Isaac Kelley

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:51 UTC

Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:53 UTC

Some do, I think, but I think most just want to have their existing ideas affirmed. ESPECIALLY if those ideas are "core to their identity". Others just want to start fights. Honestly, I'm mostly here for the jokes, myself.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:12 UTC

Look, I basically agree with you but the "some reason" is not a mystery. Humans tend to get mad at being told to do things.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:07 UTC

Everything has microtransactions these days.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:46 UTC

Of course, the very notion of "the multiverse" suggests the existence of small, good Beetleborgs.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:15 UTC

💐Oh boy, 6 pages in and it is crystal clear this is not a book for me. Which I knew going in. I want to try reading something people love that I would normally never touch. But I'm thinking this whole book might be the parts that I normally skim on the way to the dialogue and action and funny bits.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 19:57 UTC

That's a gorgeous looking copy and I love the post-its.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 21:15 UTC

I loved it. Lots that one can take issue with, but I think great for all of that. That said, on the listing for this film, my local theater included a reminder that they do not provide content warnings for any films that they show, which is the only non-warning I've ever seen them do.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 17:45 UTC

Apparently, one of the sequels has a different, non-hunched assistant, and at some point pop culture conflated them.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 13:31 UTC

Hard to say. It's more of a historical curiosity than a timeless classic, but there is some cool stuff in it.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 08:01 UTC

🔩 I just finished the Karloff film. It is bewildering how little of the source material is kept. Bizarre name stuff: Frankenstein's name has been changed to Henry, while his bff is named Victor. It confused me the whole run time. And of course he now has a hunchbacked assistant named... Fritz.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 18:18 UTC

My daughter was a fan of Frankenstein in Baghdad. I tried to use it to get her to read the Shelley with me. She didn't bite.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 16:52 UTC

Dang it, I guess I'll do both of those. I...think I read books on bluesky now?

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 16:15 UTC

Cool, thanks. I love this book, but there's plenty to rag on, that's for sure.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

It is great, but if you do want to read it you may want to read it as part of the larger Seven Soldiers super-series, which has been collected on a single omnibus. That is seven four issue series and two bookending issues. This kinda thing is what comics does well, but is also what scares folk off.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

Can you add me to this? I killed a book club with this book once, and would love to revisit it.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 03:28 UTC

🔩Time to reread Morrison and Mahnke's Frankenstein miniseries, a truly deranged comic: One of seven interconnected series, with a shared finale where their combined efforts lead to the defeat of a common enemy without the 7 respective characters ever meeting. This book is wild and gorgeous.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 03:19 UTC

🔩 As a lapsed finisher of books, #hotfranksummer was a great time. Thanks to everyone who posted for being funny, insightful and informative.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 02:56 UTC

The creature starts abandoned and alone, so we want to see them overcome their circumstances. The first time we get to know Victor, his family buys him a child companion as a present, which he presents as virtuous. They both end up creeps, but Victor is a creep from page one.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 13:11 UTC

Honest question: Civ IV is sooo good, what does one get out moving on to another installment?

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 13:04 UTC

If you've been out of the loop for that long, try Slay the Spire. So many of the best games of the past few years have been made in its shadow and none of them have surpassed it yet.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 12:35 UTC

🔩 Justine: "God knows how entirely I am innocent." Swiftly executed. Victor: "Have my murderous machinations deprived you of life? Two I have already destroyed; Other victims await their destiny." Two months bed rest, no charges brought.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 03:29 UTC

I can relate. Sometimes when I'm really mad, I mean well and truly agry, I have to storm off and cool down before I can discuss what is upsetting me.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 22:40 UTC

I mean, the creature did murder his little brother, so I understand how one would land on "evil" as an assessment. Admittedly, this does not seem like Vic's chief complaint.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 22:22 UTC

Losing a parent is rarely anything but awful, but some of my friends have received or will receive inheritances from their parents, while some of my friends have or will have to spend a great deal of their own money and resources to pay for their parent's final years and death. (I'm in column B.)

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 16:48 UTC

Nice!

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

🔩 Fortunately, he immediately decides that this all might lead to the conception of a race of monster babies who would destroy mankind, and so he decides to break his promise. That's the gormless, craven jerk we've come to know!

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 16:40 UTC

🔩 So chapter 20 starts with Vic thinking a lot of the things folk have been saying here, instead of what he usually thinks, which is "why is the universe so mean to me, who has done nothing wrong.". It was off-putting.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 04:42 UTC

I like reading one short chapter a day, but honestly I'm enjoying this discourse more than the text itself. Victor is such a creep and now the creature is as well, so there's no rooting interest. I'm reading it with a lot of ironic detachment.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 04:18 UTC

The creature hates his existence and curses his creator. His sole demand is that Vic force life upon some other poor victim. What a jabroni.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 21:53 UTC

🔩 My wife and I were watching an old episode of Angel. A character is giving backstory about how their Uncle Frank died tragically in a fire. Without missing a beat, my wife looked over at me and whispered, "Hashtag Hot Frank Summer."

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 14:56 UTC

🔩 How great would it be if this was all leading up to Walton and Felix becoming penpals? Somehow I doubt that is where things are going, but that would be nice.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 14:43 UTC

Speaking for myself, if an 8 foot guy moved into my largely unused garage and lived there for months, I would never ever notice. Even the driveway started being mysteriously cleared of snow.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 03:58 UTC

🔩 Playing a little catch up. The footnote in Chapter 11 might be in the running for the funniest footnote of all time. "The moon." No, we got it, Mary Shelley's editor. We got it.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 03:47 UTC

I've been planning on watching some of these after finishing the book. Definitely the first Karloff and the first Hammer one. Any recommendations past that?

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 00:55 UTC

The censorship is from the original text, actually. A lot of old timey books would do that.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 19:28 UTC

🔩 I like that Elizabeth assumes in her letter that Victor will remember nothing at all about his favorite servant's life. She knows what kind of dude he is.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 17:42 UTC

The 8-foot-tall monstrosity is Future Victor's problem. Right now is Clervaltime.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

🔩 I like that his first reaction to having given life to a monster is to just go to bed. I've certainly had occasions where I massively fucked up and decided the best course of action was to go to sleep and deal with things in the morning. Of course, by and large, my fuckups weren't ambulatory.

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Isaac Kelley @isaackelley.bsky.social [ View ] May 21, 2024 at 05:07 UTC

🔩 Aww, he called Walton his friend!

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