JowlesMcGee

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[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social -1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Just because it's a sequel doesn't mean it's derivative. All 5 movies are directed by the same guy. I can't speak for the first 3, but if you saw the 2015 movie and couldn't tell that it was a passion project, then I don't know what to tell you. We don't call Sherlock Holmes soulless even though Doyle wrote over 50 short stories starring Holmes.

It's entirely possible for someone to be creatively invested in a world they've built and want to keep exploring it in future works.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social -2 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I agree to a point, but Mad Max is an example of something original that seems to have come from a place of creativity instead of a committee and yet is still doing poorly.

So I don't think it's just that Hollywood has a tendency to do remakes instead of original stuff.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Expect to see memes about it too in other communities. This'll be the front page of most fediverse instances in some fashion for the rest of the day I imagine

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you wish to enter Hades, you know the price that must be paid.

Bacon, fresh.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'd be down for that. I love dogs

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To be more specific, kbin doesn't federate downvotes, or at least doesn't import downvotes from outside an instance. Not sure if it sends any downvotes generated here back out, but any downvotes you see here are from other kbin.social users

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller would fit the hard mode here, for those interested.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

Won't fit the hard mode, but Charles Sheffield's Tomorrow and Tomorrow was an interesting read. The first third wasn't really my thing, but after that the book goes way far into the future.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This seems really fun, thanks for organizing this! I don't know if I read fast enough to fill in more than a few squares, but should be a fun challenge all the same.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I've only seen a few episodes of TNG, but mine is Q is lame and unenjoyable. Maybe he gets better as the show goes on, but having the first episode involve him was a bad decision.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 14 points 6 months ago

A sad day for both England, and the world.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm still slowly making my way through the second Gears of War book. They aren't exactly the pinnacle of literature, but I'm finding them better written than I was expecting. Karen Travis does a good job at fleshing out characters the games kind of sideline.

After I finish this one (whenever that will be) I'll likely try and start Hyperion again. For some reason I just haven't stuck with it

 

Howdy,

For awhile now (possibly even since I started using kbin in June) I've run into an issue where if I stay on a page for too long and then try and upvote something,I instead get taken to an error page. If I then go back to the page I was just on, refresh the page, and then upvote the comment/post it'll usually work. Sometimes the error shows up after staying on the page for 10+ minutes, sometimes it can happen after being there for just a minute.

Is this a known bug? It happens to me on both mobile and PC (both using Firefox).

 
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