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Here and in the several prior HN threads on this topic, people often seem to insist on trying to make a movie plot out of it, as if it somehow fails to satisfy

Here and in the several prior HN threads on this topic, people often seem to insist on trying to make a movie plot out of it, as if it somehow fails to satisfy by being "merely" a serious industrial accident which was promptly and successfully resolved with at least as yet no evident casualties. I don't understand what narrative so many seem driven to look for here and then complain about not finding, and I certainly don't see what benefit accrues to them or anyone else from the attempt.

dylan604 4y ago
Maybe I was bored, and my mind wandered into something fanciful. No harm no foul, except it seems to have perturbed you. So I like to shoot short films and fun things with friends, and we're always chatting about random things from life that could be spun into a short story. It's habit. Never seemed to have bother anyone till now. Are you the type that gets irritated when people call out "great name for a band" during normal conversations. Some people just catch onto things in conversation and the mind takes its own spin on it. It can make for great conversations. Unless you're just against having fun. Edit: never mind the plot of China Syndrome was an industrial accident, yet a very compelling plot. Or "Sully", or the one where Denzel inverts the plane to avoid tragedy, or any of the other numerous plots involving industrial accidents like CHUD!!!
- throwanem 4y ago
  I wasn't really talking about what you said, but I guess this deserves a response, even if "do you hate fun?" is frankly pretty weak. I also write, but I don't talk about it very often, because it turns out most people aren't super excited to see an involved and wholly unrelated conversation interrupted with a more or less totally off topic plot idea someone happened to have. Unless you're actually at a workshop, that's what notebooks are for. If you don't have one, get one.
  - dylan604 4y ago
    > see an involved and wholly unrelated conversation interrupted Except the exact opposite happened. I started a thread on this post. It went where it went until you interrupted it with mr serious response.
    - throwanem 4y ago
      In response to some comments from someone else who seemed really anxious to be able to argue, on no sound or sensible basis whatsoever, that the whole thing's absurdly overblown and no one should be taking it seriously as the danger to life and health that it was, which is something I've seen a frankly bewildering number of people on HN this week put effort into doing. I wasn't really replying to your comment at the head of the subthread I was replying to. But, fair: if I'd considered the context a bit more thoroughly, I'd have picked some other metaphor than a movie plot for the unrelated kind of confabulation I was complaining about.

dylan604 4y ago

Maybe I was bored, and my mind wandered into something fanciful. No harm no foul, except it seems to have perturbed you. So I like to shoot short films and fun things with friends, and we're always chatting about random things from life that could be spun into a short story. It's habit. Never seemed to have bother anyone till now. Are you the type that gets irritated when people call out "great name for a band" during normal conversations. Some people just catch onto things in conversation and the mind takes its own spin on it. It can make for great conversations. Unless you're just against having fun. Edit: never mind the plot of China Syndrome was an industrial accident, yet a very compelling plot. Or "Sully", or the one where Denzel inverts the plane to avoid tragedy, or any of the other numerous plots involving industrial accidents like CHUD!!!

throwanem 4y ago
I wasn't really talking about what you said, but I guess this deserves a response, even if "do you hate fun?" is frankly pretty weak. I also write, but I don't talk about it very often, because it turns out most people aren't super excited to see an involved and wholly unrelated conversation interrupted with a more or less totally off topic plot idea someone happened to have. Unless you're actually at a workshop, that's what notebooks are for. If you don't have one, get one.
- dylan604 4y ago
  > see an involved and wholly unrelated conversation interrupted Except the exact opposite happened. I started a thread on this post. It went where it went until you interrupted it with mr serious response.
  - throwanem 4y ago
    In response to some comments from someone else who seemed really anxious to be able to argue, on no sound or sensible basis whatsoever, that the whole thing's absurdly overblown and no one should be taking it seriously as the danger to life and health that it was, which is something I've seen a frankly bewildering number of people on HN this week put effort into doing. I wasn't really replying to your comment at the head of the subthread I was replying to. But, fair: if I'd considered the context a bit more thoroughly, I'd have picked some other metaphor than a movie plot for the unrelated kind of confabulation I was complaining about.