Historians will cite this kind of shit as confirmation of a pervasive and malignant ennui which shaped the developing culture of the early 21st century
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i would have liked the action sequences in daredevil more if he didn't do random flips into obviously pulled kicks for no reason all the time
along those lines, i loved it in the last episode when
there was a parkour sequence and he just did random front flips while jumping from building to building because ~comic books~
Shameful pursuits and utterly stupid opinions
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also i think the "it has no heart" charge is mostly valid but an interesting complaint to make because i find that's true of most television
Well, the old saying is that most of everything is crap, right? But we don't judge things by those standards, we judge them by the standard bearers.
For instance, the heart of, say, Battlestar Galactica was the goodness of the main characters trying to maintain basic human decency in a world where it may not matter anymore. In Breaking Bad, the heart of the show was the slow slide of Walter White into villainy and Jesse's rise to salvation.
The heart of Daredevil SHOULD be (IMO, obvs) Matt trying to save Hell's Kitchen from its history of poverty and crime, and in plain textual terms, it already is; but the show doesn't do the legwork. It doesn't give us reason for us to think this is a real struggle and worth the effort. You could also work the angle where Matt struggles with his duality of upholding the law in the day and subverting it at night. But this show just wants close-ups of people looking angsty and dour, hoping their facial expressions alone sell the myriad overarching plots.
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All of Atomika's points are true and yet it's better than a lot of TV, better than pretty much every serial, and in a whole different class to almost anything comic related.
Which is an indictment of comic stuff and most TV as much as it is praise of the Daring Deevil
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Though I liked mental retard Fisk.
Though I think there were better, alternative interpretations of his demeanour consistent with Goran's performance.
Also, I think Jim's wand in his right hand's cycle is off. The top half seemed to move back and forth to either side of the bottom half. Probably a little hard to fix at this res, but it looks a little janky.
Also, Jim having a perfectly straight leg that moves back and forth above the knee makes it a little off.
Make it bend a bit more in its neutral position and, if possible move the foot a bit
Aaaand make either extreme of his movement take a few extra frames so that his movement is a little more smooth.
Historians will cite this kind of shit as confirmation of a pervasive and malignant ennui which shaped the developing culture of the early 21st century
9/11 did some weird things to our culture
I talked to some people at a concert last weekend who have never known a United States that wasn't at war.
I'm not sure if that's better or worse than Millennials who were in junior high when it happened, and therefore remember at least some of pre-9/11 America. Between that and the economy, it's not a far jump to see people gravitating towards nihilistic culture.
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
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Historians will cite this kind of shit as confirmation of a pervasive and malignant ennui which shaped the developing culture of the early 21st century
9/11 did some weird things to our culture
I talked to some people at a concert last weekend who have never known a United States that wasn't at war.
I'm not sure if that's better or worse than Millennials who were in junior high when it happened, and therefore remember at least some of pre-9/11 America. Between that and the economy, it's not a far jump to see people gravitating towards nihilistic culture.
There's been a recent wave of colleges where students are basically saying the first amendment is freedom from being offended. Read a decent piece that put forward the idea that these are the kids who grew up and learned about freedom of speech in the post 9/11 era and so what do we expect them to think?
Reading it is just another one of those milestones on the "Damn, I'm old aren't I?" journey.
Here, have some n-word balls. And of course it figures that I find some racist as heck ones when I GIS.
Someone then had the idea that maybe that was a wee bit offensive and suggested just calling them "chocolate balls" or something instead.
Cue massive outrage from the racist shitheel right-wing section about how it was "Swedish culture" and "had always been called that" etc etc.
In china they call Lucian, a LoL champ who's black and has twin magic handguns "double gun Obama"
He doesn't even look like Obama!!
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I made a terrible mistake staying in Munich. Munich is great and Oulu, Finland is not, but hear me out. In Munich I stayed in a closet and wandered around the touristy stuff alone. In Oulu my hotel is an oceanside spa with a free massage every day with a sauna and a room full of personal jacuzzis.
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Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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There's also a bitching restaurant here and the hotel keeps track for all your booze tax so you can get it back when you leave.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
Dear Swedistani Netflix, stop subtitling "intelligence officer" as "secret agent".
This post left me with so many questions all thinking about them they all come down to it being so outside my experience to have media that would be subtitled in a language I knew while also originally being in a language I knew.
because I really liked daredevil, D'onofrio as Fisk was a fantastic "shark in a skin suit" and Jessica from true blood as Karen even had her own arc completely separate from the male protagonist which is surprisingly rare
Historians will cite this kind of shit as confirmation of a pervasive and malignant ennui which shaped the developing culture of the early 21st century
9/11 did some weird things to our culture
I talked to some people at a concert last weekend who have never known a United States that wasn't at war.
I'm not sure if that's better or worse than Millennials who were in junior high when it happened, and therefore remember at least some of pre-9/11 America. Between that and the economy, it's not a far jump to see people gravitating towards nihilistic culture.
There's been a recent wave of colleges where students are basically saying the first amendment is freedom from being offended. Read a decent piece that put forward the idea that these are the kids who grew up and learned about freedom of speech in the post 9/11 era and so what do we expect them to think?
Reading it is just another one of those milestones on the "Damn, I'm old aren't I?" journey.
Tumblr'ists [going to sub this as as an example of the kids in your post] are a weird one. Like, speaking as a 26 year old, I feel like my cohort is actually 15% Tumblr uses, 90% derisive backlash at them. The 15% is vocal, though.
The thing too, I think is that there is a LOT of intra-generational variance now. While I'm sure people in every generation felt the same way, I don't really feel represented similiarly by 23 year olds, let alone 20 year olds. So much shit happened so fast in like 2000 and going forward that there's like a cultural compression going forward. Whether you were raised with hi-speed internet, whether you grew up with a smartphone, did you graduate college before or after the economy tanked in 2008, did you graduate before or after the Big Three tanked in the late 2000s (this is more Michigan specific), etc.
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Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
Dear Swedistani Netflix, stop subtitling "intelligence officer" as "secret agent".
This post left me with so many questions all thinking about them they all come down to it being so outside my experience to have media that would be subtitled in a language I knew while also originally being in a language I knew.
Stupid America and our monolingualism.
I'm watching Homeland. Yeah, CIA intelligence officers are agents, but "secret agent" is just a really shitty translation.
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I like the still dude.
I think he should swivel his eyes occasionally.
That would make me lol
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heh, I'm not gonna do that because i have a different idle animation in mind, but you're right.
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Yes. Much like the plot of the Matrix exists to explain how Keanu Reeves can do Kung Fu.
"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it." -- Jack Kirby
it means you're probably a fan of Game of Thrones, too
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along those lines, i loved it in the last episode when
Well, the old saying is that most of everything is crap, right? But we don't judge things by those standards, we judge them by the standard bearers.
For instance, the heart of, say, Battlestar Galactica was the goodness of the main characters trying to maintain basic human decency in a world where it may not matter anymore. In Breaking Bad, the heart of the show was the slow slide of Walter White into villainy and Jesse's rise to salvation.
The heart of Daredevil SHOULD be (IMO, obvs) Matt trying to save Hell's Kitchen from its history of poverty and crime, and in plain textual terms, it already is; but the show doesn't do the legwork. It doesn't give us reason for us to think this is a real struggle and worth the effort. You could also work the angle where Matt struggles with his duality of upholding the law in the day and subverting it at night. But this show just wants close-ups of people looking angsty and dour, hoping their facial expressions alone sell the myriad overarching plots.
Which is an indictment of comic stuff and most TV as much as it is praise of the Daring Deevil
Though I think there were better, alternative interpretations of his demeanour consistent with Goran's performance.
never seen it
Also, I think Jim's wand in his right hand's cycle is off. The top half seemed to move back and forth to either side of the bottom half. Probably a little hard to fix at this res, but it looks a little janky.
Also, Jim having a perfectly straight leg that moves back and forth above the knee makes it a little off.
Make it bend a bit more in its neutral position and, if possible move the foot a bit
Aaaand make either extreme of his movement take a few extra frames so that his movement is a little more smooth.
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NO U
him?
Chop off his head with your great sword
He's running a torrent too.
Fuck you, you little ass.
9/11 did some weird things to our culture
I talked to some people at a concert last weekend who have never known a United States that wasn't at war.
I'm not sure if that's better or worse than Millennials who were in junior high when it happened, and therefore remember at least some of pre-9/11 America. Between that and the economy, it's not a far jump to see people gravitating towards nihilistic culture.
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There's been a recent wave of colleges where students are basically saying the first amendment is freedom from being offended. Read a decent piece that put forward the idea that these are the kids who grew up and learned about freedom of speech in the post 9/11 era and so what do we expect them to think?
Reading it is just another one of those milestones on the "Damn, I'm old aren't I?" journey.
In china they call Lucian, a LoL champ who's black and has twin magic handguns "double gun Obama"
He doesn't even look like Obama!!
It's on sale (20% off) this weekend.
This post left me with so many questions all thinking about them they all come down to it being so outside my experience to have media that would be subtitled in a language I knew while also originally being in a language I knew.
Stupid America and our monolingualism.
pretty good day
because I really liked daredevil, D'onofrio as Fisk was a fantastic "shark in a skin suit" and Jessica from true blood as Karen even had her own arc completely separate from the male protagonist which is surprisingly rare
Tumblr'ists [going to sub this as as an example of the kids in your post] are a weird one. Like, speaking as a 26 year old, I feel like my cohort is actually 15% Tumblr uses, 90% derisive backlash at them. The 15% is vocal, though.
The thing too, I think is that there is a LOT of intra-generational variance now. While I'm sure people in every generation felt the same way, I don't really feel represented similiarly by 23 year olds, let alone 20 year olds. So much shit happened so fast in like 2000 and going forward that there's like a cultural compression going forward. Whether you were raised with hi-speed internet, whether you grew up with a smartphone, did you graduate college before or after the economy tanked in 2008, did you graduate before or after the Big Three tanked in the late 2000s (this is more Michigan specific), etc.
I'm watching Homeland. Yeah, CIA intelligence officers are agents, but "secret agent" is just a really shitty translation.