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Chance, on 09 June 2025 - 01:58 PM, said:

For sure, but I'm am incredibly lax on what I'll permit in adaptation due to my friends in the industry who frequently explained to me why certain decisions were made (mostly Trek, which shoots in Toronto). Like I found ways to enjoy Shannara even though it very much made DRASTIC changes to the source material.

Chance, on 09 June 2025 - 01:58 PM, said:

Eh, I feel like you've proven my point actually. Peter Jackson (and Philippa Boyens & Fran Walsh) faced a tonne of ire for their adaptation to the LOTR source material by purists. The main OneRing.net forums still to this day have scads of people who call you NARF (Not a Real Fan) if you like the PJ movies. I think the reason it works or mass audiences and was the success it was would be DUE to the adaptation choices he made. You can't shoot LOTR as it reads on the page, it would be overlong, boring, and not have compelled audiences as it did.

Harry Potter is an even better example of adaptation being an important art. The first two films, at the behest of original director Chris Columbus, were AS close to the source material as possible, and as a result are the weakest of the series film-wise...but once Cuaron, Newell, and especially Yates came on board, Steve Kloves writing of them got FAR better, more interesting, and were much more adapted in the traditional sense. As a result of stepping away from the slavish adherence to the source material in Columbus' entries, the series got INIFINITELY better. Like I can re-weatch CHAMBER...it's fine...but I can't rewatch the first one...in most re-watches I start at 3 and go forward because they are FAR better films, and that's largely on the back of them being adapted well for the medium. Moreover, if you watch the first two FANTASTIC BEASTS films you run into the same problem as Sanderson...Rowling wrote the screenplay for both, and her amateurishness in that medium is VERY present in both films as they adhere to whatever her book-author mind thinks it relevant...this is why WB forced Steve Kloves on her for the third film in the writing process, and the 3rd film is BY FAR the best of the bunch film-wise.

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 09 June 2025 - 01:32 PM, said:

As far as I can tell, she's backed off a bit. Enough that my daughter doesn't mention it anymore, but still doesn't like her. It sounds as if the girl got spoken to enough that either her parents finally reined her in, or the school started threatening extra punishment. It didn't hard stop, but the constant bullying seemed to cease. She's now just an unpleasant person in her class who many kids don't like.


I'm keeping an eye on it, but escalating it to the principal seemed to work.

So we've been trying out different meds for our sons ADHD, and the first one didn't seem to do too much and his focus was still a little wild, and then second one was working for focus, but he still had a few emotional outbursts and seemed sad while doing events that should make him happy (like rides at the amusement park) so we asked to switch again, but then he tried this new type of med and he was on it for two days...day one he was up in the middle of the night with nightmares and we thought it was a one-off, but then on night 2 my wife was out of town and he came to me TERRIFIED. He said he heard a mans voice in his room, and footsteps, and noises in the walls. ...So I looked up this new med and the MAIN side effect on the mental side is auditory hallucinations. Like the Paediatrician didn't tel us this was possible? I'm a little annoyed. Anyways, the poor lad was so scared so I let him sit up with me a while and then asked if he would rather sleep on the inflatable mattress in his sisters room to have company and not be scared and he said yeah. So I set him up and his sister comforted him. I told him that I believed him in what he heard and that it was probably his meds and that I would make sure he'd never have to take those again. Then I sat on the stairs outside her room and wept. I felt HORRIBLE that we'd given him a medication that would produce these things and make him so scared in his own house, in his own room. I sat there for 2 hours to make sure he was okay and didn't wake up scared again until my wife came home, and she picked him up and brought him into our room to keep an eye on him while he slept.


Needless to say that we didn't re-administer that medication the next day. I'm so dejected by the search for the medication that will work and how some of them seem to work in some ways and not at all in others. This process is not easy on him, and it's not easy on us either. I just want him to be happy, and safe, and cared for.


Daughter goes for a psychoeducational evaluation (a comprehensive assessment of a student's cognitive, academic, and socio-emotional functioning) on Friday, she's more than a grade behind in reading and writing. This was recommended to us by more than a few teachers and administrators who work with her. So that's another thing to have to struggle through.


Some weeks parenting is way harder than even you'd think it is. It's super emotionally draining.

Then only difference between ICE and Gestapo is that the Gestapo were not afraid to show their faces.

Sidebar: If you haven't seen it yet, check out Alex Garland's CIVIL WAR....it's relevant, right down to California being on the good side.

Macros, on 09 June 2025 - 11:41 AM, said:

And from what I understand (and I could be wrong), Sending Federal Guard in not just without Gavin Newsom's approval, but literally AGAINST his wishes is the technical letter of the Insurrection Act and thus, martial law in all but name?


Also that Military Parade in DC on the 14th for his birthday? I mean, moving TANKS into your capital under the guise of a parade is pretty transparent...like when those tanks just "Stay" there, everyone should be prepared for that eventuality...because that's the plan. Also every tweet of Trump in the last 48 hours have been Stephen Miller....100% Trump didn't write those. It was Miller. They all feature his particular flavour of racially charged nationalistic BS.


I heard audio of like a 3 year old being torn from her mom who was being taken, and her dad trying to comfort her....like if anyone who voted for Trump can listen to that and be okay with it, they are fucking GHOULS.


Newsome needs more teeth than he's kind of showing...he should be in the streets, with a megaphone, offering support on the ground, speeches, hope. This is LITERALLY a moment that will be carved into history, and if he really wanted to lead them he would become a beacon to all his constituents in this time. That he has failed to rise to that is disappointing.