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lapalapa 5 points ago +7 / -2

The word migration doesn't necessarily imply impermanence.

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lapalapa 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's not social conditioning, it's physical conditions.

People get seasick playing VR until they get used to it. People get sick at sea until they get used to it. Getting sick because one isn't used to higher framerates is no argument for saying that lower framerates are objectively superior.

That being said, my original point was that film grain is an objective imperfection of a hypothetical perfect picture. There really is no good reason to say that film is better than digital.

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lapalapa 1 point ago +1 / -0

Framerates have the same immutable characteristics as musical chords

I don't think so. I think it's just cultural.

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lapalapa 4 points ago +5 / -1

those that have seen 60 fps film footage knows it utterly destroys that movie magic feel. It turns movies into gaudy soap opera effect garbage

That's just current habit and preconceptions. If you got used to 60 fps you'd hate less than that.

intangible quality to it that I've never experienced with digital movies.

Perhaps post-processing skills aren't up to par, but that can and should get better with time.

But you're attributing things to film that aren't intrinsic to film.

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lapalapa -1 points ago +1 / -2

Well, nobody wants to accept the idea that something has been taken out of them that can't be made whole, especially when it doesn't appear to be consequential.

I wouldn't do it to my children, but I also don't think it matters much. Arguments center around sensitivity, but that's never been an issue.

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lapalapa 9 points ago +10 / -1

The only reason not to film digital is if you enjoy grain, which is objectively an imperfection.

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lapalapa -1 points ago +1 / -2

It's also heavily implied that they take sexual liberties with human women.

What the fuck? That wasn't implied at all. It's also not clear that they faked the meteor: that's just the MC hypothesizing.

It seems to me to be a fully self aware takedown of leftism in it's entirety

It doesn't seem political at all to me.

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lapalapa 1 point ago +1 / -0

When you cost more than you provide to the state, your death becomes financially convenient.

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lapalapa 1 point ago +1 / -0

The solution is for new companies never to enter the shareholder market.

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lapalapa 6 points ago +6 / -0

If it's China, it can surely only be a multiplayer microfest.

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lapalapa 2 points ago +2 / -0

Those extremely dark shadows are off-putting. There should be more ambient lightning in a scene like that.

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lapalapa 3 points ago +3 / -0

Now that you mention it, it IS clear that Mufasa is the king because he's strong, as you said, so why is Simba assumed to be the future ruler since he was a cub? If royalty is by strength and not inheritance, the first movie alone is contradictory.

Not that it matters much.

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lapalapa 3 points ago +3 / -0

Doesn't that kinda make Scar correct in his dismissal of Mufasa and Simba and make him the good guy?

His reign was terrible, so it was good and righteous that he was removed from the line of succession. Such things have always happened when the crown prince is deemed a failure as a future king. He's not a good guy, he's a power-hungry sore loser.

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lapalapa 1 point ago +1 / -0

Their arguments are all based on emotion so they need to believe those kinds of things in order to keep rank. It's hard to stay hyperemotional, you know?

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lapalapa 4 points ago +4 / -0

Faith beyond the confines of religion

Pure stupidity. That's how you end up a hippie taking LSD to get "spiritual".

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lapalapa 6 points ago +7 / -1

This is what neural networks do: they aggregate data. Statistics would abstract out a model of general trends, while neural networks do the opposite: they render out a detailed picture, hallucinating specifics from its training data.

The problem here is that people are misusing the systems, assuming it can have credibility to answer random questions. It works better when you ask it to write code, but not so much with factual information when the training data is the internet.

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lapalapa 2 points ago +2 / -0

I started watching because I heard the 4th episode was one of the most viewed/rated ever on IMDB or something and was sorely disappointed by it. That episode was nothing special, nothing that I haven't seen better realized elsewhere.

Aside from that, the series is meh. The main character acts well I suppose, but I don't care about him succeeding since he has no redeeming qualities. You don't really root for anyone, which means the show has no emotional impact.

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lapalapa 1 point ago +2 / -1

Meh, when you insult someone you say whatever you think will hurt them. Spanish/Catalan relations can have some friction, on top of that. Those people were really stupid sinking that low on what should be entertainment.

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lapalapa 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's also possible that your caloric estimates were way off.

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