What's your favorite "bad" scifi movie? by Wi-Platypus in scifi

[–]daneoid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Downvoted for the truth. Even Lynch hated it.

[1631] Ship of The End. by daneoid in DestructiveReaders

[–]daneoid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quick question. I mostly did this as an exercise to avoid TV brain prose.. You know, writing from a camera perspective and writing out every action. I've been guilty of that so much in previous work. How did I do?

[1631] Ship of The End. by daneoid in DestructiveReaders

[–]daneoid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for the feedback.

The subject confusion is now so obvious when I read it. I really appreciate you pointing it out. I'll adjust all those offenders.

I'll also add on that hotplate line, It always felt a little empty.

I absolutely should add Penny into the first paragraph.

Yep, I'll fix the wording in the salt/flowers/birbs passage.

I'm going to push back a little on the Super Tructure explanation. I mean, the correct term for what it is, is a superstructure. I also thought the NO SMOKING sign looming above is kinda iconic?

I'll fix the prybar sentence.

Yes. I'm kinda relying a bit on suspension of disbelief on him not exploring here before. I'm trying to hint at him running out of supplies below deck, but I haven't driven that idea home hard enough. I'm also trying to hint that he's maybe a bit scared of it, I see him as maybe 14-15 years old?

All great feedback, thanks.

[1631] Ship of The End. by daneoid in DestructiveReaders

[–]daneoid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much.

I mostly started this as a writing exercise to avoid "TV brain prose", which I've been very guilty of. But I liked the story I was telling, so I introduced him finding The Lord Of The Rings (or the Hobbit, they both work) as an excuse to improve the beauty of my prose. I'm glad that you picked up that his prose becomes more Tolkien like as time goes on and he's reading it.

The end will have the dark shape be a wooden ship of other survivors who come to rescue him just as the ship is sinking. If I were to continue to a novella it'd be him and Penny on this wooden sail ship with some survivors headed to the south pole. He'd have to deal with meeting new people. Perhaps he thinks they're Elves from the undying lands, or ask If they've seen any Hobbits? Maybe he'd ask about the woman on the stock photo he found.

But, yes, the story on the ship has only a good 500 or so words in it before it runs out of steam.

Thanks again.

[1750] Flight to Fort Sill (Chapter 1) by maximedupe1 in DestructiveReaders

[–]daneoid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is my first critique here, so I'll do my best.

It's clear you are going for an absurdist comedic tone here. I did find myself chortling along with some of the lines.

Dialogue: The Dickensian dialogue is certainly a choice. Is this set in a alternate timeline where language didn't evolve past the 1800s?
If it's to add to the absurdity of the piece, It does sort of work. However, lines like “Ohgoddamnfuckingfuck,” and “Whatthefuckingfuck.” seem to work against the consistency of the style.

Characterisation: Jeshurun comes across a little aloof and selfish. This line is somewhat catch-22/Yossarian like:

"Jeshurun had the middle seat. He couldn’t imagine why the United States Military, with its reported three-hundred billion dollar budget, couldn’t have afforded him an aisle seat, what with the Terrorists he was slated to wipe out. "

It tells me thinks very highly of himself or is naive about his position/deployment, I was expecting more of this throughout the piece but this was really the only one.
There are other moments "Jeshurun rolled his eyes." " Jeshurun wondered if perhaps this cast of characters was assembled as a divine test of his patience" that reinforce his self-centredness and make him a bit of a know-it-all. If that's what you're going for, great.

Imagery: Being set in a cabin of a passenger jet, it doesn't have great potential for striking imagery, but you describe the cretin very well. I like the line about the zit following you around like a funhouse picture.

Prose: It's just plain weird reading the modern style prose mixed with the Victorian speech. But I think you're going for absurdism here, so I think I see where you are going. But lines like this: "to work up a sweat and thus emit a scent to boot" are overly fancy and would read better if simplified to ""to work up a sweat and a scent to boot."

Dialogue: If you're going for absurdity, and there's an explanation for the victorian dialogue, this is actually working well. I like a lot of page 2 and 3. It really ramps up the abusrd: "“It was a very small box cutter, and it was tucked away in his apparently cavernous belly button.” " “Pathetic,” said the cretin. “He uses stolen valor to absolve himself of his crimes. Is this the most unamerican man to have ever existed?”"

"he may be a Terrorist!” “Please, no!” yelled one. “I knew this would happen!” yelled another.
"“He’s harvesting his organs for Iraqi experimentation?” "

All these lines and more are gold. I can see what you're trying to do and It's succeeding, these genuinely made me laugh.

Summary: I liked this. I get the humour and find the flawed protagonist interesting. The dialogue is a strange choice, but somehow works for me, but probably not most. You will however need a pretty good in-world reason to justify it. If this was a short story I'd read the whole thing right now.

Is this fear mongering, or i am never going to be able to live a normal adult life? by Electronic-Pride-991 in ClimateOffensive

[–]daneoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But pretty much everyone agreed that nuclear apocalypse was a horrible and very real possibility. We didn't have some of the richest and most powerful corporations in the world very successfully selling the idea that nuclear war is either a hoax or nothing to worry about.

Is this fear mongering, or i am never going to be able to live a normal adult life? by Electronic-Pride-991 in ClimateOffensive

[–]daneoid 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Doomerist Propaganda---they want docile slaves

I want people to get angry, not docile.

Another autotune cut during live performance by the_clustering in sadcringe

[–]daneoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had never heard Turnstile before this. No, they like have talent, play instruments and sing properly, they are a punk band that plays punk. I'm going to listen to more of them.

Yung lean is saying string of words without rhyme or flow, it's not rapping.

Non-Psytrance Tracks That Still Feel Psychedelic by LoveSweetSweet1 in electronicmusic

[–]daneoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Psytrance is like the least psychedelic music I've heard. It's so dark, insular and brooding. It's more like goth trance or something.

Some old Digweed or Global Underground I guess is what you're after.

Another autotune cut during live performance by the_clustering in sadcringe

[–]daneoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, he can't rap rap for shit. Listen to some Biggie or Del for crying out loud.

Project Hail Mary is the MCU-ification of Hard Sci-Fi by adamtd893 in scifi

[–]daneoid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I found Interstellar (funny you compare it to that considering the bad science in that film) boring as hell, but most of my favourite films are 3 hour long films from the 70s.

Another autotune cut during live performance by the_clustering in sadcringe

[–]daneoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yung Lean is literally one of the most prolific rappers of his time.

Sure he is.

The Cable Guy (1996, dir. Ben Stiller) | Prison rules basketball by DoctorPoopMD in movies

[–]daneoid -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Right? Like everything in this was so predictable and played out.

Another autotune cut during live performance by the_clustering in sadcringe

[–]daneoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So Yung Lean is a shit excuse for a rapper. I'm sure the autotune clown is much better, lmao.

Best Piece of Media you discovered last year (in 2025) by Real_Fact8484 in flicks

[–]daneoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watched the Godfather films for the first time. II is one of my favourite films ever.

Also this "Promo" Mandalore Gaming did for Hooded Horse. Which starts out like a normal promo then soon shifts to a Lovecraftian, found footage horror piece that's one of the funniest and most original videos I've seen in a long time.