tipoftheaceberg

She/her. Trapped in the present getting vertigo from the past and future.
I like video games, animation, web comics, and dense peer-reviewed history.

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@musicalsplainin @awintory Speaking of pre-war Jewish film, Molly Picon, who plays Yente, was a huge star of stage and screen in Yiddish-language productions. She starred in the earliest known surviving Yiddish-language film, "East and West", and is best known for Yidl Mitn Fidl and Mamele.

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@musicalsplainin @awintory Kaveh mentioned wanting to watch a full length movie version of the ghost party sequence. It's not the same, but that whole scene took a lot of inspiration from the 1937 movie The Dybbuk, particularly a dance scene between a new bride and her dead lover called back as a spirit.

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@musicalsplainin @awintory You might also find it hilarious how cryptic and unhelpful a guy who's implied to be an angel is. He tells the bride how precisely one summons a dybbuk and then is like "oh you know you really shouldn't" like "THEN WHY DID YOU TELL ME HOW?" He even bums drinks off people.

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@BretDevereaux @BeijingPalmer This also tells us:
1. The speakers know a lot about farming
2. They owe a share to the duke and the duke can sneak more away than is fair
3. They depend on lending things between families
4. Tall John doesn't keep his promises and this social capital matters

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@BretDevereaux @BeijingPalmer Last year the harvest was decent but [half hour debate about the best strategies for fallowing and storage during a rainy year]
And at the end of the harvest the duke gets more than his share and meanwhile Tall John didn't lend me his mule even though he promised

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@G0RESTRADE You know somebody's a fan when they include the frilly pink apron

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@MoviesSilently Starring Theda Bara as Mme. La Guillotine, in a role which was a landmark in effects and costuming- you can hardly recognize her in this clip!

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@erik_kaars Where's the rabbit hiding its axe/bow/sword/lance? Or is this just the bunny that kills you with its bare paws?

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@16bitnostalgia But when I die, I want it to hurt.

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@kavehtaherian Can't believe they missed their chance to re-release it for the one year anniversary of either the first or second release. I was totally planning this whole huge watch party with my 400 friends and all their plus-ones. Maybe they'll do a year-and-a-half anniversary release. 🤞

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@jesawyer Ayy where my jacqueries at?

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@lairofclair I see your UP and raise you: https://t.co/9EoFD4ES7o

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@ludohistory *traumatic situations as experienced via media, but I think selling it as "real" underlines the fact that the realer it gets, the less protection that media offers as a safe(r) way to experience intense things. Media can still hurt you, especially when it's designed to do so.

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@ludohistory Not to be overdramatic but at what point do we stop suggesting people subject themselves to traumatic situations because it's ~real~? It's not good for the user (esp. people who've experienced trauma themselves) and it's also misery tourism of what historical people experienced.

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@ludohistory I just don't think this specifically would create the kind of empathy and critical thinking we'd encourage for people learning about WWI and the people who lived through it (or didn't). If anything it'd desensitize them or create avoidance, assuming it was even 1/2way authentic.

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@erik_kaars Believe it or not this is how they transported cathedrals back in the day!

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@pmbryant ....the only way this would make sense is she was dating someone named Beauty and the article is about how she's been doing since the break-up.

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@MoviesSilently Ooh I just tried tayberries for the first time at a farmer's market- highly recommend them, independent growing's one of the only ways you can get them since they're hard to grow commercially.

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@willmckinley I bought a DVD player last year to borrow from my parents' huge supply, because streaming quality is often pretty low (i.e. weird sound quality on Disney+), plus it depends on fast and stable internet I don't have. Blu-ray coincided w/ streaming so we went straight to streams.

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@MoviesSilently hmmm that shark is lurking near the scene of the crime... I think we need to look into its alibi