Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

Cold Mountain? Well, I wouldn't call Jude Law an albino but he's pretty colourless as a screen presence.

Thinking that he means the bounty hunter. I've never seen it but I just watched the movie trailer and the moment that I heard "Movie Voice Guy" stating the leads were award nominees/winners, I could tell that it was predictable Oscar Bait™.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I sometimes wonder if people are ending up here on their very first day on the internet.

 

[payn]

Thinking that he means the bounty hunter. I've never seen it but I just watched the movie trailer and the moment that I heard "Movie Voice Guy" stating the leads were award nominees/winners, I could tell that it was predictable Oscar Bait™.

Its got Jack White, Brendan Gleason, and Phillip Seymore Hoffman. It wasnt memorable but I didnt think it was bad (except albino cowboy).

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Each to their own, obviously. But I would like to say again how much I hate Cold Mountain.

 

[Deset Gled]

I sometimes wonder if people are ending up here on their very first day on the internet.

Similarly, there have been times I assumed someone was ~14 and just started playing D&D for the first time from their writing, then they bring up their experiences of gaming in the 1970s.

 

[Thomas Shey]

same reason why hate watching is a thing or people posting in a thread about something they don't like

Or in some cases being able to respect the value of a work that you know personally would not set well with you. But the reasons it wouldn't involve engaging with it closely, not from a distance.

I'm always interested in superhero settings, but neither media presentation of The Boys is something I want to engage with; yet I can find some of the world building, and in the case of the show, the casting and other technical aspects interesting from a distance.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I was on Wikipedia looking something up and clicked on the reference link for a cite, and of course, it’s completely vanished. Makes me think Internet Archive might be the most important site on the Internet.

As someone who's had probably an unusually frequent need to do research involving older Internet material, if you haven't done it its easy to not realize how often bitrot sets in over time. As you say, archiving is potentially very important here.

 

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Similarly, there have been times I assumed someone was ~14 and just started playing D&D for the first time from their writing, then they bring up their experiences of gaming in the 1970s.

There are so many people out there who appear to have never played with a second DM or played games made after five years after they first played.

"I know indie games, I played Palladium Fantasy," etc.

Which is fine, if they're happy, but some of their opinions are ... idiosyncratic.

 

[prabe]

There are so many people out there who appear to have never played with a second DM or played games made after five years after they first played.

"I know indie games, I played Palladium Fantasy," etc.

Which is fine, if they're happy, but some of their opinions are ... idiosyncratic.

I might call those opinions "underinformed" instead of "idiosyncratic," but I'm not inclined to argue hard about it.