#godfellas

[astrawitch]

Godfella

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[quotent-potables]

When you do things right, people won't be sure that you have done anything at all…

— God, Futurama, 4x20: "Godfellas"

[raurquiz]

#remembering #paulsorvino #Actor #nikolairozhenko #startrek #thenextgeneration #godfellas #lawandorder #romeoandjuliet #atouchofclass #reds #therocketeer #nixon #thecooler #bloodbrothers #ohgod #thatchampionshipseason #dicktracy #greetingsfromtheshore #KilltheIrishman #sicilianvampire #undercovergrandpa #thebirthdaycake #theride @startrek @startrekonpplus @streammaxla

[xyronian]

Another entry in my misguided series: Refantaziorama.

Major spoilers this time, like major endgame spoilers.

Source: Godfellas

"'Everyone' being my entire village. You know, the one Forden burned down because you had a wife there. You remember that?"

[therandosfandos]

I watch these Futurama Bender episodes religiously

31st Century Fox

The Thief Of Baghead

Godfellas

Forty Percent Leadbelly

The Honking

I Know What You Did Last Xmas

All The Way Down

A Tale Of Two Santas

The Bird Bot Of Ice-Catraz

Free Will Hunting

Hell Is Other Robots

Probably more

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NO- I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM...SHUT UP

[warduke]

the idea of being flung out into space in only a space suit, spinning, unable to right yourself, knowing that there is nothing and nothing at all to catch yourself on for all functional eternity is pretty scary (2001: A Space Odyssey, Kars from Jojo, the characters from Gravity i guess, Bender in the episode Godfellas).

But what keeps the idea from being truly terrifying in my mind (although this is honestly silly because it would be bound to be one of the most horrific ways to die that I can imagine, spinning and panicking until you pass out, hopefully asphyxiating before you regain consciousness) is the fact that you don't accelerate.

You hold your inertia, unable to change course and unable to slow in the frictionless vacuum, and ultimately only going as fast as you originally were pushed.

What I fear about falling, what triggers my vertigo, is the sense of accelerating into an abyss. The higher the fall, the longer you have to understand how much you're speeding up before you hit bottom.

What is truly gut wrenching to me is the idea of an infinite, pitch black expanse beneath and in front of you, one with gravity, so you truly feel like you are falling and there is nothing, nothing waiting to catch you

[glados-is-beloved]

I need to consider putting together a top 10 frender episodes list sometime because mannnnnnnn Godfellas is up there.

When bender got hurled into space, fry was SO ABSOLUTELY DEMOLISHED.

He tried absolutely everything he could think of to get bender back. At the very first sign of hope, with no solid evidence the telescope even existed at all, he went and climbed the Himalayas on foot in a heartbeat. He searched the skies desperately for 3 DAYS. When bender returned he instantly went to hug him even though he had JUST reentered and was still very visibly glowing BRIGHT ORANGE HOT.

HE LOVES BENDER SO MUCH......... 😭

[zappsbrannigan]

There's no reason for you to feel guilty! I know that not everyone is a fan of Frapp, but Zapp as a character is pretty divisive in the fandom for some reason in comparison to other problematic/morally grey characters like Bender or Mom for instance, but please don't feel bad about talking about Frapp or your love for Zapp, and don't let anyone make you feel bad for it either!

We all have our OTPs and NOTPs as well as our fav characters, and so long as we are respectful of one another, it's not a problem imo - however, now that you're getting back into the fandom, I 100% recommend going through different blogs and tags to block or blacklist what you need to to curate your space to see what you want and to hide what makes you upset or uncomfortable

Anon, you're so sweet for your kind words! Anyway, yeah I've noticed that kind...idk if call it "double moral" between Bender and Zapp, I blame the fact Bender appears more in the show so the writers and we as viewers can see different layers of him and idk have some empathy. Even if Bender is my least favorite, i get some of the appeal...man, Godfellas is on my top 10 probably because makes a good "deep" episode with Bender, i like the message of the episode...what bothers about the character is how, his actions nowdays doesnt have consequences...isnt that interesing to see imo. About my notp...I'm not comfy disclosin the reasons because I dont wanna hurt feelings. Anyway, people tend to "crucify" Zapp a lot...I really want to write about him in depth soon, probably cus I've been seein the show since the first run my feelings are completely different about the characters and the show as whole. Anyway, Zapp is a dumb (or pretends to be dumb or basically brainwashed by politics) and morally gray character, I love to explore that... I'm a sucker for rivals to lovers ship and he has stuff in common with Fry as parallelisms, I would like people might get a try. Also that doesnt mean I hate Leela or anything either, just I'm fan of either hilarious situations of "YOU'RE A STUPID GORILLA!" til "who needs a girl who we have each other??" angst spectrum. Anyway yeah, gotta do what you suggest (I often do that) in general today it wasnt a good day (due...irl stuff) but at least i got some tasty ice cream! , i hope you also ate something delicious today! Hugs anon xoxo

[omgitzlongdennis]

godfellas taught me yaoi can reach god

[superfuji]

Come raccontato anche dalla recente serie Netflix Il principe, diretta da Beatrice Borromeo Casiraghi, la mezzanotte è passata ormai da ore quando il sonno della compagnia, accampatasi sulle barche perché incapace di ritornare a Porto Rotondo a causa dell’alta marea, viene bruscamente interrotto da tre colpi. I primi due sono chiaramente spari, il terzo è invece un razzo lanciato da una delle imbarcazioni vicine, nel tentativo di illuminare la scena per capire cosa stia accadendo. Nicky Pende, uscito dalla cabina di prua, sta litigando con una figura a bordo di un gommone, che impugna una carabina. Temendo che spari di nuovo, si abbassa d’istinto per schivare un eventuale proiettile, che arriva soltanto pochi istanti dopo, passandogli qualche centimetro sopra la testa. Sul momento non è chiaro chi sia stato a sparare, ma proprio mentre tutta l’isola accorre verso le barche, l’uomo sul gommone sta tornando a riva, come in un frame alla Godfellas. A scendere da esso, però, non è uno dei gangster di Scorsese, ma il principe Vittorio Emanuele in persona ancora in stato di shock, con un’arma nella mano destra. Chi è rimasto sul ponte dell’imbarcazione insieme a Nicky Pende, nello stesso esatto momento, sta invece cercando di soccorrere Dirk Hamer, rimasto ferito alla gamba da uno dei proiettili.

ACQUE FRANCESI, IL PRINCIPE, TRE BARCHE DI PARIOLINI E DUE SPARI

[dalenthas]

@stoatteamsix 's tags:

This goes for pretty much every show I've ever loved. SG-1 with no Window of Opportunity? Futurama with no Godfellas?

What's the point in having a television show if you can't relax and have fun with the characters? How are you supposed to get a curve of rising and falling action if every episode is go go go? If every episode is significant, you can't make one seem like a normal run of the mill episode until it's revealed half a season later that actually that weird character that was in that one episode is actually super important to the rest of the series.

John Chricton had knowledge of wormhole tech implanted into his brain in a normal episode that you wouldn't know on first watch was going to reshape the meta plot of Farscape. Suki and Jet are introduced in normal, standard episodes of AtlA, with no indication of how important they will be later.

Shows need space to breathe, space to show the characters doing normal stuff, space for the status quo to be established, between all the ones where it's upended. If there's no status quo, there's no drama to the changes in the status quo.

just remembered shows used to have 20-25 eps per season

[raurquiz]

#remembering #paulsorvino #actor #nicolairoshenko #startrek #thenextgeneration #godfellas #therocketeer #nixon #repothegeneticopera #Detours #TheRedMapleLeaf #PriceforFreedom #BadBlood #BeneaththeLeaves #TheBirthdayCake #GodfatherofHarlem #startrek57 @TrekCore @StarTrek

[therandosfandos]

Bender Angst episodes you can focus on for edits, fics, or just wanna cry watching your favorite character get mentally tortured

- BENDER'S BIG SCORE IS A TOP ONE

- SO IS BENDER'S GAME

- AND THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS

- the inhuman torch

- I, roomate

- a tale of two Santa's

- the honking

- space Pilot 3000 (some scenes)

- 31st century fox

- related to items you've viewed (some scenes)

- all the way down

- lethal inspection

- T:. The terrestrial

- 40 percent leadbelly

- Free will hunting

- ghost in the machines (THE WAY THEY TREATED HIS BODY MADE ME SO MAD)

- the silence of the clamps

- the mutants are revolting

- Crimes of the hot

- godfellas

- a pharaoh to remember (try not to focus on Bender being an absolute jerk though)

- bendin' in the wind

- I second that emotion

- The birdbot of ice-catraz (eh, a little)

- mothers day kindaaaa (shows benders attention issues for a scene)

- Bender gets made

- raging bender

- how Hermes requisitioned his groove back

- a flight to remember

- hell is other robots

...I'm now realizing almost all of these are all of Benders episodes focused on him in some way...DOES FUTURAMA JUST TORTURE HIM!?

[perennialiris]

Give yourself credit

In a 2002 episode of Futurama (titled Godfellas), Bender is accidentally fired into space at extremely high speed and ends up lost. He floats through space randomly until encountering a mysterious entity, represented only by lights, which twice shares a unique piece of wisdom: “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

I’ve seen people interpret this sentiment in different ways, but most often people relate it to their jobs. There are numerous careers that are by their nature under-appreciated because you have to do things that people don’t really focus on, and when you do everything right, it just works. This could apply to the people who build and maintain all our infrastructure (electricity, public transportation, telecom). A similar thing happens when it comes to movies, where the audience notices and focuses on the actors’ performance, and maybe some of the set design and music—but the sound design and editing, people don’t really think about. Unless they mess up. We notice bad editing, we notice bad sound mixing. But great editing is unnoticeable, because it just smoothly does what it’s supposed to and gets out of the way and leaves you to focus on the actors in the spotlight instead.

A more everyday application of this notion I think about is a lesson that I learned later in life than one should, which is that if nobody else is giving you credit, then you have to do it yourself. If you do something good or selfless or virtuous and nobody notices, then tell people about it. Point it out, draw their attention to it, mention it. In some cases, depending on, you might even demand they acknowledge it. If you refuse to ever do this, then over time you’ll find people in your life taking a negative perception of you, not appreciating you as they should, taking you for granted, or some combination of the three—because they notice the bad more often than they notice the good, and it builds up in the back of their head over time. Not everybody will be like this, of course (hopefully you have someone in your life who notices what you do and appreciates you for it), but many people, especially those who are more in the periphery (more casual friends and acquaintances, peers, or coworkers).

And if you’re like me, it feels bad to do. It feels like you’re doing something wrong, like you’re committing a faux pas, like you’re giving into some sort of vice. No, no, we should be humble, be gracious, don’t brag, don’t be conceited, don’t be full of ourselves. In fact, to do a good thing and then expect any kind of gratitude, acknowledgement, or praise taints if not nullifies you doing a good thing in the first place, because now you’re not even doing good for its own sake, you’re just doing it for a reward. A truly virtuous person does the right thing just for the sake of doing so! In other words, a truly virtuous person is totally fine doing thankless labour forever, never being appreciated, being taken for granted by everybody. Expect nothing, be content with nothing, but carry on doing everything you’re supposed to do.

What are we, monks? We need to take a step back and realize how fucked up this is. It sounds good in moderation, and doing something thankless isn’t bad sometimes, but many people go way too far in this direction and end up being incapable of giving theirselves credit or advocating for theirselves, and it’s just harmful. If you’re somebody like this, please believe me, it’s a mental barrier that you should force yourself to cross. Conquer the apprehension, the anxiety, the feeling that you’re not supposed to. It’s uncomfortable, but it’ll be good for you.

This is one of those things I noticed and was annoyed by in others before I accepted I was doing it as well. I realized so many people I knew were afraid to give theirselves credit either for the good things they did or for their good qualities and talents. Even when it was how they felt, and even if directly asked, people are too nervous to assert, say, “I’m a good painter”. Often, if that’s what some part of them wants to say, they’ll filter it through other people: “well, my friends say I’m a good painter”—as though they can’t personally sign off on the compliment, only acknowledge it without explicitly agreeing. Oh, the audacity you should have to agree with somebody saying something nice about you, no! Instead, we just acknowledge what some third party thinks and act like we’re undecided. “They say I’m a good painter. So you know, maybe I am, I guess. That’s their opinion.”

Or maybe it’ll come out, but through layers of qualifiers. “I’m, uh, I’ve been painting for years now, and I feel like a lot of people like the paintings I make, so I guess I might be good at that, or fairly good at it, like, I’m not the greatest, but I mean compared with the average person, you might say I’m good at this.” Are we afraid to be wrong? Are we afraid of conflict, if the person we’re talking to disagrees and tells you that actually your paintings are terrible? And then makes fun of you for thinking you were good? Like “ohh, look at me, the next fuckin’ Piccaso over here”—hey everyone, this loser actually thinks she’s a good painter, even though she’s clearly bad! Haha!

I remember when I was younger, say in my 20s, and people asked me what I was good at. I’d say typing. The reason I said typing is because it felt like a safe answer, because it wasn’t as open to interpretation. It was measurable. I do key fast, type many word, get big number. See? It didn’t feel boastful, like how saying “I’m tall” isn’t really boasting, but just shrugging at a fact. And that was my way of avoiding the anxiety that came with, god forbid, giving myself any credit for anything, because it was kind of a bullshit answer. Like what, I’m good at typing? It’s not wrong, I guess, but it’s not the kind of thing somebody who asks what you’re good at is probably trying to get at.

Another downstream consequence of this insight—that “when you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all”—is that you can’t just ignore bad things said about you. Stop trying to be a monk who lets everything slide off her back because it’s virtuous to be above it all. That was my world for a long time, and I’ll tell you the result: people just slowly eat at your reputation. If people say bullshit about you and your reply is, like, “I’m not even going to dignify this with an answer” (or something similar in spirit), then congratulations: the result is people hear their side of the story, but not yours. Now suppose that happens over and over for a few years, and eventually you’ll wake up to the reality that people have been slowly turned against you.

I’m serially un-petty. What’s the opposite of petty, being mature? I don’t worry about small things, I’m capable of getting over and moving on, I’m rather forgiving, I don’t take everything personally, blah blah blah. I also often interpret events that happen as “no action required”—when people come to me and say so and so just happened, about how some person just said this or that, and then pause with anticipation as though I’m meant to do something. I just say, okay—no action is really required here. We can just do nothing. It’s the path too often overlooked. Similarly, when I overhear the stuff other people are fighting about, I often find myself reacting “why do you even care about this, you don’t need to do anything—stop dramatizing everything that happens”. That applies especially well on the internet, where unfortunately “content creators” now have a financial incentive to, indeed, dramatize everything that happens. There’s a whole industry of online entertainment that centres around interpersonal drama, like reality television but now it’s with YouTubers and Twitch streamers.

So the point is, I don’t like having to address and respond to things sometimes, because it just feels petty to do. Some idiot is talking bad about me? Yeah, who cares, let them, whatever. I don’t naturally have a strong reaction to that. I have to actively remind myself that non-response is—in these vicious, social contexts—a losing strategy against people who are trying to chip away at how people think of you. It can feel like you’re getting dragged down to their level, forced to play their game—but you don’t win by not playing. Not playing slowly ruins you.

And if you have a public-facing reputation—this doesn’t need to mean being a celebrity, but let’s say you participate in a web forum, so people who know you are—this game can be taxing you if you don’t have the psychology for it. If you’re ever accused of doing something wrong, and then try to bring up all those good things you did, or how well you handled those situations, or how nicely you acted during that time with that thing—it’s too late. These are seeds you need to be sowing along the way, to prevent people from coming to hate you in the first place. They’re not cheques you can save and cash whenever you want.

That’s a lesson I’ve learned not only from my own activities online but also through watching other people try and navigate their own reputational crises. Once the dam breaks and people are coming for you, doing good things—or trying to counter their character attacks by talking about good things you do or have done—becomes seen as self-defensive, as just saving face, as only doing things to give yourself plausible deniability, etc. They will interpret things in the worst possible light because they’ve already been poisoned against you. You need to go back in time and build up that good will gradually. And if nobody else is giving you credit, that means it’s a job you have to do yourself, and you’ll have to figure out the right way to do it for your situation. (If you’re an awkward fuck, you might fuck this up and make everything worse.) Just remember: when you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all—so if you want people to know and understand you did things right, you might have to tell them.

[cherryblossomshadow]

It's a very human thing to not notice preventative measures. You don't see the bad things happen, so you start to think the bad things can't happen. If you're not sure who's doing the preventative measures in a company, ask the bean counters who they'd fire first in a cost-cutting move. It's always the people keeping things from going to hell. It's why cities fire garbage men before they fire cops. (comment courtesy of @smbilodeau)

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I don't know if everyone else saw it but I so vividly remember a ton of messaging I saw in March 2020 about how if we mask up and get vaccinated and do everything right about this COVID thing, it will seem like we overreacted to nothing at all. (comment courtesy of @aurellharmonics)

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[Image 1 ID and source: Tweet from Matt Walsh (@/MattWalshBlog) reading:

Remember when they spent years telling us to panic over the hole in the ozone layer and then suddenly just stopped talking about it and nobody ever mentioned the ozone layer again?

Derek Thompson (@/DKThomp) quote-retweeted with:

What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest example of global cooperation in history.

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[Image 2 ID: A scene from Futurama 3x20 "Godfellas" where God tells the robot Bender, "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

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