The Cellar / Help me, if you feel like it

**Posted by Flint** 7/16/2025 3:34 pm

I'm starting a script today.
I'm writing the opening scene.

I've got the world's ontological consistency figured out well enough to start populating it with my slush pile of scenes, settings, characters and relationships.

**Posted by Flint** 12/22/2025 5:30 pm

back to drawing again..

**Posted by fargon** 12/22/2025 6:29 pm

To angry for an elf.

**Posted by Flint** 12/23/2025 6:03 pm

Anger is for peasants. This is contempt.

**Posted by fargon** 12/23/2025 10:27 pm

Excuse me please.

**Posted by Flint** 12/24/2025 1:56 am

EXCUSES ARE FOR THE WEAK!!

**Posted by Happy Monkey** 12/24/2025 11:47 am

Simon: "This isn't fear. This is anger."
Mal: "Well, it's...kinda hard to tell with a face like yours."
Simon: "Well I imagine if it were fear, my eyes would be wider."

**Posted by tw** 12/24/2025 6:19 pm

Look at those ears. He barely hears anything. He must be an extremist. Explains those angry eyes and a scowel.

Last edited by tw (12/25/2025 10:53 am)

**Posted by monster** 12/25/2025 2:50 pm

I think it totally captures contempt. Scarily so. Nice one

**Posted by Flint** 12/29/2025 2:55 pm

monster wrote:
I think it totally captures contempt. Scarily so. Nice one

thanks! he's the bad guy (but he's not a bad guy..)

tw wrote:
Look at those ears. He barely hears anything. He must be an extremist. Explains those angry eyes and a scowel.

lol .. this checks out

...

I've discovered the ultimate cheat code. Working with 3D models to pose the characters perfectly.

**Posted by tw** 12/29/2025 4:43 pm

Galileo would be appalled. Each has muscles where none should be.

Last edited by tw (1/05/2026 6:33 pm)

**Posted by Flint** 12/29/2025 7:23 pm

yeah man it's a comic book

**Posted by Flint** 1/05/2026 4:36 pm

Happy Monkey wrote:
Simon: "This isn't fear. This is anger."
Mal: "Well, it's...kinda hard to tell with a face like yours."
Simon: "Well I imagine if it were fear, my eyes would be wider."

I organically watched this series/movie over the holidays. My son was interested because people kept mentioning it in reference to the Traveller RPG system.

**Posted by Happy Monkey** 1/09/2026 9:27 pm

I hope you liked it; it's one of my favorites.

**Posted by Flint** 1/10/2026 2:09 am

Happy Monkey wrote:
I hope you liked it; it's one of my favorites.

Oh, yeah, man it's one of my favorites, too.
Same, I assume, for anyone who has seen it.

I just re-watched it all again for the several'th time. But it had been long enough since I'd seen it that I forgot the quote until right when he said it.

Yeah, I was telling my kids, "this is commonly known as the best show that was ever cancelled" and I think that's pretty true, I can't think of a better example. Maybe Futurama, but Firefly was ONE SEASON.

My daughter, who is the world's biggest, most opinionated critic of everything, sat there and watched the whole thing without a peep. I mentioned that River is "Elektra: Assassin" and she grunted agreement (having just read the Frank Miller/Bill Sienkiewicz 8-issue masterpiece)*

*comics nerd tangent here, but it's hard to explain to someone who wasn't there at the time, that when we all picked up Elektra: Assassin, nobody had ever seen anything like that before .. at that time, comics were 1. pencils 2. inks 3. and the standard color palette .. it's hard to describe how mind-blowing Sienkiewicz was

**Posted by griff** 1/10/2026 10:42 am

We’ve been pretty insular and off electronics while building the cabin, but I should probably retrieve my Firefly DVDs…

**Posted by Flint** 1/26/2026 2:13 pm

while we're at it, give the Watchmen HBO series a spin.

apropos of nothing, I'm sure