skepticaldrunk

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by skepticaldrunk 8y ago
Doesn't that make it a uniquely Hawaiian thing? The sequence of events spurring the shirt's evolution couldn't have happened anywhere else. The article also makes a point that the cultural melting pot that is 20th century H
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by skepticaldrunk 8y ago
"Too many secrets". Setec Astronomy.
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by skepticaldrunk 9y ago
I'm not shorting this. Just trying to figure out a universe in which it makes sense, that's all. Have no dog in the fight, but I have to say that you're representing an idea that no longer exists.
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by skepticaldrunk 9y ago
How are either of these numbers okay against the 20k estimate due to land 2 months prior? I'm confused. They missed the target by slightly less than an order of magnitude. That doesn't sound great to me. I'm just wondering
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by skepticaldrunk 9y ago
They usually have a kid on them.
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by skepticaldrunk 9y ago
I hate to be that guy, but you know that the internet as we know and love it today started out as ARPAnet, right? The internet was domesticated, not weaponized.
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by skepticaldrunk 9y ago
That's fair, but being able to understand and direct the popular zeitgeist, be it by instinct or intellect, is a very formidable gift indeed. It's something almost none of us can do (certainly myself included), and those who can
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by skepticaldrunk 9y ago
His lifetime estimated global box office gross in a writing capacity is $4.8B[0]. I think "hack" may be how you see him, but the world sees otherwise. Also, he didn't credit himself as TDK's writer (screen for Begins,
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by skepticaldrunk 9y ago
Your parent comment points out that for a right-handed person, their right hand would be south. The same is true for either handedness, thus does little to differentiate the two.
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
It's an interesting question though, as I would think that the use of Vantablack in the gallery itself would be a structural use, which limits Kapoor's rights. It's not being used in an artistic work directly, it's bein
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
I would like to see an art gallery where the surfaces were treated with Vantablack. I think it would further enhance the experience by effectively disallowing the eye to focus on anything but the work in question. It might be a tiny bit ex
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
The problem with the thrust of your argument, I think, is that you're proposing that self-driving cars are something a driver actually needs to pay more attention to than a standard automobile.
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
I'm praying you're a troll. But if you're not, your flippant dismissal of thousands of man hours of experience in an industry in which you have no experience lead me to believe that I really hope I don't depend on any s
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
No. But you did miss the part where paper doesn't have batteries.
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
> But people who go out of their way to defend the pointless use of bad typography on printed documents that are meant to be read are in no position to be making credible arguments in defense of the less obvious flaws in their standard
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
This is actually a really good idea, but it will require industry to step in and provide it. The number of films and shows that get it right are almost nil, but there aren't any consequences when they screw it up. The phone companies
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
That's very kind of you to say, and after this project is finished, I might even get around to it. Procrastination willing, maybe even sooner. The takeaway at the end of the day for me is that my idea of efficiency is built around con
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
I don't have time to check it out right now, as the current project is income-generating, but I'm curious to check it out. On the face of it, it looks like a decent (albeit very simple) screenwriting tool that would be perfect fo
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
I would say "appalling" is a bit of a strong term for an industry that you're not involved in that doesn't perform a particularly critical function in society. To relay a saying often expressed on set, "We're
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
Yeah, tell me about it. I can recall one shoot where we started using our medic's ice packs to cool down the REDs (shooting in death valley) and another movie we shot in 3d with two REDs timecode synced with a prism system. I'll
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
True, but if we're getting really technical, the script supervisor gets to decide what an eighth is, so a decent scripty will keep it shockingly consistent. Another quirk, for sure, but when you see the breakdown and it lists 120 page
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
> Take into consideration that it's easy to criticise a system as an outsider. You would have to witness first-hand an organised chaos that film and/or TV production is in order to appreciate every single idiosyncrasy (at a fir
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
Yes. Initially, it was a relic from the typewriter days, and the tabbing and indentation was developed to allow each of the affiliated tradespeople involved in the project to do their jobs effectively. But now, it has its own reasons. One
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by skepticaldrunk 10y ago
From a spec writer perspective, the short answer is that it has hotkeys, formatting based on element type, and autocomplete. Beyond that, there are versioning tools (screenplay versioning can get a bit esoteric), alternate dialogue capabili