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- Comment on [XKCD] 3085 About 20 Pounds 1 day ago:
I mean as someone that studied theoretical physics… Yeah basically.
We set up a bunch of math we expect to happen given the circumstances and then observe an incident that matches the conditions to see if it matched. It’s fun when it does and concerns people when it doesn’t but we have just reverse engineered the parts we can see and guess on the parts we can’t.
- Comment on [XKCD] 3085 About 20 Pounds 1 day ago:
I’m leaning in more to this is all a simulation and we have discovered the physics engine by trial and error but the hard coded rules behind it are as understandable to us as it would be to Mario
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 2 days ago:
The interesting answer by the way is that there is a glut of them as Roblox, is actually a game mostly about making other games.
Its a more realized version of VR chat essentially for kids and alpha and Z is full of game devs who though are unfortunately in a single engine but with skill can actually transition to others and often do.
Some real talent is being cultivated but they are mostly unseen by looking at the places they aren’t.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 2 days ago:
Yeah, oh no a bunch of people got into an industry that they loved so much they got underpaid and lowered the value of their labour to be treated worse.
But then a bunch of them realized they could just use their passion to make something themself and get paid for it and now we are having a hard time justifying why the big industry’s “shovels” are special.It is a shame this happening to lots of industries right now for lots of other reasons too. With the big industry now trying to justify it as being cheaper to make because they automated all the people that make the product especially better.
- Comment on The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2024 5 days ago:
LOL I loved the “on the point” robin hood stealing the life from the rich and giving to the poor.
Its so full of symbols and agreed that it’s gonna be a where’s Waldo hunt for the cult classic fans for years.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 5 days ago:
The top 10% of the population now accounts for over 50% of all economic activity. They have a level of income and reserved cash that is hard to comprehend and that just starts at $250,000 US salary and goes up from there.
Those people are spending so freely and so completely it’s practically the entire economy and we are forced to compare ourselves to them.The extra annoying part is that in a population of 350million people in the US, 10% is still about 35 million people. So there is more than enough of them to compare to and for companies to aim at.
The 90% of us are the working poor and it’s not that others are stretching their money more they either just don’t notice or care to look or have decided they have enough to spend freely without any consideration of whether they can afford it.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 5 days ago:
Ahh starting out with your parents money.
The greatest cheat code of the real world. - Comment on The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2024 5 days ago:
Its also the power of a cheap production that was more an excuse for a bunch of rich people to skip out in covid restrictions so they could take a vacation in Hungary. If it’s a “fix it in post” production and you never bother with the post production it actually ends up pretty cheap.
It feels their entire budget was spent up front and then when it was obvious it was garbage they stopped spending.
- Comment on The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2024 5 days ago:
I really appreciate that he got a literal America’s Got Talent star from the age of 12 to play the purity virgin.
I’m sure she felt that one in her bones and it’s such a sharp blade I don’t think a lot of people got it stabbing them
- Comment on Adam Driver Praises Francis Ford Coppola For “Not Letting The Money Dictate” ‘Megalopolis’ At AFI Life Achievement Tribute 1 week ago:
It sure was something. I didn’t even hate it just didn’t really find it grounbreaking either and in a time where most movies are just remakes, reboots and resurrected dead franchises that still sell merch…
I’m actually kinda fine with the crazy old man making a passion project about how stupid and vapid people with money are.
It least it kept some jobs alive and supported his industry.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Ah so it turns on autism mode.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
Well the cereal was invented cause he thought bland foods would stop you masturbating but that was clearly not working so he leaned back into foreskin hoarding.
I am not kidding as much as that sentence would make it seem.
- Comment on Sydney Sweeney to Star in ‘Split Fiction’ Film Adaptation From Director Jon M. Chu, ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ Writers (EXCLUSIVE) 1 week ago:
The problem is that there is only 3 actual characters in the whole story and then set decorations. And their characters are basically, white girl, brown girl, and bad dude.
She could be the big baddy just because gender swapping Hollywood
- Comment on Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos Says Movie Theater Model Is ‘Outdated’: ‘Most of the Country’ Cannot ‘Walk to a Multiplex’ 1 week ago:
Everyone in here with personal large TVs and surround systems throwing the curve.
Honestly when I was in walking distance to a theater I liked (they served like pizza fries and other meal items for a good price) I went all the time. I was willing to go for movies I was less excited about rather than waiting it out cause giving up 4 hours of my time for an ok movie after driving, trailers and everything else plus cost is definitely less appealing.
I definitely think cost and spare money to spend on nice things other than food is a huge component of this all but I also would just like ease of participating.
Both time and money have felt like very precious resources in these new terrifying gilded ages.
- Comment on Bride Hard (2025, dir Simon West) 1 week ago:
This is the dumbest combination I have heard of and I’m so tired of people doing Die Hards.
It wasn’t funny when Rick and Morty did it or Kevin Hart.
Steal a script that is less overused. - Comment on 'Madame Web' Outstreamed 'Deadpool & Wolverine' in First Weeks (Despite Flopping in Theaters) 2 weeks ago:
We see the same movie where they ADRed like every other scene and the only thing to get any kind of story payoff is CPR because its solution to a firework to the face?
We have different definitions of bad. That much more ey and effort and that result is bad to me.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 3 weeks ago:
Same.
I’m now 15 hours in, my runs look nothing at all like my first ones, and are rapidly changing each new run but also still haven’t “beaten” it once.
Feels like I built a skyscraper and yet still have to get across the grand canyon to actually win and it has nothing to do with the skyscraper.
Except now I have foundation.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Confirms New 'Gremlins' Movie and 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Sequel 3 weeks ago:
Gremlins Goonies and Betelnice super late sequels.
I guess Gen X isn’t getting so IG ored now and finally is getting all their sequels.
- Comment on Should I watch Sonic the Hedgehog 3? 3 weeks ago:
Are you OK with Keanu Reeves just talking in his own voice for an entire movie while looking like a goth hedgehog version of himself?
Its a level of silly and childish that I think is great. Not smart though, but neither is The Blue Blur.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
I might be old but aren’t these the Charlie Brown dances?
- Comment on The Academy officially announces new Oscar category for stunts 3 weeks ago:
You have clearly never seen Order of the Black Eagle where a man gets his face run over as a stunt gone wrong. It’s low budget and they weren’t trying.
Idiots will hurt themselves doing stunts for cheap too without the prestige. The “Big” stunts are actually usually safer as they have more people knowing what they are doing.
Maybe we can just still give them the awards for putting their bodies on the line anyways for film making a thing that isn’t going to stop.
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 4 weeks ago:
The criterion collection includes a series of 1980 Hong Kong horror comedy films that feature slapstick and kungfu that has a guy in a gorilla costume chasing people down a hill, people arguing in animal noises, horny ghosts, and a competition between 2 monks to see who can get their shrine higher on stilts.
Don’t shit on the criterion collection catalogue.
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 5 weeks ago:
If you just like “Shoot Em Up” movies and aren’t turned off by the idea of Paul Giamatti sucking on a dead woman’s milky tit then I have the movie for you.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 month ago:
Oh no… I’m that weirdo that likes the Papermate mechanicals.
They are just so simple and reliable. You could crush one and still get it to write again if you needed too and it had the eraser (that sucked) built right in that you never used but felt good looking at it and squeezing against your thumbnail when you were bored. Just had to put better quality lead in it.But man Zebra makes the pens and pencil I would actually intend to use if I was planning it.
- Comment on Idioms 1 month ago:
My great grandmother that had one that was:
Stop masturbating under that apple tree.
Maybe sounded better in Polish.
- Comment on Online Wars Aside, 'Snow White' Simply Isn't Getting Moviegoers to Buy In 1 month ago:
Money is the target audience.
- Comment on Warner Bros Negotiating Big Sale Of Shelved ‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ Movie: The Dish 1 month ago:
It would but hey if it makes more profit than they can just get off on their taxes that’s more profit. And that sounds very Zaslav. If it makes money for him he will change his opinion in a second.
They were actually shopping it around when they first canned it, but clearly the other distributors wanted a discount and he wanted every dime and then some.
- Comment on Happy Pi Day!! 1 month ago:
Hey also share a birthday. Hope you managed to get cake instead of Pie. Lord knows I’m tired of it.
- Comment on Happy Pi Day!! 1 month ago:
Its also the birthday and death day of Akira Yoshizawa, the grandmaster of Origami who rose the craft to an art form.
Also if you manage to die on the day of your birth by natural causes at 94 I think you deserve extra credit.
^the art is honored for his incredible work standardizing it, he really was a treasure^