This is called can’t seperate fiction to real life. We are all experts of reality, and watching Superman fly and shoot lasers from his head shouldnt take you out of the movie.
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#172This is called can’t seperate fiction to real life. We are all experts of reality, and watching Superman fly and shoot lasers from his head shouldnt take you out of the movie.
Sure, overall you’re going to have a better experience if you can just roll with whatever happens and enjoy it (true in life and cinema).
I think that at some level, when I’m consuming fiction, in the back of my head I’m learning the “rules” of that media. That creates a set of expectations about the boundaries of what can happen. Done well, a work can make a powerful impression by breaking the rules. That only works if the audience is aware of the rules in the first place.
A lot of movies go for verisimilitude. They’re trying to look and feel real, which can make the audience identify more with the characters. When you see a movie that does a lot of things right, it can be jarring when it gets something wrong. Suddenly you might be thinking - they could afford a hundred stylists, take over city streets to film, but they couldn’t get a plumber? It can take you out of the movie. The filmmaker doesn’t want to break the rules by accident.
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Yes, this drives me crazy. I particularly hate the trope where the plot hinges on two characters having a huge misunderstanding that would be resolved by a 5 second conversation.
"Ooh so I DON'T have to kill half the universe's population because some go hungry?" "...oh you mean I could also just... give everyone enough food with a snap of the finger?"
What bothered me the most about this was Thanos destroying the stones after. He should realize that the snap is something that will need to be done regularly if he wants to actually keep population down. Halving the galaxy once accomplishes nothing
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#174My 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".
I used to get mad about characters doing stupid stuff in movies.
Now I instead say, "well, that's just bad/terrible writing."
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#175I worked in theatre for years and audiences have a very high suspension of disbelief (much higher than for film or TV).
Except for things related to the military, specifically uniforms.
If you have a modern military uniform in your show, then it has to be _perfect_. Any errors you make will be glaring to someone who wore that uniform and it will take them out of the show.
IME almost any other factual errors in a stage performance can be ignored by the audience. They're willing to overlook it because they know it's a show.
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#176Part of the movie “American Gangster” was filmed in the neighborhood I lived in. When I watched it, the breaks in continuity versus actual physical reality were so distracting that I had to turn it off within the first ten minutes. I’m sure for anyone who didn’t literally live on the block where they were filming, this is an issue they would have never ever ever noticed, but for me it felt very much like a plumber pr…
Had the same issue with „Before Sunrise“, set in Vienna. Hawke and Delpy walk from one cut to the next in minutes, what IRL would have taken them half an hour on public transport.
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#177In the Matrix humanity is enslaved to use them as an energy source. But the 2nd law of thermodynamics requires that any energy harvested would be, by definition, less than the energy of the food required to sustain their bodies. Therefore the plot makes no sense, because they should just shovel the food directly into the computer and skip the humans.
We use cows for the same purpose - we eat them instead of shoveling grass straight into our mouths, even though in some strict sense the grass contains more caloric energy. Or, we eat vegetables even though the energy in them is less than all the solar energy that falls on them. But of course the calories in grass and sunlight aren't accessible to us. It's not impossible to imagine some parallel situation where human…
Synthetic organisms would have a very different opinion of consumption than we do. Sustenance is much more than calories for us. Not so much for them.
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We use cows for the same purpose - we eat them instead of shoveling grass straight into our mouths, even though in some strict sense the grass contains more caloric energy. Or, we eat vegetables even though the energy in them is less than all the solar energy that falls on them. But of course the calories in grass and sunlight aren't accessible to us. It's not impossible to imagine some parallel situation where human…
Carnivores are essentially thieves - stealing the energy concentrated by plants instead of doing the work ourselves.
Herbivores just hate plants.
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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 o…
Would that be something like the Bloomberg terminal?
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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
One of my biggest pet peeves in watching people play TTRPGs is that the NPCs don't seem to know they live in a world full of magic users, and the party is the first they've ever encountered.
I'd expect shop owners to have collectively figured out ways to deal with bards. Banks how to deal with invisibility, etc.