OT: HFPens Community Lounge: Its been 84 years... But now Karlsson is here

[Gurglesons]

Finally watched the new Batman. P good. Overall pointless to exist though.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Because the only way to get anything made in this stupid industry is to attract interest. New ideas don't come with a pre-existing audience, so those controlling the purse strings are allergic. Slap an existing IP onto something random and voila, instant audience.

Listen, studio executives are f***ing morons and unless you are independently wealthy enough to produce something yourself you have to go through the moron brigade.

Honestly streaming is only going to make this worse before it gets better. When there's a billion options out there, marketing & execs see any possible leg up in getting someone interested as an advantage...when in reality you're just going to make fans of the original thing angry because it's not what it's being advertised as and becomes doomed to never find the audience that they were actually hoping to create amid the hate.

The only thing that has me laughing about Velma causing so much vitriol is that at least 90% of Scooby Doo media out there is immediately dated tripe that nobody remembers...but this one got the kind of vitriol you'd expect out of a bad Star Wars spin-off.

Velma being a lesbian is like every blokes dream. So that getting hate was weird. Didn’t really care at all about that. But the rebooting of classics is just idiotic and none, absolutely zero, have been even half decent. They lose all of the charm to force some narrative that’s a hot topic right now and do some poor casting choices and the wrong changes.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Anyone read 'the brothers karamazov' ??

Yeah, whatcha want to know about it?

 

[Gurglesons]

I don't plan to ever watch it so it doesn't directly bother me. I don't care if they make it dirty, change race, gender swap, whatever. But really, they made Scooby Doo without Scooby Doo.

If they made Sarah Michelle Gellar and Linda Cardellini act out my dreams I'd watch a Scooby Doo remake.

Yeah, whatcha want to know about it?

Is it woke?

 

[Andy99]

I cannot imagine being a grown-ass human being and deciding I have very strong opinions about Scooby f***ing Doo.

I hate to say it because it makes me old, but I watched the original cartoon series as a kid…it ran from 1969-1976 on CBS…lol…also was a big fan of HR pufnstuf and The Banana Splits and The Jetsons…Hanna-Barbera rocked…

 

[Honour Over Glory]

If they made Sarah Michelle Gellar and Linda Cardellini act out my dreams I'd watch a Scooby Doo remake.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I hate to say it because it makes me old, but I watched the original cartoon series as a kid…it ran from 1969-1976 on CBS…lol…also was a big fan of HR pufnstuf and The Banana Splits and The Jetsons…Hanna-Barbera rocked…

I always liked Woody Woodpecker, Chilly Willy The Penguin, He-Man, etc. and of course, Thunderbirds.

That intro as the kids say, is goated.

 

[LOGiK]

Yeah, whatcha want to know about it?

How good is it to say... your average (modern) mystery / whatever genre...
I just picked it up, in the mood for a classic, reading it after I finish 'Caesar, The Civil War'

 

[HandshakeLine]

How good is it to say... your average (modern) mystery / whatever genre...
I just picked it up, in the mood for a classic, reading it after I finish 'Caesar, The Civil War'

It's an incredibly philosophical and dense novel. I loved it as a young Slavic Lit major, but it's not always the most accessible. But it is a legit classic and has some of Dostoyevsky's greatest prose. However, if you're in the mood for modern classics and you want something also philosophical but easier to get into, I also recommend Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" which is also deeply philosophical, but wrapped up in a easier-to-digest satire of Soviet Russia, where some of the main characters are the devil, a giant talking cat who drinks vodka, and a clown with guns.

 

[Ugene Magic]

I hate to say it because it makes me old, but I watched the original cartoon series as a kid…it ran from 1969-1976 on CBS…lol…also was a big fan of HR pufnstuf and The Banana Splits and The Jetsons…Hanna-Barbera rocked…

We're old.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Oh, yeah..... DFW-Scooby Doo!

As a very very young boy I would every now and then skip school to watch Scooby Doo.

Your Mystery is, solve how I did it?

GO.....

 

[LOGiK]

It's an incredibly philosophical and dense novel. I loved it as a young Slavic Lit major, but it's not always the most accessible. But it is a legit classic and has some of Dostoyevsky's greatest prose. However, if you're in the mood for modern classics and you want something also philosophical but easier to get into, I also recommend Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" which is also deeply philosophical, but wrapped up in a easier-to-digest satire of Soviet Russia, where some of the main characters are the devil, a giant talking cat who drinks vodka, and a clown with guns.

Neat. Thanking you =]
I don't usually aim for classic literature, although I have read a few --even currently-- and was just in the mood for, plainly, fiction with philosophy.
I stuck with a more true translation over ease of flow and vocabulary... so... it may be more of a challenge going from Louise Penny to Dostoyevsky.
*my grandmother and I exchange books and have our own little book club so that is how I got into my current series (which we only read five of them)*

I won't start 'the brothers' for a bit though. I've just ordered it and I've just wrapped up Chief Inspector Gamache series and started 'the civil war'... so it should be a month or so until I start Dostoyevsky. Which is fine because it's a roughly 900 page piece that will likely be my spring/summer book.

Thanks for the info and recommend

 

[Ugene Magic]

They really should have named me.... Dennis, @Andy99 (Tommy Anderson). It is really striking the resemblance.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

It's an incredibly philosophical and dense novel. I loved it as a young Slavic Lit major, but it's not always the most accessible. But it is a legit classic and has some of Dostoyevsky's greatest prose. However, if you're in the mood for modern classics and you want something also philosophical but easier to get into, I also recommend Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" which is also deeply philosophical, but wrapped up in a easier-to-digest satire of Soviet Russia, where some of the main characters are the devil, a giant talking cat who drinks vodka, and a clown with guns.

One of my 3 favorite novels of all-time. Can't back up that recommendation enough.

Unfortunately for me, my Dostoyevsky phase coincided with a lot of my memory loss issues and the prospect of re-reading them now with ADHD is unappealing to say the least. Might be the time to try an audio book version.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

God damnit the Green M&M has been canceled.

 

[HandshakeLine]

God damnit the Green M&M has been canceled.

Why, dont tell me they bought tesla too?

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Btw I tried to watch Velma after you lot complained about it. 5mins in I had enough.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I read what that moron Daisy Ridley said about Rey and how “anyone can come from anywhere and not be the same as their blood line etc”

Like you stupid f***, did you not watch the original movies? It’s literally the arc of Anakin/Vader and Luke. You did nothing special. You understood nothing. She f***ing sucks.

God damnit the Green M&M has been canceled.

M&M's puts spokescandies on "indefinite pause" in wake of uproar over changes to green M&M

"America, let's talk," M&M's said in a statement Monday.

www.cbsnews.com

People get in an uproar over the weirdest shit like Candy characters.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Nation of grown ass adults.

One of my 3 favorite novels of all-time. Can't back up that recommendation enough.

Unfortunately for me, my Dostoyevsky phase coincided with a lot of my memory loss issues and the prospect of re-reading them now with ADHD is unappealing to say the least. Might be the time to try an audio book version.

I loved the shit out of FD when I was an angsty student but the only one I’ve reread lately is the Gambler.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

 

[HandshakeLine]

Getting horny over advertising mascots is a proud American tradition, and I won't hear otherwise.

 

[Tender Rip]

Is it woke?

LOL ! I don't even...

While never considering this before, I suppose the amount of introspection these days would sum up to woke-points. Crime and Punishment even more so, what with all the guilt. But nah, can't cross that bridge... too bizarre . Dostoyevsky is not woke, you zit on the ass of this community, you!

But otherwise concur with Shake and McLarge. It is very high on my all-time list also. Russian in the best way, what with being very deep and dense with meaning and all life's big questions, while simultaneously fully in the throes of its own passions. A grand novel, and one of the most frequent mentions when subsequent great authors are asked to mention their own favorites.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

So Velma, Thundercats Roar (2011 one was great and they cancelled it, morons), and something called Little Ellen are the lowest rated Wb animated shows of all time. Like 2.0 and lower.

Lmao. I love it when they had shit that worked but cancelled it, chose shitty animation or Uber woke bs that feels forced and got destroyed by critics and fans.

 

[LOGiK]

Just got TBK book today, huzzah.
900 pages.
But, I am super into the Civil War... I tell ya, all you that watched and loved 'Rome'... reading the civil war notes from caesar and others, is like reading a script for the show... in much more unrushed detail. Highly recommend it for any rome fan. I can't put it down.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Getting horny over advertising mascots is a proud American tradition, and I won't hear otherwise.

Considering that color M&M means it's booty time we can all understand the uproar.

How are we to know now? There's no suggestive senses now, you now have to be more aggressive, and if there's peeps in the immediate area that can get tricky.

Nothing say's "let's get busy" easier than a fresh picked bowl full of green M&M's.