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Re: Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

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Post by MattyRad »

Things I liked: Excessive porn may decrease a man's desire to engage women, exposure to sexual situations may be occurring at younger ages, the attention span of younger generations may be decreasing. (I use the term "may" because I don't actually know the extent to which these things could be harmful.)

Things I didn't like: Noah was a scummy person for whom I had no sympathy (not paying attention to his gf, lying, breaking into her account, having no sense of subterfuge at that, using chatroulette), the girl's obnoxious and clichéd speech at the end, and the numerous exaggerated aspects. And I would argue a lot of this video is exaggerated, like the ridiculous music- "cuddle jams" played immediately when Noah starts feeling down.

Overall, I'm not a fan of the video.

Re: Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

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Post by Tichy »

cclogg wrote: post #54

Is this how people actually use their computers? I only watched the first couple of minutes, but it seems kind of odd. I did grow up with internet (25 now) but I don't use Facebook, so maybe I'm out of touch... but seriously do people just open tabs or flash games and porn while talking to someone via video chat? What's the point of video chatting then? I will say though, the way he didn't really pay attention to her…

I don't think I ever watched porn while chatting to someone, but occasionally I have been reading Hacker News while talking on the phone. Maybe that counts, too.

Re: Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

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Post by psyklic »

greenyoda wrote: post #48

The early part of the video gives some insight into why his girlfriend broke up with him: she's trying to have a conversation with him on Skype, but he's barely paying attention to her while playing with that game. It's almost like he lost interest in what she had to say a long time ago, and she finally got tired of it.

She didn't break up with him. His paranoia/out-of-touchness convinced him that she did.

Re: Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

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Post by [deleted] »

stephengillie wrote: post #39
jack-r-abbit wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you missed something in my first comment. I think it was a great message. I liked it. But I already understand all that. The unfortunate part is that it can't be used to show the same great message to kids... the ones that are less likely to already know that. It would be great if someone could edit the content a tiny bit for a non-explicit version. You know... like they do to songs so they can play them on t…

Censorship is a nice, slippery slope.

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Re: Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

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Post by clicks »

thejulielogan wrote: post #73
stephengillie wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The dialog is the same vapid conversation that all humans use from teenage to mid-adulthood.

Given that it's a movie about teenagers...yeah I'd hope the dialogue would be the same vapid conversations that all humans have from teenage to mid-adulthood.

Worse than that, what about the casual racism?

The truly shocking thing to me is no-one in this thread has yet commented about it. This is frustrating for two reasons:

1) It is so normalized that no-one felt the need to even comment about it -- as if it's not bizarre

2) 'Studying' is presumed as a boring, bad thing. Is this what college students are like? Studying a lot is bad? Asians studying a lot is 'the worst thing'?

I emphasize it not apparently being a problem is a big problem -- this is how racism is perpetuated.

Re: Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

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Post by rapind »

DjangoReinhardt wrote: post #40
shurcooL wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Happiness/Likeness = Expectation - Reality. Those who thought it was great probably did not have high expectations. The movie beat them. You already saw websites saying how great it was, so your expectations were much harder to beat.

I think, you'll find that the equation works better if you reverse the RHS. Happiness = Reality - Expectations. The lesser the expectations and the greater/better the reality, the more the happiness. :) (NB: I use this equation as a general rule for my life. In fact, I put it in one of my first HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932133 )

One of my favs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2092745

Re: Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

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Post by rapind »

discostrings wrote: post #56
billybob255 wrote: post #20

Am I the only one that doesn't really like it? I see all these websites talking about how amazing it is, but it's just, eh. Everything pre-chatroulette was alright and realistic but then a third of the movie is wasted time jumping around dick shots until he magically hits upon a girl who has a quick speech talking about how fake Facebook is. The bond between those two parts doesn't really work for me. And it seems li…

I think this format has a lot of potential, but it's also really hard to do well. To me, this film felt much more like a stylistic proof-of-concept than something that's been realized. Having Noah change the status in Amy's account served the plot but not the story--it was a quick shortcut that got the film to the length that those who created it wanted, but it struck me as unrealistic. This had a higher level of pro…

Agreed. The status change seemed very unlikely.

It really got me to cringe during the mouse hovers on the buttons though. That was pretty great.

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