I forgot to put music in the main menu of the DVD I spent 3 hours making last night.
I’m not really that much of a movie purist. I really should’ve thought my name out a bit more.
Ruffles chips are good.
“There is a tremor in the Force.”
“Give yourself to the dark side.” -Lord Vader
Stargate was an underrated Space Odyssey.
I go back-and-forth on this. Sometimes I think it’s underrated, other times I think it’s rated appropriately. The script is weak as hell, but every other aspect of the filmmaking is spot-on. Definitely a mixed bag.
SG-1, on the other hand, is grossly overrated. All it does is pilfer from better shows like Trek and Babylon 5, watering down their concepts to be as mass-consumable as possible, seasoned with plenty of casual racism, eurocentrism, and American imperialism. I can understand liking this show as a kid back in the day – I was one of them – but I don’t know how any grown adult can view this show as anything more than a guilty pleasure.
“The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that anarchy can be instituted by a violent revolution… There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy
The Giza Necropolis after Al-Aziz Uthman failed to have it demolished:
“The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that anarchy can be instituted by a violent revolution… There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy
This place is a ghost town. Never seen the forums so inactive.
So are most old-school Internet forums where I used to post. All the kids these days are on social media. But at least they’re not on my lawn.
It sucks that the Internet these days is basically just like 3 companies.
Okay, so I’m over here looking outside thinking “Why does it look so dark out? The sun is shining brightly and there’s not a cloud in the sky. Have I been looking at screens for too long today or am I going crazy? It just looks… darker somehow.”
Then I learned the solar eclipse was happening today.
So my eyes are fine. I still might be a little crazy, but that’s irrelevant right now.
Move along, move along.
Okay, so I’m over here looking outside thinking “Why does it look so dark out? The sun is shining brightly and there’s not a cloud in the sky. Have I been looking at screens for too long today or am I going crazy? It just looks… darker somehow.”
Then I learned the solar eclipse was happening today.
So my eyes are fine. I still might be a little crazy, but that’s irrelevant right now.
The cosmic ballet goes on.
“The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that anarchy can be instituted by a violent revolution… There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy
This place is a ghost town. Never seen the forums so inactive.
So are most old-school Internet forums where I used to post. All the kids these days are on social media. But at least they’re not on my lawn.
It sucks that the Internet these days is basically just like 3 companies.
Agreed. Something like Discord is NOT a suitable replacement for forums, like at all. Those servers are not only far more cliquey than forums, but also are way too fast paced, often have genuine asshole moderators (quite famously) and are overall rather unpleasant as an alternative to forums. Not to mention predators-in-waiting with anime or furry profile pics.
Discord is best used as a way to chat to friends you already know in real life as an accompaniment while playing a game. It is worst used as a way to talk to strangers on the other side of the world that you’ll never meet in real life about what music you like. Forums were used for that. And REAL LIFE CONVERSATION.
Reddit also is a culprit to the same things, but on a marginally lesser scale.
Also trying to search things on Discord can be a bloody nightmare.
P.S., I know OT.com apparently has a Discord, but that’s not the point I was trying to make.
When’s something gonna happen?