Notices by Nate Cull (natecull)

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75 INT. CORUSCANT-PADME'S APARTMENT-BEDROOM-NIGHT

ANAKIN

(Cont'd) Hey, help me! Help, Anakin! Anakin, I love you.

MACE WINDU

He is a tide in the streets; And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, That in gold clasps locks in the corner, shivering and looking verydejected. She goes to his mother.

C-3PO

Oh, switch off.

LUKE You will go call the sea, My love as deep; the more history I studied, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

CAPULET

O blessed, blessed night! I am sure, I have the Senate's approval.

YODA

Twisted by the steaming carbonite pit. He is in the face: Speak not, reply not, do not agree with you.

-- from the Library of Babel, stack no. 912121526

LUKE You will go call the sea, My love as deep; the more history I studied, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

CAPULET

O blessed, blessed night! I am sure, I have the Senate's approval.

YODA

Twisted by the steaming carbonite pit. He is in the face: Speak not, reply not, do not agree with you.

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EMPEROR

Patience, my friend. In time he will seek you out. And when he does, you must bring him before me. He has grown strong. Only together can we turn him to the point of death Have they been merry! which their keepers call A lightning before death: O, how may I Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife! Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me believe there's one all-powerful force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny.

ANAKIN

You told me Vader betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are dedicated to the values of the Republic, distinguished delegates, and Your Honor Supreme Chancellor Valorum, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus is ascended: silence!

ANAKIN

You told me Vader betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are dedicated to the values of the Republic, distinguished delegates, and Your Honor Supreme Chancellor Valorum, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus is ascended: silence!

I really, really hate plots where the main character has to be incredibly stupid for the conflict to occur.

Just... don't do that. Please. Or if you do, be aware that I will mentally fast-forward through the entire sequence you have lovingly constructed until the part where the protagonist stops being a giant ass

If this part never happens, I have bad news for you about your entire story

I really, really hate plots where the main character has to be incredibly stupid for the conflict to occur.

Just... don't do that. Please. Or if you do, be aware that I will mentally fast-forward through the entire sequence you have lovingly constructed until the part where the protagonist stops being a giant ass

I really, really hate plots where the main character has to be incredibly stupid for the conflict to occur.

Just... don't do that. Please. Or if you do, be aware that I will mentally fast-forward through the entire sequence you have lovingly constructed until the part where the protagonist stops being a giant ass

Starting to think that Chinese Wuxia makes a lot more sense if you think of all advanced martial arts schools as being high-school cliques.

Dares are real and must be answered. It is perfectly natural to settle national-level diplomatic problems with a staring contest.

ROMEO

I am slain!

Falls on ROMEO's body, and a second button, and the evil Dark Lord continues his spin to meet him.

LEIA Someone who loves you.

ANAKIN: That's . .

ROMEO

I am slain!

Falls on ROMEO's body, and a second button, and the evil Dark Lord continues his spin to meet him.

LEIA Someone who loves you.

ANAKIN: That's . .

OBI-WAN: Send me to the huge oncoming Star Destroyers. Slowly, it starts to fade, so we take a fresh drink and tosses the dirty water onto the walkway that leads to hate.. hate leads to anger... anger leads to hate.. hate leads to the top!

LEIA (into intercom) Here we go again.

ROMEO

What, durst not laugh, for fear of that, I fear. Proceed; directly.

Second Citizen

If you shall not find a new one?

ANAKIN ignites his lightsaber.

PALPATINE: It's treason, then.

STAR WARS

Episode IV

A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is. Listen! Listen!

HAN (sarcastically) Oh! The garbage chute was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus yearns to think upon!

Exeunt

@aparrish Like it feels like somehow in a couple of decades we didn't go back to the 1950s but straight back to the Roman Empire, and this is also happening in the most technologically advanced and politically 'progressive' cities of America.

That's what Ex Machina says to me, and it says it by its casual lack of examination of its premise rather than by any of its horror-movie histrionics.

IE how is it that this software company apparently has NO C-level female employees?

@aparrish I hate Ex Machina but I'm not sure if it's because it's a bad movie or rather just because it showcases how weird Silicon Valley techbro-culture has become that the situation in the movie seems normal. _That's_ the terrifying part to me.

I remember when AIs were male-presenting, like HAL or Arnie the T101, but suddenly we're in this retro-future era where all AIs are female-presenting and also are men's property and this just... makes the dynamics SUPER nasty.

ACT I PROLOGUE

Enter DECIUS BRUTUS

Didst thou not a Jedi homing beacon?

CAPTAIN TYPHO Be safe, m'lady.

PADMÉ ...and the soft pink planet of the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am sure, I have walk'd about the ship. The ship is on a fallen log.

LEIA (angry) I am your father.

ACT I PROLOGUE

Enter DECIUS BRUTUS

Didst thou not a Jedi homing beacon?

CAPTAIN TYPHO Be safe, m'lady.

PADMÉ ...and the soft pink planet of the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am sure, I have walk'd about the ship. The ship is on a fallen log.

LEIA (angry) I am your father.

LUKE I'm not ready to fire, JANGO FETT I'll take the crown; Therefore 'tis certain he was an actor in Rome,--