I don't think it's necessarily bulls***. But I do think it's more trouble than it's worth when you're inconveniencing everyone else. And it's often just a show for casting directors or talent scouts, a kind of meta-acting, i.e. “i r serious acter such dark very serious wow”.
Like it's fine, but it's doesn't get to supercede manners and general on-the-job decency and professionalism.
I grew up on these types of adventure games, but never played this series. I bought them all a few years ago on Steam but couldn't get into them. I felt there was so much intense charm that I couldn't actually swallow it. I felt like it actually got bogged down by its own charm. Though I'm sure it's a great series if you like that sort of thing.
My favourite one growing up was called Hocus Pocus Pink. God I loved that game.
Even if I believed this, if you have someone at your show you've asked to leave on account of physically assaulting a host, and they simply refuse, go collect their award, and give a full teary-eyed speech, before heading to the after-party with everyone else, then I'm still blaming you as if you'd never asked in the first place.
@sebb: I just don't think that is our nature though. I think the thing you call the nature of people has changed in the last 10,000 years (yes even at the worst of times), which suggests to me that there's something else there, something which when it blossoms will be an infinitely more powerful and unshakeable motivating force than in-group resource gathering and protection ever was. Again, if we've got a million years of history ahead of us yet to be written, then we're only 0.1% of the way through our story. We're only a couple hundred generations in. I think it's a bit early to call us as a species.
And also, in general, I don't know why what comes out of people when you put them under the worst possible situations is their “nature”, but what they produce under the influence of joy and connection is mere “circumstantial adaptation”. I don't know why one is considered more real than the other.
@thecupidstunts: Like, not bad or anything. Just, missing something. Take 2049 for example. Yeah, he was solid. He did the job. He was a convincing evil guy. But it wasn't exactly magical or anything. Nothing to start talking about the moment you leave the cinema.
Same when playing the Joker. Decent. Nothing special. He didn't sparkle like Heath Ledger or Joaquin Phoenix in my opinion.
@sebb: I guess it depends what you think human nature is. There's a strong case to be made that humans are just awful. Just look at history, you could say. We've shown thousands of times over that we're willing to kill as many as it takes to secure resources for our in-group.
However I see the same atrocities from the other side. See how much of our “nature” we've discarded in the past century. In the past 100 years we've shed more of it than we did in the previous 5,000. There's definitely something going on there. There's obviously more to our nature than the average of all history books. I don't think history is enough to show us our nature in its fullness. We've had several thousand years of history. I fully expect we'll have millions more. Personally I think we've barely scratched the surface.
This is a quote from Bahá'í religious scripture: “...as yet unconscious of Revelation... This momentous and historic step, involving the reconstruction of mankind, as the result of the universal recognition of its oneness and wholeness, will bring in its wake the spiritualization of the masses...Then will the coming of age of the entire human race be proclaimed...Then will a world civilization be born, flourish and perpetuate itself, a civilization with a fullness of life such as the world has never seen nor can as yet conceive. Then will the Everlasting Covenant be fulfilled in its completeness. Then will the promise enshrined in all the Books of God be redeemed, and all the prophecies uttered by the Prophets of old come to pass, and the vision of seers and poets be realized. Then will the planet, galvanized through the universal belief of its dwellers in one God... be capable of fulfilling that ineffable destiny fixed for it, from time immemorial, by the love and wisdom of its Creator.”
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