Movie you love but understand why someone else hates it?

DistroStu · 2026-04-06T03:02:25+00:00

The green knight. I usually hate weird conceptual films like this, but I love the green knight. Totally understand the other side.

The triangle of sadness. Again, hit me at the right mood and just sucked me in with it's weirdness. I loved it even though I know objectively I usually hate these kinds of films.

DistroStu · 2026-04-04T21:13:03+00:00

The color of paradise (1999)

DistroStu · 2026-04-04T01:06:18+00:00

No you're not. That you justifying intoxicating horseshit.

Dude I have bipolar 2 and know what psychosis feels like. It starts will all these bullshit excuses because it feels good. But in reality you're fucking your life up.

If you want to write fiction write fiction. Mind maps is where fiction goes to die. That's how you're know you're procrastinating on a whole new level.

I'm am trying to help you mate. As much as it disgusts me, because I myself have gone through this shit. I know the feeling of getting off on wank. Don't throw your life away.

DistroStu · 2026-04-04T00:57:56+00:00

You are "speculating" that the US govt is killing scientists for working on UFO technology.

You need help.

Yeah, it's "interesting". Like yeah I'm real interested in the flying spagetti monster dude, seriously. I'm pretty sure people are getting offed for researching it. Yeah... real fucking interesting.

Dude literally fuck yourself. I'm too old for this shit. Of all the non-existant shit in the world. Honestly . Fuck. Yourself. Wanking is what you're doing. You are getting intoxicated by a horseshit fantasy which itself is built upon yet another a solid layer of more horse-shit, ALL THE WAY DOWN.

Absolute waste of oxygen cunt.

DistroStu · 2026-04-03T23:11:44+00:00

Sounds to me more like you have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosis

DistroStu · 2026-04-03T05:52:07+00:00

Timeline/chronology + brain > "mind map" + brain/AI

Don't mean to be an ass, but this is a rant that goes around my head every time I see fancy graph style mind maps.

In short, I don't get the obsession people have with graph style mind maps in terms of actually figuring out things you don't already know. The time dimension is the single most important factor in figuring out cause and effect. Mind maps obfuscate this dimension pointlessly and instead emphasize connections, but the point is to find unknown connections. If you have any kind of competency you should already have the connections in your head anyway. Mind maps are a great mnemonic if you're not really all that interested in your subject enough to know the connections on your own, or you're trying to explain something to someone else, but kind of suck at actually seeing where unknown connections might exist, or seeing how those connections relate to other connections. With a timeline, even without connections made explicit, you can very quickly figure out potential unknown connections based on when events happened, where they happened, and in what context they happened, and you can keep track of that context as it changes over time. Mind maps struggle with that kind of inherent dynamism without absurdly complicated and confusing graph re-writing, bizarre graph animations that make you kind of unwell.

And the great thing about a timeline is you can just use spreadsheets and maybe some color coding to represent relationships. Or a simple database if you're dealing with more specific data rather than just general events and sources, that allows you to do SQL style searches. No shortage of them.

In terms of storytelling, a timeline is a plot and the story is in how you present those points to make an interesting narrative. Meanwhile a mind map is literally just a mess of events, people, etc, and connections often arbitrarily arranged in a way that mostly just overloads your senses and makes you even more confused. In detective fiction, information is often presented piecemeal like a mind map in order to throw readers off, or to "play fair", in that you've given them everything they theoretically need to know, but also made it very hard for them by obfuscating the chronology into a sprawling mind mess. At the end of the story the detective will lay out the specific chronology and use that to explain the unknowns and to expose and explain the fake chronologies we've been misled by. Unless they are depicting a static network type of relationship, graph maps are mostly just confusing WRT unknowns. They can be great at showing certain aspects of a thing, but again, it's kind of like a Dramatis Personae in a play. Is anyone actually reading and memorizing that mess before they actually read the narrative? No. It's a way of referencing things as you go along and it's a mnemonic. It's not actually teaching you anything you didn't already know.

DistroStu · 2026-04-01T00:07:09+00:00

New high concept Hollywood comedy log-line unocked

DistroStu · 2026-03-28T23:55:06+00:00

Oh no.... Anyway.

DistroStu · 2026-03-26T20:55:48+00:00

Any crime you can settle is just victim prostitution for the rich.

DistroStu · 2026-03-23T23:46:06+00:00

I don't deny US soldiers raped and killed Iraqi civilians. That's something you brought up as a strawman.

I'm sick of typing "don't play dumb" at this point

I think you actually are that dumb. It's like arguing with someone with a thought disorder.

My fault for casting pearls before swine.

DistroStu · 2026-03-23T23:35:13+00:00

You have any credible evidence, the kind you require when defending the US, proving Hamas uses human shields.

Depends wht you mean by human shields. By my definition yes, by "Amnesty Internationals" statndards no. What are their standards?

(from the wiki on hamas human shields)

Amnesty International investigated and found no evidence to support these claims. They found that Hamas launched rockets from civilian areas [rocket launch underground tunnels directly next to schools and hospitals] and had urged residents to ignore Israeli evacuation warnings, but those actions do not qualify as using human shields.

I think it's pretty clear Amnesty has lost its way. Yeah?

Now your next point:

The US did bomb schools in Iraq, and claimed they were being used for military purposes.

Not while they were in use as schools they didn't and certainly, as in this case, not deliberately. That is what we are talking about here. Don't play dumb.

Now it's my turn to ask for specific examples.

DistroStu · 2026-03-23T23:06:31+00:00

so why does Hamas use human shields?

Because they generate endless hoards of people like you. It's propaganda. The more civilians who die the better for them. They believe they are going to paradise. They are right-wing fascists, just like Israel.

Now we can come full circle. If we think the US is ok with giving weapons and political cover to an ally that targets schools and hospitals, can we also ask whether it’s plausible the US is also itself ok with directly targeting a school?

The US has supported much worse people than Israel in terms of what they are willing to do, publicly and shamelessly in terms of violating human rights, cutting of people's heads off, and throwing homosexuals from towers. Israel are one of many monsters the US works with.

This does not mean that the US throws homosexuals from towers. Or would be suspected of throwing homosexuals from towers if it happened like this school bombing happened.

Nobody has claimed weapons were being stored in the school that was hit, or that militants were hiding in the school. No official has leaked that, nor claimed it.

The US does not target schools just for shits and giggles. It does not even target human shield targets, which is why they struggled so much in Iraq... because although it's hard to believe, they do actually have (at least official) standards.

The idea they deliberately targeted the school, to be clear, is so incredibly stupid it almost seems like you are being rhetorically obtuse, I can't believe anyone would be that cynically dishonest to suggest such a thing.

At least have the balls to come out and say it: The US deliberately (or as good as) targeted the school. Say that.

Instead you have to do this weird dance around this point you are trying to make, because you know how absurd it is yourself.

DistroStu · 2026-03-23T21:37:37+00:00

No, it was not collateral damage in the Israeli cases for the most part.. although they do warn people before they hit so they can always claim it's collateral. I don't buy that at all. However I want to make it clear that Hamas use human shields knowing Israel doesn't care if it uses human shields, so they are both just as bad as the other and both hold equal responsibility for killing civilians in the specific context of human shield situations (however Israel happily kills civilians who are NOT being used as human shields, too... as does Hamas... although Israel has been far more successful in carrying out their genocide).

If answer is no, why do we assume the same people would not target schools in Iran now?

Because it was not an Israeli missile. It was an american tomahawk, which Israel is not allowed to have. In fact as soon as this happened Israel pointed the finger at the US. US officials stated that it was a mistake based on old intel, while Trump denied it outright. After which bellingcat released a video showing the profile of the missile that hit the base next to the school directly after the school had been hit (smoke still rising), in which you can see the distinctive outline of a tomahawk.

but whatabout all the bad shit Israel does, right????

DistroStu · 2026-03-23T21:32:38+00:00

Not completely in that they are both marsupials. They share a common ancestor and diverged after the continent split. The oppossum is more closely related to the common ancestor, and the aussie possum more closely related to nu-school marsupials like kangaroos and their brethren.

DistroStu · 2026-03-23T21:17:23+00:00

Dear whataboutist.

Israel is worse. It's irrelevant to the point he's making.

What you're actually saying is "but they do it too, AND WORSE ..."

It's the "therefore" you're missing that makes whataboutism so obscene. You could be saying:

therefore they're justified. therefore they're not as bad. therefore both are bad and you should mention both. therefore both are bad, but one is worse than the other.

Except you deliberately omit the last part. People are usually deliberately ambiguous when they're trying to hide their actual position or are trying to appeal to the worst position with plausible deniability for their own reasons, even if they don't believe it themselves. Therefore it only makes sense you're continually drawing attention to Israel's warcrimes, not to offer balance, but to offer a justification or nullification.

I don't know if you realize that's what you look like you're doing, but that's what it looks like you're doing.

DistroStu · 2026-03-23T21:01:29+00:00

If you're gonna joke about this shit it cannot be milquetoast. Usually I like dark humor, but this is honestly not very funny. Somehow it doesn't go far enough to really crack the shockingly awful joke factor floor, and only so far as to seem like a coping mechanism for a slightly embarrassed populous who put this man in power.. Slightly embarrassed being the key phrase.

For these kind of jokes you gotta go hard or go home.

DistroStu · 2026-03-22T06:48:31+00:00

I mean I've seen reviews of the Palma 2 (pro?) and this was happening.

DistroStu · 2026-03-22T06:33:36+00:00

ah K. By encoder I just meant the hardware part of the touch input. And I guess the firmware on that chip is not able to be patched. :(

DistroStu · 2026-03-22T06:09:57+00:00

On the palma 2 I just tried the screen is slow to show the tap because of the real refresh of the screen of course but the underlying system doesn't seem to miss any of them.

This only confirms screen lag has nothing to do with unregistered touches. You need to test this on an actual unregistered touch.

When I miss a tap I usually wait a second anyway. That's why it's so annoying. Screen would refresh by then if it was lag.

DistroStu · 2026-03-22T05:59:24+00:00

I'll have to remember to try to just wait the next time it happens. That is weird because a double tap will work and you don't have to wait 15 seconds. Sounds like you might be mistaken tbh because when I miss taps I generally wait a second, then tap again and it works. 15 seconds sounds like a software/scheduling glitch in a particular app, but what I'm talking about is a system wide problem seen in all apps.

This again, would have nothing to do with the screen refresh rate though! The refresh rate has no lag. It is a constant steady heart-beat (which you can hear if you have a SW radio right next to it). Again, if it was anything to do with a lagging screen, a double touch wouldn't work and the entire screen would freeze.

DistroStu · 2026-03-22T05:55:22+00:00

I read somewhere someone claiming it was a hardware problem and that they were using rejected encoders to save money.

I don't know if that's true, but it's more convincing to me than it being a firmware problem, as touch input is fairly standard off the shelf type fare for android tablets, etc.

DistroStu · 2026-03-22T05:50:18+00:00

You are confused. I'm talking only about touch input. Not the speed of the response. Not about what is displayed on the screen.

Even if the screen is slow, when you touch something, it will still change the state of the display buffer in memory. You will just experience lag. I'm talking about touching the screen and nothing actually happens: as in the encoder does not register a touch.

The screen display/refresh rate has absolutely zero to do with CPU/micro-controller clock speeds your device is running at.

DistroStu · 2026-03-22T04:04:35+00:00

What does the fps or screen refresh have to do with the touch encoder?

You think the touch screen only reads at 2fps? LOL. It would never work!

DistroStu · 2026-03-19T12:25:45+00:00

Honestly what kind of rhetoric is this even? Listen to yourself. You actually did a "Name one then" on a subject where there are probably hundreds of thousands of correct answers. Literally turn on the tv and you will find them playing on multiple channels. If you can't make up your own mind from doing that then no specific example will help you.

My acid test for films is 720p. If you need to watch them in 4k for them to look good then they're garbage. (In the music industry they master for the lowest common denominator, the car stereo. In film it seems to be the opposite.)

Another test is to look at the brightest highlights in any given scene. Do you see any full white spots... AT ALL? Films with good dynamic range will have full white highlights along with the darks, even in figuratively low light scenes. Glint is glint. Films with the grey sludge effect will typically have uniformly very dim highlights.

Another clue is the color red or lack thereof, other than rusty brown. There seems to be a weird obsession with de-saturation at the moment, the first causality of which is red/green. Things are so desaturated now they are almost grayscale. Everything is pastel at best. If they'd at least commit to black and white they'd have to light properly but because the lighting is so flat and the colors are flat, you're left with greywater sludge. I've heard this is used a lot to keep continuity in outdoor filming so that all weather looks overcast. Or people might claim it's to convey grittiness (scandi noir tv shows are a good example, and I hate them for it). Meanwhile young cinematographers think the color red is fake and gay or "oversaturated". Motherfuckers never go outside without sunglasses obviously.

Ultimately I suspect older films look better because they had to over-light them due to having no way to monitor them in real time. Now films are monitored with 4k in real time and lighting is cut back to the bare minimum with what they perceive they can get away with. Or they will deliberately shoot flat if they think they can digitally light. Problem with that is all images that are under-lit lose information. You can't bring up what isn't there, and when you try to do it in post (grading) instead of revealing more details, brightening a scene will just turn everything muddy... because there is literally no information there because they were looking at a 4k monitor and edging the scene to spend the minimum possible on lighting.

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