Bittersweet Candy Bowl

^_^ That’s a wonderful title for a poem.

I only brought the Matrix up because those films are all about man vs. machine. I’ve only watched the second one, and then only scatteringly. Watching Neo run up a wall was fun, though.

It’s actually a short story about a computer that hates human beings so much, it kills all but five in the whole world and then keeps them alive for hundreds of years just to torture them in horrible ways.

The first Matrix was brilliant because they spent all their time inside the Matrix itself and left some mystique to the world outside, but gave us a few horrifying glimpses. The sword fight was a great idea, but I think the execution could’ve been better. And a lot of what the second film was saying catered specifically to people who understand computer programming and how that works, so parts of the story were a little esoteric.

But yes, man vs. machine. You’d think it moreso if you’d seen the third movie. The humans use mechs.

Hmm… Perhaps I’ll watch the first one sometime. I was estranged, really, by Reloaded… though the action scenes were quite fun.

The first one is great because Neo’s just a normal guy (albeit a talented hacker) along for the ride with people who know how the system works. In the other movies he’s basically Superman, but in the first he has to make very real and very dangerous choices.

I think a good action movie uses action scenes like a good song. Build a rhythm, use strategic intensity to emphasize moments you want to burn into the viewer’s skull, etc. I think it works the same way with story-telling, but I haven’t figured out a way to apply any of this in a practical sense.

Might well be. I wouldn’t know, of course. ^_^

I tend to like my post-apocalyptic to deal with the long, slow climb back to some level of civilization, personally.

@ Ninja: That’s the general theme of what I write, but the whole point of the story was that I had a very bad anger problem and the story is my way of exorcising it. If that makes any sense. Just like when I write poems, I can’t come up with the words unless I’m feeling something I’d like to deflect.

So… you’re a romantic (history get) in that you need supressed anger to live?

I have the opposite problem. I can’t write well unless I empty my head of everything and just drift. It’s like I’m casting a net into the sea and looking for a prompt, an inspiration. Once I have something, I concentrate on it and reel it in, fleshing out the details, toying with the characters and the plot. Once I’ve finalized the idea, I get to the writing and revising.

If I was trying to deflect something, I’d never be able to “De-concentrate” enough to find a decent idea.

Still sarcastic…?

@ ILB: More like suppressed psychosis and impotent rage, but basically yes. Except my favorite character of mine is all of this taken to extremes to the point that it seems he has no soul but to take revenge all the time. He has to figure out how to redeem himself, but he also sees everything he lost spending all that energy being so angry.

@ Ninja: It’s all about rerouting these things for me. In that one poem, I talked about Mike from Carson’s point of view, but I was really thinking about someone else and then channeling that depression into how I thought Carson would talk if he felt the way I did.

Huh. You really are the strangest person I have met.

(Take that as a compliment. I have never been able to use adjectives like “strange”, “weird” or “rare” negatively. ^_^)

Poke.

No…

(Sorry, “No…” refers to the original content of my reply. I fear I did something wrong when posting it. ^_^)

I do take that as a compliment. ;p

EDIT: Heeeee! (haw) I saw whatchudid! ;D

Good. ^_^

(Actually, this might refer to both your statements.)

…O_o

What… was that?!

I guess you’ll never know, Icarus. ;D

no, i saw it, it was just… disturbing.

God, the rp has corrupted my mind i almost typed that in parentheses!! D8

Then it has done it’s job well

True, I guess…

Are you really that disturbed by a horse saying “HAY SUP”? ^_^

Oh well, good night.

am i being TROLLED?:???????????

It… was the look on the faces that disturbed me.

(hahaha I’m gettin’ better at this it didn’t disturb me so much as it was FUNNY AS HELL!!)

They’re going to need a lot of Febreze after they clean up the mess that kid undoubtedly made in that car.

…

Guys, what the hell happened in here?!

ILB posted a picher of a donkey poking its head in a car and baying while a little kid in the nearest seat screams. The caption read something to the effect of “HAY THAR.”

And then she took it down ‘cause she was afraid it would get her in twouble.

Why was she afraid it would get her in trouble?

What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino?

‘Ellifiknow.

Ah, well that explains it. Silly ILB is silly…

So I heard on the news that some porn actor stabbed some people with a sword?

Guys this isn’t funny stop putting LSD in my soda.

Ahahaah he actually drank it!

(….what do you mean you used the blue acid…?)
(Oh god, what if he….)

Uhm. don’t worry about that tingling feeling in your soul.

*gurgle*

(Get hypodermic needle and stabs him) Don’t worry I got this. And now you own me one Jerk.

Gimme more of that acid! That debt is a check that my ass can’t cash! D:

It’s okay, just hand over Icaras’s life and we’ll call it evenish. My my, I’m determined to make him the scapegoat of this forum…

*Looks at vials of acid*

All blue… eh, here ya go..

*Gasp* Blue could indicate that that’s Copper! (Nerd moment)

Blue!! Thats not Acid thats an Alkali!!!

Don’t drink that Jerk!

I’mma bat-ter-reeeeeeee.

Battery flavor Jerk!

Holy shit guys, holy fucking shit

Then heres some battery acid since alkali won’t do much good for you…

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WHERE DID MY DARK RED BEAKER GO!?

Don’t you wanna know how we keep starting fires?

Did we kill Jerk?

…Does this mean I’m the new jerk of the forum?

Oh god not that video….

…Well if he has drunk the liquid in my red beaker his stomach should be melting right now…Fun.

In real life, I am laughing hysterically right now. Poor LaComi has run into the glowing moose crotch before apparently.

On a related note, I have that song and Dance Commander on my iPod as of last week.