Ever had one those moments in life when you know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, you are making a very, very bad decision, with a great chance for instant regret and a miserable, probably long lasting, outcome and notheless followed that path?...
You can be a detective with Hammershoi. Any piece can be analyzed and speculated at ad nauseum. They are massive with widely interpretable elements....
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.
Believed to be Michelangelo’s first easel painting, completed when he was 12 or 13. Based largely on an engraving by Martin Schongauer, down to the demon’s whiskered asshole:...
Here’s the summary from the Tate Modern Art Museum (available here www.tate.org.uk/art/…/meireles-babel-t14041). I have modified some of it to read easier, and supply context....
I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....
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.
What is the most impressive music video you've ever seen?
Most music videos, especially modern ones, are pretty boring.
Unfiltered and unpasteurized suffering (lemmy.world)
Twin Falls - Built to Spill (1994)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKin1UPQWXU...
Tell us your definitive "I really should not do this" moment.
Ever had one those moments in life when you know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, you are making a very, very bad decision, with a great chance for instant regret and a miserable, probably long lasting, outcome and notheless followed that path?...
Beware fellow heathens (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The Bathing Hour - Joaquin Sorolla (1904) (sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com)
Here’s a summary I found online:...
Interior with an Easel - Vilhelm Hammershøi (1912) (upload.wikimedia.org)
You can be a detective with Hammershoi. Any piece can be analyzed and speculated at ad nauseum. They are massive with widely interpretable elements....
Halevy Street, From the 6th Floor (1878) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Here’s what Halevy Street looks like today:...
Yellow Roses in a Vase - Gustave Caillebotte (1882) (upload.wikimedia.org)
You may remember him from Planers of a small apartment:...
Pollice Verso - Jean-Léon Gérôme (1872) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Pollice Verso is latin for “with a turned thumb”.
Anon plays L4D2 (lemmy.ml)
The Torment of Saint Anthony - Michelangelo (1488) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Believed to be Michelangelo’s first easel painting, completed when he was 12 or 13. Based largely on an engraving by Martin Schongauer, down to the demon’s whiskered asshole:...
Babel - Cildo Meireles (2001) (media.tate.org.uk)
Here’s the summary from the Tate Modern Art Museum (available here www.tate.org.uk/art/…/meireles-babel-t14041). I have modified some of it to read easier, and supply context....
Untitled - Andrzej Piecha (scontent-mia3-1.xx.fbcdn.net)
A Polish artist and recluse, little is known about the painter. He also didn’t seem to name any of his work. He died in 2013.
What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? (sh.itjust.works)
I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....
Anon is a comic book critic (sh.itjust.works)
Sauron takes an interest in the monarchy (sh.itjust.works)
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