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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Was it the basque one? That film was the first and so far only time in my love I've heard basque actually used as a language. Cool stuff. There's more devil and blacksmith movies? Is that a genre in spanish movies?
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Alhazred posted:There's more devil and blacksmith movies? Is that a genre in
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Is that the basis for Inigo Montoya’s backstory? If so, that’s a reference in older media to older still media that was lost on me.
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Mar 25, 2021 18:05
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wesleywillis posted:It was opposite where I'm from.
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Alhazred posted:I've honestly been able to find more obscure stuff online than in physical stores because their selection is bigger and it's actually organized. Netflix for example has a lot of foreign stuff, like a spanish movie about the devil and the blacksmith that I would've totally missed if I had to rely on physical stores. Streaming also lowers the bar for checking out weird stuff compared to if you have to pay for each movie you want to watch. Which is awesome if you know exactly what you're looking for, but it's harder to just stumble upon something cool like you could in a physical store. That's all I meant.
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I have a grad student who I've been working with, who recently got an abstract accepted to present at a conference. It's kind of a semi-academic conference by a corporation, so a little more corporate than the average academic conference. So the email came with this boilerplate disclaimer, along the lines of "Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. " The student was just freaking out because she forwarded the acceptance email to the co-authors of the abstract, but then had seen the disclaimer and thought they were going to take her talk away for "re-transmitting confidential information". She's in her 20s and had basically never seen one of those disclaimers in an email before. I had to explain to her what they were (legally unenforceable bullshit that was universally ignored until it largely went out of fashion sometime in the 2010s).
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Oh man I remember those. Every sales person in the place I worked in the mid 2010’s had that bullshit as part of their email signature when I was doing technical sales support stuff and it was the dumbest poo poo in the worst.
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Captain Monkey posted:Only Boomers and people who are weirdly into sports watch broadcast television anymore so the ads are all focused on the most gullible and least healthy segments of our population. Weirdly into sports like... watching the postseason and biggest games of various leagues, which are what is shown on broadcast tv? It's always so weird when goons show up to try to flex on people enjoying sports. For real though I watch a lot of broadcast tv. A $30-$40 digital antenna gets you local news, the aforementioned biggest sporting events, and a bunch of channels that show nothing but hilariously bad old sitcoms and movies. It's a great deal.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:way to not get Jeopardy! at 7:30 PM They added 2 more commercial stations in the mid 90 and my parents needed a technician to come and install a new antenna and tune the television. The first thing that came on as the channel was being tuned in was Wheel Of Fortune. My Mother was amazed - "I've heard of this"
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GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:Weirdly into sports like... watching the postseason and biggest games of various leagues, which are what is shown on broadcast tv? It's always so weird when goons show up to try to flex on people enjoying sports. No, I admit I’m not a sports guy, nor is ‘some people are weird about a hobby’ a flex in that hobby. but I’m basing it on a friend who wouldn’t get a streaming service for sports because it was missing some random games that didn’t matter to the season or something. I just thought it was the obsessive superfan choice, the same way getting an anime only steaming thing is the weeb Superfan’s choice.
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Drimble Wedge posted:Which is awesome if you know exactly what you're looking for, but it's harder to just stumble upon something cool like you could in a physical store. That's all I meant. I just stumbled upon that movie actually. Netflix has a pretty broad search engine (you don't even have to know the title of a movie, you can just search by key words) and I've discovered more cool stuff there on accident than I have in physical stores because they doesn't have a large selection and doesn't really sell the more obscure stuff.
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I feel like the Netflix selection has slowly been getting worse because now every single studio has their own streaming service and they want to have their stuff on there not Netflix. Also there's basically no movies made before the 70s on there.
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Pocket Billiards posted:They added 2 more commercial stations in the mid 90 and my parents needed a technician to come and install a new antenna and tune the television. 
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GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:
It's also handy to have when your internet goes down and you can't get any streaming services.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I feel like the Netflix selection has slowly been getting worse because now every single studio has their own streaming service and they want to have their stuff on there not Netflix. Netflix is petrified of not having content. They had a sweet deal with Starz that they wouldn't renew even when Netflix offered 10x the original contract and then Disney pulled all their stuff and boned like a half dozen Netflix original superhero shows. So they're dumping tons of money into new movies and shows because everyone has essentially pegged Netflix as public enemy number 1 and the service can't be certain any of their licensed content will renew when needed. Their success rate is really spotty quality-wise, but they knew a ton of content creators were going to pull material for their own streaming services so they had to add a lot of new stuff quickly. Unfortunately they now have to compete for choice original programming with Apple, Amazon, and Hulu and Apple and Amazon have essentially unlimited budgets. Netflix does seem to do better with international programming though. They're in a lot more countries than the other providers. At some point some of these new streaming services are going to crash and burn and all that content will be up for bid again. My guess is HBO MAX dies a gruesome death because AT&T.
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Joke's on Disney because I'm *still* suffering from super hero fatigue and welcome anyone attempting to make new content, even if most of it falls flat.
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Captain Monkey posted:No, I admit I’m not a sports guy, nor is ‘some people are weird about a hobby’ a flex in that hobby. but I’m basing it on a friend who wouldn’t get a streaming service for sports because it was missing some random games that didn’t matter to the season or something. I just thought it was the obsessive superfan choice, the same way getting an anime only steaming thing is the weeb Superfan’s choice. Oh no! How dare someone enjoy something in a way that you don't!
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Quoting one from the newspaper comic strip thread:Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side People who've only known digital cameras will have no idea what the joke is.
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I'd say no memory card, but pretty much all dig cameras cone with at least a bit of internal memory
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Powered Descent posted:Quoting one from the newspaper comic strip thread: Also, there's now plenty of folks who have never used a camera that isn't on their phone.
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Film is going to baffle future generations. The production, use, and development permeated so much of popular culture and then disappeared in a 5 year span. There wasn’t even time to have some kind of transitional period. One year Kodak is one of the biggest companies in the US and then RIP Rochester. A parking lot photo kiosk probably looks as quaint as one of those old timey bicycles with the huge front tires.
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wesleywillis posted:I'd say no memory card, but pretty much all dig cameras cone with at least a bit of internal memory Are all the pictures instantly destroyed if you open the camera to check, and allow light to hit the memory card? 
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Krispy Wafer posted:
They're all drive-through coffee places now
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Slimy Hog posted:Oh no! How dare someone enjoy something in a way that you don't! That’s not at all what I’m saying, weirdly offended dude.
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wesleywillis posted:I'd say no memory card, but pretty much all dig cameras cone with at least a bit of internal memory I guess this proves op's point.
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feedmyleg posted:They're all drive-through coffee places now I didn't believe you and then I looked it up and well...  Which brings up another thing young people might think is weird, the practice of keeping a half dozen personal photos in plastic sleeves in your big bulky wallet that you could take out and show strangers. "Here is my family. I haven't changed out these pictures in 4 years, but this is what they used to look like." And the other person had to feign polite interest in formally posed photos of people they didn't know from a person they just met.
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Some things never change, though—I've still had people walk me through their vacation photos on Facebook while I'm bored out of my mind.
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How many Powerpoint users have seen an actual slide show?
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Krispy Wafer posted:Film is going to baffle future generations. The production, use, and development permeated so much of popular culture and then disappeared in a 5 year span. There wasn’t even time to have some kind of transitional period. One year Kodak is one of the biggest companies in the US and then RIP Rochester. I used to run a 1 hour photo lab (I know how to troubleshoot and fix those machines) - 2007 was the year that digital gained big. See, Prom weekend of 2006 was film canisters as far as the eye could see. Just running film as fast as possible. Two people running the lab because we were so busy. 2007, still a lot of film, but it was mostly digital cameras. By the time I left retail, we didn't even do in-house development anymore. We sent them out. That would have been 2011-2012ish.
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I imagine telling anyone under 20 that we used to not be able to look at the photos until we took them to a special shop so we didn't really know how they turned out until then and also we had to conserve the film so we couldn't really take 30 photos of the same thing until we got the perfect one would be pretty baffling to them.
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Who's gonna write a song about digital cameras? No one, that's who https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rlDTK6QI-w Hell, color film in general got so much easier to use than kodachrome that i think i only ever shot on it once and that was specifically for a photography class.
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Cobalt-60 posted:How many Powerpoint users have seen an actual slide show? oh gently caress
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FreudianSlippers posted:I imagine telling anyone under 20 that we used to not be able to look at the photos until we took them to a special shop so we didn't really know how they turned out until then and also we had to conserve the film so we couldn't really take 30 photos of the same thing until we got the perfect one would be pretty baffling to them. Ironically, the ability to shoot a ton is a lot of people's biggest complaints about digital, at least for video. With film, it encouraged you to shoot more economically since there's only a finite amount of film you can use. But with digital, you can shoot 100 takes pretty easily. It's something I've read that some directors fight against. And I think there is something to taking one or two good pictures versus taking 30 or 40 hoping to get the perfect shot. How many pictures so we just discard?
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a kitten posted:Who's gonna write a song about digital cameras? No one, that's who Kodachrome was an unforgiving filmstock. I shot maybe 5 rolls of it and it's famed reds came out pink for me. I'd love to find a good Kodachrome digital plugin, but to be accurate it'd need to give you different results every time you used it.
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a kitten posted:Who's gonna write a song about digital cameras? No one, that's who  
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Oh no, how awful, people writing songs about... contemporary things?
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a kitten posted:Who's gonna write a song about digital cameras? No one, that's who On a similar note https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw&t=233s Shake it like a Polaroid picture
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I recently read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It's kind of funny in retrospect how a person writing in 2005 could've been so utterly blind to the Internet coming to eat the media alive. For example, the main character is a part owner of a magazine .There's a Morning and Evening newspaper. One of the stories main themes is accountability in media  . It was an altogether enjoyable book even if there's some serious "oh you sweet summer child' vibes in retrospect. If anything, it's kind of funny just how loving jaded the zeitgeist has become since the '90s and early '00s.
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You can see that when you read Transmetropolitan these days, too. There's an arc where the Hunter S. Thompson-esque journalist main character taints the reputation of presidential candidate Callahan by revealing his association with a fascist fringe party candidate, and it's really quaint to read about the public's shock and horror at that when you have incontrovertible proof that in reality they just elect the fascist fringer. And, of course, eventually Callahan's own presidency is brought down by similar journalistic revelations. There's an arc where the journalist bemoans his newfound celebrity status, which comes with a movie about him where his complex and angry writing about police brutality, systemic classism and so on are reduced to a Hollywood badass holding a laptop aloft and proclaiming "I'm telling them that it's... wrong" and today the entire story about the public caring about a president's ethics comes off kinda like that. Warren Ellis later wrote a series where a superhero kills the president the way global supervillains get killed in comic books. The funny bit is that was in the Bush era.
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A Festivus Miracle posted:I recently read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It's kind of funny in retrospect how a person writing in 2005 could've been so utterly blind to the Internet coming to eat the media alive. For example, the main character is a part owner of a magazine .There's a Morning and Evening newspaper. One of the stories main themes is accountability in media IT Chapter 2 had to change one character's adult career from radio disc jockey to stand-up comedian because it's too unrealistic these days to someone to work in radio. Or more specifically, to be rich and famous in radio. We'll know the old media cultural shift is complete when Hallmark and Rom-Com movies stop making their main characters 'lifestyle journalists' and instead 'social media influencers'.
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