FourPacketsOfPeanuts @ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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Domain specific programming?

Anti modularity?

It would usually be considered an anti-pattern so you might find reference there too..

I'll watch it again at some point so my review is under review

Practise by accompanying your favourite music. That way you don't get hung up on the strumming pattern and focus on enjoying, which is what keeps you coming back for practice.

There are abundant beginner videos on YouTube that teach strumming. I think the important thing is to mix learning technique with just enjoying making music by any means.

(Source, self taught playing 20 years)

The irony is the matrix has always been "meta". Repeatedly breaking out of each paradigm to show you the last one was an illusion. So in a weird way it is a proper sequel, just not in a way that anyone's going to like.

Fargo - fantastic

Oh Brother Where Are Thou - not very memorable

Burn After Reading - funny and entertaining but not very memorable

No Country For Old Men - one of the best films of the 21st century

It makes me feel snobbish to say you have to be literally juvenile to enjoy it. I just don't get it. There's no suspense at all, no surprise in anything. They're all boring, intelligent characters. Even as films aimed at kids they're bad, but I'm eternally surprised at the traction they get with 20s-30s..

The Big Lebowski

Interminably dull. Watching it made sense of why the people bigging it up were stoned..

Exactly this. You can't hype up an audience to that degree and make them sit through 3 hours without showing them something theyve never seen before. And at this point you can't just Nolan your way out by making the blast larger than life, because I think by now we possibly all imagine it bigger than it actually was. But what you can do is some sort of trippy shit where the blast goes on for ages, where it ripping things apart is shown in some sort of artistic and novel way, perhaps something emphasising an old world is being torn apart and this is a new nuclear age. ANYTHING. except a half hearted blast that looked and felt like half hearted CG. And the irony is the production team went out of their way to avoid using CG. It was just immensely unsatisfying and rushed and all the momentum of the film was lost. It just didn't feel momentus enough.

If they'd been bolder they've have culminated with the bombing of Hiroshima and shown the horror in some new terrifying light..

Ironically if you accept it's a "fuck you" film, like you've been invited round to the wachowskis to watch one of the their random side projects it becomes enjoyable again

Do you mean just the first one or the trilogy as a whole?

I thought the first one stood up far far better on its own rather, many things left unsaid, rather than the rest which tried to fill out the story, and not too well

I upvoted you because it's my favourite star wars film and I've never heard anyone dislike it

Not being AI slop would be a good start..

Civilization II

Settlers

X-COM: UFO defence

Monkey Island

Chlamydia

If you're cynical in your rumination then there isn't much to ruminate about.

Don't you hate your life

Cynicism is a vent. It's cathartic where is truthful. There's no point being angry "at god", there isn't one there. You can be angry at people, but only if it serves you. If the anger is pointless it's easier to discard it. If it has a point (you're going to complain to someone's superior) then it can be a useful motivator. I hate discomfort, so I work until I'm comfortable. I expect people to be self serving (this doesn't require any energy on my part) and I'm pleasantly surprised when they're not. Neither an I self serving, when I do things for others it feels like I'm sticking two fingers up at a system that would rather I'm a self centred ghoulish consumer. I guess it could be summed up as having very low expectations. But rather than being depressing I find it has the effect of creating joy in everyday mundane things.

Russian accent "birds took off from perch on Buk TEL missile defence system having recently feasted on discarded missile fragments. Is great tragedy.."

Have you tried cynicism?

Cynicism is expecting the plumber to screw you over and being pleasantly surprised when they don't

"Chinaa... whatchu up to?"

".... Nothing"

"Chinaa"

"... What?"

Theres restraint and then there's also suppression. You can find encouragements to restrain oneselves going back to proverbs in the bible or the ideals in Roman society.

Although controlling yourself was seen as advantageous in general, men were not expected to supress their emotions, quite the opposite. It was fine to be angry or vengeful or lustful or in love etc just as long as it was directed at someone lower in the social hierarchy.

Christianity probably had a hand in supressing those outlets, though looking at history is doubtful that the majority of the population were 'pious' like that.

Where it seems to have taken a notable turn is during the Victorian era. The social expectations of 'proper' behaviour started to constrain the outlets men were 'allowed' to have. Not just on the battlefield, where controlled marching into musket fire was more important than ever, being stoic in everyday life was becoming an ideal to restrain vice. Prostitution was becoming more taboo, as was gambling, and violence in general.. at least in "civilised" society. Which in turn was possibly driven by the industrial revolution moving everyone to cities where living close together made these "sin"s more visibly awful.

Warfare had always been awful, but there was honour in man to man struggle. What got far worse from the 1700s on was needing an army to not crumble in the face of impersonal volleys of musket fire and canister shot from batteries of canon half a mile away. The era of feats of strength was over. Now you could get horribly mangled at random for standing in the wrong place. This was the origin of the British "stiff upper lip", the ability to meet misfortune with indifference. The beginning of widespread supression of emotions.

From the Victoria era, add in half a century of industrialised warfare, the grimness of which had never been seen before. And by the 50s/60s society was dealing with very broken men who had been traumatised and given no better advice than "be a man and suck it up". Which has disastrous consequences, not just for men but also domestic violence and abuse or neglect where things tipped over.

The hippie movement rediscovered men's 'softness' but wasn't practical. The eighties was practical - created an outlet in the deregulated business world of working ruthlessly and making personal riches - but it lacked "wellbeing".

It's really only in the millennial and gen z generations that this historical trauma is distant enough and society's ideals have changed enough that we can even begin to have public conversations about men going to therapy or crying on a friend. This would have been sappy even in the 90s.

Ah true, that's a good point