Random Thoughts — Page 516

sorry please disregard.

Warbler said:

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*sigh*

I was just testing the quote function. 😉

Since I don’t get many replies in the “Script Writing and Re-Writing” subsection, I figured I’d post this here.

I’ve started writing the screenplay for my Episode III re-write, and here is where I plan on introducing Palpatine. To build up his character, I wanted him to feature in a number of short scenes of him delivering political speeches – speeches which begin as hopeful and stirring, but become darker and more totalitarian with each new speech he gives. The thing is my knowledge on things political is extremely weak; I can’t write politicians.

I figured it would be best to use real-world political speeches as inspiration – speeches given by Hitler or Stalin or even a certain American president-elect. 😉 If anyone could provide links to transcripts or videos of the kind of speeches I’m thinking of, I’d really be grateful.

TV’s Frink said:

I was just testing the quote function. 😉

the report button works as well, just tested it.

Why though wouldn’t his old posts be updated if changed were made¿ Not that I mind just curious

Possessed said:

Why though wouldn’t his old posts be updated if changed were made¿ Not that I mind just curious

forget that question, i have a newer more interesting one (to me), why the Spanish keyboard layout all of a sudden¿

Haha I don’t know how I did that. ??¿¿

¿Sigh?

Is it technologically feasible to create a “public” MySpleen account? Post the username and password somewhere on this site, and whenever someone wants to download something they can log in and use it?

NeverarGreat said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Since I don’t get many replies in the “Script Writing and Re-Writing” subsection, I figured I’d post this here.

I’ve started writing the screenplay for my Episode III re-write, and here is where I plan on introducing Palpatine. To build up his character, I wanted him to feature in a number of short scenes of him delivering political speeches – speeches which begin as hopeful and stirring, but become darker and more totalitarian with each new speech he gives. The thing is my knowledge on things political is extremely weak; I can’t write politicians.

I figured it would be best to use real-world political speeches as inspiration – speeches given by Hitler or Stalin or even a certain American president-elect. 😉 If anyone could provide links to transcripts or videos of the kind of speeches I’m thinking of, I’d really be grateful.

Here’s a couple:
Hitler Subtitled
Stalin Subtitled
Mussolini Subtitled

and of course:

The Greatest Dictator

Oy, those horrible, horrible comments. Why do I keep forgetting to take Frink’s advice?

Thanks for the links, though. Some good quotes in the Hitler one, specifically (and Chaplin’s always awesome).

I liked Alanis Morissette more before I discovered Tori Amos.

suspiciouscoffee said:

I’ve decided to keep a log/diary/journal/whatever, hopefully all year and maybe more. Chances are I’ll forget about it in a week. We’ll see.

I briefly kept a journal back in 2003-2004. I pretty much abandoned it after I was expelled from school.

Once in a while, I think about starting one again, but then I realize I’d just talk about the exact same things over-and-over again.

• I was having a great dream where I was married to a beautiful woman, had beautiful children, had religion, was in a job I enjoyed, and was happy. Then I woke up.
• Now that I’ve woken up at 12-1:00 PM, I’m going directly to the computer, give-or-take a couple hours, and I’m going to sit there 'til 12-5:00 AM (brief breaks taken of course).
• My sciatica is acting up again. It’s the one payment from my single, solitary job as a dishwasher for less than six months back in 2008 that keeps on paying.
• I’m listening to Stone Temple Pilots/I Mother Earth/Tangerine Dream/Alannah Myles/Nine Inch Nails/Tori Amos/etc. again.
• My sister is a living Millennial stereotype: stupid, ignorant, with absolutely abysmal taste in film, television, and music. She’s also a sociopathic bitch.
• My father is a misogynistic, anti-Semitic asshole.
• My family are religious legalists who mock other religions/sects without having any understanding of those religions/sects while ignoring that the founder of theirs was a racist, sexist asshole who raped his own daughter and forced his followers to avoid professional healthcare.
• Progressive Christianity really appeals to me.
• I hate agnosticism. I want to believe in God again.
• Yay, another repetitive supper of hamburgers/chicken/stew/etc.
• I’m horny. Time to furiously do my taxes again.
• I hate furiously doing my taxes. I wish I was asexual.
• I’m so desperately lonely.
• I wish I could travel back in time to the 8th grade and make all the right choices from the beginning.
• Time for me to spend the next couple hours watching the same old movies and TV shows again instead of reading the hundreds of books I own.
• Quoth the Frank Booth, “Now it’s dark.”

Wash, rinse, repeat.