makeshiftreaper

What a terrible website. I couldn't even read it without it loading ads and moving my screen everywhere

I used goodreads because different editions are presented differently. It puts Dune at 658 and PHM at 476. If you want to truly go apples to apples the kindle edition of both, which I assume has consistent font/margins/spacing/etc has Dune at 883 and PHM at 482 for a 400 page difference on an eReader. Comparing the task of turning a vacation book into a movie vs adaptating a legendary book into movie (which was so difficult to do, that this is the third attempt and the first commercially successful one) is a false equivalence

Probably toggleable statistics. So I could choose to see information about people above their heads. Mood, age, name, net worth, and stuff like that. It'd be something I could turn on/off and choose what's stats I want to see at any given time

1. No it isn't, Hail Mary is 180 pages shorter than Dune
2. Dune is way more dense than Hail Mary, Weir very clearly writes his books to become movies. Way more dialog, much simpler problems, and clearly defined acts translate much easier to the screen
3. They'll obviously have to cut some parts, but having read/seen The Martian I don't think anything of major importance was lost

I usually look for a recent episode with someone I like or a topic I think is interesting

One thing I couldn't agree with in Novocaine is that he didn't like that nickname. If you can't feel pain and people start calling you Novocaine that's a badass nickname, I would introduce myself to my parents as Novocaine if people called me that

Drop fucking sucked, also it wasn't even about the stupid ass Drop

Slow week for me, including two rewatches from this year:

Iron Man (2008) 2.5/5 - I wanted to see if Marvel has changed or if it has always been like this. It was better than some of the recent stuff without the "omg I recognize that!" fan service and the theme about the military industrial complex will always be timely. Unfortunately it lands on the libertarian "good guy with a gun" message and is far too long. Side-note: imagine how filthy fucking rich Terrance Howard would be if he wasn't pants on head crazy

Predator Killer of Killers (2025) 5/5 - told my family this movie rocks so we watched it. It still rocks

Molly's Game (2017) 3.5/5 - Man, Sorkin is really Sorkining all over this thing. I like his style and he tells really compelling stories, I just can't believe that anything besides the core of it is true. His writing is just too neat and fantastic for real stories, which is why I think The West Wing and Newsroom are more his speed

Ocean's Eleven (2001) 4/5 - What a great heist movie, good cast, good music, good story. My only complaint is about Don Cheadle's character who is poorly written, poorly acted and not particularly relevant to the plot. I think there are a lot of ways you could write knocking out power from the strip without a whole sidequest to a school to steal an EMP. If they used that time to explain the heist just a little more clearly it'd be perfect

I disagree, so this is probably a good post. I view your proposal as similar to the death penalty. If I knew with 100% certainty that this list would only ever be used for absolute shit heads who can't behave then I'd be all for it. However, we live in the real world and there's a lot of edge cases. There was a video of a little girl singing Disney songs over the speaker on a plane that was delayed recently, what if that little girl never got to fly again because her mom told her to do something for internet fame? Maybe a flight attendant goes on a power trip and antagonizes a customer into a moment that gets them banned. Airplanes are the most realistic way of travel in a lot of the world and by far the most realistic way to travel internationally and giving full control of that method of transportation to the whims of mega-corps feels very dangerous to me

Oh shit D4! I've wanted to try it but didn't want to pay for it, I've heard the controller gameplay is surprisingly good for a series that people so heavily associate with M+KB

It's all fun and games until the dolphins unionize

You may be interested in The Man in the High Castle it's both a novel by Phillip K. Dick and TV show on Amazon Prime that explores exactly that premise

Isn't the point of heaven that it's perfect and that you want for nothing? So if your child isn't there then you'll realize that they were not worthy of God's love and thus unworthy of yours