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Are stockholders not people?

Cate highlights positive aspects. Again, your posts focus every time on negativity. This is the point that I'm trying to get across. You talked about cancer, about blame and failure, "doing everything wrong in life and still winning the lottery" (winning the lottery isn't inherently positive, because it's what you do with it that matters).

It is not luck that shifts your mind to highlight these negative aspects, that is where agency takes place. Take care.

Lost Highway is comprehensible on non-linear terms, you can find some interpretations. This is incomprehensible because an actual linear plot was not well conveyed.

I feel like i'll get carpal tunnel if i do this five times lol, your hands might be a lot smaller than mine

A GUI element is not a mode, categorically.

I just tried this on my laptop and it is the most uncomfortable thing I've done on a keyboard.

In vimium I use vim navigation for scrolling around, / for search, and a bunch of tab actions that aren't vim accurate but vim inspired.

In mpv I use gg/G to getting to the beginning/end of a file.

Many terminal file managers use vim binds or idioms (such as x for delete, marks, etc).

Lol it's not that at all.

Huh? Isn't the privilege to be a bigot in a position to interview people?

60 years ago you can't deny the reality that some bigot had power and interviewed people and he didn't like "fruity" men (or whatever he'd have said back then).

Or the reality that he wouldn't have hired a woman. Or a black person.

And somehow it's privilege to point this out? Excuse me?

I'm aware BR was made by the same director.

In contrast, Lynch's doesn't look anything like his other films.

Color grading is a huge part of what makes movies look like they do, but beside that there is a sterility and cleanliness, a monotony in how the images are handled.

I do, Coltrane told me. Only he didn't do it on hn comments.

> is based on the authors definition of success in art which is box office returns.

It's probably also based on Lynch's comments about Dune being pretty much his only regret in life.

To make you think a little about what art means and what's it all about.

There's a glimpse there, beneath the deprecating sarcasm, of beginning to understand the point of the article.

Is being a judgmental prude a choice?

It might also be that you find that lottery ticket and don't play it, because you believe you have no agency to do anything with the money anyway.

> Just like you cannot change the fact if a coin lands on heads or tails.

You can, just throw the coin again until it lands the way you want.

don't remember any of these except maybe the second to last

Oh the world and the characters in my head from when I read it are much more interesting. I will keep this in mind for when (if) I watch the 2nd one tho.

I recently got to rewatch the first LOTR film in theaters, after not having seen it for maybe 8 years.

I was stunned at how well done it was visually, and how well handled the tension and pacing are throughout the whole thing. It was just an impeccable cinematic experience.

I think a blackboard is cheaper than any device that lets you view PDFs

How much of that 58% abstains from porn?

This reads like a response from 60 years ago to someone coming out of the closet as gay.

In these comments your agency is entirely aimed at negativity. In order to justify this you reframe it as realism.

It's kind of like walking outside with your attention constantly focused on the fact that you might step on dog shit.

If you do this, your agency is pulled away from appreciating a beautiful flower, or interchanging smiles with a pretty person, or seeing a hundred dollar bill off to the side.

The fact that it is true that you can step on dog shit doesn't make it more true than the fact that most of the time you don't step on dog shit, and that you have the agency to walk and go around as if you weren't going to step on dog shit today.

Why did John Coltrane call it My Favorite Things?

Accuracy has little artistic value.

Thinking about it less than a second: Prometheus. Drab colors, very neat and slick sets and costume designs. Heck even Interstellar. BR2049 although that's much more interesting in having all the neon, at least there's some color and some grit.

It respects the source material too much. It serves the only function of being an acceptable, technically excellent version for two audiences: the purists, who care more about the book than about film as an art form; and the people who are interested in Dune because they heard about it but they will not sit down and read it.

It has nothing to say cinematographically, and it has nothing to add to the messages that were written into Dune 50 years ago.

It's very competent, nothing else.

But Dune is very much a story where many things do happen, intricate things that have a lot of text and subtext.

The tone you describe is at odds with the story it presents (and its run time).

I can think of no memorable visuals despite having seen it on IMAX.

I can remember plenty of interesting visuals from the Lynch one despite thinking many other aspects of it were horrible, and having seen it in my room 4 years ago.

Only had to look at the first two spots to strongly disagree.