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by cld8483 4y ago
> The typical meme is that modern movies suck, but they're being made that way to pander to "the masses." But the numbers don't support this! When you see headlines like record breaking sales, it's measured in g
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> but that does not excuse Black actors being blasted with n-bombs and other slurs on Twitter and other social media, I'm not denying, much less excusing that. What I am saying is that such trolls are an irrelevant minority who&
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by cld8483 4y ago
In the mid 00s or so I would have said that movies were getting shorter. If anything, movies are getting longer again . But there is no general relationship, direct or inverse, between the length of a movie and the quality of a movie. S
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Market failure? The demand for child care is a social and economic failure. Stay-at-home parents are no longer feasible for most families.
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> [1] Black Panther and the 3rd Star Wars trilogy were surrounded by some of the most vile harassment campaigns I've seen, for example Or, movie studios have exaggerated the impact of (real, but not very numerous) internet trolls
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by cld8483 4y ago
I have gotten more enjoyment out of watching some silent-era movies than modern release movies. Particularly, the 1916 20,000 Leagues is great. In general I don't think there is any real relationship between the age of a movie and
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If you're buying a DVD for your child, but only have the budget for one, would you buy Snow White , or Snow White 5: The Slushening ? In most cases, the classic original is the no-brainer. The sequels to Disney movies are pale cash
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> (the original Oceans Eleven comes to mind—I don't drop many movies that I start, but I'm not sure I even made it to the 20 minute mark on that one). Some movies were just never very good in the first place, I'd put the
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by cld8483 4y ago
For all their faults (Steam is glorified DRM), the people at Valve seem to actually understand gamers and have gaming in their own blood. Apple has never understood gaming and I doubt they ever will.
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> How could an AI model trained on input generated by an AI ever be any better than the original AI? Like a tennis player practicing tennis with a wall?
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I strongly disagree, I don't think movies have gotten better in any regard except for the cost of special effects (cheaper than ever before, and so, used more often and generally with less thought and care.)
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If I wound up in the hospital with cancer, getting a Hallmark card from HR is precisely the kind of insensitive BS I would expect. This is just the way organizations behave, you need friends/family if you want to receive genuine expre
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You'd be hard pressed to derive a model for the coarse structure of the universe from the Standard Model, considering the Standard Model can't describe gravity. Maybe this is part of the problem..
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In that case, they're selling a subscription instead of selling movies, no? (I haven't used it, I don't know the details of how it works.)
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It's about conveying atmosphere and mood, not conveying plot-points as rapidly as possible. Same reason a book might spend two pages describing a lazy dog laying on a porch swatting flies with his tail, instead of cutting straight to w
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I think it's exactly the sort of thing an institution might do and it would probably pass without much remark, because people don't actually expect better from office flunkies in PR or HR who are personally detached from the whole
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If it came on a Hallmark "special event" card from the grocery store instead, would Hallmark catch flak? Or would this transfer of blame only occur if computers were involved?
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Well that is what dogs do.
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I must need more coffee, my first thought was that the bug must have been enormous for anybody on the plane to feel it being run over.
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It's not a simple matter of the organization making the most rational decision for the interests of the organization. Individuals throughout the organization have an incentive to suppress past products to make newer products, and by ex
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They can't compete with what they once were, so they bury the past. I suspect many industries are like this. If classic movies were played alongside new Hollywood releases, the new movies would probably be choked out. Accordingly, D
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I won't speak to the situation in India, but in America it is certainly possible for somebody from a 'lower caste' to be in a position of authority over somebody from a 'higher caste'. If for no other reason than b
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by cld8483 4y ago
Let the office real estate industry crash and burn, so that developers lobby for the zoning to build more housing instead of more offices. The worst thing we can do right now is bail out commercial real estate investors who bet on the cons
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On one hand, you have a lot of people online making arguments about rural living being ecologically harmful, an economic drain on the country, because (among other reasons) it requires cars to work. Then you have these other people sugges
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox
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> Makes me wonder how many great men of the past were actually their wives alter egos. Interesting thought. I know JK Rowling is "JK" because her publisher wanted to obscure her gender. This sort of thing is probably common
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Leave Beef Wellingtons out of this! They were probably invented by the French anyway, and renamed for the obvious reason.
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Those polices are flagrantly ignored.
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> My experience has been that even beyond caste, huge tech companies get these weird race/ethnicity based fiefdoms embedded within them. I've had the same experience. It's very weird when you realize you've been hi
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I don't say this to defend the practice, but shunning is not modern. Shunning was advocated by Paul the Apostle (or whoever wrote those letters to the Corinthians) about two thousand years ago. Banishment and social exclusion has a

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