Varyk

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Varyk,

Ech, this is like macro tipping culture.

Bosses don’t want to pay workers fair wages, so the workers pass around alms.

Varyk,

Either that or Halloween or both.

I think you’re right.

Varyk,

To be fair, I just tried to get back into duolingo a few days ago and it is straight up bonkers trash now.

I learned many languages on it and I am incredibly disappointed that after I took a few years off traveling and came back, it is basically unusable at this point.

‘Alien: Romulus’: Ridley Scott Says Fede Álvarez’s Movie Is “F***ing Great” (deadline.com)

Of course he’s going to say that, but somehow this is the first I’ve heard that Fede Álvarez is directing an Alien movie. It’s hard to be optimistic about a new Alien announcement lately, but I’m hoping this gets a treatment similar to Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey. It’s also a Hulu release so we’ll see.

Varyk,

What do you mean? I’m not really aware of recent alien entries, have they been bad?

Varyk,

Yea, this is probably it.

I think the latter movies are actually too packed with lore, to the point it’s easy to lose the plot.

But there is a great yt channel, kroft talks about movies, Kroft Talks About Movies

that goes through the scripts, action sequences frame by frame, costume and design, what seems like designed inconsistencies in the set to hint at a consistent alien universe lore and taxonomy, It’s a very impressive analysis channel that has made me appreciate the both Prometheus and covenant much more.

Varyk,

Hahaha, I would not have seen a bulldog skeleton with a funny caption and immediately jumped to intentional plagiarism, but here we are.

Memes is memes is memes.

Varyk,

If you cheap, you poor. Embrace your friend!

Varyk,

I’m very curious about who Kevin is, there seems to be such a specific take on him that I haven’t come across in pop culture like I have with Picard or shatner or anybody else.

I have also never watched a single episode of any Star Trek series

Varyk,

Oh it’s no problem, thank you, I like being confused by the benign Star Trek memes here

Varyk, (edited )

Ukraine is in no way being forgotten, they were just sent another 200 billion after the Gaza war started.

That said, can someone ELI5 the skeleton conflict?

Varyk,

I pronounced thesaurus with the emphasis on the first syllable until I was like 14 and someone called me out because although I had read the word so many times, I couldn’t imagine that thesaurus would be described the same way as tyrannosaurus. That seemed ludicrous and wrong.

Varyk,

I’m not familiar with either of those incidents, can you elaborate?

Yes, I can’t imagine how many countless times mistranslations have occurred and audiences in one country think something means something it just doesn’t mean.

Varyk,

Oh yeah that’s very cool. So the line" I’ve lived tens of your lifetimes" is the subtitled translation?

Varyk,

Haha, oh awesome. Thanks.

I’ve only watched a couple episodes of pokémon and just a few clips of sailor Moon, but now I’ll have to dive into the American incestuous cousins, that’s pretty hilarious. “Don’t make them lesbians, just make them cousins that hook up. Americans understand that.”

Although I’m also surprised that Japanese anime had an openly gay couple. It seems like they give their artists broad license with respect to government and popular cultural sentiment , but it’s still such a conservative country, especially in terms of homosexuality, that I wouldn’t have thought Japanese networks would’ve allowed a lesbian couple to appear on popular anime.

Fan theories about racist caricatures in phantom menace do not hold water

I’m listening to blank check and they are harping on the racist aspects of the voice acting of nute gunray, watto and jarjar, but I unknowingly happened upon a long interview with the voice actor for jar jar a couple years ago, including the lead up to him getting the part and the character and voice development, and now it...

Varyk,

Discounting is the perfect word , as “accidental racism” lacks credibility as an argument to legitimize an attack on the characters and voice actors. None of the “racist” complaints have anything to do with race, but if you want them to be racist and you have the believies, you can make them so.

Importantly, you are ignoring that none of the fan complaints are about “accidental racism”, they are outraged by ostensibly conscious choices. They are assuming and acting upon the assumption these choices were made in bad faith. You’re changing the goalposts to “all racism is bad”, full stop. Which, yea, but nobody argued racism wasn’t “bad”.

Your arguments gel precisely with fan consensus: we don’t have much to say about a bland movie, so let’s complain about something we know everyone can get behind, regardless of its merit. At least we have a mob.

What is the phantom menace about and what is the understood nature of the prophecy of one who brings balance to the force?

I’m listening to blank check, and while they mention that 1) there’s a prophecy about bringing balance to the force which dovetails neatly into the answer of their main question 2) what is the phantom menace about?...

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