Joeboy

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by Joeboy 5y ago
As I understood their comment, they were pointing out the absurdity of the idea you are also pointing out the absurdity of.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
If there was no evidence of the account existing before you registered the NFT, I think that would be a reasonably credible bit of evidence in your favour.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
An NFT is decent evidence in favour of the keyholder being the creator of a work, if there's no earlier evidence of somebody else being the creator of the work. When people first started talking about them I thought that was the idea -
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by Joeboy 5y ago
My first though was bisexuality, then Basic Income, then glanced at the article and found it was something to do with Salesforce, then found your comment. Thank you so much.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Free Fire is basically a whole film of that. To be honest it's great.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I suppose they're tried and tested formulas, that have become sufficiently unfamiliar that they stand out from their contemporaries. In 30 years maybe you could do the same with films about superheroes discovering their true inner stre
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by Joeboy 5y ago
In an odd paradox, it seems to me that some of the best Marvel things are the ones that really lean into older tropes. Eg. Winter Soldier ('70s style conspiracy thriller), Logan (Classic western), Guardians of the Galaxy (jukebox music
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Wikipedia says it made $657.9m against a budget of £300m. I think the rule of thumb is movies need to make double their production budget to be profitable. So it seems like it did at least OK, financially
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I can't speak for every country but for me (in the UK) I think I'd run out of easily-watched superhero movies long before I ran out of easily-watched non-superhero movies, if my film-watching needs were that high. Edit: Also the o
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by Joeboy 5y ago
It's obviously true that superhero films make a lot of money. I'm saying nevertheless, other films are produced, and it's possible to watch them, and thus "I wish other things were being produced" isn't a very
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Why? Can we not assess the films produced by looking at the list of films produced? I'm not saying as many people watch or know about the other films. In fact that is precisely the reason I don't like it when people imply th
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by Joeboy 5y ago
It's basically souped-up rear projection[1], which suits the "classic western" feel of the material really well. I'm not sure it's exactly "more realistic" - maybe we're just less used to seeing that
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I simultaneously violently agree and violently disagree. This is kind of my main beef with the Marvel stuff I've seen - they all end with these boring flying, shooting, punching VFX scenes, even if they started more interestingly (eg.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
> The Mandalorian ... using almost no CGI Um.... Edit: Just to elaborate, I'll note that when the first JJ film came out a lot of people's take was "thank God it's not an awful VFX fest like the prequels", despit
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by Joeboy 5y ago
> I do however wish that other things were being produced Here's a list of films produced in the US in 2020. I didn't count, but it looks to me like not much of it is superhero-based. And this is just the US, and ignores a lot
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I noted the ambiguity but initially assumed cryptography, based on the name "CipherTrace".
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by Joeboy 5y ago
> “What happens when the best writer, ever, does VFX for a film?” My guess would be that somebody who was very good at writing, and also took an interest in visual (or in this case practical) effects, would probably be at least fairly go
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Not the Sid Sheinberg "Love Conquers All" ending, if that's what you're getting at! I did watch it once, hard to believe that seemed like a good idea to anybody. Makes me wonder how many other great films we lost to that
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by Joeboy 5y ago
"It was just a dream" only works if it suggests an actual ending. Eg. Brazil, Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. I don't think it's a viable twist in itself.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
The enjoyment of figuring out what's going on in something like Mulholland Drive is rather similar to the enjoyment of debugging a complex bug. There's a frustration about it not immediately making sense, but there's also a p
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Also done both, and agree that being a software dev is considerably easier, more pleasant and better paid than the kind of factory / admin work I did in my 20s. I suppose whether I'm worth the money and whether I deserve the m
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I'm not necessarily claiming to have better ideas! I think it's really hard, and the internet has made it very hard to second guess the context in which your messages will be received. * It's usually best to go with somethi
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Surely there's a sense in which the precise meaning of "greedy Frenchmen" still exists? It's obviously a bit difficult to discuss without context, but entirely discarding the accurate meaning based on there being &qu
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by Joeboy 5y ago
> I agree that the phrase "greedy Frenchmen" can only be reasonably interpreted as the speaker believing it is typical for Frenchmen to be greedy. That isn't agreeing with me! My point was that both meanings are expresse
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by Joeboy 5y ago
> The term "toxic masculinity" does not imply "masculinity = toxic". It totally does though, whether that's the intention or not. If I talk about "greedy Frenchmen", that technically just means, the (
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by Joeboy 5y ago
> Murray is also the first person to be jailed in Britain for contempt of court in half a century That is not true.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I care - I chose my new flat partly based on its proximity to a Crossrail station. Nevertheless I'm optimistic that the delays will seem like historical trivia in a year's time.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
I think people are missing the point that (I think) you are making. "The end is nigh" is not a mentality that is conducive to productive action. "The end is not nigh" doesn't necessarily mean "don't worry
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by Joeboy 5y ago
Alec Guinness made a lot of money by negotiating a percentage instead of a fee.
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by Joeboy 5y ago
You pay when you buy the home. But the point is you didn't have to pay it at all if you bought between last July and the end of this month (unless buying a very expensive house). Meaning (or so I thought) a big rush on housing and a bi

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