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Post by bulldust on Aug 4, 2023 19:25:34 GMT
Moo, bitches!
It’s still hitting the triple digits here, but the Bullmeister is unconcerned. He knows in a few weeks it will cool down and it will stop being so hellish.
And speaking of hell, we present the latest cap, “A Christmas Truce”.
This cap was relatively clean, only a few missing hyphens and misplaced commas. The writing was well done. It was composed predominantly of conversation between two deities reminiscing about old times.
The Bull doesn’t have a lot to say about this cap. There once was a time that the Bull may have been into it—the plight of long abandoned deities making their way through a world that is no longer about them and the strings they pull in the shadows. However, these are new times, and the Bulldog was not moved so much.
The plot felt shallow, and the conversations seemed flat. Overall, the Bulldude just wasn’t into it.
So, the Bull is going with a no on this one. Maybe the fishy one will feel otherwise.
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Post by rockefeller on Aug 6, 2023 12:49:27 GMT
Hey, but look on the bright side. All the snowbirds have fled. Amurika scares me now, or maybe I'd be one. Has shoplifting really been legalized? Is SF really a ghost town? Can't believe anything on the news anymore, not even the blogged stuff.
Love how quick y'all are to gore these caps I've been sending up. Not to predispose the scaled one, but I agree here. I think maybe I was impressed enough with the opening, those WW1 scenes from which the title's derived (though really have nothing to do with the story) and her character development, to let the rest slide. Maybe I need to toughen up more. Put on my big boy pants as they say.
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Post by bulldust on Aug 7, 2023 15:50:36 GMT
Moo! Rocks!
The Bull has fled the land of hurricanes and MAGA. But the Bull, preferring the warmer climates made his way westward instead of north. So, no more freaking snowbirds. (FTW!)
You're correct, Amurika is scary as fuck now. Where the Bullmeister is, things are much calmer. But what you're reading is mostly true. The various news outlets try to spin things this way or that, but what it comes down to is bad law enforcement training. They definitely need more cops, but they also need to be trained to deescalate instead of sending out steroid poisoned adrenalin junkies out to bash heads. People get all kinds of bent out of shape when you start talking about community policing, but it works. Then again, that's only one Bull's opinion.
You've sent a couple up that were Monkey worthy. And yes, there were elements of this that were worthy. Perhaps the Bull is being rejection-happy because he's been mercilessly hit with the rejection hammer himself in recent days. But then again, this cap would have gotten the same result even if the Bull sold one of his masterpieces for a million dollars. Maybe this guy is just an asshole.
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Post by sturgeon on Aug 11, 2023 17:26:28 GMT
As a dweller of the Atlantic, currently resident on the British side, what's happening in the USA chills me to the fins. What's happening in the UK is pretty nasty too, but we get the shallow comfort of saying "at least it's not as bad as it is over there!"
Anyway, to the business at hand. This capital comprises chaos-yearning demons lamenting the temporary truce on the Great War's Western Front, Christmas 1914.
While the thrust and parry of conversation is fun to read, I'm not clear what's at stake. There's a bit of will-they-wont-they sexual tension between the two main characters, despite referring to each other as brother and sister, but (after angels intervene to hinder the duo from fomenting further destruction) that badinage concludes not with an unholy union but a trip to the flicks.
When I read good capital, I like to sit with it a while, to reflect on it and how it made me feel. I did not feel that way about this cap. I just wasn't sure what it was meant to leave me with.
So, I'm afraid the fucked-uppedness of the fall of America is not the only sentiment of the Bull's that I find myself echoing; I also agree with his two-lettered verdict on A Christmas Truce.
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Post by rockefeller on Aug 12, 2023 13:14:10 GMT
Rocks lives in the land of Turd-eau (Shit-water in English, the other national language after Hinde and Chinese). Was out to Vancouver last September. Strolled by blocks and blocks of garbage fires and people living out of tents and boxes. One guy had his little tinfoil home perched right in the entryway to a Shoppers Drug Mart. Had to sort of step over and around it. Even here in our little city west of Toronto, where it's cold (like -30C) in winter, we have two big homeless encampments. Ten or twenty thousand Canadians enjoy medically assisted suicide (MAID) every year now, or maybe the problem would be worse. Apparently very few requests are denied. Pretty soon you probably won't even have to ask, or be sick, or sad, or anything.
Thanks for explaining how the title connects to the story here, Sturge. Got a little bald patch from scratching my head.
Curious to see both your takes on the latest.
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