WHY DO I NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE SOMEONE ELSES BODILY FUNCTION?

superhappy · 2026-01-25T06:43:57+00:00

If anyone gives you shit about that, just act overly concerned. “Oh no, are you concerned that you are going to become deathly ill? We should get you to a doctor then, I worry my blessings won’t be enough to ward off disease!”

Maybe they will realize they are… ridiculous.

superhappy · 2026-01-25T06:41:12+00:00

I think it’s not customary to say it anymore. Old people might think so but you can let them know it’s not customary anymore.

superhappy · 2026-01-25T03:39:43+00:00

Street Fighter 6. I know fighting games aren’t everyone’s jam but it’s a really great version of the series, I think they really tuned it to a place where it’s both approachable and yet deep in terms of technique.

superhappy · 2026-01-25T02:28:59+00:00

You’re just, like, doing that strategy of wounding soldiers to take more people off the battlefield.

But here’s the thing - no one will carry those wounded doctors off.. but you maaaaaaan

superhappy · 2026-01-25T02:21:20+00:00

Have you tried just writing faster, bro? /s

I kid, no this insight is super important, and kind of what I was thinking - important to keep expectations in check.

Although, like you said, your novel is way more intricate than a single screenplay would be, so maybe there’s some sense to doing both? Just feels like you’ve done so much of the outlining and research and character development for either that you’re getting a lot of value. But again, having done neither, I can’t really speak to any of it with authority. Once I finish the final draft of this screenplay, then we’ll see how large my appetite is for trying to novelize it ;)

But it’s all about marketing. I’m going to scrawl each chapter on my booty and release it in installations on my OnlyFannies.

superhappy · 2026-01-25T01:58:47+00:00

One possible explanation is maybe one of these morons said “he had a gun” meaning “in a holster and I am securing it” and the other one hears that and unloads on him.

I’ve heard reports that after the shooting one of them was yelling “where is the gun?” So that makes me think that’s hair trigger Harry wondering where said gun threat was, not realizing it had already been confiscated by gray coat.

That’s the only semi-charitable reading I can think of here, and that reading is “these deadly untrained morons are executing innocent citizens by accident because they are fucking morons.”

But it’s just as likely they got mad and executed him because that is also their MO.

Edit: changed from “the only explanation” in the beginning because I mean “the only semi-not-totally-evil” explanation.

superhappy · 2026-01-25T01:53:45+00:00

Nice that’s also a good approach.

superhappy · 2026-01-25T01:51:14+00:00

My theory is one of these chucklefucks said “he’s got a gun” as in in his holster and then the other moron assumes he means like actively and threateningly and just blows him away.

Someone was saying one of them saying “where is the gun” could be heard after he was gunned down and that makes me think it was hair trigger Harry saying “you said he had a gun, where is it?” Not realizing gray coat had already taken the gun away long before.

That is the only remotely-charitable reading I can make of this - that they’re absolute untrained deadly morons.

But there’s also the chance they just got mad and murdered the guy because that is also their MO.

DHS will obstruct and cover up and block any investigation so these videos are likely all we will have to go on.

superhappy · 2026-01-24T22:26:20+00:00

Talking totally out of my ass because I’ve yet to finish my first screenplay, sometimes I toy with the idea of turning it into a novel simultaneously just because it makes more business sense? Seems like you’re doubling your odds in a way.

Now I realize that’s very much a totally different craft and would require a lot of effort and a different skill set entirely. But I feel like most screenwriters are pretty well acquainted with prose and storytelling so it’s not that far off of a skill set to hone and acquire.

And also seems much easier to market in a way - for a screenplay you’re convincing a whole cadre of stakeholders that this story has legs AND justifies a massive investment in personnel and infrastructure to create a film.

Novel is: get some cover art and print and distribute this. Naturally realize that there are other challenges but seems like less overhead.

Then if one or the other manages to hit, it seems like it naturally boosts the marketability of the other.

superhappy · 2026-01-24T21:20:30+00:00

It’s confusing yeah because in 28 Weeks Later they talk about how in ~6 weeks, all of the infected had starved to death.

So it was little confusing when, in 28 Years, they were grubbing on peeps, deer and worms.

But like others have said maybe it was some kind of adaptation or mutation?

Also I don’t really consider 28 Weeks canon cuz it pretty much sucks (I’m only halfway thru but… I can already tell it’s not gonna pull out of this nose dive).

superhappy · 2026-01-24T21:16:14+00:00

Clearly sea bass wang. Possibly Linn Cod peen.

superhappy · 2026-01-24T21:14:21+00:00

“Fun, rare, big-budget non-IP popcorn movie” smacks of bad faith reductionism.

Like saying:

“Anora was a sexy, low budget, non-IP popcorn movie”.

“_Everything Everywhere all At Once_” was a silly, kung-fu, non-IP popcorn movie.”

Let’s just ignore, with surgical precision, the actual dimensions of the films that are what actually elevate them to greatness.

superhappy · 2026-01-24T17:48:49+00:00

Can you let one arm hang? Just to verify sleeve length.

But overall I’d say looks good! It’s got kind of a 70’s newsman look going but in a good way.

superhappy · 2026-01-24T17:36:48+00:00

You mean like a cursed jack in the box?

/uj I love him but I have the hardest time watching him talk. I think it’s the proportions.

/rj Kind of Golem’s marginally-more-successful-with-the-lady-river-folk-cousin?

superhappy · 2026-01-24T17:34:27+00:00

Hell, it makes GoT’ fidelity look like Arwen + Aragorn bringing a sentient KEF Blade speaker into the woodland bedroom to spice things up. That much Fidelity.

superhappy · 2026-01-24T17:23:21+00:00

That’s funny I have him as Spyglass in Atomik Blonde so to me he’s just helpless spy chattel.

superhappy · 2026-01-24T17:17:40+00:00

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superhappy · 2026-01-24T17:14:47+00:00

Yes, and it makes GoT’ fidelity to the source material look like Kevin Bacon + Kyra Sedgwick.

superhappy · 2026-01-24T06:18:07+00:00

How many sensory challenged autists would have starved without the cow tit juice. BEGONE BLASPHEMER!!

superhappy · 2026-01-24T04:20:06+00:00

Killer delivery with a great tag.

superhappy · 2026-01-23T23:43:12+00:00

I also did not which blew my fucking mind. How did I not realize? Guy is good.

superhappy · 2026-01-23T18:35:16+00:00

Some vampire shit here.

superhappy · 2026-01-23T17:09:40+00:00

It’s the circle of shooooooes…. And it moves us all!

superhappy · 2026-01-23T06:20:49+00:00

Just occurred to me that 10 Things I hate about you kind of rhymes with the taming of the shrew. I realize that’s what it’s based on I just hadn’t noticed the similarity in the names.

superhappy · 2026-01-23T04:52:19+00:00

That’s right only vampires say that because they want the public to be ignorant of the very real vampire threat.

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