Lord of Chaos, Earl of Danger, Thane of Trouble
Message @marlow.
8y, 25w
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🏒 Lucian Marin
I found your update on the 11th page of the new @search feed. So it's to close to 111 people between January and April.
8y, 11w
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Marlow
So many people getting banned from #Twitter. Milo for one, but surprised Arsenal fan DT getting banned for wanting a change of manager. I wonder why they don't jump along here on sublevel. It's roomy - more space for words and thoughts.
8y, 42w
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Mark Dain
Not surprising honestly, a lot of people browse the web on their phones & tablets
Martijn
I have an interesting dating conundrum: how do I make sure girls don't assume me to be gay?
Marlow
If anyone is interested in creating #fountain screenplay snippets on #Slack, tell Slack! I already told them, they're gauging the interest in the issue. #fountain.io
9y, 41w
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Marlow
The sorry state of the CBC - broken links, broken system and broken promises. goo.gl/xvqSFG
9y, 41w
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Marlow
Hiff - to exhale audibly through the nose in suppressed or slightly-amused laughter. He hiffed when I told him I could fly.
9y, 42w
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Marlow
"I'm scared for my life..." "Listen... do you know what fear stands for?" "What do you mean?" "False evidence appearing real." "Fear actually comes from gefaer - which literally means danger... Fear literally comes from danger."
9y, 46w
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Marlow
Just finished Season 2 of #TrueDetective. Still can't remember anyone's name. I told my girlfriend that "Rachel McAdams and Tim Riggins crashed an orgy." That's the best you're gonna get from me.
9y, 46w
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Marlow
For example, in Breaking Bad Hank's discovery of Heisenberg's identity was a cliffhanger, but the issue was not resolved in the next episode - it just kept escalating until the end. The conflict between Walt/Jesse and Gus was not a single episode, but it was continuous until the end of the season. Boring shows have a revolving door of villains and problems who are introduced and dealt with in a single episode.
9y, 47w
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Marlow
Some shows are highly episodic: a situation arises at the start of the episode and ends at the end of the episode. Every episode has a new story. Some are a bit more suspenseful: the episodes end with a cliffhanger of a problem that will be dealt with in the next episode. Sometimes that's a shallow cliffhanger - the problem is solved in the first 5 mins of the next episode, sometimes it's deeper - the whole episode is spent dealing with it, resolving it and then ends with a new cliffhanger. The best shows have longer arcs of suspense - sub-plots, mini-cliffhangers, episodic events, but you see that something big is developing.
9y, 47w
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Marlow
In a TV show, you shouldn't have long pieces of music (singer singing, band performing, etc), at the expense of a story. Watching a singer sing for 5 minutes can get real boring real quick. You could always watch them start the song and continue playing over a video montage of actual things happening. That's why Breaking Bad's music scenes are fun while Treme feels like a musical sometimes and gets boring.
9y, 48w
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Marlow
It's when all the scared rats start running away from the sinking market that the true entrepreneurs come in. True visionaries.
9y, 48w
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Marlow
Chelsea won't win the league or the Champions League this year. They just won't, even if they panic buy this winter. #CFC #Chelsea #football #premierleague
9y, 48w
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Marlow
Human memory is so powerful, yet we still have to write things down to remember them - addresses, phone numbers, names, lyrics, words. Despite having zettabytes of memory in our brains, we still can't write something like a number to the database. Our memory is basically all RAM. Ask someone to repeat "53467402" and they could probably do it. Ask them 5 minutes later what the line was and it's gone. It's all RAM.
9y, 49w
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