Today my starter was accidentally baked while proofing in the oven (no heat, just light on. Classic trick, been doing it for years).

I was planning on baking tomorrow and my house is drafty so my starter was proofing in the oven all day. Tonight my gf wanted to bake cookies. You know the rest.

I managed to dig about 30 grams of discard from the trash and fed it. What do you think are the chances it survives?

Like.. it's normal not have a relationship in teenage years.

Film Review: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (2021): Joel Coen's Shakespearean Film Is a Triumph for Denzel Washington

Intro

One of the videos I have recently watched is the Overly Sarcastic Productions video on Greek Tragedies. Being bored, in one of the few places still in lockdown and doing everything under the sun to procrastinate the ever increasing mountains of uni work, I decided to see if putting ROTFM under the sense of the tragedy did anything for linking the story.

I always thought it weird that a lot of the story doesn't revolve around Auril.

Like, her name is in the title.

For the most part I don’t think Auril is ever really central in the game. Like, she’s there but she doesn’t actually do anything and if you’re running as written, Auril can be avoided until literally the last fight in Ythryn. Auril should be the main part of the story. For this, I think that rewrites should be dealing with tying Auril, the Duergar and Ythryn together and making the focus on Auril as the primary antagonist.

Auril is the protagonist in this tragedy. It is her flaws that cause the consequences of her actions to catch up with her, resulting in her """death""" and the end of the Rime.

This post tries to put the actions of Auril in the structure of a tragedy. As a result, the plot is able to be tied together in different ways depending on what you want to be the central conflict. The 2 conflicts I made were "Auril using the Mythallar vs Everyone" and "Auril vs Mythallar".

TLDR: Putting ROTFM in the structure of a Tragedy can help make the plots fit together and makes Auril the central character.

Structure of a Tragedy

Tragedies are an old Greek style of play writing. Shakespeare adapted the structure for his most famous stories like Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth. This diagram here explains it better than I can but i’ll give a rundown:

The protagonist has an Hamartia or fatal flaw that causes them to make errors in judgement. For Macbeth this was ambition and Hamlet indecisiveness.

An Inciting event causes the plot to begin.

Rising action: The protagonist reacts to events caused by the inciting action. Each reaction leads onto another event occurring and the protagonist having to respond to that. Over this time, clouded by their fatal flaw, the protagonist makes errors of judgement that will eventually lead to their downfall.

This bit isn’t strictly part of the structure, but I like it when the character has a Peak of Success, where the plot s

Didn't know so much drama could be happening in your psyche. Anyway, I'm new here, nice to meet you guys. Love to start any conversations - I'm still in the learning process (I'm doing self therapy since there are no IFS therapists in my area).

How do we think Shakespeare would write The Tragedie of Theranos? Please discuss

The sex fairies amalgamated and formed a giant hip onahole. Their small asses kept tracking Haruto's penis like the eyes of a dog glaring at another dog peeing on his favorite fire hydrant. Haruto's dick a bit confused at the sudden appearance of this giant hip onahole remained unerected before kicking into full gear and vibrating like a noisy diesel engine. Unsure if this magical floating giant hip onahole hid a bear trap or worse, Haruto started licking it all over to see how the sex fairies would react. To his pleasure, the sex fairies started moaning in unison and getting really wet and slippery. Then the squirting happened. Each of the wet vagina started aiming at Haruto's eyes as if they were trying to blind him like a Star Destroyer of sort. To his horror, Haruto eyes were blinded before he could even try to dodge the squirts. The floating monstrosity turned into a large bimbo and pushed him onto his bed. Then some of the sex fairies separated from the larger body and entered Haruto's balls through sex magic. There, they started playing the drum with his testicles. The large bimbo then thrust his penis furiously into her and started riding his dick furiously as he lay helpless against the nymphomaniac monstrosity before him. The large bimbo then proceeded to make him cum a dozen of times until he ran out of man juice. Immediately, the sex fairies merged into his skin and started touching themselves and ejaculating in the air to form countless streams of vagina fluids that kept going out and in of their vaginas like a bunch of race tracks for microscopic organisms with their own ecosystems. Some of them had formed a portal by amalgamating over his dick and allowed more sex fairies in to join in the action. After 10 hours, Haruto had become a sort of giant robot over which sprawled a theme park made of sex fairies squirting constantly. When the cops broke into his apartment due to noise complaints, they immediately shot him dead after seeing the thing he had become. The end.

Fo you guys find it crucial and necessary or do you think it's unnecessary and spoils the dark atmosphere Shakespeare so cleverly created?

I really thought Henry 5 could have written without the pistol extorting money from a French soldier scene and king Henry pranking Williams by giving latter's glove to captain felluella. But other than that I thought Henry 5 was a masterpiece.

Obviously there are moments when comic reliefs complete the play. Such as in the case of Falstaff in Henry 4. But I don't think I would call Falstaff just a comic relief.

HWANG: It is the east, and VIAC is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

VIAC: O Bill, Bill, wherefore art thou Bill? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be fairly valued.

Prologue: From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their shareholders’ strife. . . .

It's been 2 days since my virtual machines stopped working. I've had to use the g fuel tower instead. I've had to leave my house.

It's now been 14 days since my virtual machines stopped the g fuel tower is almost gone it's getting cold and dark

THE END

I know the title might make this post seem very pretentious, but that's not my goal. I'm not trying to argue that TLOU2 is great because it borrows from Shakespeare. I just want to lay out how it does, because, during my first-semester Intro to Shakespeare class, there wasn't a modern piece of fiction I referenced more than TLOU2. My comparisons actually helped me score high marks for the two written exams for that course. And I noticed that it really does contain a lot of the elements of Shakespearean Tragedies. So, I figured it'd be a cool exercise for me and I know you guys would enjoy seeing this post.

I'm using this article as a resource for the nine elements of what makes a Shakespearean Tragedy a Shakespearean Tragedy. And I'll go through them one by one and talk about how these are present in The Last of Us Part II. Now, it doesn't follow the formula exactly to a tee, but I'll elaborate on that later.

****** SPOILER WARNINGS FOR MACBETH AND OTHELLO ******

Tragic Hero

The tragic hero is defined as being, "A main character cursed by fate and possessed of a tragic flaw." In Shakespeare's work, some of his most recognizable tragic heroes are MacBeth and Othello. Each of these characters is cursed by their tragic flaw. MacBeth was a soldier in the Royal Scottish Army who was visited by three witches who told him of a prophecy that he would one day ascend to the Scottish throne. After receiving this prophecy, he ends up killing King Duncan in order to take the throne. He then proceeds to rule with an iron fist in order to, in his mind, protect his place on the throne. His greed and unfettered political ambition is his tragic flaw that ultimately leads to his death at the hands of Macduff.

Othello was a general in the Venetian Army. His officer, Iago, ostensibly befriends him but ends up manipulating Othello into believing that his wife, Desdemona, had cheated on him and slept with another man. Othello, blinded by rage and jealousy, kills his wife. After committing this act, he is informed that Iago lied through his teeth and that Desdemona was indeed faithful to him. Stricken by grief and guilt, Othello kills himself. Othello's tragic flaw here is his blind jealousy and rage.

In The Last of Us Part II, Abby and Ellie are both cursed and possessed by really the same tragic flaw: the inability to walk away. Abby's inabil

Spoiler Warning for Genesis of the Daleks.

Genesis of the Daleks is in many ways a Shakespearean tragedy. There is a strong thematic conflict between good and evil. Davros and the Daleks are forces of pure evil, and the Doctor and the rebels among the Kaleds and Thals represent a force of good. Both Davros and the Doctor have elements of the tragic hero. Davros is driven by an immense craving for power. This leads him to create the Daleks, and ultimately destroy many of the Kaled scientists, only to be killed by his own creation (an example of tragic waste).

The idea of fate plays a strong role throughout Genesis of the Daleks. From the start, we are told that this story takes place during a historical event (creaton of the Daleks), and the Doctor must try to prevent it. Here, the tragic elements of the Doctor's character come into play. The Doctor represents good, the thematic opposite to Davros and the Daleks. The Doctor is faced with the conflict, destroy the Daleks and save potentially millions, or fail in that goal, because doing so would mean becoming no better than them. This trait of the Doctor's character means that events play according to fate.

There is also the ambiguity of poetic justice. The forces of evil prevail, due to fate. The Doctor does not succeed in his goal, events play out as they always had. Yet the closing line of dialogue suggests that there is some sense of justice. The doctor believes that from all the suffering, some good did come from the creation of the Daleks.

Thoughts? It doesn't have all the elements there, but it is very Shakespearean in my opinion.

I lost my hardcore genlocke tothe Lance fight in Pokemon Gold

My hardcore genlocke rules made me have to match the champion's lowest level mon. Lance has 44 as his lowest level so I had to fight the E4 at that level, due to being 2 levels lower my Ferraligatr (my main counter for Lance) died to a Crit CrossChop from Bruno's Machamp. I went into the Lance fight with only 5 mons, Ampharos and Snorlax took down the Gyarados and the 2 weaker dragonites. Then came the Aerodactyl my Ampharos was on low hp so my best option was to confuse ray it with umbreon but that cursed turn THAT STUPID FUCKING AERODACTYL GOT A CRIT PLUS FLINCH ON UMBREON WHO WENT DOWN TO 23 hp. At that point the run was over as my other Aerodactyl counters were on low hp and the rest of my team were weak to it, it hyperbeamed and rockslided everyone to death. That's all she wrote 3 legs worth of progress wiped away due to Pokemon gold's low level caps and multiple shitty crits.

However this is not the end. I might have lost the battle but I will win the war, Tune in next time for "The Hardcore Nuzlocke Vengeance Run"

I’ve just rewatched Dexter for the first time in a couple of years and my appreciation of it has increased by a lot. I think on some levels (the broader direction the series took; a man wanting to change who he is) it’s a masterpiece, but others (idiotic moments; Dexter doing things he simply wouldnt do, I could go on). What was different this time is that it made me realise how similar it is to those great tragedies written by Shakespeare or Sophocles or any of the other Greeks. Love destroying Marc Antony; Jealousy Othello; Revenge Titus Andronicus; desire to be human and fight true self, Dexter.

A man destroying everything around him; a man so desperate for a taste of normality that he fails to comprehend that his incompatibility with it will continue to prevent him from leading a “normal” life, while making his orbit an uninhabitable and dangerous place for those unlike him.

Of course I’m not saying it’s on the level of those old tragedies - or even Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Americans - but when we ignore some of the atrocious writing and focus on Dexter’s journey as a whole, it becomes a lot more than a serial killer flick, but a rumination on what it means to be human.

Are there any essays on Dexter exploring this tragic angle anyone would recommend?

So I just noticed a few of what could be considered red flags in the last few chapters, that may suggest Hyun is gonna copy Gunnar’s ‘business’.

A) two (former) hookers in an apartment together. B) he just bought a car which was a major feature of Gunnar’s plan. C) he’s contacting an advertisement guy, also on Gunnar’s plan. D) he’s clearly succeeded all he needs to as far as betting has gone. E) he’s fucking as many girls as Gunnar was at the start, and with Ms Song, becoming her master is a commitment. So doesn’t seem like he’ll be dating Mia anytime soon unless he cheats like Gunnar.

What do you reckon? Will hyun go to the dark side in order to destroy Gunnar or has he got something else up his sleeve?

Spoiler Warning for Genesis of the Daleks.

Genesis of the Daleks is in many ways a Shakespearean tragedy. There is a strong thematic conflict between good and evil. Davros and the Daleks are forces of pure evil, and the Doctor and the rebels among the Kaleds and Thals represent a force of good. Both Davros and the Doctor have elements of the tragic hero. Davros is driven by an immense craving for power. This leads him to create the Daleks, and ultimately destroy many of the Kaled scientists, only to be killed by his own creation (an example of tragic waste).

The idea of fate plays a strong role throughout Genesis of the Daleks. From the start, we are told that this story takes place during a historical event (creaton of the Daleks), and the Doctor must try to prevent it. Here, the tragic elements of the Doctor's character come into play. The Doctor represents good, the thematic opposite to Davros and the Daleks. The Doctor is faced with the conflict, destroy the Daleks and save potentially millions, or fail in that goal, because doing so would mean becoming no better than them. This trait of the Doctor's character means that events play according to fate.

There is also the ambiguity of poetic justice. The forces of evil prevail, due to fate. The Doctor does not succeed in his goal, events play out as they always had. Yet the closing line of dialogue suggests that there is some sense of justice. The doctor believes that from all the suffering, some good did come from the creation of the Daleks.

Thoughts? It doesn't have all the elements there, but it is very Shakespearean in my opinion.