southsamurai

Yeah. On average, I usually run into a lot less snark and douchebaggery over differing opinions. When it does pop up it's usually over hot button issues where you expect heated responses.

Tbh, even the initial few bad responses here weren't as bad as what I'd see on reddit, but it was just really shocking, especially over a tv show.

I'm used to having disagreements be respectful and thoughtful most of the time, and not just be dismissive. Not that it's always like that, I'm guilty of going too far on some things myself. I just have way more disagreements end with a friendly note.

Because democrats have been pounding that pulpit so long that the bulk of their voting base has bought into it. So they have to keep at it, no matter what.

Which is why a two party system is bullshit

Ain't that the truth!

If you got him talking about his art, you could end up in these long, deep conversations with him, and he was always just so damn nice.

I wish like hell the account I talked to him on the most didn't get nuked during the protests. I can't go back and revisit those conversations now.

The guy was just well rounded, smart, and as you said very down to earth.

It wouldn't be accurate to call him a friend, but I liked him a lot. Like, if he had figured out where I live and had knocked on my door, I would have invited him in; there's family members I don't let in my door, and I'm paranoid as hell about strangers showing up uninvited.

I'm gonna argue with the title.

Obsolete means no longer of use, in a general sense.

Just because people don't know that the tool is there, or don't know how to apply it, doesn't mean it's obsolete. Hyphenation still has its original utility, it helps communicate in writing what is evident in speech.

I get what they mean, but the title is not accurate to the rest of the article, imo.

I'm actually okay with changes, when they don't mess up the "spirit" of the characters, and don't totally blow apart a plot

But, yeah, Stillwell, that's such a horrible choice to kill him off at all, much less that way. I had quit watching, but you pick up bits and pieces anyway, and hearing that had made me glad I had already stopped

I mean, you're welcome to that opinion, but it still isn't the same thing I'm talking about because what I'm saying is that it doesn't matter how good or bad either version is at all.

See, when a production company buys or options an IP, they aren't doing it blind. They're partially paying for the established fan base.

Once you step far enough away from what made those people fans in the first place, again regardless of quality, the less value that IP still has because it isn't the same thing at all.

I get it, you don't like Ennis as a writer at all, no big. I think he's kinda mid overall, an idea man with meh to poor execution over the run of most of his arcs. He's bad at taking established characters and writing them, but his own are consistent. Yes, consistently hammy and overwrought, but that's actually harder than it seems.

But, again, that has nothing to do with the concept of adapting an established property and scrubbing it being shitty. Doesn't matter how well you do it, it's a waste.

Those writers for the show could have come up with some kind of show on their own instead of being given the sorry job of retreading someone else's work. It doesn't matter if the end result was fight club or queen of the damned, once you start abandoning core pieces of the work, you're wasting resources, and insulting the people you're counting on to be your initial audience.

It's like the live action disney shit. The same time, effort, and money could have gone into something original. But, in this case, the production company started with something they didn't already own.

Which is not the point.

The point is that they wasted money on the source material when they could have just done their own thing instead.

I don't, because it would require a trip to the hospital. Ain't allergies fun?

But they're not exactly easy to digest anyway, and how they're cooked matters to the people I know that do eat them

Jokes are the original funny meme

Why didn't the toilet paper cross the road?

!because it was stuck in the crack!<

I picked that joke up on reddit years ago. I've told it to every single person I know because it's a perfect joke. Now, many of those people tell it. Some of those people tell it too.

That's a meme.

Infintevalence pretty much nailed it

We're country as fuck up here. Not a small town any more, but still more rural than suburban.

While we're in driving distance of a good hospital, it's a drive, not something in town. There's just not enough people to keep a hospital in use often enough to make it reasonable in a capitalist system at all, but even in an ideal, post scarcity system, the resources to build and run hospitals are going to be best located where the most people can benefit from it.

And pretty much everything scales the same. Why locate a big university in a town with maybe 10k people if you include outlying areas? To support that kind of endeavor, you'd need more people to do the work, so the town would get bigger because of the large undertaking.

It's a balance. If you want to have bigger centralized services, you need more people to make it work. And, if you don't already have the population, attracting bigger things is harder, so the chances of things like public transit, resource intensive facilities, exotic supplies/foods coming there are lower.

It results in people that value the benefits of a smaller population center over the usual benefits of a bigger center being the only ones that'll move out

Yeah, I'm a little too far away to do much with those. Disability is a hindrance to a lot of things. I'm stuck playing support instead of DPS.

Eh, I'm not talking about the quality of the show or comics.

Ennis is pretty well known for having neat ideas and then pissing all over them with hack dialogue and over doing shock scenes. So it wouldn't be hard at all to improve that kind of stuff. And the show had incredible production value, with vastly improved dialogue overall.

But one of the things that way too many adaptations get wrong is fucking with the characters. Butcher, his whole story is his drive to fuck every super in the ass (metaphorically) because of what happened to his wife.

Then, they undid that entire idea at the end of the first season, but kept trying to make Butcher the same guy, with the same behaviors. That's a complete failure to make use of the best parts of what Ennis wrote. The characters, and the core ideas, that's what Ennis is good at.

They had already kinda shifted Huey a good bit via making him american, but they kept his motivation, the core of him. Then they just said "fuck it" and basically mangled Butcher's entire arc.

Like, why bother paying for the rights if you're not going to use the good parts of it?

Same thing happened with Preacher. They dumped a ton of money and time into making a slick, well crafted show, but completely undid the characters motivations and personalities in a single scene.

Ennis may be a hack, but fuck, just do something original if you aren't going to really adapt what matters most.