Interesting Links for 15-12-2021

[andrewducker]

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol - Here's Why!

(tags:muppets christmas viaMarrog )

Peter Molyneux's next game is a Blockchain pyramid scheme

(tags:games blockchain OhForFucksSake PeterMolyneux )

Scottish bottle return scheme will not start until 2023

(tags:Scotland recycling )

Omicron has an R over 5 and a doubling time of 2 days

(tags:Pandemic Doom )

Van Gogh Alive Comes to Edinburgh

(tags:VincentVanGogh Edinburgh art Scotland )

Testing disruption leaves UK 'flying blind' over scale of omicron wave

(tags:UK Pandemic testing Doom )

About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated

(tags:religion usa )

Star Wars: Imperial March x Carol of The Bells

(tags:StarWars viaConuly music christmas video )

The Depression Treatment That Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days (I'd love to know how long it lasts)

(tags:depression neuroscience fmri )

Omicron symptoms differ from other Covid strains

(tags:pandemic virus )

HTTP/3 is Fast

(tags:web http )

Why battery costs have plunged 89 percent since 2010

(tags:batteries economics )

UK Hospitals likely to be overwhelmed by omicron

(tags:uk nhs doom )

What it's like making friends with men

(tags:men friendship comic funny )

Malta becomes first EU nation to legalise cannabis

(tags:malta marijuana legalisation )

'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the Rings at 20

(tags:lotr history movies )

Comments

The Depression Treatment That Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days (I'd love to know how long it las

[jack]

Good question. My heuristic for novel depression treatments is (a) EVERY new treatment works for a few weeks (b) what will end up working for real will be some weird thing no-one understands. So, fingers crossed.

'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the Rin

[jack]

Oh, interesting! It doesn't make my any little bit less critical of HW but I also can't help thinking, Tarantino's best films involved stunning aesthetics and characterisation established while something else was going on, and then the action scenes actually resolving quickly because the important premises were already set-up in advance, which is not far from Tolkien, so assuming that's intended as a dig, I'm not sure, I'd actually be interested to see the result. (Although filming LOTR had innumerable other challenges which is seems Jackson managed very well, and I've no idea if Tarantino would have been any good at, and I assume bringing in a new, distinctive, director THEN would have been a disaster if anyone seriously considered it -- I assume Tarantino's hypothetical version would have been quite different.)

Re: The Depression Treatment That Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days (I'd love to know how long it

[andrewducker]

Yeah, going to be a while before we know if it lasts, and for how many people.

Re: 'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the

[andrewducker]

Tarantino's aesthetic would be fascinating. I can't see it working, but on the other hand, I wouldn't have thought the director of Bad Taste would make a good LOTR movie either!

[danieldwilliam]

Nice battery story, feeling increasingly positive about battery tech and the costs of deploying it.

[naath]

nice carol mashup

[andrewducker]

It's not my favourite, but it is fun

Godus

[danieldwilliam]

I was thinking about Godus the other day, nothing good mind you, just remembering how flat it was as a game.

Re: 'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the

[jack]

Yeah, Peter Jackson's success made me think I'm much less good at predicting who will do something well than I assumed I was :)

[naath]

so what is your fave?

Re: Godus

[andrewducker]

I loved Populus as a kid, and had high hopes for Godus. Shame it did so badly.

[andrewducker]

The Muppet one, of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysIzPF3BfpQ

[andrewducker]

Me too!

[naath]

amazing

Re: The Depression Treatment That Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days (I'd love to know how long it

[dewline]

I will not fault anyone's skepticism on this one. I'm skeptical of it myself, as it's the first I remember hearing/reading of it.

Re: Godus

[botrytis]

I have fond memories of both Populous and Populous 2.

Godus was god awful though.

re: A Christmas Carol

[kerk_hiraeth]

Gave the following reply to a similar question of failbook a few days ago

~ Scrooge, 1951 starring Alistair Sim (and the B&W; not that colorized abomination) ~ Love the Muppets; also love Scrooged too and, if I'm absolutely in the right mood ~ not a huge fan of Albert Finney ~ the 1970 musical versionm but none of those come close to Alistair Sim's magic, and the fact that his portrayal of Scrooge's delirious happiness on christmas morning can sometimes make me cry with happiness. ~

kerk

Re: A Christmas Carol

[andrewducker]

I definitely need to watch the 1951 version at some point.