This short is about to enter production and I would love some feedback on the script before we shoot!
LOGLINE: A lonely jazz musician with a desire for disaster finds a new lease on life composing grooves for LA’s hot new industry: Porn. "Boogie Nights" meets "This Is Spinal Tap".
The characters are entirely ficitional but the film does cover the real history of this fascinating period. Would love to know if it meets the right balance of comedy and tragedy, and if George's character arc tracks.
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I_9WORB5sz_7lj524J6n-sQBSep5A0Nd/view?usp=sharing
Right now the Strawhats have got to the point where Luffy becoming pirate king is actually within the realm of possibility. Our heroes are stronger than they have ever been and each chapter is getting more and more hype. We have got some wonderful years left with this manga ahead of us and I’m looking forward to every moment of it.
But then it will end. And undoubtedly it will be one of the greatest if not the greatest moment in Manga history.
But after that, what? More movies maybe. The live action series might actually turn out pretty good and still be going. The dreaded spinoffs. But none of it will compare to that latest chapter giving you an injection of lore and new character moments that we are experiencing right now.
So enjoy it while it lasts. Everything ends one day and we rarely get a chance to reflect on things while we are experiencing them.
Basically the years when the quality of life and and the economy were at peak. How is it compared too today?
Not sure how to phrase this more delicately, what was it like to be LGBTQ in the pornographic film industry during the late 1960s to 1980s?
It wasn't that long ago when the only keto bread you could buy at a grocery store was the Aldi version (if you could find it -- stores routinely sold out). However, I just got back from Walmart, and there were at least half a dozen choices of keto bread, from zero net carbs to 3 grams per slice.
While I understand there is some debate on the appropriateness and effectiveness of these products, if they work for you, you should know that there are currently a lot of options out there.
I really miss my old golden age of MMO's (mostly 2005-2010) where there were just too many to choose from. Who else? As a kid I downloaded and tried so many new ones. Looking at MMORPG lists and watching videos from MMOHut for hours. Here is a list of games I tried:
- Aion
- Allods Online
- Atlantica Online
- Aura Kingdom
- CABAL Online
- Eden Eternal
- Tales Runner
- Flyff
- NosTale
- Grand Fantasia
- Eden Eternal
- Fiesta Online
- Florensia
- Tales of Pirates Online
- Forsaken World
- Rakion
- MapleStory
- Loong Online
- Perfect World
- RappelZ
- Iris Online
- Runes of Magic
- Silkroad Online
- MicroVolts
- Dofus
- Trickster Online
There are probably way more which I'm forgetting. Some additions are not pure MMORPG too. I didn't add some later stuff like TERA, RIFT, Blade&Soul, Vindictus, Dragon Nest, C9, Age of Wulin (belongs in a past 2010 list). Also stuff like Original WoW, LOTRO, Everquest weren't games I played. I mostly played the free to play (cartoony) stuff. I would love to hear what games from here you played the most and which were your favourite. What would be your addition to this list?
Recently I've been re watching a lot of old stuff again hoping to find a spark somewhere but I know it's hopeless, I think it's all gone. However, I found that the game Flyff is returning and I think that spark can return with the release of Flyff Project M. I'm currently desperately waiting for that. I have really high hopes for it and know it can succeed. Flyff is a old Korean anime MMORPG from 2004 that currently is still live but barely breathing. It was one of the games I played the most. There is a small French startup company that made the game working in a browser. They are now working with the original developers. They want what's best for the game. Adding new content, features and remove bad game mechanics like extreme pay2win. Release is probably in the next 6 months.
What game really sticked to you and are you currently enjoying one of these games?
I will be very happy if you share your views in the comments.
Hey. Every year I have this tradition since a couple years to watch long, epic movies from old Hollywood the day after Christmas.
It started the year before Last with Cleopatra, that I absolutely adored, and continued with Gone with the wind.
I’ve seen many of classic old Hollywood movies but I’m looking for a loooong, spectacular, big budget movie from the Golden age. Any recommendation welcome!
I hear many people talk about the 50s as some glorious era in US history but if you look even slightly beneath the surface that's just not true. If we measure aspects of well-being like health, access to commodities, wealth, safety, peace, and equity, there's no comparison. People remember it fondly because there was no longer a World War but compared to what we've seen since the 1950s, now is just so much better in essentially every category of life even through the darkest shade of rose tinted glasses
In terms of health:
- There was 218,000 total cases of Polio throughout the 1950s; there's been zero for the past 50 years (this led to many people being disabled long-term in an era with limited accommodations)
- There was around 500,000 cases of Measles per year in USA throughout the 1950s compared to less than 100 today
- Infant mortality was 30 per every 1k births compared to 6 per 1k births today
- Life Expectancy was 69 years in the 1950s compared to 79 years today
- The advancements in medical technology alone would disqualify the 1950s as a golden age
In terms of commodities:
- There was no internet and cell phones which means a lot of lucrative industries today would not exist, hence most of our jobs/businesses would not either.
- We have more access to bulks of information than scholars did in the 1950s due to internet, and with cell phones, we have a more sophisticated way of communicating than world leaders did in the 50s
- Food was very bland. The food we eat today is so much better and we get a lot more diversity/options because now they can come from all over the world if we don't produce them
- Less than 3/4ths of homes had electricity in the 1950s whereas now it's universal
- About 20% of homes didn't have indoor plumbing yet whereas now it's universal
- Only 50% of homes in America had running water in the early 1950s
- Things like dish washers, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, stoves, and washing machines were either all luxury items or not invented yet
- "Lower-end" cars today function wayyy better than the best cars did in the 1950s
- Commercial airlines didn't start until 1953 and were not widely used until the 1970s (it took like 15 hours with 12 stop points to get from Boston to Los Angeles in 1950) - also, most of the world was unstable at the time so international travel isn't what it is today
- In terms of wealth, Americans are on average, about 16x richer now than they were 60 years ago
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