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" Bahnke wrote: A: Winter, because I hate being hot. Hey Bahnke, welcome - your first post too, so double welcome to the forums. How hot are you talking? " Bahnke wrote: Q: Who is your favorite Pokemon? Pikachu, easy. The original and he uses electricity. Plus, super cute and fierce. Ash's bestie. In - joke thing with someone I know has sealed it. Wasn't there the other day but now someone's smuggled this great moment in cinema out. Q: What made you post in this thread first, Bahnke? or: anyone and Bahnke if you don't want to say: Q: If guns vanished off the face of the earth, would we go back to using swords? Last edited by erdelyii#5604 on May 21, 2019, 9:39:52 PM	Posted by erdelyii#5604 on May 21, 2019, 9:38:15 PM Quote this Post
" 鬼殺し wrote: A: no, we'd just reinvent guns. I recently (re)watched Black Panther and one of the coolest design choices in that movie (and likely the source material) is that these technologically superior people who never had guns traditionally instead have spears that fire energy. Effectively guns, but without the core mechanics and aesthetics thereof. Projectile-based damage, as POE has taught us, will always trump melee. Easier on the conscience, more efficient, simpler to use... We would? Do you think perhaps sword wielders feel more honourable and honest as a result of having to be that close and personal? Was recommended Black Panther the other day, as part of a long conversation about the X-Men/Marvel/DC Universes and who goes where and which ones to watch. Have seen a few, and look forward to more by Taika Waititi, no way will watch a lot of them. I think there's a place for projectile weapons but do think guns took the place of swords, look at the holsters. " Charan wrote: Q: If you could be an instant virtuoso at any instrument, which and why? Tap Shoes - been trying to find the full clip of him dancing to Putting on the Ritz, via Young Frankenstein, that classic scene, but it's not on YouTube. Bit torn about it being MJ, hmm. That'd feel incredible. To dance like that, basically be in his body doing that, as no-one comes close to him, even Gene Kelly, though there's not much call for it these days. Not really, just fresh, from watching it. You meant musical instrument, though. And there's only one Astaire; he was half bird bones half beef jerky with some gin tossed on to soak. Not much huggin' there. I'd make a very poor fist of tapping like that, even back in the day, even if I was a guy, ha. Those cane moves, holy crap, so good. Oh that's tough. Music. Classical guitar, I'd say, because it'd suit my personality the most, and be something to bust out anywhere, from concert hall to at a picnic. Could kick back and just play. Violin appeals, to play some of the most incredible pieces, but it looks high-strung, in a way the guitar isn't. All that focus. Think I'd get too wrought up being a violin virtuoso, though it'd feel amazing to be playing the guts out of this. How 'bout you? You did ... piano, is that right? I recall it was that or violin? Also This made me laugh, maybe it will you too ed: though this sequence is insane. Helps to hear the tapping. Q: If you could remake any movie, what would it be, and what would you do differently? Last edited by erdelyii#5604 on May 22, 2019, 10:47:03 AM	Posted by erdelyii#5604 on May 22, 2019, 8:55:05 AM Quote this Post
" We would? Do you think perhaps sword wielders feel more honourable and honest as a result of having to be that close and personal? It's just safer to kill things from far away, we invented spears almost immediately and we threw them right away. Projectiles have basically always been the favored military weapon in all cultures. Swords are more historically romanticized because training in them was something upper class people got. " erdelyii wrote: Q: If you could remake any movie, what would it be, and what would you do differently? I've had a lot of discussions about what I would do differently in a lot of movies, but I think the one that I've most solidly came down on was Star Wars Episode 1. I honestly think pretty much every choice made in the movie is bad, and makes the following movies worse. This is also more than just get rid of Jar Jar Binks. I'm not sure that is really a remake but more of a do over since I want the entire movie to be entirely different. To start with we don't need an origin story for child Anakin, he doesn't need to be more special from birth or a chosen one, because honestly any and all prophecy is just lazy foreshadowing. We're going to start with Jedi Knight Anakin and Master Obi-Wan, while still fresh Anakin is never seen as a kid. I'm imagining this essentially as what essentially boils down to a buddy cop film, where we really see the Jedi as galactic peace keepers. From there we can get Darth Maul as a new threat to be investigated, and lead into protecting Padme and the start of the Clone wars more smoothly. Starting here would also give the trilogy more time in general to delve into Anakin's fall to the dark side. In the current trilogy our Anakin progression is annoying->angry->evil. The other two movies would be mostly the same but no one would notice that Anakin aged 15 years and Padme didn't. I think it would allow the pace of story telling to just be better. Q:What piece of artwork has evoked the biggest emotional reaction in you.	Posted by j33bus#3399 on May 22, 2019, 4:08:30 PM Quote this Post
" j33bus wrote: It's just safer to kill things from far away, we invented spears almost immediately and we threw them right away. Projectiles have basically always been the favored military weapon in all cultures. Swords are more historically romanticized because training in them was something upper class people got. Think you're onto something there j33bus. Thanks for that. " j33bus wrote: " erdelyii wrote: Q: If you could remake any movie, what would it be, and what would you do differently? I've had a lot of discussions about what I would do differently in a lot of movies, but I think the one that I've most solidly came down on was Star Wars Episode 1. I honestly think pretty much every choice made in the movie is bad, and makes the following movies worse. This is also more than just get rid of Jar Jar Binks. I'm not sure that is really a remake but more of a do over since I want the entire movie to be entirely different. To start with we don't need an origin story for child Anakin, he doesn't need to be more special from birth or a chosen one, because honestly any and all prophecy is just lazy foreshadowing. We're going to start with Jedi Knight Anakin and Master Obi-Wan, while still fresh Anakin is never seen as a kid. I'm imagining this essentially as what essentially boils down to a buddy cop film, where we really see the Jedi as galactic peace keepers. From there we can get Darth Maul as a new threat to be investigated, and lead into protecting Padme and the start of the Clone wars more smoothly. Starting here would also give the trilogy more time in general to delve into Anakin's fall to the dark side. In the current trilogy our Anakin progression is annoying->angry->evil. The other two movies would be mostly the same but no one would notice that Anakin aged 15 years and Padme didn't. I think it would allow the pace of story telling to just be better. You have really thought about it. Great changes. Would improve it a lot, and fans would be happy I think. I'd go further with the Jedi Order, but it wasn't my question, and not the film I'd redo. " j33bus wrote: Q:What piece of artwork has evoked the biggest emotional reaction in you. We-ell. I've had some strong emotional reactions to a few low and highbrow in recent times, but let's not count those as they were not viewed objectively. That is harder than Charan's instrument one to answer, if I think about it too much, and start to decide to go with Ekman's breakdown of the basic emotions (because he is super cool) and think about selecting one ... Nah, won't overthink it. This I found gross then, and still do, maybe more so: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - Damien Hirst, 1991 " Artist Damien Hirst Year 1991 Type Tiger shark, glass, steel, 5% formaldehyde solution Dimensions 213 cm × 518 cm × 213 cm (84 in × 204 in × 84 in) The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist and a leading member of the "Young British Artists" (or YBA). It consists of a tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde in a vitrine. It was originally commissioned in 1991 by Charles Saatchi, who sold it in 2004, to Steven A. Cohen for an undisclosed amount, widely reported to have been at least $8 million. However, the title of Don Thompson's book, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art, suggests a higher figure. Owing to deterioration of the original 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark, it was replaced with a new specimen in 2006. It was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from 2007 to 2010. It is considered the iconic work of British art in the 1990s, and has become a symbol of Britart worldwide. The work was funded by Charles Saatchi, who in 1991 had offered to pay for whatever artwork Hirst wanted to create. The shark itself cost Hirst £6,000[4] and the total cost of the work was £50,000. The shark was caught off Hervey Bay in Queensland, Australia, by a fisherman commissioned to do so. Hirst wanted something "big enough to eat you". Death Denied (2008) part of a later artwork, exhibited in Kiev It was first exhibited in 1992 in the first of a series of Young British Artists shows at the Saatchi Gallery, then at its premises in St John's Wood, north London. The British tabloid newspaper The Sun ran a story titled "£50,000 for fish without chips." The show also included Hirst's artwork A Thousand Years. He was then nominated for the Turner Prize, but it was awarded to Grenville Davey. Saatchi sold the work in 2004 to Steven A. Cohen for an estimated $8 million. Its technical specifications are: "Tiger shark, glass, steel, 5% formaldehyde solution, 213 × 518 × 213 cm." The New York Times in 2007 gave the following description of the artwork: Mr. Hirst often aims to fry the mind (and misses more than he hits), but he does so by setting up direct, often visceral experiences, of which the shark remains the most outstanding. In keeping with the piece's title, the shark is simultaneously life and death incarnate in a way you don't quite grasp until you see it, suspended and silent, in its tank. It gives the innately demonic urge to live a demonic, deathlike form. Decay and replacement Because the shark was initially preserved poorly, it began to deteriorate and the surrounding liquid grew murky. Hirst attributes some of the decay to the fact that the Saatchi Gallery had added bleach to it. In 1993 the gallery gutted the shark and stretched its skin over a fiberglass mold, and Hirst commented, "It didn't look as frightening ... You could tell it wasn't real. It had no weight." When Hirst learned of Saatchi's impending sale of the work to Cohen, he offered to replace the shark, an operation which Cohen then funded, calling the expense "inconsequential" (the formaldehyde process alone cost around $100,000). Another shark was caught off Queensland (a female aged about 25–30 years, equivalent to middle age) and shipped to Hirst in a 2-month journey. Oliver Crimmen, a scientist and fish curator at London's Natural History Museum, assisted with the preservation of the new specimen in 2006. This involved injecting formaldehyde into the body, as well as soaking it for two weeks in a bath of 7% formalin solution. The original 1991 vitrine was then used to house it. A philosophical question was acknowledged by Hirst, as to whether the replacement shark meant that the result could still be considered the same artwork. He observed: It's a big dilemma. Artists and conservators have different opinions about what's important: the original artwork or the original intention. I come from a conceptual art background, so I think it should be the intention. It's the same piece. But the jury will be out for a long time to come. Basically it hits on several things that bug me and I feel disgust, sadness, and anger at it. Hirst's attitude says so much about what's wrong with the art world, and with humans. Sharks get such bad press, oh for sure they are scary, but this ... a travesty and off we go hunting them down to the brink of extinction on some species' cases. Heh, I'll stop. Lots of art evokes an emotional reaction, this one stands out because it's so wasteful, and obscene, and no one seems to question it but values it at MILLIONS. David Černý: "Shark", a sculpture of Saddam Hussein handcuffed in a glass tank ^ Neat riff. Q: Favourite meme and why	Posted by erdelyii#5604 on May 23, 2019, 10:20:50 AM Quote this Post
" erdelyii wrote: Q: Favourite meme and why I don't know if I have a favorite meme, I enjoy the humorous ones in general, but I'm a sucker for slowpoke. It's just my kind of dumb humor.https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/slowpoke " What is the best piece of advice you've ever received?	Posted by j33bus#3399 on May 24, 2019, 11:29:01 AM Quote this Post
" j33bus wrote: " erdelyii wrote: Q: Favourite meme and why I don't know if I have a favorite meme, I enjoy the humorous ones in general, but I'm a sucker for slowpoke. It's just my kind of dumb humor.https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/slowpoke Haha, nice pick. Relatable, too XD Going to edit that into the OP. Not going to answer, will leave it open for someone else, if no-one picks it up I'll have had time to think about it. " j33bus wrote: Q What is the best piece of advice you've ever received?	Posted by erdelyii#5604 on May 24, 2019, 1:39:48 PM Quote this Post
" j33bus wrote: Q What is the best piece of advice you've ever received? Don't give advice unless it's asked for. Can't say I always succeed here, far from it. Great advice though. Hope to think I'm getting better at not offering unsolicited advice, there's so much wrong with it for all involved. That, and, from a psychiatrist, if you are lying there awake and stressing about being awake at some ungodly hour, get up, move to another place in the house, do something not too exciting, like read a book, or knit, and as soon as you feel sleepy, however long it takes, go back to bed and try again. Q: Favourite fantasy landscape?	Posted by erdelyii#5604 on May 25, 2019, 10:53:30 PM Quote this Post
" erdelyii wrote: Q: Favourite fantasy landscape? Minas Tirith and everything around that beautiful castle. Q: What is your biggest regret in this life? Please don't mute me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <(°) FAKE TOUCANS, FAKE PRAYERS (°)> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Please don't mute me	Posted by Letmeliveeee#2334 on May 26, 2019, 2:37:43 AM Quote this Post
" Letmeliveeee wrote: Minas Tirith and everything around that beautiful castle. Really is beautiful, and the setting. Had a look just now at some images. Found this one, made me smile. Think it makes the real one seem even more defined, by contrast. " Letmeliveeee wrote: Q: What is your biggest regret in this life? Regrets are fuel for rumination. I'll explain a little more. Rumination is something I avoid indulging in too much. Indulging is not quite the best word there, but I guess for the most part, seeing it that way like a bad habit is helpful for me so as to not stay there too long. Aware that too much rumination, especially in stressful times, can snowball to depression of the kind where I am not functioning day to day. It's a habit I've learned not to ruminate too much on regrets especially, from small to large, so when things are bad, I don't go there to serious self-flagellation easily. So far so good, haven't had a big dip in a few years now. Lots of bumps and potholes, hell yeah. Besides, and tied to the above, regrets for reflection, yes, learning from mistakes, yes, but flat-out deep regrets, nope. Pull one thread of wish I'd really wish that regret and change it, I wouldn't be here right now, and those around me as a result wouldn't be either. Part of me would love to be living the life I could have had, could have gone so far with what I had, but that didn't happen for a bunch of reasons - there's no use seriously regretting anything. Holding onto regrets means you're stuck, too. For those who are still around, I try to do better when I regret how I've acted, and if not, gotta let it go. I haven't done anything that terrible, on balance; not like I've murdered, raped, or stolen someone's entire life savings. Don't think those things are all equal, but you get the gist, I'm not that important or big on anyone's life fuckery scale. Yep, recent insights have helped that bit there. Hopefully I'll have less things I could regret the further along I go. Regrets mean you've had a crack, taken a risk, had an interesting journey, hopefully. OK: Regrets are fuel for rumination, and rumination is a freight train on a one-way trip to the Slough of Despond. Not like I think about it all all that much, lol :p Q: Worst animal to be attacked and eaten by? Last edited by erdelyii#5604 on Jun 2, 2019, 9:21:16 AM	Posted by erdelyii#5604 on May 26, 2019, 6:18:53 AM Quote this Post
Q: Worst animal to be attacked and eaten by? No one thought of the animal most likely to play with its food, sometimes mercilessly for an extended period of time, before eating it? A distant second for me would be saltwater crocodile. I'd link a clip, but you can look it up if so inclined. And yes, silly question, it's all much of a muchness, they'd all be bad, bear, lion, Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog... Q: What do we need more of in video games? Pick a genre if this makes it easier to answer. Last edited by erdelyii#5604 on Jun 2, 2019, 9:26:38 AM	Posted by erdelyii#5604 on Jun 2, 2019, 9:24:50 AM Quote this Post