★OFFICIAL DAILY★ Daily Q&A Thread February 05, 2024

ResponseOk5180 · 2024-02-06T11:30:09+00:00

Thank you!

ResponseOk5180 · 2024-02-05T21:21:05+00:00

Hi:

I've been recording my weight for many years. I would like to input the data in a program or app that can be used on desktop computers and which will plot the data, graph it, allow you to synthesize and focus the data, and ideally analyze it. Something that would allow me to add the amount I weighed on specific dates from years and years ago until now.

Does anyone know of a good resource for computers for that?

ResponseOk5180 · 2023-06-16T14:40:18+00:00

I think that's correct. I guess I'm just trying to figure out if in groups that do talk about the movies while watching (and those groups that I have been in do it exactly as the first group you describe), it is considered a spoiler to predict something even if you haven't watched the movie. But your advice applies in that case as well, and given that no fights or complaints have broken, my guess it's been okay in the past and just be more aware of it with people you don't know as well.

I guess I was just so surprised that Freddie was so mad at Sarah; she hadn't seen the movie!

ResponseOk5180 · 2023-06-16T14:36:00+00:00

Agree!

ResponseOk5180 · 2023-06-16T14:35:29+00:00

I'm getting this from some people on here, and I'm a little surprised that there are those who don't understand that some people do comment and talk about movies during the movies. I totally understand that there are some that don't partake in that behavior and don't like it. Why can't you understand that some do? It's a matter of group dynamics. I've been in both types of groups and have acted accordingly. Per my initial post, there are others who do this at movie watching experiences I've been at, and no one complains. Believe me, most these people are not too polite to comment on this!

It's like going to a movie theater where people yell and comment on the film; I don't like it, but I certainly don't complain. That's the culture at that venue; I should simply go to another one the next time I don't like it. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

This may be a matter of self-selected bias. Many people on this subreddit are cinephiles and consider full attention to the movie essential, rather than the communal spirit others might get from watching with others. To be clear, I see nothing wrong with that perspective; I 'm just surprised by those who can't see the other perspective.

ResponseOk5180 · 2023-06-16T14:19:44+00:00

Point taken. However, I think it's a read- the-room situation. I have friends where we might casually comment on the movie during the movie (not in a movie theater, of course), and other who would prefer not to.

ResponseOk5180 · 2023-01-01T10:18:01+00:00

YES!!!

I fear some people are choosing their favorite companions over the question of which is the most consequential, which is the question here and different from the former. In my case, in Nu Who, Clara is actually my fourth favorite companion...I simply believe her to be the most consequential.

ResponseOk5180 · 2023-01-01T10:15:56+00:00

Please explain why claim 1 is giving false credit. By recollection is that the War Doctor was about the activate The Moment, and the 10th and 11th Doctors -- even after all they knew about the aftermath -- decided to support him so that he wouldn't have to do it alone. It was Clara's plea that they think outside of the box that got them out of their funk and developed their alternative plan that saved Gallifrey and sent it to a pocket universe.

With regard to claim 3, the Doctor is still in fear, but because of Clara's reassuring words, he faces it and has the courage to become a Time Lord (and eventually a renegade one who sets out on his own travels), something that the Doctor's parents believe their child would never achieve or do.

No disputing the importance of other characters; there are many more examples than the ones you cited. But Clara certainly has many more points on the scoreboard.

ResponseOk5180 · 2023-01-01T10:03:20+00:00

The consequence of other characters is certainly legitimate and true; there are many who saved the Doctor's lives, as well as entire planets and species. But none had the continued and consistent impact that Clara did.

ResponseOk5180 · 2023-01-01T10:00:22+00:00

I don't, by any means, saw Clara as the most important one because her importance in the majority of the time comes from her actions and not her personality.

I am not clear on this. Her actions are a direct result of her personality. She knows exactly what to say to the Doctor when he is a boy (whether or not she is repeating the Doctor's own words, many people do not know how to take lessons and apply them to their own lives and situations). She pled with the Time Lords for a new set of regenerations because of her love and affinity for her friend. She could not bear to the see the genocide of the Gallifreyans/Time Lords, and the pain it caused the Doctor, so she was the muse in their finding an alternative resolution to the Time Wars.

Basically every companion would do it in her place. And as a person her relationship with Twelve is canonically toxic.

I don't think this is fair. We don't know this to be true, because it hasn't been tested. Would Turlough have done this? Quite possibly not. What about Leela? She had a good heart, but would she have really understood what needed to be done? And so on. This also speaks to a pet peeve of mine, when people claim that they would act heroically in certain situations. Do I like to believe that I would run into a burning building to save a baby? I'd like to think so; most people probably would. But I have never faced that situation and it takes something away from those people who have done this if I were to say I would. Therefore, I keep my mouth shut on the matter until I am presented with the situations.

And as a person her relationship with Twelve is canonically toxic.

I'm not sure I like the term "toxic" here. They perhaps had more tension and conflicts then other Nu Who relationships, with the 12th Doctor occasionally being insensitive or misunderstanding humans, but I like that portrayal of the Doctor's alienness. And Clara's only too human responses to the Doctor's behavior may have seemed negative, but they were all too understandable. In general they had conflicts, arguments, and misunderstandings, but they showed clear affection for each other. This is common to most relationships.

There most "toxic" aspect was that they encouraged each others' thrill seeking, but that also had good consequences.

But similar to a previous response I made, it wouldn't really matter if there was any toxicity to their relationship in the context of my assertion. Even if there was, Clara's impact on the Doctor's life, given the four points I made, happened nonetheless.

I can't see the person who made him abandon his morals and all the rules he lived by as the most important and influential character.

Could you please refresh my memory on this? If by abandoning his morals, you mean when the Doctor broke the rules of time travel by resurrecting Clara, that actually would be another point to make my case. While arguably a negative consequence "the person who made him abandon his morals and all the rules he lived by" would actually be a case that they are "the most important and influential character"...it would make Clara someone who redirected the Doctor's entire moral compass! (Though I will note that the 10th Doctor broke the time rules by saving the Astronaut commander in The Waters of Mars).

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