They are all bad.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
somehow also otm
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
yea
― marcos, Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
all twitter posts are bad
otm
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
pixelated boat is good because often enough people who should know better get tricked by his photoshop jobs.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
krang and pixelatedboat are not in the same category as dril. they break character all the time, if there even is one. they just read like internet personalities to me, whereas dril or kattwillferrell or DigimonOtis are performance artists.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
are rich americans incapable of objectivity?
― calumy (rip van wanko), Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
Read that as "are irish americans incapable of objectivity?" tbh. Tough question.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
lol
― calumy (rip van wanko), Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
idk what objectivity has to do with it rly but id be willing to listen
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
as an aspirational american i'd like to know the impetus for your controp above
― calumy (rip van wanko), Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
you are aspiring to be an american?
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
yes i've been so inspired by them lately!
― calumy (rip van wanko), Thursday, 24 January 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
Wittiness is frequently tedious.
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 January 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
each vampire weekend album has been worse than the previous
― devvvine, Saturday, 26 January 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
there's a thread for that
― kraudive, Saturday, 26 January 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
There's a board for that
― unexplained drinking injuries (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 January 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
With an ironic title
its quite easy to separate eg Michael Jackson's music from his persona from his crimes against children
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 26 January 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
cut him some bloody slack, it's not like he hung out with Spiked/Living Marxism writers:p
― calzino, Saturday, 26 January 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
do you think the same about r. kelly? (srs q)
― groovemaaan, Saturday, 26 January 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
the well-developed argument (available on ilx threads on the topic) on r. kelly is the fact he revels in the accusations and behaviours in much of his later stuff, so theres a clearer line there between transgression and product
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 26 January 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
Ted Bundy was not good-looking
― omar little, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link
nobody was then
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link
he's no Richard Ramirez for sure
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/38/59/e4/3859e4144ae2fd112a8c66b8c77a1801.jpg
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 22:48 (five years ago) link
― omar little, Wednesday, January 30, 2019 2:26 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he was "good looking for a serial killer".
having him played by "good looking for a movie star" Zac Efron in a movie is beyond ridic
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
being really into true crime is a character flaw
xps looks like if Freddie Mercury took a pic of himself for a dating app
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
xp it would seem important to cast someone handsome, wasn't that his honeytrap?
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link
Zac efron is totally creepy looking - I’ve never understood his appeal
― just1n3, Thursday, 31 January 2019 01:02 (five years ago) link
The Wolf of Wall Street > Casino >>>>> Goodfellas
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 February 2019 04:36 (five years ago) link
It's kind of predictable, I guess, that the genuinely controversial opinions itt are also inconsequential.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 February 2019 04:43 (five years ago) link
yeah, come on, I like Casino, but it's the opposite
― Dan S, Saturday, 2 February 2019 04:51 (five years ago) link
I can’t abide The Wolf of Wall Street’s glorification of big money rapiers. It’s almost as bad as an Adam McKay movie. it’s the worst film Scorcese ever made in my opinion
― Dan S, Saturday, 2 February 2019 05:50 (five years ago) link
ok that's hyperbole, not worse than The Aviator or Shutter Island for sure, but it did bother me
― Dan S, Saturday, 2 February 2019 06:41 (five years ago) link
National holidays are disruptive and annoying. Everyone out on the streets in their stupid cars, sucking up all the oxygen when they should be at work or school. Holiday hours when I wanna buy liquor at 10pm. Mail not coming on time because we just gotta have Christmus and NYE so close together. Just give people more pto, you cheap bastids.
― Cousin Slappy, Saturday, 2 February 2019 06:44 (five years ago) link
psychopathic epic isn't my favorite scorsese mode either but i think his willingness to give the devil his due as glamorously as possible comes precisely from committed faith in the opposite; reminds me of nabokov saying that his "pretty beastly" characters are "like the mournful monsters of a cathedral facade-- demons placed there merely to show they have been booted out"
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 2 February 2019 07:33 (five years ago) link
― Cousin Slappy, Saturday, February 2, 2019 1:44 AM (fifteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
100% otfm
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 2 February 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
Gilda Radner is way overrated.
― Yerac, Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
Gilda wasn't so much funny as she was beloved. Her characters all skewed adorable.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
The use of any font other than Times New Roman is an affectation
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
man i love me some serifs but even i think that's going a little far
i do still miss the days when all fonts were monospaced though
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Sunday, 3 February 2019 00:06 (five years ago) link
You're gonna need to provide context. Use for what? Submitting a manuscript to an editor? I use Georgia when I want serifs, and Arial when I don't. And screenplays are always in Courier New.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 3 February 2019 00:15 (five years ago) link
take a boring opinion, add some judging, get controversy
― brimstead, Sunday, 3 February 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link
My controp is loving typefaces that are out of fashion (Palatino, Goudy, Optima).
I also don't use the word "font" to mean "typeface" but that's a losing battle
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 3 February 2019 00:56 (five years ago) link
I should clarify: when submitting a manuscript to an editor or to anyone else who will most likely change the font anyway
TNR is neutral, readable, and classic. I get that people don't want to use it for resumes because it's basic or whatever, but I think that's silly
and cosign on the monospacing
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 3 February 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link
Ugh YMP Rachel cusk’s books are set in Optima and it makes me not want to read them, defend Optima
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Sunday, 3 February 2019 01:21 (five years ago) link
Optima, with its sculptural variation in line weight, is the cuddliest of the sans serifs. The most humanist of the sans serifs, IMO. And one of the most readable when used for body text.
No one wants to read an entire novel set in Arial (I think/hope?).
Of course I am pretty much always going to go with a serif as a text face. Sans serifs are mainly display faces, for me. But if you are going to use a sans serif for body text, Optima is one of the more readable choices.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 3 February 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link