Comment on Y'all can lose your mind over Kevin all you want. I'm just staring at this man...
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 year agoFeel free to skip the overwrought metaphor
Well there goes 90% of the show, so no, you get the long version now.
We’re both standing in the middle of a soundstage (lit like a European discotheque), and you whisper-talk at me at a volume 0.01% louder than the score:
“I’d love to hear some of these examples of bad writing in the show! You can feel free to skip all of the overwrought metaphors.”
and I respond
“Well if I skip the ‘overwrought metaphors’, I seriously doubt I’ll have anything left to talk about!”
then you say something about how hard this is on you emotionally, I quietly affirm that I’m here for you, then you bitterly reject it, and then I pinch off a pithy-sounding bon mot that’s actually nonsense, and walk off, leaving you standing stock-still in the grip of Powerful Emotions. Then we repeat all of this six more times, taking breaks for vomit-inducing scenes where 15,000 suicidally depressed animators shove every single item in the effects library onto the screen.
But seriously, I know you’re just sea lioning. It’s not possible to ask that question in good faith. Imagine if I snottily asked you to give me an example of bad writing in 1994’s It’s Pat, you would tell me “uh, fucking everything, piss off” and you’d be right to.
USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 1 year ago
So that’s a “no?”
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I believe I made it quite clear that I get to do the pithy bot mot that’s actually nonsense, stay in your lane.
USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 1 year ago
The term is “bon mot.” Don’t worry though, this in no way affects my impression of your ability to judge what is or is not good writing.
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I know, because there wasn’t a typo the first time I wrote it. You see, gotchas like that usually work better when I haven’t already used the term before in a comment that you previously responded to. Don’t worry though, this in no way affects my impression of your ability to pay attention to what passes in front of your eyeballs.
I do, however, take it as an admission that you had to resort to making fun of me to have something to say, just like how I already expect your next comment to be an attempt at affecting aloof detachment.