Yes it is really stealing.
You want something. You don't want to pay for it. You take it without paying.
That's stealing.
If you really truly didn't want to watch it, you wouldn't steal it.
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You want something. You don't want to pay for it. You take it without paying.
That's stealing.
If you really truly didn't want to watch it, you wouldn't steal it.
- Lesser Known actors - Assistant Directors - Stunt Coordinators - 2nd Unit Directors - Stunt Performers
and I'm sure there are others. Residuals factor into our income, allow us to qualify for health insurance, empower our unions, and provide a stable income to continue working in an unstable career.
All so we can make better entertainment for you! When you pirate, you're stealing money from us.
- On screen performers, stunt performers like myself and actors who grind out a comfortable living. Those residuals also go to qualifying for health insurance through earnings. You are directly stealing from my ability to provide health insurance to my family.
- Assistant Directors, who are saints dealing with every logistical problem imaginable. The best of them only work 1-2 movies a year because the workload causes severe burnout.
- The Union themselves! The more money that flows through the union, the more powerful they are. The more safer movie sets become and the better life is provided for the workforce that makes your entertainment.
- Yourself! You are reducing the value of producing quality TV and Movies by stealing them. Every time one a show is pirated, there is less incentive to spend more money on an entertainment spectacle.
Go check out my imdb and see how many of my credits you've watched https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1968249/
For every show imagine that it's a nickel you stole from my income. WOuldn't be surprised if you took a buck or two out of mine. Now multiply that by all the on screen performers and ADs and others I mentioned. Now multiply that all the people who steal like you.
You're directly responsible for sucking the quality of life away from people who make your entertainment and reducing the desire to make things you enjoy. You're going to end up with shows that are AI generated CGI sponsored by Mt. Dew and Chevy trucks.
Stop stealing our shit.
Some facts. - I am a professional stuntman, so my livelihood and time are dedicated to this pursuit. Making the time is a requirement. - the time is made up of stretching, skill work, cardio, and strength training. It’s not 3 hours of 1 rep maxes. It is still intense. - lots of people use PEDs and HGH to acquire a temporary physique. However you would be shocked what small changes can do to affect your health, physique, and overall happiness. Adding squats will help you move move better. Yoga will help you feel better, and sprints will shed fat. - consistentcy beats all. Take all the drugs, do all the weekend bootcamps, and try all the crash diets you want. Simply doing anything over a long enough period of time will always yield better results.
I married into the fanaticism and have been mostly converted.
My spouse essentially treats the trips like she is cosplaying being Royalty. She dresses to the nines, Everybody greets her with a smile and a friendly word and she “jet sets” to exotic locations. She takes in world class entertainment and cuisine, and has a grand ole time.
For myself, I find always leave with motivation. Figment, the imagineers, and the endless pursuit to make the magical appear real never fails to make me believe in a better tomorrow.
In short, the branding is truly a magical and motivating experience. The brand extends to the things you can do outside the parks like “the skyliner,” and even the stores in the malls.
Adored my time there, learned a lot and made enough money to pursue my dream career.
Among them: - You can be an asshole but as long as you follow protocol things will run smoothly. Had lots of arguments with cooks about whatever was happening, but if you stand in the right spot and call the orders correctly, and mark the plate the right way, your food came out when it was suppose to, the way it was suppose to.
- When it comes to increasing tips, Charm beats good service. At 2 am, all the drunk people enjoy chaos and jokes more than getting their orders correct.
- the person who decides when your food is served holds 100% of the power. If you’re going to be belligerent, you’re gonna wait to eat. If you’re gonna irritate the cooks, you’re gonna lose tips cause your food comes up last.
- security is only there for the appearance of safety. If a group of drunkards starts a brawl, the one hired hand isn’t going to stop them. Call the cops, clear out as many breakables and weapons as you can, and get the onlookers to stand back is the most you can do.
- Getting yelled isn’t as bad as you think it is. You can still operate in chaos if you follow your routine
- number one way to increase tips is volume, and the number one way to increase volume to your section is to wipe the table whenever they’re coming through the door.
Sometimes you don’t feed the trolls. Sometimes I read a thing on the internet that is so absurdly hateful and spiteful that nobody responds to and I worry “who out there is reading this, and might be on the fence about some human values. If they don’t see anybody responding to it at all, will they think it’s an acceptable view point?”
I’m not gonna save the world, but occasionally I can offer rebuttal to cultural biases.
It ain’t much, but it’s something however small.
People who so badly want to strike a win for their values over human empathy, equality, and compassion have to steer common sense arguments into the arena of pedantic details. They have so routinely gotten their butt kicked in the arenas of empathy, equality, and compassion so often they’re ashamed to say what they feel out loud, even with a made up internet handle.
They should embrace the shame, it might be the only thing left that tethers them to humanity.
It was a stupid dick measuring contest that got two people killed and almost much more.
It use to be you needed an agent to vouch for you to an executive high up in studios. Together they would hash out if your content would be wildly received by a large enough group of people to turn a profit.
Now you have digital equity in the form of followers to show that you personally already have entertainment equity. The old guard isn’t willing to put their money fully into this new entertainment Avenue, in part because of how entrenched they are in the profits of the current machine. Studios can make money for selling a script, premiering the movie, product placement in the movie, printing the dvds, offer subscriptions to their streaming services, running advertisements on all of that as well, and distribution of the physical dvds.
But it’s changing and I would estimate it’s about 1.5 more generations away from the younger guard upending the system completely.
Do you walk? If you don't, start there.
A study of sedentary, overweight men and women (aged 40 to 65 years) showed they lost body fat and weight when they walked or ran 12 miles a week during an 8-month study, without changing their diet. A control group of non-exercisers all gained weight and fat during the 8-month study."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
Do you sit at a desk a lot? You probably have poor posture associated with it. Do any yoga, at all. Literally any program.
Here's one from my favorite online yogi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAUf7aajBWE
Do you want to lift weights? For $8, one time, you can order Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe. - https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-Basic-Barbell-Train...
This book will teach you how to lift the weights, as well as how to program the lifts, which is twice as much as this app is claiming to do. At 1/12th the price for the first year, 1/24th the second, and 1/36th the third, etc..
Your app does not invent a new way to program working out. Your app reflects proof that science we already know about has results that have already been proven to be true. And you charge people monthly for this.
Your methodology doesn't disqualify anybody who could have started with incredible small lifts and then added higher lifts at the end of 60 days. That would not reflect actual development.
Most importantly, I am aware of how to do steady slate programming, which seems to be what your App is selling. I have access to spreadsheets and the ability to program by percentages, as do most people.
Your app would be 100x better if I simply were able to input my One Rep Maxes and then have it spit out a 3 month plan of 5x5 training starting around 70% of my max increasing my loads by 5% a week, with a deload week every 4-6 weeks. Perhaps adding in weeks with 3x5, and 3x3 as it gets near max. However, as you likely know, no one is going to pay monthly for that.
Instead, you have packaged common knowledge as AI. You have taken data from users (that you charged a monthly subscription) that are not qualified to give educated information, failed to qualify which of them were experts, and are attempting to pass it off as some sort of hive learning. For that you want $8 a month (AND their data, to be used for who knows what in the future) from people who are looking to better themselves.
Here’s what it looks like you did;
Made a weight lifting logging app and charged a monthly subscription for it.
Used your users data to create an algorithm that culled the routine of your best performers, most likely defined by heaviest weight lifted.
Claimed that by following your algorithm your users could 2x the results of trainers; trainers here is defined as “people who train,” And not “people who are paid to train others.”
Cited 60 days as a window of success.
All of this, if it is as it appears, is massively misleading in an industry already known for snake oil.
Have you compensated for your users that had big numbers but approached it in an unhealthy way? For instance, how many of your user’s deadlift high numbers resulted in a hernias?
Additionally you say you have engineers and scientists working on hacking human performance. What about strength and conditioning coaches? What about athletes?
How do you qualify the "trainers," that your algorithm outperformed? Most basic strength and conditioning books will outperform the average chain gym trainer.
How many of your the trainers in your sample size were Strength and Conditioning Coaches at reputable performance gyms? Would any qualify under the following statement from the National Strength and Conditioning Association's Website:
"The proper education consists of an undergraduate degree in an exercise science-related field. Such a degree is imperative because it forms the foundation of knowledge that underpins the profession. An exercise science-related degree affords the capability to practice an evidence-based approach to strength and conditioning."
What are your results for longer than 60 days? Do you continue to outperform human trainers at the 1 yr and 5 yr marks? For those that are uninitiated, 60 days is a incredibly short time in the world of Strength and Conditioning. Doing almost anything differently that your normal routine, consistently, over 3 months will yield positive results before plateaus set in.
How are you quantifying your results?
Are you raising the 1 rep maxes of your athletes 1-2x than more than Human Trainer? Their 10 rep max? Their max broad jump? Their 40 yard dash? Their 1 mile time? Their muscle mass? Lowering their Body fat percentage?
I want this to work. I crave a simple logging app that will allow me to enter a variety of exercises and an AI that would help with programming would be huge. I would be willing to you pay your subscription of $8 a month if it were true.
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford_a_powerful_way_to_unle....
Studios have had a major vested interest in proclaiming their product is “Glamorous,” and “Unachievable in lessee glory.” Which in turn justifies the high budgets and higher ticket fares.
But they are a pipeline, that pump 10-300 million dollars into a project that they won’t see a return on for 3 years at the shortest; starting from the time you pay a scriptwriter following through the Opening weekend.
It’s in their best interest to tell people it is Once in a lifetime experience and then put out something that is going to me market accepted.
On the occasional times, it is TRULY once in a life time (Mad Max: Fury Road for me), it hits us in the soul, and draws us back in.
Worth it, to me.
Which is to say, you are victim to assuming the mega complex Movie Theater, powered by the mega complex of Studios pumping out advertisements are the only option available to you.
If cinema is a desirable experience to you, seek out film colleges, independent theaters, movie rental spots, and YouTube/Vimeo/reddit. You’ll find a bunch of crap, for sure, but it will be new and interesting crap. You’ll explore your own mind trying to define why you don’t like it. Eventually you’ll see something truly moving and that will be amazing!
Or, If you justly say “I don’t have time or energy for something I’m not that passionate about,” continue to go to the AMCs. Just recognize, much like McDonald’s they (and the studios) have massive overhead and massive interest in not losing money. No one takes the person complaining that McD’s isn’t gourmet very seriously.
(The most moving zombie movie I ever saw was 15mins on YouTube and had 3 zombies in it..)
I know 24fps on a 24fps timeline to mimic real life, and 30fps dropped to a 24fps timeline to create hyper realistic movement.
60fps filmed on a 60fps timeline just looks like a first edition digital camera. (3 ccd in the house!)
What are the benefits to it?