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ayyyyyy

Someone got a boner writing that headline.

It has been my fuel for many years now.

Ah of course you’re right.

I mean, he did Usual Suspects, so he’s capable of a more restrained style. But that was a long time ago, and probably not what the studio hired him for on this.

This is the only way it’ll be any good, no way Arnie can pull off Conan anymore.

I read the first 2 sentences and now I have cancer.

Ah true, I forgot about the console.

I don’t think they give a shit about people emulating their old classic games, they have modern games.

I watched the video you linked. Can you describe what you are trying to do with your films? Like, what do you expect for viewers to experience from watching them?

For me, the video was like watching a child play with some toys. The characters were like stiff action figures with no personality, I didn’t care at all about them or even recognise them as living characters with emotions. The story was basically non-existant. And there was no appealing aesthetic to anything, the AI visuals are just incredibly bland and generic, like stock photos.

If you want people to engage with your work, you have to ask yourself why would someone engage with it? What are they supposed to get out of it?

First time I used modafinil I thought wow the military will love this shit.

This is an article by a person who doesn’t understand SOLID principles, talking about programmers who don’t understand SOLID principles.

Termie gonna save the rainforest.

I think these are fair criticisms of Lem in general. His writing has always been much more about his ideas than about the story. I kind of like the atmosphere and character that his particular style creates though, it is distinctly his and, for me, places his worlds in a kind of eastern european, retrofuturistic space in my mind. But this is obviously coming from a westerner that has a somewhat exoticised view of eastern european culture.

Don’t give up, skeleton.

Clickbait title. This is in the context of competitive coding, which is a very specific and constrained programming exercise with a time limit. Which is not at all comparable to real world software development.

Wicky.

It’s the Liverpool accent.

I taught at an English school in Osaka for a couple of years in my 20s and ended up getting told that in Japanese I sometimes sounded like a little kid because I taught a bunch of kids classes and picked up some language from them. I’m a 6’4 Australian man with a very deep voice.