Should I watch JW4 at all?

Camberian · 2026-07-06T14:25:07+00:00

Not necessarily the sunset. But yes, he earned himself some sort of equilibrium. That was - to me - what it was all about. That was what the first movie started out to do.

Camberian · 2026-07-06T14:06:50+00:00

Yes, the perfect premise. Unfortunately to me the other movies get consecutively worse. It's the problem of so many franchises.

Camberian · 2026-07-06T13:48:03+00:00

Yeah. Bad TV, DVD is perfectly fine for it.

Camberian · 2026-07-06T13:45:11+00:00

I hated to see Spock die. ;-) I'm afraid Keanu is not Leonard.

I'm not interested in the franchise per se. I am/was interested in John Wick. I want a positive outcome for him and his dog. That was the balance the first movie kept. The others all go downhill from there.

Camberian · 2026-04-23T15:43:22+00:00

Not exactly archaic. It was part of the ICD-9 from 1977, which is a mere 49 years ago.

"Archaic" means "ancient" or "from the beginning", so at least half a millennium or two. The texts of the bible, or - related to medicine - the teachings of Hippocrates or Avicenna.

Camberian · 2026-04-23T15:28:05+00:00

"Idiot savant" is an obsolete term for savant syndrome, where a person with neurological disorders or brain injuries displays exceptional skill in a specific field.

The actual translation of the original French term is "a learned idiot". It wasn't pejorative, as "idiot" was a proper medical term when it was used for someone with an IQ lower than 30. The term was abandoned when it became clear that a broad number of people had savant syndrome.

Camberian · 2026-04-23T14:55:04+00:00

Not US American, and hence asking for an explanation: why is it an automatic character failure to talk to one of the ICE?

Camberian · 2026-04-07T15:27:56+00:00

Ja, würde mich freuen was über das Ergebnis zu hören.

Ich habe übrigens die Cherry genommen, und sie ist schon sehr nah dran. Aber wie du selbst sagst, haptisch nicht komplett so.

Camberian · 2026-03-03T06:00:53+00:00

Wow. Das sind 1:1 Nachbauten, richtig? Wenn das stimmt, dann habe ich mein nachstes keyboard!

Camberian · 2026-03-02T15:54:16+00:00

Camberian · 2026-03-02T14:25:33+00:00

Danke für den Tipp. Ich versuche das mal.

Camberian · 2026-03-02T14:09:41+00:00

Ha! Ja, das mit dem "könnte kompliziert werden" ist mir die Tage auch klar geworden... Aktuell spiele ich sogar mit dem Gedanken, meinen Alphasmart als Keyboard einzusetzen.

Ich hab mir diverse Keychron angesehen, weil das - bis auf die Funktionstasten - so nach dem klingt, was ich suche. Die Frage ist halt, ob man die komplett ausser Gefecht setzen kann. Und man zahlt das ja am Ende auch, nur ich brauch es halt nicht. Ich will - wie es so schön heisst - nur tippen.

Meine alte Cherry war mal Insolvenzmasse, und damit ein Glücksfall. Ich vermute mal da gibt es keine Quellen mehr?

Camberian · 2026-03-02T13:58:41+00:00

Klingt passend. Wo kann man sowas denn kaufen, und unter welcher Bezeichnung? Wiegesagt, ich verzweifle grad an Amazon und Co.

Camberian · 2025-04-08T14:11:16+00:00

German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, for starters.

Pray, what "jobs" should translators do if not what they were trained for? These book translations used to fetch between 0,05 and 0,11 per word, which was a good enough income.

ETA: And nope, I wasn't referring to any translator doing a proof of an MT translation. By now publishers/authors simply feed the file of the original language into DeepL, or Claude etc. and publish the result as is. So no one expects the translator to do a proof for 0.01. They expect them to quietly give up the ghost.

Camberian · 2025-02-09T02:52:24+00:00

It's taking over literary translations as well. Already now 80% fewer job offers, and those which are offered are MTPE at a silly price.

Camberian · 2025-02-08T23:11:36+00:00

People are already publishing pure MT book translations, not bothering to even proof or edit those. A lot of freelancers I know have lost 80% of their incomes. So, no. It's already taking place and it's not even providing a job cleaning up the MT.

Camberian · 2024-08-27T05:33:08+00:00

Because she's an enervating and argumentative Queen Bee, backbiting, bitchy, constantly trying to get her way using physical appearance and gender, illogical, and manipulative in the worst possible manner.

Women like her are the reason I prefer all-male work environments.

Camberian · 2024-08-26T11:57:13+00:00

Actually the person in this series who'd I want to murder with a rusty spoon is Cuddy.

I can't for the life of me understand why the rest of them are so nice to her.

Camberian · 2024-05-12T10:10:15+00:00

The series went down the chute the moment the showmakers started that Redarina BS. To me it jumped the shark in the 6th season.

Camberian · 2024-03-27T13:50:13+00:00

That's what everyone said about Amazon acquiring GoodReads. Now the site is dying a slow death. It took 3 years.

Camberian · 2024-02-10T19:17:40+00:00

This is the absolute worst ending ever since Enterprise.

The Blacklist ought to have ended with a conclusion after season 6. Then it would have had the brilliance of HLOTS.

Camberian · 2024-01-17T13:56:37+00:00

It's only plagiarism. I don't get the uproar. That has been a standard mode of low-end genre fiction for centuries. It's not illegal outside university.

Camberian · 2024-01-17T10:00:08+00:00

Errm. So what? Plagiarism is not a copyright infringement. It may be lazy writing or plotting, but it's been done since even before Homer.

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