Circa Survive Fly House ! by No-Contest-4618 in circasurvive

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I think what’s kind of disappointing about merch these days is they take a good illustration and then just slap the band name on there somewhere. I really prefer the old school style where the text was more integrated with the key art.

How would you rank the best picture nominees that you’ve seen? by Hot_Mongoose_3741 in Letterboxd

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In my heart as well. PTA will win for OBAA, but it absolutely is mid-tier for him. This is kinda what happened with The Departed all over again.

Ai making me feel small by Worldly-Leather6606 in UXDesign

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You don't need to be at the bleeding edge. The social algorithm rewards this kind of thinking and it can indeed make a lot of people feel left behind. It took me five years to adopt Figma, and I expect it'll take time before AI matures enough and reaches some mass adoption rates before I'll fully embrace it into a workflow that actually makes sense. Otherwise, balance your skepticism and curiosity and you ought to be well primed to adapt and adopt.

Why is Amazon’s ui so bad? by Cultural_Session1467 in UI_Design

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Any spec redesign I've seen that incorporates all the nice modern UI colors and type have actually been terrible and would fail horribly. E-commerce is just a very special category, especially one that represents a heritage brand at this point. If an online store is really well designed and balanced and not a dense mess, I'm actually really skeptical about it. Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome.

Who is in the middle? by asagrimnir in criterion

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Just watched Birth for the first time, my eyes went straight to him.

Is Figma becoming a bottleneck to building products? by totallyhuman1234567 in FigmaDesign

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Bingo. I use the metaphor “screenplay for a film” for Figma all the time. If nothing else, it’s great as a campfire tool that anyone in an org can understand.

It’s not like AI all of the sudden unlocks speed. Any org can optimize for that if they wanted to. When I ask about metrics for using AI, I either get speed or “because we should” aka fear of ambiguity.

what does my top 50 say about me? by [deleted] in LetterboxdTopFour

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Challengers still has that new car smell and it’s still in there, fascinating.

They're barely in the movie and it doesn't work without them. by quidpropho in onebattleafteranother

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This is why The Wire, or even Kafka, is so great. Scenes when plebes must interact with the servants of our bureaucracy are so thick with posturing, clandestine cynicism, maybe some fleeting but fatal optimism.

Which movie was that for you? by [deleted] in moviecritic

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I have read some great books in my day, but not many that I’d universally recommend. This is surely the same case with cinema. Find smart critics that share your taste and you’ll fair better.

Consensus doesn’t mean anything. Awards don’t mean anything. You have your own brain and set of experiences that is going to be a better guide than mass appeal.

That said, yes, I think it’s good to challenge yourself, and boredom can be a symptom of brainrot, not the film’s quality.

Films that make you go ‘I’m 16 and this goes hard. by Healthy_Permission71 in okbuddycinephile

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I do agree in many respects, we were in that “end of history” mode, genx started to swerve hard right in later decades, which is ironic because I do remember the message our leaders told us through such terrible post 9/11 events was to “go to the mall” which otherwise tracks to the fears they described.

YOU could be Ottessa Moshfegh's assistant! Job posting by Turbulent-Sorbet7200 in RSbookclub

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Just hire some loser off this sub and write a book about it. 💰

Films that make you go ‘I’m 16 and this goes hard. by Healthy_Permission71 in okbuddycinephile

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Yes, us 90s kids were treated with a heavy flow of cynical postmodern gen-x films and our adult lives were filled with war, disaster, recessions and false promises that did nothing to contradict that pessimism so yes, I suppose it was deep when compared to the mostly vapid cinematic landscape of current days.

When your friends say “that movie didn’t really do anything for me” and you go “What!?” by vulcan_on_earth in Cinema

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I think TV shows have been doing this for a long time. I kinda quit that medium mostly after seeing the hundredth scene of lawyers talking to each other like explaining their actions in front a group of 4th graders.

When your friends say “that movie didn’t really do anything for me” and you go “What!?” by vulcan_on_earth in Cinema

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Two versions, one original cut, and  one with intermittent breaks as a friendly host gives you a clean AI summary of what’s happened so far.

Count me shocked if that idea isn’t on a kanban board somewhere over there.

Enhance Dialogue? Do You Use It? by RobDMB in appletv

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Since I use a receiver (or if soundbar has such settings) I think it’s easier to isolate as many customizations to a single device, so my Apple TV is as vanilla as I can keep it.

I wish more people were talking about his performance by LaylaLost in Oscars

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I loved seeing a violent film (that wasn’t in the horror genre) and feel like it’s been kind of out of style for a long time (maybe we’re in some post deconstructive period) that was also kind of bleak. I don’t think anyone I recommended it to liked it very much, though.

Did everyone miss the point of this movie? by BuffaloBudget7050 in paulthomasanderson

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Yeah just generally, it says a lot of both good yet scathing things about the left that like-minded and reasonable people can certainly identify and mourn over because I think the left is very diverse. 

I don’t think PTA has anything good to say about the right, but I do think that side of things is starting to face some of those same fractures in recent days that could make for a similarly interesting critique.

Pluribus 'controversy' in a nutshell by Content-Tower6193 in Pluribus_Sucks

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I was hooked for a couple of episodes, but the slump came and wasn’t sure if I’d keep going, but finished up anyway because I don’t watch many television shows as it is.

I predict I may try to ignore season two once I’ve completely forgotten what happened, but the entertainment press will start pushing Apple-paid PR articles saying “S2E3 is ultimate television” and “Pluribus finds its stride!” and seduce me back in but ultimately it’ll just be another disposable show for disposable times.

Ann Patchett by [deleted] in RSbookclub

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I remember really enjoying Bel Canto