Triphibian

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by Triphibian 2y ago
It just struck me that Three Thousand Years of Longing is a movie about telling stories, the tradition and power of myth.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
The framing of most all of the Max Max movies is that they are stories being told by an unknown narrator. So any variation is fair game, I think. Unreliable narrators and such. In the context of the new movies, they've even created cha
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by Triphibian 2y ago
Oh 100%. He's using the current language because it is the best way to get his ideas across to the current audience. Its just good storytelling.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
Furiosa made me realize that this kind of storytelling, one that relies on worldbuilding and often prior-worldbuilding is the (or a) current way we approach movies. I mean pretty obvious considering the primacy of superhero movies, but wort
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by Triphibian 2y ago
The neighborhood was .3 acre lots with houses crammed fence to fence. We were on top of each other. The outdoor tv was a HUGE dick move that is becoming more and more accepted.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
Maybe a bit creepy to keep in the house.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
honestly I don't need Max to summarize wikipedia pages for me: Non-sequitur jokes with the occasional riff on something I said would feel real enough.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
I had an obnoxious neighbor with a tv on his back porch who would watch Love is Blind so loud I could hear it throughout my house. Was kind of hoping this would be about that.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
If I want one thing out of AI (besides not destroying humanity) it would be an old CRT in the corner of my house with an AI Max Headroom I could talk to.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
Ever since the death of Google Reader and the slow painful death of RSS I've been starved for good aggregation of non-stupid culture writing. This is a decent start.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
I read The Right Stuff recently and it was a pleasure. Very full of life and colorful and he really was able to get at what made these test pilots and astronauts the tick.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
One of the great ironies of this situation is many of the now defunct websites had contracts and writing agreements that were absolutely egregious. Often the boilerplate would say that they owned the article (which they paid you a pittance
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by Triphibian 2y ago
It might seem counter-intuitive, but Game Informer was fairly recently (and for a good stretch) in the top ten of US print magazine circulation -- mailing out 6-7 million copies a month. As people stopped subscribing to magazines and buying
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by Triphibian 2y ago
This piece kind of blew my mind. It is kind of like the flip side of the "enshittification" argument. Or another way of looking at the same phenomenon. It's not a perfect alegory or whatever, but it's one of the better w
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by Triphibian 2y ago
One of the things I find frustrating about music suggestions is that the app/algorithm doesn't care why you like a certain band. A long time ago I asked Pandora to make David Bowie station and it rolled me a generic classic rock s
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by Triphibian 2y ago
I guess the next question is: Was Girl Talk the Bob Dylan of poptimism?
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by Triphibian 2y ago
aka what happened to Pitchfork in the early 2000s.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
The.FAQ is pretty fun. Be sure to check out the mailing list sign up page -- there's a pretty funny pull down menu there.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
The notion of a "full size" screen shot has changed a bit in twenty years.
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by Triphibian 2y ago
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
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by Triphibian 2y ago
The diagram in the story reminded me of the band Sunn O))) and their stage set up. Certainly a far-flung relation in the same lineage. https://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/pjeq4/...
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by Triphibian 3y ago
I'm in the middle of reading it right now. Very enjoyable and does a great job of getting into the mindset of the military test pilot.
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by Triphibian 3y ago
Voting.
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by Triphibian 3y ago
I didn't see any mention in the cost of licensing impacting the price of sets. That's a huge factor. Kits from Lego's own IP such as Ninjago, etc can offer a better PPP value because they aren't cutting in Disney or some
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by Triphibian 3y ago
It would but the incentives of the Internet (SEO, clickbait, etc.) broke the "inverted pyramid" philosophy in journalism.
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by Triphibian 3y ago
The Wendy's by me is always empty. What's the opposite of surge pricing? Clearance?
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by Triphibian 3y ago
When a company puts secret prompts into their AI it should be called "Robocopping."
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by Triphibian 3y ago
There are banks in the US that send sketchy looking text message like this when you get transferred funds. They literally ask that you follow a texted url and enter your bank information.
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by Triphibian 3y ago
I admire the testing you did on the random plays, I would have gone in on the same hypothesis -- that the "shuffle" would prefer lower cost plays.
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by Triphibian 3y ago
Yes, these are the suggested playlists. As well as the popular pre-fab playlists. A notable one mentioned was their "Ambient" playlist -- which favors in house ambient artists with much less generous royalty deals than someone lik

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