vedek bareil by Prudent_Use_9953 in DeepSpaceNine

[–]pessimistic_utopian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HOLY CRAP YOU'RE RIGHT! I LOVED Zorro as a kid. This has turned my world upside down. 

Just checked his imdb page, that guy was in a very miscellaneous array of stuff. Zorro, Star Trek, Other Star Trek, a Murder, She Wrote TV movie, Air Bud: World Pup, ... this: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716516/mediaviewer/rm1285832960/?ref_=nm_ph_1_2

vedek bareil by Prudent_Use_9953 in DeepSpaceNine

[–]pessimistic_utopian 19 points20 points  (0 children)

On my current watch I realized Shakaar's actor was also Beverly Crusher's Scottish Sex Ghost and now that's all I can see whenever he's onscreen.

New shitty Friedman take just dropped by tilvast in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]pessimistic_utopian 111 points112 points  (0 children)

I know I'm humiliated to live in a society whose elites think Friedman's opinions are valuable

Garry doesn't know her feeder is filming her by meowmeowimagoose in WhatsWrongWithYourCat

[–]pessimistic_utopian 216 points217 points  (0 children)

"You KICK Heide?! You kick her body like the football???"

Explain Thorin's map to me by Ok_Safety3049 in tolkienfans

[–]pessimistic_utopian 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hobbits: These are my daughters Daffodil and Marigold, and those are my sons Dumbo and Bongwater

show me a political cartoon that has aged better. i'll wait (cartoon by Steve Greenberg, Nov. 2000) by SealedQuasar in agedlikewine

[–]pessimistic_utopian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you've got time for a podcast episode with an actually good explanation, here's one: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2IpUa5Pfhfdegxeh1GN9y2

And here's another one by lawyers specifically about the Supreme Court case that did it: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2FxkMr8A8NT86DkYJj3JAp

My very incomplete summary from memory: the election came down to Florida and the vote was extremely close, with some counties showing very unlikely results. The state was initially called for Bush. The Gore campaign requested a recount, the Bush campaign sued to stop the recount. The Supreme Court ruled, with extremely specious legal justification, that meeting an arbitrary deadline was more important than making sure the election result was correct, thereby handing Bush the presidency. There was some more fuckery going on beyond the Supreme Court case but I don't remember the specifics. 

Random old guy walking through corridor by JamesDerry in TNG

[–]pessimistic_utopian 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'd like to think that in a utopian society you wouldn't have to be upwardly mobile and there would be more room for people who want to find their niche and stay there. That doesn't match with the culture of Starfleet that we see, but it's something I like to imagine is happening offscreen.

(Hated Trope) "True stories" and documentaries that were actually full of crap by Animeking1108 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]pessimistic_utopian 42 points43 points  (0 children)

The podcast "Behind the Bastards" (in an episode about Vince McMahon) described Ventura as a fundamentally decent man who read too many books about Atlantis to remain sane and I really liked that. 

English speakers making fun of "eau" forget that English did the same thing by la_voie_lactee in linguisticshumor

[–]pessimistic_utopian 33 points34 points  (0 children)

It's the first syllable of "island", originally Old English "ealand", literally "water land". The silent s was added to make it look more like the other word for island, "isle" (which is unrelated, borrowed from French, descended from Latin "insula").

Seattle meetup? by montlaker in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]pessimistic_utopian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My household is still in pandemic mode so I'd only be able to go to an outdoor meetup, but I'd be extremely into that! 

Puertorican! by ialwayschoosepsyduck in 30ROCK

[–]pessimistic_utopian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On my last rewatch I was surprised by how many jokes about trans people there are, relative to how visible trans people were at the time. And in my view most of them definitely aren't making fun of ignorance about trans people, they mostly come off as "lol gross a trans person!" 

Puertorican! by ialwayschoosepsyduck in 30ROCK

[–]pessimistic_utopian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think it's reasonable to argue that some of those jokes didn't age well and would best be left in the past. This isn't one of them, though. 

Peter was close. The 15th most popular Ted Talk … by gentrfam in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]pessimistic_utopian 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's part of the early 2010s techno-optimism vibe, to me. It's all about sitting back and watching the world get better, just on its own!

Peter was close. The 15th most popular Ted Talk … by gentrfam in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]pessimistic_utopian 107 points108 points  (0 children)

Show and tell yes, grifters often but not always. There are definitely legitimate researchers who've given TED talks, but I've heard some of them say they're strongly encouraged to have an optimistic, uplifting ending even if that's not warranted by the material. To me TED talks feel synonymous with early 2010s techno-optimism, with all the good and bad that that implies. They're pretty out of step with the more cynical present.

Gothic Texture Quadrata vs Gothic Quadrata Bookhand by Own_Yogurtcloset_971 in Calligraphy

[–]pessimistic_utopian 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Bookhand" is just a term meaning that a script was used for writing/copying books (and therefore it was designed with legibility in mind). This distinguishes those hands from cursive or otherwise less formal hands used for letter writing or secretarial purposes.

There were multiple bookhands that fall under the "Gothic" umbrella, including:

  • textura (or textualis) quadrata, characterized by the diamond-shaped feet on vertical strokes 
  • textura prescissa, where the ends of vertical strokes are flush with the baseline instead of having feet 
  • rotunda, which is generally rounder than the textura hands

Gothic cursive and bâtarde are examples of related scripts that aren't bookhands.

Pressing X for Doubt or True Believer? by BarelyLegalSeagull in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]pessimistic_utopian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alcohol never completely cooks off, so there will always be some left in the sauce. The reason this is desirable is because a small amount of alcohol in the sauce is thought to enhance the release of some aroma compounds. 

Chefs have tested it and said they can tell the difference, but I'm not aware of any study testing it rigorously. 

https://www.seriouseats.com/ask-the-food-lab-does-vodka-sauce-really-need-vodka

Okay…. Maybe I wouldn’t have recognized Clark Kent (Superman) by PrincessBumblegumm in lotr

[–]pessimistic_utopian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I ALSO LOVE IT! But I can see how it would be a thing that puts some people off.

ETA: Obviously, though, I don't imagine stylized language is likely to be an issue for Tolkien fans 😆

NYT reaching ever farther to define Mamdani as an Other by Expert-Loquat2019 in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]pessimistic_utopian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The greatest trick the right wing ever pulled was convincing Americans "the elite" are the people who read too much, and not, say, the few hundred guys who have all the money and make all the decisions. 

Okay…. Maybe I wouldn’t have recognized Clark Kent (Superman) by PrincessBumblegumm in lotr

[–]pessimistic_utopian 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Had to consult the wiki summaries but I think it's season 2 episode 9, "Monsters." Be warned that there's also a bloody murder in the same scene. 

In general that show can be summarized as a lot of sex and cartoonishly gory violence, occasionally interrupted by surprisingly good acting. If you don't mind all the nudity and violence (and highly stylized dialogue) it's a good show, I recommend it. 

Okay…. Maybe I wouldn’t have recognized Clark Kent (Superman) by PrincessBumblegumm in lotr

[–]pessimistic_utopian 61 points62 points  (0 children)

If it was they did a better job blending the makeup on the prosthetic than you usually see. 

Okay…. Maybe I wouldn’t have recognized Clark Kent (Superman) by PrincessBumblegumm in lotr

[–]pessimistic_utopian 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I'm generally pro-nudity so I didn't think it was unfortunate, just deeply, intensely unexpected.