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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 17
PumpkinCoach
12/02/18 10:58:19 AM
#11
Remaining:
*1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
***2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
***3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
*5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 17
PumpkinCoach
12/01/18 11:55:03 PM
#7
Remaining:
*1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
*2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
**3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
*5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king

alright, an actual write-up:

The barrier between life and death has been porous from the beginning, but increasingly so towards the end. There is something rotten in Denmark, and here it is literalized as Hamlet and Horatio stand in a mass grave. Yorick is brougt back to life through words, as Hamlet begins his speech with remembrance and ends in the present tense, speaking to the skull directly. Ophelia is revised through Hamlet's claim. Hamlet redefining his relationship with Ophelia when she's dead foreshadows his own fate and is maybe even a bit karmic, but more on that later. Then, of course, the barrier is porous as Laertes and Hamlet leap into the grave before their deaths.

The clowns, as they do, speak truth through humour and discuss some major themes. Has Hamlet, like Ophelia, been allowing himself to be taken by the currents? The water analogy suggests two truths that look the same - Either Ophelia drowned herself, or water drowned her. Water is fate or fortune, and if taken to its logical conclusion, calls into question if we have any free will at all. This question is subverted when, officially, Ophelia's death was an accident and she is to have a Christian burial. Hamlet has been searching for a meaningful death, and through it a meaningful life, but increasingly it seems out of one's control to define themselves.

Hamlet going off at Laerte's show of grief puts us back in inky cloak territory. He's talking about himself moreso than Laertes, and it comes off like an unutterable warning to a fellow traveler from someone who's been down that road. He lists all the ridiculous things he could do, but in the end what he'll really do is rant.
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 17
PumpkinCoach
12/01/18 9:36:02 PM
#1
1 save per hour.
4 saves from unique users to be safe.
last scene is eliminated.

1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king

Eliminated:
5. 5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
6. 4.5 - Ophelia's madness; Laertes demands vengeance
7. 3.4 - Hamlet berates Gertrude; kills Polonius; ghost appears to Hamlet only
8. 1.1 - ghost appears during night watch
9. 3.2 - The Mousetrap
10. 4.7 - Claudius persuades Laertes to follow his plan for killing Hamlet; Ophelia drowns
11. 1.2 - wedding banquet; Hamlet learns about ghost; "sullied/solid flesh"
12. 4.6 - Horatio reads letter from Hamlet about being captured by pirates
13. 3.3 - Claudius confesses and prays; "now might I do it pat"
14. 4.3 - Hamlet eventually reveals where he put the body; Claudius plans to have Hamlet killed in England
15. 1.3 - sending Laertes off; advice for Ophelia
16. 1.4 - waiting for ghost; ghost beckons Hamlet to follow
17. 4.4 - Fortinbras on his way to Poland; "how all occasions do inform against me"
18. 4.2 - R & G beg Hamlet to tell them where he put Polonius's body
19. 2.1 - Reynaldo; Ophelio affrighted
20. 4.1 - Gertrude tells Claudius what happened; Claudius determines to send Hamlet away

Yes, poor Yorick.......
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PumpkinCoach
12/01/18 4:53:42 PM
#159
(G)I-DLE at the MMAs


so powerful.
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TopicGeorge HW Bush dead at 94
PumpkinCoach
12/01/18 4:01:19 PM
#51
good riddance. good, not great.
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Topic^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Princess - Day 9
PumpkinCoach
11/30/18 11:56:35 PM
#90
She-ra
Xena
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Topic^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Princess - Day 9
PumpkinCoach
11/30/18 10:52:20 PM
#66
Leia
Sailor Moon
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PumpkinCoach
11/30/18 10:11:21 PM
#157
this is based on absolutely nothing, but with if cosmic sound didn't have a song on this album because they're busy with the upcoming girl group? what if cosmic sound is going to be main producer for the new group? man, that would be so good.

also, not confirmed, but lee soomin might be with mystic ent:


can this time be it
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TopicI beat Night in the Woods, don't know if I feel like talking about it (spoilers)
PumpkinCoach
11/30/18 9:26:16 PM
#37
i also recommend this hegelbon piece - https://www.no-cartridge.net/the-monster-at-the-end-of-capitalism
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TopicCan we please, FUCKING PLEASE, stop with the pic sabotage?
PumpkinCoach
11/30/18 8:14:59 PM
#37
fuck a sprite round, where's my dab round
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Topic^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Princess - Day 9
PumpkinCoach
11/30/18 8:07:56 PM
#10
Lymsleia
Mint
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TopicI beat Night in the Woods, don't know if I feel like talking about it (spoilers)
PumpkinCoach
11/30/18 1:20:51 PM
#34
I think to make it all in Mae's head would have been over-explaining it, and making it too neat. The thing is, the supernatural is already symptomatic of our anxieties made concrete. If it's in her head, all you end up with is a diegetic metaphor - Mae has anxiety/depression which manifests for her in this way using the aesthetics of hauntology. It tames the hauntological, and takes away its power to both mean and defy meaning. Both the world and Mae's psychological state are reduced to what is handily knowable, when horror can suggest the inexplicable and inexpressible depths of human experience. By expressing the horror as real, or at least not explaining it away entirely, it opens up the supernatural for wider interpretation that better represents the irrationality and uncanny of the real world.

As for the cult, it... doesn't feel that farfetched to me? Like, it does feel we are on the verge of reactionary atavistic death cults. Beyond that, I didn't find it disconnected from Mae's problems. Maybe its my own blind spots coupled with how I approach texts, but I wasn't thinking about mental illness at all until afterwards when I heard other people talking about it. It's absolutely there, but I just read Mae as experiencing being a subject under late capitalism, and the gnawing despair and sense of worthlessness that comes with it. The cult shows an alternative path for Mae. Both the cult and Mae are acting out of anxiety. Both are fixated on nostalgia for the past, and for lost futures, but on different levels. NITW is a ghost story, be it literal ghosts or the semiotic ghosts haunting Possum Springs. What can you do about all that anxiety? You can sublimate it by joining a death cult sacrificing children to the God of Capitalism. You can surrender to an ideology where everything is reduced to a market element to lessen your existential dilemma. Our metaphor for the market is the invisible hand, when the market is actually us - it's our alienated labour perceived as inexplicable and autonomous. There's no underlying logic between performing human sacrifice and Possum Spring's economy, but the monster pit is given totemic power to give the cult a sense of control. It's an expression of alienation, an opportunity to externalize and ritualize the anxiety. Mae, in the end, would rather feel the anxiety.

Let's look at the Casey thing. He's a lost kid from a dead-end town. He, and really all of Possum Spring, can fall off the face of the earth and it would be "doesn't matter, who knows, life goes on". This reading is present, but the death cult adds a new dimension without taking anything away from it. One of the myths of modernity is that capitalism will solve its own problems, and this is a distorted expression of that. The detritus of capitalism is re-inserted as raw material, as commodified bodies, as grist to the mill. It doesn't matter if there's a monster, the act itself is out of a desire to connect with a meta-narrative where sacrifice makes sense at all. It's out of a desire to believe that we are killing ourselves and each other at the altar of capitalism for a good reason.
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PumpkinCoach
11/30/18 11:36:30 AM
#156
Mamamoo - Wind Flower


it's alright. very stripped back, and a bit plain.

haven't checked the b-sides, but already disappointed to see cosmic sound doesn't have a contribution.
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PumpkinCoach
11/30/18 10:33:49 AM
#154
Red Velvet - Really Bad Boy


bleh, it's just a lot of wailing that goes nowhere.

at least the b-sides are good:

Red Velvet - Butterflies


Red Velvet - Sassy Me


the vocal fry in 'sassy me' is making me imagine what it would be like as an nct song.
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Topic^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Princess - Day 8
PumpkinCoach
11/30/18 12:48:38 AM
#82
Sailor Moon
San
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 16 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/29/18 8:50:55 PM
#28
Remaining:
***1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
**5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
***5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king
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Topic^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Princess - Day 8
PumpkinCoach
11/29/18 8:49:59 PM
#26
Lymsleia
Mint
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 16 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/29/18 5:26:08 PM
#26
Remaining:
**1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
**5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
***5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king
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TopicWhich was the biggest release disaster?
PumpkinCoach
11/29/18 1:51:32 PM
#26
PC Version of Arkham Knight

so bad they had to pull it from stores.
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 16 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/29/18 10:53:00 AM
#21
hmm nah, we'll get there i think

Remaining:
**1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
**3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
**5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
**5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king
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PumpkinCoach
11/29/18 10:50:44 AM
#152
oh damn
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 16 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/29/18 3:48:44 AM
#15
Remaining:
**1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
*2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
**3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
*5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
*5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 16 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 11:58:27 PM
#11
scarletspeed7 posted...
I voted for 2.2

1 save per hour now.

garetha200 posted...
1.5

4 saves from unique users.
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 16 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 11:29:48 PM
#8
bump
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 16 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 8:41:35 PM
#7
Remaining:
**1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
*5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
*5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king
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PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 8:11:11 PM
#150
i feel really good about the top of my list this year, unlike last year when even 1st place changed a dozen times up until the end, and i'd probably have a different one if i finalized it a day later.

also it doesn't mean much, but the longlist currently has 4 BTS songs, 2 Day6 songs, and 3 Stray Kids songs. fairly certain there'll be at least 1 BTS, 1 Day6, and 2 Stray Kids on the final list, but i'm not sure beyond that.
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 16 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 6:54:48 PM
#3
changed it to 1 save per hour.
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 16 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 5:57:59 PM
#1
1 save per hour.
4 saves from unique users to be safe.
last scene is eliminated.

1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king

Eliminated:
6. 4.5 - Ophelia's madness; Laertes demands vengeance
7. 3.4 - Hamlet berates Gertrude; kills Polonius; ghost appears to Hamlet only
8. 1.1 - ghost appears during night watch
9. 3.2 - The Mousetrap
10. 4.7 - Claudius persuades Laertes to follow his plan for killing Hamlet; Ophelia drowns
11. 1.2 - wedding banquet; Hamlet learns about ghost; "sullied/solid flesh"
12. 4.6 - Horatio reads letter from Hamlet about being captured by pirates
13. 3.3 - Claudius confesses and prays; "now might I do it pat"
14. 4.3 - Hamlet eventually reveals where he put the body; Claudius plans to have Hamlet killed in England
15. 1.3 - sending Laertes off; advice for Ophelia
16. 1.4 - waiting for ghost; ghost beckons Hamlet to follow
17. 4.4 - Fortinbras on his way to Poland; "how all occasions do inform against me"
18. 4.2 - R & G beg Hamlet to tell them where he put Polonius's body
19. 2.1 - Reynaldo; Ophelio affrighted
20. 4.1 - Gertrude tells Claudius what happened; Claudius determines to send Hamlet away



y'all should watch Slings & Arrows.
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 15 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 2:07:42 PM
#12
bump
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TopicRetro RPGs that are 10 hours-ish?
PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 1:35:20 PM
#24
Void Pyramid
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PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 12:59:58 PM
#148
oof, getting to that time of year where i have to whittle down a 200+ longlist into a lean top 100.
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 15 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 10:07:01 AM
#11
Remaining:
4.5 - Ophelia's madness; Laertes demands vengeance
**5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 15 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 2:46:39 AM
#10
in retrospect, 2 saves an hour is a bit silly when there are only 6 scenes left.
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 15 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/28/18 2:10:20 AM
#8
Remaining:
**1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
4.5 - Ophelia's madness; Laertes demands vengeance
*5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king
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TopicIf It Were Up to Board 8: Cloud Strife vs. Alucard and Crono vs. Phoenix Wright
PumpkinCoach
11/27/18 11:41:54 PM
#38
Alucard
Phoenix
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 15 (RULE CHANGE)
PumpkinCoach
11/27/18 10:53:02 PM
#1
up to 2 saves per hour.
3 saves from unique users to be safe.
last scene is eliminated.

1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
4.5 - Ophelia's madness; Laertes demands vengeance
5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king

Eliminated:
7. 3.4 - Hamlet berates Gertrude; kills Polonius; ghost appears to Hamlet only
8. 1.1 - ghost appears during night watch
9. 3.2 - The Mousetrap
10. 4.7 - Claudius persuades Laertes to follow his plan for killing Hamlet; Ophelia drowns
11. 1.2 - wedding banquet; Hamlet learns about ghost; "sullied/solid flesh"
12. 4.6 - Horatio reads letter from Hamlet about being captured by pirates
13. 3.3 - Claudius confesses and prays; "now might I do it pat"
14. 4.3 - Hamlet eventually reveals where he put the body; Claudius plans to have Hamlet killed in England
15. 1.3 - sending Laertes off; advice for Ophelia
16. 1.4 - waiting for ghost; ghost beckons Hamlet to follow
17. 4.4 - Fortinbras on his way to Poland; "how all occasions do inform against me"
18. 4.2 - R & G beg Hamlet to tell them where he put Polonius's body
19. 2.1 - Reynaldo; Ophelio affrighted
20. 4.1 - Gertrude tells Claudius what happened; Claudius determines to send Hamlet away

gertrude not seeing the ghost is a continuity error and lazy shakespeare don't give af sign my petition to de-canonize it
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 14
PumpkinCoach
11/27/18 10:05:31 PM
#7
tennant version also does the same actor thing for claudius and the ghost. i've only seen that one once - maybe i'll revisit.

Remaining:
*3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
3.4 - Hamlet berates Gertrude; kills Polonius; ghost appears to Hamlet only
*5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king

i think i need a rule change.
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Topic^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Princess - Day 7
PumpkinCoach
11/27/18 9:21:00 PM
#49
Leia
Sailor Moon
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 14
PumpkinCoach
11/27/18 9:13:06 PM
#1
up to 2 saves per hour.
2 saves from unique users to be safe.
last scene is eliminated.

1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
3.4 - Hamlet berates Gertrude; kills Polonius; ghost appears to Hamlet only
4.5 - Ophelia's madness; Laertes demands vengeance
5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king

Eliminated:
8. 1.1 - ghost appears during night watch
9. 3.2 - The Mousetrap
10. 4.7 - Claudius persuades Laertes to follow his plan for killing Hamlet; Ophelia drowns
11. 1.2 - wedding banquet; Hamlet learns about ghost; "sullied/solid flesh"
12. 4.6 - Horatio reads letter from Hamlet about being captured by pirates
13. 3.3 - Claudius confesses and prays; "now might I do it pat"
14. 4.3 - Hamlet eventually reveals where he put the body; Claudius plans to have Hamlet killed in England
15. 1.3 - sending Laertes off; advice for Ophelia
16. 1.4 - waiting for ghost; ghost beckons Hamlet to follow
17. 4.4 - Fortinbras on his way to Poland; "how all occasions do inform against me"
18. 4.2 - R & G beg Hamlet to tell them where he put Polonius's body
19. 2.1 - Reynaldo; Ophelio affrighted
20. 4.1 - Gertrude tells Claudius what happened; Claudius determines to send Hamlet away

From the first line, the play sets the mood of a Denmark full of anxiety and paranoia. Later, we have the spooky ghost, but also Horatio recounting Hamlet Sr's military history in a segment that goes on a bit too long. I don't think much about this segment usually, but there's a bit of mirroring here - Horatio starts the play by telling the story of Hamlet Sr, and is tasked with telling the story of Hamlet Jr at the end. Given the little bit we get about how Hamlet will be remembered (more on that later), how accurate is this portrait of Hamlet Sr, or any of Hamlet's description of his father throughout the play for that matter? Did Hamlet Sr. have this much power over Hamlet in life as he does as a ghost? The status quo changed dramatically shortly before the start of the play, and we don't know what these relationships were like beforehand. Did Hamlet always hate his uncle or is it just because of the re-marriage?

On the ghost, Bernardo suggests that it appeared because the current military build-up in Denmark is due to wars that Hamlet Sr started. They are figuratively and literally haunted by the past. There are decisions to be made about how to stage the ghost that are not entirely straightforward. In this scene, it's seems pretty concrete, as multiple characters see it, though later scenes are inconsistent with that, which perhaps goes back to the fracturing of the Reformation. The play doesn't comes down on whether the ghost is demon or spirit, and Hamlet switches back and forth over the course of it.

As the state and the king are one, Denmark is described as being cold and dead while the king is a ghost. Furthermore, in this scene, the characters constantly say the ghost is like the king, referring to Hamlet Sr, but it also works if referring to the Claudius. Hamlet later gets a lot out of speaking about Claudius as if he's already dead in the ground. Both Claudius and the ghost are both resemble a king, both full of sin and corruption, and both are dead. Performances that have the two played by the same actor draws the connection even more explicitly.
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Topic^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Princess - Day 7
PumpkinCoach
11/27/18 7:57:12 PM
#10
Lymsleia
Mint
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TopicBest Open-World Game under 20$?
PumpkinCoach
11/27/18 5:56:08 PM
#17
The Saboteur is also on GOG.
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 13
PumpkinCoach
11/27/18 1:58:24 PM
#12
Remaining:
*1.1 - ghost appears during night watch
*1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 13
PumpkinCoach
11/27/18 10:37:41 AM
#8
Remaining:
*1.1 - ghost appears during night watch
*1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
*3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
3.4 - Hamlet berates Gertrude; kills Polonius; ghost appears to Hamlet only
*4.5 - Ophelia's madness; Laertes demands vengeance
*5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
*5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king
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Topickpop topic - greatguys? great guys.
PumpkinCoach
11/27/18 2:00:24 AM
#146
a bunch of new releases today, most of it a bit meh.

here's kim doah's sub-unit, launching ahead of the full group:

Flavor - Milkshake


it's orange caramel-esque, but maybe not orange caramel-esque enough. still, doah owns.
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 13
PumpkinCoach
11/27/18 1:43:03 AM
#3
hey
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 13
PumpkinCoach
11/26/18 9:13:35 PM
#2
bump
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TopicSave My Hamlet Scene - Day 13
PumpkinCoach
11/26/18 7:09:53 PM
#1
up to 2 saves per hour.
2 saves from unique users to be safe.
last scene is eliminated.

1.1 - ghost appears during night watch
1.5 - ghost describes murder, Hamlet swears revenge; oath
2.2 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; fishmonger; players arrive; "rogue and peasant slave"
3.1 - "to be or not to be"; nunnery
3.4 - Hamlet berates Gertrude; kills Polonius; ghost appears to Hamlet only
4.5 - Ophelia's madness; Laertes demands vengeance
5.1 - Gravediggers; Laertes jumps into the grave; Hamlet jumps into the grave
5.2 - Hamlet explains how he got R&G killed; duel; everyone dies; Fortinbras becomes king

Eliminated:
9. 3.2 - The Mousetrap
10. 4.7 - Claudius persuades Laertes to follow his plan for killing Hamlet; Ophelia drowns
11. 1.2 - wedding banquet; Hamlet learns about ghost; "sullied/solid flesh"
12. 4.6 - Horatio reads letter from Hamlet about being captured by pirates
13. 3.3 - Claudius confesses and prays; "now might I do it pat"
14. 4.3 - Hamlet eventually reveals where he put the body; Claudius plans to have Hamlet killed in England
15. 1.3 - sending Laertes off; advice for Ophelia
16. 1.4 - waiting for ghost; ghost beckons Hamlet to follow
17. 4.4 - Fortinbras on his way to Poland; "how all occasions do inform against me"
18. 4.2 - R & G beg Hamlet to tell them where he put Polonius's body
19. 2.1 - Reynaldo; Ophelio affrighted
20. 4.1 - Gertrude tells Claudius what happened; Claudius determines to send Hamlet away

A major scene, and a fun one as any with a lot of mad Hamlet will be. After cursing himself for his inaction his next move is... to watch and wait. Did he ever really need confirmation of the murder or is he just delaying again? I'd say more than Claudius, his concern is on Gertrude's guilt, hence the focus on the player queen in what we saw of the play, and the direct interrogation for her response. There's a lot open to interpretation, which is fitting for this scene about interpretation. Nothing in the script gives a definitive answer, and much of it comes down to choices in the physical performance. Hamlet also spoils his plan somewhat, and to a particularly great degree in the 1980 adaptation I'm watching. Derek Jacobi's Hamlet is incredibly disruptive during the performance, and the king could reasonably have risen because of Hamlets antics rather than false fire. Patrick Stewart's Claudius calmly asks for light, and shines it on Hamlet's face with a disapproving shake of the head before leaving. It's very ambiguous, yet Hamlet is confident that his plan worked (Horatio's line is more ambiguous and dependent on delivery), which supports that he didn't actually need confirmation.

Also, the bit about the recorder is gold.
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TopicVideo games set during Christmas?
PumpkinCoach
11/26/18 11:28:50 AM
#31
Sam & Max Season 2 - Episode 1: Ice Station Santa
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