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by the_af 7mo ago
> I didn't care much about the actual main story, Ron Gilbert was never serious about the story anyway (and he coldly murdered it in the long-awaited "official" sequel, Return) I get what you mean, but I thought Return w
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by the_af 7mo ago
> Cga seems to be 1-to-1 conversion of ega I'm not sure. The dithering is obviously different, not only harsher but in different places in many scenes. Also, the splash screen doesn't have scrolling clouds in the CGA version.
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by the_af 7mo ago
Old CRTs helped blur the image. For that matter, C64 games on TV screens (which is how most people watched them, even though there existed dedicated Commodore monitors) blurred the image so much, the games barely resembled what you can see
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by the_af 7mo ago
I won't go over the details, but if you look at the website mentioned in the other thread from 2021, you'll see I'm not being hyperbolic. EGA Loom is a work of art. VGA Loom misread the style and completely obliterated it, in
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by the_af 7mo ago
I indeed meant Loom!
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by the_af 7mo ago
Wow, they really messed up Loom in the EGA to VGA conversion. The EGA graphics were a work of art, very moody. It's interesting how the VGA version manages to be way less nuanced, plus it destroys that beautiful "blue" look o
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by the_af 7mo ago
I must be in the minority, but I really prefer the EGA versions of many of those games. Probably nostalgia. Even less defensible, I've come to appreciate the (awful to me at the time) CGA 4-color palette. You know, the games that were
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by the_af 7mo ago
> [...] and cooking with an oven is more of a special occasion thing than the default cooking method that it was before. Not true in my household, in my parent's, in my in-laws, or any of my closest friends'. And none of us a
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by the_af 7mo ago
Yes, I agree. I didn't want to sound too much like an old guy telling kids to get off my lawn, but I agree with what you're saying. "More stuff" at all costs is not a good thing.
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by the_af 7mo ago
That's little consolation. The future you describe seems like a corporate dystopia to me. We want actors to be human.
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by the_af 7mo ago
Not disagreeing with you, but the last time I experienced this was much later: with HBO's Game of Thrones. Everyone discussed the latest episode, it was an almost universal shared social experience. It seems to have died for good aft
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by the_af 7mo ago
Well, to be fair, In the Mood for Love is a gorgeous movie. It does look great in almost every screen. It shines in a cinema screen.
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by the_af 7mo ago
> 2 tickets, 2 sodas, 1 popcorn. Skip the sodas and the popcorn. Go eat before or later. It still won't be cheap, but at least the meal will be better!
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by the_af 7mo ago
I fully agree that, when it works, the cinema is a wonderful experience. It's amazing, very different from watching something on a home screen. Yes, it can get ruined by obnoxious movie goers, but wow...when it works it's amazing.
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by the_af 7mo ago
To be honest, I'm ambivalent about it. I do value a shared experience (contradicting somewhat what I wrote earlier). I don't have everything figured out...
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by the_af 7mo ago
Yes, I thought of this too: the industry was full of slop way before AI. We spoke of "Netflix's algorithm", but even before Netflix blockbuster movies were done with a cookie cutter. Transformers (to pick one example) existed
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by the_af 7mo ago
> What I meant is that I don't see truly indie-produced feature films reach the zeitgeist anymore. Maybe they shouldn't. Maybe word of mouth from among those in your circle of friends that have good taste is enough. I'm
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by the_af 7mo ago
That's a pretty good take, I think. What I object to is this notion that everyone should make art, and that AI empowers them. As in (and yes, I've read this, I'm not making this up) "people without writing skills can n
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by the_af 7mo ago
> The optimistic viewpoint is that maybe new AI production tools will trigger a re-democratization of creative movies I don't think so. Part of the downfall of movies -- blockbusters movies anyway, the kind where being a box offic
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by the_af 7mo ago
> Everyone who's not terribly worried about privacy always uses the line 'if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about' The right way to reply to that is: not everything that's legal must
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by the_af 7mo ago
But they must have received this fine-tuning, right? Otherwise it's hard to explain why they follow these negations in most cases (until they make a catastrophic mistake). I often test this with ChatGPT with ad-hoc word games, I tell i
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by the_af 7mo ago
> It is absolutely not a pointless war. If this war is won, it secures long-term peace in the region If there's one thing I'm absolutely, 100% sure of, is that this war won't secure any long-term peace in the region. We&
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by the_af 7mo ago
In support of your comment, the FBI under Trump has become increasingly politicized, to the point it's merely doing and saying whatever Trump's administration wants them to say. Nothing coming from them is credible. Of course they
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by the_af 7mo ago
> A UN report in the mid-1990s claimed US sanctions had killed 500,000 Iraqi children. Then UN ambassador and later Secretary of State Madeline Albright responded by saying "the price was worth it" These kind of statements ma
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by the_af 7mo ago
Is it an "oh well" situation in this case though? There seem to be actual people getting killed, in an actual war (by another name, but we all know it's a war, with missiles and airplanes and bombs).
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by the_af 7mo ago
I think it'd be more accurate to say that in their neat essay form they are incorrect/incomplete, but that there's a kernel of truth to them. Essays like this want to package an idea into a nice, easy to understand thing that
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by the_af 7mo ago
(According to the theory) it is a terrible way to live, because everything the Clueless believes is false. The Clueless believe their work makes a difference, but it doesn't. They believe it matters they do a good job, but it doesn&#
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by the_af 7mo ago
> It's pretty clear that in this case the use of AI is not a matter of laziness, but rather quality/consistency assurance But that's not something anybody wants of you in an informal context such as this (HN). It will fl
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by the_af 7mo ago
Wow, I guess I never thought about the "few bad apples" figure of speech! Interesting. But regardless, everyone understands what it means in common use, even if it's logically wrong, and I swear I've never seen anybody b
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by the_af 7mo ago
OK, but let's dig deeper. Would you prefer to be corrected on some logical fallacy/mistake you made in your argument, by another human being (and yes, maybe get slightly upset about it, we're human beings after all), or have

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