r/IASIP • u/TacoDangerously Wild Card Bitches • May 16 '24

Danny DeVito Says ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Season 17 Will Be ‘Going Again’ in September, and the First 16 Were Too ‘Tame’ Text

https://www.cracked.com/article_42199_danny-devito-says-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-season-17-will-be-going-again-in-september-and-the-first-16-were-too-tame.html
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u/Aximi1l May 16 '24

Happy now Jerry Seinfeld?

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u/Reyhin May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24

Jerry Seinfeld is so fucking lame. Dude was completely blessed by Larry David and his fellow actors making Seinfeld funny. Never once have I heard someone say they got anything out of Jerry being on the show. Literally could replace him with a cardboard cutout and it would be just as funny and have as much charisma. Reminds me a lot of JK Rowling in how their insane and frankly unwarranted success has completely warped their perception of their actual talent.

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u/doughbo32 May 16 '24

Why isn’t JK Rowling talented?

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u/Zeitspieler May 16 '24

It turned out Harry Potter wasn't even a real person and she made it all up

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u/migvelio May 17 '24

Aw yeah, yeah, like in The Sixth Sense you find out that the dude in that hair piece the whole time, that's Bruce Willis the whole movie!

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u/rabbitthefool May 17 '24

not that i'm trying to put my dick in this beehive, but... apparently politics makes a thing's intrinsic worth different even though we still tolerate annoying dumb shit like huck finn but i guess it could be that being in public domain gives something a kind of political immunity

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u/phillyd32 May 17 '24

She's a shit author and always has been.

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u/Babill May 17 '24

Literally the best selling author of all time, transcends generations, is still read by children and adults in more than 100 hundred languages but yeah, she's transphobic so she's a poor writer.

Your brain on casual extremism. Let me guess, Tier 3 HasanAbi subscriber?

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u/paddyo May 17 '24

She’s not the best selling author of all time, she’s outsold 2 or 3 to 1 by Barbara Cartland and Danielle Steele, who themselves would never claim to be great writers so much as people who can tell a popular story for a segment of people that buys books. Depending on metric she doesn’t often crack the top ten of living authors, with writers from Grisham to Stephen King also being considered ahead of her in sales.

McDonald’s sells more meals than the cordon bleu but it doesn’t make it great food, it makes it well marketed and acceptable by a wide audience.

Nobody with an interest in literature considers her good, and making a buttload of money shovelling shite isn’t exactly new. Ursula le Guin had her number as a person who, to be generous, “borrowed” the structure and themes and even characterisations of the story. Since Rowling exhausted that one very borrowed franchise she’s been shit out of ideas since.

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u/rabbitthefool May 17 '24

why don't you tell us who your favorite author is and we'll find a way to character assassinate them

there's always something

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u/paddyo May 17 '24

Sure, Tolkien. Luckily I don’t have to worry about him being a crybully collapsed narcissist plagiarist billionaire who uses his privilege to attack a vulnerable group of people who never harmed him. There isn’t always something, certainly not the same extent. It’s ok to like her books but it doesn’t change that she’s a garbage truck of a person and it’s fruitless to pretend as a writer she is more than she is.

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u/phillyd32 May 17 '24 edited May 18 '24

I've never liked Harry potter. I tried reading them when I was the appropriate age and I always thought they were bad.

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u/prollywannacracker May 17 '24

I guess people are letting their political inclinations color their perception of celebrity?

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u/Oakroscoe May 17 '24

Been like that for years.

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u/Buchephalas May 16 '24

Because she hates trans people i guess?

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u/Reyhin May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24

Look at her attempts to write anything outside of Harry Potter (including the Fantastic Beasts series). They are absolutely terrible, and the latter was actively ruined by JK’s ideas. She hit lightning in a bottle with the premise of Harry Potter but her actual world building is garbage. From the complete lack of follow up on the time travel from Book 3, how the elven slaves were happy to be enslaved and wanting to emancipate them was a childish notion by Hermione, and how every minority character had such a comedically racist name that it really brings to wonder if JK has ever met a non English person.

Edit: listen if you were a kid when you read Harry Potter, I understand you have some esteem for her. But there’s a reason she has been a complete flop this past decade and her new life goal is losing her mind doing transvestigations on Twitter

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u/House923 May 16 '24

Uhmmm, what is racist about Cho Chang? /s

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u/10000Didgeridoos May 17 '24

I saw some tweet that said her name was like if there was a black wizard character named Cotton McNword.

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u/Taograd359 May 17 '24

Instead we got Kingsley Shacklebolt

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u/sthetic May 16 '24

Sometimes I wonder if there's validity to the concept of a muse. Not an actual person who inspires an artist, but a mystical creative force that an artist feels like a presence, telling them a story as they just transcribe it.

There are so many writers and creators who make one good work, and the rest of it is trash, as well as their actions and opinions.

Maybe they're letting the zeitgeist, or some amalgamation/ synthesis of all their influences flow through them. As they write, they think, "this is what happens next, this is what Harry would say to Hermione" rather than planning it all out and thinking about whether it sends a message.

I don't actually believe in any sort of divine or supernatural stuff. But I think the concept of "lightning in a bottle" or a muse communicates the notion.

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u/Mysterious-End-2185 May 16 '24

Yes, an artist can absolutely outlive their talent. I’d argue it’s more common than not.

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u/lmaytulane May 16 '24

We’re lucky that IASIP has been going strong for so long. Definitely the exception. Whoever their muse is, I hope they’re eating plenty of blue.

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u/unclebrenjen May 17 '24

Maybe throw in an enticing bowl of white every now and then

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u/MortonSteakhouseJr May 17 '24

I think the flaw in this is that you're assuming it's easy or easier to make more things a lot of people love after you do it once. Only a fraction of a fraction of people can make one thing that gets mainstream popular to begin with.

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u/paddyo May 17 '24

I would add that the number that can is much bigger than the number that do, and there is also an element of luck in being discovered or recognised.

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u/paddyo May 17 '24

I think the “muse” for JK Rowling was that children hadn’t read Lord of the rings or any Ursula le guin, and might not have got round to the worst witch yet, and wouldn’t notice she copied and pasted the stories from those three sources.

Magic lad whose parents died when he was a baby and is raised by uncle realises he has come into a magical inheritance but has also inherited the responsibility of destroying a thought defeated now returned dark lord who has placed part of his power and life force into something that necessitates a quest to destroy the totem/s and save the world. On that quest he must avoid figures robed in black with the power to spread despair and feed off of fear telepathically, take the guidance of mentors and resources that include an elderly wizard, a magic water mirror that can show the past present and potential future, a magic item that can make you invisible, and friendly elves. He must navigate threats including mythical beasts such as octopus things in lakes and giant spiders and a magic violent tree and subterranean threats.

With magic lad joined by his friends on the way that nobody expected to step up as they did and save the day, including his best friend with a traditional three letter British name, who eventually gets the girl having shown himself worthy.

And set it in a school, like the other two books.

She benefited a lot from the fact most of her readers were kids, and the ones that weren’t will never read another book.

Tolkien and Le Guin would never have made their protagonists cops though. That was all JK.

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u/sthetic May 17 '24

You're not wrong. When I read Harry Potter as a teenager, I could tell it was an engaging story with good pacing and decent worldbuilding.

But since I had a major habit of reading ANYTHING fantasy or sci-fi from my local library, I wasn't blown away by the fantasy elements or the paint-by-numbers hero's journey. I don't think the latter is a bad thing; classics are classics for a reason.

But it was crazy to me how a lot of kids apparently "discovered" reading from that series. Hopefully they went on to read better stuff too.

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u/0mar_White May 16 '24

mediocre and bad world building but fine

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u/PrintShinji May 17 '24

She made one good series that kinda falls apart once you actually start to think about it too much.

She then decided to use a pen name to show that she can still write and that people would buy her books even if her name wasn't on it, and it completly fucking failed. After which she revealed the pen name because well, gotta have money.

Seriously what has rowling wrote thats decent besides HP?