

“If you vary the timeline too much, you will cease to exist.”
Even if you want to be altruistic enough to sacrifice yourself for the good of humanity, you’ll be wiped out long before you’re able to change enough to lead to lasting improvement.


“If you vary the timeline too much, you will cease to exist.”
Even if you want to be altruistic enough to sacrifice yourself for the good of humanity, you’ll be wiped out long before you’re able to change enough to lead to lasting improvement.


I saw an interview with the sculptor (not a supporter, just a guy paying his bills). He said the “cryptobros” who commissioned it kept telling him to make it thinner.
It was the only point that seemed worth engaging with, since it raised the one good exception, and I’d already addressed it.
Was it an accurate telling when Shakespeare himself was involved in the production? When the actors were exclusively pasty English men?
16th century English theater and modern film are wildly different things. When you have basically unlimited access to actors of every physical description, there’s no excuse not to be accurate.
Do the actors need to actually be 16 and 13? Or can maybe young looking adults be used?
I specifically noted looking the part.
Should we go back to the original Italian spelling of their names or is anglicisation in this case ok?
What? It was written by an English playwright, and what difference is there anyway? It’s Italian, not Chinese. It’s the same alphabet.
Why does your suspension of disbelief only stop when the skin color changes?
I never said that it did. I’d be equally annoyed by other obvious anachronisms and inaccuracies
What even does an Italian look like? Rome was a commercial hub for centuries that saw settlers from all over the known world. Are they not Italian?
Like people with deep northern Mediterranean ancestry. Sure, there were plenty of immigrants of varied ethnicities, but they probably didn’t have names like Montague and Capulet.
Otherwise, bro, it’s a movie, everything about it is a lie.
But when it’s a movie with a specific setting and characters, deviations from the characteristics of that setting are immersion breaking. When I’m watching a movie, I don’t want to be reminded that it’s just a movie. I want to buy into it. I can’t do that when Genghis Khan is being played by John Wayne.
Again, if you want to reimagine a basic story in a new setting, sure that’s fine. Change the characters to your heart’s content, so long as they’re consistent with the new setting.
What’s even better is there’s a great opportunity to use subtext to tell a much deeper story with Romeo and Juliet specifically by making one of the families black, because the specific beef between the Montague’s and Capulet’s isn’t really discussed.
Yeah… you mean like West Side Story? That’s a reimagining, I specifically said that was fine.


That’s how the police get called, and honestly that ending was a literal cop out.
Am I allowed to be annoyed at race swapping if I’m consistent? If you’re going to make a movie about characters with a canon appearance, the actor should conform to that appearance.
If you’re making Romeo and Juliet, the actors should at least look Italian. Now, if you’re doing a full reimagining, that’s a different thing. If you’re making West Side Story, half your cast should look Puerto Rican. But if you’re just doing a straight telling of a story, especially a historical one, casting choices shouldn’t distract from the story.
To be fair, KGatLW is substantially more difficult to incorporate into a pun.


Sure it sounds good in theory, but were any of your little “anarcho-syndicalist” buddies bestowed the blade Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake? Didn’t think so, libtard.


Honestly most of the time I get by fine with Tinkercad if I’m making something functional, Blender if it’s decorative.
Damn, Gary got hit by the gay bomb


It is deception, it is not a lie. Not all deception is lying.


Disagree. It’s deceptive, but not a lie. A lie is a deliberately false statement, which omission cannot be.
The problem is obviously “Not having a blown out screw hole on either side of the bedpost”
It’s not required, but it does add decent fertilizer so I’m sure it’s preferable.
Vegans like to call this a bad faith distraction, but when I was a vegan I went all in. No lettuce, no root vegetables, I only ate fruits (botanically speaking, seed-bearing bodies). The plants want you to eat those, and they’re freely given.
Maybe the solution is to just… stop saying its name?
If the ideas are extremely popular, but the terminology is extremely unpopular, the solution seems obvious. Cut it out with the scary Marxist words and express the ideas in less vilified language.


Sports are fine for like kids’ recreation, but the trillions that are spent on the pro sports industry could go to something better.


I do all these, except with bananas I split the skin along the entire back so the peel is one solid piece instead of a dangly mess.


VKTRS by TPotUSoA is neutral genre swap, probably a downgrade honestly. The original has a wistful, nostalgic tone that supports the content of the lyrics. I just binged all the covers I could find, and the only one that really does anything with it is Postmodern Jukebox.
Like V for Vendetta?