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Post by impulse on May 23, 2022 16:09:20 GMT -5
As far as making money, I agree that Disney is massively underutilizing its IP with regards to video games. That is a booming industry, and with the properties they own, people would throw money at good games.
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Post by impulse on May 23, 2022 14:30:59 GMT -5
I have no issues with people no longer being "with it." It annoys the bejeebus out of me when they do the exact same things that their parents and grandparents did when they were kids that annoyed them so very much and now think it's incredibly fresh and insightful. Your parents almost always hated your stuff when you were kids and it drove you nuts. Be better. 100%. I assure you I don't personally give a flying fart about the names of all the characters dating who on whatever Disney made-for-TV tween fantasy drama show of the moment has temporarily captured my daughter's eye, but she doesn't know that, and yes, I can name them.
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Post by impulse on May 23, 2022 10:44:56 GMT -5
If we're using relevant Simpsons references to hammer home the point, I think this nails it. And we are at the "It will happen to you" part. That's us.
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Post by impulse on May 20, 2022 15:29:43 GMT -5
I've always said the way the story is told visually (i.e. the art) is just as important as the story itself because in a visual medium there is no story without the visual storytelling-if you've ever rea da comic in script form, it's not a story, it's instructions for a story. I do believe story is paramount, but in comics the story doesn't exist without the art and is entirely reliant on the art for the story to be told. However, I see a lot of people disagree with me and claim the art is irrelevant to the story and the story itself is all that matters, but I rarely see those people adopt the same attitude when super-heroes transition to another medium, then it's all about how it looks (or how it looks and feels compared to a comic page, or how the costume isn't right, or how the skin color, hair color, or build of the actor isn't right, or... and they've judged the product without ever seeing what the story (which is allegedly paramount for their enjoyment) actually is and how its executed. Ironically I care less about the visuals in TV or film super-hero stories than I do about them on the comic page. Strong acting, directing or cinematography can make up for bad sfx or costuming or make me forget about differences in appearance between the on screen and on page versions of characters leaving the storytelling experience still satisfying, whereas I don't believe a good comic script can overcome a poorly executed visual narrative on the page to save the "story" and make it a positive storytelling experience. But to each their own. -M Yeah, I agree that comics by their nature require both the art and story to at least be competent. Folks can and will argue until the cows come home between which one can be better, whether good art can save a bad story or a good story can save bad art, etc. Everyone will have their own particular opinions and lines, but the art at least has to be good enough to convey what is happening. I can only think of a handful of times the art was so distractingly bad it negatively impacted my ability to enjoy the story to a major degree. I still don't know my Marvel signed off to publish some of those issues, but it was pretty rare.
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Post by impulse on May 20, 2022 14:41:14 GMT -5
It's pretty harsh to demand actors destroy their physical and mental health for our entertainment. We do the same thing to athletes. It's not okay when they do that, either. Sports fans can be really toxic. I guess any group of dedicated fans can be. It's easy to forget that "fan" is short for "fanatic." It's funny, the same comic fans who say comics are all about the story and the art is secondary as long as the story is good as the ones who seem to complain the most about the visuals of super-heroes in movies and TV. I guess story isn't supreme in visual mediums even though comics is a visual medium as well. -M I think this is one of those things we want to be true but just really isn't.
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Post by impulse on May 20, 2022 10:53:37 GMT -5
It's pretty harsh to demand actors destroy their physical and mental health for our entertainment.
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Post by impulse on May 19, 2022 15:04:13 GMT -5
Could they have just painted a female body builder green and called it a day? Sure. But would that hypothetical female body builder have been able to convey the nuances of the performance that they required to tell the story they wanted to bring to the screen? It may be stereotyping to say that body builders don't tend to be the greatest actors, but that's the world we live in. If male actors can bulk up for these types of roles, there's no reason a female actor can't do the same. I do understand we live in a world where women are expected to meet certain narrow, outmoded, and frankly stupid beauty standards, but that's all the more reason to start bucking the trend. They can certainly find an actress who will bulk up, but I don't think they could get around her not being 7 feet tall quite as easily.
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Post by impulse on May 19, 2022 13:58:04 GMT -5
They often use unfinished CGI in commercials and trailers as they continue to work until the release date. It's quite possible it will look better by the time it airs.
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Post by impulse on May 19, 2022 8:46:49 GMT -5
I'm reminded of the saying "No one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans."
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Post by impulse on May 18, 2022 12:51:34 GMT -5
I needed some more coffee after picking up my son from preschool today. He was pretty upset because it was his last day of the school year. We happen to not be too far from Krispy Kreme. They sell coffee...hmmm...
How did I gain 20 pounds since I moved here??
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Post by impulse on May 17, 2022 10:23:32 GMT -5
Not a huge IPA fan myself, that ship has sailed, but brewers continue to try to out-hop each other for some reason in some ongoing uber-hoppy pissing match.
I tend to go for heavier porters, stouts and Scottish ales though... an exception to this is that during the summer I lean toward German hefeweizen and alt styles, and the occasional sour style beer. Neither flagship Budweiser nor Coors products have passed my lips in over 25 years. When I "slum" on beer, it's Miller High Life or nothing. I find it to be the most palatable of the traditional American domestic mega-brewery options-- still that's not saying much. And the less said about PBR, the better.
Right, not to say IPA is all that's around, but it seems the over-hopping pissing contest coincided the rise and ubiquity of IPAs, and I've had my fill of both. Guinness is my default. I do enjoy milk stouts and Scottish ales, but they're a bit heavy for regular use for me. Still looking for a suitable lighter option. I stopped buying my favorite American flagship beer for personal reasons* and haven't found a replacement. Bud Light is tolerable if it's the only thing around or all they have on draft are 15% IPAs from a shack in Portland or something. I am still looking for a good American Lager. Maybe that is an oxymoron. Hefeweizen are nice and pretty close, but a bit thicker and on the sweeter side. Even when I was a broke college student I had my standards. The lowest I could stomach was Miller Lite. *I take issue with some of the owner/company's non-beer related activities and don't want to support them.Craft beer, in my opinion, ruined a lot of beers. I have a friend that is a connoisseur of craft beer and of the over dozen beers I tried, I've only liked one. And I probably won't ever buy it as it's too expensive to justify. I'll stick with the people that have been brewing their beers over hundreds of years rather than some dude in his garage. I know that makes me sound like an elitist but I like what I like. Nothing wrong with that, like what you like. The good thing about the craft movement is there is a ton more variety to find what you like than there was before. Granted, most of it is hopped to death, but not all.
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Post by impulse on May 17, 2022 10:12:20 GMT -5
I could see an argument for offering both a "legacy" version and a "remaster" to try and offer different things to different people. You must be in marketing I've been clean on that front for over a decade, actually. But seriously, preservationists and folks like us who would appreciate the original experience would probably flock to faithful scans or photos of the originals, but I can certainly understand people interested in reading the stories with a more modern or at least "cleaner" presentation. Dusting off the marketing hat for a moment, now I am imagining a "Deluxe Remastered Creators' Edition" of a book including super crisp refreshed art, notes and interviews from the creators still living, copies of original scans or pencil pages in the back where applicable, etc. They could charge $200 for it, stick it in an oversized hardcover binding and all.
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Post by impulse on May 17, 2022 9:06:13 GMT -5
To be slightly contrarian, I dumped on light beer for years as you do, and I got into craft stuff. After a decade or so of that, I am just worn out on IPAs and blatant hops in everything. It's been overdone. At an event, I ended up with a light beer of some kind for the first time in a while, and it was surprisingly refreshing. Rather than being sour water like I remembered, it was mildly sweet kind of like bread dough and pretty nice. I was surprised myself.
Not saying I'm stocking my fridge with Bud Lite these days, but it's not as awful as I remembered.
And I am still sick of IPAs.
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Post by impulse on May 17, 2022 9:03:01 GMT -5
I could see an argument for offering both a "legacy" version and a "remaster" to try and offer different things to different people.
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Post by impulse on May 16, 2022 9:26:28 GMT -5
I’ll pass on grade-school yellow mustard. But I’m super good with Chinese hot mustard, brown mustard, honey mustard, stone ground. Garlic is the food of the gods. Mayo is fine in it’s place…which is mostly sammiches. Y’all are a bunch of picky eaters. This man speaks truth and wisdom. I am dismay(o)ed at the anti-condiment propaganda in this thread! I even like yellow mustard in its place, which is on top of a hot dog from a food cart along with ketchup, onions and relish. Garlic, beer and coffee are God's gift to us and proof that he loves us. There is a garlic themed restaurant in LA (and maybe elsewhere, but at least there) where everything on the menu revolves around garlic. One of the appetizers was a bowl full of garlic cloves swimming in butter and olive oil baked until it is smooth and spreadable like butter and served with fancy bread. I still think about that meal over a decade later. So good. I find a thin layer of mayo on a sandwich smooths it out enough that it's not dry and is pleasant. Mayo is also a good base for my cajun seasoning blend. When I was a kid, the mustard options were: - yellow - brown Then some clever ad people made that commercial with the two Rolls-Royces - "pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?" And Americans discovered Dijon mustard. And now mustards take up most of an aisle at the supermarket. There's been a similar proliferation of apple varieties. Used to be Red Delicious and maybe Golden Delicious. Now I can't keep track of them all. This is spot-on. It may just not have been on my radar, but this is where I recall mainstream American culture becoming aware of fancy mustard. And by fancy. I mean more than yellow or brown. Similar thing to what happened with beer after the craft scene caught on.
Otherwise, I can't believe this conversation: bananas are fine, mayo is fine, mustard is more than fine (given all of the varieties). Don't like garlic? Are you even human? Just come right out and say you don't enjoy eating...
What he said! Interesting thing I just read about bananas. Apparently they are basically genetically unchanged since the last ice age and have been propagated by grafting/cloning. So the bananas we eat are the same as were around 10,000 years ago, aside from one major variety that was basically wiped out. I find this fascinating that humans were able to not only figure this out and scale it 10,000 years ago, but seeing people in a professional environment now, I am shocked we haven't screwed it up yet. Then again, there is a disease that is threatening to eradicate them, so time might be catching up to them.
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