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Stupid Thing that Bugs Me

2018-05-23T11:59:28Z

So this is probably the least important thing I could be posting about, but.

I see so many clickbait articles about "200 Easter Eggs in Comic Book Movie X".

But then, most of them aren't Easter eggs. An Easter egg is something hidden, like how you hide Easter eggs. Somebody doing something that relies on what happens in a previous movie isn't an Easter egg, it's continuity. Somebody name-checking another comic (like Deadpool saying "I'm Batman) or whatever is a reference, not an Easter egg.

Easter eggs are little things tucked in the background that the movie doesn't call attention to. Not something that is explicitly called out or part of the plot.

Glad we cleared that up.

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Blast from the Past

2017-04-30T00:51:58Z

So, I just read Dreamwidth's 101, and the other things like that they have, and they're totally a slice of the old web, the web that was about connecting people and enhancing human potential and stuff, rather than selling eyeballs and info to marketers and the NSA.

It's...refreshing, really.

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So...

2017-04-29T20:09:16Z

So, I just finished reading the end of Homestuck.

And it made me sad, and between that and the changes to LJ's ToS, it made me miss the Internet I used to know, so I picked up my LJ and it should be moving over here. Apparently my icons haven't moved over yet.

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