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The Last Laugh | Kanye West, Common & John Legend for Vibe Magazine, July 2005

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Common, New World Video [1992]

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[in-love-with-movies]

John Wick: Chapter Two (2017)

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Common was born March 13, 1972

[dedalvs]

hey djp! did it ever bother you, while working on the languages for got and hotd, that the common tongue was just english, despite being completely divorced from the history and cultural context of real life english? love your work :)

Only where it actually gets into the details of the English language (this is a generic response). For example, there are a lot of American/British movies that take place in a different country but are done in English, because of the cast and the intended audience (e.g. Valkyrie and Amadeus come to mind). In Amadeus, Mozart's paramore gives him the nickname "Wolfy". That…is not German. I appreciate that they decided to do it all in English to make it easier on all concerned, but doing something like that, in my opinion, messes with the reality of the story. It's one thing if you're doing a gonzo story with reality-breaking mechanisms all over the place, but if you're simply pretending Hunt for Red October-style that you're hearing the story in the native language, then you shouldn't be making English-language-dependent puns, etc.

Something I've had to do a couple times for Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon is borrow English-language elements into dialogue simply because there's no real Common Tongue, and that I don't like, but there's not much of an alternative. Now, it does give the sense of the reality of it, in some way. For example, when I borrowed Blackwater Rush into Valyrian as Blakuāta Rasha, it absolutely breaks the reality, since it wouldn't actually be called "Blackwater Rush" in the Common Tongue (it would mean that, but it wouldn't sound like that), but at the very least when you hear the line, you get the sense that you're hearing Valyrian with an obviously foreign and borrowed word in the middle of it, which is appropriate. It's simply the case that the borrowed word is borrowed from the wrong language.

So, in an ideal world, yes, it would be different, but look at it this way. The more of this work that's done, the more languages are completed, and the bigger they get. If the prequel I worked on had gotten off the ground we would have had an Andalish language, which would, in fact, be the precursor to the Common Tongue, and if it had gotten beefed up enough, I actually could have created "Blackwater Rush" in that language and borrowed it into Valyrian in that line to keep the reality of it. It wasn't possible because the language wasn't created yet, but the languages aren't going anywhere, so who knows? Maybe some future adaptation decades from now will allow such a thing to happen.

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Renamon EX4-024 Alternative Art

[rebeccalouisaferguson]

rebecca_ferguson: That’s a wrap! The season two finale of #Silo is here. Feeling incredibly grateful and proud… to work alongside this cast and crew is a dream. Excited to get back to the silo for season three.

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Amerikaz Nightmare | Dave Chappelle, Kanye West, Talib Kweli, Common & Dead Prez for XXL Magazine October 2004

[probablyasocialecologist]

Through more than 500 case studies pulling from sociology, anthropology, history, economics, political science, forestry, and ecology, Ostrom and her colleagues identified a set of principles that bottom-up, community-led organizations had used to successfully manage commons. Among them were clearly defined boundaries for a commons; monitoring of the resource and its users; graduated sanctions for anyone who stepped out of line; and a mechanism for conflict resolution. Ostrom’s work showed these principles could be managed by people from any background absent the expertise of executives or bureaucrats. “Humans have great capabilities, and somehow we’ve had some sense that the officials had genetic capabilities that the rest of us didn’t have,” Ostrom said late in life. “I hope we can change that.”

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If counterpoints to “Tragedy” exist in great numbers, across regions and resources, why did Hardin’s essay sink its teeth into our collective understanding of the commons? Thomas Dietz, a frequent Ostrom collaborator, blames society’s tendency toward “catastrophism” and “simple, universal explanations.” As the authors of a retrospective paper put it in 2019, Hardin “contributed a catchphrase that caught the prevailing winds of public discourse,” even though the pasture metaphor was “reductionist and distorting.”

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I like how this card can Warp Digivolve to Infermon like in the movie.

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