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No. We did. We do. You need to understand that we deserve good art. We deserve media that is both incredible at teaching the broad public very complicated philosophical theory, as well as be funny as shit. We don’t just deserve it, we need it.
Many people quit learning anything new after High School or College, if they attend. They have been traumatized by the education system so severely that they have a panic attack if they need to learn a new program for a job. People refuse to learn things because they seem hard, or because it sounds like something someone Smart would know.
Learning doesn’t need to be scary. Shows like this can do more to undo some of that fear of learning. Shows like this prove that people ARE interested in philosophy! People want to be good to each other! People can follow dense lecture and lore, as long as you contextualize it with something they’re already familiar with.
We can change things. Please, believe me. It doesn’t need to be like this.
Tldr; the Good Place is Sesame Street for adults, we DO deserve it, and we need to stop expecting television that has the same quality as Adult CocoMelon.
we really didn't deserve The Good Place. a bizarrely high-budget sitcom telling a longform, highly conceptual story that you need to have been watching from episode one, which was allowed to play out at its own pace and wrap things up when it intended to, and it didn't even lose steam over its four seasons. that's practically proof of the existence of a loving god
I want to feel and be loved but because of the media I’ve been conditioned to think teenage romance is only meant to last if it’s secretive, most notably gay romance.
What if we introduced an aro-ace character in the worst way possible. Like,one of the supporting characters (like Gus from the owl house) has a crush on another character,band they're oblivious for like a season/ book and a half, and it's the cutest thing that people obsess about, and when they finally confess their feelings, the other character is like "oh" in bad way,band say "umm... I'm aro-ace". And everybody is happy about inclusion, but also really sad about their favourite ship being sunk.
Does anyone remember how fun Syfy used to be back then?
Like, on the weekends they would sometimes do marathons on specific types of movies (i.e. werewolf, vampire, loch ness, etc.)
And then you remember OH SHIT! DINOTOPIA HAPPENED!
I don't know if it was on Syfy, let alone what was going on on the show. But my kid brain was just geekin over the thought of dinosaurs and civilization just existing together!
Oh wow. It's been a while since I did something like this. Thanks for including me.
Last Song: Touyu's cover of Unravel.
Last TV Show: Moon Knight.
Current TV Show(s): Durarara!! X2 Ketsu, Downton Abbey, (about to start) Tokyo Ghoul: re Second Season.
Currently Reading: Durarara!! X7, the anthology my college released this year, Battle Royale (I know I paused it like over a year ago by now, but I'm still big into it and I intend on continuing it).
Tagging: (Don't have to do this, I don't really interact much on tumblr so I didn't know who to tag)
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Last song: Broken Bells by Greta Van Fleet
Last tv show: The Terror. And I cried even more this time around.
Current tv show: The Walking Dead. I needed something to watch with my mom and it turns out I still enjoy the early seasons pretty well.
Currently reading: Nothing but I really need to get back to reading. It's been too long.
Tagging: @rollingwiththedead, @taureanluver, @girlfraud, @fangirlforever2412, @vanwolffen, @ciestess, @alittlewarlord
My favorite super bowl Ad. It’s so cursed I love it!
A story about a boy who wore his movie fandom on his head.
Don't worry if your life is in chaos, you are like the universe itself and its law of entropy. もの久保 on Pivix
Don't worry if your life is in chaos, you are like the universe itself and its law of entropy. もの久保 on Pivix
How to make the princess bride a TV series.
Title:
"The Fantastic Adventures of The Dread Pirates Roberts"
It would run for three seasons.
S1 follows the story of the "Dread Pirate Roberts" before Wesley. It would start with how he came to be dpr. It would jump across about thirty years of pirating, romance, and adventure ending with finding Wesley.
S2 follows the time that Wesley spent as dpr. It would show how he came to be dpr, how was his first day as dpr, a few of the hijinks that he got up to as dpr, and most importantly, how he became the man we see in "The Princess Bride". We end on a lingering shot showing him at the start of his journey to save his true love, fade to black and then the words "to see what happens next go watch the princess bride" show up before the credits roll.
S3 (the last season) would follow Inigo Montoya for his time as the dpr. He and Fezzik start off their adventure in a bit of a slump. You see Inigo just spent his whole life in pursuit of revenge and now has nothing left to live for. The first half of the first episode is a bit sad. Inigo is drunk for most of it and Fezzik is just trying to keep his friend from accidentally throwing himself off the ship. About halfway through the episode a ship from a far away kingdom shows up and attacks our drunken dpr kidnapping Fezzik and the crew and marooning Inigo on a small island jack sparrow style. Inigo has a new revenge spree to go on and a new purpose in life (to take down the people who did this). Along the way Inigo will: realize the kingdom who did this is looking to go all imperial and take over the whole territory, end up helping to form a resistance force against the invading kingdom, discover that the resistance leader that is helping him coordinate everything is actually quite attractive, team up with Wesley again (for double dpr action), turn dpr from a notorious boogyman into a folk hero, and discover the kind of man he really wants to be. Once the empire is fully pushed from the realm and everyone is safe Inigo decides to retire as dpr with no successor, allowing the name to end things off as a hero of the people instead of terror of the seas. And everyone lived happily ever after.
The end.
Keep political intrigue to a minimum. This the princess bride universe, the focus should be on fighting, romance, and a narration style kind of like how I met your mother but with a good story book feel (think Ella enchanted).
Episodes are 22 minutes long and seasons are 26 episodes a piece. The finally will be 50 minutes long and there will be a full 22 minute episode devoted to epilogue.
Thank you I will accept any questions now.
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Mom, I’m not… We’re— No.
Paramount has announced that Paramount+ and Showtime will fully merge into a single service later in 2023, with Showtime renamed "Paramount+ with Showtime."
HBO Max has seen a lot of its content, from "Westworld" to Looney Tunes, getting axed as part of Warner Bros. Discovery's penny-pinching austerity drive. As such, it's growing hard to recommend as a streaming service for casual viewers. In today’s post, I take a look at some alternatives to HBO Max.
Wasn't going to ask to buy it but read the quick story about his father and dying mother.
[Hey, That’s Her] The Riemann Sphere is Her Mirror on the Wall
MBC 드라마 《신입사관 구해령》 (2019)
There may be such a woman.
For at least eleven hours a day, her analytical, artistic, emotional and ethical minds are collectively locked up in a Taylorist cell block where the mantra is familiarly simple: Don’t question, don’t tell. Every reasonable client is aware that this is a dog-eat-dog world, so it is up to him or her to look out for personal interests not yet covered by contract law or even fiduciary law. If you value your principles and dreams over your corporation’s needs, you are a selfish hypocrite. Oh, and complain all you want at the water cooler; just remember to put back your angel mask and keep your head low at meetings.
That much is not really astonishing. No one in this place is a one-day-old. What stuns more is the utterly dim calaboose she toils away at her daytime lockup to return her body to every night, where broken bottles and suspicious pools of liquids bedeck the streets, literal rock concerts never cease, homeless druggies openly spread their limp bodies on pavements, and drunken Cinderellas and Cinderfellas bang on random doors when the clock strikes twelve.
Change might come with time but, given a burgeoning workload and an increasingly creepy cardiac rhythm, it must come soon. So, one night, she decides that if all jobs are this suffocating, she might as well take the best-paid one. It’s time to head back to graduate school, except that, this time, economic logic shall prevail over passion and intrigue.
As part of her research on Wealth and Investment Management MScs, she hunts down sample class videos from different business schools. Nestled among the suggested clips accompanying one search result, though, is a familiarly curious title that hypnotizingly whispers to her, Shopaholic Louis-style. It is the name an adviser, frowning over yet another overloaded course plan from her, pressed her into canceling out all those years ago right when meeting times for the semester did not conflict with those of her core classes. And soon, before her eyes, is an entire playlist for her narrowly missed destiny.
What harm could playing the introductory video at 2x do? Business schools’ admissions websites would not vanish in 30 minutes’ time. Ah, that was a collegiate equivalent of a soulful tearjerker but covered mostly basics she learnt in other classes. Application deadlines are half a year away, so there is ample room for a second lecture. Cool! The plot thickened pretty fast. Her college and graduate school debts are still badly in arrears. Can she be certain that she truly understands everything without attempting an unseen problem? Fetch homework sets from the official homepage tomorrow. Had she been bolder in imagination, she would have gotten question 7 right. Try harder for lecture three’s assignments. She has run out of eligible guarantors for a third loan. Lecture 11. Course completed. What a satisfying visual feast! Hey, the blurb of the follow-up course sounds fascinating too. It is not that she does not love investment banking. How about challenging herself at that course while the material of this course is still fresh in her mind? It is that she loathes investment banking. Mathematical logic has trumped economic logic.
How do you hold every number up to infinity in the palm of your hand without a poetic soul? Scoop out a round piece of dough and fancy being able to spread it so thin that it stretches to infinity. But instead of actually spreading it, roll up the edge to form a sphere. Let the bottom tip represent zero and the top tip represent infinity. As a point on the surface moves up from the bottom, it can have components that are each positive or negative, real or imaginary, depending on which pairs of opposite longitudes you assign the real number line and imaginary number line (recall: e.g. …, -10i, -9.99i, … , 0, … , 9.99i, 10i, …, where i is the square root of -1) to. The rise in value of each component accelerates with height, such that the physical gap representing any given numerical difference shrinks infinitely on the surface of the sphere as infinity approaches, making it harder and harder to advance and actually reach infinity. You are now cradling a physical version of the Riemann sphere.
© Jean-Christophe BENOIST, modified under the permission of CC BY-SA 3.0. P(A), around 1.5 in value, on the sphere corresponds to A on the grid, which represents the same numerical system in a typical boundless, regularly spaced 2D format. Similarly, P(B), around -0.5 in value, on the sphere corresponds to B on the grid.
The macrocosm of universal random structures, infinite products, manifolds and many more is a dearly missed oracle that reveals her inadequacies for what they are, without miserliness, patronizing sugar-coating, or, ironically, calculation: her inflexibility, her inattentiveness, her impatience and her indolence. “Shortcuts and cookie-cutter approaches cannot be your default,” it states plainly. So long as they do not cross a certain line, tactful hypocrites, on the whole, seem to be treated better by their surrounding adult peers than sharp-tongued, straight-talking observers with pure intentions in her circle. Yet the more she experiences of the grown-up world, with the heightened stakes and heightened awareness of interpersonal dangers that deter verbalization of contrarian opinions on the one hand and massive clots of intractable ills on the other, the more she wishes to cherish many of those straight talkers. The ideal living beings are, of course, the severely scarce breed who efficiently marry the circumspection, civility and altruistic strategizing that come with tact with the determination to convey, where necessary, uncomfortable truths.
For all its uninhibited criticism, mathematics gives credit where it is due and those who converse with it are frequently safe in the knowledge that it means its flattery. It reassures this corporate internee who feels increasingly stuck in her ways that she still has what it takes to master new grammars and vocabularies. It rewards her finesse at plugging gaps in background knowledge by improvising from scratch techniques taught only in later, simpler courses. What if these skills could let her pivot directly to some sector slightly less lucrative but also less odious to her than investment banking, never mind exactly how competitively relevant her prior higher education and corporate experience are?
Far more certain is that her deliciously madcap approach to this discipline with a matchingly rebellious streak has magically quietened the rock concerts and the intoxicated fairy tales and almost erased the jail bars. Nonetheless, as the faded bars unveil more and more vistas stretching beyond the horizons, she starts to wonder if she will live long enough to look a little further, if she will ever squirrel away enough bucks—after all those deductions for debt payments, taxes, food, rent, basic maintenance and transport—to hike a little closer, and if her wrinkled, financially secure self will continue to have the visual and cognitive acuities to deconstruct or even remember the sights a little longer. The jail bars resolidify to some degree.
Still, if positive infinity and negative infinity have been rendezvousing in a dimension invisible until intrepid mind adventurers outed them, and if functions as diverse as trigonometric functions, inverse polynomials and logarithmic functions share the same class of undercover identities, i.e. infinite sums of terms with increasing powers, maybe, she thinks, escape hatches exist somewhere nearby after all.
There may be such a woman. There may be such a snowless ending by a grilled window.
Note: This work of fiction commemorating Pi Day was inspired by an old Dramabeans guest post campaign, a few heartfelt entries of which have appeared in the admin’s Twitter feed. There is no intention, however, to establish any kind of association with the site. Interested readers can find slightly similar math-life themes in the book versions of Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 (82년생 김지영) and The Devotion of Suspect X (容疑者Xの献身).
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