Would This Person Break The Timeloop?

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Would Mirabelle from In Stars and Time break the timeloop?

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Voting ended onMay 14, 2025

[orgasmic-garlic]

reporting all ads as malicious because all ads are malicious

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This person would break the timeloop

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Would Kirby break the timeloop?

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Voting ended onApr 26, 2025

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Would Benry from HLVRAI break the timeloop?

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he’s actively propagating the timeloop

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Voting ended onApr 20, 2025

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Would former Nintendo of America CEO Reggie break the timeloop?

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Voting ended onApr 19, 2025

[rowanisawriter]

imo sharing your art for free online for strangers to see it requires a lot of courage. A lot of mental strength. Im being serious rn i think if youve ever shared anything online and even if its not popular even if only a few people have seen it i think thats very very brave

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[rowanisawriter]

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[junglejim4322]

People who call u without warning for non serious reasons are so scary like if you call me without texting me first im fully assuming you’re in a saw trap or something

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[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

I hope I'm not just a mutual to you, but someone you want to bring up in irl conversation so you have to awkwardly and cryptically say "my friend..." and refuse to elaborate on my origins or the origins of our friendships

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[podcastwizard]

sorry boss can't come in today i was on my way to work and then a gentle spring breeze kissed my cheek and reminded me it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world

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[glowcowboy]

i am full of love and also fatigue

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[undeadcorvid]

my toxic trait is instead of thinking 'this should have been practical effects' about everything on TV and film, I instead think 'there is a time and a place for both practical effects and CGI, and incorrectly applying the wrong solution to a problem can have equally negative effects on the final quality of the product regardless of whether CGI or practical effects were used, and sometimes the best solution is a hybrid one that utilizes the strengths of both, and sometimes CGI gets used because practical effects have safety implications for the actors'

[undeadcorvid]

sometimes CGI is a worker's rights issue. pinewood studios blew itself up filming no time to die. halyna hutchins and brandon lee are dead because of the weapons on set. john-rhys davies and virginia hey and bill skarsgård and buddy ebsen and jack haley and jim carrey are all people just off the top of my head who got sick (sometimes permanently) from the make-up they used. i found out whilst double checking my info on jim carrey that the make-up was so uncomfortable for him that they got a CIA consultant who trained operatives to withstand mistreatment in to help him deal with it, and like. yeah if we're bringing on board people who's job is to teach spies how to withstand torture, maybe this shouldn't be make-up!

[mothnem]

Also the Wicked Witch Actress, Margaret Hamilton, was BURNED by the smoke explosion they used. That could have been a CGI. I prefer practical effects. But in the name of safety, CGI.

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Buster Keaton did stunts that seriously injured and could have killed him because at the time, that was what you did. His act as a child was that his parents would toss him back and forth (which was when he developed his trademark expressionless reactions to stuff because people thought an extremely bored kid being thrown around was hysterical), and he actually could have been killed doing that if Harry Houdini hadn't caught him when he was thrown off course.

In Hundreds of Beavers, which is a love letter to Keaton style slapstick among many other bizarre things, Ryland Tews' character does things that you genuinely could not do with an actor without killing them, and it still reads as some of the funniest physical comedy I have ever seen in my life. There was no need to actually slingshot him through the air at 500 miles an hour, or repeatedly drop him from a tree into a gorse bush, or set him on fire, or any of the other ten billion indignities and injuries his character suffers throughout. A film that tried to do everything this one does as realistically as possible would be incredibly dangerous, and multitudes less charming. (I dearly love Keaton's work but it is occasionally hard not to wince when he flings himself from heights onto concrete.)

Practical effects and CGI are two different tools that ideally are both vital parts of filmmaking, and reducing it down to practical good, CGI bad is not only wrong, it's dangerous.

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[wholeheartedsuggestions]

some days, being brave just means getting up and going through the motions even when you’d rather just not do anything at all. even if you only do it because you have to, i personally still think it’s brave.

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[finelythreadedsky]

more modern theater should have parabases. just a scene in the middle of the play where the lighting shifts and one of the actors turns directly toward the audience to give you some snide commentary and insults from the playwright.

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A play where every character gets a moment to narrate their own internal thoughts, but one of the other characters is a psychic that reads minds, and while all the other characters freeze in place in the dark while the one in the spotlight starta talking, one of them is moving and obviously frantically taking notes.

[mysterymessmachine]

the climax: all lights cut off at once except spotlights to all of the other characters, who are narrating their thoughts rapidfire. the tension is already high and now the psychic is losing their mind and control of their power

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These characters would break the timeloop

[sludgebones]

[two tumblr soldiers bleeding out on the internet frontlines]

“heh… remember strawbebby…. And ranibow spramkle… always made me laugh”

“Don’t talk like that man. We’re gonna get out of here i prommy.” [mortar fire sails overhead and land nearby] “christ its like a childrens hospital out there”

[through shallow breaths] “I always loved…… the color of the sky…………”

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These soldiers would not break the timeloop

[nightcord-at-25]

it's called the switch 2 because you turn 2 degrees and walk away

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[mbrainspaz]

I really enjoy just existing in hotels. The long identical hallways. The soulless abstract art. The weird noises the air-conditioner makes. Strange city lights in the window. Six stories off the ground. Strangers chatting in the hall. Nothing in the dresser. No past, but an infinite present. 

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This person would not break the timeloop

[tlirsgender]

It's called hard sci-fi because it's not as easy

[tlirsgender]

I thought it'd be fun if I made aliens that respirate CO² into O² like plants but I started thinking about how I'm not actually sure how exactly those chemical processes work and now I'm on the wikipedia page for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate

[tlirsgender]

I feel like the media literacy ogre for biochemistry

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This person would break the timeloop