Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

Stele wrote:

Wait which movie had Alba boobs? Even when she played Nancy in Sin City, no boobs.

Every movie she acted in! I didn't say naked boobs.

I haven't seen many of her performances, but unfortunately, the ones I have seen tend to male-gaze the sh*t out of her scenes. I would love to see her featured in a movie where her performance, rather than her physique, was front-and-center.

Maybe that's one reason Ebert habitually praised Alba for her looks when reviewing movies she was in, without ever saying much else about her performances. I don't remember which review, but one of them was particularly egregious, and became a running joke among friends of mine.

Don't get me wrong, Ebert had his moments, but the quantity of his output alone meant that he dropped the occasional deuce in the Sun-Times.

I have yet to listen to a Kermode review that wasn't interesting, informative, and entertaining, even if the movie being reviewed wasn't. He also usually leaves me scrambling to take notes on the numerous names and references to other movies he drops, and I haven't been disappointed yet by following up on them.

To be fair, Jessica Alba's looks may have legitimately been the best thing about some of the movies.

Can't we all agree to dismiss Ebert for his article about how video games can never be art even though he'd never played one?

Last night I watched this Vanity Fair video with Maggie Gyllenhaal revisiting some of her best roles. I loved it (spoiler alert: Maggie Gyllenhaal fanboy here), but there was one part that I found truly amazing. I'll just transcribe it here:

"Two falls ago, when people were... actresses were sort of getting together at peoples' houses - this was before #metoo and #timesup, it was sort of like the beginning of all that - and just talking. Someone, I think it was Natalie Portman maybe, said: Every time there's a fight scene, if someone even grabs your arm, there's a stunt coordinator there to make sure you're okay. Why isn't there somebody like that for sex scenes?

"So season 2 [of The Deuce, HBO series Gyllenhaal stars in and produces ] we had an 'Intimacy Coordinator.' Basically her job was to call the actors beforehand, talk to them about what they were going to be doing, introduce herself, let them know that she was there to advocate for them. And so, I think we were the first... I think we started it, as far as I know.

"Basically what happens on every set is you sign a nudity waiver, which means you agree to show certain parts of your body. The reason why they do that is so that they then don't have actors coming to set, when so much money is being spent each day, saying 'Oh, actually I've changed my mind.' And suddenly the scene can't be shot.

"But, on our set, if you've signed a nudity waiver, and then you change your mind, you've changed your mind. It's like actual consent. If you go out to dinner with someone and you think, yeah, I want to go to bed with them, and then you go back to his apartment and you're like, actually no... Well then, actually no. And it's the same on our set."

I wrote my first working Python script! And then a more efficient revision! It's laughably simple, sure. Just a script that eliminates spaces and replaces them with one comma so that I could convert a plain text paste of an Excel table back into Excel. Second version just reads and copies directly from and to the clipboard (instead of opening a txt file). But it works!

Well done! I love Python. Learning it unlocked so many new options for me I have some online course recommendations if you'd like to take a game-related course.

Jayhawker wrote:

So, Legion, if you get a bunch of creepy new followers, sorry 'bout that! ;-)

It happens all the time.

The worst are the ones that tweet like I'm a football field in Birmingham, Alabama. Screw UAB football. (Wait, didn't that already happen a few years ago?)

polypusher wrote:

Well done! I love Python. Learning it unlocked so many new options for me I have some online course recommendations if you'd like to take a game-related course.

Knowing myself, I'm best with small simple projects that have a practical application - like the one I did. But still: I love any recommendation you can throw at me.

Always enjoy behind the scenes stuff.

Those dogs look super happy in that video.

In another video she said the dogs really weren’t happy if they had to wait and do nothing. They wanted to be working.

Dogs are DOPE!!

I saw a thing recently where they said that they often had to cgi dogs tails, they’re wagging (when they shouldn’t) because they’re so excited to be working.

BadKen wrote:

Here's a fun little toy...

I'm Nicolas!

Hrm....I'm Jaxson. Not a fan. I guess I'm just old fashioned (or just old). In fact, growing up it would have been hell, but now that I'm older, I'm kind of bummed I didn't get the family middle name of Blackwell, even if that would have made me a fourth.

Clumber wrote:
BadKen wrote:

Here's a fun little toy...

I'm Nicolas!

Hrm....I'm Jaxson. Not a fan. I guess I'm just old fashioned (or just old). In fact, growing up it would have been hell, but now that I'm older, I'm kind of bummed I didn't get the family middle name of Blackwell, even if that would have made me a fourth.

My 2017 name is pretty sweet!

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BadKen wrote:

Here's a fun little toy...

I'm Nicolas!

Weird. I go by my middle name, Scott, and was born in the 70’s. And when I enter my real first name it tells me my “70’s name” would be Scott.

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That thing is super boring if you have a popular name.

Yeah, I didn't even have to put in my name and year. It's literally the example they use in the text.

Lol, both my father’s and my grandfather’s names showed up in the list, close to the right time-periods, too. Weeeeeird.

My 1890s name is ‘General’

My Today name is Abram. Surprisingly biblical, although my name was the 407th most popular boy's name in my birth year so I guess it shouldn't surprise me we're fairly far down on the list.
Other notable mentions would be my 1890's name, Ethel, which I have never heard used as a male name before, and 1910's Royal, which is pretty neat.

My today name is John which is somehow even more regular and generic than my actual name Steven.

BadKen wrote:

Here's a fun little toy...
I'm Nicolas!

Hahaha! They couldn't even find me in their database!!!

So I typed in my middle name (Adam) because that is what I go by and my birth year, (1979). Oddly enough, my 1970's name is my first name (Charles).

BadKen wrote:

Here's a fun little toy...

I'm Nicolas!

"Sorry! We couldn't find data for boys named "*Legion*"

Northern Ireland finally sees same-sex marriage become legalised, and abortion decriminalized.

When you throw together a meal and it turns out better than you could have possibly imagined (as just happened at lunch time.) It was chicken, bacon, fennel, onions and tomatoes with herbes de Provence (that I have in a big, airtight bag.) Mmmmmm.

German is such a beautiful language:

Backpfeifengesicht
bakp͡faɪ̯fənɡəˌzɪçt/
(colloquial) a slappable face, a face "in need of a slap".

I really loved playing tabletop games with Forbes and Ravenote on IGWJ Day. I hope to connect with them both again to play some more games. Hopefully before IGWJ Day 2020.