The Off Topic Topic

[Ed Anger]

[jimmy olsen]

I thought you were going to start talking about Gantz which is an insane anime in its own right, but you went way weirder! 

Actually, now that I think about it, the protag in Gantz was hit by a train.

[Tamas]

One of the biggest and earliest line I've seen so far for the new Arena, mainly young teenagers. I guessed a Bieber concert but nope, it's for an award show for Youtubers.

This whole thing with Youtubers is one of the signs that I have begun drifting out of synch with the world around me.

[Liep]

One of the biggest and earliest line I've seen so far for the new Arena, mainly young teenagers. I guessed a Bieber concert but nope, it's for an award show for Youtubers.

This whole thing with Youtubers is one of the signs that I have begun drifting out of synch with the world around me.

Don't worry, we still have plenty of years of our generation controlling Hollywood and streaming productions. I hope.

[Eddie Teach]

One of the biggest and earliest line I've seen so far for the new Arena, mainly young teenagers. I guessed a Bieber concert but nope, it's for an award show for Youtubers.

This whole thing with Youtubers is one of the signs that I have begun drifting out of synch with the world around me.

Don't worry, we still have plenty of years of our generation controlling Hollywood and streaming productions. I hope.

We control Hollywood? I thought the Boomers still did that.

[Liep]

One of the biggest and earliest line I've seen so far for the new Arena, mainly young teenagers. I guessed a Bieber concert but nope, it's for an award show for Youtubers.

This whole thing with Youtubers is one of the signs that I have begun drifting out of synch with the world around me.

Don't worry, we still have plenty of years of our generation controlling Hollywood and streaming productions. I hope.

We control Hollywood? I thought the Boomers still did that.

Perhaps the actual control, but aren't most directors of big movies generation x'ers now?

[Eddie Teach]

Not sure who you're thinking of. Looked up a few names.

JJ Abrams- born 1966
Michael Bay- 1965
Guy Ritchie- 1968
James Gunn- 1966

It's funny, Bay, Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino have been making movies for over 20 years. I'm probably just out of touch, but no idea who the next generation of big time directors are.

[Liep]

Not sure who you're thinking of. Looked up a few names.

JJ Abrams- born 1966
Michael Bay- 1965
Guy Ritchie- 1968
James Gunn- 1966

It's funny, Bay, Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino have been making movies for over 20 years. I'm probably just out of touch, but no idea who the next generation of big time directors are.

It's probably because I'm thinking of their age as when I first heard about them. Something I'm often guilty of with my own age thinking I'm still in my twenties.

But still, Edgar Wright (43), Taika Waititi (42), Martin McDonagh (47), Duncan Jones (46). And people born in the late 60's are all X'ers, no?

[Eddie Teach]

But they're so old. 

[Liep]

But they're so old. 

[Malthus]

I feel like total shit. All week I have felt like a truck hit me. I'm tired of this bullshit

I just saw an anime where the protagonist was hit by a truck.  While his body was unharmed, his soul left his body.  Half of it changed places with another guy who was also hit by the truck, and the other half entered the body of a nearby cat through the anus.

Sounds like a real cat-ass-trophy.

[Jacob]

@ Malthus

[CountDeMoney]

But they're so old. 

[Admiral Yi]

Richard Posner, the "10th Supreme Court Justice" and according to one study the most cited legal scholar of all time, is retiring at 78.

[mongers]

Damn, just found out Brian Aldiss died a few weeks ago.   

Brian Aldiss, Author of Science Fiction and Much More, Dies at 92

By Sam Roberts Aug 24, 2017

Brian Aldiss, a former bookseller whose horrific childhood and wartime exploits in Burma kindled a fecund imagination that animated scores of novels, anthologies, memoirs and short stories, like the one that inspired the Steven Spielberg science fiction film "A.I.," died on Saturday in Oxford, England, hours after celebrating his 92nd birthday.

His death was confirmed by his son Tim Aldiss.

Mr. Aldiss was celebrated largely for his science fiction, most famously the novels "Non-Stop" (1958), "Hothouse" (1962), "Greybeard" (1964), the Helliconia trilogy (1982-85) and "Frankenstein Unbound" (1973), which in 1990 was the basis of the last film directed by Roger Corman.

He collaborated with Stanley Kubrick and then, after Mr. Kubrick's death in 1999, with Mr. Spielberg in transforming Mr. Aldiss's short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" into the emotionally challenging 2001 fairy tale "A.I." (the letters stand for "artificial intelligence"), about a bereft mother who consoles herself with a cybernetic son.

He also found grist in his personal life for autobiographical novels, like "The Hand-Reared Boy" (1970), and memoirs, including "The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman" (1998).
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Full item here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/books/brian-aldiss-author-of-science-fiction-and-much-more-dies-at-92.html