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- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 7 hours ago:
Mel Gibson has a peculiar talent.
Racism? it is racism, isn’t it?
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 7 hours ago:
Actors being outrageously attractive via artificial means is, meh, I suppose. What I can’t stand is when they load up with so much botox and had so many surgeries that they lose all capacity for acting.
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 10 hours ago:
I could barely withstand the latest Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie. Usually anachronistic music, sets or wardrobe doesn’t bother me. Most of the times it is tastefully done or are details that are immaterial to the experience. But lord, this version was so over the top that I sometimes felt like I was watching a fashion show and not a movie. I’m still somewhat warm towards Emerald Fennel, but this movie was a let down for me mainly for that one reason. She is also pretty gross and can’t help but to always include disturbing imagery, even if the script is supposed to be a romantic tragedy. Some of the scenes didn’t subtract anything, but definitely added nothing as well. I think this film failed at what Marie Antoinette (2006) succeeded.
- Comment on What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else? 2 weeks ago:
There’s an argument that there’s no such thing as an anti war movie. Basically, movies are a recreative art medium. As such, any movie that intends to hold the attention of the audience all the way through, will make aesthetic or narrative concessions that will accidentally glorify war in turn. Some even go as far as claiming that any portrayal of war, even if negative, is promoting war.
It reminds me of Come and See (1985), which is a great horrible movie. But often some of the things being portrayed are so well framed and filmed that it is truly beautiful at times. Even if the subject material is extremely horrifying. And the hook to keep the audience watching wanders into morbidity.
In contrast with 20 days in Mariupol (2023), which I almost didn’t finish. Because it was true documented horror without any sort of grand narrative. A documentary doesn’t have to tell you war is hell. Movies, however, tend to wax poetic about it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They’re supposed to be the clashing adjacent colors of red in the color wheel.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Yet, here we are. With a bunch of personal attacks, again. And still, you don’t address the fact that your ideology is that people should go hungry because they don’t work the same way that you do. Am I the one being disrespectful and blinded by ideology? Again, where are you getting all of these weird hang ups about me? You don’t know me, my ideology, my education, my background or my work. I think you are just projecting like a mad man. “There’s no free lunch” means that you are OK with people going hungry and children starving. Just accept your worldview is violent and destructive. Check yourself, because all you are assuming about me isn’t true.
You bought the class warfare bait, hook, line and sinker. You’ll rather fight with me, someone who probably has 90% of the same ideological values as you. Instead of fighting with the corporate oligarchs that taught you that some people don’t deserve to eat.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
I want the same as you, except, I don’t think that people should suffer because they don’t conform to my concept of moral value. And thus I act with that intention. How about we work towards a kinder world to exist instead of wishing harm upon others just because they are different.
Also, stop fucking projecting your violence into me. You have like 6 different wrong assumptions about my character, values and arguments that I have never expressed anywhere. You really need to stop spreading your selfhate towards others.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Very interesting. If only there were more recent scientific studies that weren’t the fever dreams of a psychotic pseudoscientific tankie from the soviet era.
Oh, would you look at this. There is science after the soviet union, after all.
- Comment on Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language. 2 weeks ago:
For a decade tech has fucked sub’s accessibility. The landscape is a complete mess, simultaneously stuck with tech that is too old and also suffering from awful implementation of new tech (LLMs suck at closed captioning but everyone insist it is the only way to do it now). Yet context reading to know who needs subs when is still so archaic and depends completely on user input. But then, the content is always innadecuate, specially when it’s for the hearing impaired.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe, have you considered? that access to food is already decoupled from work because of ideological factors? Perhaps the idea that it is OK for people to go hungry if they’re not working is in itself an ideological posture. Just speed balling ideas here, maybe if people weren’t hungry, perhaps they will have the strength and will to work harder and more efficiently. I don’t know, it just came to me, I’m sure nobody has done any serious writing about it. We should go to the internet together and see if any of those scientists have ever done any study on that. Wild idea, maybe when people have their basic needs met they are more likely to be productive members of society. I’m sure that’s not revolutionary or anything and just common sense. Or not, I’m not a social scientist, I mean, I am, but maybe there’s something we are missing here.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
There’s people working 60+ hours a week and also starving. Again, what is your point?
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, those people doing the work to produce food are starving. What is your point?
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
I’m happy to proclaim entering my 30th continuous year of Sony boycotting. Where’s my award?
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 4 weeks ago:
Not a peep from them about lag or input delay. That technology, the more heavily it is used, the worse the game feels. Imagine playing a game that requires precise analog input, FPS in the hundreds but with a 150+ ms latency. It ruins gameplay. Paradoxically, those games where input lag is not an issue, like grand strategy or visual novels, don’t require such high frames. And those games that benefit from more frames, are actually hurt by this tech by becoming sluggish and disgusting to play. Such an unnecessary invention.
- Comment on Day 732 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Ahoy on YouTube did a statistical analysis on this question. And he found that there were some very brown games but overall there were just as colorful as in any other time period. The trend actually comes from the sixth generation and the seventh actually ended it.
It is mostly a feeling that comes from the couple of over exposed games that were indeed browner. But if you look at all the games released, there was no significant change.
- Comment on Any good tools for learning blind typing? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not about typing faster. Effectively the difference of speed between qwerty, dvorak, colemak, etc. Are significant but not very big.
It’s about avoiding repetitive strain injuries. If you type all day long for a living, something like carpal tunnel syndrome can destroy your career. Did you know that Emacs pinky is actually a type of injury. Anyways, keyboards are the number one source of RSI in office workers. Alternative keyboard layouts reduce fatigue and strain to hand ligaments by reducing the need for repeated awkward finger motions.
If you actually wanted to type as fast as people speak, you need something like a chorded steno keyboard. If you think you can type fast on qwerty, you have never seen a stenographer doing their thing.
- Comment on If you need a portable reader, is there any reason to choose an e-reader over your phone? 5 weeks ago:
The smartphone represents the death of ergonomics.
A featureless and unremarkable slab of plastic, aluminum and glass. If one is to think that form follows function, then the function of an object should be obvious from analyzing its form. The smartphone defeats itself, its shape says nothing of what it does. Is it for taking pictures? is it for writing? is it for reading? is it for communication? When every answer is yes, then what is it good for? It’s not particularly good at any of those, it is just good enough. The most basic of the common denominator.
Ergonomics are about shaping an object so perfectly to its function and to human biomechanics that its use becomes spontaneous when the object is used and it doesn’t hurt or harms the user. “The maximum of comfort, security and efficiency.” The smartphone is not any of those, for any of the things it does. It is awkward to hold for a call, it is strenuous to read or even watch media in, it is uncomfortable to hold to take pictures with, touch control are inefficient for gaming or typing.
There’s one thing the smartphone is though, it is small and it is portable. That’s it.
When you experience the functions of dedicated devices, the shortcomings of the smartphone show up even more evidently. Holding even a hobbyist camera, reading on an e-ink screen, playing games with an actual controller (or mouse and keyboard), writing even on a basic mechanical keyboard. A smartphone will never compete on that level of tactility and comfort.
The smartphone is the death of ergonomics.
- Comment on If you need a portable reader, is there any reason to choose an e-reader over your phone? 5 weeks ago:
Kobo is one of the most open and cheap platform. Great variety as well in features and models.
I want to upgrade my really old kindle for a Clara colour.
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 5 weeks ago:
You are both right. Arguing for completely unrelated things. Potatoes with pasta is indeed way too much starch for a healthy diet, if you are eating it on the regular and doubling your ingestion of carbs and starch. But it has nothing to do with taste, they taste fine together, as the many fine recipes and dishes everyone else have posted. They will make you bloaty though, the best is to regulate the portions back to a recommended protein/fibre/carb proportion, and you won’t even notice.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 5 weeks ago:
Exactly, corporations care not for the legality. It’s just that the very existence of a signed NDA opens up the power to suit, countersuit or in general drown a person in so many administrative fees that they are condemned to eternal poverty anyway. Whether the actual text is legal or not is irrelevant. An NDA is a weapon in many other ways.
- Comment on A lot of people who try to start a religion are seen as mentally ill. Like Jim Jones, David Koresh, the UFO guy, and L Ron Hubbard. Then could it be a safe bet that Jesus was mentally ill? 1 month ago:
To be fair. A historical Jesus person might have never existed. But, several authors of books in the Bible did. They were probably several con men who realized that they could collaborate to coalesce their respective cults by coopting the prophecies of Jewish religion. Thus gaining more power. The strategy took off and even today Christianity survives by pure syncretism. Absorbing groups and beliefs to stay palatable to the widest audience possible. Same strategy that has proven successful for mormoms, which are basically Christian fanfic.
As the old adage says, the difference between a cult and a religion is the number of members.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It depends on how an individual consumes Lemmy. I don’t see votes and my client neither buries nor highlights comments based on votet. I only browse by new or active.
This means that votes have little to no impact to what I consume or interact with.
As I’ve said elsewhere. I don’t care if you downvote, I’ve seen what you upvote.
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 month ago:
Same reason Google gives away Chromebooks and Microsoft furnishes computer labs and gave free computer classes to teachers and corporations. Plain market capture. If you convince people that your product is what computers are, then they will prefer it due to familiarity and aversion to change.
- Comment on Why Aren't there More Fem-Focused Werewolf Stories? 1 month ago:
Originally the folk concept was heavily affiliated with violent sexual energy, occultism and dark ritualistic sadism. I guess male protagonists conform more readily to those gender stereotypes of the cyclically violent and uncontrollable rapist. During the few witch hunting incidents involving werewolf accusations, the accused were always male. They were also linked with profanation of tombs to devour the recently passed or cannibalism in general. It was also almost always portrayed as either permanent or even voluntary power. The involuntary property or its curse nature rarely universal. With the full moon transformation being almost entirely a Hollywood fabrication.
I think it is interesting to think about the weaving of gender into such symbolism, as the periodic monthly phenomenon is not universal. There’s an Armenian belief that it was a punishment to women, who had to eat children every night for seven years in wolf form. That one is very bleak, but more related to godly punishment of sin by having mothers destroy their locus of adoration, their own children and children in general.
Modern werewolves are related to late 19th century narratives, heavily inspired by Serbian vukodlaks. Dracula himself was kin to werewolves and could transform into one. With some interpreting the gothic tales as an expression of the contemporary anxieties and fears of the victorian era, specially the fears of the patriarchy towards anything they couldn’t control or understand. Anything that was besides the proper order and structure of religion and enlightenment.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 month ago:
Brick ovens can go there, doesn’t mean that you should cook the pizza at that unless you’re one who likes charcoal as a topping.
- Comment on What happened to society that we became afraid of a piece of paper? Like a write up at school or job, or a ticket, or a bill we know we can pay (but won't let us live 1 luxury) lincenses and others? 1 month ago:
Social constructs are made up, yes, but it doesn’t mean they are not real.
They might be pieces of paper, but they have real influence on the behavior of other human beings. A write up at work might not mean much as a piece of physical matter. But if it is gonna mean that you will lose your job, or won’t get another one as easily. It threatens your livelihood in a real way. They are a symbol, a recognizable proxy for even more intangible things like character, skill, aptitude, etc. They are flawed, but they are what we have in place. It so far hasn’t led to our extinction, yet, so it is an evolutionary trait that will stay for the time being.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
My interesting take on this is to remember how Chinese gamers use “review bombing” (it’s not really that what’s happening) because it is the only feedback channel available to them. Due to internet censorship laws in China, they can’t get access to typical discussions, community features, forums, discord or whatever the devs are using to gather feedback. So their only resource is to leave or change a review on the steam store. Since there are just so many chinese gamers, this looks like review bombing but it’s not the intended effect, they are just using the only interaction method they have. Furthermore, both Valve and developers know this, but won’t do anything because they don’t know how to tackle the issue other than just waiting for the scores to average out.
- Comment on and it is still better than Arcgis 1 month ago:
When people have to use something everyday for work, they become acutely aware of every one of its shortcomings and the reasons behind them. When they realize that is could be better but isn’t because of a bullshit reason and, on top of that, there’s no better alternative, this creates resentment. Because then your survival depends on you putting up with the BS.
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet? 1 month ago:
It’s not our fault that your language is inverted.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
I mean, yeah, fuck scalpers. But valve’s global market is atrocious. I could buy a PS5 in a brick and mortar store, I could order any Xbox version I want, I could’ve bought and play a Switch2 on launch day. But somehow 4 years later I would have to find a sketchy online reseller if I wanted a Steam Deck. The Steam controller won’t get to me unless I’m willing to pay 4 times the original cost, and it would probably be years before I see a Steam Machine in person. Valve is right, piracy is a service problem, and I’m starting to suspect that scalping is too.