A Midsummer Night's [chat]

Drez

Squirminator2k wrote:

Drez wrote:

I tried carrying around like a writing journal and whatnot.

It did nothing for me and I found myself turned away from writing. I would have all these awesome ideas while traveling on the bus/train or out and about and I've lost a lot of them to the winds of time now because I either didn't have something to write with on hand, or I couldn't be fucked to actually write my complicated series of ideas out by hand and by the time I got home or to where I was going, I'd forgotten either the construction of the idea that I liked, or the idea itself.

Now that I have a personal word processing device on hand at all times, I am much, much more productive.

Now, perhaps that is because I find more inspiration while I am away from home. I actually find myself writing much more outside of my home than inside of my home. But even then, I couldn't even imagine choosing pen and paper over my desktop computer. That would be like cramming four people in your car and choosing the non-carpool lane just because.

I've written entire first drafts on my iPhone while on the bus. The CeltX iPhone/iPad app has a wonderful little feature that lets you sync scripts with your PC or Mac, so when I'd get home I'd just transfer the script to the PC, fix the typos, and keep going.

In fact, back when I had my netbook, "writing" was my #1 reason for justifying the purchase to myself. The #2 reason was programming, but even then, I was mainly writing text adventures.

Drez

Bogart wrote:

How the fuck you can say Branagh's Hamlet was an hour too long when it was pretty much the exact same length as the play is beyond me.

Because Shakespeare's Hamlet is also an hour too long.

Organichu

Drez wrote:

Bogart wrote:

How the fuck you can say Branagh's Hamlet was an hour too long when it was pretty much the exact same length as the play is beyond me.

Because Shakespeare's Hamlet is also an hour too long.

scott pilgrim is 112 minutes too long

Chanus

Bogart wrote:

How the fuck you can say Branagh's Hamlet was an hour too long when it was pretty much the exact same length as the play is beyond me.

Needs moar flashy lights

Ludious

ugh I've had to do actual work today. Like get up from my desk work.

Squirminator2k

Drez wrote:

In fact, back when I had my netbook, "writing" was my #1 reason for justifying the purchase to myself. The #2 reason was programming, but even then, I was mainly writing text adventures.

That's a good reason to own a netbook. I miss my laptop for much the same reason, and my goal of getting an ipad has been scuppered indefinitely after having lost my job.

Drez

Organichu wrote:

Drez wrote:

Bogart wrote:

How the fuck you can say Branagh's Hamlet was an hour too long when it was pretty much the exact same length as the play is beyond me.

Because Shakespeare's Hamlet is also an hour too long.

scott pilgrim is 112 minutes too long

edit: Poor taste. Just like Organichu's butt.

Drez

How tall are you, bro?

Organichu

6'1

YamiNoSenshi

This post is tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long

Ludious

I'm 6'1" too.

Lets be height buddies

Ludious

YamiNoSenshi wrote:

This post is tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long

I'm worried that attitudes like this will be the death of long posts

Squirminator2k

Daft Punk's "Too Long" is about five minutes too long.

Organichu

elendil you're taller than me, right

i wish i were 6'2" but i don't think i am

Elendil

chu is like 6'2" i think

which means there's six inches of chu you actually want

and I gotta say drez

that's awfully generous

Drez

Organichu wrote:

6'1

Hey.

Hey, listen.

Ludious

I used to be 6'4". Being a fatty makes you shrink. Remember that kids.

Organichu

ok the nausea has given me a brief respite

i guess i ought to have lunch now

Donkey Kong

Organichu wrote:

6'1

Like all men, you are actually 5'11". You think you can get away with two inches because the shoes add one and the next is an honest mistake.

Inquisitor

Elendil wrote:

did they ever use great big battle axes IRL

those are p. boss

saving up to buy one

No like, organized military to my knowledge. Dunno. Axes are kinda bad weapons. They look super rad though.

Chanus

Hah. 6'1"... dwarves.

6'4", sucka.

Drez

Seriously, Hamlet is my favorite play from any author. It's a fantastic play.

But five hours worth of play to read is quite different from five hours of play to watch.

Nobody wants to watch a five hour play. Fuck that.

Organichu

Donkey Kong wrote:

Organichu wrote:

6'1

Like all men, you are actually 5'11". You think you can get away with two inches because the shoes add one and the next is an honest mistake.

i am actually 6'1"! i stood in socks at my doctor's office next to the thing!

Zombiemambo

October is almost over, gotta rep my boi in my av

Elendil

I prefer to read plays than watch them

Chanus

Last time I went to the doctor, he was like 5'6" and he pulled out the ruler and kinda shrugged and asked, "How tall are you?"

Donkey Kong

I never understood the obsession with reading plays. The works of Shake'n'spear are not great as books.

Elendil

Zombiemambo wrote:

October is almost over, gotta rep my boi in my av

is that jesus

Bogart

Drez wrote:

Seriously, Hamlet is my favorite play from any author. It's a fantastic play.

But five hours worth of play to read is quite different from five hours of play to watch.

Nobody wants to watch a five hour play. Fuck that.

Bollocks. I've watched five different versions of Hamlet on stage and most of them were upwards of four hours. Me and everyone else was happy to sit through it and loved pretty much every minute. Some bits are often cut, which is fine, but none of them were cut so much that the running time came close to three hours. Four and a little bit is average. Never seen one that took five.

Lear's about four hours as well.

BobCesca

I'll be over here being all short at 5'8".

Bogart

Donkey Kong wrote:

I never understood the obsession with reading plays. The works of Shake'n'spear are not great as books.

Wut?

BobCesca

Bogart wrote:

Donkey Kong wrote:

I never understood the obsession with reading plays. The works of Shake'n'spear are not great as books.

Wut?

I also do not understand DK's statements.

Winky

Organichu wrote:

Drez wrote:

Bogart wrote:

How the fuck you can say Branagh's Hamlet was an hour too long when it was pretty much the exact same length as the play is beyond me.

Because Shakespeare's Hamlet is also an hour too long.

scott pilgrim is 112 minutes too long

Organichu is 4 inches too short

MyDcmbr

RMS Oceanic wrote:

Did anyone else UK side try to get a NOS Batman Beyond code? I want to confirm if it's a region thing.

D:

Also, I have another code sitting here right next to me if anyone wants it.

Wash

Zombiemambo wrote:

October is almost over, gotta rep my boi in my av

who is your boi

do you realize you are using rep incorrectly

Drez

Donkey Kong wrote:

I never understood the obsession with reading plays. The works of Shake'n'spear are not great as books.

Well, they aren't "books." They are "plays." Just like a short story isn't a book, a poem isn't a book, a novella isn't a book (though it is book-like). And so on.

A play is text, but it isn't a book.

This may sound like semantics, but I posit that if you approach reading the text of a play like it's a book you are doing it wrong.

Lawndart

Drez wrote:

Seriously, Hamlet is my favorite play from any author. It's a fantastic play.

But five hours worth of play to read is quite different from five hours of play to watch.

Nobody wants to watch a five hour play. Fuck that.

I'm pretty sure most modern stagings of the longer Shakespeare plays edit the text down a bit.

Also, hearing Shakespeare acted aloud is a much different experience than reading it on the page.

Edit: Even reading Shakespeare aloud makes the flow and rhythm of the words more obvious than they are when just reading them silently.

Inquisitor

I dunno, I get quite different things out of reading and watching a play. I like both.

Drez

Bogart wrote:

Drez wrote:

Seriously, Hamlet is my favorite play from any author. It's a fantastic play.

But five hours worth of play to read is quite different from five hours of play to watch.

Nobody wants to watch a five hour play. Fuck that.

Bollocks. I've watched five different versions of Hamlet on stage and most of them were upwards of four hours. Me and everyone else was happy to sit through it and loved pretty much every minute. Some bits are often cut, which is fine, but none of them were cut so much that the running time came close to three hours. Four and a little bit is average. Never seen one that took five.

Lear's about four hours as well.

Four hours is also too long for a play.

Zampanov

Donkey Kong wrote:

Organichu wrote:

6'1

Like all men, you are actually 5'11". You think you can get away with two inches because the shoes add one and the next is an honest mistake.

See, I cop to 5'11 because I get the feeling I'd be pretty embarrassed telling people I'm six feet and them figuring out it's a lie.