Lit Apropos of Nothing - ACKBAR IN CAPITALS - The Lit Forum Social Thread, v2.0.15

I once walked past Prince Charles without even the most cursory nod of respect.

Come at me, Jello.

 

Man, AFS, way to bury the lede.



Look, we can learn to code with Anna and Elsa!

Also models.

 

We had a day at school last year around using that. (My school goes from pre-K to high-school Senior year)

 

Apropos of nothing (except eating cheese atm)...

Apart from Shira Brie, are there any other Star Wars characters named after cheese?
(A Darth Cheddar would make my day.)

And while we're at it...
What is the best cheese to hide a horse with?

Spoiler

Mascarpone.

 

I had already written an enthusiastic comment of how I would have liked to learn code with Elsa and Anna, but then I remembered how the programming learning products (named Raippa) our courses use are not that great. They can point out that your result doesn't match but there's only so much a program can do to teach you what you did wrong and correct it. That's why one guild sells "**** Raippa" marks and every year hordes of freshmen stitch them in their overalls.
So what I'm saying is that I don't want to see "**** Elsa" marks everywhere in parties.

 

Something about Frozen? Quick! To the GrandAdmiralJello signal!

 

It must've been refreshing to have someone listen to him for once.

 

I remember teaching myself the internal scripting language for Jedi Knight/Mysteries of the Sith back in the day, at like 10 years old. It was around the time Outlaw Star was on Toonami and I was really into it, so I modded all the weapons into caster shells, including one that shot a homing spirit dragon thing, with a segmented trail and everything (which I think I must have carved in the free model editor people made for that game). It baffles me how I did all that... kids can pick up that stuff like any other language, and it was so much easier to make stuff back then with those crappier graphics.

My problem was, every time I'd want to undertake something, my parents would warn me about how much work it was going to be. Hey, thanks guys! That's why I can't finish a project to save my damn life!

 

I hate the M1. That is all.

 

Wow, North Korea... Wow.

Threaten American values all you want---nobody really gives a crap---but you take away their Seth Rogen? Them's fightin' words for the general American public...

To say the least, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

 

Hahahaha... I suppose my post on Facebook made it clearer, as I censored myself a bit here. It wasn't sarcasm... I'm genuinely talking about the misconception by totalitarian states that we actually believe some sort of united set of truths here---we don't. And that's the point; make a philosophical diss on the US and nobody gives a damn (as they shouldn't, really; it's a mark of diversity)... but start taking away their movies? Oooooooooh boy.

 

Eh, I'm a sucker for Franco, as I often find myself an audience member in the grand theater of general acts of human absurdity... and I have to say, Observe & Report is one of the most underrated comedies of all time.

That said, this development will probably prove to be far more interesting than the movie itself ever could.

 

People very much thought it was a marketing stunt until this week or so.

 

Why didn't Hitler pull this stunt when Chaplin made The Great Dictator?

 

It's an interesting comparison, but it would have been hella difficult. Nazis got a few men onto American soil via sub with Operation Pastorius, but that was it.

 

(sarcasm, bro, sarcasm!)

 

Heh, I've seen that comparison made without sarcasm many times now.

But it is a weird thing to think about, how the technology invented to make things manageable and increase security eventually evolved into technology which pushes everything beyond manageability.

But I've been watching Black Mirror, so...