I took a playwriting class a long time ago where the teacher talked about how in music "the rests are just as important as the notes" and how it's the same when writing a script
What we call "compression" tends to involve sucking all the empty space ("ma") out of "content" and it sucks
Cf. the "loudness war" when it came to music, i.e. "dynamic range compression" -- trying to make every second of a track equally loud so it "stands out" on the radio
I keep thinking back to that viral video of those kids discovering Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" for the first time
And how that beat drop is totally meaningless if the song doesn't start out mellow and quiet and then build up
The moment in Psycho where she actually gets stabbed is fucking stupid if you just watch the clip
Which is why parodying just that one clip became a comedy cliche
It's only a shocking heart attack moment after the prolonged attempt to pretend everything was normal before
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@JARKH87@iburs17 The crowd was this close to breaching that door and actually getting access to the legislators so you know what no
I'm relieved as hell that someone actually took that shot and I'm still terrified it got that close and could've easily gone further
@JARKH87@iburs17 I am angry beyond reason that the institution supposedly safeguarding our system is so weak and filled with so many sympathizers that the fascists even got indoors
I have seen how fragile the infrastructure protecting us from them is and I can't unsee it
@JARKH87@iburs17 What happened yesterday is proof that we hang by a gossamer thread above the pit, that we are always one hesitant security officer away from being ruled by these fucks
They will always be seen as more human, more legitimate, more worthy of life and liberty and voice
Ashley Babbitt feeding the worms is one of the few good things that happened as a result of the Capitol "protest" and if you feel the need to mourn her Nazi ass it'll be easier for both of us if you unfollow me now
When a bullet goes through the fatty tumor a Nazi has in the space where a human being would have a brain, nothing is lost
A pile of meat that moved and spoke and acted like a person was made to stop moving, and thus could no longer fool people into thinking it was one of them
A Nazi is the opposite of a person, and therefore our morality to them must be reversed
To hate them is to love
To harm them is to heal
To kill them is to bring life
Anyway this is why it was super funny that SWTOR nerds got all mad when they wanted to call a subclass "Jedi Wizard", because in Star Wars the word "wizard" is apparently pejorative
"That wizard is just a crazy old man"
Dr Strange getting low-key pissed at Tony calling him one
The Diablo 3 thing where she's called the Wizard rather than a Sorcerer/ess
Because she got kicked out of Sorcerer school and now has adopted "a vulgar and demeaning term for our noble profession" and the council of elders wants her arrested and executed posthaste
I figure in the Diablo universe a Sorcerer putting the word "wizard" on their business card is like when someone calls themselves a "data wizard" or an "analytics guru" or a "UX ninja" on LinkedIn
It's just funny to me, mah jong can be a lot of things - upscale, downscale, high stakes, low stakes - but the one big thing I always thought it *can't* be is this Goopified pastel white lady stuff
It's a gambling game
It's like watching all the suburban soccer moms gather for an uplifting and spiritually enriching evening of bonding at the blackjack table
My issue is that even though I don't have kids, your kid getting the virus from some other kid could mean *I* get it
Unless either you or I never go shopping for groceries again
I'm not talking about the fucking kids' welfare I'm talking about MY welfare, other adults' welfare, the welfare of all the old people and immunocompromised people
It's all one risk our whole population is taking
Why do people still not understand this basic concept