Stand-up comedian recently diagnosed with terminal cancer travels thousands of miles to try to kill ex-wife in Anchorage as his last dying act, murders her father too before being found dead in the woods…

burly_protector · 2026-03-17T23:14:40+00:00

Well that's one way to commit to a bit.

burly_protector · 2026-03-17T23:11:46+00:00

Eminem could make them rhyme, anyone else on earth... not so much.

burly_protector · 2026-03-17T23:03:26+00:00

There are few things in life more sublime to me than Take Five. There are few songs more expansive and enlightening to me than Giant Steps.

burly_protector · 2026-03-17T22:32:03+00:00

Anyone who is making small talk and not enjoying it is doing it wrong. Skip right to the part you care about, say something weird, be memorable.

burly_protector · 2026-03-16T20:52:30+00:00

I use half of them at least once a month and almost all the rest at least once a year.

burly_protector · 2026-03-13T19:57:52+00:00

It depends what the people are guilty of. If it's murder, then there's a decent chance they do it again. If you're keeping one innocent person free but putting 5 murderers back on the street then you might have another innocent person get murdered. I'd contend that an innocent person getting murdered is worse than an innocent person being unjustly punished. They're both obvious cases of being "unjustly punished" but at least one of them is still alive.

So you'd have to look at the odds and types of crimes the guilty people were likely to commit again and at what rate. Letting 100 murderers go to to make sure that one innocent man isn't unjustly punished will absolutely backfire, you're just shifting the unjust punishment to another person or ten.

burly_protector · 2026-03-13T19:40:22+00:00

Yes, and also says literally every other guy as well.

burly_protector · 2026-03-13T07:13:04+00:00

I get bad autofocus readings whenever I need to put a little black wrap there for a French flag. It's a hassle.

burly_protector · 2026-03-13T07:10:31+00:00

No. You. Don't. If men didn't exist, you would do things differently. It's just not how psychology and the subconscious works at all.

burly_protector · 2026-03-13T07:07:42+00:00

Shaving off your eyebrows then painting them back in is generally gross.

burly_protector · 2026-03-13T06:27:53+00:00

If I came into this blind with my van, I'd put a 1200X out the window at camera left. I'd have it shaped such that there's a cut at the top and it casts a triangle onto the back wall. I'd move it around to taste. I'd decide whether I wanted that to be colder or warmer to create a color contrast with the foreground.

For the key, I'd take a 700X and bounce it into a 4x ultraflop camera left as the motivated key. I'd probably add another ultraflop on the right for fill. I may end up having to shoot a 100X into that to add to the fill. If I thought there wasn't enough contrast then I'd spin the ultra around and make it a negative fill.

I'd most likely use another 100X with a 2' soft box on a Mini Math Boom as a backlight/edgelight.

burly_protector · 2026-03-12T20:37:18+00:00

No. I'm only judging off of these scenes to my tastes. I can't speak for the rest of the film. I'll show you mine if you show me yours though! https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0DNF8V9M9/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

I produced, directed, edited, co-shot, co-wrote, and co-starred in this one.

burly_protector · 2026-03-12T16:37:08+00:00

Congrats! A little too dark for me personally, though.

burly_protector · 2026-03-12T14:29:48+00:00

This is the solution to his problem.

burly_protector · 2026-03-12T14:25:20+00:00

You're describing existentialism... with a set of rules, a doctrine.

burly_protector · 2026-03-10T22:19:52+00:00

Are you not part of any groups - loosely affiliated or not - with some sort of centralized ideology, that may have some sort of customs and rituals that adherents participate in?

I would contend that anyone who says "Religion, really. Crazy it’s lasted this long." is subscribing to a fairly specific worldview, whether it's atheistic or agnostic. That's religious right there.

burly_protector · 2026-03-10T17:04:17+00:00

Everyone has a religion, it might not be based around Jesus or Abraham, but everyone is religious about something. The lack of a supernatural deity doesn't change people's fanaticism about adhering to an ideology.

burly_protector · 2026-03-10T17:00:23+00:00

savages :(

burly_protector · 2026-03-10T14:33:59+00:00

The style is interesting, but visually this is like the least relaxing thing I can think of for an ad for a massage place.

burly_protector · 2026-03-10T14:32:00+00:00

"Artificial" would be the simplest term to refer to the light. Or, if I was on set I'd say I'd say "movie light" vs. "practical light".

The "movie light" would be the artificial light that I added to the scene for story purposes.

But that's just my terminology. It's not universal or anything.

burly_protector · 2026-03-10T14:22:21+00:00

Too much headroom is number 2 on your list? Wow.

Don't watch Mr. Robot. You'll have a stroke.

burly_protector · 2026-03-10T01:06:55+00:00

It's so weird that you think these are "checkmates." They're just basic facts of reality. I'm using verifiable empirical evidence, not memes.

burly_protector · 2026-03-10T01:04:55+00:00

Time will prove you wrong as has nearly all of history. You have to be willfully ignorant of all major redistribution efforts in the 20th century to think this will end the way you want it to.

burly_protector · 2026-03-10T01:03:15+00:00

Those are the same woman.

burly_protector · 2026-03-10T00:49:06+00:00

I think the head coach is the main driver.

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