Posts by Danneskjold

A treat for myself after having an awesome day selling my knives at a local farmer's market. Also being sold at the farmer's market.

Local made "bourbon" from PA. I don't think I've ever had a whiskey this dark. It's amazing.

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I took a whole evening to dedicate towards watching the most recent films from DC and Marvell.

Wakanda Forever: I made it 15 minutes into this movie. It is the most horrible trope laden thing I've ever seen. It comes off like it was written by Jada Pinket. At 15 minutes, I paused and found there was still 2 1/2 hrs to go. I turned it off. This notion that only black women calmly explaining their lunacy can save the black race is getting tired.

Shazam 2: The light weight superhero stuff. At times, the banter gets to be a bit much but the film has a fairly decent plot and moves along well. Definitely geared for younger audiences.

Justice League: 4 hrs long. I actually stayed up and watched it all. It wasn't half bad. The only problem was building backstories for some of the characters in the league. I also wanted to slap Flash whenever he talked (I think this may be the last of him in DC stuff after his Hawaii fiascos). I'd rate this as better than some of the Marvel stuff coming out and I haven't really done that for DC since Batman Begins.d

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None of the newer Marvel stuff is really any good. Black Widow was very generic. SchangChi wasn't smartly written, but not necessarily "bad." Thor 4 retreads stuff we've seen from Thor for 3+ movies. And not very well, at that. Hawkeye is classic Disney Bait and Switch (not really about hawkeye). Eternals was just poorly written, and had trouble keeping my attention even in the action scenes.

I can watch the rest of it at any time I wish, but with everything Phase 4 being so bad and / or bland, I find I have little drive to see the new Dr. Strange, Ant Man, Black Panther, or GOTG.

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Feel free to add me to keep in touch. I'll probably jump over to ICOM, but I'm pretty damn busy and haven't been posting much anywhere.

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...at toon town (aka coon town aka happiest place on earf).

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(yeah I know Cali, but still apropos).

I haven't seen slapstick that good in YEARS.

The guy in the white shirt squares up with the guy in red. And then he smacks the girl next to him. FUCKING HILARIOUS.

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They probably saved that for D&D 2, the Revenge of the Acne.

There probably won't be a D&D 2. Not enough people saw it, and they tanked their main corporation, so they don't have the money to burn, either.

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I watched the new Dungeons & Dragons movie tonight. It is streaming on Paramount+. I sat through 120 minutes of it to come to the realization that the movie had zero hollywood tropes in it, throughout. It was pure Dungeons & Dragons in all of its simple prepubesent glory. The story was simple. Some of the acting was mailed in. Overall... it wasn't horrible and didn't make me want to strangle anyone. It's sad that hollywood has gotten to where that's a compliment.

Ditto. It was good enough. A few missing character arcs, though. The devil girl had no story to her at all.

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One of the greatest things I ever did was play a bunch of open-mic nights with my guitar at college.

I wasn't any good. At all.

But it made me appreciate how difficult these things are. And enjoy them more.

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The HBO Chernobyl series is fucking fantastic.

We have tens of thousands of pools all over the States. It's not something you really want to look into, because it will kill your heart.

Ignorance is bliss.

And as scary as Nuclear is, I still think that it's our best option currently.

This guy has a great set of videos where he examines the nuclear accidents. Like where a bunch of Georgian (country) woodsmen found Exposed RTG's from the soviet union, but caught in a snow storm decided to sleep against the heat generating items.

Or a software issue that caused a Cancer Radiation device to hit the patients with 100X the dose the person should be receiving, and basically burning a radioactive hole through the person.

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Shit like this is how lead and copper wind up in politicians.

We really would not have any kind of food crisis whatsoever, had actual water management and agricultural assistance been properly rendered to third-world countries.

We have more food per person now than at any other time in history. Even if you don't consider USA, we're still at our peak.

The problem is that it isn't like it was split in the past. Republicans in the north (mostly). And Democrats in the south (mostly).

The problem is that it's Republicans where food is grown or made. And Democrats where the buildings are tall. It's not sustainable. If we were to "politely" split on those ideological lines, the city dwellers have nothing to offer those that can feed everyone.

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Disney created a huge bustling city out of a swamp. They leave, their place will be taken

It'd cost them more to remove it and ship it, than to just build something new.

It'd be cool to see a Rat Themed Florida land. Maybe sell it to the Daily Wire?

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Watch our raging might.

I liked the part where you guys brought out several of your newest battle tanks...

And they all broke down on the parade route.

Finished out Strange New Worlds. Again, it's not bad, but it's definitely not great, either. It suffers from the EXTREME bad habit of telling, and not showing. Especially the last episode.

Basically Captain Pike got the voodoo done on him and sees his future where he, several cadets, and other star fleet officers die in a training accident. In the last episode he sees an opportunity to change this future when he meets one of the future cadets as a child. But older Captain Pike shows up, and shows him more future voodoo bullshit explaining why it's bad that he changes what happens through a long action sequence.

This may seem like showing, and not telling, but it's just a cheap trick. An outside force that he can't verify is telling him something may happen, which he can't verify, and he's supposed to take it on faith that he must suffer for something good to happen after his death? But they won't explain to him what, nor verify it. That's still "telling" and not showing.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Good enough. Better than most of the shit everyone else is turning out these days, but not as good as the old star treks. An example of how it isn't up to snuff:

The ship Doc has a daughter that is terminally ill. She's expected to die in weeks. So he hides her in the RAM of the med bay transporter and he is trying to research a way to cure her disease. Then, out of nowhere "god" pulls her out of the transporter, and promises to save her. But she can never leave the "god" ever, can never grow old, and would become something else entirely. What we should have gotten was a long discussion about the merits between becoming a different creature, and being FOREVER isolated vs. maybe not being cured and remaining a human. As well as the ship Doc breaking down over HIS decision about what to do, and the repercussions of that decision.

What we got was the ship Doc asking his daughter what she wanted, and then doing it. And then we got the immediate, IMMEDIATE feedback that it was the "correct" decision. And I do mean immediate. ~5 seconds from decision made to a deus ex machina justification and rationalization.

At the bare minimum, we should have had a season or 2 of the Doc not knowing if he made the right decision, even if they spent no time weighing the decision at all.

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IIRC they claim they are battle ready??? when you see that it usually means heat treated and ready to use...

supposedly this means they are NOT decoration pieces...

quick note from what I read stainless steel is too brittle/hard to be useful in blades longer then perhaps a foot???

so looks nice but will fail if used to actually fight???

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Anything is battle ready... For one swing.

There are as many grades of stainless steel as there are of regular steel. Your cheap chinese stainless steel is as good as your regular chinese steel. Basically if you're paying under a thousand for a REAL sword, you've got to trust the source with your life. Most people who buy a cold steel sword will never swing it at anything more than a water bottle, so they'll never know how good they are until it matters.