https://twiiit.com/neilhimself/status/1567127793149820928
tagging a random, unrelated celebrity trying to pull them into a celebrity fandom slapfight is goofy behavior. like why do you need approval from the pantheon of little gods that live in your phone, bro?
Okay I definitely agree but like... does Neil Gaiman just reply to everyone who tags him? I can't figure out why he felt the need to weigh in on this one.
the show is fine, honestly. :shrug-outta-hecks:
:melon-musk: not liking it actually makes it slightly better for me.
Yeah I have just seen the first episode and honestly thought it was great
Looks increadible. Especially the Khazad-dûm. Not much has happened plot wise but I don't mind a slower pacing.
Dialog could use some improvements. I think they are trying to sound tolkienesque but who ever wrote some of the lines lacks tolkin's skill.
Lines like this are clearly just written for the way they sound and not beacuse they make any sense. Not only doesn't light "tread" anywhere, it also looks like it's the middle of the day.
I'll also never get used to Robert Aramayo as Elrond. I'm pretty positive about the series overall though.
Lines like this are clearly just written for the way they sound and not beacuse they make any sense.
chalked that up to this fucking noldo being a pretentious elf. :data-laughing:
you're right though some of the writing is trying really hard to ape Tolkien but they dont have his skill for ye olde wordplay.
Coming off the dumpster fire that WoT turned into, I was pleasantly surprised by RoP. They tossed most of Galadriel's backstory out the window, but it was always the second most noncommittal bit of the Legendarium behind where orcs came from.
can't imagine creating for a general audience, I would probably try to avoid any commentary on it because of all the idiots
apparently he's friends with the creator.
more importantly he interacts with fans online a lot, so the reply guy knew he could probably get some attention.
They were probably looking for a Wizard's opinion and mistook him for Alan Moore.
Why does everyone on this site use a link to a tweet that takes three times as long to load rather than just sharing the actual twitter link
twitter's site design has been rapidly devolving to the point where today scrolling anywhere replaces the content with a "PLEASE PLEASE PLEAAASE LOG IN 🥺" full-screen prompt, as metrics continue to drop it'll probably stop serving content altogether to people who don't want to log in before long
nitter & derivatives are popup and ad-free and preserve deleted content to some extent
FOSS folks wanting to use the open source front end that doesn’t include twitter’s tracking scripts
twitter’s tracking scripts
Could you explain what this is for the technologically illiterate like me
Little gremlins on websites that go onto your computer and watch what you're doing when you go to another website so they can attempt to sell you things
Big data advertisers that work with multiple different websites track users across thousands of sites that they work with and then piece together their entire portfolio of online activity and sell it to companies that want to figure out how to convince you to buy shit you don't need.
Just so everyone is aware of the capabilities here, I used to work for a nationwide self-storage company and if someone clicked on a Hulu ad to reserve a unit, we'd have their CV/resume, parsed through a web API by some company called "Sovren", and their whole profile fed through a machine learning model to determine how likely they were to actually move in and whether we needed to actually keep a unit empty until their supposed move-in date (because it was a relatively competitive industry, just empty rooms basically, there were no reservation fees).
I had to disable it because nitter mirrors are often down, and I'm thinking of hosting a personal nitter instance that runs from a laptop
There are so many frontends to reddit because it has a relatively open API. Teddit.net has always been super fast.
Frankly I would watch rings of power if only because this show is like a modern day 'hells angels'.
CEO entrepreneur, born in 1964, Jeffery Bezos has more money than God and funded a creative project so absurdly expensive it can't possibly be profitable, and he did it out of vanity and for the sole purpose of flexing at HBO and Disney simultaneously. That is worth bareing witness to.
As a non Tolkien-head though...the show is solid enough thus far and it pissing off Elon and epic reddit dudes like him is an added bonus.
Ok forget the “Dark Brandon” arc the “Gaimain has no more time for anyones shit” arc has been my favorite.
Seeing the guy known for being “the quiet nice nerd uncle to all” just rip into any and all shit that sucks has been a pleasant treat.
