ChainsawAsh

moviefreakedmind said:

The isolation actually does bother me, but every time I interact with anyone beyond a superficial conversation they make me want to be sick. I can’t explain it, but to me the isolation is more of a lesser of two evils thing.

Yeah, that sounds familiar too. Less than five minutes into a conversation with most people and I’m desperately looking for a way out. There are very few exceptions. It sucks.

I severed ties with all of my friends a little over a year ago because I thought they were up to something and I’m not capable of making new ones.

I’m 28 and I still don’t know how to make new friends. It’s fucking tough. It’s possible, but I couldn’t tell you how to do it. I have a grand total of four actual friends in my life and I’m only close with two of them and I couldn’t tell you how any of that happened. I wish I could help you there.

I do actually really appreciate this. It does mean a lot to me.

Well, I mean it. I might not be able to offer useful advice, but I’ve found that sometimes just being heard by somebody helps, even if there isn’t much of anything they can do.

I think it had to do with a compromise between HBO wanting at least two more years, there not being enough material for 20 episodes (which I’m skeptical of), and renegotiated actors’ contracts with higher per-episode salaries.

But that’s all speculation with little to back it up.

moviefreakedmind said:

I don’t like using this thread since I have no emotions to speak of other than anger, but oh well.

Other than talking to the occasional cashier and stating the bare minimum necessary to people I work with, it’s been over three months since I’ve spoken to anyone outside of my family. I don’t even think I care very much, I’m just sure it isn’t healthy.

I didn’t plan on talking about the reasons for my long absence from the forum, but I will say that this hit home for me. This isn’t too far from where I was not too long ago. But I isolated myself from my family as well, only talking to them when it was absolutely necessary.

I thought the same at first - that the isolation didn’t bother me, to the point where I kind of embraced it. But eventually it caught up to me, and I isolated myself more and more to the point where if I didn’t work, I wouldn’t leave my apartment for days at a time.

I happened to really luck out and move in downstairs from two people who are now my closest friends that I see almost every day, but now and again I wonder where I’d be now if I had, say, been assigned to a different building, or rented somewhere else.

Not saying your situation is exactly the same or trying to tell you that you need to get help or meet people or anything like that, or that I changed and became a perfectly well adjusted person that doesn’t ever feel this way anymore, but humans are social creatures, even if we don’t want to be. I learned that the hard way. And your post reminded me so much of where I was two years ago that I felt like I had to let you know you’re not alone.

If you ever feel like you need someone to talk to, even if it’s just to vent about what a shit day you had at work, you can PM me anytime.

There’s no way I’m the first one that’s said that here, is there? I was waiting for someone to call me out for being lazy and unoriginal.

WheresBlackhawk said:

Hey Chainsaw! It’s been ages!
Nice to see you back!

Thanks! It’s good to be back (in a non-lurker capacity)! I need to poke around the rewrite section of the forum while I’m off this weekend, that’s one spot I’ve avoided so far since I know it’s going to be a massive time-suck for me.

Southern end of Lake Michigan here, and I work on Monday. But hey, they’re giving us an outdoor picnic during eclipse time, so that’s cool I guess. Wish I had a vacation day to use so I could take a trip down to a 100% area.

Jeebus said:

ChainsawAsh said:

and Anakin’s turn is done in the most family-friendly way it could have been done.

Gonna have to disagree on this point only. A main character being dismembered, then fried and thrown out a window is pretty hardcore. Not to mention the implied slaughter of children.

You’re not wrong, but I was thinking more of the way the film explores the motivations for his turning than the turning scene itself. And even that gets pretty childish right after Mace goes out the Windu.

I fail to understand how TFA (which features the death of a major classic character, the maiming of a new character, depictions of psychic torture, and the wholesale destruction of multiple inhabited planets) is more family friendly than TPM or AOTC. I might give you ROTS, but even that had incredibly childish humor throughout most of the first half, and Anakin’s turn is done in the most family-friendly way it could have been done. (Though the immolation scene and Order 66 are probably less family-friendly than anything in TFA.)

Not enjoying the movie is one thing (and I do understand and accept most of the criticisms of the film, I just wasn’t as bothered by them as most were), but I honestly don’t understand people who think Star Wars has become more Disney-fied since the sale. If anything, it’s gotten darker. Any “Disneyfication” present in TFA I’d chalk up to Abrams more than Disney itself.

Alright, going with this. I’ll probably rotate through various Fry avatars now and then, but I think I’m sticking with Fry from here on out.

JEDIT: switched to imgur for embedding purposes.

ray_afraid said:

It’s nice too see several users who’ve been gone popping back in. But will they stay?

For what it’s worth, I plan to stick around. If I didn’t, then I wasted a whole two hours figuring out which old email I used for this account just so I could post for a couple days.

I feel like I should change my avatar, since it was picked out by doubleKO and not me, more than five years ago, and was meant as a temporary themed avatar. But then again, it’s been my avatar for five years even if I wasn’t around to use it, and I’m not sure what I’d change it to now…🤔

“We Don’t Deserve Love” - Arcade Fire

New album’s a bit of a mixed bag, but just like all their other albums, there’s one song I’m just drawn to somehow.

darthrush said:

Let Down - Radiohead

I can confidently say this is one of the best songs of all time in my opinion.

“There, There” would like a word with you.

captainsolo said:

I still find myself saying: Yesterday was a Lie coming soon to DVD.

Oh shit, I (kinda) remember that one!

Since I wasn’t around when TFA came out (and to possibly re-rail this thread a bit), I mostly enjoyed TFA, rehashes and all (and I say that as someone who’s very critical of ROTJ for its rehashiness).

It was a necessary palate cleanser after the dumpster fires of the prequels, introduced two protagonists I already have a lot of interest and investment in (Rey and Poe) and an antagonist that is compelling and frightening due to how unstable and unsure of himself he is (Kylo), and set the stage for something truly fresh and unique to come after.

It’s not perfect, of course. For one, I hate Starkiller Base and think the movie should have ended with Rey imprisoned on Kylo’s Star Destroyer, with the rescue attempt happening amid a battle between the New Republic fleet (which would have been decimated) and the First Order as they staged a surprise orbital bombardment of the New Republic capitol rather than on a snow planet that for some reason is a hyperspace Death Star. For two, the actual politics of the Resistance/Republic/First Order were woefully underestablished (or not established at all). For three, I thought Finn was poorly handled - a defecting stormtrooper shouldn’t be a bumbling comic relief character.

But overall? Better than any of the prequels, and better than ROTJ.

Awesome news! Hope it doesn’t get bogged down in development hell and we get to see this in 2020.

And that afterward we can get some standalones that are just based in the world and not around existing characters (Han, Obi-Wan) or already-known plot points (stealing the Death Star plans).

But a Kenobi spaghetti Western? I’m all in.

I’ve got two things to bitch about today.

First, the entire Indiana stretch of I94 is a fucking nightmare, especially that one-lane “express” thing going westbound. Feels like I’m stuck in a tunnel with no way out, and if I avoid it I’m stuck behind semis the whole damn way.

Second, I really wish they’d stop buying new lab equipment that we don’t need at work and bought new vending machines that didn’t break down every week and steal my money one out of every five times I use them.

xhonzi said:

Good start, Duracell. Now start 5 years ago, and tell Boosty and me what’s been going on.

Me too. In Wikipedia timeline format if you could. 😉

*Edit: AAAH WE HAVE EMOJIS NOW? WHAAAAT!

Holy shit this is amazing! If you’ll still be needing funds next month I should be able to donate then.

I have not, that’s awesome! Been gone for a while, and when I did visit I mainly lurked in the SW edits and preservations forums before I finally figured out which email address my account used. I’ll check it out!

I figure since they’re already little more than a plot device, might as well cut them down to the minimum necessary to better focus on the characters we should actually be getting to know at that point.

Plus it adds a bit of mystery and a feeling of foreboding to discover Saw’s rebels with our protagonists instead of being shown everything beforehand, especially when we have so little context for them at that stage.

Also, fuck Bor Gullet. Particularly since it doesn’t have any lasting effects on Bodhi beyond his initial confusion in the cell.

I’ve been thinking about how to “fix” Rogue One since December, and I think I’ve settled on what I’d do if I decided to edit it myself. It’s pretty conservative, and mostly boils down to: cut everything relating to Bodhi and Jedha before Jyn and Cassian get there.

So the movie starts as normal, then the Cassian/informant scene, then the Jyn rescue, her interrogation/assignment and leaving for Jedha. I’m not sure where to place the first Tarkin/Krennic scene, but in there somewhere - I’m just trying to avoid too much planet-hopping in the first act.

Once on Jedha, cut the Ponda Baba/Evazan cameo (obviously), and continue until Jyn and Cassian are captured. We meet Bodhi when Cassian does, and Saw when Jyn does.

No Bor Gullet at all, and no bouncing back and forth from Jedha to new planet to new planet throughout the first act.

And I’d definitely cut the Artoo/Threepio cameo, too…

Just chiming in to say that I’m very interested in this edit, and I thought I’d sworn off any new PT edits after finding HAL’s. Love the approach you’re taking.

If you need another set of eyes on it at any point, shoot me a PM. I’d be happy to give some feedback.

Orphan Black series finale - mostly an epilogue after 15 minutes of finale, and a bit overly happy/sappy, but not bad. Seasons 1 and 4 are still the best seasons, but the entire show is worth watching for Tatiana Maslany.

Game of Thrones - anyone else feel like this season is the show on fast-forward? They should’ve stuck with two 10-episode seasons to even out the pacing instead of this weird 7- and 6-episode final seasons business.

No one ever has any love for Dalton…

Glad to hear Craig’s coming back one more time, though. Here’s hoping Waltz comes back and they can manage to salvage his character.

Just wanted to chime in and say, HAL, since you started on these during my absence from the forum, that I’ve since watched all three of your prequel edits multiple times, and they are far and away the best ones I’ve seen! Amazing job, especially on Episode II!