emptyother @ emptyother @programming.dev

A classic nerd from Norway.

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And thats natural. We cant all enjoy the same stuff. :)

I just want to show that theres comic fans out there who actually enjoy having the comicbook movies we dreamt about when we were kids. And got disappointed over and over when the movie was so loosely based on the source material that it wasnt recognisable.

What truth? That everybody should enjoy what you enjoy?

who thinks the world revolves around you.

I'm literally defending everybodies right to have our own taste.

selfish, indolent, immature dipshit

For this I've been called a fascist, trump-voter, ignorant common man, anti-intellectualist, selfish, indolent (TIL a new word!), immature, and an american! Name-calling isnt very mature. I threw your own word back at you (except the Trump voter, I couldnt in good conscience punch so low). Because acting all "out-of-touch academic in the ivory tower" (your words, not mine) thats a so damn typical fascist move, that has been caricatured in multiple movies, that I cant help point it out.

Well, excuse me for not wanting to be called a fascist just for liking action movies.

you and the rest of the United States

So now you're calling me an American?! Jeez.

And thinking everyone should think the same and enjoy the same thing is a big step into fascistic thinking. You might tell yourself that forcing a modicum of thought and intellectual participation on people is for a good cause. But you arent, in these comments at least, a good judge of what intellectual participation is.

Say the guy who thinks everyone who doesnt enjoy the same thing as him is a Trump-voting fascist.

Please. Dont generalise like that. To anyone.

Further, the people who did like it, all told me the same thing, that you need to watch half a dozen other movies first. Why?

Eff that! Those people dont understand superhero comics. Nobody who picks up a Spider-Man comic starts back at the beginning, back in 1962. What makes Marvel comics interesting to those who enjoy Marvel comics is that despite the comic being about one (or a team) superhero, it feels like theres events happening in the background, and past and future events that has happened and shaped the character. Their world feels more alive because you might not know what happened in another comic series but still get references to it. MCU manages to do this in miniature. You CAN watch every movie, but you shouldnt have to. The story stands alone despite there being references to stuff that you might not know about. And that makes it better than DCU movies.

I dont want to go back to boring, stand-alone movies with generic loser action heroes who can do superhero stuff like taking down jet planes despite pretending not to have superhero powers, and a sequel after another sequel then reboot. I mean, someone recently complained about getting tired of the John Wick movies.. Like we've gotten 4 movies. 2 hours every second year isnt something to get tired of.. 7 years of 20 episodes each is getting close to tiresome, if you enjoy it like you said you did.

I want a continious story in a continious world. I find that fun entertainment. And I'm sad that some Oscar-baiting movie producer think this isnt what movies can be.

Jup. Thief 3 had the best horror. No jumpscares, just a sneaking game where you spent many levels training to listen for footsteps and now heard footsteps where there was nobody. One of the few games that has ever scared me.

First and second Amnesia game had some of the same type of horror too. After that they got less and less scary. Don't know why.

Me too.

They cant really have enjoyed the movies much if two hours every second year is too much for them.

Powershell for those that don't like powershell. Good. Pwsh need some competition in the object-piping category.

My doc is also googling stuff very often.

Probably not bad. If I could have memorized the entire dotnet framework documentation, I would. Until then I will keep googling, and I will usually recognize if the solution is sound. Probably the same with doctors and health.

it’s about the philosophical implications of the hypothetical technology.

And the movie isn't about the remote or its philosophical implications on society or a person. It is just a MacGuffin to deliver the lesson. Click is about the guy and his wishes coming true in the worst way. A common, old horror trope. Which is why I think it isnt technically scifi.

(I know genres can be a bit subjective. But I find it fun to discuss stuff and test my assumptions.)

I'm no fan of those mostly harmless wasps that has a suicidal curiosity and no respect for personal space either. "Oh, look, lets land on this guys neck and tickle him until he tries to scratch it. THEN lets sting him." At least as a kid I could usually hear them sneaking up on me. Not so much anymore.

Thats sounds exactly like something an AI would say!

Though they say the wise person knows he knows nothing. How much do you know? Is it closer to everything or to nothing?

I definitly dont think I am smart. Other people can get new friends, find love-life , can afford proper apartments, knows how to plan social events, are wellrounded enough in knowledge that they can do trivia quizzes, and can do small-talk about real life stuff, or remember each others names, faces, and what they talked about last time they met. I got so little clue about any of that. Feel seriously dumb sometimes.

I can google very well. I'm a self-learned developer without university education. I can do okay on pop film-music trivia quiz. Can read out a good fiction novel in a single night. So I am above average smart in some VERY narrow fields.

But at least I dont think I know stuff I dont. I know my limits. I defer to people who have more experience than me. So I trust doctors and teachers about vaccinations, I trust that scientists are right about the coming climate changes, and I dont trust in people who have been caught lying before, no matter how much money or power they got. Im not THAT dumb. Sometimes it feels like just that alone puts me above average. But that cant be right, right?

I might have generalized a bit too much. Of course some individual devs love the challenge of getting better performance out of anything.

But not enough of them that every dev company has an army of good developers who know how to do this with the expertise they are needing performance for. Theres a lot of ways one dev can specialize: gpu api (directx/opengl/vulcan/etc), os, game engine, disk access, database queries. One who knows graphic api well might not know how to optimize database queries. It doesnt help throwing money at the problem either, those who know this stuff usually already have good jobs. So you might have no choice than to use the devs you have, and the money you have budgeted, to release the game within contracted time.

Of course nobody want to optimize. Its boring. It messes up the code. Often reqires one to cheat the player with illusions. And its difficult. Not something just any junior developer can be put to work on.

Scifi?! Click ain't anything close to scifi. Its a magic remote. Given by a magic shop. Genre-wise it plays more like a horror comedy. Monkey hand -kinda horror.

Also Citizen Kane isn't worth watching for most people. About a journalist making storm in a water glass over something that had a lot simpler explanation. Cinematic it has a lot of good tricks.. For its time! Those tricks are taught to first year movie maker students, and are today used EVERYWHERE, so much that you barely notice it anymore. Click have definitely used the same tricks, and 80 years more of cinematic tricks. If you had to choose only one to learn from, you should choose Click.

Very. This IS my online name. Although it started out as a way to be anonymous online, by now it is darn easy to connect with my real identity.

And its more unique than my real name. Theres enough Tom André 's out there on the web that any variation of it as username is usually taken, but emptyother (or empty_other) is always free. I prefer it over my real name, when online. Easier to recognize in chats.

Also its a overly literal translation of my name from my language to English. Tom = Empty, Andre = Others.

Given up entirely, or are you hoping we all join a hive mind to solve our problems?

Spotify did that too. Got to listen to THE definitive worst cover of Hotel California I've ever heard. I don't trust cloud services with my music anymore. Mp3's forever.