MudMan

Patronizingly cryptic AND with disciples coming in behind him to explain his whole deal.

He should watch out for roaming cups of hemlock, just in case.

So is “I runned to the shop and buyed a bottle of milk”.

“Layout” is a noun made from a verb. Just say “how the views can be laid out”. You can’t make a verb out of a noun made from a verb. It makes my brainies ouchie.

How well do you know 14th century minutia? That can end up being a very long con if the next thing you remember is like the general lines of Joan of Arc’s whole deal in 50 years or whatever.

(…), e.g. via a user-customizable toolbar and how views can be layouted.

I WILL find these people and hurt them. Nobody will blame me.

Hey, way more honest than OP.

Oh, ok.

So is this fine for kids, then? And if so, how do you draw that line in a piece of legislation?

Really? You were going for some Socratic roundabout ironic thing? Could have just said what you thought, saved everybody the trouble. That feels a bit patronizing.

I mean, I don’t disagree on the broad strokes, but it does beg the question:

What are you doing here?

This is that. You’re on social media. We don’t allow smoking and drinking for adults because it’s any less harmful for them, it’s just that we choose to let grownups choose whether they want to mess themselves up.

So why do you choose to mess yourself up and what should society do about it?

I read the piece and have been thinking about this daily for thirty years.

The guy is right and the piece sucks.

It’s borderline satanic panic that hasn’t thought through the downstream ramifications of even attempting to implement age gates online. And as the previous poster says the negative effects of social media are at the absolute least just as bad in adults. The scaremongering about drug dealers and pedophiles is just that.

With this guy I can never decide if he’s some dude whose politics and views on business I abhor who just happens to agree with me in this one area or some dude I agree with who also happens to have abhorrent views on politics and business.

I certainly refuse to hero worship him, if only on the aesthetics of his schtick, so I can live with the happy medium.

Well, the irony of that one is that not needing surgery or implants is the more advanced solution, even if it’s less… superficially cyberpunky, I guess?

People really like the Elon Musk-y thing where you implant chips to read stuff from your brain, but it’s actually a lot cooler to pick up the chain from the place it got severed without having to go putting things inside people (or cutting into them at all, if possible).

Not true. The arm is controlled via muscle sensors and their previous model did the same thing. Made me look it up, they launched that in 2017. The sensing tech wasn’t even new then, the big claim to fame was that it was 3D printed, cheap and could be fitted to children.

Why lie about it? The real story is already cool. Needless misinformation pisses me off.

Sure, unscripted moments can be an asset, but they aren’t the thing that makes a move “realistic and immersive”. Plenty of great directors are strict and won’t do anything that isn’t on the page, even if they otherwise have a very naturalistic style.

Plus, there’s a difference between allowing for an actor improvising a reaction or a line and… you know, forgetting to erase a technician from a green screen shot for a few frames. I don’t know that counts are an unscripted moment.

Yep. Especially when it comes to these obvious mistakes. It’s not like Zwick wanted his US civil war kids to be wearing Casios. The artistic intent is most of the examples here is being restored, not changed.

The article is coming at it from viewing the movie as a frozen artifact, which is reductive and nonsensical. Especially when these changes are made along with a medium change where a remastering is needed anyway. Hell, for a bunch of us many of these old movies were first seen in 4:3 pan&scan at a resolution were most of this was cut off or indiscernible anyway.

Painting out these movie mistakes as part of a restoration is wrong. What’s in the movie is in the movie, and altering the movie to this extent is a form of revisionist history.

No, screw you.

I hate this piece with a passion. The cataloguing of “revealing mistakes” effectively ruins that scene forever for everybody. That’s way more annoying than cleaning up an obvious mistake in a subsequent revision. I hate movie nerd trivia for this reason.

It’s not just dumb staging goofs, either. Who can watch the “kicking the helmet” scene in Two Towers or the hand cut in Django these days without being immediately skyrocketed out of the movie and into movie trivia land? That, if nothing else, is why I don’t like leaving real world injuries in movies. No matter how well the actor rolls with it some nerd with a passion for DVD extras or IMDB triva pages is going to make a listicle for other nerds to quote at each other and ruin the scene for all eternity.

So hey, if the goof is the kind you can clean up with a computer to shut the dorks up forever, by all means, erase that crap away. Hell, even ones where there isn’t technically a mistake are a bummer. I know exactly where Robert Downey Jr.'s fake torso starts in that cute flirting scene where he gets his battery pack changed by Gwyneth Paltrow and I really hope they end up giving him a CG body in a remaster some day because I don’t want to be staring at the uncanny valley forever when I get to that part.

Oh, I’m changing it back, then.

FWIW, OnlyOffice IS much better (hey, at least it doesn’t open xls files with black text on black backgrounds on dark mode!), and I do think its Google-inspired “apps-as-tabs” thing is the future for this stuff. I’m not sure I’d rank it above those, but it’s certainly a much more… competitive, I guess? approach.

Sorry, freudian slip. Edited to avoid future confusion.

There’s a type of applications where I’d dump HomeAssistant, Pi-Hole and maybe TrueNAS and a few others where the FOSS option is the clear leader… if you’re a power user trying to do things the proprietary equivalents won’t even acknowledge as an option, but they’re not something you’d give a normie.

I just don’t think “objectively better” is a good way to look at it for a lot of this.

That’s less and opinion than Stockholm syndrome.

There’s a very good argument for Blender, though, but 3D software is so specialized that I guess it depends what you’re comparing it to.

And while we’re on creativity software, the same goes for Godot. Arguable, but very dependent on what you’re doing.

OBS and VLC yeah.

You snuck the LibreOffice hot take in there and… yeah, no, unfortunately.

I don’t even think it’s necessarily better than MS Office, but I’d (unfortunately) take Google’s Office suite over both.