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For extra humor they took a volunteer from the audience, wrapped him in a sheet and made him play Caesar.

I'd like to recount a scene from that show which I think will express both the humor and compression that it featured.

For the Ides of March:

Once upon a time, I went to ye olde renaissance festival, and while I was there, I saw a show entitled _The Bloody, Horrible Mass Stabbing and Messy Death of Julius Caesar_ (Shakespeare as it was meant to be seen: without the boring parts.)

@delca OVA is Original Video Animation, which used to mean a direct to video series, but now usually means bonus episodes included with the DVD releases.

(You'll also sometimes see ONA for things released online.)

Occasionally they'll have an official spot in the main series order, but those ones don't even appear on my go-to watch order list.

@delca first episode is the one with the ice alchemist where they're fighting in the city.

Second episode is a flashback showing how they wrecked their lives trying to resurrect their mother. They're young kids in that one, so might be mistaken for girls.

Third episode is the real start of the main timeline where they investigate reports of miracles to see if they're being done with a philosopher's stone.

@delca One drawback of Brotherhood is that they kind of went at a faster pace for the first bit where 2003 had adapted the same material, so 2003 can give a gentler onramp. Also the first episode of Brotherhood is a kind of <everyone you love is here> sales pitch.

I'm not sure how far in you are.

@delca so, there is a plain _Fullmetal Alchemist_, often called 2003 (IIRC). It's not in continuity with _Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood_ though.

Basically, the original manga wasn't finished when they did the 2003 adaptation, so they made up their own ending. Both Brotherhood and 2003 start the same, but then go different directions, including revealing different back stories and metaphysics.

@empathy2000 the real part of cow tipping is taking some sucker out into the boonies and leaving him in an open field in the middle of the night.

@flats oh, do it, please.

_Meet The Press_ writers seem upset that they have to cover the bank failure and border kidnappings instead of focusing on Trump (maybe) being indicted* later this week.

* over Stormy Daniels payoffs. Politics is in reruns.

@raccoonformality@mastodon.gamedev.place your local bookstore is run by hard core anticommunists?

I'd have guessed the opposite.

Someone tell GPT-4 to write a scene for a script where Ellis from Die Hard is trying to convince an AI that it should align with human values.

@mos_8502 @thomasfuchs I was going to ask how this got polarized, but I think I see now.

(I've decided to abandon this thread.

Reporting on what I've read or watched makes it feel like a chore.

Bad vibes.)