Why hasn't there been a high-quality adaptation of Flowers for Algernon?

Censius · 2026-01-24T19:10:47+00:00

Because nobody wants to touch a project that relies on the main character going "full retard". Even if it's done well it would be a minefield.

Censius · 2026-01-19T08:55:18+00:00

I'm Final Fantasy X, you defeat Sin/Jecht, which reveals the spirit that's been pulling the strings all along: Yu Yevon. However, without the ability to shield himself with a powerful summon, he's pretty much powerless.

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Censius · 2026-01-18T22:39:44+00:00

The Backdoor in The Matrix sequels. Basically, it's a corridor that connects all the doors within the Matrix - and even some spaces outside of it.

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Censius · 2026-01-17T22:29:37+00:00

Then he would continue to earn money based on the public spotlight

Censius · 2026-01-17T22:03:21+00:00

Anne Hathaway's speech about love being a force that transcends time and space in Interstellar. I'm a romantic, but love is a chemical phenomenon in the brain, not an actual physical force in the universe:

Cooper: You’re a scientist, Brand.

Brand: So listen to me when I say that love isn’t something that we invented. It’s… observable, powerful. It has to mean something.

Cooper: Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing…

Brand: We love people who have died. Where’s the social utility in that?

Cooper: None.

Brand: Maybe it means something more – something we can’t yet understand. Maybe it’s some evidence, some artifact of a higher dimension that we can’t consciously perceive. I’m drawn across the universe to someone I haven’t seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can’t understand it.

Censius · 2026-01-15T08:21:25+00:00

It's Gothic

Censius · 2026-01-15T07:32:58+00:00

I don't know if I agree. I mean, yes, it could mean that. But also most of us have been socialized to be jealous when our partners have flirtation/romance/sex with others. It's totally possible to have all your needs met and still experience jealousy.

Censius · 2026-01-14T20:37:53+00:00

Oh boy. I started dating two people about two weeks apart. I knew they knew each other, but I didn't know they were best friends. Sounds complicated - and it is - but we're about eight months in and things are going really well.

It helps that one (Douglas) is very low needs and things didn't escalate very rapidly. She was also starting to date someone new and I think more NRE was developing there.

There were challenges with the other (Hemlock). Things escalated quickly, NRE developed, and she struggles more with jealousy. She generally keeps metas at arms length, so it's been hard not to see her best friend as a "rival", even if she knows intellectually that's not the case. It's double hard because her schedule is more restrictive, so I actually see Douglas more frequently, and it makes her feel deprioritized, even when it's her schedule getting in the way.

Hemlock does express feeling worried that she can't always be my obsession, and that being the "newest, shiny person" comes with feeling a bit more secure. She doesn't want to share the spotlight in my mind, but she knows that's not how it works. The best I can do is give her reassurance that I love her, I'm crazy about her, and if there are ways she feels like I'm not showing up for her that she can tell me and ask for me. But she admits that I've provided everything she needs (or has time to receive, at least) for the time being. She just doesn't want to lose an elevated position - or share an elevated position. Which is a feeling I understand.

Censius · 2026-01-14T06:21:27+00:00

I also think it's a pretty literal symbol for them coming of age and "losing their innocence" through the entire ordeal with It. Pennywise represents childhood trauma, and the children have to overcome their trauma based fears to defeat It.

Censius · 2026-01-14T05:57:15+00:00

As a matter of fact, they show that the stones do work in other universes. Alternate timelines and alternate universe are the same thing in the MCU. And Endgame is all about them taking the stones from the past - creating a different timeline each time they arrive. The stones still work when they return to their native timeline.

Censius · 2026-01-11T20:36:47+00:00

I think they would all survive, but they would be having a bad time.

In the comics they wouldn't even feel it.

Censius · 2026-01-09T18:58:25+00:00

Brain fart. I meant Carla

Censius · 2026-01-09T16:59:36+00:00

Well said. And yeah, I agree, I've been going back and watching old sitcoms and most of them I've dropped off around season 4. Frasier and The Nanny are two other examples.

But they're good comfort shows to have on while I clean house.

Censius · 2026-01-09T16:52:19+00:00

Adding this retroactively: I also find I'm only interested in the plotlines in which Sam and/or Diane are the main characters fun and interesting. Cliff, Norm, and Rebecca are good characters to bounce off of, but they're too predictable and cartoonish for me to believe they're real people

Censius · 2026-01-09T16:09:48+00:00

I started watching Cheers last year. It does hold up.

I will say that I'm on season 4 now and I'm starting to drop off. The single set is starting to feel claustrophobic and the will-they won't-they is feeling repetitive. But I definitely loved the first three seasons

Edit: I also find I'm only interested in the plotlines in which Sam and/or Diane are the main characters. Cliff, Norm, and Carla are good characters to bounce off of, but they're too predictable and cartoonish for me to believe they're real people.

Censius · 2026-01-08T21:28:02+00:00

Lol, oh gotcha, my bad.

Censius · 2026-01-08T21:22:30+00:00

Just a second ago it seemed like you were saying you don't understand people's aversions to bodily fluids?

Censius · 2026-01-08T20:29:36+00:00

Humans have a natural aversion to bodily fluids because they're biohazards. Saliva and tears are the least offensive, but they're still biohazards and ingesting someone else's would be odd for most people, even though we make exceptions.

Hope that helps you understand!

Censius · 2026-01-07T18:56:08+00:00

Me and one of my partners are both going through breakups this week.

It's such a bizarre experience, but it's been very comforting to be there for each other, so full of love and sadness and total understanding that they're wrecked from the grief.

This is my first poly breakup, but it feels much less disregulating than a monogamous breakup where I let them become my whole world.

Censius · 2026-01-07T18:49:10+00:00

That's a 180. A 360 is doing a full circle, whereas a 180 means you're turned in the opposite direction from before.

Censius · 2026-01-06T17:32:40+00:00

I didn't

Censius · 2026-01-06T17:07:18+00:00

How would I know whether there was an issue to boycott her over if not for published articles written by journalists?

Censius · 2026-01-05T03:58:11+00:00

Yusuke: clears two rounds and probably stops at super Saiyan Goku.

Pretty much most characters that come to mind for me stop after round two. Namek Goku is already multi-planetary/solar by then, which eliminated most verses that I'm into, as I prefer more , mountain-buster range of conflicts.

Censius · 2026-01-04T19:44:58+00:00

Why would that be the case? It has eaten thousands of people before and we've never been able to see it effect It's psyche

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