gate word
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Apraxin posted:This definitely isn't an appropriate circumstance for a 'that escalated quickly' joke, but I'm not sure how else to react to this, jesus christ: God-drat. I'm sure he had other reasons for committing suicide but what a loving horrible thing to do to his victims. One final way to twist things back on them and permanently scar their lives. EDIT https://twitter.com/derangedpoetess/status/1167884648296222721 It's something, but I can't help but feel mad that it wasn't included in the original news. I get that he was her brother, but she openly admits he hurt people while still trying to whitewash him as still being a good person 'deep down'. jabby fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Aug 31, 2019 |
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Yeah I remember when that all kicked off. I was initially "well I guess this seems a bit iffy" and then it dove headfirst into the utter insanity and now tbh I'm inclined to basically take her side just cos everyone who hates her is a tremendous shithead lol.
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Illuyankas posted:She's the initial victim of the g-gate word 
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AceOfFlames posted:Not to mention how Harry himself is just not that great of a protagonist. It's kind of hilarious how Snape at one point claims "[Harry] has fought his way out of a number of tight corners by a simple combination of sheer luck and more talented friends. He is mediocre in the last degree." because he is 100% right. This is actually something I really like about the books. Harry is explicitly not really qualified enough for all this Chosen One bullshit. Hermione and a good 70% of the Weasley's are significantly better at wizarding than he is. But Harry is brave. And committed. And he knows what is right. He knows where to apply the few talents he does have. And he'll share those talents with anybody who needs them. And he'll put himself in harms way for a complete stranger, no matter the odds. That's a good lesson for kids I feel.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Maybe being 37 when it came out didn't help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMjrXRgu8IU&t=53s The first book's like a Roald Dahl-esque fun story where a kid with a cruel family escapes and has an adventure, later they become Serious Important Books where JK Rowling reveals the wisdom contained within on a regular basis
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Fruities have to pay out a certain percentage of takings, quiz machines (and other games of skill rather than chance) don't. As long as the questions were pitched at just the right level so people thought they were in with a chance, the margins are way, way higher, but as others have pointed out smartphones kinda kill that model. I amazed my friends once by winning £10 or 15 on a Who wants to be a millionaire machine
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I think I started reading Pratchett in the in between of books 4 and 5, so I didn't like how loving serious Harry was about everything whilst also not being able to talk about anything in a constructive way. So I gave up and read Discworld instead. I went to see Drunk Hamlet tonight, it was very funny! I've also just purchased (and gotten about halfway through) Radical Happiness. It's very interesting, though I think the overemphasis on "this is too medicalised" in chapter 2 alongside the constant Freud quoting does pull me out of stuff.
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Josef bugman posted:So I gave up and read Discworld instead. This is the correct way to read harry potter IMO. Also kind of mirrors my experience too
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