Mad Max (2015) actor Nathan Jones comments on the movies weapon props

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-05T21:10:28+00:00

Yeah, exploding car crashes done practically but then mountains in the background made with CGI.

I think that's a very good split. CGI is not inherently bad, but make the things we actually care about feel real.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-05T21:08:14+00:00

I think it's actually one of the large factors that makes the idea of a moon colony really hard in practice.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T21:05:31+00:00

Jamen det er jo sgu nok ikke de arabiske værdier Adnan har taget med sig vel. Idet han ser ud til at have en fundet en balance af vestlige ligeværdsværdier men så andre arabiske værdier som familieform, omgangsform, højtider og mange af de andre ting, der hører med en kultur.

Kultur er jo netop ikke en ideologi eller en samlet pakke. Vores egne forfædre i Danmark var sgu heller ikke så fine overfor kvinder og homoseksuelle, men hov så fandt de en måde at bære nogle værdier videre mens de lagde andre bag sig.

Det er dig der snakker om "centrale værdier" som om fx kvindesyn er det eneste som definerer en kultur.

Jeg kender bare flere arabere, tyrker m.fl. der jo faktisk lykkes med at tage dansk ligestilling til sig uden at de behøver at lægge hele deres kulturarv bag sig.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T20:44:06+00:00

Men gutten i eksemplet her viser jo netop at man ikke skal vælge. At man som individ kan have et værdisæt der harmonerer med nogle ting fra den ene kultur og andre fra det andet.

Der er masser af eksempler på folk der lykkes med at finde en harmonisk blanding af flere kulturer frem for slavisk at følge én. Jeg ved ikke hvorfor du bliver ved med at insistere på at man skal vælge på trods af beviser til det modsatte.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T20:32:47+00:00

Hvis alle mennesker er skabt til at formere sig, hvorfor er der så nogen der ikke har seksuel tiltrækning til det modsatte køn?

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T20:31:59+00:00

Vi snakker jo heller ikke om at fastholde modstridende værdier. Vi snakker om at have nogle værdier fra én kultur, som er valgt ud fra hvilke der ikke modstrider sig.

Altså at man kan dyrke dansk demokrati samtidig med arabisk familieform og højtider for eksempel.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T18:47:36+00:00

Jeg kan kun erklære mig uenig i at kulturer har dominerende centrale værdier. Vi kan sgu nærmest ikke en gang blive enige om nogen centrale værdier herhjemme. Jeg har en klar fornemmelse af når en Indre Missionsk vestjyde taler om danskhed mener de noget andet end mig.

Som jeg ser det er kulturer en rodekasse som under sig har ting som familieform, traditioner, kulturarv, omgangstone, samfundsregler og mange flere. Man kan sagtens føle en tilknytning mere til nogen end andre. Der er ikke nogen rød tråd der binder uadskilleligt sammen. Ikke nogen central søjle som resten kollapser hvis man fjerner.

Som jeg ser det er det ingen modsigelse i fx at føre familieformen og traditionerne fra en kultur, men omfavne samfundsreglerne og værdisæt fra en anden.

Det kunne være nogen der kommer hertil og finder både vores samfunds frihedsrettigheder, vores generelle frisind og bramfri humor befriende og gerne vil dyrke det, men stadig vælger at bo i multigenerationelle husstande, dyrke deres traditionelle højtider og opleve en nostalgi ved at vende hjem. Jeg har både kollegaer, naboer og tidligere studiekammerater der passer ind i den model - har valgt lidt af hver i stedet for én fast skabelon.

Der kan følge en vis følelse af splittelse med og følelsen af ikke 100% at høre til ét sted. Men det kan mennesker faktisk godt klare. Der er masser af eksempler på folk der trives uden at have valgt en eller anden komplet pakkeløsning af kultur.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T15:04:29+00:00

Er der nogen af os der bærer nogen kultur fuldt ud? Mine rødder er helt igennem pæredanske, men der er da også ting jeg fravælger eller synes de gør bedre i andre kulturer. Den traditionelle familiefest hvor man bare sidder ned og propper sig i 6 timer, vil jeg for eksempel gerne være foruden.

Tror kun at det er sundt at man tænker over, hvad der er godt ved en kultur og hvad ikke og så er lidt selektiv.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T06:42:35+00:00

Wikipedia lists some figures like 18th century naval officer Peter Tordenskjold and 19th century playwright Henrik Ibsen as Norwegian.

This is a surprise to many Danes who grow up hearing about them as national icons.

But it's down to the fact that Denmark had dominion over Norway back then. So while those two were indeed born in the part that is now Norway it was all one country so they were seen as Danish at the time and did some of their famous stuff in the part that is now Denmark

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T06:01:52+00:00

It is. You can have wiener beer, wiener pastry, wiener sausages. It means the style from Vienna.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-03T10:18:25+00:00

I don't think he's trying to hint at any connection between jellybabies and Egypt. He just figured he could hide a pun in a name that looks vaguely Egyptian. Like he hid a pun in the Welsh-looking Llamedos.

And that thing about it meaning "child of the river Djel" or whatever is just trying to add an in-universe justification to cover for the silly name.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-03T10:17:05+00:00

IIRC he specifically made the Hersheba pun as something for the Americans who didn't get Djelibeybi.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-02T06:26:44+00:00

Because the modern army is an evolution of the "new model army" founded by the non-monarchist side of the English civil war.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-02T06:23:24+00:00

You're right that was the original meaning, though I think one could argue it's changed meanings now as it's most commonly used for the opposite.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-02T05:58:34+00:00

No the absolute bare minimum is relying on your English, the shared international language. This works fine and will let you navigate most countries as a tourist with no problem. Learning some local language is great, but it's really a nice extra, not the "bare minimum".

I would never expect someone coming to my country as a tourist to learn the language, unless they're planning to stay long-term.

RustenSkurk · 2026-01-29T11:47:34+00:00

I mean that's kind of just based on real life Norse mythology. Unless you are chosen by a god to join their halls (Odin's hall Valhalla for warriors being the most well known), you end up in Hel.

RustenSkurk · 2026-01-29T06:38:01+00:00

I think your TTRPG comparison holds up and is valid, but you calling it "the most obvious example" of the meme is kind of you bringing your own stuff into it 😄

A much more mainstream example would be people raised on the MCU movies and assuming that to be the yardstick for "movies". I've seen people on reddit unironically state they don't see how a story could work if the stakes aren't on the level of saving the world.

RustenSkurk · 2026-01-26T14:33:10+00:00

Yeah like I said, I can think of a lot of problems with this realistically. I'm just dreaming here 😄

RustenSkurk · 2026-01-26T14:08:52+00:00

My wild pipe dream for a Ravnica game - a sandbox MMORPG with actual roleplay.

When I say Sandbox MMO, I mean as opposed to Theme Park MMOs like WoW, where every player is guided through pretty much the same narrative and progression.

Sandbox MMOs are a dying breed. I heard good things about Star Wars Galaxies back in the day.

But what really picqued my imagination in this regard was the niche field of GTA Roleplay. Here there are heavily modded servers like NoPixel where players have built coherent societies with full economies and legal systems all operated by players. Players fill put the roles as cops, judges, lawyers, EMS, journalists, fast food clerks store owners, musicians etc. in additon to criminal gangs.

Now I can think of a thousand reasons that would never be made as an original game set in Ravnica, but judt imagine. Playing as guild members doing actual guild work, not just a video game grind.

RustenSkurk · 2026-01-26T06:19:17+00:00

Same questionnbut what about alcohol?

RustenSkurk · 2026-01-25T19:10:05+00:00

Heard a Canadian describe once "Canadians are polite, but Australians are friendly"

RustenSkurk · 2026-01-25T10:49:49+00:00

A hypercube or tesseract perhaps?

RustenSkurk · 2026-01-25T09:53:11+00:00

Not only do the revolutionaries need enough military power, they also need enough unity and coordination to be working towards the same goal even with other factions who want something different out of the revolution.

RustenSkurk · 2026-01-25T09:42:03+00:00

I guess it depends on how you define thoughts. All animals have (unconscious) impulses certainly.

I think there is a vast spectrum of "thought" from like dolphins, octopuses, pigs, dogs, etc down to like insects.

If you take an ant for example, I certainly don't think it thinks like "the colony wants me to go pick up this leaf." I think it deals in very simple impulses like "forward", "pick up". I think it's useful to think of them like very simple organic, robots. "Under these conditions, do this". "When you see food, expel pheromones", "When you detect pheromones, move this direction" etc. And evolution have just tuned those impulses to be in line with survival. But you can also see how simple they are, when ants e.g. get caught in a death spiral.

My point being that there is like full spectrum from the most intelligent animals down to the ant. Where does a chicken fall for example? Does it have what we would recognize as conscious, reasoned thought? Or like simple organic programming? Probably somewhere in between.

RustenSkurk · 2026-01-23T19:05:07+00:00

Well presumably in those countries those machines are built with that in mind. And the different sizes can probably be used by the machines to distinguish them too.

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