The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Post by ExMachina73 » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 9:29 PM UTC

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
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Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Post by schoen » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 9:43 PM UTC

With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title cards were written by an LLM.

Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Post by kodablah » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 9:52 PM UTC

Also touched on at https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/ (and the book)

Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Post by nphardon » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

schoen wrote: post #2

With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title cards were written by an LLM.

There's a lot of em dashes in the article as well, along with some phrasing that is very LLM. I think this was written with a mix of LLM and human.

Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Post by rafram » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC

schoen wrote: post #2

With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title cards were written by an LLM.

You're not wrong, but part of the core problem with LLMs is that they write every blog post and README like they're writing the opening titles for Blade Runner.

Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Post by hcs » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC

schoen wrote: post #2

With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title cards were written by an LLM.

I would expect the LLM-ese to not repeat "called" like that.

Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Post by jameshart » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

schoen wrote: post #2

With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title cards were written by an LLM.

Thematically appropriate for it to be difficult to tell something human-created from something generated by a computer.

Almost a bit too on the nose.

Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Post by Computer0 » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 10:32 PM UTC

I found this site [https://fontsinuse.com/] mentioned in the article to be quite interesting to browse through.

Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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Post by ProllyInfamous » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

schoen wrote: post #2

With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title cards were written by an LLM.

Can we get off with "the em dashes" – I've been using them for years (checks post history:), decades.