Notices by Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social), page 15

also, wow, reading reviews, there were people who DIDN'T like Season 2 Episode 7 and the whole Cyberpunk Scoobies detour, I mean, WHY

@zensaiyuki omg that's pretty cool

but what are they going to use the secret underground Russian base for, in the Amazon and Uber era?

okay, that was...

well that one was a lot sillier than the other two and that's kind of a high bar to clear

@elsander I am perpetually surprised by how many people think that either Judaism or Christianity ever literally taught 'an old man with a beard in the clouds'

I mean the First Commandment is 'God is not representable in images' so......

It takes more than three thousand years for a very basic religious teaching to sink in, perhaps?

(Okay that ONE TIME in Daniel with the 'Ancient of Days' thing, sheesh)

@elsander I am perpetually surprised by how many people think that either Judaism or Christianity ever literally taught in an 'old man with a beard in the clouds'

I mean the First Commandment is 'God is not representable in images' so......

It takes more than three thousand years for a very basic religious teaching to sink in, perhaps?

@capngloval Yeah it's the idea of Burroughs doing noir 1920s corporate pulp that first surprised me then surprised me that I was surprised.

From the writer who brought you...

"Tarzan Punches Everything"
"Heaving Bosoms of Mars"
"Sky Pirates of Venus vs Labour Rights Agitators of Jupiter"

comes a new frontier in urban fantasy:

"The Efficiency Expert"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Efficiency_Expert_(novel)

@pnathan The breaking point for me was the Smurfs movie - not Disney but Sony/Columbia, but, the
everyman' protoganist is *literally an advertising executive*

and that's where I knew that Hollywood 'kids' movies had completely lost interest in being for any kids other than the children of the extremely rich.

(A notable counter-example: Aardman Studio's 'Flushed Away' which is especially poignant given the Brexit debacle.)

@pnathan Yeah, I do think the whole "why actually are the lions beloved kings when they literally eat their subjects" needs more exploration. it's probably the reason why I've never really enjoyed this movie.

More and more I feel Disney and other similar animated movies are targeted at a laughably rich upper middle-class demographic - children of corporate executives, etc - for whom this kind of thinking is just "normal". But it seems increasingly weird to the rest of us.

@pnathan Monarchical and aristocratic and patriarchal sure, but fascistic? A myth of national renewal through violent action?

Hmm

The Hero With A Thousand Reddit Aliases

@minimalist_technician Waiting for Godot to Pass the Threshold Guardian at the Abyss of Transformation, which in this adaptation involves swinging from a rope under a helicopter, which represents Suburbia

Terminator 6: Vegas Career Phase of the Machines

I really wanna understand how 'Refusing the Call' ever became a thing

"Right, so, you've got only 120 minutes to tell our story, what's the very first thing we must do?"

"Grab the audience with some action? Establish our protagonist?"

"Of course not. You want to spend 90 of those minutes watching the protagonist grumble about their boring life and watch paint dry while repeatedly refusing to do anything interesting. That way, the audience will really WANT them to act in the last 30 minutes!"

also one out of every two things made by Joss Whedon, but, your passing out test is, you have to identify WHICH one

I wonder at what point all the Hollywood script writing seminars will shift from 'make sure you Refuse the Call while you Save the Cat' to 'just watch every episode of Stranger Things and zero episodes of anything made by J J Abrams and you will know. In your heart. You will know.'

1980s arcade games 'upscaled' via dark magic and neural networks

I think if you accidentally watch one of these clips, you have to infect others or, seven days later, The Pong Artifact comes for you

anyway how was YOUR morning

https://twitter.com/jonathanfly/status/1144735290591981568

An advanced religious studies degree in Comparative Theobroma

And not everyone at Eranos liked Jung either