perhalps ublock origin could merge this as an easter egg in the config?
(like a very poorly maintained easter egg, not a problem if is broken by something else)
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
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Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
#122I never found the Matrix very impressive, because I'd been inoculated by this movie.
Did you watch The Matrix on cinema, without knowing anything about the movie?
Back when The Matrix first opened, it was still possible to go to the cinema without knowing anything about a movie. I watched it like this and my mind was blown. I thought I was about to watch a techno thriller about a hacker who resisted authority!
I don't think I would have enjoyed the movie in today's hyperconnected internet culture, where we know what every movie will be about months and sometimes years before release.
Wait, I'll make an exception: say what you will about The Force Awakens, but I totally thought -- based on the trailers -- that it was going to be about Han Solo and Chewie. When it turned out to be about a new character, Rey, I was completely and pleasantly surprised. Well done, trailer editors!
Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
#123They Live was such a fun B movie. It is also kind of timeless.
It is far from a perfect or even very good movie, but the key messages are great and simple and the "chew bubblegem" scene is one very actionable scene. Long live Roddy.
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#124Oh the irony: "They Live", a movie famously about alienation and dehumanization, and you let AI do all the coding.
I once built a Chrome extension to play this audio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8itH10OFc8), encoded as base64 in the extension, on certain UI interactions on a sports site. I did it all by my big self. Should I be proud of that? Because I think we both know the answer is no.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say yes, conversing between two humans, maybe even collaborating, is more human than a solitary human using inanimate objects.
Even if the table collapses down badly instead of doing a proper one with a good set of tools?
Have you seen me work?
Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
#126perhalps ublock origin could merge this as an easter egg in the config? (like a very poorly maintained easter egg, not a problem if is broken by something else)
Well - while I like the movie, I'd also not want to see
these slogans. I use ublock origin to get rid of unwanted
content. I also simplify user interfaces a LOT. My default
youtube view I have removed a lot of stuff from (hopefully
one day I no longer have to use youtube; I don't want google
in my life, but I haven't yet found enough motivation to
degoogle my life completely); same with
old.reddit.com back when I was still using reddit. So I
think your proposal, while not bad in its own right, may
not be ideal either - I'd not consider this an easter
egg but rather content I'd want to block, so ublock origin
would not do its job properly if it were to show this to
me (and keep in mind I like They Live).
I had a similar problem with Nate when he abused all KDE users with his "donate-now-or-else" daemon (https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1f42sew/kde_is_asking_...).
I never ever want KDE widgets to pop up and pester me (that does not mean I have anything against donations; I have a lot against people who abuse the user base though, such as pestering them via unwanted pester-widgets. Sadly when you point this out on reddit, you get banned from #kde, same as when you critisize systemd on #linux - reddit censorship is out of hands).
Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say yes, conversing between two humans, maybe even collaborating, is more human than a solitary human using inanimate objects.
Even if the table collapses down badly instead of doing a proper one with a good set of tools?
I can't know how To hear anymore about tables
Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
#128Watch it if you haven't already. I accidentally landed in the middle of it while doing some illicit late night channel surfing when I was a kid.. this left quite an impression. I think it was a healthy formative influence for me and primed me for rejecting fads / peer pressure, distrusting authority, etc. Probably also helped me to resist the more unhealthy aspects of a religious time/place, and I was even doing ligh…
What I find funny (only not really) is the wildly different interpretations of this film people have, for many they seem to be primed by other things to see in it what they want. Basically skeptical of common forms in modernity, that is very clearly the intention. However, I have also seen that in extreme far-right communities this film represents how Jewish people control the world... somehow I don't think that is w…
When you're already promoting baseless conspiracy theories, what's a little more acting in bad faith?
Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
#129I never found the Matrix very impressive, because I'd been inoculated by this movie.
Did you watch The Matrix on cinema, without knowing anything about the movie? Back when The Matrix first opened, it was still possible to go to the cinema without knowing anything about a movie. I watched it like this and my mind was blown. I thought I was about to watch a techno thriller about a hacker who resisted authority! I don't think I would have enjoyed the movie in today's hyperconnected internet culture, wh…
"Did you watch The Matrix on cinema, without knowing anything about the movie?"
Yeah, that's what I mean. I went in not knowing anything, never having seen any trailers. And halfway through I went, "oh this is They Live, but the skeletons wear sunglasses."
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#130I wish I could upvote this 10 times! I love the film - blew my mind when I saw it on cable just after it came out.
One of the messages has changed of course. Nowadays it tends to be "stay fearful and do not reproduce".
Nah the ruling class still wants poor kids who can grow up into wage slaves and soldiers, that's why they keep making contraceptives and abortions harder to access.