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Mister Mumbler

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What is you Wu Tang Clan name? Mine is Vizual Demon
Word is this what Donald Glover used to come up with his Childish Gambino artist name.
I got Sarkastik Wizard for my name and Lazy-assed Assassin for my screen name. Pretty good I think, though I like Sarkastik quite a bit more than the latter.
 

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Once again... work, shockingly enough. Albeit it's more work adjacent as I'm in discussions with a game publisher's creative director to be a narrative contributor and I'm looking over story spoilers as I type. Nothing's confirmed in terms of what I'll be doing, but I'm odds on to get a new contract (only a month in all likelihood, but I'll take it) which will be fun times.

What should definitely help is that I've already written about a quarter of the content already (albeit in a different format)!
 

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Please, take a moment and watch this, a young woman from Ohio auditioning on “America’s Got Talent.” She brings Simon Cowell near to tears. My girlfriend has been battling cancer since November, and while her prognoses is very good (it was caught and treated very early,) we both cried watching this; it was a message of strength and perseverance we both desperately need to hear. I think everyone needs to hear her message: “I have a 2% chance of survival, but 2% is not 0%.” Look how happy she is. Absolutely beautiful.

This doesn't necessarily make me "smile," just a follow up on my first post. Jane, aka "Nightbirde," had to back out of the "America's Got Talent" competition due to her health concerns. I wish her nothing but the best and hope this isn't the last we see of her.

 

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I am sad at the passing of Sean Locke, but he was terribly funny. I don't know if he ever had much impact outside the UK, but if you haven't heard of him, give it a google, it should make you smile.
Though is difficult to find one without Jimmy Car's seal laugh which has now been seared into audio memory from years of abuse.

 
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Gotta respect the commitment to staying in character for their interview. Though am suspicious the humour is probably too local for anyone but a few unsavoury dwellers to enjoy. 🤔

 

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I like many of Nolan's films and understand how they can be a bit... convoluted for some people's tastes, but Tenet certainly was a bridge too far for even me. The right-facing guy in that video is me every time I try to sit through that gnarly dog shit piece of cinema.
That was brilliant!
The boy bought me Tenet for my birthday and me, him and a bunch of friends had not seen it so I showed it off in my home theater to them. Instead of having bragging rights, I had a lot of very angry people glaring at me wondering what the heck I had just put them through. Till I also showed them this that you likely saw already:


It got a ton of laughs. Why on Earth would you have the exposition scenes nearly impossible to hear?

Still, a Nolan failure tends to be more interesting than most movies relative successes.
 

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I am sad at the passing of Sean Locke, but he was terribly funny. I don't know if he ever had much impact outside the UK, but if you haven't heard of him, give it a google, it should make you smile.
Aw fucking hell, I didn't know :( I was wondering why he gave up hosting. Now I don't feel like posting my thing that made me smile.
 

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That was brilliant!
The boy bought me Tenet for my birthday and me, him and a bunch of friends had not seen it so I showed it off in my home theater to them. Instead of having bragging rights, I had a lot of very angry people glaring at me wondering what the heck I had just put them through. Till I also showed them this that you likely saw already:


It got a ton of laughs. Why on Earth would you have the exposition scenes nearly impossible to hear?

Still, a Nolan failure tends to be more interesting than most movies relative successes.
Yeah, I watched that Pitch Meeting the moment it went up because I knew Ryan would have something to say, and as usual, he nailed it. Usually his observant tongue-in-cheek-iness brings some clarity, but with this film? Nope.

And yes, even when Nolan shits the bed, it tends to be more interesting than most films on offer at a given time. I want to watch Tenet, but it just seems to push me away like a girl at the bar who spent the whole night flirting just to say "no" around midnight (crude analogy, but I'll stand by it.) I don't need a movie to make complete sense to enjoy it, but I at least need it to make enough sense that I can follow the threads it's stringing together; Tenet just goes off the rails as soon as possible and doesn't look back. I almost feel like it was a exercise in "how far can I bullshit until someone calls me on it?" I might actually pour a cocktail and force myself to finish it just to say I've seen it and get it over with. There's intellectually engaging writing, then there's shit like Tenet, stuffed so far up its own ass, its eyes can be seen in the back of its own throat, the latter being the hardest pill to swallow.
 
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