The Bookwyrm

I begin hatching a plan to travel backwards in time to the start of the thread so that I can have the sandwich before anyone else does. This would make me the person who starts the entire battle for the sandwich. First, though, I hire some ninja aliens to go steal the present-time sandwich for me.

Jasnah commandeered a death star and began a quest of revenge upon those who were happy because she was unhappy.

I'm back! What's happening?

Ooh, yeah... 217

What about italics instead of bold? 213

We played a fun board game.

I just re-read D1 and found that it was an insanely confusing vote shuffle based mostly on the fact that ties are fun. Um.... Elkanah, with my ever present "subject to change" asterisk.

All right, I have been having much trouble following this game. I'm going to use my easy strategy and assume that the Wizard train had at least one, if not multiple, elims riding it. And the same for the next highest train, which was me. We know that Wiz was village, now, and so I think that it's reasonable to assume that some of the other people who voted for me are also village. The Bookwyrm train probably only has one elim. But simply focusing on the Wizard train... I was not paying much attention, so I was really confused once so many people started voting Wizard. He didn't seem suspicious to me, and we know know that he was a villager... I have my eye on Szeth and Elkanah right now, but I'm going to go re-read that part of D1 a little closer before I come to a solid conclusion. If there is more solid reasoning for why people were voting Wizard, can you explain it to me?

I don't see why not. Go ahead.

It's a very tasty movie.

I found a format for memes I like, but am trying to find places to use it...

An alien ate me today. Does that count?

The billionaires built spaceships and went to live in the TRAPPIST-1 system, because why not.

I haven't seen a thread for this yet, so I'm going to make one. This man is a storming genius. I've only seen three of his movies, those being Inception, Interstellar, and Tenet. Each of them are incredible, intricate, confusing, deep, and amazing. I don't know what his other movies are like, but if those three are any indication, they're probably awesome. Of these, Interstellar is my favorite, but that's probably because it plays into my personal interests and values far more than Inception and Tenet do. I love astronomy and space travel, and the view of the universe that Interstellar gives, including it's explanation of time and four dimensional beings, makes perfect sense to me. I love how it gets as close as possible to science fact so that the inaccuracies that are there fit into the whole well. It also has a powerful message that appeals to me, stating that love can transcend time and space, and that the connections between people are something that leaves a mark on the universe. It fits with my understanding of how science works when put together with my religion. (Though that's a separate topic...) Inception...I can't think of anything specific to say about it, but it is an incredible film. I think the thing that interests me the most about it is the concept of infiltrating the subconscious through shared dreams. Nolan sets up a hidden world where this is a reality, but then expertly creates a story that's based on this idea; a story that happens quite literally in the minds of the main characters. It's a movie that makes you think, not just about the movie, but about yourself. And the ending, though immensely frustrating at first, has gained an appeal to me because the movie has a powerful meaning whether the top stops or not. You can choose, based on your own perceptions, how it ends. Tenet didn't appeal to me at first. I just saw it last week, and the movie ended with me feeling like something was missing. It was very hard to follow, so that by the end of the movie I was still expecting a final explanation that didn't ever come. The ending didn't seem like an ending because it hinted at so much more and made it seem like it wasn't actually over. It was only after I read a bunch of online summaries and watched it again that I enjoyed it. Once I had a firmer grasp of the story and the time travel mechanics, I was able to enjoy the movie a lot more. I understand that the whole "inversion" thing is baffling. It is. I'm still trying to wrap my head around aspects of it. But I understand it now to a point that it makes me enjoy the movie so much more than I did that first time. I love, specifically, the theme of time that runs through these movies. Interstellar and Tenet hinge on the idea that linear time, as we understand it, isn't the whole picture. Another movie I like that supports this is Arrival. That image of time interests me so much, and plays into how I like those movies. Inception looks at time in a different way, how it speeds up in dreams, and what the consequences of that are. Yeah. I like ranting about these movies. This is a thread for discussion of Christopher Nolan's movies, and not just the ones I've seen. Please, tell me about the other ones I haven't seen, or what you like/dislike about the ones I have seen. And if I'm all alone in my nerdiness for these movies, then so be it. That's fine too.

....I was going to make a pun but accidentally derailed everything. Sparks.

What is your opinion on bananas?

I travel back in time, inverted, to the point in time before Nerdy ascended. Before they take up the incredible power, I steal the sandwich, then keep moving back in time so no one can get me.

I take a hammer and break the sandwich out of the brick, then escape into the past using a turnstile.

He started by commanding them to buy all the pancake stores in the universe, creating a monopoly on the food. Then he moved onto waffles.

What?

My mind is far too blown for me to be susceptible to purple mind controlling powers. So take that.

Use their death stars to eradicate some of the planets to make the TLT Census Organization's job easier when they got back.

"Not at all. As long as it's not into solid rock."