Tassie Dave’s Comments (group member since Mar 27, 2011)

Tassie Dave’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

Ian (RebelGeek) wrote: "I paid because I wanted to support ScarJo, but then I found out she wasn't getting paid."

She was paid $20 million to be in the movie. More than you or I will ever see in a lifetime of working.

What she was suing for was her cut of the profits from its theatre release. Which could have added many more millions.

Trike wrote: "I was wondering how mad are all the people who paid the $30 early viewing fee yesterday, only to discover it went free to all today. Do they take down the pay option the week before it goes live?"

It wasn't available to watch for over week.

Trike wrote: "The Mongols and their Golden Horde.

Babylon conquests, most famously by Hammurabi.

Alexander the Great.

Turks invading Persia, India, Tibet and points east.

The wars the Maya fought against neighboring peoples.

The conquering of Sumer circa 2500 BC.

The Japanese and Chinese going back and forth for the last couple thousand years."

Homo Sapiens invading Europe and ousting the Neanderthals.
Homo Sapiens invading Asia and displacing the Denisovans

and it goes back even further than that. We've been invading and displacing others since before we left trees.

We will, probably, still do it when we eventually meet other sentient species in the Universe.

Or they, or our own robots, will do it to us.

Ian (RebelGeek) wrote: "Amazon is weird like that. They don't make it very easy to buy digital content from them."

I find that statement strange. I can go online, buy a book (or Graphic novel) and have it on my iPad in under 2 minutes.

How is that not easy? 😕

Ian (RebelGeek) wrote: "a Lady Bathory-like scene"

Our own Veronica was in an actual Lady Bathory scene in an earlier life as "Virgin #5"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489867/...

Trike wrote: "La Brea, tonight, NBC.....

Land of the Lost meets The 100?.....

The fx are fine but man that looks terrible. How is this kind of writing making it to network?"

It is bad. The CGI is terrible.The storylines are ridiculous.

(view spoiler)[The husband and father of 2 of the people who fall into the hole has visions and can see where they are. He recognises a rock, goes to this rock in our world, digs down and finds his wifes wedding ring that she dropped in the other world. WTF?

He tells the authorities and they believe him after he just happens to have had a vision of a drone they sent down and saw the letters and numbers on it's tail that identify it.

OK so magic to go with our bad science (hide spoiler)]

There are definite "Lost" vibes and one of the characters even calls it out. "Maybe we are just in an episode of Lost"

I think we can rule Hollow Earth out as to where they are. I think they are leading more towards it being an alternate timeline and/or dimension with the green light being a portal.

Yeah this is pretty bad.

Yep and there are some crazies that really believe it, including comic book artist Neal Adams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Ad...

Also not made anywhere near La Brea.

It was made in Melbourne, Australia, which is doubling as LA and the rest of it is made in rural Victoria (Australia).

It does sound like it might be fun in a popcorn "leave your brain at the door" sort of way. Plus I am a bit of a fan of Natalie Zea and will watch anything she's in 😎 (Spoiler: She doesn't die in the first 5 minutes, as show in the trailer)

Locke and Key makes sense. It is a very gothic horror story that can be told audibly.

The other 2 are more visual in design. They can be done audibly, but I think they would lose a lot of the feel of the original graphic novels.

One day I will try out the Sandman audiobooks.

I was scared of the Cybermen when they first appeared in the mid-60s.

I was young at the time 😉

I can't imagine The Sandman as an audiobook. It is such a visually rich story.

It would be like doing an audiobook version of "Saga" 🤔

The Japanese made "Star Wars: Visions" on Disney+ looks interesting.

I watched the first episode which is an homage to Kurosawa. It was well done.

The whole series looks to be a very Japanese take on Star Wars. Which should be fun.

Trike wrote: "So you pronounce things the way Bostonians do. Or Mainers. Or New Yawkas."

If I do those "which American accent are you" quizzes online, I usually get New York (Long Island).

When I speak, you don't hear that R sound in the words I listed above (Like my surname Board (pronounced the same as Bawd) or Four (to rhyme with paw.)

If you heard me say the book title NOS4A2, it would sound to you like:
Noz-Faw-Ay-Too

NOS4R2:
Noz-Faw-Ah-Too

Ruth wrote exactly what I was going to say. We don't sound out Rs in many words. Like Four, For, core, bore, sore etc which all rhyme with paw.

In Oz, Baud, Bawd, Bored and Board are all homophones, but in the US, Baud and Bawd are homophones and Bored and Board are separate homophones. One of these words is my surname. When I mentioned that on another forum, some smart alec told me that I was pronouncing my name wrong. 😕

Trike wrote: "Which makes me wonder: how are you pronouncing “four” that you need another R in there?

NOS4A2 to me reads as “knows-four-ah-too”, with the S on “knows” being more sibilant, like the S in noose or goose. NOS4R2 looks to me like it would be “knows-fourer-too"

For me NOS4A2 reads as Noz-For-Ay-Too

NOS4R2 is more correct to my ears. Noz-For-Ah-Too

I would pronounce Nosferatu as Noz-Fur-Ah-Too

Ian (RebelGeek) wrote: "The Winds of Winter will be book 6
& A Dream of Spring book 7 (final book of A Song of Ice & Fire). At least that's the plan."

10 years 2 months since ADWD and counting. I don't hold out hopes of ever seeing Book 7.

If it stretches to 8, and he keeps up his glacial pace, then I don't think GRRM has that long left in him

This will be the first time we have read a book by the child of a former S&L book pick author.

Trike wrote: "BTW, this was adapted into a series by AMC, but canceled after the second season, so I don’t know if it’s complete. Starring Zachary Quinto (Heroes, nuSpock) as the vampire. In the US it’s on Hulu."

It's on Amazon Prime in Oz.

We'd have it now if it wasn't for the lockdowns in our 2 largest cities (Sydney and Melbourne)

Cinemas and just about everything else is shutdown there for the foreseeable future.

They could still show it in covid free Tassie though. We are fully open for business.

I used to love paperbacks for their size and weight, but I would never go back from eBooks.

Getting to choose the font and font size gets more important as I get older. I own books that I can't read any more, or at least not without a severe strain on my eyes.

David wrote: "I find that it over simplifies the situation it paints the European as evil and the indutious as inocent pastoral people that certainly was not true in the Americas the Aztecs were not at all at pe..."

I've never heard indigenous described purely as innocent pastoral people. They were when they wanted to be.

Most indigenous lived a more balanced life with their environment, but they also fought with each other over land use, petty disputes and "just because we don't like you".

The difference with the Europeans was that they brought superior weaponry (and exotic diseases) and killed indigenous on a near genocidal scale. Then proceeded to steal their land, steal their children and enslave the adults. Then deny them rights when society became more enlightened.

There have been calls for the Oz government to buy the copyright and give it the Aboriginal people.



https://kooricurriculum.com/blogs/new...

It should be uncopyrighted and free to use. Many government buildings fly both the Official Oz flag and the Aboriginal flag. A few states, where appropriate, also fly the other, less well known internationally, Australian Indigenous flag of the Torres Strait Islanders.