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Post by impulse on Jul 18, 2022 8:50:00 GMT -5
What's the conversion between an assload, a shitload, and a f***ton? Is there a difference between an Imperial and metric shit loads, or is it a universal term? Is a buttload the same as an assload?
I don't want to be hyperbolic in my correspondence, so it seems good to know the actual ratios.
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Post by impulse on Jul 15, 2022 13:51:43 GMT -5
Honey badgers in particular, if the memes are true.
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Post by impulse on Jul 13, 2022 10:15:02 GMT -5
I am not a fan of snakes, but spiders freaking CREEP me out. I know logically they are cool, they keep insect populations down, and the varieties that can harm humans are a miniscule proportion of total spiders. I know this in my mind.
But still.
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Post by impulse on Jul 12, 2022 16:40:52 GMT -5
I wouldn't argue best, but my favorite is probably Bitch. Just a fun, up tempo, swaggy rocker. Catchy as all hell, too.
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Post by impulse on Jul 7, 2022 20:32:19 GMT -5
I liked the footnotes, too. As a kid, it made everything feel weightier and more important. Oh, there's history here. And it must be important if they mentioned it here. It made it all seem that much more grandiose.
As far as exposition, I much prefer the summary page with a plot recap and bios of main cast instead of working it into dialogue every issue. It still respects the "every issue could be somebody's first" sensibility while not making the book clunky.
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Post by impulse on Jul 7, 2022 10:56:39 GMT -5
I think I mentioned a while ago that a buddy of mine wanted to practice making guitars, so he let me be a guinea pig. I am just paying for shipping and for the shop fees for last touches (Wiring, setup, etc). Not a bad deal for a custom guitar.
I love the feel of a Strat, but I play mostly metal and want that fat humbucker sound, so it's basically a white Stat body, aged off-white pick guard and nobs, a red wood neck with locking tuners and two humbuckers. It looks like it could have been used by a Motown group in the 60s but sounds like a monster. It's gorgeous and is in the shop now for final tweaks.
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Post by impulse on Jul 7, 2022 9:06:53 GMT -5
Oh, I think his classic work was good in the context of when it came out, even if it it's unwieldy now. His current stuff is painful, though. He mixes the dated style and vernacular with missed-by-a-mile attempts to update his slang. It reeks of someone trying to act like they are with it and being obviously off. It's worse than if he just did his own style to the best he can.
Claremont is much better at being Claremont than at trying to be someone else.
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Post by impulse on Jul 7, 2022 8:57:38 GMT -5
X-Men Forever convinced me that Claremont will produce nothing but absolute cowpies without a collaborator/editorial oversight to curb his worst proclivities. That one was particularly disappointing because the original concept was supposed to be "What if Claremont finished his run?" and pick up from where he left off. There was a not-insignificant following out there who wanted that as he had alluded to some of his ideas in various interviews or conversations and such. Based on the loose plot outlines I read, there was some interesting stuff. When it came time for the book, though, I remember reading Claremont say basically nuts to that, no old rehashed ideas, time for NEW IDEAS!! And then I was disappointed. I enjoyed his old ideas, but based on his recent string of books, new was not encouraging. Turned out to be a correct assessment.
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Post by impulse on Jul 7, 2022 8:53:57 GMT -5
Can't blame corporate for that dialogue, though...
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Post by impulse on Jul 6, 2022 14:45:29 GMT -5
I am happy for people who can enjoy pop culture movies without having to pick them apart. I sometimes wish I could turn off my inner snarky nerd more often. With some movies I can enjoy them on both levels, both as unreflecting entertainment and then again as objects of analysis. But with other movies, most of the entertainment value is to be found only in pickng them apart, they just aren't much fun as movies in themselves. Yes, I definitely take things less seriously than I used to, but the Pirates sequels in particular I couldn't because I found them so boring and bloated they weren't even entertainment to me.
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Post by impulse on Jul 6, 2022 11:14:56 GMT -5
I don't knock Phantom/Valiant or those who like it. I just could not get into it no matter how hard I tried, and I was mad a comic betrayed me by not being exciting (to me). I was lucky enough to start Prince Valiant at the beginning (not in 1937! I mean I started with the first reprint volume! ), when things were way more hectic than they would become later on and when Hal Foster would turn from a good cartoonist to a comic page god. I guess that must have played a role! Did you read the Hal Foster material or the John Cullen Murphy one? If it was in newspapers, it would probably be the latter... which I admit never interested me overmuch. The art was so-so, and the scripts rather tame. I was a kid, and it was the newspaper in likely the early 90s, so whatever that would be. This was way before I was into comic books enough to be aware of specific creators.
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Post by impulse on Jul 6, 2022 10:19:00 GMT -5
I don't knock Phantom/Valiant or those who like it. I just could not get into it no matter how hard I tried, and I was mad a comic betrayed me by not being exciting (to me).
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Post by impulse on Jul 6, 2022 10:15:36 GMT -5
I am happy for people who can enjoy pop culture movies without having to pick them apart. I sometimes wish I could turn off my inner snarky nerd more often.
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Post by impulse on Jul 6, 2022 8:58:15 GMT -5
I just wish someone else would write his dialogue and edit his plots. That made me laugh harder than I should have I see him a lot like I see George Lucas. He has good ideas, but man, does he need outside help to filter and refine them.
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Post by impulse on Jul 5, 2022 17:47:44 GMT -5
Even when I was a kid and into comics, I never liked the Phantom or Prince Valiant strips in the paper. As a comics kid, I felt obligated to try to read and enjoy them on principle, but I always found them aggressively dull and boring. I was annoyed at being let down a by comic.
I don't know why they never clicked for me.
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