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That cod piece. What the literal fuck was going on with 80s kids movies?

The totally unnecessary tiddies in neverending story come to mind.

*$80 for a $10 2-person meal (if you made it yourself probably)

Once I coded a module to completion with no errors. I still wake up with night terrors that I missed something.

Yes. I drink a beer and I'm hungover for 2 weeks. No shit.

Edit: I hit it hard in my younger years, probably ruined my liver beyond the point of healing itself.

Haha

Well, back in 19 and dickaty-2 there was whisperings of a movie tie-in. The money spent, well I won't bore you with that, wouldn't mean much these days. But let's say it was epic - do people still say that? Boy, they used to.

Anyway, they rushed to production and built a million billion cartridges. Do you know what those are? These little black boxes that had the whole video game on these massive chips. Of course they were small in those days.

So they send it to market and it doesn't work. So then nobody bought it. And did you know, they buried all those cartridges way out in the desert some where, and that's where the aurora borealis comes from - the sky used all those chips to paint pretty pictures. And the video game industry began a bloodless vendetta that's still around today, to make up for that blunder by making as much money as possible, even if the game's not worth it.

I hear drones can help with that.

IGNORE ME!!

Sauron is perving out on their wedding night.

I think that's the interesting thing about batman. He's just a dude.

Granted, he has a lot of money, but at the end of the day, he's just a dude, that enjoys solving mysteries. He's a hobbyist detective.

So yeah, all his villains are going to have similar abilities (Later they had the clay guy and croc and people with actual super powers). But the idea was for a guy that just liked solving crime.

And you have to make that memorable and go in on what's vogue at the time - so they made him have this whole bat identity. And ok, that adds an interesting back story, and similarly the villains need to be memorable too, but not super-powered.

So the villains, are some of the most interesting because they can't just do something because their super-powers granted them the ability, they have to actually think and plan and have interesting motives.

And two-face is either an agent of chaos or presldestination. And to my knowledge they never explore that, it's open to your interpretation.

Edit: batman also came out at a time when mental illness was really starting to affect society. Back in the day if you were mentally ill, they just called it evil, and put you to death. But then people started examining stuff like that and say "Hey, we might be able to help these people." So then you have the state-run looney bins which is rich soil for batman-type villains.

Thanks!

I think he painted and sketched before that, but this was the first thing he painted on an easel - but there is speculation that it's not his.

Yes, and you can see it for free at

Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG, United Kingdom

Come gather round the stump young'ns, and I'll tell you a tale of when video games didn't need to be connected to the Internet.

Do you have any videos? Can you record tracks and musical production type stuff?

+1 un

Great factoid and great un.

No worries. It was daunting trying to tie it up. I'm actually kinda releaved. I had worked on it for like 2 weeks and still had no ending in sight. So I'm glad to dramatically summarize here. It's probably how I should write these anyway.

My mom has a fridge that literally has meltdowns every few days. She bought it last year, it still doesn't work as intended, and it beeps so loud over were not sure.

No option to turn off the sound. I want to mcguyer in there and tear the speaker out, but I don't want to voided the warranty before they actually fix it.

:(, this is one of the ones I was writing a huge description on... I'll just post my research here.

Ophelia

Ophelia is a character in Hamlet.

Long story short, she goes crazy after discovering Hamlet, her betrothed (who is acting crazy to see what his enemies will do), killed her father (by accident, thinking he was someone else - but she doesn't know that). Then, she's walking around a forest in shock, unable to comprehend the horrible events, singing these songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcmN1zBSf4c. A few scenes later Gertrude said she drowned, and they're not sure if it was a suicide or accidental.

In the painting she is laying down in the water, either still singing or recently dead (depending on your interpretation).

Pre-Raphaelites

This is another work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - a group of British painters that rejected the at-the-time notion to follow Raphael's prolific output. They thought it was formulaic and made for dull paintings. They were basically the emo kids of the mid-1800s art world. They thought only the most dramatic subjects should be painted, and detail should be given to stuff like the background - Raphael largely ignored anything but the main subjects of the painting.

In this painting you can see a lot of time was spent on the trees and flowers surrounding her.

Compare that with Raphael's most famous work:

There's a background and some foreground, but it's in service of the main characters -who are the only elements with bright colors. Ophelia seems to be inseparable from the other elements in the painting, and the flowers around her are brightly colored.

The Pre-Raphaelites were also a precursor to the Impressionists, who would pop on the scene 20 years later in France.

The plants, most of which have symbolic significance, were depicted with painstaking botanical detail. The roses near Ophelia's cheek and dress, and the field rose on the bank, may allude to her brother Laertes calling her 'rose of May'. The willow, nettle and daisy are associated with forsaken love, pain, and innocence. Pansies refer to love in vain. Violets, which Ophelia wears in a chain around her neck, stand for faithfulness, chastity or death of the young, any of which meanings could apply here. The poppy signifies death. Forget-me-nots float in the water. [2]

Siddal

Elizabeth Siddal posed for hours in a tub while Millais painted. She stayed, motionless despite the oil lamps keeping the water warm burning out, and she nearly died from the resulting illness (that's the story, but she also seemed like a sickly person that may have had tuberculosis). Siddal was a model for many of the Brotherhood, and eventually married one. She later died from overdosing pain meds before it was cool (although it may have been a suicide).

Here's a more extreme version of a Pre-Raphaelite background I was talking about earlier:

See how the main characters are the center of the painting's attention, but almost no one else is paying attention to them. There seems to be something going on stage right. Note: it also has Siddal as a model.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Siddal
• https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-ophelia-n01506
• https://victorianweb.org/victorian/painting/deverell/paintings/2.html