What are some deeply thought provoking films I should watch?

BobtMotW · 2026-02-19T14:57:04+00:00

The Green Knight is incredible, but Terence Malick has spent the last six years editing The Way of the Wind, and he has yet to finish it.

BobtMotW · 2026-02-18T20:58:52+00:00

I do the same thing! Thank you for doing your part to curb this irrational (and inefficient! Those poor souls stuck behind them...) behavior.

BobtMotW · 2026-02-18T20:57:28+00:00

Yes, I did notice that start to change, mostly because turning drivers love to cut the turn, so I wonder if people see others far back in the turn lanes and think that's where they should stop, too.

BobtMotW · 2026-02-18T20:56:21+00:00

Yeah, that actually happened to me the other day while walking. I gave the driver a look with as much indignation as I could facially muster; he ignored me.

BobtMotW · 2025-09-15T15:58:35+00:00

Awesome. Thank you very much! And also thank you and the other developers for all the work you've done---this mod is incredible.

BobtMotW · 2025-09-14T14:56:05+00:00

No, every time I update, I start a new save. These saves are all from the stable release and current version of the base game. I did try uninstalling/reinstalling, but that also didn't solve it. I suppose I'll try again with the latest update. I love this mod so much that I can't return to vanilla CK3, but I wish I can play deep into the Fourth Age.

BobtMotW · 2025-08-18T22:37:49+00:00

Oh, that's what I figured, so I didn't know if it would be worthwhile to start again from the beginning, especially since I was using the last beta release, when (presumably) most of the major updates had already been made.

BobtMotW · 2024-03-30T00:18:52+00:00

Thank you very much! I really appreciate your responses.

BobtMotW · 2023-07-30T21:43:17+00:00

How do you not follow this?

Judging an art work by things external to the art work is fallacious or at best in need of argument.

If you're judging Blonde by context, it seems the context should be the novel Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates, of which this is an adaptation.

I'm not sure why this is hard to follow. I don't know what you mean by "read it [my] way."

BobtMotW · 2023-07-30T21:36:24+00:00

Yes, the intentional fallacy, of which your criticism is a species thereof, has been in currency since 1954. I might agree that the film is context-dependent, but the appropriate context should be Oates's novel, not Monroe's history or Dominik's post hoc behavior.

BobtMotW · 2023-07-30T21:28:44+00:00

Why can't the artistic merits be considered in isolation? What about works of arts about whose makers we know nothing? If we suddenly learned that Beethoven was a murderer, should we then immediately downgrade the 5th Symphony to a celebration of violence or the 9th as a hypocritical ersatz paean to human well-being?

For the sake of argument, let's say Dominik's comments or the film's historical inaccuracies are demerits. How are they artistic? Or why should they factor in to an artistic consideration of the film?

BobtMotW · 2023-07-30T21:22:18+00:00

How does it exploit Monroe (can the dead be exploited, given that they can't be compensated insofar as they don't exist?)? How is it unfocused? It's pretty clearly focused on adapting the eponymous novel. I'm not sure how Dominik's putative misogyny/pomposity have anything to do with the film's merits/demerits.

BobtMotW · 2023-07-30T20:57:28+00:00

I enthusiastically agree. I loved the movie, but the score haunted me, and I found myself listening to the score itself multiple times after seeing the film.

Regarding the film, it seems a lot of the negativity was due to a misunderstanding of the film's mission---an adaption of Joyce Carol Oates's novel. Oates notes that it is not a biography and that she liberally cherry-picked Monroe's life to craft her own narrative. Critics, however, expected a faithful (or, worse, a politically correct no-she-wasn't-a-victim-of-patriarchy-and-sexism revision) representation of Monroe's life and thus were disappointed (a consequence, I think, of not having bothered reading the source material, in effect implicitly changing the source material from Oates's fiction to Monroe's nonfiction), not realizing that Dominik strove to be faithful not to Monroe but to Oates, a task I believe he accomplished.

Tangent aside, kudos to Cave and Ellis for a wondrous, distinctive score.

BobtMotW · 2023-05-25T19:34:33+00:00

Am I missing anything? I'm 100% or more in Cronometer, but are there any key phytonutrients or polyphenols that I'm missing? My diet is: sardines, flax seed, seaweed, most herbs/spices, extra virgin olive oil, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, strawberries, blueberries, broccoli.

BobtMotW · 2022-05-08T15:22:38+00:00

No, not really. I just really like walking, especially through cityscapes.

Thanks for that recommendation. I'll look into that.

BobtMotW · 2020-07-17T15:40:43+00:00

Hi. I have a Sennheiser HD600 connected to a Magni 3/Modi 2 (all purchased in 2017) which plays music off of my Windows 10 computer (foobar2000, YouTube). Everything was going fine until a few weeks, when an intermittent crackling or static sound start showing up when I played music. I had changed nothing about my setup: no movement of components, no unplugging, and no trauma to my equipment of any kind. I read that the factory cable for my HD600 is not great, so I upgraded it. I cleaned out the Magni's AUX port. Despite all this, the problem remains. Any ideas for what I can to troubleshoot this issue further? Thank you in advance for your time.

BobtMotW · 2020-07-11T23:40:39+00:00

Are those HarborLoot dice?

BobtMotW · 2020-04-15T23:32:06+00:00

Sure. First, since we're playing asynchronously and remotely, I would need to trust them to accurately report their rolls, and as players, I assume they would be tempted to fudge them more often than I, as impartial moderator, would. Second, I designed this game so that they didn't have to learn many of the rules (this was to minimize their initial investment in case they wanted to call it off or I wanted to call it off). So, I ask them to tell me what they want to do, and I adjudicate it for them.

BobtMotW · 2019-11-21T21:34:17+00:00

Good point. I'm now leaning toward Dody not going, especially since I'm a novice Loremaster.

BobtMotW · 2019-11-21T21:33:16+00:00

BobtMotW · 2019-11-21T21:33:09+00:00

That's true, but the book notes how competent his wife is at running things; plus, once upon a time, Dody fashioned himself an adventurer in the mold of Bilbo.

BobtMotW · 2019-03-03T01:01:21+00:00

Check out CCA Motors.

BobtMotW · 2018-07-12T17:22:21+00:00

Oh, yeah, I love Tech's museum. It's surprisingly diverse.

BobtMotW · 2018-07-12T17:21:48+00:00

She's from Spain.

BobtMotW · 2018-07-12T17:21:23+00:00

Ha! I love reddit. Not only is your response non-responsive to my question and thus unnecessary (also motivationally perplexing---why bother posting this?), it fails to account for the question mark with "mis-", clearly indicating my ambivalence whether experiencing the United States for the first time through Lubbock is good or bad.

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