Personally, my dreams don’t have intricate plots. I’ve dreamt I’m in school again but the dream doesn’t provide an explanation, it just is. Or at least, i don’t remember details after I wake up

I don’t know for certain but I think if the school already gave you a diploma, they can’t take it back.

I have heard of situations in tv shows where a person who never got their diploma go back and finish so they can get a particular job or promotion. I could see that happening. I think for adults, they have highschool equivalency courses.

Yes, that’s why it bothers me that word “literally” is used for emphasis. I don’t care how long it’s been used that way, it robs the word of utility. The whole point of the word was to clarify that you mean literally when your words might otherwise be interpreted as figurative. Shit like this is why I’m unsure if people around me understand that I’m not exaggerating about the Untied States becoming a legitimate dictatorship committing holocaust level atrocities. I don’t know how to communicate when I mean something literally and be sure people understand that I mean it literally and am not exaggerating

I’m starting to be afraid of another pandemic

My little sister used to think “you couldn’t have” meant “you could have” because she didn’t get that I was being sarcastic with that phrase

I’d be annoyed too because they’re using words to mean the exact opposite of their meaning

It’s only a lie if there is intent to decieve, he would have to know he’s lying

These are the people who think the precautions around Covid were unnecessary too. If there hadn’t been any precautions, there would have been a lot more deaths and these same idiots would be asking why nothing was done to prevent it. But instead the death toll was kept to a minimum and these people just assume this is how it woukd have been regardless, no sense of cause and effect. Disasters are successfully mitigated and people assume there was no potential disaster at all. But if it had been allowed to happen, then they’d be asking why no action was taken

I got another one. It bugs me when people say that it’s not possible for two dark haired people to produce a blonde child. These people think they’re so smart because they know genetics exist. But if they learned anything about genetics at all, very basic punnet square genetics you learn in highschool biology explains why it’s not only possible but pretty common. If both dark haired parents are carriers for the blonde gene, there is a 25% chance of a blonde child. And reality is probably more complex than what I learned in highschool.

It’s like the stubborn fuckers who refuse to accept the science of sex and gender being any more complex that “penis man vagina woman”. They think they’re so smart for knowing “basic” biology and refuse to fucking learn anything beyond that.

I buy meal kits from HelloFresh. I buy three meals a week, each are two servings. I cook every second day and have leftovers for the next day. One day a week, I either eat fast food or cook something easy like canned food

The cost of living is too high. Having children is really expensive and you have to worry about whether they’ll make it as adults or whether things will be even worse then

Old fashioned record players

People complain about original movies too, what’s your point? People are hypocrites. They ask why nothing original is being made and them Disney announced Hexed and it immediately got backlash. People are accusing it of being a ripoff of Owl House but there’s no good evidence of that. People complain no matter what.

Maybe I’ve misunderstood and people usually aren’t just complaining about franchise films but also about adaptations. To which I’m even MORE annoyed with their complaint about no original movies being made. The original Mean Girls was an adaptation. So that movie shouldn’t have been made? Why shouldn’t Hollywood look to books for material? Why this arbitrary demand that the movie can’t be based on anything? All stories are derivative. The original Star Wars was original, not a remake or adaptation, but it was inspired by Flash Gordon. It’s basically impossible to make a story with no connection to any preexisting story

Different categories apply depending on the context. Adaptations are a different category than remakes or sequels and in this context make sense to classify as original. It’s not based on any preexisting movie

That person didn’t list it as anything. Pay attention to who you’re replying to. For the purpose of the discussion about whether Hollywood is making any original movies, people mean as opposed to remakes and sequels

But for the purposes of these conversations, people are complaining about sequels and remakes being too prominent. I don’t see why an adaptation of a book that has never been adapted into film before should be part of that complaint

Okay it was an adaptation, but it wasn’t a remake or a sequel. I understand the definition of original to be not remake or sequel. If adaptations don’t count, that significantly shrinks the number of original movies that have ever been made. Why is it not enough the movie isn’t part of an established film franchise, it also must not be an adaptation? The authour of the novel had an original idea and it was made into a film. The film is contributing to new, non-franchise, films being made popular. No, ideas must go straight to being film or they don’t count?

Maybe I take things too literally because of my autism, but in the contexts I see these comments it seems to mean there are no movies that aren’t sequels or remakes. There are plenty of movies that aren’t sequels or remakes and these people seem to be willfully ignoring them. I’ve seen many movies this year, some have been sequels or remakes, some have not been. I personally count movies based on books as original, like the movie Reminders of Him, but that’s not good enough for some people. The authour of the novel had an original idea and it was made into a film, but no they won’t accept an adaptation as original. And yes, some original films are derivative of ideas that have been done before. All fiction is derivative of other fiction. It’s basically impossible fir it not to be at least a little derivative.

I concede that it is unfortunate that there are likely original ideas being rejected in favour of franchise movies. But I think part of the reason this happens is audiences are hypocritical. If the audience would put their money where their mouths are and see more original films, more original films would get made. Franchise films are getting made so often because it’s what people want, as proven by them making money. People blame the marketing for their choices. It’s a chicken and egg situation, franchise films make more money because they’re marketed more and they’re marketed more because they make more money. If people saw more original films, original films would get more marketing. I’m annoyed by people blaming the corporations for their own choice to see franchise movies more than original movies

That’s something people say cause they think it makes them sound smart. Like people who say the Hunger Games is just Battle Royale, while ignorant of the long history of stories about death tournaments

It was a big plot point on Friends