PotatoOni's Ramblings

4/5

Stripping some miniatures in a jar with rubbing alcohol and thought this looked cool so I took a photo and edited it a little.

I'll replace his regular power module on the back with the two barrels seen in the pictures, wich I made from boba tea straws, the little safety rings from super glue tubes and sprue goo. I've come to the conclusion that I might have some executive dysfunction so I'm actually quite happy that I managed to come so far with this thing.

4.5/5

I can see why Jenna was interested enough in this project to even become executive producer, but I feel she got a bit too blinded by the wildness of the concept to realize the flaws. Also money. She probably got blinded by the fat stack of cash she got for this. Maybe I would’ve gotten more out of this movie if I actually where a The Weeknd fan and wouldn’t just know him as „that self absorbed guy who took over that The Idol mini series and made it all about himself“ (to his credit the movie aknowledges that this was stupid) but as it stands it’s just style over substance and I just couldn’t get into it. For a movie that was supposed to take the audience on a deep emotional journey it really falls flat on that front because it's too hard to get invested in Abels struggle, mostly because it's straight up alien to the average audience member. I give it 2/5. 1 because of the, sometimes, neat visuals and the second point for Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan atleast trying to give the audience something. Also, why the hell was the dream just Silent Hill? I’m not the only one right? That entire nightmare sequence felt like and abrigded Silent Hill game without the fog.

Title says it all really. It's been a discourse that's been bothering me for a while now so here's the lowdown. The concept of seperating art from the artist is actually an analytical approach by wich a piece of art is essentially observed in a vacuum, meaning without the context of who made it; how it came to be; why it was made and in wich environment it was created, in order to discover another angle to it. Outside of this academic context it's absolutely impossible to seperate art and artist since they're ultimately fused together. Absolutely every single piece of art, even commercial ones and comission work, is intrinsically infused with the creators ideology, mind set, philosophy and experiences on a fundamental level. From the chosen subject matter to the approach to the technique there's never an aspect of art that doesn't have the creators unique fingerprints on it. Even the most wild and bizarre persona still contains loads of it's creator (Paul Reubens and PeeWee Herman for example weren't that different upon closer inspection). Or in other words: if you know someones art you know them, no matter how little they try to put of themselves into it. (Suck it Bo Burnham, everyone knows you like the back of their hand you pretentious shithead.) And before anyone is yelling "but Neil Gaiman..." THAT jackass is actually a perfect prime example for this issue. Now, first things first: outside of some comics he just happened to have written (mostly single issues of DC comics) and the Coraline movie I've never really interacted with this guy's work. I do however own a copy of Good Omens wich I randomly bought years ago and never read. So while I'm not super familiar with him I know for a fact, through happenstance aswell as having read some of his comic work, that Mr. Totally-Real-Feminist(TM) already roused alot of suspicion among many of his readers for the way he approached topics regarding female characters and female centric storytelling and the way he wrote about themes like rape and feminism aswell as female agency because it was always done in a somewhat exploitative and dismissive way, calling his supposed feminist allyship into question. So even if it's in the details, an artist is ALWAYS infusing themselves into their work in one form or another. ALWAYS. So why am I going on about this? Simple: there's too many fucktards out there who're basicly like "oh yes the creator is evil but I don't condone it so it's fine to still consume the work and buy the merch" wich really is a massive load of intellectual dishonesty right there. It's essentially those people saying that they aknowledge the bad things but also don't really care. That's like.... virtue signaling but in reverse? It's a bizarre and half asses mindset to have and honestly: it'd be better if those people would just openly say that they don't give a shit instead of wibbly-wobbly-ing around the issue like that. It's like they despearetly try to convince themselves that they're still a good person despite liking someone heinous. It's an ego thing. I guess... I just don't like the vague spineless hypocrisy of it. TLDR: you CAN'T seperate art from the artist. It's IMPOSSIBLE. Accept that you like something made by an evil evil piece of shit and move on. Don't try to twist reality like a silly straw. The art is the artist and the artist is the art. (I'd also like to point out that this is really about the actual creators of something and not really ALL people involved in the process because an artist can't possible have control over everything that happens after creation. Like, for example, the producer of the LotR trilogy is appearently a serial rapist but a producer is just a glorified manager and numbers guy so he basicly didn't create shit. So if you favourite book was printed at a company that ignores all safety precautions and workers get harmed it's not really the fault of the actual writer. Usually. Just wanted to make that clear.) .... That's it... that was my statement on the subject matter. Potato out.

Both parties have always collaborated on key issues and the Dems never really did a damn thing to prevent the Reps from making everything worse. Even when they have all the majorities they never do shit with it and only ever twiddle their thumbs and do worthless virtue signaling like those stupid anti-police violence stunts that didn't address the problem at all. Even if Harris would've won the exact same anti-migration, anti-trans and even anti-health masures would've been introduced and still passed. Harris would've also taked revenge on the pro Palestine activist like Trump does right now aswell as introducing similiar border policy. And don't come to me with all that "oh no, Gen Z doomed us all and the Dems would never do anything bad" Fuck you. Look at Shumer just straight up making Elon's government cuts legal because "muh government shutdown" (wich is such a pathetic justification). Serioulsy how politically naive are you people? Atleast many Gen Z voters (not exclusively mind you but this post is about them and how they're unjustly vilivied by gullible idiots) had the intelligence and balls to shit on both Harris and Trump and either didn't vote at all or voted for random third party candidates that atleast somewhat align with them. Because that's what you're supposed to do during elections and not follow those retardet MAGA/Vote Blue No Matter Who cults like the stupid sheep you seem to be. The Dems actively and deliberately destroyed the little bit of good will the Harris/Walz campaign built up by copypasting all the stupid identiy politics Clinton crap from 2016, where they also did everything in their power to prevent Bernie from succeeding just because he ran on a way better platform. It had nothing to do with Gen Z not turning out for Harris. And stuff like that isn't a pure US issue either. Remember how UK Labour actively attacked and tried to drag down Jeremy Corbyn aka "Mr. Based" because he dared to actually adress the real issues of the population? Yeah. People and their problems don't matter to politicians. Only their own power and money does. That goes for ALL parties in every single country in the world. They're ALL THE SAME. So yeah, to all you dipshits who whine and moan about how people are getting deported now and shit: the Dems would've done the same, they'd just used a different language and justifications. Also, I've got no fucking clue who Chappel Roan is but EVERYONE OF YOU BRAINDEAD SHIT NUGGETS owe her a huge ass apology for coming after her after the only thing she did was speak the absolute empirical truth. Like seriously, I was born in '92 and have been politically aware for decades now and it's just staggering how fucking clueless all you twats are. Good lord.

Not enough bits? No problem! Thermoplastic and sprue goo to the rescue! Works quite nicely even tho it takes a while to fully cure. The little holes should be easy to plug up with more goo.

I've honestly got no idea what to make off relationships at this point. Mind you, I've never even been in one but have been thinking about it for years and years. My conclusion is that I'm just not build for that kinda stuff because at the end of the day all relationships are transactional and require each participant to offer something the other wants. And I've got nothing to offer. I don't really know how to offer comfort beyond some platitudes, I don't know how to have someones back, I'm not particulary empathetic or emotional and don't get me started on the willingness to share my living space with someone. I mean sure: intellectualy I can understand someone elses needs and worries but emotionally there's just nothing in here and I don't think that's good for a relationship. I guess I'm also kinda scared of just being with someone simply because in my experience people just completly switch up their behaviour within a milisecond and start hating you for no reason. Like how am I supposed to find calm and happieness when I feel like I gotta walk on egg shells the entire fucking time, even if the hypothetical significant other is on the same wavelength as me? The more I think about it the less I am enthused to be with someone. I swear I'm the human equivalent to a syrian gold hamster: solitary and derranged.

I'm genuinly frustrated at the disconnect between my creativity and my productiviy. Like, I come up with concepts and ideas for stories and art pieces but I can never bring myself to actually do them or, even worse, I start them but get discouraged. I have no idea if it's insecurity or executive dysfunction disorder.

It's already established that BJ would be able to freely roam the realm of the living afterwards but what would happen to his spouse? Given the nature of the setting there could actually be dire consequences for them. In BJBJ we learn that one way for a ghost to return to live is for a mortal to take their place in the great beyond so Jeremy, who really doesn't care about anyone but himself, tricks Astrid into giving herself up for that. So I don't think in the case of marriage that the living person would be send to the great beyond perse but there would be a displacement regardless. I think if BJ and Lydia were to have a legally binding marriage it would turn into a kind of Hades and Persephone thing with Lydia getting trapped in the Netherworld while Beetlejuice can just roam freely and cause chaos at this hearts content. Sure, not exactly like the myth but somewhat in the same vein. Effectively her becoming a sort of placeholder for BJ within the confines of the afterlife. Like putting a towel on a pool chair to claim it. Furthermore, if we go by the Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian script, it could also lead to him becoming waaaaayyy more powerful than he already is. Granted in that script he unleashes his full potential before the knot is legally tied but I'd like to imagine that not marrying him would be the same as keeping godzilla under lock and key. I also could see it happening that he'd straight up put Lydia in a large cartoony cage with his shrinkers guarding her but when he comes back to make out with her he'll just find one of them inside of said cage wearing the red dress because she escaped and put him there as a distraction. Beetlejuice is not a good person and one shouldn't feel sorry about him having his wedding be thwarted twice.

So I've made a few bases for 40k. They where kinda inspired by the floor design of the old 2nd edition cardstock ruins that came with the starter box and are supposed to represent some sort of interior. I simply made the tiles from cereal box cardstock, glued them on and painted them mostly by sponging and then stippling on some brown washes in certain areas. I think it turned out pretty neat.