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drat, I guess I better start watching Halo because Moon Knight is great
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Apr 9, 2022 10:56
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One thing I didn't like here was Steven going "What, that's totally ridiculous, it could never happen!" when Marc told him about them being Khonshu's Avatar...like, my brother
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Apr 9, 2022 11:46
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Steven is suspiciously disconnected from the reality of the world he’s living in.
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Apr 9, 2022 12:51
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chitoryu12 posted:Steven is suspiciously disconnected from the reality of the world he’s living in. It's almost like he's a constructed personality with no actual basis in life!
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Apr 9, 2022 12:56
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Rarity posted:It's almost like he's a constructed personality with no actual basis in life! Yeah when his favorite poet (?) was Marc's wife's favorite that was what really convinced me that Steven is some kind of trauma induced coping personality.
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Apr 9, 2022 13:04
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chitoryu12 posted:Steven is suspiciously disconnected from the reality of the world he’s living in. Buys thousands of pounds worth of books, can't buy a newspaper smh
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Apr 9, 2022 13:32
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pik_d posted:Yeah when his favorite poet (?) was Marc's wife's favorite that was what really convinced me that Steven is some kind of trauma induced coping personality. It's really interesting poo poo for Marvel
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Apr 9, 2022 14:04
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chitoryu12 posted:Steven is suspiciously disconnected from the reality of the world he’s living in. In the comics Steven is the closest to Bruce Wayne out of all the personalities, wouldn't be surprised if this is part of his journey to becoming the quirky rich fop. F. Murray Abraham is the perfect voice for Khonshu, imperious and overstuffed, without the slightest bit of self awareness.
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Apr 9, 2022 14:24
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BrianWilly posted:One thing I didn't like here was Steven going "What, that's totally ridiculous, it could never happen!" when Marc told him about them being Khonshu's Avatar...like, my brother Here in our actual real world we have lotteries like Powerball and Megamillion worth tens and occasionallu hundreds of millions of dollars. Somebody eventually wins them, but the likelihood is that person isn't going to be you with your two dollar ticket. In the MCU there are super-powered people but how likely is it that Steven Grant, fumbly, clumsy, lonely British dude with a sleep disorder is actually going to be one of them? Obviously the real answer is that it's extremely likely, but imagine going to, say, Donna the gift shop tyrant and trying to convince her that she's, I don't know, the super-duper secret offspring of Ancient Eternal Aliens and that she can fly and shoot lasers out of her rear end. How likely is it that she'd believe you without some kind of external proof?
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Apr 9, 2022 14:42
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Everyone posted:Here in our actual real world we have lotteries like Powerball and Megamillion worth tens and occasionallu hundreds of millions of dollars. Somebody eventually wins them, but the likelihood is that person isn't going to be you with your two dollar ticket. That depends on whether or not she has NPD.
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Apr 9, 2022 14:47
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Bust Rodd posted:Also is there really a spot in London where fire performers can just hang out like that? It’s pretty rare for such a major city to have such a chill fire department. In Philly it took years of sucking up to the fire chief before he would let us do our circus act in the park. Oh I know this one, the “beach” on South Bank by Bernie Spain Gardens! I took these last year  https://i.imgur.com/rRCizSB.mp4  
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Apr 9, 2022 14:57
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A.o.D. posted:That depends on whether or not she has NPD. Figure she probably has at least some given how she acts, but probably not enough to but that she's a super-person.
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Apr 9, 2022 14:58
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The initial shots of Khonshu in the first episode and first half of episode 2 were legitimately pretty off-putting and directed in a really good horror way. The back half of episode 2 is totally different, but amazing in a different way. Every single line read from F. Murray Abraham that is just a single sentence or a command with a few words is hilarious. Khonshu just kind of standing behind Ethan Hawke yelling, "Kill him! Crush his windpipe!" or "Maaaaaaaaarc... THERE IS NO DEAL IN THIS!" or "I AM REAL JUSTICE!" or "Put it back, idiot." delivered by Abraham while the giant floating Egyptian skull of the moon god just stands there looking at him is 1,000x more hilarious than it would appear just written in a script.
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Apr 9, 2022 15:06
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Now imagine the car chase with him physically in the back. It’s a Three Stooges routine. “Did he just throw the gun?” “TRUCK! TRUCK!”
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Apr 9, 2022 15:08
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The initial shots of Khonshu in the first episode and first half of episode 2 were legitimately pretty off-putting and directed in a really good horror way. Khonshu being the petty, whiny rear end in a top hat god of Justice is flat-out glorious and I cannot wait to see more of it. You have wonder whether Harrow's take out "evil" people before they do evil arose from wanting to just get Khonshu off his loving back. Like, "There, I killed the five year old who stole the Hershey bar. Now he'll never do anything worse. Happy now, Big K?"
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Apr 9, 2022 15:13
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mutata posted:Edit: Jesus, there are too many Steves and Stevens in this infinite Marvel universe. Yeah, it's a real Steven universe
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Apr 9, 2022 15:23
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HootTheOwl posted:Yeah, it's a real Steven universe here we are in the future...
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Apr 9, 2022 15:34
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The initial shots of Khonshu in the first episode and first half of episode 2 were legitimately pretty off-putting and directed in a really good horror way. I <3 Konshu as this impotent forgotten God
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Apr 9, 2022 15:41
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Khonshu is sometimes funny in the comics as well, there's a great bit in some comic where Moon Knight and Punisher are in the same room and Moon Knight hears Khonshu say "why can't you be more like him? He gives so many tributes to his patron god!" and the idea of this ancient god being like a pouting partner "why don't you treat me right like he would, you never take me out anymore" cracked me up.
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Apr 9, 2022 15:50
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HootTheOwl posted:I <3 Konshu as this impotent forgotten God I highly recommend Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods for very similar themes.
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Apr 9, 2022 16:04
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Not to take anything away from Abraham's performance, but it's a little weird hearing an Egyptian deity speaking in an American accent. I'll just chalk it up to a side-effect of Khonshu having to communicate via his American avatar.
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Apr 9, 2022 16:46
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Umbra Dubium posted:Not to take anything away from Abraham's performance, but it's a little weird hearing an Egyptian deity speaking in an American accent. Is there any evidence for what an ancient Egyptian accent might sound like?
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Apr 9, 2022 16:48
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KPC_Mammon posted:Is there any evidence for what an ancient Egyptian accent might sound like? Egyptian? 
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KPC_Mammon posted:Is there any evidence for what an ancient Egyptian accent might sound like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irf_cGvCywk honestly oscar isaac would've nailed it Firebert fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Apr 9, 2022 |
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Apr 9, 2022 17:00
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Anita Dickinme posted:Egyptian? So accents don't change in the course of thousands of years? Firebert posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irf_cGvCywk Yeah, Oscar Isaac could pull that off.
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Apr 9, 2022 17:08
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mutata posted:Edit: Jesus, there are too many Steves and Stevens in this infinite Marvel universe. Steven Harmon, I hardly know him! ....................These are the Steves I know, I know! These are the Steves I know!
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KPC_Mammon posted:Is there any evidence for what an ancient Egyptian accent might sound like? Like Gerard Butler?
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KPC_Mammon posted:Is there any evidence for what an ancient Egyptian accent might sound like? There was no English language at the time, so there isn't such a thing as an ancient Egyptian accent in English. We do know what ancient Egyptian language sounded like, though. Because ancient Greeks and Egyptians wrote down phonetic translations of each others words. So, you could make a pretty educated guess at what one would have sounded like. But, it doesn't actually exist and the Egyptian Empire spanned a pretty large area, so there would have been different accents within ancient Egyptian itself. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Apr 9, 2022 |
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Apr 9, 2022 20:41
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KPC_Mammon posted:Is there any evidence for what an ancient Egyptian accent might sound like? There are a lot of academics interested in this question, and they can basically only extrapolate. Most of it comes from comparative studies of other languages, looking at things like the Rosetta Stone or other bilingual writings from Egypt’s pre-Roman or pre-Muslim past. Apparently hieroglyphs can be reasonably translated to specific consonant sounds, but the vowels were only implied in Egyptian writing, so that’s where it becomes about extrapolation. Coptic is a modern spoken descendant of Egyptian (by way of Greek), so that’s used a lot to try and fill in the blanks of old Egyptian words. But the point is none of that will really reproduce an ancient Egyptian “accent,” because a lot of that just doesn’t live in writing. It’s a culture that survived thousands of years and lots of population shifts, so there were probably tons of accents, and whatever guesses we make would be impossible to verify. (Which isn’t unique to Egyptian. We don’t *know* what spoken Latin sounded like 2000 years ago, we can just make more educated inferences.)
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A God wouldn't necessarily be speaking with their follower's accents anyway. They'd speak with their own peers/class/social group accent. See also: Thor.
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The_Doctor posted:I highly recommend Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods for very similar themes. Small Gods was one of my favourite books when I was younger, thank you for helping me realise why I loved Khonshu being petty in the comics
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Apr 9, 2022 22:25
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KPC_Mammon posted:Yeah, Oscar Isaac could pull that off. 
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Apr 9, 2022 22:42
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So that's how we'll get mutants in the MCU. One of Steven's/Marc's personalities is Apocalypse, who was the one who asked out the co-worker. Apocalypse is also Ancient Egyptian IIRC.
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Everyone posted:So that's how we'll get mutants in the MCU. One of Steven's/Marc's personalities is Apocalypse, who was the one who asked out the co-worker. Apocalypse is also Ancient Egyptian IIRC. In sha'Amun-Ra AJA fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Apr 10, 2022 |
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Apr 10, 2022 06:00
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I saw eternals last night. Movie sucked
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PNO5aZV69M
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HootTheOwl posted:I saw eternals last night. Movie sucked I thought it was OK. Strangely, instead of taking something that should have been a movie and stretching it out into a miniseries, this time Marvel decided they could introduce a dozen characters and a giant chunk of Marvel Universe lore (Eternals, Celestials etc) and mash it into a single movie. But I thought the characters were OK, being able to skip back and forth in history Highlander style was fun, and the reveal that Celestials are basically Lavos-style parasites and all the Elementals keep getting their memories wiped for each new planet was cool, if rushed. Kumail Nanjiani sure got done dirty though; he made all those posts about working out and dieting for a year then never takes his shirt off and completely dips out for the 3rd act?  Unrelated, are any of the earlier Marvel TV shows worth watching? Specifically Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter. It can be tough to find stuff to watch with my parents that we can all tolerate and MCU has been consistently OK for that.
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Agent Carter definitely is, it’s a really nice expansion of Peggy’s character.
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