Dec 31, 2023
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"To join our polycue, you have to defeat our seven evil in-laws"
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For a droll, dryer take:
"To join our polycue, you have to defeat our seven evil in-laws"
Me: Types out the message: "I'm looking forward to you."
My brain, after reading what I've typed out: "Okay; the message is complete and comprehendable. Send!"
My reward hormones, already partying: "You did the thing!"
My visual cortex, the annoying nerd: "Um actually, you never actually wrote: 'meeting...'"
I assume goombas would taste like imitation pork. Their design feels like to be evolving to resemble the wild boar of Japan; what with their charging when aggro'd like that god in "Princess Monokoke," and their silly Ishishi/Noshishi-looking fangs. But since it's the toad kingdom, they're probably to boars what the "Toads" are to humans. Coupled with fact that mushrooms are already used as a meat substitute (as I saw once in an episode of "America's Test Kitchen"—not a fan of that show, however—and my memories of seeing grocery products claiming anything of the sort is far more deteoriated), is where I got this inspired notion...
Thoughts On An American Reboot Of "The Prisoner:"
...I realize now that "The Prisoner" was more commentary than a genuine hypotherhical scenario. It only took me taking a moment to consider how real interrogation methods have been described to realize that the TV series becomes a lot easier to digest if viewed as no different than the other experimental/"art house" works, both of the time (like "The Magic Christian," "Magical Mystery Tour," "Help," etc) and contemporary ("Matthew Barney," "David Lynch," etc).
With that said, I feel like an U.S. remake of "The Prisoner" could be pulled off reasonably well, but there are a few changes I'd make that keep with the spirit of the series and makes more sense for the American audience in mind:
"The Village" would be changed to "The Campus"
Sadly I feel "Rover" would have to be a completly different thing
"No 2" would have a gaming chair
And if the show's going to wind up a fiasco from start to finish, might as well pick a cast to reflect it, like: Denziel Washington as No.6 and Will Smith as the No. 2 who comes back at the end of the series...
Content creator culture's a bad influence on me to be getting ideas like a "Ghost Dog Challenge" where two people who don't speak each other's language have to interact for a whole day or something...Would that get be called out for the tone-deafness of appopriating a thematic move element, or for just being a bad idea?
I didn't know 90's music was that badly scorned...
In one parallel universe, Chickn Nuggit is Steve (and vice-versa)...
I couldn't finish reading a post since I accidentally scrolled over the home/back/new-posts button and now the timeline has devoured it but I'm not getting out of bed until I find it again