Thanks, Hil.
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
'Get It Done'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Nov 17, 2012 9:24:24 am PST #1279 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2012 9:28:00 am PST #1280 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What do you consider to be the most important things you can do in a muffin recipe to make it have a good crumb? It's not supposed to be too cakey, but the ones I've been making so far are denser than I like them. Randomly, the last ones I had from the place near work were the *best* I've had from there. I really want to know who their baker is.
Anyway, on my next go, I'm going to try baking soda as well as powder for leavening and hoping that opens it up a bit. Anything else?
Cute vid splicing many movies to make a trailer for Gotham High: [link]
Jesse - Nov 17, 2012 9:35:50 am PST #1281 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
When someone writes an ad that says "Why is it that complex pieces of technology come with equally complex instructions?"
Creepily, that ad came on exactly as I was reading that sentence.
Why can we dream of fighting a war against sentient robots we created so much more easily than we can dream of two black people and someone in a wheelchair on the team?
I only thought of this general thing recently, but really: why is realism ever a consideration? What on tv/film is actually realistic? Nothing, is what.
smonster - Nov 17, 2012 9:43:37 am PST #1282 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
To paraphrase Dana, AUGH RUGBY.
I only thought of this general thing recently, but really: why is realism ever a consideration? What on tv/film is actually realistic? Nothing, is what.
This is why I have little to no patience for antiquated gender bullshit.
Consuela - Nov 17, 2012 9:54:13 am PST #1283 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
We just spent $800 on furniture at Ikea...
-t - Nov 17, 2012 10:02:24 am PST #1284 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I only thought of this general thing recently, but really: why is realism ever a consideration? What on tv/film is actually realistic? Nothing, is what.
Well, I require some aspect (probably a set of aspects that must exceed some threshold number, really) to have plausible enough realism that I care what happens. That people really would behave like that, or talk like that, or those streets really intersect, or that's actually how physics works, something. But how much realism and in what aspects can vary a whole lot just for me, and I imagine other people have entirely different demands. So it isn't really a hittable target.
Scrappy - Nov 17, 2012 10:11:16 am PST #1285 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ooh, Consuela, for your parents' new digs?
Steph L. - Nov 17, 2012 10:17:28 am PST #1286 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I'd probably go with silken tofu.
Speaking of which, Trader Joe's has silken tofu now, the shelf-stable kind like Mori-Nu (but with some Trader Joe's name). I'm thrilled because I need it to make a corn casserole dish for Thanksgiving.
Jesse - Nov 17, 2012 10:30:28 am PST #1287 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That people really would behave like that, or talk like that, or those streets really intersect, or that's actually how physics works, something. But how much realism and in what aspects can vary a whole lot just for me, and I imagine other people have entirely different demands.
Sure -- because I know I've enjoyed stuff where none of those things were true, but probably not all at once.
-t - Nov 17, 2012 10:46:16 am PST #1288 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Right - there needs to be something I can recognize, I think, but if there's nothing new, then why would I bother? So I like a mix.
Eta: although for me the "realism" doesn't have to reflect actual reality so much as be believable. So, for demographics, since most people overestimate minority populations, probably minorities should be over-represented in casting to increase plausibility.