Ditching New Year's Resolutions!

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  • ChristianRasmussen's Avatar
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    @DoctorEldritch
    Thanks, and they are planned over the year, so not that easy to fail just because it is a bit cold 😎 Maybe you should alter yours to be over a longer period too.
  • Saka's Avatar
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    @DoctorEldritch I think that might depend on the person. Some people consider symbols important, and the year turning might make it easier for them to define the starting point.
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  • DoctorEldritch's Avatar
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    @ChristianRasmussen They sound more like plans than resolutions, then, I think? I have plans and things I will do this year, but resolutions for me are more about what you wish you could do if you had more time/were not lazy/were younger/all sorts of reasons. From that angle, @Saka is right: maybe best not to have resolutions and not wonder about what could have been...
  • DoctorEldritch's Avatar
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    @Saka Maybe. New Year is traditionally a time for wishes and aspirations and plans. I want to say that it also depends on what the resolution is. If it is to do with improving overall quality of life, like exercising more or something like that, then I'd start regardless of New Year (or I'd try, but my resolution this year was just that 😅). But if it is something more generic, like "make a dress" or "paint a portrait", then tieing it to New Year for a proper start can indeed help.
  • ChristianRasmussen's Avatar
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    @DoctorEldritch
    That to me sounds more of an excuse not to do it. I have stopped using those in my life.
    Either you do it or you don't, there is no try. Some wise little fellow ones said.
  • DoctorEldritch's Avatar
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    @ChristianRasmussen I lost all respect for the wise little fellow in The Last Jedi after he burned the Jedi library. That's Fahrenheit 451 kind of stunt right there. 📖🔥

    Though I'd say excuses are not unnecessary. If you want something strongly enough, you'd indeed do it regardless of any excuses. But if you start making those up, that may just mean that you do not really need or want to do the resolution thing in the first place, so maybe it's better to instead search for something that you really want to do.
  • ChristianRasmussen's Avatar
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    @DoctorEldritch
    Couldn't agree more on the last part.

    The first part; I am very disappointed with latest few movies in every category, really do not think the quality lives up to the past. That is why I have chosen for myself to separate them into different eras, the old Great movies and the newer ones that does not live up to the older ones.
  • DoctorEldritch's Avatar
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    @ChristianRasmussen The New Trilogy has been a big letdown, it's true. Or do you mean movies in general and not just Star Wars ones?

    How about the Star Wars series, Mandalorian or Visions, for example? What do you think of those?
  • ChristianRasmussen's Avatar
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    @DoctorEldritch
    I mean so many movies and series have had bad writers or producers (not living up to the older ones).

    There naturally are some exceptions. I'm watching Reacher and Monarch - legacy of monsters.

    Haven't watched much Star Wars series, is the a chronologic way to watch them ?
  • DoctorEldritch's Avatar
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    @ChristianRasmussen There is that, yes, though there are still decent examples of films, it's just that, I find, there are fewer of them than there were before. Even the latest movies of my favourite director Wes Anderson do not quite reach his Grand Hotel Budapest masterpiece. Don't get me wrong, they are still good but, I don't know...missing something. Although French Dispatch had its moments.

    And, I guess, tastes have changed. Have a musical number on that note. You know this one if you played Fallout 3 😉


    And if you really want to rant about the decline of the quality of movies, we even have a special place for that!

    Monarch is on my list, but I have not seen Reacher. I mostly watch sitcoms and sci-fi/fantasy series, crime drama with no fantasy elements is rare for me.

    About the Star Wars series, sort of. Yes and no. Visions is a collection of stories in that universe, but not connected to any ongoing ones. Then it depends on how deeply you want to know the characters, Disney started to create that Mandoverse stream of stories. Mandalorian is obviously there, Boba Fett is touching upon it.

    But then it gets a bit more complicated. Ashoka series is also there, named after the main character, but Ashoka herself first appeared in the animated Clone Wars cartoon series. And there is more: the Ashoka series itself brought in Ezra Bridger, Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren, and Grand Admiral Thrawn. Those 4 characters first appeared in the Rebels animated cartoon, though Grand Admiral Thrawn actually has 3 books written about him before that (in the series he had very little of his strategic mind and charisma compared to the book version), and Disney is bringing him into the canon universe now.

    So if you want to see it all, then I guess you should start with Clone Wars and then Rebels and then Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett and Ashoka. But if you are short on time, I guess animated ones can be skipped.

    But really, a question like that warrants a separate discussion of it's own 😅