SomeAmateur

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SomeAmateur, (edited )

I listened to a podcast (99 Percent Invisible I think) and it said a big reason why the 90s were so great for movies were the creation of cinaplexes, big movie theaters with tons of screens.

More screens meant that new or different ideas that wouldn’t normally make it to the big screen (Forrest Gump, Fight Club, The Matrix etc) were given a chance, and found an audience.

Now everything is played safe. Hollywood doesn’t want new franchises because they are deemed too risky, and the names we know and love are running out of ideas and passion and risk ruining the whole thing.

SomeAmateur, (edited )

When I was a garbage man (covid was a weird time) one stop was a business that made those benches, beach chairs, picnic tables etc. Every other week that dumpster was filled to the brim with leftover pieces and “sawdust”. We don’t have a recycling center in the area so guess where that all goes?

SomeAmateur,

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought of this

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SomeAmateur, (edited )

Always has been. Just yesterday I was explaining AI image generation to a coworker. I said the program looks at a ton of images and uses that info to blend them together. Like it knows what a soviet propaganda poster looks like, and it knows what artwork of Santa looks like so it can make a Santa themed propaganda poster.

Same with text I assume. It knows the Mario wiki and fanfics, and it knows a bunch of books about zombies so it blends it to make a gritty story about Mario fending off zombies. But yeah it’s all other works just melded together.

My question is would a human author be any different? We absorb ideas and stories we read and hear and blend them into new or reimagined ideas. AI just knows it’s original sources

SomeAmateur,

I bet insurance companies would pay out the nose for this data. Hike up the rates for drivers with “risky” habits.

SomeAmateur, (edited )

Imagine being the person in charge. You all are bound to celibacy, so you’ve seen and heard hushed tales of all kinds of …interesting side effects from living in that state for years.

This guy walks in and makes his sales pitch. He wants to keep mice in the monestary. And have them get it on. Mostly under his personal observation. For science. Totally not some odd perversion, promise.

I would have my doubts too!

SomeAmateur, (edited )

Not so much of the physical building, but I bet the designing isn’t too big of a stretch. Think something like procedural generation to make 2/3 of a floor plan and have humans make sure it makes sense and add details.

SomeAmateur,

Yup, many shows just milk themselves to death.

SomeAmateur, (edited )

(guys they mean the sudden changes in road quality)

SomeAmateur,

Cool thanks!

SomeAmateur,

Huh I wonder if that’s connected to Diamond Dogs in Metal Gear Solid V

SomeAmateur,

Arma players are more at home with km than miles because they never leave the basement to use it irl

(jk I am that guy)

SomeAmateur,

.9mm mechancal pencils (.7 breaks too easy)

SomeAmateur,

Go anyway, the western US is beautiful.

SomeAmateur,

That’s not what I’m saying. He had a pretty good “why” for having easy access to weapons until he was checked into a mental institution. If he was a danger to himself or others I bet they could have prevented him from getting weapons. I’m interested to see why they chose not to or how their attempts failed.

I admit it was a deviation from the subject and might have been confusing. Every time this guy’s background is brought up people tend to think military training is some forbidden knowledge that citizens don’t have access to, which isn’t the case at all.

SomeAmateur, (edited )

Yup. I used to be a vol firefighter. If your response time for any emergency service is under 5min you’re very lucky. But often even that isn’t enough. You need the tools and skills to do what you can until help arrives. Fire prevention, medical and self/fam defense. Until they get there it is up to you, and many people don’t realize that.

SomeAmateur,

My journey to mp3s was weird. Phones were already becoming common in high school but I wanted a music player after using the in-game ipod in Metal Gear Solid 4. But iPod classics were expensive and weren’t drag and drop. Being on flights and in areas with spotty reception really made me see the value of portable offline music. No ads, no buffering, and no drain on my phone battery.

Yup I still use a standalone player. I got a Sony Walkman NWZ-385 first which was 8GB. It has the best ui I’ve seen on a player and I still have it. But now I moved on to a Sandisc with a 256GB micro sd card. Before I had to pick and choose but now I can have hours long files just dropped in no prob. And I have it a copy of everything on my pc hard drive.

SomeAmateur, (edited )

I don’t mind passion from a hobby perspective. Some people are passionate about sports, coding, radios, plants, stamps etc. It’s okay to be passionate about cars and trucks, just don’t daily drive these if you want people to respect you. Same with stanced cars.

The problem as I see it is that these modded ones are pushed as still being practical when they are really only big toys. Have you ever noticed that jacked up trucks rarely have caps or toolboxes on the beds? The extra height takes away the utility of the bed and loading/unloading anything is a pain in the ass. They pour all this money into making their truck less useful.

I’ve driven big F-250s for work. They have a time, a place and a purpose. And that is not as a daily driver for most people.

SomeAmateur,

Very accurate

SomeAmateur,

I assume most meme makers live sedintary lives which has their own forms of wear and tear (always sitting, poor posture, lots of concrete surfaces) and not exercising enough makes any physical labor hurt more becase they aren’t used to it.

Big generalization but that also describes me when left to my own devices. I felt a lot better getting outside and working mildly physical jobs

SomeAmateur, (edited )

You know the “most annoying noise in the world” bit from Dumb and Dumber? I had a roommate with THAT and about five other loud ass annoying things as his alarms. If I didn’t have to get out of bed to do so I would have done the same.

SomeAmateur,

Looks like it would make a decent buffer in case of wildfire too

SomeAmateur, (edited )

It seems like people used to suburbs see that as the pinnacle of life but of course that’s not true.

In my experience rural areas get it because they are farmers and beekeepers with an understanding that working with nature is the way to go

SomeAmateur,

And stuff like that is absolutely facinating to me, in small doses anyway. I keep a journal and I think I’ll write a few pages about what my routine is. At home on the weekend and at work.

SomeAmateur, (edited )

I work at an airport. Cessnas and other small prop planes are perfectly fine and I think they are quieter than a harley for example. I bet those planes are the vast majority of planes flown in that pic of the neighborhood.

Once you put jets on things it can get annoying. Even small business jets are pretty loud for their size, not to mention commercial airliners coming and going.

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