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s2e6 Victor. Echo. November

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“make sure to boycott israeli diamonds and uae gold!” you people live on a different planet than me. don’t worry it’s not going to be much of an issue for me to avoid those

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i love this guy so much hes asking the real questions

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calling in to work sick with a “weird dream”

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oooh have you ever done a post about the ridiculous mandatory twist endings in old sci-fi and horror comics? Like when the guy at the end would be like "I saved the Earth from Martians because I am in fact a Vensuvian who has sworn to protect our sister planet!" with no build up whatsoever.

Yeah, that is a good question - why do some scifi twist endings fail?

As a teenager obsessed with Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone, I bought every single one of Rod Serling’s guides to writing. I wanted to know what he knew.

The reason that Rod Serling’s twist endings work is because they “answer the question” that the story raised in the first place. They are connected to the very clear reason to even tell the story at all. Rod’s story structures were all about starting off with a question, the way he did in his script for Planet of the Apes (yes, Rod Serling wrote the script for Planet of the Apes, which makes sense, since it feels like a Twilight Zone episode): “is mankind inherently violent and self-destructive?” The plot of Planet of the Apes argues the point back and forth, and finally, we get an answer to the question: the Planet of the Apes was earth, after we destroyed ourselves. The reason the ending has “oomph” is because it answers the question that the story asked. 

My friend and fellow Rod Serling fan Brian McDonald wrote an article about this where he explains everything beautifully. Check it out. His articles are all worth reading and he’s one of the most intelligent guys I’ve run into if you want to know how to be a better writer.

According to Rod Serling, every story has three parts: proposal, argument, and conclusion. Proposal is where you express the idea the story will go over, like, “are humans violent and self destructive?” Argument is where the characters go back and forth on this, and conclusion is where you answer the question the story raised in a definitive and clear fashion. 

The reason that a lot of twist endings like those of M. Night Shyamalan’s and a lot of the 1950s horror comics fail is that they’re just a thing that happens instead of being connected to the theme of the story. 

One of the most effective and memorable “final panels” in old scifi comics is EC Comics’ “Judgment Day,” where an astronaut from an enlightened earth visits a backward planet divided between orange and blue robots, where one group has more rights than the other. The point of the story is “is prejudice permanent, and will things ever get better?” And in the final panel, the astronaut from earth takes his helmet off and reveals he is a black man, answering the question the story raised. 

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hey. what the fuck does this mean

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Just laughed out loud remembering how early into the pandemic that celebrity Imagine video was. We were like 2 weeks into that shit and Gal Gadot gathered all her friends to sing badly into their iPhones.

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I’m I the only one who thinks the Switch 2 is going to be disappointing? It’s going to be a more powerful Switch, but basically the same in design and functionality as far as we know now. It shows a lack of creativity and innovation from Nintendo I feel. Just about every Nintendo hardware has had it’s own unique design and identity. I can already see early reviewers complaining that’s it just another Switch just with more power. Of course software will be the ultimate deciding factor. It seems people forget that Nintendo has had difficulty in the hardware market in the past. The N64 and Gamecube underperformed, the 3DS nearly died before they took measures, and the Wii U straight up flopped.

I think the Switch is a proven form factor that people still want. I guess I agree in that I don't think that "more of this" is the most exciting strategy in the world, but the Switch has done just fine and its main problem is that it's always been an under-powered device. Those cracks show more and more as the years go on.

A Switch 2 fixes the main problem that most people would have with the existing device. They still need to get the price right and obviously the software will matter, but I guess I'd say that I don't think they'll mess those things up.

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I get vegetarians right like it's sad to eat a dead animal I guess but vegans I understand less. What's the problem, the cow survived the milking this time...

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look at this button dog I saw on digikey

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