Peter B 📈

I call this "Software Engineer Contemplates A Suspension Bridge." (Actual art credit: Steve Rude, Nexus.) @steverudeart

It’s because the formerly cool website where everyone used to spend their time telling jokes and bullshitting about movies got purchased by a human sinkhole then turned into a machine that hands out nickels to the dumbest people on earth whenever they issue the wettest fart

@valfj8yal @Gurdur

I see an awful lot of people who have never read the Odyssey are busily commentating on their tourist-brochure version of Ithaca instead of the Odyssey's Ithaca as described by Homer

@valfj8yal @Gurdur You've read nothing, object. You can get as mad as you want on the internet, none of us really care.

One of the funniest things about this is Elon is just so aggressively dumb that he is sure Homer was a real guy

[Walks onto twitter] [Looks around] [Temples fingers] [Shouting] "THE BEST ADAPTATION OF HOMER'S ODYSSEY IS MIYAZAKI'S NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND"

@jemapelleeve Counterpoint: yes he can.

Οι μύθοι δεν ήταν απλή μυθοπλασία. Ηταν κοσμοθεωρία, ήταν θρησκεια , ήταν τρόπος εκπαίδευσης, διατυπώναν πρακτικές κοινωνικές καταστάσεις. Δεν μπορεί ο κάθε Νολαν να τοὺς οικειοποιείται και προβάλει τους αμερικανισμους του πάνω τους, πετάγοντας κάθε ελληνικό στοιχείο εκτός.

@BloodyMary19947 Are you willing to wager on this question, and how much money are you willing to lose?

No amount of PR can save Nolan's Odyssey from being a complete catastrophe. Whatever prestige he has built as a director so far will be obliterated. Sincerely, a very pissed-off Greek.

@tetsuya_00x Let me turn the question around: Weren't the people who committed the Sarin gas attacks Japanese? How could you then elect a Japanese PM? See how ridiculous that sounds? Zohran being Muslim doesn't make him responsible for something some other maniacs did.

@tetsuya_00x The answer is: Most Americans' families are immigrants within the past couple of generations. Real Americans don't distinguish. Immigrants can be as American as the next fella. (1/2)

私は日本人だから、米国人、特にNewYorkers の心理がよく分かりません。 そこで米国人にお尋ねしたい。 このポストに書かれているように、イスラム過激派による9.11の悲劇を経験したNYがなぜムスリムの市長を選んだのですか？ その判断基準は何だったのですか？ その市長が米国人よりも移民に優しい政策を採ることは事前に十分に想定きたはずですが...

@AncPhi This is an extremely stupid take. "Art should be unchanging and never reference other art." - You, basically. Truly a deeply, deeply dumb opinion

Bringing a movie adaption to a Greek epic is like taking a knife to a gun fight. Never go full adaptation— read the original and leave the compromise and distortion to the crowds.

@SketchesbyBoze I'm reliably told by illiterate chuds on twitter that this is only permissible if the author writes "THIS IS AN ADAPTATION" as the first sentence.

They should make a version of The Odyssey, only it’s set in Dublin, Ireland in 1904 and Odysseus is a Jewish man whose wife is having an affair and Telemachus is an aspiring author who gets into fights in pubs and wanders the strand brooding on his mother’s death.

@chrisbriem Serious question, Chris, I normally follow you on the other site, but I dipped over here to respond to a friend - does it mess with your head that like 80% of the responses here are deeply, insanely racist? Like, eliminationist-level racism?

The entire upper Ohio Valley is deeply concerning. Essentially the western suburbs of Pittsburgh. A lot of the other negative areas are deeply rural. Something else is going on.

@t_motegi ここはどのが都市ですか？まるでピッツバーグのようだ

坂道系路面電車。

@johnfhuizing @TheAtlasSociety Your addition of the word "Communism" is a fabrication. The word Heinrich was referring to was "embitterment", as both the previous and next paragraphs makes clear. It's perfectly fine to dislike Karl Marx. But don't make shit up in order to do so.

"Frankly speaking, my dear Karl, I do not like this modern word (Communism), which all weaklings use to cloak their feelings when they quarrel with the world because they do not possess, without labour or trouble, well-furnished palaces with vast sums of money and elegant carriages. This embitterment disgusts me and you are the last person from whom I would expect it. What grounds can you have for it? Has not everything smiled on you ever since your cradle? Has not nature endowed you with magnificent talents? Have not your parents lavished affection on you? Have you ever up to now been unable to satisfy your reasonable wishes? And have you not carried away in the most incomprehensible fashion the heart of a girl whom thousands envy you? Yet the first untoward event, the first disappointed wish, evokes embitterment! Is that strength? Is that a manly character?" -Heinrich Marx, Karl Marx's father

Marx spent his life criticizing capital while being funded by other people’s.

@welshofer @brollbenny Counterpoint to both of you: if the number of spaces after a period is important, then the client should render the correct amount of space no matter how many "space characters" I insert.

@brollbenny Ugh. Psycho. 😀

If a double space doesn’t belong after a period explain why my iPhone inserts a period when I double tap the space. Team double space for life.

@IsabelIniesta @PROMAKOS_ But all of those, even the ones you really enjoyed, are adaptations.

@peterb @PROMAKOS_ Hay, por ejemplo, muchas versiones de Él Conde de Montecristo. Algunas magníficas y otras desastrosas. La peor, al menos, la trajeron al siglo XX y no pretendían ser fieles al original. Un uso de los personajes fraudulento.

Primero. No sucedió pero se sitúa en un marco histórico concreto. Segundo. Independientemente de lo primero, hay un fenómeno fundamental en la literatura y el arte de fantasía y ficción que es lo que se conoce como pacto ficcional, que implica necesariamente que el espectador asuma los hechos como reales apartando su incredulidad a cambio de que el autor entienda que estos requieren de coherencia y verosimilitud dentro del cosmos de la propia obra. No puedes poner al cíclope bailando reggaeton aunque la obra sea ficticia y él un ser legendario por lo mismo que no puedes poner a una subsahariana a hacer de Helena de Troya, porque rompes ese pacto de ficción y destrozas la obra.

@bromethazine @johnvvariety [temples fingers] what if we had Nicholas Cage sing that song as Spider-Noir.

@johnvvariety Nas made a whole song in a 1920’s James Cagney noir detective voice/POV and it doesn’t work on any level, it’s spectacularly bad

What are some of the funniest bad ideas legendary musicians have had? So far I'm thinking the side of the George Harrison debut that's all unlistenable jams with bad titles, Prince's jazz fusion album about the weather, and METALLICA S&M

@IsabelIniesta @PROMAKOS_ Every single movie you have ever watched in your life that was based on a book is an adaptation.

@PROMAKOS_ @peterb Una adaptación debe indicar claramente que lo es. Lo contrario es engañoso para el espectador.