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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 19:52:21 GMT
When making a name, i was going for what sounded like Kiss.Skillz.X. I'm still going to read that as "kiss kill sex". well, i tried caps but it wouldn't let me... nobody's perfect.
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Post by general313 on Feb 23, 2017 1:05:33 GMT
I'm not surpised about not connecting that, it is quite obscure. I've thought about using an avatar image from the film but couldn't find the right one. Maybe with the larger thumbnails on this site it might work better. I agree that another major theme is the unreliable working memory theme. Maybe the winning strategy aspect of Nim is set up as a contrast to this other theme. Perhaps the most iconic image from the film is the view of the terrace with only the people (but none of the objects) casting shadows. That might make a good avatar, though the "square" avatar format would squeeze the widescreen format of the image. The Nim game has always been an aspect of the film I've been fascinated with but have never really been able to fit well into any workable interpretation. Then again, maybe part of the point is that in dreams/memory there will always be aspects that we can't fit into the coherent narratives we try to make for ourselves. That's an idea -- thanks for the suggestion! Maybe I could crop it to fit the square avatar format. There are many elements that I find hard to explain, and I think the film has a lot in common with surrealism. I forget if the film makers acknowledged a connection with surrealism. One surreal quality in the film is the repetition of certain mysterious phrases in the dialog, for instance the phrase that is translated to English in the subtitles as "from stem to stern" or "from ship to compass" (depending on different editions). I love how the movie characters will utter these phrases in a pontificating way.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Feb 23, 2017 1:14:44 GMT
My name is an obvious play on Caped Crusader (a.k.a. Batman).
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Feb 23, 2017 16:43:40 GMT
Perhaps the most iconic image from the film is the view of the terrace with only the people (but none of the objects) casting shadows. That might make a good avatar, though the "square" avatar format would squeeze the widescreen format of the image. The Nim game has always been an aspect of the film I've been fascinated with but have never really been able to fit well into any workable interpretation. Then again, maybe part of the point is that in dreams/memory there will always be aspects that we can't fit into the coherent narratives we try to make for ourselves. There are many elements that I find hard to explain, and I think the film has a lot in common with surrealism. I forget if the film makers acknowledged a connection with surrealism. One surreal quality in the film is the repetition of certain mysterious phrases in the dialog, for instance the phrase that is translated to English in the subtitles as "from stem to stern" or "from ship to compass" (depending on different editions). I love how the movie characters will utter these phrases in a pontificating way. The writer was Alain Robbe-Grillet who was a leading proponent of the French Nouveau roman (New Novel) movement. He set forth the ideals of the movement in several essays: one being a rejection of classical ideals in which everything was subordinated to plot, narrative, and character, and two being a new focus on objects and the world itself, a kind of "pure surface" where things like geometry and repetitions and details of the world became more revealing of character and theme than traditional methods. He took much inspiration from the cubist painters and wanted to recreate a similar aesthetic in literature, where a whole had to be understood by analyzing the fragmented pieces. That said, R-G has also been on record as saying he was shocked when he first saw Marienbad as he had never envisioned the kind of film that Resnais made. I think more than any filmmaker, Resnais has been singularly obsessed with memory; nearly all of his films up until Je t'aime, Je t'aime deal with this theme, whether of a historical nature (Night & Fog, Hiroshima Mon Amour), personal (Je t'aime, Je t'aime), or a mixture (Muriel). I think in Marienbad he found what was, for him, as close a depiction to his own notions about how memory worked. I think it's a clear case of a director taking a literary kernel and transforming it through their own singular vision, and Marienbad certainly wouldn't be the masterpiece it is without Resnais's ability to render R-G's radical screenplay visually. R-G has actually directed several of his own films. I've seen a few and haven't really cared much for them. You can see certain similarities with Marienbad in terms of the unusual handling of plot, narrative, character, world-building, etc., but they also reveal the crucial importance in a medium like film of having a visual sensibility to galvanize the literary element.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 17:19:31 GMT
mines my first name and the first letter of my last name lol
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Post by klandersen on Feb 24, 2017 20:29:55 GMT
I was an occasional poster on the IMDb Religion board. Sometimes I'd visit everyday but mostly it would be weeks or months between visits and even longer with actual posting.
My name is simple it is my first initial, middle initial, last name.
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Post by vomisacaasi on Feb 25, 2017 3:42:36 GMT
Way back when the there was only the internet I created my first account on a BB as VomisCassi (yeah I know). I have used an iteration of the name since then for many many many sites. AT one time if you did a search for VomisaCaasi you would only find me.
He is one of my favorite authors and it confuses some people.
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Post by drystyx on Jul 21, 2020 0:54:58 GMT
A really old story about a baseball player.
It may have been in the 1920s or 1930s. It was a long time ago.
A baseball player had a really long name, and a sportswriter asked him to change the name, because it couldn't fit into the paper or scorecard or something.
The player asked what to change the name to.
The sportswriter (or whatever the guy was), said, anything. Just make it brief.
So the player changed his name to BRIEF.
You can look up the name in the baseball encyclopedia.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jul 21, 2020 17:54:41 GMT
If you regard anal intercourse as normal, you're a sodomite.
This is an innocuous thread regarding how people came to choose their user names. Tell us, then, why you brought up the topic of anal intercourse... Wow. A two-year old thread. Er is the first syllable of my first name. Jen is the first syllable of my last name. When I started my own AOL account they assigned me a similar name, and that's where I got the idea. The Herald came later. I think it was Christmastime and Hark the Herald Angels was playing on the radio. I was locked out of my old account and had to start a new one, and it just seemed right. And to answer the "tell us" part of your post......that's another long story. Now hopefully everyone is happy.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jul 21, 2020 18:39:41 GMT
My old screen name was Lowtax86 (a reference to the founder of somethingawful.com, Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka), but people kept assuming I was a libertarian/economic conservative so I changed it to "Lowtacks86" when I registered here.
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Post by Arlon10 on Jul 22, 2020 8:21:57 GMT
I was raised by wolves. The letters 'r,' 'l,' and 'n' are the three ways to say "no" in wolvish.
My last name in real life is Staywell. The first letter, 's,' is one way cats say "no." Cats also use r, l, and n to mean no.
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Post by Zos on Jul 22, 2020 8:54:06 GMT
Zos Kia Cultus is a form, style, or school of magic developed by Austin Osman Spare. It focuses on one's individual universe and the influence of the magician's will on it. Consequently, it is highly personal. While the Zos Kia Cultus has very few adherents today, it is widely considered an important influence on the development of western occultism in general, and the rise of chaos magic in particular.
The Zos part refers to the human body and it's range of consciousness.
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Post by The Lost One on Jul 24, 2020 15:07:27 GMT
The Lost One because I generally feel a bit lost in life!
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