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Comment on Medium Day: Celebrate Online Safe Spaces in the Middle of a Genocide by alec

alec — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:48:19 +0000

Mulroney, thanks for your input. What is funny about murdering 40,000 women and children with munitions and starving another 200,000 to death?

Comment on Medium Day: Celebrate Online Safe Spaces in the Middle of a Genocide by Brian J Mulroney

Brian J Mulroney — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:27:49 +0000

"Genocide." LOL.

Comment on If the women in charge, we would have peace by alec

alec — Tue, 21 May 2024 21:43:45 +0000

Thanks for the reminder about the white feather campaign, CB. It's good to remember that massive propaganda actions are nothing new under the sun. Shocking that a small part of a generation of women could be responsible for the loss of two generations of men – the very men who were their brothers and should have been their lovers and husbands and friends.

Comment on US diplomatic etiquette, a poem by Alec

Alec — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:27:15 +0000

List test

No. 3 pick (which turned out to be DL Solomon Thomas)
No. 67 pick, Round 2 (which was later traded to the Saints, who selected RB Alvin Kamara)
No. 111 pick, Round 4 (later traded to the Seahawks, who selected S Tedric Thompson)
No. 70 pick, Round 3 in 2018 (LB Fred Warner)

Comment on If the women in charge, we would have peace by cbgypsy

cbgypsy — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:04:57 +0000

During the 20th century, the weaponisation of women had more of an effect than any nuclear bomb ever dropped. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst were convinced by the British govt to promote the enlistment of men into WW1, only Sylvia refused to take part, so she didn't get any plaque, or statue in London. Women were also employed to conduct the white feather campaign, such that if any man, who had not enlisted, was touched by a white feather, they were deemed to be cowards. WW1 simply would not have commenced if men had not enlisted....

Comment on Happy Birthday Song in German | Wie schön dass du gebornen ist by alec

alec — Tue, 16 May 2023 08:23:27 +0000

In reply to Victoria.

Danke Viktoria! Korrigiert.

Aufmachung auch verbessert.

Comment on Happy Birthday Song in German | Wie schön dass du gebornen ist by Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:21:14 +0000

Hallo, Sie haben ein paar Fehler gemacht: Wie schön dass du gebornen ist

(“Wie schön dasss du geboren ist”)

Wie schön, dass du geboren bist.

MfG Victoria

Comment on Epic Fantasy still not on the big screen: Stephen R. Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant Trilogies by alec

alec — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:53:25 +0000

Ed, I agree. On the other hand, if The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant are to be filmed, I'd like it in the hands of a first tier director, someone like David Fincher (cf. The Game for how well Fincher can handle light surrealism and disorientation). Fincher is busy with other projects, and not in the right spot in his career to want to take on a huge saga like this but he's indicative of the kind of director. Some of the directors from the first few seasons of Game of Thrones were talented visual fantasy/politics directors.

In retrospect, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogy seem fairly poor adaptations. While they were impressive at the time, rewatching is like eating cakes with too much sugar in the icing and without enough flavour.

In the meantime, a fantasy series which gave me quite a bit of pleasure and had its Stephen R. Donaldson type moments was Legend of the Seeker. Only some of the episodes had suitable gravitas, some were just silly. The element of adult fantasy, beyond just slash and burn, or chase the dragon, was definitely present, along with complex adult relationships. It would be possible to make a sophisticated adult fantasy series. Legend of the Seeker only managed to make it through two seasons before being cancelled, despite eleven books of source material.

Comment on Epic Fantasy still not on the big screen: Stephen R. Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant Trilogies by Ed

Ed — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 23:35:46 +0000

Come on Amazon. These books are right up your alley and at least the first 3 novels are more worthy of movies than anything made since LOtR. And it should be filmed with as much light as possible because the darkness isn’t outside but inside Thomas Covenant.

Comment on Why I shoot Nikon: PhilK version by alec

alec — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:49:10 +0000

Glad it was useful to you Jeff. It's good to have all the information collected in one place to remember why I thought what I did in 2020-2021 and why I changed camera systems.

Still very happily shooting Nikon, own far too many Nikon DSLR and MILC by now. Each of them gives joy and not too much frustration, different than the Canon days where every camera is crippled in some very important way.