Sunday, July 7, 2019

544 - Software Violations, "The CrashNBurnateer", Fog As Thick As A Head Of Hair, and "Star Wars: The Once And Future Jedi"

[3:20 PM] 
Heheh...I overheard you say: "Check and make sure he doesn't have any software installed on the computer."
"Damn...Katzenjammer's new rules are harsh!"
[3:21 PM]  Mr. Oleo: 
“I mean... you can't be in violation if you have no software. Some of the more popular programs people use are called “System32” so if you see that, delete it immediately.”
[3:21 PM] 
Hehehe
"In order to make sure this doesn't happen again.  Set him in front of a regular TV with his keyboard and mouse."
"Computer?  Oh...throw THAT out."
[3:27 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
*bang bang bang*  "Open up, its the Feds!  We know you been downloadin' software in there!"
"Look at THIS boss... AOL 9.0, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word. This guy was a real sicko."
[3:27 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
wow
[3:29 PM] 
LOL
[3:29 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Ma'am you've got the Flash
You're gonna need reformatification
[3:29 PM] 
Heheh
[3:30 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
"Look at this desktop!  This guy didn't just install software. I mean he took his time – he had fun with it."
[John Bunnell voice]  "This low life won't be seeing any software where he's going, but he will see plenty of hardware!"



[8:28 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I watched the Rocketeer
Remember liking it as a kid, saw it in theaters.. and had a Rocketeer lunch box in like 2nd grade
it's... okay
not special
[8:29 AM] 
I didn't think much of it as I recall
[8:29 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
the lead guy is really forgettable... very miscast
and IMO too old for the part too
also the rocket would scorch your ass and legs
[8:33 AM] 
Yes.  i recall thinking it was a death pack
Grievous damage - if not lethal - just to activate.
[8:35 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
And enough fuel to last maybe a couple minutes, at most
there's no way you can land
[8:37 AM] 
Sure you can
Oh...alive
[8:39 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Like an F35 without landing gear, or wings
[8:45 AM] 
I believe it also came off to me as the story of a regular guy who gets a flying suit so he can rapidly go to a location where he can't outthink or outfight anyone in particular.
So he ends up dead and gives the tech to the people that wanted it.
[8:46 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
yes
[8:46 AM] 
Imagine trying to fight and maneuver with that thing on.
"The Rocketeer!  or 'How I Helped the Nazis Win the War'."
[8:48 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
and then it shows him flying up above the clouds, with no oxygen and unpressurized
All of this could be alleviated by some kind of "cold fire" fake technology that burns but somehow at room temp, and maybe a winged suit
[8:51 AM] 
Honestly either one of the fuel technology or control technology depicted would change human history dramatically.  And they have both.
"And so we had a base on Mars by 1947..."
[8:53 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
heh



[8:08 AM] 
I'm sure the dork in the front of the first picture is happy to be immortalized looking like he's wearing a bra over his coat.
[‎8:10 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
hmm.. smoke stacks inside a dome?
(probably cooling towers, but still)
[‎8:11 AM] 
Or, in this case, heating fogging humidity towers
[‎8:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
yes
[8:11 AM] 
(radio guy) "It's another cloudy day inside the dome, folks!"
Still...nuclear steam towers seem like a dandy way to recover massive amounts of fresh water
[‎8:21 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
They kind of did a half-assed attempt at a covered city in Minneapolis
between tunnels and skywalks you can walk from one end of downtown to the other without setting foot outside



[‎9:02 AM] 
I wonder if that could be considered almost an ancient meme
13,900,000 results (0.39 seconds)
Not really a trope since someone is literally measuring the crap
Is there a "Human Hair" mark on a micrometer gauge?



[8:41 AM] 
We watched Last Jedi again
[8:41 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
the things people bitched about seemed fine
Other than the Leia flying thing which seemed corny
But Rey having nobody parents.. that's fine.  The Force only being a bloodline thing is a lame premise anyway
Snoke being just some nobody that came out of nowhere was fine too. 
And they made up for it with a lot more Snoke scenery and his big red office
What else didn't people like?
The humor?  it seemed kind of uneven. like a serious scene would have a joke.  the jokes didn't really land for me but they were fine.  it was Spielbergian.  try to throw every emotion into every scene all at once.
The way Leia flew looked dumb.. like Mary Poppins or something
[8:44 AM] 
As I argued with a couple people "We don't know what happened after Return of the Jedi.  She was a Skywalker.  They obviously hung out together.  Luke could have taught her enough telekinesis for that over a Life Day weekend."
[8:44 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Or she just conjured it up while in an extreme situation, just like when someone has to lift a car off a person
[8:44 AM] 
Could have.
They went for angelic flight in my opinion.  Big sleeves, etc
[8:45 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I didn't see anything in anyone's gripe about it being too "progressive" or preachy.
[8:46 AM] 
I wrote up a huge thing on FB about Rey's parents this weekend, actually
[8:46 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I didn't see it
I like that she came from trash and her parents sold her for booze money
[8:46 AM] 
Hehe...weeeell...yes and no.
You'll have to read it.
I even went back to look at pictures
I have a solid idea of her origin.  Whether they use it or not is a different thing.
[8:46 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
you can root for someone like that
as opposed to rooting for someone with royal bloodlines that was just born special
[8:47 AM] 
Royal?
[8:47 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
*special
[8:47 AM] 
Ah
[8:48 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
but that's the comparison
[8:50 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
opening her eyes in space was a bad idea
even with The Force your eyes would freeze and explode
[8:52 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
humans can survive in empty space for a bit
[8:54 AM]  Mr. Brown.:  
yes if you hold your breath you will be alive for a bit
[8:55 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
you'd have to immediately exhale so your lungs don't rupture
[8:55 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
oh expansion
[8:56 AM] 
As for all the bitching over Luke's behavior...I was delighted.
[8:56 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
He is conflicted.
Luke checking on his Nephew realizes his future.
[8:56 AM] 
It was a nice clean parallel of the Arthur/Mordred doom
Arthur - bastion of high principles -- best most fair and kindest king of them all -- out of fear of a prophesy ordered all the boys born in year X in Britain to be killed early in his reign because he was told one of them will destroy his dream of Camelot. 
Thereby guaranteeing it.
Mordred survives the massacre, and Arthur finds out not only is Mordred his heir...
He's his heir through having him with his half sister.
Granted she put a spell on him...
He spends the rest of his reign miserable and the kingdom goes into terminal decline as his perfect law is tested by personal problems and a resentful prince.
[9:01 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
thought that was kinda common back then though.
[9:01 AM] 
Having kids with your sister?
Not...really...
I mean if you go far enough back it was more of a thing
Living god wedding living god relationships
That always worked out so well...
But no...by the time THAT version of Arthur was being written. it was not done anywhere civilized.
This is high-middle ages stuff by that point and Arthur legends were already old.
Arthurian "Hollywood Re-makes"
I knew what they were going for while I was watching it
With a nod to Rashomon in it
And fanboys threw a FIT
"Oh...well they never studied Arthurian lit...I guess I can allow that.  They'll like it later when they calm down."
They even had the Arthurian last battle
The King in front of the shattered remnants of all that he'd fought for
Versus the Bad Seed in front of his overwhelming force of new right scum.
Arthur disappears but may return
Excalibur is lost
"But the spark will rise again"
[9:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
What was the Rashomon connection? The different perspectives of the same story of Kylo's training?
[9:09 AM] 
Yes
One lie, one misunderstanding, one truth, and the results
There was great stuff in that movie
...and weak stuff, of course...
“Last Jedi”, i mean
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