Given that you think Putin is promising people immortality, I doubt it.
Given that you think Putin is promising people immortality, I doubt it.
I’m not entirely certain you’re thinking straight. You’re coming off a little unhinged.
Age and maturity are not the same thing.
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
Yeah, in a nutshell…
It is, but teenagers and the emotionally stunted fall into it so they can feel superior.
It’s basically a diet conspiracy theory. It lets adherents think they’re special and have figured something out that regular people didn’t. That’s a lot more comforting than realizing they’re just regular people because they aren’t mature enough to see obscurity as a good thing.
Nothing is stopping them from doing it, which is why when the cops get a report of someone pointing a gun at people they have no choice but to assume it’s real (unless it’s obviously shaped like a super soaker). If the person training their gun-shaped object on passersby points the gun at the cops they usually get shot because the cops aren’t willing to bet their life that it’s not some asshole who put orange acrylic paint on the tip of a real gun.
There are some hobbyists that paint their guns to look like a Nerf gun or a Nintendo gun controller. The general consensus is “it would be stupid to take this out anywhere other than the range”. This is much less common than the opposite: toy or pellet guns that look very realistic.
I heard about her video on fucking NPR. Seriously.
All Things Considered did a little piece talking about how long form video essays are becoming more popular, but they concluded by saying that she did a bang-up job and had some good insights.
It’s not a standing ovation, but having NPR run a story on your video and compliment your coverage is pretty damn skippy.
Here’s a joke for you: A man is ROWING down a RIVER. He gets to the waterfall, and when the goes over the edge he yells “RADIO!!!”
So did I just disrespect you and waste your time, or do I get a pass because it’s so random and it subverts your expectations of how a joke could be structured?
Being weird, or quirky, or SuBveRtInG eXpEcTatiONs doesn’t give anybody a pass for their creations not working on a basic level.
Yeah, and there would have been a bunch of punchlines throughout.
Storytelling of any kind is about setups and payoffs. The comic has two actual, decent setups and zero payoffs. In fact all of the praise for the comic comes from people (including you) who explicitly said what made them laugh was what they "imagined*.
It’s the creator’s job to actually provide a good payoff at the end. Yes, threads can be left hanging. Yes, things can be left to the imagination. But in this case specifically both of those strategies are abused to the point that the only way this comic is even passable is if readers are extremely charitable and provide their own ending.
Yeah, I’ve seen all of Flying Circus and all of their movies.
Monty Python did absurdist stuff, but they didn’t violate core principles of timing and surprise. Jokes recurred or dragged at times without overstaying their welcome.
A piece of absurdist humor still needs to be humorous. Being weird doesn’t absolve something from being boring or pointless.
Yep, it’s definitely that and not the fact that this is a dogshit comic.
Nosiree.
The core of humor is doing something unexpected. “Willy Wonka makes turnips” is unexpected. The same is true with “Charlie doesn’t like what Willy Wonka makes”.
The problem is that both of those things are telegraphed really early, thus defusing any surprise they could have delivered. By the last frame we expect Charlie to have a bad time at Willy Wonka’s factory, and he does.
This comic is making animal noises into a microphone and Chuck Berry wants to slap the shit out of it.
“Subverting expectations” is like jazz.
A good jazz musician knows the rules of music. They choose which ones to bend and which ones to break. When a couple of rules are broken here and there it’s pleasurable and exciting.
When too many rules are broken, it’s Yoko Ono.
No, fuck that! We spent twenty years nation building there and the first time they needed to stand up on their own the ANA folded up and ran.
They weren’t willing to do the bare minimum to avoid Taliban rule. It’s not our fault they were too stupid to see the consequences when they rolled over and let the fucking cavemen take over.
Sounds like something a squirrel fighter would say.
It’s technically possible to do that after committing any crime, but under super specific circumstances and it’s a far cry from a “get out of jail free” card.
If you’re legitimately, actually insane when you commit a crime you’ll get sent to a mental hospital instead of prison. The catch is that the hospital will only release you if you’re mentally healthy. That can mean that a person who uses the insanity plea may spend more time in the hospital than they would have in prison.
You’re on .ml viewing a post on .world.
So for those who don’t know, “waste paper” had a very different meaning in the past.
Back before wood pulp, paper was super expensive. Like so expensive you’d fold your letter up and seal that rather than use an envelope. If you had to jot down a note, like a shopping list before going into town you’d cut it off of a larger piece of paper to save money. Seriously, a lot of historic documents are weirdly small because they were being cut down from the standard sizes.
The exception to this was “waste paper”. It was small scraps that were offcuts from the paper mill. These would frequently be bound into small, affordable books that could be carried in a pocket. These were ideal for small, mundane writing like notes and lists.
This shop is advertising that they carry these small books.
Proof that if a system or technology exists, nerds will try to run Doom on it.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Lemmy is an anus of a platform filled with lunatics.