Pronell

@Pronell@lemmy.world

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Pronell , to Fuck AI in AI and ads, Google's two favorite things, take targeted marketing to creepy new heights

Maybe by utilizing the vast powers of AI, Google will be able to figure out I don't want to watch fucking ads!

Pronell , to movies in [Discussion] Best Movie of 2024 So Far?

I'm still a big Marvel fan but Dune has actually gotten me to the theaters.

I'm looking forward to watching both the other movies you mentioned... from my couch.

Pronell , to Asklemmy in Have you ever, given someone a major step up in life, been a mentor, and measurably altered the trajectory of their life for the better?

Thank you! This last one was really a leap of faith, someone I barely knew at all who needed a place to stay. We've all been lucky!

Pronell , to Asklemmy in Have you ever, given someone a major step up in life, been a mentor, and measurably altered the trajectory of their life for the better?

A few times I've been there for friends and helped them through rough times just by being someone to talk to.

But I also helped my best friend and roommate by paying most of the bills while he developed his IT/engineering skills. He's got a good career now but struggled for a few years.

Then I took someone in a couple months ago and she's staying in my attic now. That's going well, my wife and I get along great with her. Hopefully it'll all turn out well.

Pronell , to Movie Suggestions in High Fidelity (2000) ⭐ 7.4 | Comedy, Drama, Music

I feel like this was Jack Black's big break. He wasn't all that well known of a performer at that point.

I knew him from Mr. Show and I'm sure I'd seen him in bit parts but this role was just huge for his career.

Pronell , to movies in Julia Louis-Dreyfus Calls ‘Bulls—‘ Over Complaints That ‘Comics Can’t Be Funny Now’ Due to P.C. Culture: It’s Not an ‘Impossible Time to Be Funny’

And for Seinfeld, of all people, to say something that is so... dumb.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is essentially Seinfeld on crack. You have a cast of bad people with little redeeming qualities who are actively becoming worse people. And it's a massive hit that's been running longer than Seinfeld's own show.

In addition, what the hell, man? You are the cleanest, most white bread standup I've ever seen. I paid to see you do a ten minute bit on raisins that killed. You do not DO edgy comedy, so shut the fuck up.

Pronell , to Asklemmy in What was your worst work mishap, accident, or oopsie?

There were three women who were best friends, took their breaks together, etc. And in the Christmas season they wore matching knit sweaters and would walk down the hall side by side so it would read "Ho! Ho! Ho!"

But one day when I was leaving the break room, they approached... and one was out sick. Before I could stop myself I asked "Where's the other Ho?"

Might've gotten a visit to HR from it if I hadn't looked so shocked at myself.

Pronell , to New York Times gift articles in G.O.P.-Led States, Claiming ‘Invasion,’ Push to Expand Power to Curb Immigration

They're pro-worker!

They're open for business!

What? Not them! They're the wrong people!

Pronell , to Comic Books in Name some reasons to like either Marvel Comics or DC Comics.

More or less agreed. Between the two there is a vast amount of content available. A huge boon for either side. Why take a side?

I tend to prefer Marvel but of course I grew up with Superman and Batman.

Pronell , to Ask Lemmy in People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?

And what's the word in German that means everything you just wrote?

Pronell , to Movie Suggestions in Aavesham (2024) ⭐ 8.0 | Comedy, Action, Musical, Drama

Yeah, I can't say why others downvoted you but one was mine and it's removed now!

Pronell , to Movie Suggestions in Aavesham (2024) ⭐ 8.0 | Comedy, Action, Musical, Drama

You gave us nothing about the movie, why you're suggesting it, or why we should watch it.

Pronell , to Ask Lemmy in What was your most embarrassing moment?

I've done a lot of self-forgiveness in recent years, so a lot of the simpler and sillier ones I don't think of as embarrassing anymore.

Could be the time I flipped a guy off after he cut me off and I missed a light. He saw me in his mirror and started freaking out and swerving, almost hit a curb.

I didn't mean to ruin his day. Just letting off steam.

Either that or the time I drove on the shoulder to avoid a car stopped in the middle of the road. When I merged back she had started to move and we collided. Totally my fault.

I only realized later that due to her age, location, and stickers on her car from a nearby Catholic University that I'd probably hit a nun.

Pronell , to Writer's lounge in How can I write SA without writing SA?

You can not tell the reader what happened but instead show a character's reaction to it. Let the reader fill in the details you suggested but did not explicitly write.

You can also 'cut to black' in a dangerous situation, again asking the reader to fill in the blanks. If/when they see the character later, what's important is that they survived and escaped, and again the details you offer help the reader fill in the ones you didn't.

Third technique is to have characters dispassionately discussing what is to or already has occurred and show that they are unconcerned with the dirtier aspects of the war or culture in question. Now the brutalities you've suggested are both anticipated and accepted by certain powers.

I've had similar problems writing for my d&d campaign. I want dark forces, but I also want a place of justice that is in danger. Something for the players to defend.

And I've never had to turn to SA. Yes, it happens in the world but I'm not going to turn to it for shock value.

Once I got dark enough to write about what a hag did to be 'gifted' a mortal child, and it was incredibly effective to be so gory and explicit after being vague about so much prior.

Holding back the details can be frustrating, but then making the reader swim in them after all the hints is a good payoff. And if done well you still aren't writing the assault itself but the preparation and aftermath, which is still bone chilling enough.

(In my game one of the characters was the hag's son, which he had only recently learned. The payoff for him was learning exactly how he was conceived.)

Pronell , to News in Bowel disease breakthrough as researchers make ‘holy grail’ discovery

Big fucking news for the IBS/D crowd, and I'm one of em.

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