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Post by tshaddox »

soupfordummies wrote: post #157
bombcar wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of the YouTube channels that try to play what the animated piano or guitar is playing, and it’s almost always wrong. But sometimes, in surprising situations, it was animated correctly.

That sounds dope, got any examples? Unrelated kinda - does anyone remember seeing some videos of a guitarist basically PLAYING some speeches? Like, there was a background of a speaker giving a speech or dialogue in a movie and this dude is PLAYING the speech with really weird jazz chords and they’re notated on the top of the screen. Very weird and specific I know LOL

EMCproductions’ “Drums are Never Animated Correctly…Right?” series is the one I know of:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3GY86ziPu8UJjggF4AxMKvRl...

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Post by tshaddox »

thatguy0900 wrote: post #173
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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

Are we not supposed to think that Thanos is deranged? I thought it was pretty obvious that his goal is comically evil (no pun intended) and his motivation so singular that it’s pointless to even think of him as an individual with a personality who could be persuaded or even influenced by emotion. He’s literally just a force of nature that’s going to kill half of the life forms.

Re: The Plumber Problem

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Post by tshaddox »

dmm wrote: post #3

At the end of the movie Gladiator(2000), Maximus has a vision of being reunited with his family as he walks through a field of wheat. However the wheat is clearly a modern dwarf variety. These weren't developed until the mechanization of agriculture in the 20th century. Ancient varieties would have been taller because the stalks were used as a building material.

The people all spoke English and looked like specific famous 20th century actors too.

Re: The Plumber Problem

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Post by saghm »

soupfordummies wrote: post #157
bombcar wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of the YouTube channels that try to play what the animated piano or guitar is playing, and it’s almost always wrong. But sometimes, in surprising situations, it was animated correctly.

That sounds dope, got any examples? Unrelated kinda - does anyone remember seeing some videos of a guitarist basically PLAYING some speeches? Like, there was a background of a speaker giving a speech or dialogue in a movie and this dude is PLAYING the speech with really weird jazz chords and they’re notated on the top of the screen. Very weird and specific I know LOL

This in turn reminds me of this analysis scissors emojis on each platform: https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html

I remember something similar for train emojis, but I couldn't find it from a quick search

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Post by Strilanc »

appleflaxen wrote: post #19

In 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.

> NEO: Haven't you ever heard of the laws of thermodynamics?

> MORPHEUS: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo?

> (Pause.)

> NEO: ...in the Matrix.

> MORPHEUS: The machines tell elegant lies.

Paraphrased from https://hpmor.com/chapter/64

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Post by hgomersall »

lostlogin wrote: post #65
llimllib wrote: post #24

My wife is a physician and it drives her crazy. It often manifests as a scene like: Doctor 1: This patient has severe hepatitis, we need to get them into surgery stat! Doctor 2: You mean they have an inflammation of their liver? Which is truly the dumbest possible way for a doctor to respond in the real world, though obviously can be necessary for exposition to the viewer. As a programmer, "Live Free or Die Hard", "I…

Medical stuff is often worth avoiding if you have even a passing knowledge. I’m a radiographer, and pretty much useless at anything except driving a magnet, but it still bugs me. Medical shows have ventilators set up wrong, chest x-rays hung up backwards (L on R) and piss poor representations of CPR chest compressions. The main actor can often operate all sorts of specialist equipment, perform surgery and analyse res…

I'd always given them a pass on the chest compressions on the basis that doing it properly would cause serious injury to their fellow actor.

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Post by hef19898 »

tshaddox wrote: post #192
thatguy0900 wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Are we not supposed to think that Thanos is deranged? I thought it was pretty obvious that his goal is comically evil (no pun intended) and his motivation so singular that it’s pointless to even think of him as an individual with a personality who could be persuaded or even influenced by emotion. He’s literally just a force of nature that’s going to kill half of the life forms.

Thanos is the worst villian since Negan in Walking Dead. Both made me stop caring for the franchise. Which is a pitty really, since writing, and the villain, were really good in Captain America Civil War. Actually, Zemo was the best villain in tue whole MCU, since Loki is not truely a villain IMHO.

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ta573957294 wrote: post #54

In the movie 300, after Leonidas and the 300 decide to march North towards Thermopylae. The valley & mountains in the background are REALLY from Sparta, Grecet. The producers made had sent crews to take enough photos and videos of the valleygt to accurately portrait the landscape. It was eerie to watch the movie (I grew up in Sparta) and see the mountains all around as they really are. BUT (big but here) they march S…

Similar - I downloaded and watched "The Way" while I was about 2/3 the way through the Camino de Santiago. There's a scene where the group walks in front of a landmark I recognized from a few days prior - but the group is walking the wrong direction. Hey, wait a minute...
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