Starlord Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 Utah governor signs legislation requiring porn filters on cellphones, tablets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 2 hours ago, Starlord said: Utah governor signs legislation requiring porn filters on cellphones, tablets Well this was just a bill to look good for the voters. The penalty is a $10 fine per violation with a maximum of $500! It'll be cheaper for the manufacturers to just cut a $500 check to Utah whenever they put out a new phone or tablet model than it it would be to develop a porn filter. I guess in aggregate they could raise about $50,000 a year but this is purely a PR move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 It's pointless posturing. There are plenty of products on the market for those who want them, no need to make the manufacturers include the feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 New type of ancient rock found beneath seafloor off the coast of Japan Shall we propose a name for it? Perhaps "kaijuite"? pinecone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 Are there any kaiju known to eat rocks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 6 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: Are there any kaiju known to eat rocks? I think Godzilla gets indigestion from eating rocks. At least I've seen him belching a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 US offers assistance to free ship from the Suez Canal https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/545107-us-offers-assistance-to-free-ship-from-suez-canal If they'd told me the ship was free, I'd have taken it and found some place to park it. I wonder if the contents are free as well.... Old Man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 You might want to wash your hands after unboxing your Amazon purchases: https://theintercept.com/2021/03/25/amazon-drivers-pee-bottles-union/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 Children's Author Beverly Cleary, Creator Of Ramona Quimby, Dies At 104 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 27, 2021 Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 ‘Game Of Thrones’ Author George R.R. Martin Inks New Eight-Figure HBO Overall Deal Amid Big Franchise Expansion Quote "Muahahahaaaa!!", Martin is quoted as saying. (Not really.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 27, 2021 Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 Yes, nice, good -- now get cracking on finishing the books, dammit! Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 27, 2021 Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 It'll be another series that gets finished posthumously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 27, 2021 Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 If you’re lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pariah Posted March 27, 2021 Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 7 hours ago, L. Marcus said: Yes, nice, good -- now get cracking on finishing the books, dammit! If I cared even a little bit about Game of Thrones, I would be with you one hundred percent! aylwin13 and Lord Liaden 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted March 27, 2021 Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 7 hours ago, Old Man said: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Author George R.R. Martin Inks New Eight-Figure HBO Overall Deal Amid Big Franchise Expansion I think the main thing that bugged me with GoT was the glorification of graphic violence and the effect that it had on society in general (inuring many to that). The best example I've got is the Rape of Sansa: imagine if that had been S1E1, the public outcry you would have heard over the graphic, on-screen depiction of the rape of an underage girl. The show would have been yanked from the air. By the time the series got around to it, however, they had already pushed society's tolerance for that well past that point....and I find that depressing. As for the books themselves, I found them to be too heavy (and depressing) -- it was a long read that I was glad to be finished with at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted March 27, 2021 Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 25 minutes ago, Simon said: As for the books themselves, I found them to be too heavy (and depressing) -- it was a long read that I was glad to be finished with at the time. Similar reaction. Each time I finished a volume, I could appreciate the worldbuilding craft and the interweaving of the storylines... but Gawdalmighty, it took a long time getting there. Got through three volumes. Then I found Volume Four was about the apparently peripheral characters and I'd have to wait for #5 to find what was going on with the apparently central characters I somehow still managed to care about. and quit. I quit the TV series, too, when the storytelling patterns became too obvious. Like, any new character who seems at all sympathetic will promptly be killed, just to remind us what a crapsack world this is. It's not good when I end up rooting for the army of zombies. Perhaps someday I';ll look up the episode list on Wikipedia to find how it all ended up, but I don't actually care that much. Dean Shomshak Lord Liaden 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 27, 2021 Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 Many people seem to be fascinated by depictions of the vile side of human nature. Maybe it's the appeal of vicariously experiencing one's inner darkness that can't normally be expressed. For my part, I agree with the previous sentiments. The series seemed to revel in cynicism and cruelty. Concepts like honor, justice, compassion, were given lip service, but those who espoused them mostly either died or suffered horrible abuse. Plus there were zombies, which I loathe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 27, 2021 Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 12 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said: It'll be another series that gets finished posthumously. Precisely. It's been clear for decades that he can't force himself to finish the series. He gave his writer's block its own name and that was 20 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted March 27, 2021 Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 I'm having trouble just starting the second volume of my series. And the first was only about 48,000 words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 27, 2021 Report Share Posted March 27, 2021 4 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: For my part, I agree with the previous sentiments. The series seemed to revel in cynicism and cruelty. Concepts like honor, justice, compassion, were given lip service, but those who espoused them mostly either died or suffered horrible abuse. Plus there were zombies, which I loathe. ASoIaF is a deconstruction of the fantasy genre. First GRRM takes away most of the romanticism of his medieval setting by... getting medieval with his characters. Then he inverts all the classic tropes: the young princess is forced to marry the barbarian warlord and gets fully on board with this plan. The boy king marries his love and it gets him killed because it was stupid. The other young princess gets married to her Prince Charming and whoops turns out he's a psychopath. The honorable lord figures out the evil queen's secret but tips her off out of honor and loses his head for it. This was refreshing, for a while at least, because it made the series unpredictable at first. The strongest element of the series is the characterization. Nothing in ASoIaF feels forced--the plot flows naturally from the motivations and inner conflicts of the characters. That's hard to do, especially in intrigue-driven storyline. Lastly if your only experience with the series was HBO, then you should know there are some sharp differences between the show and the books. Sex is far less gratuitous in the books--it happens but tends to be offstage, and we only see it when it drives the plot. As one example, the honeymoon rape of Daenerys in the very first episode isn't a rape in the book. (Well it's still statutory rape, but she's a willing participant.) And GRRM quit writing halfway through the story, the point at which things are supposed to be extraordinarily bad for your characters. Most of what happens in the show after S4 is clumsily written by HBO, and it shows. Tl;dr: ASoIaF is to fantasy what Watchmen was to supers and what Unforgiven was to westerns. It's not going to be everyone's cup of tea. Lord Liaden and Grailknight 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 28, 2021 Report Share Posted March 28, 2021 Glad I never started it in any medium. Lee and aylwin13 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 28, 2021 Report Share Posted March 28, 2021 I'd just adapt "Fevre Dream" into a limited series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted March 28, 2021 Report Share Posted March 28, 2021 The Wheel of Time series has made it farther into production than I thought it would, seems like it will actually make it onscreen. Curious to see how well it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 28, 2021 Report Share Posted March 28, 2021 Meanwhile a boy finds a 488 million year old fossil in a garden in Walsall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-56554925 tkdguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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