Maaruin

Ideosyncratic Christian, 30s, he/him. I occasionally post thoughts about religion, politics, history, and Star Wars (in all possible combinations).

[maaruin]

Heads-up: From now on every Ask I get which asks for money (explicitly or implicitly) gets reported as spam/bot, not just blocked.

[dragongirlsweetie]

it's actually so crazy how much the simpsons would fucking suck if it didn't have any of the simpsons characters. just a bunch of shots of empty houses and streets for half an hour while nothing happens. that would be so badddd lol

[auroroboros1]

yeah that tends to happen when you remove characters from media. without characters its all just background. i guess movies set in scenic locations would still land as kinda nature docs but even then

[dragongirlsweetie]

it only happens with the simpsons

[auroroboros1]

this same criticism could be applied to nearly any media ever.

[dragongirlsweetie]

it's just the simpsons. are you a troll?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Dragon's right, if you remove all the Simpsons characters from Death Note it hardly changes anything

[thinkinginklingon]

you get a minor drop in quality if you remove the Simpsons characters from Stargate

[maaruin]

I have to admit I think the Project Hail Mary is not good at delivering exposition. And because of that the movie could be classified as soft SciFi, while the book is hard SciFi.

[maaruin]

When I read the Project Hail Mary book, I was very light on knowing what happens. I knew that an astronaut wakes up with amnesia at Tau Ceti. That's all. I was very surprised when I got to the part where ther suddenly was an alien ship and then it became a first contact situation. I think they should have kept that part out of the trailers, have viewers experience the same surprise as me.

[womaninwinter]

Burying the dead is a corporal work of mercy. It’s like, the first thing Grace does when he embraces his mission. No I will not be normal about this any time soon.

[maaruin]

I watched Project Hail Mary today. Originally I wanted to finish the book before watching the movie, but I didn't make any progress in the book in the last month or so, so I decided to watch it in cinema before it isn't shown in cinema anymore.

I liked it. They seem to have made the conscious decision to focus less on the scientific problem solving aspect and more on the interpersonal relationships, which was probably the right choice for the movie, though at some point they leave out important information. For example: A friend had watched the movie earlier and found it stretching disbelief a bit that Grace would be sent on the mission, since there should have been many more qualified candidates. In the book it is justified by saying that there is a rare gene that makes people able to be in coma for years without cognitive degeneration, and sending someone without the gene would have been too much of a gamble - and that made the list of candidates significantly shorter. In the end, the movie didn't land quite as well for me emotionally than I expected, but that is because I misunderstood some things I read here and thought I had received a spoiler for the ending. And then the thing I thought I had been spoiled for didn't happen. I'll say what I thought would happen under the cut:

I thought Grace would die. Or Rocky would die. Or (most likely) both would die. But then both survived so I didn't bawl my eyes out in the end as I had suspected.

[drtrinitysantos]

sdxfcgvzdxfcgvhzdxfcgvhbjnkmlcgvhbjnk science

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)

[succumbing-song]

[anxietyproblem]

[voyaging-too]

An awkward thing is that Orbán is a fairly common last name in Hungary. Our new foreign minister and deputy prime minister is going to be another Orbán. Her campaign video includes her introducing herself to Donald Tusk, awkwardly saying "Anita Orbán, no relation. The name is just an accident." To which Donald Tusk says, in a sad, very tired voice: "My name is Donald."

[t00thpasteface]

random anecdote for father's day: one time during a long car ride my dad asked me, "you're familiar with Murphy's Law, right?" and i was like "isn't that the one about how anything that can go wrong will go wrong?" and he said "yeah, exactly" and i said "why do you ask?" and he went "well, have you heard of Cole's Law?" and i said "no, actually, what's that?" and he said "it's mostly lettuce and carrots with a little dressing mixed in"

[dapperprincess]

This is so funny to me

new reaction image

[parkchanwoohoo]

[maaruin]

Not quite.

If people are fighting for an orb it's fantasy.

If people are fighting for a sphere it's sci-fi.

If people are fighting for a ball it's sports.

[byjove]

I think Odysseus is the guy everyone else makes talk to the cops when they show up to bust the party.

[byjove]

I think he could do a really good “Hello officer, how are you?” if he had to.

[byjove]

YEAH EXACTLY

[byjove]

Athena is standing behind him whispering the bylaws into his ear.

[emptyheadmybeloved]

hold on i need to look this up

[byjove]

it’s been 15 minutes have you finished reading the Odyssey yet?

[byjove]

[o-lei-o-lai-o-lord]

When the Apostle Paul said “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?” and John Donne said “Death, be not proud,” and the Arcadian Wild said “May you know Death lost already,” and

[cupcakegalaxia]

And Andrew Peterson said, "Where is your sting, O grave? How grave is your defeat."

[thatsastepladder]

and C.S. Lewis said "even Death itself will work backwards."

[thepoemsandthesands]

and charles wesley said “once he died our souls to save/where thy victory, o grave?”

[audreythevaliant]

And Paul said “The last enemy to be destroyed is death.”

[doodleoo]

And when Isaiah said "He will swallow up death forever, the Sovereign Lord will wipe away all tears"

[o-lei-o-lai-o-lord]

And when the Arcadian Wild said “For Dark and Death/Have had their part to play/They will make way for another Host”

[phdstarscream]

And when Andrew Peterson said “You have beaten Death at Death’s own game”

[likedaylighht]

Photos taken less than an hour apart btw

[maaruin]

Back on Earth!