Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 51

It seems Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett never collaborated on anything, not even a TV episode of something.

On the one hand it seems odd, as they were active around the same time, and many readers are fans of both and note that their use of language and humor can be rather similar. On the other hand, where's the sense in collaborating with someone too similar to yourself?

They didn't have quite the same outlook on life though. While both have a sort of positive nihilism to them, along with a powerful sense of the whimsy, Pratchett is more cheerful and angry, while Adams is more cynical and sarcastic. Maybe that could have made a collaboration interesting. Or disastrous.

Men and women on the internet thinking Chani would have been a better character if she had smiled more.

We have so much work to do. Where to start.

I saw the last three episodes in a row tonight.

My poor heart. That sure took a number of turns.

I am exhausted. What a show!

The people in the old movie pronounced Harkonnen the obvious way from the spelling, /har-KOH-nen/, so I was confused when the people in the new movie said it differently. The trailer slightly annoyed me, to be honest.

But then I heard an interview with Frank Herbert, and he pronounced it like Härkönen with an American accent, /HAR-konen/, so that's it, voice of God.

#dune

This made me think, if this kind of streamlining is what it takes to make a movie compelling to the casual audience, wouldn't it be cool to make one movie from each aspect, in such a way that each movie stands on its own as a compelling story to watch, but they all fit together as a greater whole?

I don't mean Dunevnecessarily, andvcertainly not this Dune, that was just the seed that made me think about this.

There are certainly movies that have been done like this, with parallel story lines that fit together, but then it's in one movie, and the threads usually interlace and don't make sense on their own.

But multiple movies as not sequels, not prequels, but parallelquels? Episodes of TV shows have done it, but it would be cool to see as a daring mega project.

Just read a long thoughtful analysis of DV Dune by someone who loves the books. Their analysis was that every choice in the DV movies is about focusing on (1) Paul's dilemma, (2) the aspect of religion as a tool for power.

Removing the mentats, Guild, the Emperor, CHOAM, etc from the core story and putting pairs in opposition, like Chani and Jessica, and North and South is all about this focus.

The simultaneously best and worst movie promotion interview ever, Ronny Chieng and Awkwafina: Kung Fu Panda 4.

It's impossible to tell how this interview was intended to go. Maybe it was supposed to go *exactly* like this. Either way, completely unhinged, hilarious, and a jab at the movie promotion campaign trail.

Wait, are we doing the bit now, or was that sincere? Sincere! Sincere! Ok, let's start over! Again! 🤣

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@Hypolite Petovan Admittedly my perspective is skewed as I hear about it in "am I the asshole" threads and other relationship threads, which do not generally have the success stories, only the bad examples.

Having a work friend is obviously a good thing, but likening it to a romantic relationship, even as a joke, seems to me that it would have an obvious potential for problems unless everyone involved know each other well and trust each other.

I haven't heard the terms "work wife" or "work husband" before. It seems like the kind of thing people would joke about because they believe joking about it will create plausible deniability and smoke screens for actually having an affair.

Please be closer to your family than to your colleagues. But maybe that's not possible in the US environment and that's why these are US terms.

Hahaha! Oh, Dev Ayesa, you sly fox!

Three episodes to go.

Immediately an engineer came to me with great feedback that makes the thing a little bit more complex but also less confusing, and also solves multiple issues we've been having with some special cases.

Good. Good.

Ok, I finally thought about that thing I should have thought about for a month or five. And I sent the email.

After enough thinking it's a five-line email and a proposed minimal change in the application. Without the thinking it would have been a huge change.

The best code to maintain is the code that never got written. I am happy with my workday and will go home a few minutes early.

It's a boulder off my back and I am sighing of relief.