Ok so next time you stumble on someone with something like that, ask them. That way you get to judge whether the reason makes sense or not.

You can't "fix" her any more than she can "fix" John. She's just got to learn the hard way.

I think all you can do is reiterate to her that you are her friend and you are there for her, no matter who she is dating. But set and keep your boundaries around John.

Monkey branching.

You're right the depth of field is all over the place.

Thank you! This is the answer I needed!

Judging by the size they are from someone bigger than the guy in the photo.

And the bit where they meet his sleeve is quite a blurry, murky area of the image, esp compared to his hoodie zip.

Im starting to wonder if this pic itself is photoshopped.

What I need to know is WHOSE FINGERS are behind the wolf's tongue?

r/birdswitharms material right there.

Yeah I think they find it easier than teaching about stuff like structure and technique in too much depth.

Surprises me how many lyrics I know from this movie though. Guess I used to play the soundtrack more often than I thought.

Really? Peaches and roses is more what I had in mind but it went on a rant.

The model that makes the most sense to me is encoding/decoding. Of course the author has a say but we're not just sitting here in a blank wasteland and how we interpret stuff is influenced by our own lives, just like how the author thinks was influenced by their life/culture etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoding/decoding_model_of_communication

Its meant to be stupid, the movie is critical of the civil wars stupidity.

I agree with this take.

They are attracted to each other but their values are not compatible.

Were the Romans prejudiced in that way tho? They seem like they were fairly cosmopolitan.

And if those didnt, the occasional sound of gunfire from the mainland kind of hammers it home...

Soundtracks, Bladerunner is a mood.

Compilations it has to be Trainspotting for me.

Ok I'll be your Huckleberry. I can play this game.

Why not argue it's not just about cultural appropriation its about cultural violence akin to colonisation and invasion.

He doesn't think he can do it BETTER. He just wants to do it because he was bored and suffering burnout.

"And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King, Have grown so tired of the same old thing"

Then he "discovers" Christmas town and makes a whole lot of Anthropological observations about the inhabitants "theyre hanging mistletoe. They kiss. Why that looks so unique."

"I want it for my own" he concludes, showing the avarice of the coloniser.

Then he goes and manufactures consent by telling Halloween town a bunch of lies about Christmas town. He has the king of Christmas kidnapped on the pretext that he is villainous "when he sets out to slay with his rain gear on .... and they call him Sandy Claws" and lets not forget his henchkids also traumatise the Easter Bunny.

This kind of hints at colonial violence and avarice. "It's OURS this time" they sing. But the real invasion happens on earth when everyone's christmas gets invaded by scary violent halloween creatures who terrorise the locals, attempting to force Halloween town cultural norms on them.

The sirens and searchlights the town uses to defend themselves from Jack are a reference to western countries being attacked during the WW2 Blitz. Arguably Jacks mistake is the same as Hitlers, by invading western nations instead of colonising (Africa in Hitlers case, Christmas Town itself in Jacks case) he meets more resistance and overstretches.

However Jack makes amends by pinning his crimes on his outsourced labour, Oogie Boogie the "Boogey man" whose name as an imaginary figure people blame stuff on is a clear reference to the scapegoating process. Notably Oogie Boogie is voiced by Ken Page who has a recognisably Black voice. Jack punishes the Boogey man and reinstates the Christmas Town leader. The film glosses over the harm of colonisation by showing everything getting fixed quickly.

Jack thus profits from his attempted coup and invasion by being reinvigorated and having his own culture enriched by his violent cultural borrowings. "and I Jack the Pumpkin King.. .thats right, I AM the pumpkin king. And I just cant wait until next Halloween cos Ive got some new ideas that will really make them scream!"

Tldr for anyone who doesnt realise this is satire: when you have a hammer anything can be a nail lol 🤣

How DO you input into Chat GPT?

I was being lazy so I asked it to write an editorial for me, thinking it would be cool if I credited it to Chat GPT. But it wrote a manifesto on the staffing changes it wanted to see at the mag I was writing for.

It wasnt wrong per se but I will never get invited back if I use what it wrote. How do you get it to control tone and be more chill?

Im with you on this but youre not gonna change that guys mind.

People who are attached to authorial intent are usually that way because they crave the idea of access to a central truth.

Lol whut I thought yours was good!

A Mighty Wind and Best In Show

Crikey, you HAVE to watch it as an adult. Its a damn good film and it has one of the most iconic diner scenes.

You won't be lost at all. Its a Ridley Scott film, the point of it is to tell you a damn good story, the setting is just incidental really.

That doesn't even cover half of it.

Abused their adopted son for years. Made his sister get naked in front of them.

Bunch of sexual assault sllegations against Ninja too including by someone who he tried to RP incest with which is skeevy given the above.