Good on her for owning upto it and him for not making it awkward.
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Yeah usually they double down and look way worse. I can appreciate that save
I still think her response is a bit shitty…
Why do you need to be “qualified” to talk about a character arc??
Like, it’s not some obscure term that only film critics know or something only they get to have an opinion on… Seems like some unnecessary gatekeeping.
It’s Twitter so everyone is required to be unnecessarily rude
Yeah I had Twitter for all of 20 minutes until I realized that it was all just pure vitriol. I deleted Facebook because I thought it was too bitchy. Twitter was another beast entirely.
You mean X?
stop trying to make X happen, gretchen
It’s not going to happen
I don’t care if x happens because Twitter/x is cesspool
It says “Twitter” right in the screenshot
Oh they recently decided to change the name to X for some reason.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-rebrand-x-name-change-elon-musk-what-it-means/
She may just be pointing out how buzzwords seem to explode throughout the internet, like when someone mentioned boiling a frog in a pot and now someone shares that exact metaphor in every 1 in 4 threads.
And it isn’t even true.
It’s usually true about what it’s being used as a metaphor for, though. A metaphor doesn’t have to be literally true. It just has to make sense.
Like pull yourself up by the boot straps. No one’s dumb enough to think it only means “help yourself”, right?!
Actually the bootstraps one is a good example of the general public missing the point entirely. Originally, the phrase was used to describe something impossible, and was repeatedly used sarcastically to describe an inherently unjust economic system that makes upward mobility impossible.
Yep, and people still try to use it as a metaphor for something completely different. Just something that no longer makes logical sense all on its own.
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A frog will jump out of a pot of water before its hot enough to kill it.
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I understand metaphors just fine.
“Lightning never strikes the same place twice” is a metaphor that people think is true too, doesn’t mean we can’t use it.
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You’re only allowed to discuss topics you have PhD on.
We need to wall off all discussion about all topics to certified experts because democracy works best when no one understands how anything works.
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Fair point, though I hated how that extended into political questions of vaccines from purely technical ones too often.
My personal view on the internet is that anyone writing in internet is potentially a lobotomized honey melon and not take shit as facts the instant reading it
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It was an attempted ad hominem attack which backfired on her. A stupid argument in the first place and even more stupid because she got it wrong.
I’d go much further, unless you’re citing yourself as a primary source for a fact, citing your credentials isnt very impressive to me.
Ideas matter - the dumbest SOB can come up with great ideas, and the smartest one can come up with dumb ones. And job experience most definitely doesn’t make your opinion valuable - I’ve seen way too many people bad at their jobs for that
Admitting you’re wrong on the internet is so rare. And that’s sad to me.
Just admit you’re wrong then.
I admit I’m wrong all the time. What in specific would you like me to admit to being wrong about?
You can’t really fly can you?
Not me, but squid can.
Oh yeah, I know someone who named her kid Khaleesi. Oh dear.
But let’s be honest if you’re going to call your kid Khaleesi that kid was always going to grow to be a stripper. Poor kid. She is going to be in high school before she learns how to lean to spell it.
Just to be nit picky: Khaleesi was a title, like queen or chieftess. The character was named Daenerys Targaryen. So they would technically have not named their child after a character.
Its like calling your son King then.
Or having Lord as a name - which actually used to be somewhat popular in the US.
Tbf, a kid named “queen” sounds even more likely to become a stripper
But no one is going to see it like that, are they? They’re going to think about poorly written psycho dragon queen
Name one other Khaleesi.
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Daenerys met several former khaleesi’s when she was brought before the Doth Khaleen. While at this point, their husbands had been killed and they had given up the title of Khaleesi and adopted the new title of Khaleen, they were at one point each a khaleesi.
The only one I can remember by name is, Ornela, the one that befriended Daenerys.
< removes geek hat and glasses >
Ha, I have a strategy for this case:
Ahem.
NEEEERD!
I was taught what a character arc was in 9th grade english class. It’s not a thing that exclusive to people who write for a living.
It’s always fascinating to me how people use twitter like a social media platform instead of alerting/breaking news/flash messages system.
The concept of character arcs is also pretty well known, so it’s not exactly an intellectual flex
Wait, what happened with Dr Zoid?
He often scuttles away going “whoopwhoopwhoopwhoop”
yeah kind of a dumb response to begin with so it’s good she realized
Ah whoob whoob whoob indeed sir a whoob whoob indeed.
Yeah I am okay with Twatter dying.
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