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Cake day: December 12th, 2024

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  • I mean, how zany can we get?

    Just have old man potter bribe some federal officials to investigate the money handling at the savings&loan, and the honesty of george and friends will put them in the hot seat.

    Decision point (1): (A) George becomes depressed again OR (B) George gets angry

    If (A), good ole clarence has to come back because his wings are in jeopardy. Unbeknownst to the audience, but revealed throughout the movie, is that clarence wasn’t very successful in his other assignments. If he can’t save his first mission from reversing course, his wings are going to be ripped off and he’ll be cast from heaven. He didn’t sin, so he won’t fall to hell, but limbo is a terrible place to be for eternity. This creates a good and proper tension in him that causes haste to make waste, and leads to cascading issues with his own rising fears.

    If (B), george starts turning the town into proper bank-hating lads and lasses, gearing towards a showdown with the moneymen of the government and mr. potter’s private army, bolstered by the townsfolk who can’t get it into their head that potter wants them to be nothing more than slaves that slurp up the slop that trickles down from his ownership of all the land, factories, and businesses. A full on riot/revolution is just too much death for heaven to stomach, so down comes clarence to right the course. The problem? Clarence pretty much agrees with george on the causes, but isn’t able or willing to have violence be the answer. As he desperately tries to head off the rising tensions in town (mostly between the peons lining up for george or potter), his angelic self realizes just how fucked the human race has become (let’s not make george’s side entirely angelic here, which my bad description sort of give the impression of), and starts to question why angels like him must come down if it always turns out like this. Perhaps the climax of the movie would be clarence trying to stop the true ‘big battle’ from beginning by revealing his angelic self and wings, and one or both of the sides just don’t care.

    Big themes for both would be how the subversive nature of man can’t be arsed to follow some heavenly plan, and of course the love of money (potter’s sin, but have the feds and their desire to uphold proper laws be a counterpoint to it just being about greed) being a primary driver for human suffering.










  • KitathallatoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldWell
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    17 hours ago

    I would, if she were to go out with a public opinion that it was okay for trump&allies to call black people niggers and sell them into slavery. I wouldn’t do it on a public internet forum, most likely, but I would do it to her face. It’s following the (her, in this example) premise to its natural conclusion and it’s supposed to be extremely jarring and uncomfortable. It’s similar to satire, where it takes trust to know that the person ‘performing’ isn’t actually espousing what is being acted… which is why an internet forum like here, where nobody trusts nada, isn’t the proper place to do it. Directly responding to them on bluesky like there? More acceptable.





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    2 days ago

    Thank you for helping trigger the memory of rogue squadron, a game I spent far too much time playing. I always thought the energy/ammo were contained together in the equivalent of magazines. I vaguely remember the shadows of the empire game, and maybe the jedi knight series, having ammo packs that look a lot like boxes of ammo you’d find in a store today.