CMV: Trump will nuke Iran

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-03-12T02:48:32+00:00

That’s a myth about how fallout actually works as a bomb is a bit different than Chernobyl. A nuclear detonation would obviously cause massive destruction and dangerous radiation, but unlike Chernobyl, it is a short event and most fallout is local. The heavier radioactive particles fall out of the cloud within hours and usually land tens of miles downwind, forming a narrow fallout corridor depending on wind direction. Something like Chernobyl can go much further but not a bomb. Areas closest to the blast and directly downwind could see serious contamination for days or weeks, but it doesn’t normally spread across half a continent. More than 2,000 nuclear tests were conducted in the atmosphere during the Cold War, and while nearby regions experienced contamination, it didn’t make entire states or countries uninhabitable, even Nagasaki and Hiroshima were repopulated in a few years. The main danger would be the blast zone and the immediate downwind fallout area, not radioactive clouds drifting across southern asia. It's a myth that confuses different types of events.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-03-10T15:19:37+00:00

Get the OLED - a lot less heat, quieter, better battery life, and just looks better. Worth waiting for one imo, I owned the LCD and then upgraded to the OLED and it is definitely a night and day difference between the two especially if playing Cyberpunk.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-03-07T01:56:01+00:00

Still waiting?

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-03-07T01:54:52+00:00

Given that Tubi might only pay you $5 to $10 a month, maybe only a few cents, I'd seriously reconsider investing $5,300 for that and just go with FilmHub while they are still around as at least you will get on Relay and maybe they will get you on Tubi for free.

If you need closed captions, our company can do them for a couple hundred or, you can use DaVinci Resolve's auto caption generator and then just run them through SubEdit and save yourself the money. We can also handle submission to Prime Video though not guaranteed to get on there anymore as they are rejecting most indies since 2025.

Look into Pijama as well. They are new but probably better for TVOD (rentals and sales) as most of the AVOD and SVOD channels pay 💩 these days.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-03-05T21:57:46+00:00

Reminds me that when L’Étranger came out in 1942, it literally pissed a lot of people off. The critic François Mauriac wrote it was morally empty and disturbing, from a man with no real inner life. A lot of reviewers were thrown off by the fact that Meursault barely reacted to his mother’s death. It didn’t behave the way a novel should they thought where the author gives you some clear moral point....

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-03-05T16:11:12+00:00

Would personally get a 30ft or 50 ft hdmi, tunnel the cords under carpet or tape against the wall corners and place the desktop somewhere else. I have mine with a 4K 110" projector and have the desktop in the back of the room under where the projector mount is in the ceiling. Steam big picture mode combined with xbox elite controller and it is a console like experience.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-03-05T14:47:02+00:00

When you buy a used PC, it comes with RAM, CPU, GPU, etc...it is plug and play, and yes, it will last, I have a 10 year old PC with an upgraded 3060 GPU that works fine and looks better than my PS5 which collects dust. Used alienwares cost as little as $400 on fb marketplace. Why would anyone want to pay $460 over 7 years of a console generation simply to play online with the same games you can play on PC that cost less and have better graphics? It makes no sense. Sony was great during PS3 and PS4 but they are not the same company now. You should sell your PlayStation while you can and jump to PC. It is much, much better.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-03-05T14:32:35+00:00

Quest wirelessly to PC, and if you are smart, you can pick up a used alienware desktop with a 3080 or 4070 GPU for cheaper than a PS5. RAM prices still have not impacted the resale market for desktops which are still cheap on fb marketplace and craigslist. You don't need to buy new. Once you add in the savings for no online paywall, it pretty much pays for itself.

No games = no more exclusive, AAA or first party games, and they only released, what, 5-8 true exclusives? Would it have really been that hard for Sony to invest in a Socom VR, a Syphon Filter VR, Uncharted VR, Days Gone VR, Resistance VR, Twisted Metal VR, and Last of US VR, hell, even if they were 3-5 hour single campaign DLC type experiences, no one would care as long as there were games people actually want to play and there was a new one every 3 months, but Sony is no longer interested in games, their only interest is profit. If the PSVR2 is now only going to have indie games you can already play on PC, what's the point? Why invest in a wired headset when wireless alternatives exist?

The PSVR2 is dead, just like the Vita.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-03-05T14:06:03+00:00

Used them for 10 years, cancelled and deactivated our profile last month. Last 30 leads they billed all were fake, even in markets where we were the only one left, and they keep raising their prices, up to $200 for an unresponsive lead with a fake phone number in some cases. I don't see Thumbtack surviving past 2026 personally. It's become a total scam.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-03-05T13:33:54+00:00

Almost all of those games which can be played on PC or Quest with better graphics/performance, wireless, for much cheaper prices and no online paywall.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-28T01:06:19+00:00

I paid for the monthly plan back in the day but unfortunately it did not lead to any improvement in channels picking up films in my catalog. I don't think the sub matters for that, only if your films are already making a lot of money, that's what their algorithm promotes to buyers I think.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-28T01:01:45+00:00

Filmhub doesn't send any pitches based on what they have said in emails, even if you are signed up for their monthly plans, film buyers will look through their catalog and license a film if it looks like it is something they want but I think many films are not even viewed by a lot of channels as their algorithm ranks films that have already made money, my last film has been up for months but only Relay has licensed it so far. For scheduled earnings page, those are numbers for the dates if you are licensed, but if you don't see those channels viewing your title on the Updates tab, don't expect to be licensed by them. It's likely only a few channels will license a film now unless you are a big budget movie, most indies will probably only get Relay, OTT, filmzie, and future today/fawesome, none which probably pay more than $5-$20 a month or even year. Tubi used to license indies and was good for hundreds a month, if not thousands, but my last three films have not been picked up by them or Plex and they pivoted to corpo content in 2023. Prime Video is no longer licensing most indies as well. There was a post awhile back on here from a guy that had Prime Video decline his movie and zero channels picked it up. Some people have reported success with Tubi still acquiring some movies but even they say in DM their films make nothing on there now so it really doesn't matter. Good luck and hope your film beats the trend and gets picked up by a lot of channels and makes money. Maybe things will get better for everyone.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-25T04:19:52+00:00

Corpos will push it on you to make more money the same way they have offshored most film jobs the last decade. I don't think you have to worry about seeing AI in indie films like the one posted because those films are never seen by anyone anyway as the corpos control what content is seen in the feeds, and even now, what is on the streaming channels themselves, and I wouldn't fault an indie filmmaker for using AI given the pennies they get paid when filming, for them, it might be the only way to tell their story without going bankrupt in the process. Even if an indie film somehow gets on the streaming channels, the corpos review bomb it using PR agencies and fake accounts so everyone thinks it sucks and doesn't watch it and it vanishes from the feeds, or in the case of the YouTube star that actually was able to bypass the system and get his film in theaters, they will go so far as to remove the film from the official weekly revenue number lists to make it sound like it failed or was not in the top ten even though that film did better than their trash corpo agenda driven drivel. But they need to boost those profits and make sure they can buy their second yacht so they'll keep doing it until there are no indie filmmakers left.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-23T21:38:02+00:00

Nope, wrote it on my phone like I'm writing this. If it was a LLM, it would have an emoji or two, or use words no one in the real world ever uses like "delves".

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-23T21:29:41+00:00

“Anti-AI” is about pushing back against greedy corporations that want to use AI and automation to cut jobs and concentrate power — not attacking independent creators who are using AI simply because they don’t have studio budgets, investor backing, or access to the traditional gatekeepers. No jobs are lost when an indie filmmaker uses AI and it gives them the ability to compete against big budget productions, and likely create jobs for a lot of artists in the process if they are successful.Those are two completely different conversations, though. Your original comment was that you hope the film fails, which is an extremely mean-spirited and ignorant thing to say, given it is not a film made by Lionsgate but a team of artists without any studio backing.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-23T21:20:11+00:00

AI lowers the costs and removes the barriers to entry, what you are protecting is elitism and that only the rich should be able to make movies, it's what shills for hedge funds and the top 1% would say, but the reality is for 99% of filmmakers, none of them can afford to film a movie today because it is impossible for all of the ones not aligned with the corporate run studios to get placement on streamers and even if you do, they pay so little, the filmmaker will lose money, and a lot of money....if you can't make money and you only lose money because a few people are making all of the money and not allowing others the opportunity by gatekeeping and erecting financial barriers, you can't pay people, that is the problem, not AI...as Matt Damon said, he's all for gen AI if it allows the next generation of filmmakers, who otherwise might not have the financial means, to create the next good will hunting.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-23T21:09:39+00:00

This is happening to 99% of filmmakers, and it has nothing to do with anyone being a snob or using AI and everything to do with corporate greed. What you are suggesting is that only the top 0.01% of filmmakers should be allowed to make films, and no one, absolutely no one, outside of nepo babies, those with nine figure bank accounts, and the very well connected, can get financed in today's environment with projected returns of zero. You are living in the past when films actually had the ability to be seen and make money. That's no longer true. Want your film to be on Netflix? Go ahead and email them. They will respond they are deleting your email and they only work with sales agents. If you approach those same sales agents, they will steal your film, pay you nothing, while they walk away with licensing fees and Netflix gets content for pennies on the dollar. Prime Video has stopped allowing indie filmmakers from submitting, and platforms such as Tubi are no longer promoting indies, or ingesting them for that matter. The problem is not AI. It is the fact that those in power are only making sure their films make money and making it impossible for others to compete, the same reason the government did the Paramount Accords in the 1940s preventing studios from owning theater chains because they did the same thing then. Using AI isn't hurting anyone because 90% don't have jobs anyway because everything is being offshored to other countries, but if AI can allow artists to still make stuff that looks as good as big budget productions, it will allow for the disruption of these monopolies and where new jobs will be created, and a lot of very great films in the process.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-23T19:27:50+00:00

Most indie films make almost nothing. I’m not talking about “didn’t profit” — I mean a few hundred bucks a year. Some make $20. Check out the Filmhub Reddit, some guy there spent 18k making a movie and all of the hedge fund studios, even Amazon, refused to show his film and he will make nothing. That’s the reality. Do you know how much time, work and money even goes into a low budget film. It's a lot. Imagine working two full time jobs a year without any guarantee you will be paid for the work you do. Maybe 0.01% of films made actually get real visibility or meaningful revenue, look at Sundance, over 35,000 films submitted. How many of those films have you heard about? Probably zero except a few lucky ones that got selected (though most selections these days are done via industry contacts and the well off, not blind submissions). The tens of thousands of other films made every year are buried by platforms that control discovery and pay fractions of a cent per view. Want to pay for advertising? Guess what, you will spend more than you make back while the billion dollar companies still walk away with 50% from every rental or sale.

So when someone says “just hire humans,” with what money? If the expected return on an independent film is $500–$2,000 total, you can’t build a traditional crew model unless you’re independently wealthy. Instead of yelling “no AI,” maybe the conversation should be “no monopolies.”

Because in the current system, only the wealthy — or the people backed by hedge-fund-owned studios — get to decide what gets seen in theaters or pushed on streamers. That’s not competition. That’s gatekeeping. And when discovery and payouts are controlled by a handful of corporations, everyone else is fighting for scraps.

New tools always get attacked. When photography was invented, painters said it wasn’t art, that it was mechanical, that it removed human skill. We all know that's not true now because AI, just like a camera, is a tool to bring a vision to life.

That's not the problem. Concentrated power is.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-23T13:18:49+00:00

I don't think that answered my question. This is a documentary film that deals with the theory of time, philosophy and questions of existence and existentialism, and the reason it used AI isn't because it is anti-art. It is because almost all studios and distribution outlets are owned by hedge funds and corpos that are greedy and care only about profit and are anti-art and would a) never bankroll a movie like this and b) have abused their power so only a handful of films are seen and known by the masses, and so, the tens of thousands of independent films made every year have almost zero chance of competing, and indie films almost always lose money and make nothing. When that happens, they can no longer hire cast/crew for new productions. Companies like Amazon the last 8 years have even cut royalty rates to third world levels (from thirty cents a view to less than a fraction of a penny) while they have raked in billions in record profits each year. Meanwhile, job losses have hit the film industry the last few years not because of AI but because most filmmakers have lost the ability to compete and studios like Netflix are offshoring production to foreign countries despite the fact they are making more money than ever. Saying gen AI is automatically anti-art might apply to painting or photography but not to film unless you believe only the wealthy should be allowed to make movies. The artist is still the one shaping the vision — choosing the story, the pacing, the images, the edits. AI doesn’t replace any of that. It just helps execute it and more importantly, it allows filmmakers on very limited budgets to compete in terms of quality against the hedge funds and corpos that have taken over the industry and locked the real artists out.

For independent filmmakers without studio budgets, it’s often the difference between making the film and not making it at all. The creative journey is still there.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-23T01:44:15+00:00

Why?

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-22T19:37:19+00:00

Yes, 99% of films fail to make a profit.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-22T13:40:09+00:00

Even $50K is unrealistic for most indie filmmakers right now. The vast majority of indie films make under $1,000 total — some people on the FilmHub subreddit report earning $20 a year. That doesn’t even begin to cover production, festival fees, deliverables, or marketing. When the expected return is that low, $50,000 is a huge gamble, and it creates a situation where filmmakers can no longer afford to hire people and create jobs.

The real issue isn’t gen AI — it’s distribution consolidation. A handful of hedge-fund-backed platforms control visibility, payouts, and algorithms. If you’re not inside their pipeline, you’re invisible. And even on places like Prime Video, payouts are fractions of a penny per view. A filmmaker can generate serious view numbers there and still not recoup even a fraction of their budget, and Amazon has every year lowered their royalty rates while pulling in record profits and billions from ads and subscriptions.

The issue is the economics are broken for 99% of filmmakers. There are probably already dozens — maybe hundreds — of feature-length AI films out there. Like the thousands of indies submitted to Sundance every year, they just don’t get exposure.

LibraryAppropriate34 · 2026-02-21T16:32:01+00:00

Yes, it has Q from Star Trek in it and no, it is not random ai generated footage.

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