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Did you hear the Invisible Man was a chainsmoker?

He walked into a bar and the bartender said "Why the lung face?"

mother!

The Good Place.  It's hard to describe it enough to get people excited about it without dropping huge spoilers, but how often do you find an American sitcom that has spoilers?  Breezy pacing with plenty of hidden details worth poring over (Ted Danson's performance and everything about the set design is much more rewarding the second time through), and the second season looks like it'll have plenty of shirt up its sleeve.

...I swear, Ted Danson's wardrobe in this is making pocket squares start to make sense to me.

1 hour ago, A Budgie said:

I feel like this is a joke that you'll understand if you know deoderant brand names.

There's always another Secret.

For hundreds of years, the Inquisitors kept digging up new deodorant sticks under Luthadel.

10 hours ago, Captains Domon said:

Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you! There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do! I bless the rains down in Africa! Gonna take some time to do the things we never have! And then the murders began.

There comes a time... when we heed a certain call...

And then... the murders begaaaaan...

3 hours ago, Quiver said:

He doesn't look like the kind of guy who would go nuts and commit mass murder... which is very much part of Light's character. Honestly, if I have a complaint, it's that the Light they have here looks more like an everyman character than an Honor Roll student.

(That might be the angle they are going for though; how would an "ordinary" person react to the Daeth Note rather than someone who was "exceptional". Ryuuk claimed that a normal person wouldn't have written so many names... but going mad with power IS kind of a thing.)

Adapting it to an American cultural context would mean a few things:
- "He seemed like such a nice boy with a bright future ahead of him."  This is what we say of school shooters.  When they don't look like social maladjusts in a visually obvious way (like that bowl-cut thing a certain recent mass murderer had), they look like ordinary

teenagers.  He's not the well-scrubbed, upper-crust Light that would be produced in Japanese or British society (a British adaptation would be slick and socially cutting, BTW).  He's in America, where we feign ignorance of class divisions and are taught a higher emphasis on individual responsibility for actions(something that will make the question of Light's motives a little blander).

- This is L:

I've only seen him impersonating Snoop Dogg in Straight Outta Compton, but he's been an up-and-comer in middlebrow arthouse movies for years.  I hear he's really good in Short Term 12 and Atlanta.  Perhaps there'll be a racial rather than classist implication in Light's choice of victims?

- In the reboot live-action series from a couple years ago, Light doesn't jump right into using the Death Note.  Ryuk edges him into it a bit.  It's probably an easier angle to take the beginning from than the original.

I think a feature film length version can work fine.  There are implications in the manga and anime about the world's reaction to Kira, but not a lot of aspects of society are shown changing from it.  From day one, Death Note has been more about plot mechanics, mind games, reversed expectations.  You can do that just fine with a pared-down pool of characters (please no Near or Mello) and a plot arc that will probably have the ending of the live-action movie from about 10 years ago.  It'd be great if it ended with the midpoint of the anime instead, but that's more just my personal bias.

17 hours ago, Jondesu said:

The frequency of bad puns in this thread hertz.

This joke proves you made it through the banned pass filter.

16 hours ago, Djarskublar said:

When I was a kid, I wondered why we didn't have to eat more. Now I understand the basic chemistry/physics of food, and I am blown away by how much we eat. 2000 nutritional calories/day is, if I remember the conversions correctly, a bit over 8 million joules every day. Let me just say, what the hell man?! That is a ridiculously large amount of energy for a lump that weighs in (in the USA, anyway) at around 80 kg. I mean, I realize the torque our tendons can exert on our bones is terrible, considering the location of connection, but still... Even sedentary people that are skinnier still need ~75% of that 8 mil. 6 million joules a day to sit there seems ludicrous to me. Try tossing that much energy into an impulse on me... Yeah, not pretty.

We are incredibly inefficient lifeforms.

Worst example found so far, The Chocolate War.

They murdered him.  And then the murders began.

1 hour ago, Oversleep said:

@Jedal, I'm fairly sure that your post - from Catholic perspective - contains some heresy

For example this. The Trinity always was.

But mostly these. Jesus is not an aspect of God. He is not a part of God. He is God.

And also that part about Jesus learning about his true nature. First off, He has spoken of His nature when He was lost and then found in the temple (childhood). But anyway, He always knew He is God.

And that part about "He is a divine part of God who is allowed to walk the Earth as any other man" is very close to arianism.

The insistence on "1=3, don't ask how, it just is" was one of the first easy steps in my journey from Catholic to atheist.

On 2/21/2017 at 7:28 PM, Oversleep said:

Do we have any buddhists here? Because I stumbled on some info on buddhism and after I read up a little on it a question popped up in my mind:

How would Ruin turn out if a buddhist was a Vessel?

Khmer Rouge.

The Ruling Class (1972) is in its entirety on YouTube.  <3 that movie.

6 hours ago, KnightRadiant said:

My English class is reading LotR. I've already read it once, so it's just hilarious to see what my friends who haven't think of certain parts. "This here must be foreshadowing of Aragorn's death! There's no other explanation!", "Sam needs a love life. He's too dang loyal to Frodo." etc. The guy I sit next to has also read it, so we share occasional looks of understanding.

And then we hear we're writing an essay on Tom Bombadil. Bombadil, of all people!!  Why not Gandalf, or Sam? Nope, Tom Bombadil. *sigh*.
Alright... done ranting. 

 

"Kill Aragorn early" and "make everything about Tom Bombadil" would have been great ideas for the story.

9 hours ago, Kaymyth said:

Yes.

Also, Missouri has Cuba, New London, Versallies, Venice, Lebanon, Nevada, Florida, and Savannah.  There's even a Houston, which is the county seat of Texas County.

I grew up in Memphis, MO.  It's in Scotland County, just 20 miles down the highway from Lancaster.

I started to write a little skit about Missouri settlers, but realized there's already a better version:

Just now, Sunbird said:

Keep in mind, though, that not all Jedi/Sith are actually human. (Darth Maul, Yoda, etc.)

Sorry, real-world bias showing.  Sentient life not using the Force for its own aims.

Well... okay.  Language, gore, swastikas in one of 'em...

On 1/23/2017 at 4:33 PM, Pagerunner said:

Not gonna lie, this is pretty much my entire personality:

21 minutes ago, ShadowLord_Lith said:

What are the movies you have made! I wish to view them!

The trailers are very sweary and violent.  Plus, that feels like a couple of lives ago.

On 1/25/2017 at 11:28 AM, Shqueeves said:

On one hand, that's sweet! (Pun intended) On the other hand, why do you know this? 

I have made movies.  One character I played did not have a fun time with his new Mafia friend.

6 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

Mouth blood looks delicious in my opinion.

Fake movie blood can be.  Tastes almost like Krispy Kreme filling.

5 hours ago, Mestiv said:

Time for a little game! Caption this fabulous photo!

"No, kitty, ballet is only impressive when it's vertical."

On 1/23/2017 at 10:33 PM, Jondesu said:

Namely, the false division of the Light and Dark sides. Not that there isn't a Dark Side that leads to destruction, but that isn't caused by emotions, attachment, even fear or hate. It's from seizing the power of the Force for yourself instead of letting it flow through you.

I would find it very fitting for Luke and Rey to finally resolve the problem Anakin discovered in the Jedi Order, and bring balance truly to the Force.

I've had a theory for a while that the only way to bring balance to the force is for humans to no longer use it, Jedi or Sith.

14 hours ago, Briar King said:

My gum around one of my top front teeth has been getting on my nerves past 2 days. I dislodged something and when the particle came out my gum gushed blood out. It was freaky. Looked unreal like a blood capsule bitten in movies. Feels much better now. 

Blood tends to look worse than it is, especially in your mouth, when it's surrounded by saliva as well.  Floss regularly for a few days and that should stop.

...He said, completely ignoring his own advice.

@TwiLyghtSansSparkles Welcome to life.