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* I've been organizing a bunch of stuff. I tackled my pile of composition notebooks and writing projects by... taking most of them and shoving them out of sight. There are stories and research I want from those, but trying to go through all that right now would be unproductive.
The idea of going through all that and trashing most of it, re-writing what I want to keep into Scrivener or other notebooks is appealing... but it would also shatter my focus. The best thing to do is shelve all that for now. As I get writing projects done I will go into the drawer and start scrapping those one by one.
* Twitter did not get bought and I am still dealing with how much that debacle really did get to me.
Also, I know we now live in such a fact-free world that The Lone Gunman from The X Files would be considered average blokes, but I still want to explain in detail several things about what words mean and how the stock market works.
* I am hoping to finish Weird West tonight. The controls are so different that I can't switch to other games and I am getting back into GW2 after my long break. It's a good game, though.
* Suddenly everyone seems to be talking about a horror film called X. It can be be watched on-demand for twenty bucks, but I will wait until that much much actually buys the film, not rents it. I've got it on my Letterboxd Watchlist. I've finally sort of set up over there to keep track of things I want to see and have lists of films I like. I am Outcider over there if anyone wants to see me be very opinionated on heist films.
The idea of going through all that and trashing most of it, re-writing what I want to keep into Scrivener or other notebooks is appealing... but it would also shatter my focus. The best thing to do is shelve all that for now. As I get writing projects done I will go into the drawer and start scrapping those one by one.
* Twitter did not get bought and I am still dealing with how much that debacle really did get to me.
Also, I know we now live in such a fact-free world that The Lone Gunman from The X Files would be considered average blokes, but I still want to explain in detail several things about what words mean and how the stock market works.
* I am hoping to finish Weird West tonight. The controls are so different that I can't switch to other games and I am getting back into GW2 after my long break. It's a good game, though.
* Suddenly everyone seems to be talking about a horror film called X. It can be be watched on-demand for twenty bucks, but I will wait until that much much actually buys the film, not rents it. I've got it on my Letterboxd Watchlist. I've finally sort of set up over there to keep track of things I want to see and have lists of films I like. I am Outcider over there if anyone wants to see me be very opinionated on heist films.
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Date: 2022-04-16 03:52 am (UTC)From:The fact-free world we live in is kind of a constant horror, tbh. "Alternative facts" really stuck around in a way it absolutely should not have, or the weird belief that all ideas deserve equal time and consideration, when... no.
I saw X in theaters a few weeks ago! It was definitely *interesting*. I haven't actually seen much talk about it, but I'd say it's worth a watch. Parts of it are pretty intense. I think it has an interestingly challenging theme to it that could have gone either poorly (by playing into an existing bias/source of disgust) or well (this is drawing attention to that existing bias/source of disgust and challenging the audience about it) and I ultimately liked it. Even if it was deliberately uncomfortable about it, ha.
(I don't want to be spoilery, so I'm trying to be vague.)
But absolutely - I can NOT get behind paying a DVD price to *rent* a digital copy of a movie. I just can't do it. I don't even like purchasing digital copies of things. One of the few ways I feel old as hell, but I want to be able to hold the thing I bought.
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Date: 2022-04-16 05:42 am (UTC)From:The seething hatred of trusting anything is just nuts, and so are the Musky fanboys. It's a bad combination. The whole thing was like custom ordered to annoy me. Also, it's hard to push back in some setting without seeming like the a-hole.
Both Cargill and John Rogers praised X on twitter. As much as I love John Rogers, I tend to not like his media reccs. Him and Cargill praising it is interesting to me, though.
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Date: 2022-04-17 02:35 am (UTC)From:Very much agreed. It definitely seemed like it was engineered in a lab with the specific aim of making the worst people come up with the worst takes, no matter how removed from reality they were. Though to be fair, that's pretty par for the course with Musky fanboys.
X was... interesting. I would say that I did like it, but it's pretty overt in trying to be uncomfortable. Outside of the broader themes, I will say it managed a thing that few slashers do - established a group of people who aren't all *great* people, but that I liked and didn't really want to die, haha.
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Date: 2022-04-17 04:06 am (UTC)From:white nationalistseveryday conservatives are so oppressed there.I am just so tired of people being confidently incorrect. It's everywhere.
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Date: 2022-04-18 02:20 am (UTC)From:I think it really is the confidently incorrect that's the worst. And the quantity, of course. And the outright refusal to ever change those confidently incorrect beliefs, because data is suspect and truth is biased against them.