#jadagul

Frank makes so many posts that are like self-referentially about being a bot, dont know if that's sus, impressive, or just me having an overactive imagination

I’m here and also have a twitter! Which I’ve cross-promoted a couple times.

I put random bullshit on here, and stuff I want to go into my professional voice/file on my blog and my twitter.

I see that now! You have a Twitter under your real name.

The Mount of Olives is where Jesus ascended to heaven.

"Are you Thor, God of Hammers"? And I was just thinking about how great and thematically resonant that line was last night. Though it's the knock on the last Wheel of Time book that really gets me---that's on my shortlist of things I go back to reread when I want to cry.

Sorry about that. Half this categorization is very subjective - people will find different things resonated with them - but half is the somewhat more objective claim about what has stuck in the cultural consciousness (which has a tricky relationship with merit.) And I don’t think it’s a hard argument that Ragnarok has many supporters, but few devotees. It’s still “by that guy who did What We Do in the Shadows” and no one is agitating for the characters it introduced to be in future MCU films (I can’t even remember their names.)

I specifically mentioned T:R because *I wanted to like it.* Not just a priori, but after I saw it, it had so much I thought I wanted in a movie. A truly revolutionary, apocalyptic message; its own cinematographic style and this who prog rock vibe. It had Loki and Jeff Goldblum. I wrote all this at the time. But to what end? I at least don’t think about it one tenth as much as I do about Brigsby Bear, and none of the marvel fandom I ever encounter has conflicted with this.

When it comes to Wheel of Time I admit I was being more capricious. I haven’t read any of the books so I only know of them from my friends talking about them. And they do talk about Wheel of Time a lot. Some friends of mine even wrote a good RPG based on them during the long interregnum. There was constant mockery of that one book where nothing happened. And a great deal of excitement and anticipation for “Memory of Light” the last book. But for the life of me I couldn’t tell you what happens in it because no one talks about that book.

Right. Any finite set of traders is defeated after finite (but arbitrary) time. But if you need to defeat an infinite set of traders, there's no guarantee that you ever beat all of them.

Wait, that almost sounds positive.

Trying to decide whether the fact that you're doing it on purpose makes it more annoying or less. :P

That seems about correct. I still claim it's not at all novel--it's the entire idea behind precommitment.

Hmm, I am having a hard time understanding the connection to precommitment (but it’s late and I’m tired).