Spaceghost Boooo (they/them)

Like land ownership or Costanza?

To be clear, I was very interested back then.

That would probably be similarly interesting to me now as the original was to me back then. 🤷‍♀️

So Peacemaker finale: pretty good? One too many extended montages, and… some things a bit abrupt that weren’t abrupt for the comedy or drama of the abruptness, just kind of felt like my dvd skipped, but overall a nice sorta sendoff. 🤷‍♀️ 👍

Fucking autocorrect! I changed worse to worst manually 3 times before I hit post, and yet…

Poppy is the best, but I don’t always have floss with me, so it’s more of a no-go than even the other small bits flavors like sesame seed.

Rye or pumpernickel. Cream cheese if it’s good and fresh, butter if it’s great butter.

There are very few actors who can dampen my interest in a project I might otherwise have some energy for: Jared Leto obviously, but Bradley Cooper for sure, Miles Teller, and a bunch of the “they’re the next big thing, I swear” guys of the 2000s and 2010s who I can’t tell apart.

You cannot possibly take anyone seriously who has only experienced the good stuff (or thinks they have). They have no frame of reference!

“If you don’t like it, don’t watch/read/listen” is the worse media appreciation advice. For one, sometimes you need to get through the full thing to appreciate it, but more importantly, just partaking in what you most like isn’t having a healthy media diet: you can rarely learn or grow that way.

screenshot from Star Trek Deep Space Nine featuring General Martok. The text says "If you're still alive, you're not struggling with depression. Depression is struggling with you."

screenshot from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Martok is speaking. the word box says "the battle against mental illness cannot be won decisively. it is a long campaign against an enemy who never tires, whose forces swell to twice their size whenever you look away. battle against a doe of such magnitude, who occupies your very mind... every moment you survive is a triumph against all odds. there is no more honorable combat."

Even Klingons know the value of Mental Health.

World Mental Health Awareness Day. 🖖🏻💚

I’m honestly at least as thrown off by “there he was, his full self” which is rarely a phrase I want to see.

Congratulations prominent supposedly left wing online person, you finally used alt text again for the first time in possibly months. No, we will not clap for you doing the bare minimum. Do better.

Meant to say top 10, but well, I have a hard time standing by that even hyperbolically and my fingers fucked up and saved me.

A top 19 filmmaker. I don’t always love or even like what he does, but he’s genuinely making movies. Even when they stray into advertising content, I have zero doubt yhat that he used his big art brain to create and fit it in exactly the way he wanted.

Good man!

Sees “going fully practical or at least pretending” as a sellable hype generator, not too different from when 90s movies would hype something as simple as the number of vfx shots (no mention of their quality).

But none of that makes either zero sum good or bad. “AI” on the other hand…

Indeed, most cg folks in the industry LOVE practical effects, love working with practical effects, love having them as reference or as a primary that they are simply expanding. (Compositors less so, at least for explosions etc) If anything, they’re the biggest practical champions, but the industry…

Barbie, Top Gun Maverick, at least one Mission Impossible, at least one Fast & Furious… those are just the ones off the top of my head that are kinda infamous (at least in some circles) for doing EXACTLY that.

But yeah, for sure.

The thing is, GDT is a tactile dude, but he’s far from anti-cg.

Yeah, those packs they sell at the grocery store, I had no idea that was meant to be for multiple servings. Plop that whole fucker on my bagel please and thank you. (Same with butter on a hard roll, to be fair)

I learned that Utopian Scholastic is a thing, and it smells like computer room with colorful iMAC G3s and these books specifically.

Case in point:

According to Variety, Guillermo del Toro refused to make Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets. I don't want digital. I don't want Al. I don't want simulation. I want old-fashioned craftsmanship. l want people painting, building, hammering, plastering.”

Not to “both-sides” this but I’ve already seen pro-practical folks say “it’ll be no cg” and pro-cg folks say “he’s lying” (at least everyone is unified in praising his anti-AI stance) but no, it’s better to build as much practically as you can… and then he’ll supplement that with a fuckton of CG. 🤷‍♀️

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

The market sadly does not bear a living wage in my industry. I would need to charge about triple what most will pay in order to put literally anything into retirement or… fun. I’ve heard of fun. Sigh.

Oh you’ve already lost the charging cable for them and you want 280 because the cable ”should only be about twenty bucks”?

Fuuuuuck off.

I’m sorry, that’s unfair—say you’ve got it all there, 200?

No fucking chance, mate. I don’t know you: it’s worth the extra hundred to be able to return it.

Investment might be the worst thing to ever happen. Choosing “well” / being lucky enough to have the resources to choose “well” painted as earnings from hard work. Fuck right off. Especially when it prioritizes short term selfish gains over (community or even just a company) longevity.

Yes, this should apply to housing as well.

Fuck your “investment” property.

Yes, yes, it’s more complicated… limitations imposed creates scarcity creates demand etc etc, but y’all… you lived in a new house, it is no longer new, I’ll be taking that out of the cost not adding it on.

I really don’t care how new and relatively unused your second-hand good is, you can’t charge more than half the cost of an unused new one (if new ones are available).

Oh, you bought 300USD headphones yesterday and you just don’t care for the color but otherwise they sound perfect etc: 150 max.

Is casting ever much based on resemblance? Sure, occasionally. And sometimes that works!

But… I 100% can see Andrew getting the call for this. Not because of resemblance at all, just seems like a call he’d get. And I’m pretty sure he’d like “hot priest” on his list of real people roles.

🤷‍♀️

This does not bode well for their comprehension of cbs which at its very best (when accounting for the Overton shift) has always been center-right but they see as left because it’s not Fox News and will now fundamentally be Fox News.