Friday Night Starmix Chat: I don't think I'm nearly as averse to foam eggs and hearts as many, but subbing out Happy Cherries alone for them would be a net negative, and sacrificing Twin Snakes as well is just unconscionable. Happy-Cola can still go straight to fucking Hell.
@GerryCarlin@BaileyCarlin I decided I'd wait and judge this one for myself when I saw there was a contingent of "superfans" dismissing the series sight unseen based entirely on the episode runtimes. Nobody attracts titans of critical thinking like GRRM.
@GraceSpelman Very niche, but https://t.co/MSnWjoNZb6 is a fantastic resource for the games it covers. Ad-free, clean, remarkably intuitive. There's seemingly a cross-reference to appropriate material in every single place you'd want one. It's everything that Fandom isn't.
A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd.
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of
@spencerdirks@GerryCarlin@BaileyCarlin Only if you either consider it preposterous to critically examine a television script, or to compare one to that of a stage play. A guy being really good at something doesn't prevent him from being representative of his medium. You do you, but I consider some TV art.
@GerryCarlin@BaileyCarlin Shakespeare mostly wrote plays. He didn't intend for them to be consumed via reading. His folio is functionally the stage equivalent of closed captioning. Does reading those not count? Does reading the teleplay for a TV episode independent of an accompanying performance count?