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Heaven forbid we give new actors a chance.
One of my major gripes with casting directors is they blow their budget on famous actors who don't look the part for name recognition when there's literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of unknowns with talent who want a chance.
Adding dead famous people to the competition is just unfair.
Seriously, how many times have you seen "family" that looks as genetically similar as a pumpkin and a potato? The most unbelievable part of Terminator Genisys wasn't killer robots or time travel: it was believing Khalisi and a male model had a son who looked so much like John C. Reilly.
Could've found three actors with skill and similar looks if the casting director spent more than ten minutes at their job just to put a famous name or two on the bill.
I admittedly never saw it. >.>
Without name recognition, noone is going to go.
It sucks, but its the truth. There just aren't that many Leo DiCaprios out there.
That said, you want someone you've never heard of to potentially knock your socks off? Check out on/off Broadway.
Without name recognition, noone is going to go.
It sucks, but its the truth. There just aren't that many Leo DiCaprios out there.
That said, you want someone you've never heard of to potentially knock your socks off? Check out on/off Broadway.
I hate musicals.
Its like mixing ice cream and pizza to me. Alone, great, together, no.
Without name recognition, noone is going to go.
It sucks, but its the truth. There just aren't that many Leo DiCaprios out there.
That said, you want someone you've never heard of to potentially knock your socks off? Check out on/off Broadway.
I hate musicals.
Its like mixing ice cream and pizza to me. Alone, great, together, no.
oh it doesn't have to be musicals. It can just be a show.
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Based on how often original John Wayne movies were themselves just recycled John Wayne movies (Rio Bravo v El Dorado, for instance), just how would that person tell the difference between an original movie and a new one virtually starring John Wayne?Because most viewers aren't thinking anything beyond "X was awesome, I want more of them even Though they're dead".More Things That NobodysHome Doesn't Comprehend:
This morning's talk is from a movie special effects guy telling us how much teamwork is involved in producing a big-budget special-effects film. And the second question from the group: "When will you be able to create realistic films starring deceased actors and actresses?"
Why the **** would you want to do something so morbid and disrespectful? I'd never touch such a film...
Yeah, this person really wants more John Wayne movies. Just, "Write an old-style Western, throw in John Wayne, and put it out."
My personal opinion? If they didn't OK it before they passed on, then it's not OK to do it. But I am not the law.
...yet...
Vany gets cookies.
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Rogue One was awesome.More Things That NobodysHome Doesn't Comprehend:
This morning's talk is from a movie special effects guy telling us how much teamwork is involved in producing a big-budget special-effects film. And the second question from the group: "When will you be able to create realistic films starring deceased actors and actresses?"
Why the **** would you want to do something so morbid and disrespectful? I'd never touch such a film...
DONNIE YEN FOREVER!
Heaven forbid we give new actors a chance.
One of my major gripes with casting directors is they blow their budget on famous actors who don't look the part for name recognition when there's literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of unknowns with talent who want a chance.
Adding dead famous people to the competition is just unfair.
Seriously, how many times have you seen "family" that looks as genetically similar as a pumpkin and a potato? The most unbelievable part of Terminator Genisys wasn't killer robots or time travel: it was believing Khalisi and a male model had a son who looked so much like John C. Reilly.
Could've found three actors with skill and similar looks if the casting director spent more than ten minutes at their job just to put a famous name or two on the bill.
While I do agree in principle, those famous actors at one time were no-name actors themselves who got lucky breaks and continued to prove their acting abilities and/or popularity to continue getting parts and their movies continue making money.
The key part there for the movie studio is making money.
Vany gets cookies.Based on how often original John Wayne movies were themselves just recycled John Wayne movies (Rio Bravo v El Dorado, for instance), just how would that person tell the difference between an original movie and a new one virtually starring John Wayne?Because most viewers aren't thinking anything beyond "X was awesome, I want more of them even Though they're dead".More Things That NobodysHome Doesn't Comprehend:
This morning's talk is from a movie special effects guy telling us how much teamwork is involved in producing a big-budget special-effects film. And the second question from the group: "When will you be able to create realistic films starring deceased actors and actresses?"
Why the **** would you want to do something so morbid and disrespectful? I'd never touch such a film...
Yeah, this person really wants more John Wayne movies. Just, "Write an old-style Western, throw in John Wayne, and put it out."
My personal opinion? If they didn't OK it before they passed on, then it's not OK to do it. But I am not the law.
...yet...
Woohoo!
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While I hate to mock non-English speakers, the European team's first presentation is "Child Whalefare".
O...k...
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Fantasy NPC: Sergeant Pox, the city's watch mom medic.
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While I hate to mock non-English speakers, the European team's first presentation is "Child Whalefare".
O...k...
Duh. Obviously, it's a story of taking care of a young porpoise travelling from the Baltic and then across the Ocean.
More Things That NobodysHome Doesn't Comprehend:
This morning's talk is from a movie special effects guy telling us how much teamwork is involved in producing a big-budget special-effects film. And the second question from the group: "When will you be able to create realistic films starring deceased actors and actresses?"
Why the **** would you want to do something so morbid and disrespectful? I'd never touch such a film...
Eh, I am pretty sure that soon a lot of actors/actresses will sign contracts allowing use of their appearance after their deaths.
That way they will get the money from the contract that would be otherwise gotten by their less scrupulous heirs.
Just finished backing Twilight 2000 kickstarter. Loved this game so many years ago. No idea if it will play worth a fig these days.
In other news - not much. Messing around with a Hellscape DF build. Trying to do a valley. Not sure I have enough pieces for a long or deep one. HS does not do verticality particularly well.
At this point its probably inevitable anyway. The music industry is already doing it - see the "virtual" tours if the past couple of years starring digital recreations of people like Freddy Mercury and Michael Jackson. Hollywood can't be far behind.
In Freddie's specific case, at least, he deliberately went on a recording spree before his death with full intent of new works being released after his death, trusting his band mates to handle that well.
Just finished backing Twilight 2000 kickstarter. Loved this game so many years ago. No idea if it will play worth a fig these days.
In other news - not much. Messing around with a Hellscape DF build. Trying to do a valley. Not sure I have enough pieces for a long or deep one. HS does not do verticality particularly well.
Goal: 100K Swedish crowns.
Pledged: 5.4M...
Oh, boy.
Fria Ligen makes good games. The changes to their dice pool mechanics mentioned in the KS page don't appeal to me, though.
Black Monk consults the Poland part?
If you will need recordings of Polish pronunciation, let me know.
Will do. This may be just a nostalgia purchase. Not sure I will be able to get any of my usual gaming crew to play. And I will definitely be the only one with the rules - so it may have to wait until we can play in person anyway.
Or who knows, maybe there will be an online group that I find from the KS comments and I can just play instead of run.
Right, one of the Imps can pick almost any household lock given enough time apparently.
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If this is too political for people, just let me know and I'll strike it from the record. I'm intending it to be non-partisan informational.
Illinois does not have a statewide ballot tracking system in place. They're having the individual counties track it all. Bad side to this is each county is doing their own thing. Some have websites. Some just say "Yep, just call the County Clerk's Office!"
In my case, it's a call to the Clerk's office, but I was never put on hold, the employee didn't have an attitude with me about my question ("Just calling to confirm if my mail-in ballot was received."), and after flubbing my last name (for those that know it, yes, really) and having a joint laugh she was very quickly able to say "Yes, your ballot has been recorded."
So not the best of all possible worlds, but at least I got the feeling the people on the ground in my county are making an honest effort to do the best they can with the situation.
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Right, one of the Imps can pick almost any household lock given enough time apparently.
You're probably referring to Impus Minor finding himself locked out of the house, going to the neighbors, getting a bobby pin, and picking both our Schlaag doorknob and deadbolt in about 45 minutes. And Schlaag's supposed to be the "best".
And I forget whether I've said it here, but a locked door is far more about privacy than about security. Unless you're going the whole "steel bars over every window" route, anyone who wants to can break into your house any time they feel like it. And if you're going that route, you have to ask yourself, "Can I afford to move anywhere else?"
I think it is the idea of a refuge from politics altogether, and not the favoring of one party over another, that annoys our compatriots.
Right, one of the Imps can pick almost any household lock given enough time apparently.You're probably referring to Impus Minor finding himself locked out of the house, going to the neighbors, getting a bobby pin, and picking both our Schlaag doorknob and deadbolt in about 45 minutes. And Schlaag's supposed to be the "best".
And I forget whether I've said it here, but a locked door is far more about privacy than about security. Unless you're going the whole "steel bars over every window" route, anyone who wants to can break into your house any time they feel like it. And if you're going that route, you have to ask yourself, "Can I afford to move anywhere else?"
I have two rather large dogs.
No better security. Most crooks hear Hunter bark and go next door, I would imagine.
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If this is too political for people, just let me know and I'll strike it from the record. I'm intending it to be non-partisan informational.
Illinois does not have a statewide ballot tracking system in place. They're having the individual counties track it all. Bad side to this is each county is doing their own thing. Some have websites. Some just say "Yep, just call the County Clerk's Office!"
In my case, it's a call to the Clerk's office, but I was never put on hold, the employee didn't have an attitude with me about my question ("Just calling to confirm if my mail-in ballot was received."), and after flubbing my last name (for those that know it, yes, really) and having a joint laugh she was very quickly able to say "Yes, your ballot has been recorded."
So not the best of all possible worlds, but at least I got the feeling the people on the ground in my county are making an honest effort to do the best they can with the situation.
this is exactly why I am voting in person. Don't trust anyone.
this is exactly why I am voting in person. Don't trust anyone.If this is too political for people, just let me know and I'll strike it from the record. I'm intending it to be non-partisan informational.
Illinois does not have a statewide ballot tracking system in place. They're having the individual counties track it all. Bad side to this is each county is doing their own thing. Some have websites. Some just say "Yep, just call the County Clerk's Office!"
In my case, it's a call to the Clerk's office, but I was never put on hold, the employee didn't have an attitude with me about my question ("Just calling to confirm if my mail-in ballot was received."), and after flubbing my last name (for those that know it, yes, really) and having a joint laugh she was very quickly able to say "Yes, your ballot has been recorded."
So not the best of all possible worlds, but at least I got the feeling the people on the ground in my county are making an honest effort to do the best they can with the situation.
The same here.
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Right, one of the Imps can pick almost any household lock given enough time apparently.
One of the big things TLL makes clear is that knowledge of how locks work is the biggest tool for cracking them. This vid with Modern Rogue is a good explanation.
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Duh. Obviously, it's a story of taking care of a young porpoise travelling from the Baltic and then across the Ocean.While I hate to mock non-English speakers, the European team's first presentation is "Child Whalefare".
O...k...
Documentary about the whaling industry in Japan and the impact on the younger generations?
Now I want waffles.
Who doesn't want waffles?
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While I hate to mock non-English speakers, the European team's first presentation is "Child Whalefare".
O...k...
Is it a super-budget restaurant that only serves blandly flavoured pureed krill?
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Now I'm watching a demo of our marketing tool, and maybe it's just that I'm a cynical grognard who's raised two skeptical, cynical kids, but...
...does advertising actually affect anyone any more?
I don't think I know anyone who doesn't just tune it out. You could argue that the subliminal advertising still works, but we also don't buy anything that's advertised.
Just seems like a great big, "Spending huge amounts of money to generate tons of noise to justify your own existence when you're no longer relevant."
Maybe that's why I'm not a marketer...
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Ad and marketing is its own, very strange, world.
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Now I want waffles.Who doesn't want waffles?
No, thank you. I just devoured half a mega-sized pizza. *burp* I am beyond full.
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I found that aforementioned Brothers Of Metal band has Czech, German, Itallian, Netherlandese Dutch, and Polish pages on wikipedia... Do you notice which language is missing?
They are Swedish.
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Now I'm watching a demo of our marketing tool, and maybe it's just that I'm a cynical grognard who's raised two skeptical, cynical kids, but...
...does advertising actually affect anyone any more?I don't think I know anyone who doesn't just tune it out. You could argue that the subliminal advertising still works, but we also don't buy anything that's advertised.
Just seems like a great big, "Spending huge amounts of money to generate tons of noise to justify your own existence when you're no longer relevant."
Maybe that's why I'm not a marketer...
I can assure you that there are a large quantity of people for whom this stuff works exceedingly well.
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Now I'm watching a demo of our marketing tool, and maybe it's just that I'm a cynical grognard who's raised two skeptical, cynical kids, but...
...does advertising actually affect anyone any more?I don't think I know anyone who doesn't just tune it out. You could argue that the subliminal advertising still works, but we also don't buy anything that's advertised.
Just seems like a great big, "Spending huge amounts of money to generate tons of noise to justify your own existence when you're no longer relevant."
Maybe that's why I'm not a marketer...
I suspect that there is the matter of scale. We might not react particularly positively to ads, but there are millions of recipients.
I'd give you a comparison of the number of people reacting positively to obvious b~*@~@~@, but it would be extremely political...
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I have problems with spelling of extremely. It took me three tries before I got it.
No Grammarly involved (I don't use it), merely Chrome dictionary's redlining.
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Interesting, redlining is a word recognized by the dictionary.
Grammarly isn't (and I am not checking the exact spelling because then google will keep showing me its ads for ages).
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Interesting, redlining is a word recognized by the dictionary.
In American English, it has an entirely different meaning, unrelated to spell-checking apps.
"Redlining" is a financial strategy that draws red lines on a map around certain neighborhoods in which banks will not make loans (primarily mortgage loans).
In context, it usually devolves into a racist practice in which predominantly minority neighborhoods are charged much higher prices for financial goods and services, if they can be obtained at all.
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Interesting, redlining is a word recognized by the dictionary.In American English, it has an entirely different meaning, unrelated to spell-checking apps.
"Redlining" is a financial strategy that draws red lines on a map around certain neighborhoods in which banks will not make loans (primarily mortgage loans).
In context, it usually devolves into a racist practice in which predominantly minority neighborhoods are charged much higher prices for financial goods and services, if they can be obtained at all.
It's also an editorial term, though strictly speaking it has a bit different sense than the one I used. In editing it refers to using red to mark and track recent changes to the edited draft when it passes between author and the editor and back (or the parties involved in case of contract).
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It's also an editorial term, though strictly speaking it has a bit different sense than the one I used. In editing it refers to using red to mark and track recent changes to the edited draft when it passes between author and the editor and back (or the parties involved in case of contract).Interesting, redlining is a word recognized by the dictionary.In American English, it has an entirely different meaning, unrelated to spell-checking apps.
"Redlining" is a financial strategy that draws red lines on a map around certain neighborhoods in which banks will not make loans (primarily mortgage loans).
In context, it usually devolves into a racist practice in which predominantly minority neighborhoods are charged much higher prices for financial goods and services, if they can be obtained at all.
Also a driving term. Redlining an engine is revving it out to the maximum RPM the manufacturer has placed on the engine, usually marked as a red line or red number on the tachometer.
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When we told the kids that we didn't feel like it was safe enough to go trick or treating this year they said "Yeah, we just assumed that, there's always next year".
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Suggestion - hide halloween candy around house/yard like easter egg hunt
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I'm leaving a bucket full of candy at the door
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Denny's is admittedly low-middle tier at best for breakfast restaurants, in my experience. Generally semi-cheap and semi-quick, but not exceptional in any way - neither really good nor memorably bad - and not a good enough deal to bridge the gap between the actually good breakfast restaurants like Cracker Barrel and fast food.I hate Cracker Barrel. I've never been impressed with their food - it's mediocre at best and not really worth the headache of cramming into the off-putting and claustrophobic Grandma's forgotten attic full of junk aesthetic it's got going on. I always feel like I've wasted my money and an hour of my life I'll never get back. If I want a middling generic quality brunch menu, I'll go to IHOP, where I can at least get something that's not slathered in shame gravy.
And to quote an old meme, people don't go to Denny's. They end up at Denny's. And not that one. The good one across town.
I like the hashbrown casserole, fish and chicken fried chicken from Cracker Barrel. Also frosted mugs with root beer :D
Denny's has pretty good skillets. I'm kind of an all-devouring hole so there are few places I really don't like.
Waffle House is the beeeest. I love being able to smell the food cooking as soon as I walk in.
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Of course, Vtubers have also been added in, but that’s less offensive.
I haven't exactly fallen down the hole but I have scaled partially down with a climbing kit.
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NASA has been putting out a lot of good stuff lately. I guess that is their way of apologizing for the lack of an alien invasion this year.