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luigra · 3 months

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So listening to one of Joe's VODs I& missed as usual, he had a segment when he discussed his plans for the future for actually turning Deepfield into a real life pinball machine. He had an idea to turn it into a multi-season megabase project too. And it kind of struck me& just how profoundly he loves it.

Deepfield was his Minecraft home for so long. He flew through its every nook and cranny, built every inch of it painstakingly block by block. Every single step of the process had so much thought and effort put into it, effort that you can literally go see on your screen the recordings of, that happened in real time. It's almost stupid big for a pinball machine. But it's the only way to make your recreation faithful. You need every inch of it to be accurate. You're faithful to it.

The way he talks about it. Have you heard how he talks about pinball machines. The intricacies of the mechanisms themselves as one of the most exciting parts of them? Him explaining the logistics of actually making it real reminds you that it's actually quite a big commitment, until you think about how committed he stayed to the project for a whole year now and realize that it's not a question of dedication but mostly just financial ability.

If I& were in his place, and I& spent so long giving so much love to this machine, and there came to be a day when I would see it work, buttons activate under the presses of my& hands, so alive, every inch of it familiar like home. Fuck. How would a person even withstand this feeling. Would you not cry?

It would be inaccurate to thank a muse for descending from Olympus itself to guide your hand in making its flesh, because you are on your own and your guidance self-written, and you deserve a little credit for it, but for the sake of poetry it's a really apt comparison to call Deepfield your muse.

There is no way to write what they have as a romance novella, because the only accurate way to describe their relationship would be to write down a every measurement taken, his work schedules for the last year or so, cite the research he's read, attach diagrams of machines he's played, spreadsheets of costs planning... and by then what you have is a manual. Put THAT in the love story category.

I& can't do it justice. The only person who can write this shipping fanfic and do it justice is Joe Hills himself.

#hermitcraft #hermitblr #joe hills #joehills #deepfield #hermitcraft season 9 #hermitshipping mention #I& guess this is vaguely rpf?

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the-chosen-none · 2 months

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I have no real interest in mods aside from somewhat following the Frontier mess, but when I found out that the fairly popular old New Vegas Bounties mods included incredibly blatant references to Judge Holden and Glanton from Blood Meridian, plus a character named "Javier Sugar" who speaks several lines lifted straight from No Country for Old Men, I wanted to find out how many references to other things pop up throughout the three mods. Turns out, a LOT.

I identified some of them myself, but eventually when I realized how much time it would take for me to watch a whole playthrough or try it out myself, I decided to look up the rest on TV Tropes and put them all together in a list.

The aforementioned Judge Holden knock-off is also said to be seven-feet tall and is a child predator (though only technically implied to be in Holden's case)

The character literally named Glanton runs a group who goes around killing "tribals"

There's a character named Cormac, as in Cormac McCarthy

During the scene with "Javier Sugar", in addition to all the NCFOM quotes there's also a random quote from the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales thrown in there... to spice things up? IDK, the quote is something like "Dyin' ain't no way of livin', boy"

A character called "Harmonica" references one of the main characters of Once Upon a Time in the West

The ghoul Doc Friday references the historical figure Doc Holiday, and his revolver the Huckleberry references the famous quote from his depiction in the movie Tombstone, "I could be your huckleberry"

Marko's outfit seems to reference the character Loco from the movie The Great Silence.

The Frosthill segment of III is also lifted from The Great Silence, what with its Utah setting during the winter, the main character getting shot through the hand, and bounty hunters pretty much kill the whole town.

Aaron Flagg the cult leader seems to be inspired by Randall Flagg the Stephen King villain

The sniper Charlie Halfcocked references the U.S. Marine sniper during Vietnam, Carlos Hathcock, the previous record holder for the most kills

Tom Quigley references the movie Quigley Down Under, the titular character being played by Tom Sellick.

Enclave members Quantrill and Onoda, who keep fighting despite the Enclave's repeated defeats, are named after Confederate guerilla William Quantrill and WWII Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda, who did the same for their sides (okay, I thought that reference was pretty good)

Eileen the Fiend = serial killer Aileen Wuornos

Tony Idaho = Tony Montana from Scarface

Tommy the former Omerta enforcer who killed a made man references Tommy DeVito from Goodfellas

Alex and his gang in Freeside reference Alex DeLarge and his droogs from A Clockwork Orange

Freddie the ghoul = Freddy Krueger

Jack, former muscle for Heck Gunderson, references the villain Jack Wilson from Shane, his revolver is called "Shane's Bane"

Albert Quisling = Vidkun Quisling

Mario Barksdale = character from The Wire

Prometheus is named after the subtitle for Frankenstein: "The modern Prometheus", his Deathclaws are Mary and Shelley

Pancho Cortina = Pancho Villa

"Squirrelly" Bill Blasius references outlaw "Curly" Bill Brocius

Angel Lee is a combination of Angel Eyes from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, and the actor Lee Van Cleef

Godwin, who mails out bombs, probably references Unabomber

Joe Frost = Edward Snowden

Guys fighting over treasure named Clint and Tuco

Fiend chem lab has characters Walter and Pinkman, references Breaking Bad

John Ramsey's body is put on display with a quote referencing the movie Unforgiven, "This is what happens to assassins/rangers around here".

Those are the ones that I either caught myself or saw other people list, if there's more, go ahead and add on.

Some of the historical references are kinda funny, though others are either tasteless (Aileen Wuornos) or eye-roll worthy (Carlos Hathcock = Charlie Halfcocked, GEDDIT IT'S A GUN JOKE), and the majority of the pop culture references are so blatant and so numerous that it gets annoying.

If I made my own mod or anything else, of course I too would love to stick in a bunch of references to the things I love, though I would try to be less obvious about them, put different spins on them, you know? You can't really judge mods to the same standard as the source, and I would be more forgiving if the rest of the mods didn't look like such an edgy slog.

#fallout mods #fallout new vegas #new vegas bounties

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tumblesdownhill · 2 months

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This whole Wilbur Soot situation is insane.

Quick briefing:

Shubble (Shelby) opened up about abuse in a past relationship, characterizing the abuser to be very similar to wilbur soot. This led to a lot hate towards Wilbur.

Important Note:

Shelby is a victim of abuse, and I fully stand behind their experience. None of what I say is intended to devalue what they have been through. Abuse is abuse, and abuse is bad.

That being said, I also believe that people can make poor decisions in times of hardship. I believe that almost anyone can become better, and work past their misdoings as long as they own up to them, and express true regret.

Now that you are caught up:

Wilbur has released a response on his Twitter. His response begins by validating Shelbys feelings, which is a subpar apology, but nowhere near ukulele territory. He focuses a large segment of the response on how he was in a bad place, and has worked to improve himself since the events. This was received poorly by Twitter, as they were hoping for less about Wilbur himself. I will not say I disagree with their point, but I don't funny agree either. The next segment of the statement is where it gets iffy for me. He claims that he believe that the actions (biting) were consentual. Where I think he slips up the most is not taking fault for the miscommunication. He talks about text conversations where he believes consent was achieved. I agree with his choice to not include the texts, but the messages should have not been mentioned. They shift the blame to center, which is tragically wrong. Take fault dude. The last chunk of the response is flawed in wording, but the message it carries is acceptable.

Many creators have called out will for the flaws in his apology, and I can't disagree. He could have done so much better, and I honestly hope he gets the chance to. I am a fan of his content and music, and hope that he can work through this. I sincerely believe that he has the capability to apologize and take fault, and that this was just his flawed attempt to settle the waters while he works out how he will fully address the situation.*

*In the message, he says what he has done since to better himself and how he hopes those around him support his corrective actions. I believe this means that he is working out what to do from here, as no specifics were mentioned for onwards from now.

Last Things:

Don't bring Lovejoy into this. Ash, Joe, and Mark are already in a hard place with their bandmate coming under fire. While whatever happens will affect them, they should by no means receive hate for what Wilbur did.

Also, understand that abuse is complicated. The internet acts as if there is only one way to make up for what has been done. Some argue that it can never be made up for.

Discussion about abuse is hard on abusers and the abused. I do not know what Shelby wants to see at the end of this, but I can safely assume that the chaos and drama are incredibly hard on her. She wanted to open up and chose to keep Wilbur's name out of her story. She wanted to share, not cause drama.

I'm open to discussion on this, and if you read this and want to change my mind then please go ahead and do so. (Just keep it OUT of my asks and dms)

#wilbur soot #shubble #shelby #apology #lovejoy

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cf56 · 1 year

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My thoughts on episode 10

SPOILERS for season 3, episode 10 of the Animaniacs reboot

So that's great. I took two hours to write this entire review, and then with one press of control + Z, it was completely gone. Great site Tumblr. Really works as intended.

I was in a better mood, but having to rewrite this ENTIRE thing sucks so badly. I try to give my genuine thoughts as I go, and it's impossible to replicate that on the second try. I want to scream. Why can't this week just go right?

So now you're getting a negative opening for what was a super positive review. I seriously want to punch a wall. A website meant for long posts doesn't have an editor designed for them. That's just great.

I can't rewrite that whole thing. Just have a collection of screenshots and some jumbled thoughts.

I'm sorry for Pinky and the Brain fans that their final showing was so short. I didn't like Brain talking about the "endlessly repetitive formulaic rebooted franchise that relies on just a handful of tired characters." You can say it's the writers taking a shot at themselves, but it really isn't. It's not their show. They didn't create the characters. Combined with the ending, it just feels a little disrespectful to the people who put their heart and soul into creating this show in the first place, and to the fans who genuinely love these characters.

Look at them being silly!

I can't gush enough about the song. Such cute animation, such powerful music!

I teared up while listening to it this time. I'll probably do the same on every future watch.

I liked that Wakko was right about everything and had the idea that saved the day. The Warners literally saved the world and they'll still be treated like garbage by everyone around them.

The Joe segment was funny, especially the zoom out at the end. I liked hearing "Waltzing Matilda" in the background.

Dot was so cute wanting to go on the teacups, just being infatuated with the idea of spinning around in a little teacup!

This segment is the epitome of "this is my life now."

Poor Wakko has the worst luck. The SAME CLOWN just happened to be at this carnival? At least we know he got down from Mars.

I thought it was weird to have two cataclysmic endings for the reboot six minutes apart from each other. Although they say this sketch was written for season 1, I find it really hard to believe that this wasn't originally meant to end the season/reboot, especially with Dot's quip at the end. I'm not sure I would want this to be the ending, though. It would have sucked if the Warners were the ones who explicitly ended their universe and killed everyone inside. That would have proven everyone right about their destructive nature all along.

I thought this was a refreshing segment. Slappy sounded and looked great. Like I expected, it was short and there was no Skippy, but I'm happy it exists. I was surprised and happy to see that they got Sherri Stoner to return for work on the reboot.

I liked how Everyday Safety was just a never-ending cascade of total nonsense.

The Council is not pleased.

I thought Wakko's bottle song was catchy. I liked that it actually sounded like Wakko blowing. I wonder if they got Jess to do that for real in the studio?

And the ending. I wrote four paragraphs about it, and it sucks so bad because I thought I made my points quite well. Let me try again.

I understand the metaphor with the abrupt and sudden ending. I know the asteroid is meant to represent Hulu. I just don't think they should have pushed their bitter disappointment with the show ending directly onto us. They should have thought it through a lot better.

If they were going to go doom and gloom, which they shouldn't have, they should've at least given the ending some emotional weight. How am I supposed to feel anything when the characters themselves don't show any reaction to their unexpected, oncoming violent deaths? I'm not saying it should have been super depressing with crying and begging. They just should have given a genuine reaction instead of doing business as usual. The closest set of siblings in the world is about to go out in a fiery blaze, and they're not even touching each other. They're just standing near each other awkwardly. Have them embrace and accept their death with a positive remark about how it was all worth it. That would at least give some closure.

What they should have done, if I could rewrite it from scratch, is give us a satisfying, happy ending. Show the Warners finally earning their freedom from the tower after 90 years. Maybe have them gaze at the sunset together, mirroring how the sun rose at the very beginning of the reboot. Even if they didn't have time to animate new scenery for something like that, anything would have been better for this. This ending just feels empty. It lacks any emotion besides pure shock and it feels like an F you to everyone who cares about the show. The creators might have intended that F you to feel like it was coming from Hulu, but Hulu didn't write this scene. The reboot writers did, and they had the power to leave us with something better. This could be the last Animaniacs we ever see.

I'm at least happy they attempted an ending. The original didn't have one at all. It just sucks that Animaniacs had to end unexpectedly and unsatisfyingly both times it's been suddenly cancelled. The reboot was supposed to fix that.

This was perhaps the most entertaining episode of the season for me. It has one of the greatest Animaniacs songs ever, maybe the best song of the season, I'm still not sure. I still love The Island of Dr. Warneau a lot, so I'm giving this episode a solid second place in my final ranking for the season.

Episode 6

Episode 10

Episode 3

Episode 9

Episode 7

Episode 4

Episode 2

Episode 1

Episode 5

Episode 8

That means that the majority of episodes this season are episodes I would consider really good. The top 4 are all episodes I would consider really great. I'll give my thoughts on the season as a whole in my collective season 3 review, but I'll need a few more days before I start writing that. I need some time to collect myself and reflect.

I'm sorry for how this review turned out. The first version felt a lot more positive, because in this attempt I just wanted to express my more well-developed thoughts, which happened to be criticisms. I liked this episode a lot. I just so desperately wish I hadn't lost that first version. It only adds to the most heavily conflicting mix of emotions I've ever felt in one week. I was feeling good, and now I'm knocked down again. I'm sorry to be the one putting so much negativity into the fandom. I want this to be a positive place for all. If I wasn't able to express my emotions here, though, I wouldn't be able to deal with them at all. So thanks to those that have been listening.

I encourage you to add to the discussion of this episode if you want. If you're from the future, please don't say anything about any of the episodes that come after this ;)

#animaniacs #animaniacs season 3 #animaniacs reboot #animaniacs 2020 #animaniacs screenshots #animaniacs analysis #animaniacs spoilers #animaniacs episode 10 #cfposts

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disastrouscanasta · 24 days

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11, 12 and 27 for the writers ask game

11. Books and/or authors who influenced you the most

The book series Horrible Histories was my life for years. I read them back to back, working through my “blood curdling box-set” until I just started rereading them over and over. In retrospect, Terry Deary’s sort of sarcastic, referential style definitely bled into some of my work, especially my original stuff. I just feel like he has a lot of character and voice in his writing and I always loved that.

12. Describe your perfect writing space

I run warm, so I prefer a cool writing space. I write with music and/or white noise, typically. Though I can write pretty much anywhere, anytime, so my ideal place would just be sitting comfortably, I think.

27. Favourite line/scene

Favourite from my work? Idk. Here’s one I contemplated for too long, from the film industry au, of course :3

George reached a hand up and fisted it in Joe’s shirt. It was one of his nicer ones, collared. Joe had ironed it before they left his apartment, and there George was, creasing the damn thing as he pulled Joe down on top of him.

YOU WERE THE ONE WHO POINTED OUT THAT GEORGE WAS THE ONE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE LITTLE THINGS JOE DID LIKE IRONING HIS NICE SHIRT, WHICH MADE ME REALISE THAT JOE WAS ALSO ACTIVELY PUTTING IN THE EFFORT TO DRESS UP FOR THEIR LITTLE DINNER DATE. IT’S THE MUTUAL AFFECTION. this was all completely intentional and I absolutely did not only think of these implications after writing this (lies I had no clue whatsoever. I was just talking about Joe’s shirt)

honestly I really enjoy that whole scene/segment of the fic, t’was fun to write

thanks for the ask :3

#sorry for the rambles #but you have no choice krakerjaksstuff >:3

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lizardsfromspace · 6 months

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Halloween Movie Challenge

Every day in October, except the days I don't, I am watching a randomly chosen Halloween-themed horror movie for the first time. Or for the first twenty-four days of October bc my list runs out then.

The first two weeks...are below

TRICK OR TREAT

1986 / directed by Charles Martin Smith / written by Joel Soisson, Michael S. Murphey and Rhet Topham (and Glen Morgan & James Wong, uncredited)

A heavy metal-themed Nightmare on Elm Street clone (the villain even does the "hands reaching through the wall" thing, but with a speaker), with cameos by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne, the latter playing a Satanic Panic-spewing TV preacher. This one has a strange legacy on the whole: future X-Files scribe (and uncredited co-writer) Glen Morgan is featured in his only acting role, and the director went on to make Air Bud...and then define his career around animal movies. Fair enough! This one's pretty fun, with a long first act of high school bullying highlighted with a energetic chase sequence, though not especially Halloween-y, given its name (though the version I watched was titled Ragman?)

🎃🎃🎃.5/5

TALES OF HALLOWEEN

2015 / directed by [a lot of people] / written by [a lot of people]

The top Letterboxd review calls this "Trick 'R Treat if it was designed by a committee at a horror convention" and that just about sums it up. It has the requisite horror cameos - a litany of 80s final girls are joined by Joe Dante and John Landis, and John Landis is convincing in the role of a terrible person whose son is a monster for some reason. This one has way too many segments, and they're unsurprisingly same-y. Two stories have a twist where a child-sized killer turns out to be a demon, two of them feature gangs of evil kids, and none of them are very fun, though they feature so many of the winking in-jokes filmmakers mistake for fun. This is the type of movie where a candy will have the word "Carpenter" on it, written in the Halloween titles font, because hey. Remember John Carpenter? Remember? Remember John Carpenter? The oddest part is that this movie's format is very close to 2015's better A Christmas Horror Story, but they're totally unrelated?

🎃🎃/5

HELL HOUSE LLC

2015 / written & directed by Stephen Cognetti

Found footage movie that makes decent use of its rundown-Halloween-haunt setting & has some good scares with evil clown dolls, but is pretty routine, and does that mediocre found footage thing where it can't let any of the background scares breathe without a crash zoom and a scare chord.

🎃🎃🎃/5

MAY

2002 / written & directed by Lucky McKee

To call May a slasher movie doesn't really represent it. As a portrait of a loner among urban alienation, it's of a kind with Taxi Driver and the first act of Beau is Afraid, with unbearably real performances by Angela Bettis and Jeremy Sisto. May is psychological and restrained, striving for a queasy discomfort before it escalates into full-on bloodshed. This is the least Halloween-y film so far, but the final act is on Halloween night, and culminates in a shot that's haunting and lyrical in equal measure.

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃/5

HACK-O-LANTERN

1988 / directed by Jag Mundhra / written by Dave Eisenstark & Carla Robinson

Direct-to-video horror classic featuring a deeply apathetic son of the Devil and a musical number featuring deaths-by-magic-guitar. Alternatively tediously padded and gloriously deranged, but then again, that's direct-to-video horror babyyyyyyy. Jag Mundhra had a career directing direct-to-video sleaze in the US, but made prestige movies in India?

🎃🎃🎃/5

DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW

1981 / directed by Frank De Felitta / story by J.D. Feigelson & Butler Handcock, teleplay by Feigelson

A TV movie, but you'd only know it from its 4:3 ratio & commercial break fades-to-black. Dark Night of the Scarecrow is a creepy gem, well-directed by de Felitta - a novelist with a sideline directing TV movies - with an eye towards the details of small town life. The lack of gore is made up with by stark, elemental horror imagery, and the horrors of humanity: a mob murders a developmentally disabled man for a crime he didn't commit, and gets off the hook for it - gets cheered, in fact, by the townsfolk. But soon a mysterious scarecrow is appearing in the fields, and the killers start to die...not a killer scarecrow movie, but something subtler, chillier, the horror of barns and grain silos and farmer's fields.

🎃🎃🎃🎃/5

HAUNT

2019 / written & directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods

Extreme haunted houses are stupid.

While some use it as a mere William Castle-ian conceit, others take it seriously. Who could've guessed that if you replace themed scares and actors with people who will literally, actually hurt you, you'd still be scared? Only the Einsteins who act flabbergasted when the actors they hired with the pitch "you can hurt people and they signed something that said they can't sue you" turn out to disregard safe words. In Haunt, an extreme haunted house is a front for a murder-cult, which is more respectable than it being some guy doing the Evermore Park of frights. Haunt is a very pedestrian slasher, but a sincere one, and a modern one (the victims check the creepy house's Yelp reviews), which I'll take over a winking 80s homage any day.

🎃🎃🎃/5

THE MIDNIGHT HOUR

1985 / directed by Jack Bender / written by Bill Bleich

Delightful little made-for-TV number, heavily inspired by Thriller. In 1985, this was trashed for its cliches, but now it's the cliches that make it so endearing. This one has its own musical number, a starring turn for LeVar Burton, some quality zombie effects and a lighthearted air, and excellent Halloween-y vibes to it, of course, courtesy of future Lost director Jack Bender. It also has a weirdly overqualified soundtrack; I really didn't expect to hear The Smiths repeatedly in a made-for-TV Halloween movie, but here we are.

🎃🎃🎃🎃/5

NIGHT OF THE DEMONS

1988 / directed by Kevin S. Tenney / written by Joe Augustyn

Night of the Demons has a gnarly final act, but spends way too much time getting there, and too much of that time is spent with interchangeable assholes bumbling about.

🎃🎃.5/5

THE CHILD

1977 / directed by Robert Voskanian / written by Ralph Lucas

A classical Weird 70s Horror Movie, which means a relatively simple plot told in the most inscrutable way possible, a lot of stark tight close-ups and quick cuts, and a preoccupation with psychics. The last act is a bit of a conventional zombie runaround, but everything before that is chilly 70s gold. By far the least Halloween-y film here, but there's an amazing moment with a Jack-O-Lantern.

🎃🎃🎃.5/5

SCARY MOVIE

1991 / directed by Daniel Erickson / written by Daniel Erickson, David Lane Smith, and Mark Voges

No, not that one; this one is a regional horror flick from Texas, from 1991, and starring John Hawkes as a gormless nerd touring a haunted house - the type so anxious to avoid a snake pit he ends up falling into a snake pit, which, relatable. The wonderful aesthetics of a local haunted house dominate this film, directed with sly attention to detail by Erickson, which follows Hawkes' character as an escaped madman lurks in the haunted house. Or does he? A surreal psychological story more than a slasher, it takes a while to get somewhere, but that a while is full of local atmosphere (similar to Tobe Hooper's classic The Funhouse).

🎃🎃🎃🎃/5

Anyway

#halloween #horror movies

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orlissa · 1 year

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So a considerable amount of academic essays (humanities, I have to add) have gone through my hands by now, and with the thesis admission deadline having finally come and gone, let me just quickly draw up three issues that I see coming a lot--and I mean a lot--of times, so if you have writing academic essays in your future (or just, you know, writing stuff, making an argument, etc.), you know what to look out for.

#1 The Outrage For some reasons, many, many students seem to think that the recipe for a good essay is to be mad about something, and proving that a certain thing is just terrible. I’ve seen so many essays arguing that Disney is shit, Barbie is shit, chick flicks are shit... The list goes on. There are actually two issues about this: one, if your stance is “something is terrible,” you might lose nuance, because things are rarely black or white; two, if you focus on the bad, you run the risk of not noticing the good (or the neutral). Like, it’s an actual issue in feminist film criticism (or at least it was a couple of years ago, I don’t know how much things have changed) that people are so focused on how women are sexualized and exploited on screen that there is hardly any research on how men are represented.

#2 The Gusher This is kinda the opposite of The Outrage. Many students will choose a topic they don’t actually care/excited about, simply because it’s a “worthy” topic (e.g. something they are expected to write about), like gun control, immigration, etc., which will inevitably lead to proper, but lackluster stuff. Then you have the students who will just chose something they love--but instead of doing an in-depth analysis, they’ll just end up gushing about that thing. Like a very recent (somewhat hyperbolic) example: student decides to write about the female characters in Harry Potter. Essay ends up being about how cool and awesome those characters are, without a hint of actualy academic approach. You should choose a topic you are interested in, but if you choose something you love, make sure you are able to take a step back and make an objective analysis.

#3 The Intellectual Bias This is the one that goes not only for academic essays, but, like, all areas of life. There is no nice way to put it: the average person, like Joe on the street, is dumber than you would expect. Especially people who generally move in intellectual circles (me too!) tend to vastly overestimate other people’s average intelligence. Once I had a whole class confused over who the hell watches the clearly anti-intellectual daytime talk shows that routinely makes its guests appear stupid? Why don’t those people find the show offensive? ...Because they don’t realize it’s dumb or offensive. I just translated a text for a museum exhibition, where one segment had a very big, very rooted-in-Latin word in the very first segment (which could have easily been substituted with a very simple word). I told the curator--my long time friend, an extremely intelligent person whom I love dearly--that they should rephrase that sentence, because they will lose the audience in an instant. She was shocked, because that word was in her active vocabulary, and she just assumed that it was the same way for other people as well. As for academic essay, I cannot even tell you how many times I had to comment on a paper that “you know what you mean, I know what you mean, your audience might not know what you mean.” You can’t bring in a new term without explaining it. You can’t talk about a book, a movie, a series simply assuming that everybody knows what you are talking about. Explanations, summaries, definitions are your friends, don’t forget it.

#academic writing #essay writing #writing advice #academia

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byneddiedingo · 1 year

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Simone Simon and Daniel Gélin in Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952)

Cast: Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Ginette Leclerc, Mila Parély, Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Brasseur, Jean Gabin, Jean Servais, Daniel Gélin, Simone Simon, Paul Azaïs. Screenplay: Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls, based on stories by Guy de Maupassant. Cinematography: Philippe Agostini, Christian Matras. Production design: Jean d’Aubonne. Film editing: Léonide Azar. Music: Joe Hajos.

Pleasure, as the poets never tire of telling us, is inextricable from pain. Le Plaisir is an anthology film dramatizing three stories by Guy de Maupassant that center on what has been called the pleasure-pain perplex. An elderly man nearly dances himself to death in an attempt to recapture his youth. The patrons of a brothel quarrel and even come to blows when they discover that it is closed. An artist marries his mistress to atone for his cruelty to her. Max Ophüls brings all of his elegant technique to the stories, including his characteristic restless camera, which prowls around the wonderful sets by Jean d'Eaubonne, who received a well-deserved Oscar nomination for art direction. It's also, like Ophuls's La Ronde (1950), an all-star production -- if your stars are French. Claude Dauphin plays the doctor who treats the youth-seeking dancer; Madeleine Renaud is the madame of the brothel, Danielle Darrieux is one of her "girls," and Jean Gabin plays the madame's brother, who invites her to bring the girls to the country for his daughter's first communion, hence the temporary closure of the brothel; Daniel Gélin is the artist, Simone Simon his model/mistress, and Jean Servais his friend who also narrates the final section. Of the three segments of the film, the middle one is the longest and I think the most successful, moving from the raucous opening scene in which the men of the small Normandy town discover the brothel closed into a comic train ride to the country, which is as fetchingly pastoral a setting as you could wish. The sequence climaxes with the filles de joie dissolving in tears at the first communion -- the little church in which it takes place is one of d'Eaubonne's most inspired sets -- then returning to town and a joyous welcome. Ophuls never lets us inside the brothel: We see it only as voyeurs, through the windows. Nothing of this segment is "realistic" in the least, making the melancholy first and last segments more important in establishing the film's theme and tone. The first segment does its part to set up the course of the film as a whole, beginning with a riotous opening as tout Paris flocks to the opening of a dance hall, a pleasure palace, followed by scenes of lively dancing, then the collapse of the elderly patron, who is wearing a frozen and rather creepy mask of youth, and concluding with the bleakness of his normal existence, tended by his aging wife, who is fittingly played by Gaby Morlay, once a silent film gamine. The final segment is the bleakest of all, as the film concludes with the artist pushing his wheelchair-bound wife along the seashore, penance for having provoked her suicide attempt.

#Le Plaisir #Max Ophüls #Simone Simon #Daniel Gélin

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i don’t know anything about resevil but there are multiple right?? which one was your favourite and why

oh yeah there r like dozens of games. my fav is re7 ^ thats what the url means bc its tagline is biohazard and it came out in 2017 yada yada idk i just reallly love it. firstly the atmosphere is really good, i have had the game for like.. 3 years atp and yet im not even halfwaythrough bc it fries all my braincells its so scary im so tense when im playing i literally break out into goosebumps its crazy.

ethan winters is one of my fav protags in any game ever. guy who drove from la to louisiana to look for his wife that disappeared 3 whole years ago and his only reaction to the most gory shit is just to let out a "FUCK" the progression of the genuine fear at the beginning to his final oneliner just being playtimes over?????? (final boss is a kid) first person games r designed w a blank slate protag in mind so the player can embody them as much as possible but ethan is great bc u feel his progression as much as ur own. u feel the excitement and the adrenaline after the first jack fight. u feel as exasperated as he does after the second one. u feel as powerful as he does in the final gauntlet before the final boss. its so great i love ethan so much<3

re7 would not b the game it is w/o the bakers though. theyre SO good. the majority of them serve as the boss of each segment of the game, except for zoe and joe. jack is the regular stalker enemy type (follows and tracks you through the house) but his va is having SO much fun. there is so much emotion right behind jacks insanity. theres a bit at the beginning where u can trigger jack to cut off ur leg and instead of continuing to kill u, he'll stop and pull out some first aid med and let u reattach your leg (everyone infected has really high regenerative properties but u dont learn ethans infected til re8) hes like cmon son:) u can do it:) its crazy to me like theyre still human underneath the 3 years of torture and manipulation like T_T margarite is like a bug boss and lucas does saw traps. zoe is the only one of the immediate family who wasnt fully turned into evies control (the final boss kid shes the one who infected everyone) and she helps ethan through the game and its so interesting to me bc all evie wants is a family so jack is her dad and mia (ethans wife) is her mom and zoe and lucas r her siblings and when ethan gets to the house she wants ethan to be her father instead which is why jack hates you so its like this father and daughter tearing away evies family which is fun bc in re8 ethan does everything he does for his daughter so<3 foreshadowing<3 joe is not particularly impt bc hes just a dlc character so hes the mc for this 4hr game set after the game hes jacks brother. ugh while walking into the final boss fight u see this diorama a kid zoe made of her family and you know everyone is dead except jack who also serves as the final boss and when joe kills him he says this is a farewell from the family, brother. and its gory and fun but afterwards when zoe wakes up (bc of things that happened to her jack was trying to get her) joe tells her that despite everything jack was still her father and its like Augh. this game. tjis game

#sorry i just have so much to say abt this game its everything to me

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Anthony's Stupid Daily Blog (714): Thu 29th Feb 2024

Tuned into last night's AEW Dynamite which featured Sting's final television appearance as an active wrestler before he retires on Sunday at Double or Nothing. TO be honest it could have been done much better. Last week Ric Flair teased siding with the Young Bucks out of frustration over not being more involved with Sting's retirement tour. Tonight after the Bucks beat up Darby Allin in the ring who came out to get revenge for Sting who they'd been calling out all night, The Nature Boy came down to the ring for the assist. It looked like he was going to hit Darby with a baseball bat but at the last second he poked Nicholas in the eye and started punching Matthew. It was a nice, if VERY predictable moment but seconds later the Bucks got their wind back and started pounding on Flair. So was this actually how Flair saw this whole fake dissention scheme playing out? Did he think that even though there were two of them and one of him they would probably flee and not gang up on him after an eye poke and some light jabs? Anywho the actual ending was Sting descending from the rafters one last time and brawling with the EVP's to send them off. It was a cool visual but doesn't make sense that he sat and watched his friends get beat down and only showed up as the show was about to go off the air. Like I say it could have been done much better but hopefully the actual match will end up being a fitting send off for The icon. The show also featured a pretty good fake-out moment where Hangman Page claimed he was going to have to pull out of the upcoming three way dance between him, Swerve and Samoa Joe due to an injury. However after Swerve came out to talk down to him, Hanger revealed it was all bullshit and attacked Swerve from behind. Again, this was a good IDEA for a segment and he did pull the wool over mine and I'm sure a lot of other people's eyes but the payoff was kind of lame. All hangman did after revealing he was actually fine was whack Swerve twice with his crutch. He didn't slam him through a broadcast table or cave his head in with cement blocks or something like that but it seems Hanger felt that two whacks with a crutch was more than enough payback for Swerve breaking into his house a few months ago. Also Hanger is the de facto heel now because the fans have decided they like Swerve and want to see him get a push so Hanger doing the gotcha spot doesn't make a lot of sense. The worst thing of the whole show was Chris Jericho taking on Atlantis Jr the son of one of Jericho's old rivals from CMLL: Atlantis. Jericho absolutely stank up the joint by trying to keep up with this twenty something year old high flyer but he looked so slow and out of step, plus there was a lot of miscommunication throughout. I love Jericho as a performer and just a few years ago it looked like he was in no danger of ever slowing down but it appears that he has finally gone over the hill because this match was just dreadful.

To my surprise I managed to read the remainder of the penultimate book in my Edgar Award winners challenge: Five Decembers by James Kestrel (almost 300 pages) in one day. After the last book Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara didn't float my boat I was worried that perhaps there would be no truly great books left to read in this challenge but Five Septembers put my fears to rest (and now my only remaining fear is that I may one day have to sit through another Chris Jericho vs Atlantis Jr). The book is about a cop who travels all the way to China to track down a murderer but almost immediately after he arrives World War Two breaks out and he is arrested by Japanese soldiers. After several months in an internment camp he is rescued by two people who knew the person who was murdered and they take him in, allowing him to sit out the entire war. I won't give away the ending but it's fucking tremendous and I will definitely be checking out more of Kestrel's work. After finishing the book and breathed a sigh of relief and looked over at my coffee table which over the past few years has played host to a stack of books that I have challenged myself to read and now upon this table sits only ONE BOOK. Four years and sixty nine books after starting this ridiculous challenge I have finally arrived at the last one. Tomorrow I will start reading Notes On An Execution but Danya Kukafka and hopefully I will finish it sometime next week and I can lay this damn challenge to rest like I did to that kid on the bus who wouldn't stop playing his shitty music.

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