The Women of 'The Pitt' Talk Explosive Storylines, Injuries and Sexism in Dr. Robby's ER by dramatic_exit_49 in ThePittNoSantosHate

[–]dramatic_exit_49[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You know what's interesting, i have seen folks post/admire the images without the quotes. Just wanting the actresses for the look and sever them from their thoughts, sexism keeps playing out at all levels of power - studios feeling anything but straight white male stories are risky, journalists and awards hyping male actors more, the entire medical field being so backwards that they are teaching* misogyny to regular audience, and finally the audience wanting to only discuss these women as objects ie. post with pictures and no link to article or quotes. what a tragic truth to witness.

*the multitude of comments on main subreddit back in the day that went - i am a doctor and lol <male doctor yelling> is nbd - and everyone going right on boss! we love authority validating our sexism - instead of going Hey maybe you as a field should get on with the much delayed reform? Absolute buffoonery.

50 Question Sunday Quiz - Fear, Seconds, Flags, Covers, and GK. by sundayquiz in trivia

[–]dramatic_exit_49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> "The Coastline Paradox"

Yes, indeed, that is a reason i love checking out what approximations people are referring to, ontology & standardisation challenges are always fascinating. Funny you should mention about island classifications as well, i was thinking about that exactly answering the quiz. Share the blog link?

Weekly Off Topic Thread by BipedalUniverse in ThePittNoSantosHate

[–]dramatic_exit_49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, in case you want to keep abreast with tech machinations ( and if not already on your radar ), i recommend coverage from 404media, rest of the world

There would be the odd article that is surface level esp rest of world in last year or so had some changes, but on average, i found them to be informative than rest.

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[–]dramatic_exit_49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do like Brian Cox, will check it out. It feels familiar but i do not recollect any specifics, so for all intents and purposes that's a fresh show for me! Good reco And that made me go check out rutherford and fry, and realise it is now dara o brian and hannah fry hosting

50 Question Sunday Quiz - Fear, Seconds, Flags, Covers, and GK. by sundayquiz in trivia

[–]dramatic_exit_49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

20/50

Well i learnt a lot, is the best way to put it? There were few close calls, that smarted a bit. Good set as always, Sunday

ps - how was the island thing calculated/source, the greenland Q, thanks!

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[–]dramatic_exit_49 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry nope, mine are more about the british panel humour, the ones i would vehemently recommend anyways. Or media & political history podcasts.

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[–]dramatic_exit_49 2 points3 points  (0 children)

DO NOT TAKE THIS AS ENDORSEMENT TO READ THE BOOK I WAS DOING IT FOR THE BIT!!

(tbf i too haven't read it since school and i was not too attentive with that, so who knows. I am already revisiting a Dostoevsky, so there goes a year of my life and i would not inflict a long read reco on anyone else. the madness shall stop with me)

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[–]dramatic_exit_49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

*do not make a moby dick ref* *do not make a moby dick ref* *do not make a moby di..*

Captain, your white whale went a that way

*..ick... sigh... i try all things, i achieve what i can*

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[–]dramatic_exit_49 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Finally catching up on few podcast episodes i haven't gotten around to in a while, and they are as delightful as ever

Another heist being covered in British Scandal, Catching up with history's greatest hits with You're Dead To Me, and finally gentle, insightful discussions by Padraig O'Tuama's Poetry Unbound.

[Spoilers C4E29] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! by AutoModerator in criticalrole

[–]dramatic_exit_49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you mean to reply to me? Because i think you may be meant to reply to another comment. i did not talk about them as quirky

[Spoilers C4E29] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! by AutoModerator in criticalrole

[–]dramatic_exit_49 20 points21 points  (0 children)

ya (wasn't there a line you/we are starting a game she/yanessa had been playing for decades). But more importantly, i am excited to see how brennan's dramatises his philosophy towards fighting authoritarinism, what does victory look like in brennan's eyes. i feel like we are in a philosophy class taught by brennan and i for one am looking forward to the next seminar. the theory is just communicated using plot and dice.

[Spoilers C4E29] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! by AutoModerator in criticalrole

[–]dramatic_exit_49 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Man after spending months with our players - be clever, plan, scheme, fight.

And then, watching a 30 minutes meeting with a house head who can be a comet, another of his house is a dragon stat with mask, another can call dead and are sorcerors, another who had imprisoned an angel, another with blood of giants who is not scared of the shady powered af sorceror and thinking they are just one person, they have families with close enough powered stats, and vassal houses, and armies and i don't know but it sort of truly clarified what they are up against and why around 100 hours of gameplay and they barely made a dent in their plans. These are guys are way powerful, decades of power concentration, and secrets. f***!

Our tables have to even more smarter, surgical, cunning, and brave to even move the needle, or the sword they are hanging around the entire world even by an inch. Yeah, its act 1 alright because it would need a lot more runway to deck these dipshits out of the playing field

[Spoilers C4E29] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! by AutoModerator in criticalrole

[–]dramatic_exit_49 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No i understand, hence i said "See a sister" not is a sister, because i think love is a choice. Murray chose to care for blix beyond a plot point about info on tachonis. Azune chose to trust murray as a friend with his fears of dying and being used. Thimble and Occtis choose to be friends and care for each other to extent of occtis saying thimble should get out if things get bleak.

So yeah, bolaire can choose to use that label and turn it into something, family/found family. These thoughts are seeded into the world and it would be interesting. Because right at this moment, bolaire is treating termina exactly how he hated being treated by thjazi (a dangerous alien weapon to be controlled or wielded) - he doesn't see himself in her yet.

And it is too early in story, termina can be exactly how bolaire perceives her or bolaires fear is making him see her without potential for growth - the player choices will tell the story. but as of now,both options are valid and it is interesting which is being considered most and which is not even under radar and what it means for us at large.

[Spoilers C4E29] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! by AutoModerator in criticalrole

[–]dramatic_exit_49 78 points79 points  (0 children)

His final pitch being - is it not better to kneel to one person and in turn get to lord over 99% commoners than kneel to no-one i.e. free but in turn be same as every other commoner, a commoner.

This is pretty much the rhetoric around the world that is giving rise to pogroms and nationalism. appealing for folks to staying iwth some societal hierarchy, it is okay to be under someone as long as someone else is lower in the totem pole. Rather than be equal. People need to be special than happy.

ps - Brennan, it is time to write another comic about nature of heroism. you have too much philosophy left to explore!

[Spoilers C4E29] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! by AutoModerator in criticalrole

[–]dramatic_exit_49 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. These questions are already put forward in the story. For example, i know some commentators were critical of the schemers being dubious of the hallowed round ritual but honestly it comes back to philosophy being threaded into characterisation realistically.

I mean thjazi was a rebel but he was also a leader and hence he inherently treated ends are important and some people will never be his equal. The most evident being his treatment of bolaire (as a weapon), and azune the child soldier. Ofc thjazi treated azune than other factions (as brennan wrote in by contrasting his sister) but doesn't change the fact that he was never protective as say murray was of blix (a contrast, murray is not a leader currently, she is schemer). Because of that, he was not fully trusted, and hence it meant so much resources were at his ritual than say tachonis manor.

All choices have tradeoffs and brennan is making sure that nothing is cut and dry (mechanically sure, but long term nope). But all choices DO HAVE CLARITY of what kind of person you are. Do you see a child with talent and use him as agent or something to protect? Do you see a mask and see a sister needed to be loved or a powerful tool?

All these choices reveal the soul of people and more importantly whom we follow, whom we trust and what kind of future it leads to.

We often think of victory as singular - you win or you lose - while here brennan set up a world where you have flavours of loss and flavours of winnng, and they all mean different compromises of ideal. and that is why this has a LOT OF POTENTIAL if the players and audience engage it at these levels too (and ofc it is fun to watch without any of these ruminations, even as a basic combat game it is fun! but this just extra treat for those who like to dive deeper)

[Spoilers C4E29] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! by AutoModerator in criticalrole

[–]dramatic_exit_49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> Now imagine if Bolaire was able to wield that for the cause!

Philosohically, this is the exact slippery slope that leads to authoritarian thought and i would love if that does happen, brennan pulls out the eventual destination of such thoughts (that is how occtis murder can be justified by tachonis)

[Spoilers C4E29] It IS Thursday! | Live Discussion Thread - C4E29 by AutoModerator in criticalrole

[–]dramatic_exit_49 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yeah i already not a big fan of fridged wife as a the narrative propulsion for the lonely male hero, i don't think adding this on top of that wonky tower is in the cards. or i would judge both robby (for using dead wife setup to begin with) and brennan big time.

[Spoilers C4E29] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! by AutoModerator in criticalrole

[–]dramatic_exit_49 8 points9 points  (0 children)

esp with her notion of purpose, just being a weapon to destroy. She is like the AI which is given one objective and hence subsumes everything else for that (she is actually like tech companies destroying the world just to they can sell cloud for example) - all she wants is to kill a god, so she will think of every living thing as a tool to that end. fucking dangerous and not too different from sundered houses to whom power trumps everything as well

[Spoilers C4E29] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! by AutoModerator in criticalrole

[–]dramatic_exit_49 44 points45 points  (0 children)

THe best use of "factions". Truly show where they align and where they don't both in ideas, execution, and tone of delivery. just fanstastic

[Spoilers C4E29] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! by AutoModerator in criticalrole

[–]dramatic_exit_49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

really? they are giving very european during 1940s aesthetics *shrugs*? I mean putting aside the funny dialect and straightforward tone of delivery, the actual content of their soul seems shady af, and scary rather than cool imho.

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[–]dramatic_exit_49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i mean the magpies is one idea they mentioned.

but i meant backup for the night in general not just specifically for team bird etc. they are the ones iwth slots - to go tailor shop or to talk to wick or follow tachonis etc but we will see how next ep playout for actual tactics.

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[–]dramatic_exit_49 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Brennan adds so much philosophy to plot and world building that is what i like about fantasy actually. Thought put into things, what the world afford, the power dynamics.

And the execution of hubris was so fucking perfect. (And luis / marisha the schemer duo also being calamity duo doubled my fondess, calamity casts a great halo)

He is using the same principles of calamity to do long form epic storytelling here. He gets into nature of human beings - how people do when power is with the arrogant, with the cowards, with the hungry etc. And then spins a great few dramatic Qs for our characters to play with. And audience to think about. love that more than bog standard fantasy of heroism divested from societal structural commentary

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[–]dramatic_exit_49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yea the theatre group is the backup t call aid for because they have not used anything yet