Comment on Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video

• njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Rereading that, it’s not super clear who “they” is referring to. Here is what I was trying to say: In the past, some of our media has been revised to make it politically correct, books, film, and other media. I don’t agree with this, but I do think some of those people have good intentions. Putting ads on cultural artifacts (like our media) retroactively is whole new level of evil: supervillain evil. It’s like “Stonehenge, brought to you by CocaCola and Nestle” or “Skip the line at the Great Pyramid with Amazon Prime”. One is motivated by a misguided desire to protect everyone’s feefees. The other one is just pure greed.

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  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You never answered the question. Can you give some clear examples to support anything at all you’re saying?

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Han shot first in the OG.

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      • Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I’m not a fan of that change, but I don’t really see it as an attempt to be more ‘politically correct’.

        Han Solo was going to marry Leia, and you look back and say, “Should he be a cold-blooded killer?” Because I was thinking mythologically—should he be a cowboy, should he be John Wayne? And I said, “Yeah, he should be John Wayne.” And when you’re John Wayne, you don’t shoot people [first]—you let them have the first shot. It’s a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to."

        I think Lucas is wrong, because even if he shoots first Han is being threatened with kidnap and death, so he’s not a cold-blooded murderer to shoot the guy threatening him. But unless we’re rolling all ideas of heroism and morality into woke/PC then I don’t think that example works at all.

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