GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 hours ago:
You’re going to get into the blurry distinction between a ripoff and a tribute or an homage.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier has a lot of Three Days of the Condor, but is that a ripoff, or an homage?
Ditto Star Wars and Hidden Fortress.
Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More were uncredited remakes of Yojimbo and Sanjuro, and as I recall Kurosawa was pretty annoyed, so that probably counts as a ripoff.
Oreo cookies came out four years after Hydrox cookies, and I’d say they surpassed the original.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 hours ago:
See also: Galaxy Quest, which is like the third or fourth best Star Trek movie.
- Comment on Can't click my app controls! 5 days ago:
I’ve found myself in a similar situation to OP, where a given app presumes that everyone is using gestures and conflicts with the buttons, and I don’t appreciate it.
- Comment on Can't click my app controls! 5 days ago:
I don’t care about that small amount of extra screen space, and I don’t like gestures, and I should have the ability to choose which solution I prefer.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 2 weeks ago:
I like to see what’s going on in the handheld emulator world!
- Comment on Missing Letter 2 weeks ago:
Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, “I was only joking!”
Proverbs 26:18-19
- Comment on Anon likes geography 3 weeks ago:
Tbilisi or not Tbilisi, that is the question.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 3 weeks ago:
I’m familiar with all of the technology involved, but I’m not sure about the applications you’re describing.
With a Have-A-Heart, the specific goal is live capture and release. There is no killing involved. The animal might be properly freaked out at the experience of being trapped, but that is specifically so as to permit an animal’s live relocation.
With a bolt gun, it’s meant to be used in a slaughterhouse scenario, which is a whole moral discussion of its own, but at bare minimum one wants the animals to be kept as calm as possible until the bolt gun is applied, because stressed out meat tastes worse than calm and placid up until the moment of death.
With hunting, the goal is to kill the target as cleanly as possible, preferably with a single bullet. That’s the Scenario A I’m describing above.
If one were hunting an animal with the intent of killing it, then a trap, followed by a knife or bolt gun, would maximize the terror felt by the animal to be killed. Sure, one may be putting less lead out in the environment, but at the cost of putting the animal through… almost the most appalling experience of death possible, with the admitted exception of a poorly-aimed bullet or arrow, followed by a wounded flight through the woods and slowly bleeding out.
So… if one’s absolute maximum goal is to reduce environmental lead, yes, that is one way to do it, but the moral implications of that method seem pretty rough.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 3 weeks ago:
Scenario A: You’re minding your own business, when a bullet passes through your heart/lungs and you’re dead in seconds.
Scenario B: You get caught in a trap and wait for hours for an ape with a knife or a bolt gun to come along and finish the job.
Honestly, if I were an animal, I’d prefer Scenario A.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 4 weeks ago:
“Gambling and crypto” reminds me of when I was in DARE and they would refer to “drugs, alcohol, and tobacco,” and I thought “aren’t those all drugs?”
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game 4 weeks ago:
I was gonna say. His entire fucking cabinet was his handlers. Shrub couldn’t have successfully managed a baseball team if he hadn’t been surrounded by more competent people.
- Comment on time for learn 4 weeks ago:
Aw, fuck.
- Comment on time for learn 4 weeks ago:
Presumably at some point a human being was involved in the decision making process to try and use this image to convey… some kind of message to other human beings, and at least one human being in that process couldn’t be bothered to give the AI slop more than the most cursory glance.
Unless of course one could design a fully-automated system of generating pseudo-scientific clickbait factoid garbage accompanied by AI-generated illustrations, entirely dedicated to producing as much vaguely plausible-seeming garbage as possible, 24 hours a day, just spewing out the opposite of useful knowledge at an unfathomable rate.
But what kind of monster would deploy that weapon on humanity?
- Comment on Gargoyle 5 weeks ago:
I heard an interview with the costumer who designed Elvis Presley’s rhinestone-studded jumpsuits. They kept on not paying him, but he was having so much fun that he didn’t really want to stop, so instead of quitting he just kept making each jumpsuit more elaborate and more expensive. “Yes, this new suit requires $15,000 worth of genuine Alsatian rhinestones.” Not exactly win-win, but I’m glad he was having fun and spending a ton of Elvis’ money.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 month ago:
Gotta lower the power setting and increase the cook time. One minute at 100%? No! One and a half minutes at 80%!
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 month ago:
Harrumph
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 1 month ago:
Cor blimey
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 1 month ago:
You can’t bring the time travel souvenir back with you in the time machine. You’ve got to store it in a safe cave or storage unit or something so that it’ll be at least plausibly aged by the time it reaches the future, even if surprisingly well-preserved.
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- Comment on Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister 1 month ago:
We can’t have universal healthcare, but we can send billions of dollars in military aid to Israel, which does. 🤡
- Comment on I liek tudles 1 month ago:
- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 month ago:
I want to see it all fluffed up for winter.
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 1 month ago:
- Comment on You know what to do 1 month ago:
…beans…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Despite being set in France, Lumiere is one of only two characters in the movie with a French accent, the other being Babette, the sexy feather duster.
- Comment on Can someone please ELI5 the legal issue with genericized trademarks? 2 months ago:
You may think you love your family, but you don’t love them nearly as much as you’re going to love Heroin™!
- Comment on Anon watches Super Size Me 2 months ago:
Meanwhile, Super High Me is still 100% solid gold cinema.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 2 months ago:
Also they shouldn’t have called the category of “things that aren’t planets despite being in some ways planet-like” “dwarf planet,” they should have called them “planetoids.” Star Trek had been referring to small planet-like objects as planetoids for decades, so the work in the popular consciousness has already been done. Dwarf planet not being a planet makes it sound like they’re saying dwarf people don’t count as people, and I don’t care for that at all.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah, assuming that a yard is meant to approximate the stride of an adult human, who’s the Goliath-sized motherfucker with the 5’ 3" stride who took a thousand steps and called that a mile?
