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I guess I just get sort of indifferent about the whole played out argument then because there is nothing new under the sun and all the stories have already been told. We just tell them in different ways and contexts.
1. a person goes on a journey
2. a stranger arrives in town
3. an alien bursts out of somebody's chest
I think the alien is the stranger who arrives in town!
Hmm, you're right.
And then it goes on a journey by roaming about the ship.
It is the perfect character.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
OMG GIRL GO SPEND YOUR SEPHORA MONEY AND GET PRETTY
Benefit to smart thermostat: geofencing allows it to optimize heating/cooling so you're not wasting a ton of electricity or fuel. My NEST paid for itself in the first year. My utility bill went from $200 to $130ish in the winter
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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TTODewbackPuts the drawl in ya'llI think I'm in HellRegistered Userregular
No, but really, I WANT A DRINK
doesn't everyone love tacos
We told our friend that Taco Bell was doing pink tacos for Breast Cancer Awareness month
And she was like "I want to eat a pink taco"
And couldn't figure out why everyone was giggling.
Bless your heart.
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I rewatched all of TNG this year. It didn't feel mined out or boring.
I'm not saying they're bad or irrelevant - I like TNG very much! - I'm suggesting that the abundance of Picard facepalm memes, Riker memes, and my ability to find a sputtering Barclay reaction in about 45 seconds yesterday means that we're not going to find anything new or surprising in them.
I mean, who is the "we" here? The Internet? I would argue that if the Internet doesn't get anything out of a work, that's a ringing endorsement of the work. The internet's whole job is to take interesting media, ideas, points of view, and feelings and reduce them down to something a fourteen-year-old sociopath can chuckle briefly at before alt-tabbing back to a video of the Nuremberg rally that gets 50% faster every time someone says "heil."
If we're talking on an individual level, I find that revisiting art is incredibly valuable. The art has stayed the same, but I haven't, and I either notice new things that never occurred to me before - new wrinkles and nuances that I didn't catch before - or I learn how I've changed, measuring my progress (or descent) as a human being by the new ways I react to what I see.
If you mean "we shouldn't make more of X because it's been made already," I don't believe in real novelty; I think it's a chimera. Changing circumstances and the erosion of years weather away the relevance of art bit by bit, and a "done" idea can be worth revisiting again even within a single decade, much less four or five.
Hi Chanus! I am okay, although I have decided to try my hand at brewing kombucha and fear what type of person that will make me. But that's not so bad. How are you?
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
OMG GIRL GO SPEND YOUR SEPHORA MONEY AND GET PRETTY
the whole universe was in a hot dense state then nearly forteen billion years ago expansion started WAIT
The earthbegantocoolthetheautotrophsbegantodrooltheneanderthalsdevelopedtools they built a wall they built the pyramids
(This song is the only good part of the BBT)
I rewatched all of TNG this year. It didn't feel mined out or boring.
I'm not saying they're bad or irrelevant - I like TNG very much! - I'm suggesting that the abundance of Picard facepalm memes, Riker memes, and my ability to find a sputtering Barclay reaction in about 45 seconds yesterday means that we're not going to find anything new or surprising in them.
I mean, who is the "we" here? The Internet? I would argue that if the Internet doesn't get anything out of a work, that's a ringing endorsement of the work. The internet's whole job is to take interesting media, ideas, points of view, and feelings and reduce them down to something a fourteen-year-old sociopath can chuckle briefly at before alt-tabbing back to a video of the Nuremberg rally that gets 50% faster every time someone says "heil."
If we're talking on an individual level, I find that revisiting art is incredibly valuable. The art has stayed the same, but I haven't, and I either notice new things that never occurred to me before - new wrinkles and nuances that I didn't catch before - or I learn how I've changed, measuring my progress (or descent) as a human being by the new ways I react to what I see.
In this case the "we" is probably "first-world culture," or maybe some smaller subsection thereof, depending on whether we're talking about Star Wars or Harryhausen (or whatever). That the internet's a medium for and aggregator of lowest-common denominator / low-meaning appreciation of things is true, but I'd suggest that quoting Monty Python randomly is an analogous behavior performed in-person, but also intended to signify "MONTY PYTHON SURE IS COOL AND I AM A COOL PERSON WHO KNOWS ABOUT THEM," to the listener, with whatever motive applies to the circumstances.
I've had a number of experiences of revisiting art and finding it different - most notably with the work of Stephen R. Donaldson, a lot of which went over my head when I was younger and is now dubious-to-revolting - so I can agree with you as far as the value of revisiting something you know. It's important, even, as a way to measure individual growth (or not), like you're saying.
Appreciation of media is different from its function when deployed via reference, though, which is what I've been trying to get at for a couple pages, now.
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We used to reference office space when i had a terrible job
it wasn't to signal office space was cool
it made things slightly more bearable to remember together that other people recognized the current situation was dumb and had made a fun movie about it
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Hmm, you're right.
And then it goes on a journey by roaming about the ship.
It is the perfect character.
She's right.
can you really call those tacos?
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Potato tacos are legit
We told our friend that Taco Bell was doing pink tacos for Breast Cancer Awareness month
And she was like "I want to eat a pink taco"
And couldn't figure out why everyone was giggling.
I mean, who is the "we" here? The Internet? I would argue that if the Internet doesn't get anything out of a work, that's a ringing endorsement of the work. The internet's whole job is to take interesting media, ideas, points of view, and feelings and reduce them down to something a fourteen-year-old sociopath can chuckle briefly at before alt-tabbing back to a video of the Nuremberg rally that gets 50% faster every time someone says "heil."
If we're talking on an individual level, I find that revisiting art is incredibly valuable. The art has stayed the same, but I haven't, and I either notice new things that never occurred to me before - new wrinkles and nuances that I didn't catch before - or I learn how I've changed, measuring my progress (or descent) as a human being by the new ways I react to what I see.
If you mean "we shouldn't make more of X because it's been made already," I don't believe in real novelty; I think it's a chimera. Changing circumstances and the erosion of years weather away the relevance of art bit by bit, and a "done" idea can be worth revisiting again even within a single decade, much less four or five.
It doesn't belong to specific fans, it belongs to all of us, etc.
umm no actually it belongs to ME
Hi Chanus! I am okay, although I have decided to try my hand at brewing kombucha and fear what type of person that will make me. But that's not so bad. How are you?
Son of a bitch I knew I wasn't getting my checks.
the whole universe was in a hot dense state then nearly forteen billion years ago expansion started WAIT
The earthbegantocoolthetheautotrophsbegantodrooltheneanderthalsdevelopedtools they built a wall they built the pyramids
(This song is the only good part of the BBT)
confused catawampus
i've eaten them!
Well fine I guess they don't exist anymore
Jake are you still on vacation
usually you don't spit this fire on vacation
everyone eats sandwiches with their mouths, Amy, I don't see why you need to point it out!
In this case the "we" is probably "first-world culture," or maybe some smaller subsection thereof, depending on whether we're talking about Star Wars or Harryhausen (or whatever). That the internet's a medium for and aggregator of lowest-common denominator / low-meaning appreciation of things is true, but I'd suggest that quoting Monty Python randomly is an analogous behavior performed in-person, but also intended to signify "MONTY PYTHON SURE IS COOL AND I AM A COOL PERSON WHO KNOWS ABOUT THEM," to the listener, with whatever motive applies to the circumstances.
I've had a number of experiences of revisiting art and finding it different - most notably with the work of Stephen R. Donaldson, a lot of which went over my head when I was younger and is now dubious-to-revolting - so I can agree with you as far as the value of revisiting something you know. It's important, even, as a way to measure individual growth (or not), like you're saying.
Appreciation of media is different from its function when deployed via reference, though, which is what I've been trying to get at for a couple pages, now.
Speak for yourself
I'm gonna butt chug a meatball sub
get a cheesesteak
throw batteries at local sports players
I think there's a bell there? liberty bell?
no, I am home as of a few hours ago and my mission today is to eat a sub sandwich and play videogames until my hands fall off
it wasn't to signal office space was cool
it made things slightly more bearable to remember together that other people recognized the current situation was dumb and had made a fun movie about it
Don't prejudge a whole swath of people based on what you see in their Pride parades!
Flying Circus just got added to Netflix I believe
have you chosen a videogame