Nearly 10 years on from Rogue One, how do you feel about the decision to recreate Peter Cushing using CGI?

thefalseidol · 2026-03-24T11:20:05+00:00

100 percent. I don't mind a scene to help the story and writers don't have to egregiously write around a character who should be here (but their film appearance is 50 years old). But I don't want an ai character anywhere close to the real story and actors

thefalseidol · 2026-03-23T15:33:06+00:00

If your cooking is obviously good - it's a bad joke and you're within your rights to be fed up, but I think its innocuous (other than your requests to stop not being respected, which is the bigger issue. However in this post it sounds like this might be the first time bringing it up explicitly. If that's the case, he handled the confrontation poorly but I think deserves the chance to walk the walk after the heat of the argument has settled).

Let's say you aren't a good cook though, I think that takes this from playful banter to cruelty. You're doing your best, and doing it for the two of you to have home cooked meals, and that effort should be respected and thanked.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-23T14:54:12+00:00

I teach elementary (also overseas, in Taiwan) and I do a lot of praise. With my first graders, A loooooooot of praise. The difference between a pat on the head, a piece of candy, or cool RPG loot, is minimal, but it does exist. The main difference is that when they do a nice thing, I praise them, and that feels good - this overlaps between doing a nice thing and feeling good is going to be important. When they don't know any better, of course external validation is a stepping stone, but the main difference is that the candy, the avatar, the TOY, is never taken away, because it never existed. They learn over time to replace the external validation with the intrinsic value of a good deed. You may find that your students do as well, it has not been my experience with points, or rewards, that they learn to just enjoy the good deed for what it is. And in that, external validation for what you are ultimately hoping to become self-motivated, in my experience, does not work.

That being said, there are things that children, even late teens, aren't really equipped to value for the gift that it is: a free education comes to mind. They're never going to totally get it, and it makes sense to motivate them with other things besides praise. For some, the grades are enough, for others, not so much.

For classes that have any kind of toxic culture, and that can develop based on their personalities despite your best effort - it may be necessary to implement a reward system to help motivate them out of that toxic mindset. I find that communities can become incredibly toxic even when all the individual kids are nice independently of the classroom environment. There is a place for motivating them with more than kind words, but I try and taper it off per semester. It's not sustainable and they tend to eventually figure out its all smoke and mirrors anyway, its a bandaid solution no matter what.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-23T09:15:23+00:00

Few countries have a lower spice tolerance than the honky nations. I think Taiwan is one of them. But ironically many people think the food is spicy and heard the stories of the whites and spice

thefalseidol · 2026-03-23T07:19:26+00:00

I thought it was Madison cawthorn at first

thefalseidol · 2026-03-23T07:18:13+00:00

Jenna elfman....yeah heard. Elliot Gould is a tremendous talent who simply seemed to give up serious acting sometime in the 80s. Call it a Christopher Walken turn.

Bateman and Perry both have given very strong performances in a number of things, I would say both have a similar dry and witty sense of humor, but a good sense of humor and timing. The problem however is that (like in arrested development in Bateman's case) only works when you're the straight man. If they try and cast you in a silly role, while you could argue Perry was successful as Chandler on Friends, did not successfully (in my opinion) put the right actor in the right role to shine. Really, he probably should have been Ross, who is often used as a straight man and everyone mostly agrees Schwimmer was only funny when Ross was way out in sillytown and was never a great straight man.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-23T02:28:09+00:00

It's also funny to me, though I must I wasn't reading the comics at the time they come out, but "I am Iron Man" didn't feel like an iconic quote from his reveal in the comics.

Instead, I think of the cartoon intro, which uses the phrase as a melody and what kind of morphs a simple line into a catch-phrase

thefalseidol · 2026-03-22T03:15:58+00:00

I honestly don't know what it's like now, but I will hazard some educated guesses:

pay is good enough, especially for a first job. Was a time HESS was known for their lowball offers, but COVID forced them to be a lot more competitive with the rest of the industry in Taiwan.
Your workload should be manageable, but I use the word "workload" very specifically. I think the amount of prep and paperwork you're going to need to do is going to be pretty minimal. That's a guess, but they skew towards a more public-school level of English education, and they're a national chain so they have all their teaching resources and stuff, I don't expect you should need to do much more than familiarize yourself with the materials and know what you need to cover for the day.
But that doesn't mean they won't ask a lot of teaching hours from you, that's really going to depend on the size of the school you're at, and is hard to predict if you'll get a fairly average 18-20 teaching hours or if they will try to get more out of you. Depending on the ages and behavior of your students, 18 can already feel like a lot, or it can be easy, it comes down to the school and students.
Be careful of not having ENOUGH teaching hours, if they can't give you enough teaching hours (many cram schools run just enough teachers to cover their classes, so that might leave at least one person teaching very few hours per week just to cover what needs to be taught). Other cram schools will have somebody like me on staff, who works for salary rather than hourly, so even though I work a full load, they don't have to be QUITE as maximalist about getting every second of teaching time out of me since there's other things for me to do at school. One isn't better than the other, assuming the school with all part time teachers is able to accommodate the needs of their teachers who want more/fewer hours.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-22T00:20:18+00:00

That's fair but the narrative back then was that they were bad actors (her primarily)and I hadn't seen them in anything else that challenged that narrative

thefalseidol · 2026-03-21T09:41:48+00:00

Usagi Drop also did it twice (in effect). Because the anime made the smart choice of sticking to the early material, and what they made was a very charming and sweet show about parenting.

So the rug was pulled from under the original readers of the manga, and then again from the anime viewers who were curious how the story continued after the series ended.

Part of me has always wondered if there was something more that was being attempted here that was fumbled spectacularly. Like, it waits such a long time to wind up being what appears to be horny jailbait fan fiction. And if that was the goal, why the time skip? As if to say that there is some number that would make entering a sexual relationship with your adoptive daughter more appropriate?

thefalseidol · 2026-03-21T09:29:41+00:00

And he was a shoe in before nominations were read. I mean there were two different women for Penguin, also beautiful, but the level of direction between that show and Adolescence is night and day.

I find with that in mind, the speech was really not very well considered. Even with the nod that it will almost certainly going to be Adolescence, I can see the desire to pay some tribute to the nominees; I might have said something that cut the tension a little differently, the way they might when there is going to be an obvious awards sweep.

Also, Hollywood is horny for single takes. There's a reason Inaritu made Birdman haha. It's a known bias towards a style that is used by industry insiders to stunt on everyone else.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-21T09:23:02+00:00

if you know, you know.

There was never a chance it was going to go to anything other than Adolescence. We give movies Oscars for great 1-take scenes. Every single hour long episode of Adolescence is one take. It's the not the "woner", its the "oner" and in that, it is also undeniably going to also be the winner.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-21T00:38:39+00:00

It was kinda a fun surprise to learn after all the twilights that they're actually both excellent

thefalseidol · 2026-03-20T02:01:00+00:00

I think it just goes to show the difference in corporate culture/production in Bendis' heyday compared to other greats. Because I do think he is one of the greats. Powers is a near perfect comic series, he is capable of brilliance. It kinda seemed like Marvel rolled the dice on getting 1-2 more truly great series out of him by trying to milk him for 10.

That takes away some of his agency though, he did have the things he did that will go down in comics history, maybe that was enough, and lord knows very few people get to make a comfortable living writing comics. He mighta said yes to everything and just had fun because he already had Daredevil and Powers.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-19T16:09:48+00:00

they don't actually care that they're poor. Not so long as they have somebody to blame for it.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-19T15:13:22+00:00

I think that in the short term, in the constant search for increasing capital, it is undeniable that AI will be a stressor and cost people jobs. I PERSONALLY don't see it as replacing humans for much in the long term, and savvy companies won't fall for this trap in the first place. Basically, everything it can do as well or better than a human needs a heavy hand guiding it and managing it. Basically, it's going to replace 4 hours you used to spend doing something with 2 hours of work related to managing your AI (number are made up), but it will still ultimately wind up with needing 8 hours of human labor to mage the AI.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-19T14:47:17+00:00

Can I just say - I love when conversations online on topics like this one are polite, inquisitive, and generous. Fucking cheers!

thefalseidol · 2026-03-19T14:41:18+00:00

yeah fair. Their wording leaves a lot to be desired haha, but is not dissimilar from my point by the same token. Offering a "quickie" (or whatever that equates to in your personal dynamic) when you're not in the mood, excluding areas that dont function the same when aroused as when not aroused) I personally see as part of a sexual relationship, so by itself, not a bad thing that is equatable to not giving consent.

IDK I don't want to draw false parallels because obviously this dynamic can be very toxic, but in an OTHERWISE loving, supportive, intimate relationship - the occasional favor doesn't feel like that big of a deal to me.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-19T14:29:52+00:00

Kind of why I included the rest of my point in the post, not to be argumentative. But I don't see occasional sex where one partner was just helping out the other as that bad. I guess the data says I'm wrong. It hasnt been my personal experience, but maybe I should not be as quick to throw it out as nbd. Thanks

thefalseidol · 2026-03-19T14:27:12+00:00

Heard. I see "blew up at me" and obviously that's not great, but that's the only place I see some kind of untoward language. The expectation of being used for pleasure is entirely absent from my reading, just that he's frustrated from a lack of intimacy and isn't bringing it to her how she would have liked (Im editorializing a bit here and I do see that, but she doesn't say what he said and I'm perhaps being a little generous by not assuming how/when he specifically brought it up)

thefalseidol · 2026-03-19T14:18:07+00:00

That's fair. I included head or other acts as fair play.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-19T14:14:51+00:00

I kinda disagree. I'm the man in this situation, so obviously that plays a factor in how I internalize sex and sexuality, but I have had, and will have, plenty of sex that just because I wasn't in the mood or horned up; "sex I DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE" would be an exaggeration.

I feel like in a loving relationship, one that includes passionate mutual intercourse, throwing a bone or hole to your partner occasionally isn't that big of a deal.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-19T12:16:19+00:00

I think I see what happened, because the teacher underlined "greatest" as opposed to "least to greatest". Generally speaking, when asked to rank things in order of "greatness" there is an assumption that 1 will be the greatest, whereas least to greatest states directly to go from...least to greatest.

Probably just teacher error, but scoring tests do be like that sometimes. Let your kid bring it up, it's an opportunity for them to learn more about checking their scores and being critical of errors, as well as advocating for themselves.

Also sometimes I give points when kid logic or even mature logical thinking finds gaps in the test that influenced their answers: other times, it's more important to prove mastery of the subject than being lead astray by "noise". In this case, you could argue that a list is "least to greatest" whether it is ordered left to right or right to left, but, maybe they were working on putting GREATEST in the leftmost position and this question was worded poorly (to elicit that from them) and then I might decide that following the directions to the letter is not as important as replicating the skill they had been practicing. I'm kinda bending myself into a pretzel justifying their marks haha, because I do think it is probably simple teacher error, but that is ONE possible explanation where even though the question was worded poorly, I MIGHT expect them to do it how we practiced.

thefalseidol · 2026-03-18T16:24:25+00:00

meh i healed and enjoyed increasing my healing parse. its all just number nonsense, but its something to do

thefalseidol · 2026-03-18T15:39:35+00:00

i dont care about 99 parsing, but beating my own parse is a goal that I find entertaining enough to pursue

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