Ironik

Ask in the Multi-Media subforum. Someone might've saved the music for use in a video.

That was on Netflix's 5-star scale, so perfectamundo. Just easier to link to IMDB.

It's really good.

I rated Helvetica 5 stars. I have 3200 fonts on my computer. I knew J was a latecomer to the alphabet before the research showed it was.

What we have here is a child left behind.

That's how I lost my favorite face.

Except make the trailer 1/2 as long. I was dozing off by the 3 minute mark.

Give a man a cookie and he's satisfied for now; teach a man to make Pug-shaped cookies and he's sated for life.

I don't recall where I read it, but someone (John Byrne, maybe?) once mentioned that you can't have a character wake up yesterday and say, "Welp, I'm immortal now." It doesn't work from a story perspective. They have to have become immortal hundreds of years earlier. Which is why, I think, all the really resonate stories about immortals take place either over a period of hundreds of years (Highlander) or after they've already been around for that length of time (Interview with the Vampire).


That's a really interesting idea. The "born with a limited number of eggs" thing as pertains to immortal women.... You may have come with an original notion, here. I've certainly never come across the idea in literature or film. For a true science fiction version of immortality, specifically extreme life extension, tailored doses of hormones might become much more important for women as time goes by. I would think that an error would happen sooner or later, like the "odds of getting cancer approach 1" given a sufficiently long life. That would flip the current ratio of long-lived women to men around... unless menopause really doesn't have terribly deleterious effects once you get past a certain danger zone.

Since more women than men live to be quite elderly -- in the 90 to 120 range -- I wonder if at some point outside of a specific window during "the change" it no longer matters that a woman has her eggs or access to the hormones produced during her fertile years. Women tend to live longer than men because they engage in fewer risky behaviors, but when all of that is normalized (as occurs in certain populations such as monks and nuns living identical healthy lifestyles), the women still dominate the supercentenarian set (age 110 and above). That would seem to indicate that hormones play less of a role after a while. Either that, or said women were vital longer, entering menopause later than normal.

There are certainly people who keep dumping their partners for younger versions. As Matthew McConaughey's character in Dazed and Confused says, "I love high school girls. I get older and they stay the same age." So maybe someone would enjoy hooking up with someone who won't lose their looks as time goes by. Then there's the concept of the alpha and omega, dominant and submissive. A dominant personality might not want to cohabitate with an immortal, but someone who already considers themselves "less than" might not have any problem with it whatsoever.

I've become adroit at squinting my eyes and ignoring stuff that doesn't suit my characters (Patron Pool powers, Power Proliferation explanations, etc.), so it's easy for me to rationalize things happening "out of order" as analogous to flashbacks of a TV series I'm watching.

I know that guy.

I generally consider my alts to be engaging in the timeline of Paragon City's history the same way my earliest characters did: from the beginning. Sure, *I* have done all this many times before, but for this new hero, it's 2004 (or 2006, depending on the arc) all over again.

Examples from movies which spring to mind are Pixar's The Incredibles with the short film Jack Jack Attack and Wall-E with the short Burn-E. The short films take place during the events of the features, but from the point of view of a completely different character. The WWII movies Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima both take place in the same place at the same time, but the former shows American side, while the other shows the Japanese side.

That said, it would be rather cool if all the current arcs became part of Ouroboros, accessible via time-travel only while all new arcs replace them and the calendar is moved ahead. Completely impractical, of course, but that would be cool.

Anyone who commits to a marriage lasting 50 years -- especially if you suffer no decrease in vitality in any regard -- is probably not going to take relationships lightly. I rather doubt Cole would find temporary diversions with a "hot chic [sic]" to be all that enticing. Especially after having lived for more than a century.

I think the greater likelihood (and risk) is that Statesman would start losing his intimate connection to humanity. Someone who doesn't age might come to relate to mortal humans the same way we relate to pets. As you can see in my sig, one of my favorite dogs of all time lived 16 years and died of cancer. I grieved his loss but my grief wasn't overwhelming because I've been through this before. Later in the year I lost Allie, who I cared for even more and the following year I lost Fred. How many people do you outlive like that before you start to become disconnected? Even to a minor degree, it must take its toll.

It may seem that to engage in casual relationships might be the only solution he could find, but everything we've seen of his characterization leads me to think he'd go the opposite way and take a step away from any close relationships at all.

It's interesting how each generation analogizes how the brain works by the current technology. That's only natural, I suppose, but as you imply the truth is probably far different from how we struggle to explain the mysterious workings of the mind. Since the brain's interconnections are so numerous they actually rival the stars in the sky, it'll probably take a very long time to truly explain how it operates.

Although "pinball machine" feels how my brain works most days.