Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Definitely using that for the next wizard lair ruin. (Our Shadowdark sandbox is the site of an ancient wizard war, so magical ruins all over the place, even when -- like this week -- you track bandits back to their hideout.)
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
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gnarlygninja
Hero
God, even though I knew the line was coming it was still enough to make me roll my eyes hard enough to make my head hurt! I found it a few years ago going through Academy Award nominees, and while I enjoyed it, I have known far too many people who never got over being told they were smart in high school to watch it without taking a little psychic damage.
Always nice to see a Whit Stillman movie reference in the wild.This movie is so fun. Very dry. Such a time capsule of NY prep schoolers in the 80s, but more generally of smart kids who had no idea how ignorant they actually were, despite reading a lot. Which is part of the time capsule; nowadays kids read less but have a much wider view of the world in many ways due to social media. The acting isn't the best, but IIRC these were pretty low budget, and the cast being pretty amateur is kind of charming.
Sometimes, that’s where I stop, then consider deleting my prospective post. Or actually do.
However, I occasionally also think about other participants in the thread- current and future. If what I have to say is potentially very important to the discussion, I usually decide to continue with my post.
Sure, odds are good that someone else could make the same contribution- I’m smart, but I’m not The Keeper of All Esoteric Knowledge. But- if those others are even participating in the discussion- they’re probably making the same calculations about whether or not to post. So instead of leaving it to a theoretical other, I post.
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overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
It applies equally to anywhere humans share opinions.
Unfortunately, most people care more about being right and somehow proving their rightness to others than anything remotely resembling a conversation. There are a few pockets here and there, of course. But not for lack of trying by the screeching masses.
A recent vlogbrothers video about Wikipedia comes to mind, but it's mostly about politics so I won't link it.
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
Yes, the cringe is real. Either thinking about young people we've known, or ourselves as clueless youngsters.
I appreciate that by the end of the movie Tom's actually tried out Jane Austen and found he likes her.
I was just thinking about how formal and kind of unnatural the dialogue in the movie is, especially for folks of that age, but I can absolutely suspend my disbelief given my recollection of how I (and others) wanted to show off my vocabulary and knowledge whenever I could. I suspect part of my enjoyment of the dialogue springs from the same place as my enjoyment of Jack Vance's dialogue. Stillman isn't quite as funny as Vance can be, but he's pretty great.
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