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I have a premonition of future programming despair, and I wonder if it'll be like what Ian McKellen felt: A veteran of Shakespearean plays, doing all those [cor

by Terr_ 3mo ago

I have a premonition of future programming despair, and I wonder if it'll be like what Ian McKellen felt: A veteran of Shakespearean plays, doing all those [correction, not LoTR] The Hobbit green-screen shots interacting with no real person... __________ > McKellen said: "I felt pretty miserable … and thought perhaps, has the time come for me to stop acting altogether if I can't cope with these difficulties?" [...] > "It was so distressing and off-putting and difficult that I thought 'I don't want to make this film if this is what I'm going to have to do'," McKellen added. "It's not what I do for a living. I act with other people, I don't act on my own." -- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/20/the-hobbit-gandalf-ian-mckellen-almost-quit-acting https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/20/the-hobbit-gand...

suladead 3mo ago
Soul engraving video seeing him go through that
- fragmede 3mo ago
  Compare that to actors acting in The Volume though, instead of the greenscreen room.
  - ses1984 3mo ago
    Being marginally better than hell is still hell.
    - fragmede 3mo ago
      "marginally better"? What are you on about? The Volume is the opposite end of having to act in a greenscreen room!
      - ses1984 3mo ago
        If you’re the only one in the cast who isn’t cgi, it’s basically the same.
latexr 3mo ago
Moment of the breakdown (I couldn’t find a less shitty video). https://youtu.be/CtYEm21Fhpo?t=79 https://youtu.be/CtYEm21Fhpo?t=79
Terr_ 3mo ago
P.S.: I want to make it clear that this isn't just about dealing with other humans. The dread I contemplate should affect even introverted shut-ins. I want to reduce accidental complexity, discover and understand real problems, solve them well, and leave the world somehow better for it. Not just some infinitely process ping-pong of a hallucinated digital dollhouse fifteen levels removed from objective reality.

by Terr_ 3mo ago

suladead 3mo ago

Soul engraving video seeing him go through that

fragmede 3mo ago
Compare that to actors acting in The Volume though, instead of the greenscreen room.
- ses1984 3mo ago
  Being marginally better than hell is still hell.
  - fragmede 3mo ago
    "marginally better"? What are you on about? The Volume is the opposite end of having to act in a greenscreen room!
    - ses1984 3mo ago
      If you’re the only one in the cast who isn’t cgi, it’s basically the same.

latexr 3mo ago

Moment of the breakdown (I couldn’t find a less shitty video). https://youtu.be/CtYEm21Fhpo?t=79 https://youtu.be/CtYEm21Fhpo?t=79

Terr_ 3mo ago

P.S.: I want to make it clear that this isn't just about dealing with other humans. The dread I contemplate should affect even introverted shut-ins. I want to reduce accidental complexity, discover and understand real problems, solve them well, and leave the world somehow better for it. Not just some infinitely process ping-pong of a hallucinated digital dollhouse fifteen levels removed from objective reality.