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Don’t worry; it gets better

Not impressed

My wife had abdominal surgery yesterday in Norway. The bill? NOK 75,-

Yes. Acknowledging a ‘higher power’ is literally what religion is. AA is not referring to natural disasters, car crashes or gravity here, and I suspect you know that.

«All you have to do is acknowledge there is a power/force beyond your own will.” So, literally religious then?

Not if you’re a Russian asset

This is it. Another layer to the whole thing is that it will be a movie, and not a series. This means that a lot of the character development is at risk of being cut also, so people are concerned that the end result will be a short, watered-down and sanitized version of the book, much like how Enders Game ended up.

Because they are afraid that the source material will have to be altered in order to appeal to a younger (PG-13) audience, and therefore be less graphic, brutal and ‘adult themed’.

Another layer of this is that a movie will have to cut potentially a lot of the story from the book.

So in sum, people are concerned that we’ll end up with a short, watered-down and sanitized version of the books.

I tend to feel the same really. I hope I’m wrong though and we get three (or more) films at the level of Villeneuve’s Dune, but my expectations are (to put it diplomaticly) low.

Shooting range parallel to an obstacle course. Facinating concept!

Slithering?

Jeg tror det er lurt å spesifisere hva slags ‘fred’ Putin ønsker seg. Fred kan han få før lunch i morgen hvis han bare trekker seg ut av Ukraina. Jeg tror nok ‘fred’ i Putin’s øyne ligner mer på ‘annektering av Ukraina uten motstand’.

You mean disrupt an election again?

For øyeblikket ja, det er jeg enig i. Men, historien er full av uforutsigbare plot twists. Plutselig kan fronten kollapse (ref. Stalingrad), plutselig kan ny teknologi spille en avgjørende rolle (Konstantinopels fall) eller at en ledende skikkelse rett og slett bare dør.

Putin er ikke noe unggutt lengre, og det kan være en bedre og bedre strategi å bare si: Nei, vi har ikke tenkt å satse alt nå for å ta tilbake alt landet vårt, vi skal bare holde oss fast til Putin er i grava og at Russland da (forhåpentligvis) bare trekker seg ut selv.

Jeg får inntrykk av at Putin prøver å komme seg ut av denne konflikten nå. Mellomvalget i USA ser ut til å gå helt feil vei for ham, og det er null fremgang på slagmarken. Hvis alt gikk riktig vei for Putin, så hadde han ikke giddet å ringe til Støre og Stubb. Håper de forteller Putin at krigen er over det øyeblikket han trekker seg ut og at vi fortsetter å hjelpe Ukraina!

I know; that’s the realest part of the whole video

Oh, I do declare that keeping the word ‘hitherto’ in one’s vocabulary can at times be most satisfying; even pretentious. Two for two!

Not skill, but a combination of risk taking and some luck

What Rolex is that?

Nips out!

Miscast? You know it’s a documentary right? Or are you just pulling our legs?

People pay a lot of money to be at concerts. How about just letting them record their little memories, even if the videos look like crap?

“We’re lucky they’re so god damn stupid” - The Ukranians

MMW: Putin is pulling the strings here. It’s straight out of his divide and conquer playbook

Why you pay consultants:

Mgnt if things go well: We did it!

Mgnt if things go wrong: It was the consultants’ idea!

Yes. Matt Berry