good news everyone. crows no longer need instructions to build tools and have started building them from memory, as well as passing the knowledge onto future generations of crows. oops!
better news everyone. crows have learned to construct these tools from unrelated items! they no longer need to follow the original blueprint they were given and are able to improvise using their surroundings.
I just randomly remembered something about the Harry Potter movies that enrages me.
Okay we all know the Goblet of Fire movie was one gigantic mess. We all know about the âcalmlyâ. We all know about the âcalmlyâ.
Oh god the âcalmlyâ.
But thereâs something even worseâŚso much worseâŚ
Itâs even worse than them omitting Hagridâs bloodline or the scene where Cornelius Fudge intentionally gets a dementor to suck out Barty Crouch Jr.âs soul so that he couldnât testify or Rita Skeeterâs secret or god this film was such a horrible injustice to the books!
But none of that, none of that is even remotely comparable to this scene:
THIS MOTHERFâING SCENE
WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE THAT HARRY JAMES POTTER WOULD HESITATE NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE, WHEN IT COMES TO SAVING A FELLOW HOGWARTS STUDENTâS LIFE IN A TOURNAMENT HE NEVER WANTED TO BE IN IN THE FIRST PLACE!
It is such a disgrace to Harryâs character, to everything heâs gone through, to the sheer amount of compassion he built up over the years of abuse by the Dursleys. Harry would never, in a million years, hesitate to save Cedric and he definitely wouldnât have his head flying back and forth between a shiny prize and a dying teenager screaming his name are you kidding me movie!?
(Cedric screams it four times by the way, in case any of you were wondering, I counted as I grabbed these screenshots.)
And to make it worse, to make it even worse, you have Cedric gave Harry a weak smile and say, âFor a second there, I thought you were going to let it get me.â
Only for Harry to stare right back and say, âFor a second there, so did I.â
WHAT?
In case anyoneâs forgotten, hereâs how the scene plays out in the book:
Notice how HARRY MF JAMES POTTER DIDNâT EVEN HESITATE WHEN CEDRIC WAS IN DANGER, HE IMMEDIATELY ACTED BECAUSE THATâS HIS THING, THATâS HIS WHOLE CHARACTER, HIS âSAVING PEOPLE THINGâ IS WHAT MAKES HARRY POTTER HARRY POTTER! THE FACT THAT HE AUTOMATICALLY TRIES TO SAVE EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO HIM IS BOTH HIS GREATEST STRENGTH AND HIS GREATEST FLAW AND ITâS BROUGHT UP AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN IN THE BOOKS BUT THIS MOVIE THINKS IT CAN JUST THROW ALL OF THAT OUT TO GIVE YOU A SUSPENSEFUL SCENE IMPLYING THAT HARRY HAS TO STRUGGLE TOâŚYOU KNOWâŚNOT MURDER SOMEONE!?
AND DONâT WORRY, MOVIE, IâM NOT SCREAMING AT YOU! BY YOUR DEFINITION, IâM TALKING TO YOU CALMLY!
girl i hope you appreciate your boyfriend. he just stood practically on top of a horror movie monster so you could get out of the elevator first. he loves you.
are we going to ignore the actress who got kicked in the face
well thats the price you pay for fucking terrifying someone
This whole post is GOLD
Yea, if youâre an actor and you deliberately try to freak people out then you need to be aware itâs flight or FIGHT. Thereâs a chance that someone will run away screaming but someone could also square up and try to kick your creepy ass.
By deciding to be a creepy bastard you are accepting the possibility that you might end up getting hurt and I do not feel sorry for you.
But a quick reminder: if you go to a haunted house, DONT GO if you know you react to fear with violence. Youâre paying to be scared by these actors; theyâre doing their jobs. They donât deserve to be punched for something you signed off on.
But if youâre an actor or prankster whoâs picking targets who didnât consent ahead of time, be warned, you might get punched.
when adults tell teenagers that the dull ache of high school is just a survivable mess that theyâre making up to be worse than it is, i think of this:
when i was in sophomore year, i was in an accident and the left side of my face was hit. i sat in the emergency room with a clearly broken nose and blood coming out of a laceration on my cheek. and i did my homework. i did my homework with a black eye swelling up, with little red fingerprints on it.Â
and he told me to redo it. that it wasnât good enough. the assignment itself was worth maybe five points out of a hundred. he wouldnât forgive me for it. when i explained about my concussion, he told me to do it somewhere dark.
we donât make it up. the value of our lives becomes almost nothing at all. the quality of living that is allowed is so low that students learn to apply it to themselves. they are useless, unimportant, a machine to figure out problems without any food, sleep, family time. nothing. we call teenagers moody because something in them breaks a little. we donât say: they are stressed beyond measure and they believe their own physical health is less important than the quality of the product theyâre forced to produce. we donât say: wouldnât you be moody too?
Its almost like it was designed to create corporate drones who allow companies to pay them dirt for their time and sanity withou t thinking twice about it.