I think honestly, anything except -stare at each other in silence for 15s - would have worked. So your fave drink is water. Great. Start ranting about why nothing else is better than water.
These questions usually are meant to test how the candidate reacts when things go off the script. No judgement is passed on what you say. (The other day someone told me her hobbies were the occult and we told her nobody has ever admitted that before in our team, and I gave her extra points for being honest and daring.) But if you just refuse to respond, it does mark you down. It might not be a big deal if everything else went great, but if it was average or the interviewer felt your answers had been rote/memorised. It may.
I would even give the candidate extra points if they said water, and “why would you ask such a question in a job interview”. What the answer is doesn’t matter honestly. It is how you handle it that gets evaluated. But silence, well nobody gets anything out of that.
“why would we make plans in front of you if you weren’t invited?” babe i was left out of everything growing up, i need 100% confirmation you want me there or i simply will not go
Elizabeth was a consummate performer, a woman of extraordinary intellect and education, as skilled at playing on popular sentiment and the emotions of courtiers and ambassadors as she reputedly was at playing music. Despite being bastardized and repudiated as a child, then marginalized and threatened as a young woman, she took the throne and held on to it tenaciously for nearly forty-five years. She survived disease, rebellion, the threat of usurpation and long years of war. Most startling of all, she contrived to quell religious dissent and conflict to a level where it was containable, and passed the throne on at her death, without civil strife, to an experienced and plausible successor. If some of these achievements owed more to luck than judgement, she was still an outstanding ruler. In particular, the fact that Elizabeth was a woman, and ruled as such with flair and conviction in a society deeply unsure about female authority, is no less impressive today than it was at the time. It is an irony that after all the fuss about a male heir in her father’s reign, this rejected female came to be the most famous member of the dynasty, and to give her name to an era.
I am floored I am flabbergasted I cannot believe it
In the game, Bill and Frank were almost nothing. Bill was a joke character, he shows up, he’s a doomsday prepper, he helps you fight zombies, gives you a truck battery, and you leave. Ellie steals some comics and a gay porno magazine from him, and he’s never seen again.
Frank WAS nothing. You never see him. You find his BODY, he got bit and hung himself, and he got bit trying to escape Bill because he hated him so much and the note says he’s happier dead than living another day with Bill
And then the show. The show took that shallow, mean storyline, and made it beautiful.
Now Bill and Frank are real characters. We know them. Really KNOW them. And they don’t hate each other. In fact they’re in love. They’re really IN LOVE. And yes they argue and disagree sometimes but they’re a real couple who really love each other while still being two people so sometimes they fight. That doesn’t change that they’re in love
And they GET TO BE IN LOVE, the whole time, they’re doing things for each other. They’re living in their little gated paradise and it’s beautiful. They make it pretty. They grow food. They’re eating gourmet meals. They’re not just surviving. They’re thriving. They’re living
They took that mean spirited game story, and they made it the point, the heart, the example of what people are still fighting for. The proof that yes, even in the middle of the apocalypse, you can still live a good life. Not an easy life, you will still have bad days, you’ll have bad days with the ones you love, but you will still love them, and they will still love you. And then, with all these grizzly, horrific deaths we see two deaths that are peaceful. Painless. Two men who die old, satisfied, and in the arms of their purpose.
Don’t you see? It’s about hope
Bill and Frank are hope
I keep having these thoughts that I haven’t been able to put down in full yet, so let’s try again:
I don’t think in the game Bill and Frank were necessarily less loving than in the show. I think, they kind of exist in this alternate reality when what could have been a beautiful relationship ended badly, on a very bad day.
I mean think about it. Every day couples fight and have disagreements, they make up.
But maybe one day Frank was just unlucky, and he got bitten. He regrets everything he said to Bill. He would take it back if he could. He wouldn’t have said all those words, he wants to go back.
But there is no retry for a NPC in a video game.
What would make Bill so bitter about the loss if it was not true intense love?
So seeing this in the game wasn’t just ‘oh they changed the characters.’ I think if it as 2 people in love who finally gets their fairytale apocalyptic ending.
This ask broke into my house and mugged me, thank you.
In no order:
Willem Dafoe
Jeremy Allan White
Vincent Cassel
As a lesbian, the only men I am interested in are the ones who could play homoerotic prisoners of war, or murderous frenchmen who curse the world from the deck of their zeppelin.
“also tom cruise but that’s because I’m fascinated by his frankly deranged performance of masculinity”
If one day you woke up and decided that actually, you hate Stardust 2: Star Duster, and wish you had never published it, would you be able to legally do something about it? And should you be able to? I'm talking for example, about you asking all stores and libraries to please return all copies at their cost so you can ensure no one ever reads them, or anything like that.
I'm asking this because some of my favorite songs are no longer legally available anywhere, and I'm heartbroken. The artists are still alive and in fact more successful than ever, but they have decided that their old work no longer represents them, and because music has become mostly about streaming, that means they were able to essentially delete their songs from reality (not really - I pirated all of them). Because I'm emotionally compromised in this, I can't tell right from wrong. I feel as if the artists have wronged me. I imagine this is a bit like what waking up to an empty apartment after a fun night feels like. But it's their art, and maybe that should mean if they don't want it out there, they should have the power to do this?
Some of the songs had only ever been uploaded as YouTube videos. And it's good that people are available to delete their YouTube videos. But on the other hand, art can have a massive impact on people and taking it away after people gave experienced it just feels... callous? Maybe?
I'm sorry if this is too long of a ramble, but I could really use some perspective from someone on the other side of this experience.
No, I couldn’t do that. I could refuse to sell a book that is out of print to publishers and keep it out of print forever though. I’ve done that. And I could rewrite or revise a book I wasn’t satisfied with and then let the previous version drift out of print, so after a while you could only buy the revised version. I’ve done that too.
And I think that the people who make the art can decide what to do with it, and if they want to take down something they can. They can’t come to your house and delete or remove things you’ve paid money for — but I’m not getting the sense that you’d bought the music, only streamed it. So yes, they can do that.
I do my best to buy music I like. Either get it from Bandcamp, or buy it on vinyl. It’s a way of supporting people making music, but it also means I have music, if the music goes away.
“…but it also means I have music, if the music goes away.”
So I lent my friend my mainland Chinese copy of Good Omens, and she’s been commenting on various stuff in the book to me as she read along. One day she messaged, “Crowley’s so cute, chasing after the hedgehogs like that.”
And I said, “……………..what?????!?”
So she told me where in the book it was, and it was the part after Cr&Az realized that Warlock isn’t the kid, talked to the nun, and got out of the hospital. It did say that Crowley was “trying to hit a hedgehog and missing”, but I soon realized that the “second line” she told me that’s about the hedgehog is, “The angel stared out at the rushing hedgerows.” Apparently the Chinese translator read “hedgerows” and thought it was “hedgehogs” again. Obviously it didn’t make a huge change to the plot line, but basically, in the Chinese version of Good Omens, Crowley chased a hedgehog while convincing Aziraphale, “drove in silence for a while”, and then chatted with Aziraphale some more. Meanwhile Aziraphale saw everything but decided to let Crowley do his thing.
