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I’m so smitten over the animatronic mako used in Deep Blue Sea—you could submerge it in a murky shallow pond with me knee-deep and still give me the creeps
I need shark movies to go back to showing different species, not just great whites.
I also think it would be hilarious if they tried to make like nurse sharks scary.
Monty Python., What is your favourite colour?
They never heard of Ninevah? Wasn't the Bible, like, the only book they were allowed to read back then?
Imagine if you lived in a country where Lord of the Rings was the only significant book, your culture's moral code was based on it, and the institution that was responsible for nearly all education spent most of their time discussing, and you had to hear a lecture on LotR at least once a week.
Are you telling me that you would not be able to name the capital of Gondor or Rohan? That you wouldn't know that Barad Dur is the ruling seat of Mordor?
I still haven't seen this movie, but an awful lot of the humor I see excerpted from it seems to depend on willful ignorance or being obtuse.
Is it an Emperor's New Clothes thing?
I mean it is parody/satire of Arthurian legends by a group of British comedic actors in the 70s who had like no budget (coconuts play the horses) so it is a riff on Emperor's New Clothes.
And, character-wise, I'd buy that maybe three of them could actually read and like two bothered to read the Bible in any consistent capacity and Sir Robin is not one of those people.
I am surprised you've never watched it, I think you would thoroughly enjoy the scene where they randomly hold a peasant against their will and debate the God-given right to rule. And lose.
Yes most of the humor is juvenile, which personally doesn't bother me at all, it's leagues better than modern adult comedy cartoons, and when you learn the history behind making it, it's somehow even crazier than what they actually filmed and edited into a movie.
I would love to ask my great-great grandparents what their naming methodology was because they had ten kids that survived to adulthood out of twelve.
And 9/10 had names akin to Benjamin, Sarah, Thomas, Jane, Charles, Elizabeth, etc. Names all within the spelling tradition of a specific language and could conceivably be found on like a keychain in a gift shop at a tourist destination. Common, traditional, matching, expected, and frankly normal for lack of a better term.
But my great-grandmother, their first child got named essentially the Castilian Spanish Catholic equivalent of Eosterhild. And to be clear, it’s a real name. It’s basically a feminized version of salvation and fortune or something from Mary. But it’s incredibly obscure and probably hadn’t been put on a Mexican birth certificate for the past couple centuries. Mexico was likely still a Spanish colony and territory when it was even remotely in use because the language had morphed and naming conventions changed.
And I would love to hear the reasoning of how you go from naming your child like a DnD character ‘this is my rogue Kerthwhick’ to a complete about face of ‘this is my son Jeremy’.
Like did they realize the kid was going to survive and should have had a name that could fit normally on the census? Did they just need to get the OC naming tendency out of their system because they didn’t really have any pets and then they were fine naming their kids Erika and James?
I am joking but I am also serious
What's Bela?
The Creator
The Dark One
A Horse
8 of you are horrible people for picking the middle option.
It is once again that time of the year (which now encompasses HALF the fucking year) that I am tired enough of my allergies to want to hunt down ritually sacrifice every goddamn person in a position to make the choice to plant ONLY MALE TREES!
Just got sinus surgery kinda crazy to look back and see this.
It's been a long road, had like four or five months of sinusitis and the like over this last fall and winter, switched to caregiving when my mom broke one of her legs, while waiting for a surgery date to become available and meeting with an allergist, an ENT specialist, and just now getting like four or five surgeries all in one.
things id like to see on shark week as a marine scientist
- hour long documentary on wobbegongs
- documentary about various indigenous cultures and the roles of sharks in their folklore (esp. hawai'i and maori)
- programs surrounding bamboo eupaulette and other smaller sharks
- to add, one program with the small sharks is hyped up and dramatic like the big shark programs are but the big shark program that plays immediately after it is cute and goofy like youd expect the small shark one to be to be
- documentary on the diets of misc sharks that focuses on the prey rather than the predators
- bill nye style miniseries for kids/tweens about habitats ecology and conservation with the thesis that sharks are often at the top of their food chains and we have to sustain whats below them to sustain sharks. also enjoyable for college students because it talks about r and k reproductive methods and other more advanced topics but its presented in a way kids can comprehend. yes it has the silly song parodies like bill nye did. one of these songs is from king gizzard and the lizard wizard.
- in depth presentation on shark matings and migrations and i guess if you wanna use a big species you can use hammerheads but thats it
- literally anything about greenland sharks. please im starving
- program thats literally just dissecting a shark and breaking down every organ and its functions because ive never heard it mention that sharks maintain bouyancy using oil from their livers once during shark week and idk i think that should be mentioned
- tour of global aquariums that have shark exhibits and explorations of aquarium setups and design in other areas of the world (if you show Georgia aquarium for more than 5 minutes in the intro i will rend your flesh from bone)
- marine paleontology that doesnt spend the entire time discussing megladons. how did sharks evolve answer me
- deep!! sea!! sharks!!
- cultural analysis of sharks and their role in society and pop culture (that has a meta analysis on the impact of shark week on that role)
- technically not sharks but can we get a documentary on skates and rays? theyre related thats close enough
- program about pajama sharks that serves to educate about keystone species as much as it does about pajama sharks
- let dr. dan abel ramble about whatever he wants for an hour as a retirement gift i think he deserves it
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I got my thresher shark doc this year
Turns out the trend I hate so much actually has a name lol
I can now detail the difference between the Joker and Cruella de Vil with actual terms
So who is everyone’s favorite Forsaken?
Mine are obviously Aginor and Bethamel if you’ve had the misfortune of seeing my various rankings. They are my ideal forms for cartoonish super villainy. I love me the likes of Mojo Jojo and Clancy Brown’s Lex Luthor. I will defend the nonsense of 60s Batman villains over the more recent grim dark realism takes.
I think we need a return of over the top villains with all the misunderstood shades of grey bad guys we have been stuck with recently.
Love to hear the reasoning for what made them your favorite as well.
I need some WoT geologists
Or anyone really into tectonic plates and landmass creation. I want an explanation or correction to what I remember from the college class.
If we look at our map of Randland inside the cover of our series
We've got Dragonmount somewhat off center to the east, we got frankly a shit ton of prairie grasslands with scattered forest around it, especially in the north. Then we have huge ass mountains to divide the Aiel and the Blight.
The next significant mountain range is the Mountains of Mist. (I am working under the pretext that being called hills v. mountains means they are different in meaningful ways and not in the more human tendency to just name things willy-nilly) Then we have the coastal elevations around Toman Head and the Shadow Coast. So theoretically, we have rough boundaries of our potential tectonic plates where we have our significant mountain ranges.
The big ones are all probably convergent, at least regarding the aftermath of the Breaking, if we are right to believe that pretty much everything changed. Therefore, these are NEW mountains, or at least new ranges with higher elevations.
We do not appear to have any divergent one since they're aren't any valleys, lakes, inland seas, etc. It is kinda weird to have significant river systems and one lake since it implies that even the lower areas like the plains aren't really that low, since there doesn't appear to be a enough depression for water to pool to create lakes.
The ranges around Toman Head could possibly be lateral fault lines. Most of Earth's lateral ones are on the ocean floor, the two major land ones are the San Andreas fault and the North Anatolian, which both have peninsulas (Turkey and Baja California).
Onto the rivers, using different maps, because the one above is nightmare for finding the things
We start furthest east with the River Erinin. It goes from the Borderlands down to Tear. It is fed by the Rivers Mora, Alguenya, Luan, Gaelin and Iralell.
Next we have the Arinelle which is from Saldaea to Andor.
Arinelle turns into the Manetherendrelle or the White River and starts in Andor and ends in Illian. Both parts of the river are fed by the Reisendrelle, Storn, Ivo, Haevin, Cary, Tarendelle, and Shal.
Next is the Eldar, which starts in Ghealdan and ends in Altara at Ebou Dar. It is fed by the Boern, Gaean and Sharia.
Those are the three major river systems between the three major mountain ranges. On the western side of the Mountains of Mist we have two primary river systems - the Dhagon and the Andahar
Dhagon ends in Bandar Eban and is fed by the Akuum.
Andahar ends in Tanchico and doesn't have any named tributary rivers
Again, it's odd to have so many river sources, I counted at least 40 odd possible starting points in and around the mountains, with only one significant body of freshwater. We have 5 primary river mouths in Arad Doman, Tarabon, Altara, Illian and Tear.
Now, the forests are heavier in the southern half of Randland and are all pretty much between the three mountain ranges. The forests are all located around a river, obviously, but I'd love to know why northern half where the Arinelle and the Erinin start, are so sparsely forested in comparison. All the significant green areas are also primarily around steddings towards the north, but Haddon Mirk is the only named forest in the south with one.
So essentially the question I'm meandering around is WHY? What do we think geologically happened based on the information of the Breaking we have and how, in terms of what we know about Earth, did mountains, rivers, forests, etc occur?
I will admit even though I hate the Shaido kidnapping slog, it has much more to do with how mind-numbingly repetitive Perrin and Faile’s POV chapters are than either of them as characters. Based on my experience with how most feel about her, I am evidently much nicer to Faile than most.
She’s impulsive, a little too self-concerned, trying hard to be cool but that’s cause she’s like 16. She’s an annoying teenager from a wealthy family. So she’s actually much more competent than she probably should be given how that kind of characterization usually goes.
She’s clingy and jealous! Yeah, it’s her first real relationship AND they are culturally very different in terms of expectations.
She owns her actions, she doesn’t really pretend to be someone she’s not, and she’s pretty immediately ride or die for Perrin.
Again, she’s not my favorite (Nynaeve is) but she isn’t particularly irritating like Moghedien while she’s captured honestly is.
I don't know enough about the capabilities of the contestant at right.
I will need a sample to be sure.
“I dare the truth, Elaida, you are a coward and a tyrant. I'd name you Darkfriend as well, but I suspect that the Dark One would perhaps be embarrassed to associate with you.”
Oh gross, I got some on me.
Is the one of the left an artist’s rendition or a legitimate picture? Because it looks like it could have some gnarly splinters when it’s not just dumping you on your ass.
The failures and idiocy in mundane logistics and maintenance in that whole rebel camp are mind-boggling. They keep having concerns about available supplies in whatever region they travel through, despite being able to Travel. They are worried about candles and lamp oil, despite practically every novice's first weave being a ball of light that produces no heat and consumes no fuel. They are worried about money and their one scheme for generating income involves making high-end luxury goods while fully aware of the possibility of hurting their profit by crashing the market (also raising the issue of fraud: indestructibility is hardly practical for cups and decorative objects, meaning it is entirely probable that a large part of cuendillar's value is as perceived antiquities). Did they never think of selling lanterns with tied-off light balls inside, at a cheap price that would profit through massive volume, while incidentally improving the lives of people across the world? As well as make it more difficult for Myrddraal to operate?
Why not make Air bridges on the ground to avoid the mud or ice in their camps? Why not make temporary Air roads in front of their wagons so that they don't have to worry about road conditions and can move faster on the smoother surfaces?
For that matter, why drag their baggage and supplies for miles with them, creating wear and tear on the wagons and carts? Why not just leave them in place, with enough guards & sisters for protection, while everyone else journeys north by mundane means until sundown, and then use Traveling & Skimming to move their logistical tail through a gateway to the new spot. Actually, the camp could just stay there all day, and you could send a small advance party that would travel faster and cover more ground over the same day, but that wouldn't work with Egwene's strategy to use the proximity of the Band to scare recruits into their larger camp. From the point of view of the sisters who are not that invested in recruiting and don't like the Band following them, the small advance party plan would allow them to easily lose the "Dragonsworn".
And these are the same short-sighted idiots who think they should be the ones running the world.
It's not even a failure of the author, since Elayne, all by herself, with maybe some input from Aviendha, uses Travelling in far more creative and useful ways during the siege than the hundreds of Aes Sedai in the rebel camp can be bothered to think of. As we see at the academies, RJ understands that to really advance knowledge, science and technology, you need a community of scholars & scientists, a critical mass of expertise, as it were. To a certain extent we see this happening among the rebels, as the Wondergirls' discoveries spur innovations among the sisters, but it should be happening to a much greater degree. At the least they should be outstripping a single teenager whom the Companion, via RJ's notes, characterizes as better at analysis and reverse engineering than actually inventing, rather than the other way around.
I hear you, I do, but the solution doesn’t require magic powers. You could just go and find a stick roughly the same size as the two working legs and replace the short one. Literally anyone could have done it.
I don't know enough about the capabilities of the contestant at right.
I will need a sample to be sure.
“I dare the truth, Elaida, you are a coward and a tyrant. I'd name you Darkfriend as well, but I suspect that the Dark One would perhaps be embarrassed to associate with you.”
Oh gross, I got some on me.
Is the one of the left an artist’s rendition or a legitimate picture? Because it looks like it could have some gnarly splinters when it’s not just dumping you on your ass.
We don't mock the Forsaken, and honestly any channeler in the AoL enough for needing gainful employment even though they can rip holes in the fabric of reality. Moghedian is a finance bro for ffs.
On a semi-related note, pretty much all of the female Forsaken have a believable reason for turning evil whereas only Aginor and Ishmael on the male side do.
Lanfear and Aginor are mad scientists, good for them dropping whatever their version of the FDA and OSHA are.
Ishmael is a philosopher. If you've ever taken a philosophy class and had to deal with the unit during the later part of the Enlightenment, where everyone is basically playing 'gotcha' with one another's logic, you'd lose it and decided nihilism was the answer too.
Semirhage (doctor), Mesaana (teacher), Graendal (therapist), Moggy (hedge fund manager) all have public facing jobs. Could you imagine instead of a couple of decades dealing with the idiocy of the masses you have CENTURIES to look forward to it?
Belthamel and Rahvin are just poly-sci man-whores. Asmodean is a musician. Be'lal is really into like, fencing and basically a LARPer. Sammael and Demandred are jealous of a guy. Could you imagine how miserable and pathetic you have to be to be envious of some dude who ALSO has has the equivalent of the Noble Peace Prize? It's like Adele and Beyonce completely lost their minds one day because Lady Gaga was popular too and some magazine put her at #1 of a list.
Anyway, RJ/Sanderson should've let Rand share some of this information with his friends, particularly Mat. I should have been able to read about Mat oscillating between being impressed at Demandred's military mind AND thinking about what a loser he was to still have have one of the dumbest grudges ever millennia later.
I think loser-asses is exactly the take RJ intended.
Nitpick, however, Be'lal was a lawyer.
And Asmodean (and probably most of the rest) was actually in it for the immortality.
Exactly, we don’t make fun of their loser asses nearly enough.
Tbh, being a lawyer who’s really into swords doesn’t help Be’lal that much.
Immortality shimmortality, villain origin stories are a bare minimum for getting called shit like betrayer of hope. Earn your damn titles people.
We don't mock the Forsaken, and honestly any channeler in the AoL enough for needing gainful employment even though they can rip holes in the fabric of reality. Moghedian is a finance bro for ffs.
On a semi-related note, pretty much all of the female Forsaken have a believable reason for turning evil whereas only Aginor and Ishmael on the male side do.
Lanfear and Aginor are mad scientists, good for them dropping whatever their version of the FDA and OSHA are.
Ishmael is a philosopher. If you've ever taken a philosophy class and had to deal with the unit during the later part of the Enlightenment, where everyone is basically playing 'gotcha' with one another's logic, you'd lose it and decided nihilism was the answer too.
Semirhage (doctor), Mesaana (teacher), Graendal (therapist), Moggy (hedge fund manager) all have public facing jobs. Could you imagine instead of a couple of decades dealing with the idiocy of the masses you have CENTURIES to look forward to it?
Belthamel and Rahvin are just poly-sci man-whores. Asmodean is a musician. Be'lal is really into like, fencing and basically a LARPer. Sammael and Demandred are jealous of a guy. Could you imagine how miserable and pathetic you have to be to be envious of some dude who ALSO has has the equivalent of the Noble Peace Prize? It's like Adele and Beyonce completely lost their minds one day because Lady Gaga was popular too and some magazine put her at #1 of a list.
Anyway, RJ/Sanderson should've let Rand share some of this information with his friends, particularly Mat. I should have been able to read about Mat oscillating between being impressed at Demandred's military mind AND thinking about what a loser he was to still have have one of the dumbest grudges ever millennia later.
watching the Odyssey discourse here like
so it's a good film but a bad adaptation. It's a Nolan war movie - it's big, it's loud, it's gray - it's well written and acted and directed and all that but marketing should catch some flack for acting like its a definitive version.
Can't wait to read more rants on what makes it a good or bad adaptation, so far I'm swayed towards bad, but I do have high standards.
UPDATE
My favorite aspect of the rants I've read are all the memes built from all the plot Nolan cut.
My least favorite is the people defending Agamemnon's armor. It looks like a prototype of what a weekly power rangers villain is going to end up wearing. Prototype because they haven't even finished painting it yet.
As I was once again perusing the blood bath, in honor of shark week, since the likelihood of discovery giving me more than one new show I actually don't hate is close to nil, and the psychic damage I was hit with from one singular tag
I'm going to need 2-3 business days to sit with this and gather my thoughts, since right now I am in the middle of my snyderverse PTSD as a DCAU kid.
Tier List of Forsaken First Impressions (To Third Age Characters)
This pretty much boils down to Megamind's factual statement about the difference between a villain and a SUPER villain.
No second lives because they don't all get them and pretty much all of them are supposed to be sneaky or in trouble.
S - Aginor, Bethamel, Ishmael
Why - These three are the only ones that really understood the assignment of being terrifying evil monsters. The Forsaken are supposed to be the ones that threw away their humanity for power. They're evil in human flesh. They're the ones that can be used to scare children like La Llarona or the Boogeyman. Presentation matters, and they introduced themselves as walking nightmares.
A - Mazrim Taim
Why - Literally the only other one that bothered to look at the brief. He shows up sketch af, tells Bashere he shaved when asked why he looks different. Proceeds to act like the most untrustworthy, mustache-twirling evil man he possibly can while Rand gives him carte blanche to be in charge of creating male human nukes. The second he can, pulls a Reverse Flash and makes sure all his clothing has BLUE dragons instead of red. At no point does this man act like giving him this kind of power and lack of oversight is a good idea. He absolutely deserved to be made a Forsaken, he never pretended to act like he wasn't a demon wearing a skin suit.
B - Mesaana
Why - She at least made the attempt at a being otherworldly but it comes across as a haute couture interpretation of black and white than this is someone you should fear. But she did try, unlike everyone beneath her.
C - Demandred
Why - I went back and forth over where or not he would end up here or I would put him next to an asterisk at the bottom because he showed up at the 11th hour with Sharans. What ultimately swayed me is the second he opens his mouth, he is the most annoying, try hard edge-lord ever. Sammael could never. So he gets up here for showing up with an army out of nowhere while being as obnoxious as possible.
D - Be'lal, Rahvin, Sammael, Semirhage/Lanfear, Moghedien
Why - The reasons are different but essentially amount to the same thing effort wise.
Be'lal, Rahvin, Sammael and Semirhage - Oh this random person no one has ever heard of is suddenly here and has significant power. BOO. HISS. None of them even tried to make up a plausible backstory. LAZY.
Semirhage murked the person who had the position she wanted. Rahvin couldn't be bothered to come up with a stupid, sappy love story of how he seduced Morgase. Sammael could've just said he saved Mattin Stephaneos but no, he's just Lord Brend and everyone gets Compulsed to accept it. Same with Be'lal. All three male Forsaken DID THE EXACT SAME THING. That's why they all got wiped from existence. No creativity. No effort.
Lanfear and Moghedien more or less suddenly pop up out of nowhere like whack-a-moles saying 'hello, I am a plot relevant obstacle.' Uninspired. Shameful. Embarrassing that the so-called mistresses of the dream world could not come up with anything better.
F - Asmodean and Graendal
Why - I expect much more out of these two. They're considered flamboyant and overindulgent by their coworkers. No entrance music, no theme song for Asmodean. He just sits there, being mildly irritating, strumming a harp. That little cactus toy that parrots sounds could have done that better. DISHONOR. DISHONOR ON YOU. DISHONOR ON YOUR INSTRUMENTS.
Graendal should be walking around like she's a concert headliner, a drag queen, or the human equivalent of Miss Piggy. Where is the glitz and glam? Where is the Age of Legends equivalent of sequins and glitter? Why is she not walking around like a naked, gilded statue? Where is the panache? The swagger? The flair? The style? DECEPTION. AN OUTRAGE. DISGRACE. FOR SHAME.
