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[Bedrockgames]

Now there is some hyperbole! Bravo!

Says the person whose homestead has never been pillaged by the Knights of Walmart !

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Drive My Car should have won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Says the person whose homestead has never been pillaged by the Knights of Walmart !

You don't to mess with those guys.

 

[Perky the Dragon]

The best halflings have hairy feet and don't wear shoes.

 

[payn]

Drive My Car should have won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.

That was an incredible film.

 

[AnotherGuy]

Drive My Car should have won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.

Thanks for the recommendation, will check it out!

 

[Evaniel]

"Procrastination" is just a slur for "lateral productivity."

There. I said it.

 

[Emberashh]

"Rant and rave?" Talk about contempt.

Just tells me my prediction was right that you would have had some words about pandering had I not preempted it.

Perhaps they can use emoji's, memes and Instagram pics?
For a country that is obsessed with social media we really rush to make a serious amount of ridiculous excuses instead of holding the creatives accountable.

Its not an excuse. Its a practical reality of running a business. You don't keep a business going by being pretentious.

Yes, that is what we are asking for? Arthouse indie and Thor those are the only two movie categories.

Have you ever actually examined why you care so much about this? And what, precisely, obscuring conlangs or foreign languages actually do for a given story?

Language use can be quite potent in art, but only when its deliberate, carefully measured and constructed, and actually has a point. Obscuring dialogue behind another language just for its own sake is neither.

This is why the usual technique is to sprinkle foreign words into accented English dialogue, and some, like Avatar or 13th Warrior, will induce translation diagetically, leaving the non-English dialogue to be implied rather than forced for no actual reason.

 

[Cadence]

Main issue is if they're supposed to be regular characters then you kind of have to skip the subtitles.


I don't think Ive ever seen a picture convey this much flimseyness. Much less two pictures.

"flimseyness"?

Iirc the playset had some pretty solid construction underlying it. Here are the instructions: Woman's Day Outer-Space Station Instructions It includes, for example "1/2"x36"x48" plywood; 3/4"x36"x60" plywood; 3/8"x3/8"x16" pine quarter-round molding; "

The remote control and the springs in the toy at the bottom did not last as long as one might like... but not particularly less than a lot of modern toys. The rest held up well.

 

[Reynard]

Every time you read the word diegetic in a thread here, drink.