GalaxyBrain

I guess Stong Mad is Strongrad

We have a non poser here!

The sun is cool, we should all be solialists. My phone keyboard is bad okay

When I am interested in something I become an expert on it, it's a compulsion. Ive had almost 25 years of annual reading under my belt for this stuff. I also know everything about DIY punk music and its related offshoot to a lesser degree, star trek, b5, working on gundam, skateboard tricks, food, other stuff like history and dinosaurs and outer space I do my best without formal education beyond high school, im at least above layman in most intellectual topics just cause I hate not knowing stuff and really enjoy looking things up.

Also here's a We Didn't Start the Fire but about The Silmarillion, found it a couple weeks ago and its really well done:

https://youtu.be/d8vMEEJIFFs

Killing Hope by David Blum for general anti imperialism. Chronological look country by country up to the date of publishing at American interference, coercion or straight up war crimes

Backing Solialism: Utopian and Scientific.

Came up with a fantastic idea for a Star Wars Holiday Special sequel: Merry Sithmas. It would be hosted by Emperor Palpatine and it would be an evil variety show.

"Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Santa the wise? His strength in the force was so strong that he could sense the darkness and the light in all younglings. His rewards were kingly and his punishments barbaric. It is not a story told by the Jedi...let us begin."

There was more than one take of him kicking the helmet, the foot break was the last one of course. But the special features do show several helmet kick takes. There was a YouTube video that I wish I could find where a guy inserts himself into that bit of special feature as the camera guy and implies Peter Jackson was trying to hit him with the helmet and Viggo was getting really close before breaking his toe

How did Viggo Morgensen break his toe kicking an empty helmet with boots on? Use a rubber helmet and don't cheap out on the boots

I then went on explaining middle earth shit for a half hour. Brought in my own theories like how elves can see super far despite the curvature of the earth cause they csn also sail.ti fucking valinor despite the curvature of rhe earth, nerds argue this shit all the time and like...bruh. And also the Saruman used his contacts in The Shire to steal a firework or two from Bilbo's party to reverse engineer them into the explosives used at the battle of the Hornburg.

Also AI only exists online and as fsr ad ive seen. That's abkut where positive opinions end on it. People are super ignorant either way but at the end of the day absolutely no one ive interacted with irl wants to consume AI slop or thinks anyone else will. Its a toy. Its fun to mess around with yourself and see what you get for a while but no one wants to watch it.

That being said, we will just be given no other option.

Newer guy at work who is a big movie guy and so are half the kitchen staff was talking about how he showed his friend the lord of the rings movies for the first time and how they were blown away. Hes like 10 years younger and he got soooo jealous thst I saw fellowship as a more or less random movie choice in theaters at age 11 and caught them all first run. But he also didnt know that led me to becoming a giant fucking Tolkien nerd who attempted to tackle the silmarillion at age 12. I started on some book difference stuff and he said partway through he'd love to watch them with me and I could explain the greater details. I told him that would take like 7 hours per movie. I would have to explain the entire first and most of the second age before even starting and then the fucking intro would take longer thsn explaining everything else combined. I have made minor academic contributions. You do NOT wanna sit with me and let me explain Tolkien cause I will make good on it.