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Microsoft creates the Cube, an interactive virtual dance party using four Kinects

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We can dance if we want to
We can leave your real friends behind
'Cause your real friends don't dance and cuz they don't dance
They don't match these virtual ones of mine

 

Well, dance games are the one thing the Kinect actually does well...

 

Yeah about the only thing it doess well,

 

It is one of the most hilariously stupid things that has ever appeared on television screens in the entire history of the planet of Earth.

My wife watches strictly to make fun of it, and at multiple points throughout, I pulled my hair and shouted, "THIS IS A SHOW THAT EXISTS?!"

To call it fan fiction would be marring the concept of fan fiction.

It's the The Room of network television.

It is AMAZING.

 

Randomly ask GrandAdmiralJello about his opinion about something related to aristocracy time

-Do you think that the actions of Toph Beifong and her daughters are appropriate for ones of their heritage? In particular, is acting as a policewoman a dignified position for a noble, or utterly beneath them?

 

Signified position or no, who's going to try and tell Toph what she can and can't do.

 

Yeah I thought they blew his face off irl, what gives?

 

Eh, I enjoy it. It's the uniqueness of it all that I like. But this is coming from the mind of a writer, so of course I'm looking for things like that in the show. Personally, I think it's quite ingenious.

 

At least not with shoes on.

 

Thank you for the answer.


In other news, enjoy this video:

 

Pffffffuhhhhuhuheheheh... heheh... haha. You're the nicest guy, but I have to say na-nay-no on that, having written a novel myself.

Once Upon a Time is BAD. It's good-bad, but it's bad. It just is. It started as a show about fairy tales with laughably bad dialogue, and now it's just characters stepping directly out of Disney movies with laughably bad dialogue, and it all just seems like an enormous joke.

If you want to know why Once Upon a Time is bad, read Fables. The show started out as a pilot for Fables before it became its own thing, and... yeah. No. Yeah,

 

Well...agree to disagree, then. I think it's great.

 

While I agree with PC's general take on Once Upon a Time, I also have to agree with this sentiment. Comparing it to Fables is an apples-to-oranges comparison.

 

Did you ask him to change his ways?

 

But Star Wars wasn't originally conceived as a pilot for Star Trek. Once Upon a Time was conceived as a pilot for Fables. Once Upon a Time is the reason there is no Fables television progrum. I think that's pretty significant justification for comparison.

But apples weren't once oranges.

 

It's also just... you know... poorly written.

Look, don't get me wrong; I didn't believe in the term "guilty pleasure" before this show came along, because even all the so-bad-it's-good movies I enjoy, I do so without irony. But in this case, it was always intriguing to figure out who was going to turn out to be which fairy tale characters and see how they wove them together... and naturally, it had dialogue that just makes me hang my head in shame while laughing hysterically; there were literally THREE occasions where I was able to predict the line, "BUT WAIT! All magic has a price!"

But what was once a show about nuanced retellings of fairy tales has become a show wherein popular Disney characters literally step through portals and into this 1-hour dramatic television series. I'm sorry, but Rumplestiltskin and Belle (whose name was revealed to be "BELLE FRENCH") dancing TO THE SONG from the Disney movie is hilarious, and I would defy you to go back in time to before the show existed, decontextualize that thought, and not to laugh your royal ass off.

EDIT: But let's not do the whole, "Well, reason reason reason, so this is GOOD and not BAD!" thing. These are all opinions. None are superior. When I say it's bad, it means I think it's bad, just the same as when you say it's good, it means you think it's good. I'm sure we can all handle being told a thing we like is bad. This is the internet. We pretty much have to.

And yes, I can compare Fables and Once Upon a Time. They're both (would-be) shows about modern real-world interpretations of fairy tales. Step back a second... seriously, it would be ridiculous to suggest that those two things don't merit comparison. I'm not saying it changes anything, but I like one and dislike the other. I can compare them. It's OK. People can compare things.

 

So how is the Frozen stuff handled in it? If you ask me it's entirely too soon to act like it's a piece of folklore in the way other Disney princesses and fairy tales are. Even Star Wars characters would work better since they - especially villains - have become modern versions of fairy tale people and can be used without the burden of the original world. As long as Vader has a helmet, casual relationships with his underlings and a son he works as well as Cinderella with just the shoe and the pumpkins.

 

Oh hey it's my birthday or something. I'm 25 I guess.



Yay.

 

Happy birthday! Have fun if it's not awful.

 

Cynical_Ben Have a happy cynical birthday.

EDIT: I love the fact that you aren't cynical at all.