Comments on: Things I Don’t Get.

By: Ken Lowery

Ken Lowery — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:49:07 +0000

But this need for total connectedness is beyond me, and frankly it’s not even total connectedness because it’s entirely a one-way conversation: you blather whatever into Twitter and other people see it, but you don’t have to listen back to them. Which, come to think, is pretty ego-driven communication in a passive-aggressive sort of way. You can tell people what you’re doing and you don’t have to listen to their responses, and not is this the expected norm, it’s the driving design principle!

You have accurately described blogging.

“But blogging doesn’t HAVE to–”

Ahhh, now we’re on to something.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:47:32 +0000

“Start-up from the people that brought you Digg. Essentially, it’s a way to have the Twitter ego-stroke, but you can also post media to share, and it *GASP* has the ability for people to leave replies to posts! Decent community, and it doesn’t quite feel like the empty shouting into the internets that Twitter is.”

Hey, pretty soon they’ll have reinvented Usenet.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:43:44 +0000

I don’t get twitter either. It’s basically a logging API. I’m a human, not a webserver, I don’t need a logging API.

Also annoying is that sometimes interesting information gets passed on it, which would have been captured and be searchable if it had been posted on a blog. A bunch of Mac programming blogger types have pretty much stopped posting interesting technical stuff, and now instead trade little blurbs that are mostly content-free and lacking in context.

By: Evan Waters

Evan Waters — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:07:20 +0000

Well, I’m of the opinion that the entire series, as pulp adventure, can easily encompass sci-fi as well as fantasy as long as both are subservient to the overall adventure tone. So, Indy in Space would be bad, but Indy finding ancient astronauts is okay.

By: Rick Jones

Rick Jones — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:06:27 +0000

To my mind, the failure of Crystal Skull comes down to the filmmakers’ failure to understand genre. The previous Indy films were all fantasy, while the current release is science fiction. The two really don’t mix all that well when the only thing similar is the central character.

By: Will Entrekin

Will Entrekin — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:45:51 +0000

Dude. Twitter. Totally. Awful.

By: Josh R

Josh R — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:43:27 +0000

Penny arcade has the right of it as far as Twitter goes.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/

By: Aardy R. DeVarque

Aardy R. DeVarque — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:31:46 +0000

Twitter itself, I couldn’t care less about, but it’s innocuous enough and doesn’t directly impact me in any way, so I can simply ignore it. Seems like the sort of thing people who are wired 80% of the time but don’t have the time to IM/text message as much as those who are wired 95% of the time would be into.

However, what really bugs me is when people on Twitter use LoudTwitter, etc. to dump their banalities and their side of Twitter conversations into their blogs. The only thing worse than reading boring Joycean prose is reading half (or less!) of a conversation written entirely in boring Joycean prose. IT’S CALLED CONTEXT, PEOPLE!

By: Andrew W.

Andrew W. — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:23:24 +0000

“Why Green Arrow is the doing prison routine…”

Because he’s just a dude with a bow and arrow, and the cops shouldn’t have any trouble locking his merry ass away.

Seriously, though, I think it’d be a bad idea to make a Green Arrow movie because he doesn’t have the profile the other big names have. Putting him in prison with a lot of B and C list villains . . . you’re just setting yourself up for another ‘The Shadow’ or ‘The Phantom.’ Do you want Green Arrow to ‘slam evil’? Do you? Do you want him hitting the ‘bullseye’ of evil with his ‘green arrow’? Schumacher style?

By: Aulayan

Aulayan — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:49:33 +0000

Twitter…

Not for me at all, but I recall hearing one VERY redeeming thing from it.

It helped coordinate responses to the San Diego area fires a few months ago. And I thnk it helped coordinate things with the recent Cheng-Du Earthquake as well.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:47:02 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, I like ‘Temple of Doom’ just fine in its place (which is fourth on the list of Indy movies. ) But dismissing Short Round as “an unfortunate character choice” is like dismissing Snails from the ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ movie as “a bit of a backwards characterization.” Everything about Short Round just screams “unfortunate racial stereotype that nobody had the balls to tell Lucas and Spielberg ‘Hey, this worked in the 30s because everyone actually was racist, but you can’t just drop it into a movie made fifty years later’.” The pidgin English, the spontaneous and unexplained knowledge of martial arts…I’ll admit that all the Indy movies have their share of cinematic stereotypes (Sallah has his share of “cinematic Arab” character tropes, plus he’s a Middle Eastern character being played by a Welshman) but none of them manage to be as blatantly offensive as Short Round. Hell, just read his name and cringe.

The same movie without Short Round (or with him about ten years older, speaking better English, and with a proper name and backstory) gains ground very quickly on ‘Crystal Skull’.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:56:19 +0000

If you’re trying to understand Grey’s Anatomy by comparing it to Scrubs, of course you’re not going to get it, because Grey’s Anatomy is a soap opera and Scrubs is a sitcom. They are entirely different genres.

That’s not to say that Grey’s Anatomy is good, because mostly it’s not (this coming from someone who watches it regularly – shut up it’s a guilty pleasure) but it’s not meant to be a show that’s “like Scrubs” at all. “Like ER” would be a better comparison.

By: DJA

DJA — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:50:01 +0000

3.) Is anybody is Hollywood going to portray a frothing radical communist as the hero?

According to the gang at Libertas, isn’t everyone in Hollywood supposed to be a frothing radical communist?

By: Commander Tim

Commander Tim — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:43:35 +0000

If you hate Twitter (as you should), you should check out Pownce.com

Start-up from the people that brought you Digg. Essentially, it’s a way to have the Twitter ego-stroke, but you can also post media to share, and it *GASP* has the ability for people to leave replies to posts! Decent community, and it doesn’t quite feel like the empty shouting into the internets that Twitter is.

By: Sofa King

Sofa King — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:41:45 +0000

They need to get off their bums and make a damn GA series on the WB. I’d watch that.