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Post by dools »

qingcharles wrote: post #136
dools wrote: post #84

My brother has this problem but for all films. He was a producer, so his field of expertise is film. As a result, I can enjoy a wide range of film and TV series that he finds unwatchable because "the casting is terrible" or "the lighting is all wrong".

It's terrible when you've worked in films, or on films, because you've had experience in almost every production domain and it really messes with your head when watching movies. I started my career in CGI, I've acted, hosted TV shows, married an actor, made props, made movie vehicles, and produced a movie in Hollywood. I can literally watch nothing without critiquing the acting, casting, framing, lighting, stunts and…

I really loved the sci-fi series Colony on Netflix, and I said to my brother "hey this has such a good story check it out" and within 10 minutes he was like "the lighting looks like days of our lives and the actors are all too good looking forget it"

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Post by hindsightbias »

There was an era where CGI was used to simulate somewhat real or imagineable behavior.

If it’s a fantasy movie, I don’t care about bizarre effects. But something like Fast and Furious it’s just completely ridiculous to me. It’s just boring and lazy. Films like Grand Prix or Ronin have spectacular car scenes w/o being stupid.

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Post by readyplayernull »

Well, that's a way of knowing when we are dreaming, there can be fantasy elements but when something doesn't make sense or contradicts the rules/knowledge of the dream that's when we wake up. Maybe the dream is like GPT and there is another module catching those hallucinations that wakes up consciousness.

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Post by zymhan »

deadbunny wrote: post #44
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do horse drawn vehicles make 3 grooves (I assume that's what you were alluding to)? I'd expect it would just be a wide band of pretty bare ground with two grooves inset from the edges?

I would assume the 3rd groove is from the horse.

Horses don't constantly contact the ground like a chariot/cart wheel

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Post by fshr »

munificent wrote: post #145
scotty79 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's an adaptation of a comicbook. They didn't have believable personalities there either.

Sure, I get it. It just feels so awkward to me to watch actual real human actors behave in such a weird artificial way.

You have to find a way to not think of it as behaving, but acting like the characters they’re meant to portray. If they weren’t comic book characters, literally two dimensional :), then it’d be different. Maybe live action superhero films just aren’t your jam?

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Post by StableAlkyne »

bluGill wrote: post #33
thriftwy wrote: post #22

Going along with narrative requires suspension of disbelief. However, when you see obvious factual errors, disbelief comes knocking again as you begin questioning everything.

One of the reasons I like fantasy is the plot is set in a universe with different physics and so much of my knowledge of this world can be set aside. Even then though I often wonder how do they feed those large cities with only wilderness between them (most are set on navigable water, even though it is just luck at least the city location doesn't violate possibility, but the lack of explanation of how they get food)…

For DnD-esque settings I like to imagine factories of druids just casting goodberry all day

That and whichever druid spell makes the nearby farmland more fertile

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Post by StableAlkyne »

I had the reverse of this when I played Bioshock Infinite. There's a puzzle late in the game, one of the DLC levels (the second dlc set in Rapture) where a lab has a bunch of chemicals written out. I immediately was like "this makes no sense, this is genchem level stuff they missed"

And it turned out to be deliberate because it was actually a cypher puzzle, and the chemicals encoded it. Still annoyed because it was solved in a cutscene by the protagonist with no opportunity to figure it out yourself, though.

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Post by Eisenstein »

alethiophile wrote: post #153
analog31 wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hindsight. You learn more things later, that allow you to look back on the past.

How often do you learn new things later that, even as transmitted through untrustworthy media, allow for clear falsification of the former media presentation? This isn't zero but it's not very common either. Usually, the domain in question is sufficiently subtle that you can't make a rigorous prediction from an untrustworthy media presentation at all; thus, the media accounts are effectively unfalsifiable (unless you…

> Usually, the domain in question is sufficiently subtle that you can't make a rigorous prediction

Is it really a big deal then? Experts really care about the details so they will notice inaccuracies, but does that mean that they really matter to the point that the entire notion of journalism and media itself should be discredited?

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Post by mannykannot »

munificent wrote: post #145
scotty79 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's an adaptation of a comicbook. They didn't have believable personalities there either.

Sure, I get it. It just feels so awkward to me to watch actual real human actors behave in such a weird artificial way.

This reminds me of the uncanny valley.

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Post by CamperBob2 »

HDThoreaun wrote: post #43
clarada wrote: post #11

This applies to the real world as well. I've had a couple of times when I've been closely involved in an event that was covered in the national newspapers. Both times the stories were presented with major factual inaccuracies and with clear bias. I've brought this up in conversation a few times over the years and quite often a similar experience was reported by others. Yet everyone still seemed happy to trust the acc…

There's no money in unbiased news. If news organizations want subscribers they need to present a clear voice that is distinct from what other organizations offer, otherwise people will just click the first link on google or facebook and never pay. Unbiased can also mean undiferentiated, so NYT has leaned into technoskepticism, the journal into Karl Rove conservatism(and now just plain old republican or bust), and on…

There's no money in unbiased news.

I have to believe that's not true. When Bill Gates or Warren Buffett sit down at their breakfast table, do they get fed the same diet of pablum that I do, as an Apple News subscriber? I doubt it. They presumably pay a ton of money for access to unfiltered, unbiased global intelligence.

But I have no idea how to get the newsfeed that people like that must have access to, regardless of cost.

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