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The Amazing Devil performed live and I couldn’t be there because they’re in fucking Wales which is just Too Far and also, more importantly, their tickets sold out. Fml. Whoever took videos and posted them on YouTube thank you from the bottom of my very jealous heart.
Trying to figure out why the Hawaii 5-0 reboot (I haven't watched the original so I don't have an opinion on it ) feels so much better written than 911. At least in terms of character developments. Like they both have the same amount of time and it's frying my mind why Hawaii 5 0 feels more complex and actually is able to have continuity and nods to previous things in past arcs but 911 writers are incapable of doing the same
Like it's the same amount of tv time lmao
TO PREFACE I have only watched half the seasons of both but here’s my thus half formed thoughts. I feel like 911 uses crazy shit to draw people’s attention, like tsunami and earthquake, and they feel very one off. They also have a lot more “central characters” compared to h50, which only has 4. And even then the main focus seems to only be on Danny and Steve so it’s very anchored. On the other hand 911 has a bunch of characters and seems to alternate between who the focus is on. That’s just my thoughts tho maybe I’m wrong bc I haven’t watched either in a hot sec haha
I actually think u are very right. And that Tim wraps things so quick and is lazy about shit
Yeah and also H50 has ongoing story lines through the season that’s not just like relationship drama between characters. Like how Steve’s story line is anchored w/ his beef with Wo Fat and Danny with trying to get custody of Grace and all that. I do wish we got to see more about Chin and Kono w their own big storylines tho. But again idk maybe I just forgot
Also why is this marked as mature lmao
ORV manhwa season 1 officially ended at chapter 311. WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS ONLY SEASON ONE IT 6 YEARS SINCE IT STARTED
Can we stop with the character development. Where's my beach episode.
Trying to figure out why the Hawaii 5-0 reboot (I haven't watched the original so I don't have an opinion on it ) feels so much better written than 911. At least in terms of character developments. Like they both have the same amount of time and it's frying my mind why Hawaii 5 0 feels more complex and actually is able to have continuity and nods to previous things in past arcs but 911 writers are incapable of doing the same
Like it's the same amount of tv time lmao
TO PREFACE I have only watched half the seasons of both but here’s my thus half formed thoughts. I feel like 911 uses crazy shit to draw people’s attention, like tsunami and earthquake, and they feel very one off. They also have a lot more “central characters” compared to h50, which only has 4. And even then the main focus seems to only be on Danny and Steve so it’s very anchored. On the other hand 911 has a bunch of characters and seems to alternate between who the focus is on. That’s just my thoughts tho maybe I’m wrong bc I haven’t watched either in a hot sec haha
huge fan of reading and learning, but also an even bigger fan of sleeping and being unconscious.
Gemini had the fucking GALL to get in my email and summarize a 3-line email, taking up more space than the email did visually.
Hit the “thumbs down.” It’s like, what’s wrong??? Was our summary wrong? Were there offensive words? Thank you for helping us improve our AI tools :)
I selected “other.”
Text box popped up. Please elaborate!
Wrote in “I can fucking read” submit comment
Then had to spend several minutes torching all my settings with a flamethrower. Let me be clear: I’m (a lawyer) notoriously picky with my words FOR GOOD REASON (lawyering) so I overwhelmingly reject Gmail’s “helpful” little assistance. My privacy settings were set to “full paranoia” a little less than a year ago when I saw the writing on the wall and knew public defenders could become a target in the future. Better to lock it all down now.
Gemini had crept in there and turned ALL that shit back on. And showed itself by saying “Jane Doe says she’s so sorry for your loss and offers to reschedule for Thursday at 3” over an email from Jane Doe saying “I’m so sorry for your loss. We could reschedule for Thursday at 3?”
Why would I possibly need this. In what universe would I need this. I have eyes and a brain and a reading speed that twenty years ago was measured at 1500 wpm with full comprehension on dense scientific text. Furthermore! If I read a summary, I’m not reading what they actually wrote. If I’m not reading what they actually wrote, I’m not using my own judgment on the words and phrases that they used.
I literally don’t understand why this is helpful at all. This is just avoidance. Using LLMs to write is specifically Not Writing. Using LLMs to summarize is Not Reading. Using them to make art is Avoiding Making Art. Just READ! Just WRITE! I was not put on this fucking planet to not read and not write and not make art! Avoidance is an anxiety symptom and indulging it gives it more power.
If I had an AI to do my most dreaded task, answer the phone for clients, I wouldn’t use it. Because an AI cannot help them. An AI cannot hear the facts of their case, make appropriate noises, be thoughtful and insightful, and then give them a realistic estimate of what could happen in court. I am unique. I cannot be replaced by machine learning. I have style. I have expertise. I don’t hallucinate unless I’m having a really great Friday night and I’m off the clock.
When I need to outsource tasks from my own brain, I give them to people I know can do them and that I trust to do them right.
Fuck, it just sneaks up on you, doesn’t it?? Goddamn Gemini jumpscare right in my own fucking email
The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.
And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and
Me, accumulating worldly possessions: this is awesome!
Me, moving worldly possessions: this blows!
What to do, what to think?
Is it just me or does Henry and Hans’s first interactions kind of remind me of Merlin and Arthur? 🤔
i've been here and saying this same shit for over a decade but neal caffrey's internal conflict continues to be so immensely compelling to me. a life of crime or reform. the thrill of the con or the security of a peaceful life. this conflict propels the entire show and it would completely fall apart and lose traction if he were able to pick a side.
mozzie and peter are obviously their own character's but they also represent the two warring sides of him really well — a rebellious criminal vs the more typical american dream life that neal talks about wanting with kate: a permanent home, a happy marriage, a kid, a secure and peaceful life — this ideal he probably barely even remembers living when he was two, three years old before things fell apart.
the thing is that he so so badly wants both of these lives at the same time. at one peter tells him "you can either be a con or a man, you can't be both" and even though it's just a passing line, it ups the stakes on this internal conflict by almost framing it as a life or death thing — you can be one of these things. if you choose to be a con you cannot have a life as a man.
that kind of pressure? especially in the context we see in the show — a corrupt system that repeatedly abuses neal's circumstances? and like, i love peter desperately, don't get me wrong, but he frequently "allows" and sometimes even encourages neal to bend the rules, and takes advantage of the fact that neal is a conman in order to get what they need to close cases and put other people away.
and on the flip-side, his longest friend and confidant and partner in crime, is always trying to pull him back in, telling him the peaceful picket fence life isn't for him, that he's not built for it. that they're criminals and its what they're good at and the life they've dreamed of is at their fingertips, that he's lying to himself if he tries to leave it behind. to him, the con is the idealized life, and being a criminal isn't a shameful thing in any way like it is to peter or any one else in the show. to him, neal is betraying himself and everything they've done together if he abandons the con.
so he's posed with this unspoken problem: you can either be a con or a man, but not both, but your worth is implicitly tied to your criminal abilities, and you're constantly reminded by everyone around you that you are and always will be a criminal. so how can he be anything else? its a brutal situation to be in.
that's not even touching on the issues of justice and freedom which. oh boy. i could write another essay on each of those — he is such a valuable asset to the fbi and the way they keep treating him as a criminal to keep him on that leash to serve them...
anyway. that's my short essay on neal's internal conflict. i could probably write another 10k words on it but i will restrain myself
I think it's interesting looking at the relationships on AO3 for the White Collar fandom. The show has two lead characters, Peter and Neal, who solve crime together and the focus of the show is on the close friendship between them as they figure out the case of the week.
So the top relationship is Peter & Neal with 2874 fics (& not /). Perfectly understandable and expected given the subject matter of the show.
Now I would expect the next relationship to be Peter/Neal. From every other fandom in existence that features two really close guys as partners at the heart of the show, I would expect that to take the second place spot, but it doesn't. Peter/Neal takes third place with 1760 fics.
Just nipping in above it with 1776 is Peter/Elizabeth, pairing Peter with his in-canon wife. So, so many fandoms would side-line the wife in favour of the slash pairing. But not here. Here, she is half of the second most common relationship.
And in fourth place, we get Peter/Neal/Elizabeth with 1294 fics.
There is a fandom where a significant number of the fans looked at the main characters and went, "So they're a throuple, right?" And, honestly, same.
Neal Caffrey being entirely useless in a fight is so important to me. Like no, beautiful, put those fists down you'll hurt yourself.
Love it but honestly I think Neal can fight at least well enough to defend himself in normal circumstances, but he tries to avoid engaging in violence when he can because that’s just who he is as a person. So when he ends up in scuffles with people in who don’t hold the same reservations his hesitance is what gives them a big advantage over him.
Neal Caffrey being entirely useless in a fight is so important to me. Like no, beautiful, put those fists down you'll hurt yourself.
diana berrigan is so unbelievably cool. we find out that she's a lesbian through a hat metaphor within 30 seconds of meeting her. then we see her going undercover as an escort no questions asked. she's committed to the bit but not that committed, yes she is going to seduce men and take them up to her room but only to hold them at gunpoint and threaten to arrest them for solicitation. when all of that is over she's gonna send ugly moustache photos of her boss around the office for making her flirt with a man on the job. 11/10 character
Going down the white color rabbit hole again. Binged a whole season in about 2 days someone send me an intervention before I binge the rest in one go too
My screen time oh my god… but I am in fact continuing the binging
