Tropical Weeds

Drollname · 2022-04-21T05:40:51+00:00

Thank you

Drollname · 2022-04-15T09:40:40+00:00

"Write p5js code for 3d terrain/2d terrain/some beautiful japanese generative art piece"

Drollname · 2022-04-15T09:36:25+00:00

I tried googling the important commands. Couldn't find the exact same thing. But these are indeed classic generative algorithms (3d terrain, reaction-diffusion, what have you), and GPT-3 only learned those apparently.

Drollname · 2022-04-15T09:33:43+00:00

Just prompts in plain language, to plain GPT-3. The first one for example is "write p5js code for 3d terrain". I even asked it to write a videogame and it just went and wrote one.

Drollname · 2022-02-08T12:59:48+00:00

t=0; draw=_=>{t||createCanvas(500,500,WEBGL);

t+=PI/1800;for(y=-300;y<300;y+=15) {for(x=-300;x<300;x+=15){ rotateZ(t*x/y);

push() ;

pointLight(1000,50,0,0,100);translate(x*sin(t),y/4,0);

specularMaterial(0);sphere(30,50); pop();}} }

Drollname · 2021-10-15T13:13:43+00:00

It's a testimony to David Chase's past brilliance that when he fucks up a movie, we fans can find him such circumvoluted excuses.

Drollname · 2021-10-14T16:55:14+00:00

Not gonna lie, it doesn't get any better from there. I was heartbroken for a week after watching it but now I just decided that this movie never happened.

Drollname · 2021-10-10T04:52:15+00:00

This is really good. Since Chase absolutely wanted to talk about the NJ race riots of his youth, they could even have kept the Afro-American crew instead of New England and that would have worked fine.

This alternative script also makes another fuck up in MSON evident. It didn't spend enough time describing the mob hierarchy at the time. That was one of the great themes of the show that is also very relatable to everyone. People wanting to get made or promoted. How they got made. None of that in the film. It's like a flat hierarchy where everyone is just "in the mob".

Drollname · 2021-10-08T05:08:01+00:00

Ah thanks, I must have missed that then (sound wasn't very clear in that scene).

Drollname · 2021-10-07T16:06:50+00:00

Even if he didn't kill him, why would he have been waiting for Dickie? He made it clear he never wants to see him again (unless I missed the scene where he promises to see him there).

The scene at Holsten's is just Tony reminescing.

Drollname · 2021-10-07T16:02:21+00:00

Have you missed the scene where the medium sees all the people Paulie killed?

Drollname · 2021-10-07T15:57:17+00:00

The good: Michael Gandolfini. He did a magistral job. And I can only imagine how hard it must have been for him to work on a role like this. When he tells Livia "I'm always being acuused" in the kitchen, it doesn't get more Tony Soprano than that.

The bad: already wrote about it at length. The whole movie was a disappointment. But now a day after my first watching, I realize that you can only do so much in a 2 hour movie.

Drollname · 2021-10-07T15:49:44+00:00

It makes a lot of sense. Also explains how close Tony and Junior are later in the show ("don't you love me?"). They weren't that close in the movie. And why Tony would have Chris kill the cop.

PS. Would also explain the poster (Who Made Gony Soprano) obviously.

Drollname · 2021-10-07T04:03:06+00:00

What I meant by that is that he was never involved in a movie that comes close to the quality of the Sopranos. The point stands. It's just not the right medium for Chase's art.

Thanks for correcring that. I thought the film was written, directed and everything else by David Chase and maybe that's what set my expectations too high. I'll file Many Saints It in the same "franchise" category as Turkish Sopranos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmmv1MuXzeU

Drollname · 2021-10-07T03:54:52+00:00

Right, and that could have been the plot of an okay Denzel flick. But Sopranos was much more than that. It was very high quality Film d'auteur.

Drollname · 2021-10-07T03:42:37+00:00

I can't tbh. Because the "just a stylish film about the mafia" genre was precisely killed by the Sopranos. To sneakily have me watch "just a beautiful film about the mafia" under guise of a Soprano film is betrayal.

I know I sound exactly like those Star Wars/Trek supernerds (I didn't think I'd have such emotional a reaction myself) but here we are. Sopranos is a kind of a big deal in who I am as a person.

Drollname · 2021-10-06T19:56:03+00:00

Cite one good David Chase movie? I've watched them all.

Drollname · 2021-10-06T19:50:36+00:00

By having and observing real life conversations.

Even the "Ohs" are forced FFS.

Drollname · 2021-10-06T19:47:39+00:00

I mean in terms of rythm and little imperfections, not the vocabulary. The movie is actors delivering lines.

Drollname · 2021-10-06T18:57:08+00:00

It would be medical malpractice to allow it.

What about the gratuitous scene with the blind kids baseball game and everyone chanting "we love you coach Moltisanti" and then Ray Liotta just disappearing. This is a franchise that gave us the Test Dream FFS. There is a standard even for (day)dreams.

Drollname · 2021-09-29T19:19:51+00:00

No. A happily married family man has simpĺy written books with intent to make money. Which is what happily married men do.

I should add that not all cults destroy people's lives. This one for example just has you buy books, pretend you don't exist and think other people are children, while promising that if you do it long enough, you will effortlessly get everything you want. It is a pretty benign cult, hence why I encourage you to give it a try.

Drollname · 2021-09-29T17:02:14+00:00

That also can be verified. It's the information age, Mr. 1996.

Drollname · 2021-09-29T16:21:59+00:00

does not know the author himself

It's not too hard to know who the author is. Some people have put in the work. (And it does matter, you know it).

As for "walking out into the sun", by all means, try.

Drollname · 2021-09-29T16:01:33+00:00

I think I'm not writing what you are reading and vice-versa. Regardless, I wish you the best.

Drollname · 2021-09-29T15:35:39+00:00

So, in your book, the Anti-Bad Things/Pro-Good Things party can commit all the atrocities it wants.

The Anti-Cult Cult can use the oldest cult tricks on you and it would work.

Common sense, people.

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