jordanlund

@jordanlund@lemmy.one

Hey, he’s like, just this guy, you know?

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jordanlund,

They bought a last gen console after current gen launched, that’s not CD Projekt Red’s problem. Last gen is last gen.

jordanlund,

The game does run. The DLC is not quite the same thing. Good for them for cutting last gen loose. A lot of their problems would have been solved if they did it sooner.

jordanlund,

You better have your operations in order!

jordanlund,

I just want to say, people are down on AI art, but the image on this article is INSPIRED.

Missed opportunity

This annoyed me. You can boost pack all the way from your New Atlantis penthouse balcony to the New Atlantis star port. Off a skyscraper, travel for miles. It’s fantastic - everyone should do it. Really gives a sense of the scale and capability of the world and game. It does that better than any actual quest or cutscene… bit...

jordanlund,

Open the scanner and quicktravel everywhere…

jordanlund,

Somewhere there’s a joke about “of course he wants an Austrian gun…”

jordanlund,

Yeah, the article points that out:

“A now-deleted post said the former president ‘purchases’ a Glock, which was dubbed ‘Trump 45.’”

And of course it’s gold and has his face on it…

newsweek.com/chicago-police-seize-handgun-trumps-…

jordanlund,

And of course it’s being complicated by Trump himself now…

meidastouch.com/…/indicted-trump-reposts-claim-he…

He's not wrong (commons.wikimedia.org)

I’d like to thank @wilberfan for posting this article from the L.A. Times over at !moviesandtv. A hot topic with some interesting (and less interesting) takes on the subject. This was going to be a mere cross-posting but, of course, you’re always going to get your mouth-breathing audience in any discussion regarding...

jordanlund,

He’s forgetting movie history…

Back when television got big, cinema had to evolve to survive. The aspect ratio went wide.

This Is Cinerama was more of a tech demo than anything else in 1952, but it was followed by widescreen movie, movies in 1953 with “The Robe” being shot and shown in Cinemascope.

Technicolor too gave a more vibrant color scheme even than previous color film processing that actually came a generation prior, in 1932.

But the widescreen/Technicolor combination provided a must see experience that were the event films of the era and they couldn’t be duplicated at home.

Roll forward 50 years… home theater technology has evolved to a point where theater has to compete with 65" 4K television displays and 7.1 Dolby Atmos surround sound. People need a reason to leave their homes and deal with noisy, disease infected, crowds, high concession prices, expensive tickets, and annoyances like having to pre-pick your own seats instead of just walking in and sitting down.

Streaming is keeping people at home, being able to binge long form content, pausing when necessary. Cinema can’t provide that experirnce.

So it’s going the other way, the “theme park ride experience”. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that the first Pirates of the Carribean movie hit in 2003, pre-dating the wave of comic book movies by, what? 5 or 6 years? 50 years after the first Cinerama movies?

But even that has roots going back to Jurassic Park (1993), Star Wars (1977), and Jaws (1975).

Now, don’t get me wrong, I dearly love “small” films like Scorsese’s After Hours, or even modern stuff like Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, but there is ZERO compelling reason to see them in a theater. I can get the same experience viewing them on my home theater setup without, you know, blowing $50 to sit in a noisy, uncomfortable theater.

To do THAT, I NEED a spectacle. I need to see something that demands I see it right away, in a theatrical environment. It needs to be a theme park ride.

If your end goal is to make a tight knit drama full of people in rooms talking to each other, well, Downton Abbey and Bridgerton are over there ->

jordanlund,

I love Lawrence of Arabia as much as the next guy, but again, the large appeal of it is showing things that have never been seen before by a western audience, the sweeping vistas, the amazing desert environment.

That’s simply not enough when people can stay at home and listen to Sir David Attenborough talk to them for hours on end. :)

Planet Earth 3 BABY! - people.com/david-attenborough-narrating-planet-ea…

jordanlund,

I recognize that Christie isn’t exactly Shakespeare, but why adapt a book and change literally everything about it?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallowe'en_Party

It’s not in Venice, the house is not haunted, there’s no seance… I guess some of the names are the same?

jordanlund,

He’s forgetting movie history…

Back when television got big, cinema had to evolve to survive. The aspect ratio went wide.

This Is Cinerama was more of a tech demo than anything else in 1952, but it was followed by widescreen movie, movies in 1953 with “The Robe” being shot and shown in Cinemascope.

Technicolor too gave a more vibrant color scheme even than previous color film processing that actually came a generation prior, in 1932.

But the widescreen/Technicolor combination provided a must see experience that were the event films of the era and they couldn’t be duplicated at home.

Roll forward 50 years… home theater technology has evolved to a point where theater has to compete with 65" 4K television displays and 7.1 Dolby Atmos surround sound. People need a reason to leave their homes and deal with noisy, disease infected, crowds, high concession prices, expensive tickets, and annoyances like having to pre-pick your own seats instead of just walking in and sitting down.

Streaming is keeping people at home, being able to binge long form content, pausing when necessary. Cinema can’t provide that experirnce.

So it’s going the other way, the “theme park ride experience”. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that the first Pirates of the Carribean movie hit in 2003, pre-dating the wave of comic book movies by, what? 5 or 6 years? 50 years after the first Cinerama movies?

But even that has roots going back to Jurassic Park (1993), Star Wars (1977), and Jaws (1975).

Now, don’t get me wrong, I dearly love “small” films like Scorsese’s After Hours, or even modern stuff like Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, but there is ZERO compelling reason to see them in a theater. I can get the same experience viewing them on my home theater setup without, you know, blowing $50 to sit in a noisy, uncomfortable theater.

To do THAT, I NEED a spectacle. I need to see something that demands I see it right away, in a theatrical environment. It needs to be a theme park ride.

If your end goal is to make a tight knit drama full of people in rooms talking to each other, well, Downton Abbey and Bridgerton are over there ->

jordanlund,

Now, when it comes to “Marvel regurgitation”, yeah, they could, and should, be doing better. They essentially re-use the same basic plot over and over again and will keep doing it until they hit one that doesn’t make a billion dollars.

I’m a lifelong comic book fan and I love that nerd culture is finally taking over, but I swear to god, I don’t need another superhero movie where the hero and villain have a joined origin story and the villain is just a bigger, badder version of the hero.

Seriously.

Iron Man - Iron Monger
Incredible Hulk - Abomination
Iron Man 2 - Whiplash
Thor - Loki (both sons of Odin)
Captain America - Red Skull
Avengers - Loki + Alien Invasion

Iron Man 3 - Extremis
Thor: Dark World - Dark Elf invasion
Captain America: Winter Soldier - Bucky
Guardians of the Galaxy - Ronan - First one to break formula.
Avengers: Age of Ultron - Ultron joined origin with Vision.
Ant-Man - Yellow Jacket

Captain America: Civil War - Avengers vs. Avengers
Doctor Strange - Kaecilius
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 - Pete’s Dad
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Vulture, Pete’s girlfriend’s dad.
Thor: Ragnarok - Hela, evil firstborn sister.
Black Panther - Killmonger
Avengers: Infinity War - Tying it all together.
Ant-Man and the Wasp - Ghost, a victim of Pym tech.
Captain Marvel - Yon-Rogg
Avengers: Endgame - Tying it all together.
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Mysterio (Stark Tech villain vs. Stark Tech hero)

jordanlund,

Hilarious that it even embedded the tweet so you can see it’s not an accurate quote.

Bad enough when humans do it, adding nothing.

jordanlund,

Glutenous Maximus

jordanlund,

Gosar is such a tool.

You know it’s bad when his own family said “Yeah, don’t vote for this guy.”

youtu.be/j1W7lx6IsnY

A new Supreme Court case could trigger a second Great Depression (www.vox.com)

The plaintiffs’ arguments in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association, which the justices will hear on October 3, are simultaneously some of the silliest and some of the most dangerous ideas ever presented to the Supreme Court of the United States....

jordanlund,

If they try to shut down Social Security that’s going to result in lawsuits from a) all the seniors who currenttly rely on it and b) people like me who have been paying into it for 38 years.

What Happens if a Nominee Dies, Gets Too Sick, or Winds up in Prison? (washingtonmonthly.com)

Joe Biden is 80 and not very popular. Donald Trump is 77, not very popular, and facing four indictments. The possibility that one or both parties might replace either man before they secured their respective presidential nomination—or afterward—because of health, death, or legal conviction is worth considering if only...

jordanlund,

A lot of it depends on when they die. There’s actually a very good novel exploring this situation, it’s called “The People’s Choice” and it’s written by noted journalist Jeff Greenfield.

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/The_People's_Choice_(novel)

Here’s the scenario:

An election is held and a winner is chosen, however the winner dies before the electoral college votes can be certified which generally happens in December.

The party promotes the VP nominee, but the electors aren’t sure they actually want him, and the count is 305 to 233. It would take 37 “faithless” electors to change their vote to throw the election to the 2nd place candidate.

Now, I could see a similar nightmare scenario if the top candidate were to die after certification, but before the votes can be counted by the VP on Jan. 6th. Or after 1/6 but before the swearing in on 1/20.

After everyone is sworn in, it’s clear the VP takes over, before that it’s a little bit squishy.

jordanlund,

Weird choice of graphic. Why flip the US and place it on the left?

The Chinese map isn’t flipped, so it’s not a case of the entire graphic being mirrored…

jordanlund,

“over-50 demographic”

Hey, hey, hey, don’t group all of us in with those assholes…

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