So I’ve been a guitarist for a good enough while, as evidenced by my fingers in the pic. I Got my 1st guitar when I was 12, could do some ok stuff with it, but decided to take it more seriously when I turned 22 and became interested in musicianship vs just sound fx. While I’m still not a great guitarist by any stretch, I have learned a thing or two. So I wanted to break down this song and everything it references.
From the beginning, it’s Metallica. It’s The Unforgiven from the black album.
15 seconds in and we get stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin
back to an upbeat version of the unforgiven.
59 seconds in, after what appears to be a classic movie intermission, followed by “Only want to be with you” by Dusty Springfield
1:11 we get “closer to the heart” by Rush, just the intro
1:38 sounds almost like Don’t Fear the Reaper by blue oyster cult.
About 2:50 we get “closer to the heart” riff by Rush
Every song on this list, post dates this song, except for Dusty Springfield, which came out in 1964.
Some mutha fuckers got some splain to do, Lucy style.
INTRODUCTION: So I never see these films until today, during a fuckin heatwave and to be honest, I’m pretty sure the hundred degree heat was better than either of these fuckin flicks.
PLOT: The 1970s delivered a movie so awesome, called Jaws and it took nearly 50 years for someone to want to make a completely different shark movie and make a sequel to it.
CHARACTERS: Not developed well. This was just a reason to cast Jason Stratham as a badaas for like the millionth time. Like we need another Jason lead action flick? Well, we did, but not this one.
ACTING: Acadmy award winning! How these mutha fuckers made it through this movie straight faced is beyond me. Someone pay these muthas scale+20 million, please.
DIALOGUE: it ain’t cringe, but it ain’t anything likeable either.
FX: Worsa den de Jar jar Binks! Is that fuckin shark even go scale? It looks worse than Jaws! Seriously, fuck this series.
CONCLUSION: I have no clue what the fuck was going on in either of these movies. Why they needed to happen or why they felt a need to sequelize it. All I know is that I’m glad I waited to watch them and didn’t see them when they were new.
So I’m on record stating that AI isn’t anything to worry about. A few months back I asked it to make certain things with the idea behind the experiment being that, in order for AI to be a threat, it at minimum has to be able to understand complexities. Wrestling is a good example of complexities, because it has to give you a gimmick, make you look like you’re on vitamins and make the visuals seem real. It failed on all those accounts. So it turns out Meta lets you create AI images. Naturally I took it on myself to try again. How crazy could I get?
So Batman has a new looks
Batman has a new look. He’s The Ramones meets Batman and so is Batgirl and Nightwing.
Mr J got him a new set of threads as well as some of the other rouge’s gallery
If this was a movie, it would get weirder because Kal Al isn’t a superhero anymore, he’s retired and peaceful.
Hippie Superman
It only gets worse from here. You see, Harley Quinn is also retired and has a kid with Mr J or so she thinks
As if that couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out Batman got a new car too
Bat to the future
And well, it ain’t Batman’s year. Cause he also found the necromonicon
Yeah he said them, kinda, sorta
Which causes Mr J to become a cyborg . Since Batman is fucked he finds a certain someone for help
That’s right, Freddy fuckin Kruger!
At first they fight, cause even Freddy won’t fuck with a Batman
But cyborg joker and freddy team up
Well, Batman is fucked, but he’s Batman, so he meets up with Bob Kane for some dues ex machina and wins
Fight them this way
Well in between all of this Batman has some mini bosses
Stay puff and a polar bear
A giant fuckin carebear
So anyways, Ash from Evil Dead is around and Sherlock Holmes makes and apprence.
Sherlock my dear Bruce Wayne
Random action sequences and other worthless things Hollywood wouldn’t tie up but looks good in the trailer to bilk you outta money like
Cameos by other DC characters
Night fire is a stripper…again and beat and cyborg are part of the titans street gang.
As if that isn’t bad enough it turns out that Batman is really the jokers sons baby daddy
There’s this really cool still we took before principal photography but never put it in the final flick
Cool still is cool
Then like Bruce Wayne’s parents are like alive and shit
Are you winning, son?
So anyway, commish Gordon is dead or some stupid fuckin set up for the sequel and like Ra’s Al ghul is now in charge of the police with scarecrow being a detective or some shit, idk
Batman kills joker and cremates him with Alfred
And then it turns out that it was Batman’s son entertaining his mommy and daddy with action figures and other dumb stuff
Batman high fives his sons creativity and says “like a boss”
The credits hit and like an hour later we get a random post credit sequence that makes no sense but they swear it’s well thought out.
Choose your own adventure
Plus a random picture of a “plus size” Barbara Gordon.
And that’s the end of that. Think the AI is further proving my point, but I got a neater idea of what it could do in the future. So tune in next week, same bat time, same bat channel.
Coming on the heels of my last essay on Atheism and intelligence not being corroborated, I have a new underlying thought, which is that those who prefer action movies are more intelligent than those who do not.
If you know anything about intelligence, it is thought that those that have it, tend to handle complexity better. A complex thing is defined as 1. More than one part. 2. Something more difficult to comprehend. We’re going to use both to make my point.
Anyone that knows even a small bit about directing knows that a scene is comprised of multiple shots. Usually a master shot, on tv this is the hard camera and then multiple shots around that, which on tv is floor men walking around that you cut back and forth between.
Most movies would therefore have a small amount of complexity and consistently keep a similar pacing. An action sequence can contain up to a thousand micro shots all compiled to make up a few short minutes of film. Therefore we can conclude that if only intelligence people can handle complexity, action movies would be preferred by more intelligent individuals.
Furthermore, less intelligent individuals often have people bents. So something that is more character driven, would be preferred by less intelligent people. These movies often feature more exposition, also known as “talking”. Essentially, the movie with excess speaking is doing your thinking for you. There are exceptions to this rule, though. World building comes to mind so that we understand a world rules, so we believe it better.
To follow up with the above, if a movie features more exposition, it’s no longer a visual movie and movies are a visual medium. A part of full literacy is understanding context, especially visual context, also known as emotional intelligence. If lower literacy rates equate to lower intelligence, then that, too, would suggest that people who prefer action movies are more intelligent.
So the next time you feel guilty about putting in that Micheal Bay 4k transfer, remember that it just might make you more intelligent.
So one of the arguments in favor of Atheism is that Atheism is the default of the mind. If atheists are the default, then that means atheism is primitive. Religion and those that gravitate towards it would indeed be smarter because it is evolutionary novel, not evolutionary normal.
Given books and literary rates would not have been very high in its time frame, those that were able to read religious scrolls would have been of a higher intelligence. Granted, by today’s standards, the Bible is written at a 7th grade level, so it’s not a high of a standard to set for more intelligent people, but given that the average US adult is barely at a great literacy level, just being at to read the bible is still too high of a burden for most. Source
If we also factor in that most arguments against the Bible are based on informal hearsay, not actual biblical text, the literacy rate of the average atheist is just as bad as a person of low literacy rates in a religious context.
Let’s look at one argument that permeates the atheist preview and that is how incest-y the Bible is. If one had bothered to actually read the text, they would have noted two things. 1. Incest is considered sexual immorality. 2. Two of the parables, which are noted in the Bible as parables, deals with the negative consequences of what would happen if one engaged with such negligence. A lot of atheists depend on informality to make such erroneous, non sensical claims, so the swamy narrative of the atheist movement is an insidious tactic, use to undermine peaceful people. That’s borderline narcissistic personality disorder as well, but so digress.
While not 100% true of all atheist, enough of them are leftists. If we look at the fact that using your government to take from others to give to others, that is one more tick on the evolutionary normal scale. Hard work would be evolutionary novel. Theft is primitive and less intelligent people engage in such.
Already we have two major factors that would see atheist as less intelligent than religious people. They’re two of the biggest elements, though. Are there less intelligent religious people? Of course, everything has its blind spots, but much like actual blindness, that too, comes in different levels. When a majority of people do even know Jerusalem is technically Africa, and all that separates it from that is an arbitrary line, can you really see Atheists are smarter than their religious counterparts?
Not knowing where Jerusalem is, borderlines anti-semitism.
As far as I am concerned, not knowing where Jerusalem is, borderlines antisemitism. Antisemitism is often associated with less intelligent beings.
When one looks at the facts, and I’ve barely even scratched the surface of primitive trains of thought that atheism delves into, I think one can conclude for themselves that Atheism is filled with less intelligent people.
So we have all seen the videos for the most part, someone, normally a man, has his camera running and records a celebrity signing an autograph or multiple of. Maybe he has a kid nearby and ask little Jimmy to help secure the autograph. No harm, no foul, they knew what they were asking for the second they signed the dotted line. Except for one little problem, everything leading up to the signature is a criminal act on the part of the fan.
So let me break this down as to what we just witnessed happening before us. First we have causing an individual distress. You’re a stranger, stopping a fellow stranger to ask for a signature. I’ll give you this, the distress part is part of all of our daily lives. You never know who is who, which is why I conceal or open carry my gun.
That said, though, how about false pretenses? Asking for an autograph with intent to sell is a false pretense. If I went up to a random stranger and said I was homeless and needed money, this is a crime unless it was true, because I got the money under false pretenses.
How about we up the ante. Extortion by cellphone. You think it’s crazy, but how about going viral for being human and not having time for autographs. Next up on TMZ, celebrity refuses poor kids request for an autograph. This is no different from robbing a bank with a gun in today’s day and age.
Speaking of children, besides false pretenses again, you’re violating child labor laws. You’re making them wait in line or dealing with someone they don’t know, causing the child distress. If it is your own child, you’re still an asshole.
So already we have three potential crimes happening at once and with anyone else, like your or me, these are indeed crimes and prosecutions could be possible. Yet, if you’re famous, it’s another day at the office. No one says that about police work, if they take care of a criminal off duty or an emt saves a life at the bar.
Why do we make this distinction between the famous and non famous alike? I think we as a society would be far better off if we all took a step back and saw the autograph as a criminal act and an impediment to someone’s day.
I’m not saying that none of these people could be genuine in getting the autograph, but the lack of respect for a fellow human being, by making them sign a dozen things at an airport, is making me think otherwise.
I’m not saying autographs should be banned entirely, just that it should be illegal to ask for one outside of a signing event. If you go to wizard world conventions and get one, good on you. If you got VIP tickets and it comes with those, cool. But on the street corner, at airports, restaurants, hotels or otherwise, I think you’re over stepping your bounds and it should be considered a crime.
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