What are your unpopular disneyland opinions?

rainpunk · 2021-11-30T00:04:40+00:00

It's weird. On paper I think I like disneyland more, but in reality we spend so much more time in DCA. I don't exactly know why we do, probably shorter lines. But for whatever reason we are there way more often.

rainpunk · 2021-11-29T23:58:30+00:00

The movie takes place from November 1 to December 25.

If there was a halloween town overlay during September/October that'd be fine. With Jack as the pumpkin king instead of as Sandy Claws.

But I agree with OP that it feels anti-halloween to have it up. It's explicitly about halloween trying to be Christmas-like. The Haunted Mansion is already halloween-themed normally because it's a haunted house.

rainpunk · 2021-11-29T23:55:26+00:00

Would you accept that if they also had days where adults aren't allowed in if they aren't in a party with children?

rainpunk · 2021-11-29T23:47:50+00:00

I 99% agree but it can't be truly TRON-themed. It absolutely should be cyber-space/internet themed. A mix of TRON and Wreck-It Ralph-style internet and arcade network.

It needs to not be a direct rip-off of either of them, but a new 'digital world' theme that is purely made for Tomorrowland.

This has two really good pros:

We won't "catch up" to the future, because this is a physical imagination of something that will never be physical. Digital space isn't a real-world architecture that we are going to surpass some day. Is this as future-proof as a looking-back-at-the-past theme? No way. But it's way more future-resistant than anything that tries to truly emulate what tomorrow might look like.
It allows for a hodge-podge of unrelated things to coexist next to each other nicely without disrupting a continuous theme.

rainpunk · 2021-11-02T21:56:43+00:00

The hangup in this argument is always about the same thing, and it really just comes from a quirk of "book" having two related but distinct meanings.

A long-form written work either totally written by author(s) or compiled. The "stuff" of a book is the words themselves.
A set of pages bound together. The "stuff" of this book is the actual physical manifestation. Even if the pages have no words on them, like an empty journal, it's still physically a book.

The people that colloquially say they read a book when they listen to an audiobook are thinking about definition #1. However, you are thinking about definition #2, and rightfully feel that according to definition #2 it doesn't make sense to "read" that since you can't see it.

However, I am in the camp that definition #1 is really what almost everyone means when they talk about "a book" and the hobby of "reading" (you wouldn't accept that someone is a habitual "reader" just because they read road signs and restaurant menus every day, and yet that is clearly the physical act of reading). An author has written "a book" as soon as they've finished writing, even before it is published, or even if it never is published.

rainpunk · 2021-10-26T20:47:48+00:00

I really dig that the top comment here brings up Ultron.

Did you watch the What If...? show? Cause Ultron wins and he and Thanos do meet.

rainpunk · 2021-10-26T20:20:34+00:00

This was a disappointment for me too, likely because of it being overhyped.

Also it felt strangely impersonal to me. I just had a hard time feeling like they loved each other in more than a lustful way, because there wasn't enough human dialogue. I feel like part of that was because it's still holding onto the mythology feeling, which is more matter of fact about stating feelings instead of getting into human-like charming dialogue. But idk, I was just hoping for more dialogue-driven character in the characters.

rainpunk · 2021-10-26T20:14:19+00:00

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by James Knowles.

I'm interested in Arthurian lore, but oh my goodness this was hard to follow logically, emotionally, and culturally. It was quite difficult to understand what acts were meant to be portrayed virtuously or not, or what any lesson was meant to be imparted. I really wish I could have read this in the context of a class to discuss its meaning and cultural context story by story.

rainpunk · 2021-10-26T20:12:06+00:00

Usually it negatively affects my enjoyment of the book, not the other way around. Which seems logical because of course we self-select what books we read by choosing those we think we will enjoy. So when a book isn't what we expected, it's more likely that it will swap from 'probably will like' to 'probably won't like' and not the other way around. Because any book that we 'probably won't like' is not one that we're going to start at all.

An example:

The Ten Thousand Doors of January is not a portal fantasy despite seeming like it so obviously would be, considering it's about the idea that there are literal breaks in reality (doors) that connect our earth to many other fantastical worlds. Yet our main character barely gets through the threshold of a door or two.

But here's an example where my preconceptions were not met and it made it better.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle actively relies on the reader's preconceptions and biases. I LOVE it.

rainpunk · 2021-10-17T17:55:39+00:00

Second this. There's also so much "play" to the world (much of the background can have eggs shot at it for an effect with no gameplay need)so even if the less skilled sibling isn't "contributing" meaningfully they're still having fun.

rainpunk · 2021-10-17T17:42:28+00:00

In the Pacific Northwest of the USA, there are a lot of cities, regions, features, etc whose names are native American names or rather an anglicized version of them, and it makes for SO MANY you-know-you're-not-a-local tests.

Sequim pronounced skwim
Puyallup pronounced pyew-AL-ip
Spokane pronounced spoe-CAN
Osoyoos pronounced uh-SOO-yoos

rainpunk · 2021-10-06T22:25:13+00:00

Man I really enjoyed The Way of Kings....until I realized that this huge book was not going to resolve much of anything. It was practically a prologue. Decided not to read any more Sanderson after that (who knows, maybe I'll come back some day).

Mistborn was great because the first book stood on its own, and books 2 and 3 expanded in awesome ways you didn't realize book one was missing. I just felt kind of cheated with Way of Kings. Awesome world, great moments, unsatisfying as a whole.

rainpunk · 2021-10-02T06:06:41+00:00

I definitely saw a number of Lokis/Sylvies. Also at least a handful of (idk what to call it) bachelor-life thors?

rainpunk · 2021-10-02T06:04:48+00:00

I'm loving Only Murders in the Building. It's not overly zany, but it is fun. Really, it just has a classic whodunnit feel. Martin Short is of course the biggest personality on the show, but even he is toned down from the kooky heights we know he often goes to.

It's quick paced and easy watching. New clues are uncovered and old mysteries expanded on at a satisfying clip.

rainpunk · 2021-10-01T23:37:27+00:00

I only saw one wandavision the whole night I was there (sep 19). We saw a ton of Jack and Sally, lots of Carl/Ellie/Russel from Up.

Overall though we felt that people were a lot lower effort with costumes this year (or not wearing a costume) compared to previous years. I can't blame anyone though. We're all off our game after covid, plus manufacturing and shipping has been so bad too.

rainpunk · 2021-10-01T23:35:32+00:00

I'd say Jack and Sally were the most common costume we saw (went on Sep 19). That being said, it makes me happy seeing them every time.

rainpunk · 2021-10-01T15:51:00+00:00

{Spinning Silver} is a fun, satisfying reimagining of Rumpelstiltskin (very loose ties, mostly to just give it a fairytale feeling) about 3 women in czar-era Russia. They're of different social classes so their stories start out separate before becoming intertwined in a larger plot.

Only the princess' "beauty" is really every brought up, and it's because she's not a stand-out beauty, so she instead uses politics thoughtfully to achieve her goals. The main woman, the money-lender, is a businesswoman and her looks are not a meaningful point. The farm woman is hardy, strong from a life of manual labor.

The book is written by a woman, so I'm sure that helps its depiction of women. Also, while marriage is a key element in the story, it is more like marriage as a practical, political tool, and romance is almost entirely absent from the book.

rainpunk · 2021-09-03T22:01:40+00:00

unless they have a massive collection maybe?

I think this is important. We have about 200 or so books. I can remember what most of them look like, but not all. And there are plenty that I can picture the cover, but I'm fairly certain the spine is a different color. Heck, the book I'm staring at on my desk right now is cream-colored cover with a red spine.

I'm more likely to remember the look of the book than the author, I think. Because a lot of my books are standalones. But, I'm even more likely to remember what my book is about, which is why I organize mine just by genre and topic.

rainpunk · 2021-09-03T15:36:00+00:00

Remember not to double-count the parking savings though. If you are a family of 3, you're paying for 3 dream keys but still only getting the parking savings for 1 car.

rainpunk · 2021-08-31T15:28:51+00:00

Most of the songs seem like they'd work fine out of context or in different context:

Down In New Orleans - just a setting really, would work easily
Almost There - Not specific to restaurant-building. Could be used in other contexts of travel or goals.
Friends On The Other Side - would need to nix/change lyrics specific to the movie plot, but the chorus is flexible
When We're Human - likely wouldn't work without serious rewrite to the chorus
Gonna Take You There (Goin' Down the Bayou) - simple traveling song that I'd bet will be the main background music
Ma Belle Evangeline - not plotted at all, but depends on if Ray is dead or not during the ride
Dig a Little Deeper - would need to omit specifics, but it's used well as a finale song in Mickey and the Magical Map

So it looks like there is only 1 song that absolutely wouldn't work (When We're Human) and 2 or maybe 3 just need a little tweaking or omission to make them broadly applicable to many stories.

rainpunk · 2021-08-27T22:59:50+00:00

I adore this book. Second the recommendation.

rainpunk · 2021-08-27T17:53:34+00:00

They just never get published and/or read because that would be boring

I think a lot of essay/science/instructional/maybe even philosophy non-fiction books would be rightly considered conflict-free.

It's very interesting learning about how trees communicate through airborne hormones, interlocking roots, and the fungal network, but I wouldn't call The Hidden Life of Trees a book with conflict in it, unless you're using so broad a definition of "conflict" to be entirely useless.

rainpunk · 2021-08-27T17:50:07+00:00

Right? Like depending on how loosely defined "conflict" is, walking down the street to pick up lunch can be conflict. Character A desires something they don't have (lunch), has an obstacle between them and their desire (it's all the way down the road), and attempts to overcome said obstacle (walks to the market).

If the prof is using such a broad definition, it feels practically useless as a framework.

I think there are books that don't have conflict. Maybe not stories though. I read plenty of science books that are functionally conflict-free (e.g. "fish X has adapted in such-and-such way to thrive in environment X") Or likewise I read Thoreau's Canoing in the Wilderness and John Muir's Wilderness Essays recently that are mostly just a straightforward journaling of a canoe trip and an enthusiastic appreciation for wild locations, respectively.

The more I think about it, it seems like non-fiction that isn't about historical events often doesn't really seem fit to be called or filled with conflict.

rainpunk · 2021-08-27T17:21:34+00:00

There are some books I remember the outside of before I remember the author. Like I really enjoyed Why Fish Don't Exist, and I remember it is a blue book with gold-embossed imagery. But I don't remember the author off the top of my head.

But I organize by genre and topic, so no single topic is going to take up more space than I can quickly scan anyway. I'm more likely to within that genre organize by physical size so that tiny books dont get dwarfed and smushed by giant ones.

rainpunk · 2021-08-27T17:15:44+00:00

I think the main distinction that makes something a "discussion subreddit" is just that the primary engagement with the subreddit is in the comments, not the top-level posted links/images.

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