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The balding machine is a terribly wonderful contraption that balds your head permanently. Many who undergo the baldening process report feelings of enlightenment, fastidiousness, and ape-like dexterity. Baldify yourself today. The hair is holding you back.

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The depictions of Aragorn as an unwashed, dirt-eating, off-the-grid backpacker become much better when you realize that he was raised by Elrond, by all accounts the most civilized, refined, and genteel person on the known continent.

The hobbits had just gotten used to seeing him eat uncooked rabbit and suddenly he’s sitting at Elrond’s table, speaking three kinds of Elvish and using the correct fork for every dish!

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Food for thought

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Gotta know the difference

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I hope he *remember it's wrong to wish bad things to people* I hope he finds true repentance in life so that his designated room in the worst pit of hell remains unused

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@whiskey-hussar

It's all coming together

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How many [x]-faces are available in fgo?

From: here

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Everyone is out there fighting for country and ideals and then there’s Merlin

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I need everyone to know something incredibly important. INCREDIBLY.

THE FOURTH PICTURE IS NOT SOME PRETTY AESTHETIC. IT IS NOT SHOOTING STARS

It's DEATH.

That's the breakup of the space shuttle Columbia. The death of seven people. Seven beautiful, adventurous people.

Thousands of likes, thousands of reblogs, all blissfully unaware. I pray OP was somehow ignorant, because, otherwise, they're straight up evil. (EDIT: I saw that OP changed their post, but without apology or acknowledgement, and this one is still circulating. Without respect, OP is twisted. I'm all for being discreet, but people fucking died.)

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You forgot that Hammond sprains/breaks an ankle (I haven't read the book in over a decade), and then gets eaten alive by compys.

You said not to, but I'm doing it anyway. Tell us how Steven Spielberg fucked up Jurassic Park. I know a lot of it but I love it when other people complain

So like, the original Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a horror novel. Full stop, the end. Scary book about the dangers of overzealous science and evil monsters the book is calling "dinosaurs".

Let's be clear. The fact that Jurassic Park screwed up the public perception of dromaeosaurs forever is not Steven Spielberg's fault. That is an entirely different issue that I won't get into. This is all about how Steven Spielberg is literally that guy from the "wow, cool robots!" meme except saying "he's literally me!"

In the book, Hammond is not a good person. He made the park to make easy money. One of his plans is to sell the dinosaurs as pets, and then make sure they can only eat InGen food that people will have to buy from him. He doesn't really care about his grandkids; he literally only invites them to emotionally blackmail Gennaro (the lawyer) by going "see, look how much kids love the place! you can't threaten to shut down my barely functional and extremely dangerous park." It's clear in the book, and kind of skimmed over in the movie, that the park is not functional. There are poisonous plants (and poisonous to dinosaurs as well!) growing everywhere because Hammond thought they looked cool. Tons of dinosaurs get sick, there are hundreds of glitches in the system, parts of the park don't even work at all. In the movie, it's a concern that dinosaurs might escape the island; in the book, it's already happened by the time the book starts. Security is awful and the entire system is maintained by a harried college grad working overtime on no pay. Malcolm's argument against the park is not really just "Man shouldn't create life" but rather "Holy shit everything that can go wrong will go wrong and it already has."

Apparently, though, Steven Spielberg saw himself in Hammond. How, I don't know. Maybe he connected with the idea of being a "visionary". So instead, movie Hammond is a friendly grandpa who loves his kids and at worst, just doesn't fully grasp the ramifications of his achievement rather than a greedy old man who doesn't care about the harm his creations might cause. And, probably not coincidentally, causes the villainization and strawman-ization of every character who was opposed to Hammond in the book. Nedry was an unpleasant person in the book, but he's barely 25, and Hammond got him to the island promising that he would only have to fix a couple things, and now he's got him (as mentioned earlier) working overtime on the system for no pay. You can at least understand why he says "screw it, I'm out of here"; compared to the movie version, who's just a sick, gross bastard. Muldoon is a competent hunter in the book who rightly ascertains that the dinosaurs are going to need to be put down; the ambush that kills him in the movie? He sees it ahead of time (he was hired to deal with the raptors, for God's sake!) and doesn't go into the obvious trap, surviving the book in the process. Malcolm is likable in the movie still, but his arguments against Hammond's seemingly-OK park are watered down in strength to moral appeals rather than the piercingly accurate scientific criticisms they are in the novel. And Gennaro - don't even get me started on Gennaro, in the book he goes toe-to-toe with a Velociraptor to save the two kids! And wins! Plus, like Malcolm, his criticisms of Hammond are not just some pushy lawyer's, but a serious and true critique - it's made clear he had no idea just how bad the park was before he arrived, and he's furious with Hammond for putting his own grandchildren into such obvious danger.

And then, back to the original point, there's the subject of death. In Jurassic Park, the movie, death is funny. Look, the scummy lawyer gets eaten on a toilet! Haha, the fat bastard got what he deserved! In Jurassic Park, the book, death is horrifying, brutal, and vicious, as it should be. Nedry's death in the book is one of the scariest scenes I've ever read. When Ed Regis (a publicist who was combined with Gennaro in the movie, taking the role of the guy who abandoned the kids and got eaten by a T. rex) runs, it's not treated as evil. Malcolm and Grant run too! (To be fair, they can't see what's happening in the other car, so it's not a conscious decision to abandon the kids.) When they witness Regis getting eaten, it's treated as absolutely horrific. So the man had a moment of weakness. Does that really mean he deserves to become lizard chow while he's alive and screaming? When Dr Wu gets attacked by the 'raptors, the narration notes that he's trying to push them away without realizing they've already torn him open. It's nauseating and horrific. Nothing about it is funny at all.

But go listen to the movie's main theme. That's not a horror theme. That's a fun adventure movie for the kids! Dah-da-dah, dah dahhhh. What a brutally tonally inappropriate main theme that perfectly encapsulates how badly the movie fails to get literally everything the book was saying.

TLDR; Jurassic Park the novel isn't perfect, but at least it knows what it is. Jurassic Park the movie is quite literally one of the most glaring examples of "wow, cool dinosaurs!" ever to make it to cinema screens.

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Don’t get me wrong, I love it when people design medieval fantasy clothing based on western European fashions, because they were awesome (did somebody say chaperon?) but there was lot of great design in eastern Europe and the Byzantine Empire too.

I’m pretty sure the second picture is actually 16th century Hungarian dress, but I’ll let it in because it looks cool.

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