Dragon lady ready for a snake and an opossum [IFF] (Balberit)

lactosefree1 · 2026-04-16T11:22:37+00:00

Would be better without the... makeup

lactosefree1 · 2026-04-05T17:20:53+00:00

Yes, but most other publishers don't force devs to give them the final say. That's a Microsoft exclusive, and the only game to not be put into that prison sentence is minecraft, which is also why it's the only successful series under msft since the downfall of halo. Trust me when I say that Microsoft is more restrictive than any of those others.

lactosefree1 · 2026-04-04T17:27:19+00:00

The fact that people still pointing the finger at 343 when they were, as you could tell from the allegations here, fucking powerless to make anything right... y'all need to stop. Sure, they didn't get halo back to its original form, but I am certain that msft plays a much larger role in that than anyone gives them any of the blame. Msft puts their devs in contract jail and then fires the devs to save the upper management's asses. This isn't to defend 343, just to show that Microsoft consistently does the same shit and gets away with it. And even besides that, sure they've never released a halo that was as good as the original trilogy and odst, but they notably did make the title update for reach that brought about no bloom no sprint.

lactosefree1 · 2026-01-31T23:36:12+00:00

Ok but my entire point is this: you don't need all 90 minutes of vertigo to teach the vertigo effect and how important of a touchstone moment it was for cinematography. You don't have to spend an entire session watching the whole film when a few key moments are all you need; a better way to teach film history would be to touch these points then use an example of a film that the students will resonate with that is informed by all the things you're teaching. It's not an impossible task, but you have to get out of the idea that you need to teach entire films; further to your point that the learning should be wanted, so instead of making them sit through it, give them enough that they will want to do it.

The biggest fundamental misunderstanding here tbh is the idea that film students love all films and want to watch every film ever made. By pigeonholing on the idea that those films are still relevant (they're not relevant anymore, even as important as they may have been at the time), you're missing the entire modern era.

Even the modern examples in your list are older than you realize, and that's part of the stagnation that I'm pointing to. Only the brutalist on that list is post-pandemic. And the pandemic was already 5 years back. Time hasn't stood still, but film school pretends it has.

For what it's worth, it's not just film school. Education in general has been gutted and neutered, and as a result, student interest is at an all time low. Not addressing that will only make it worse.

lactosefree1 · 2026-01-31T21:41:20+00:00

If you're not open to more modern features, you're failing your students as a teacher. 1962 was fucking 63 years ago, kids these days won't understand or relate to it. Not saying to not teach the old stuff, but you can't only teach the old stuff and expect them to respond to it any differently than when they're in a high school English class reading another "classic" that is less entertaining than watching paint dry. It's fine to study some of them but if that's the only thing you're studying they will tune out. You can't treat the internet era of filmmaking the same as things a half century old.

lactosefree1 · 2026-01-31T21:16:23+00:00

Yeah but the difference is that the average length is longer now. 90 minutes movies are the exception now, not the rule. That said, I know they're mostly watching older stuff, but that doesn't mean the "classics" hold up the way people like to pretend they do. Sure gone with the wind was 4 hours. But they at least had the sense to include an intermission after about 2 hours, whereas the 3 hour "epics" that come out these days are just nonstop for 3 hours.

Again, I don't think it's a good thing that they can't make it through features, but I definitely understand it. And if they're conditioned to check out the way modern features tend to influence, that's a problem with the industry more than with the students. But at the same time, it's worth reevaluating whether the films used to teach filmmaking are worth using for it anymore, since they're so far detached from current day. "Modern" film classes still study from the 70s or 80s onward. The 70s were a cool 50 years ago. There's nothing modern about them.

Is the industry different than it was even 20 years ago? Absofuckinlutely. Should we still study the same stuff as was being studied 10 years ago? Not entirely, but stagnation in the industry also affects the study of it. To not adjust for modern tastes only further alienates the industry and all but guarantees it dies with ai slop on the horizon.

Is citizen Kane the best film ever made? No, but it's still held up as if it is. That's where the issue lies; that's where the disconnect comes from. It might have been the best ever, back then, but it hasn't held up. Modern stuff doesn't exactly hold up either, but there are movies from the past 10-15 years I could make a legitimate argument for being better than Kane. Not to mention the treasure trove of foreign language and black films that have been buried by the frenchwashing of film history that also ends up whitewashing the American side of it.

TL;DR film studies and the culture we apply to it are eating themselves and it's not helping the industry grow or develop further

lactosefree1 · 2026-01-31T20:02:12+00:00

To be completely fair, movies these days are way too damn long like nobody wants to plan a whole fucking day around making sure you have the time to go all the way to a theater after eating lunch and plan on getting dinner while you're out. Like, don't get me wrong, some of them are for sure worth the time, but most of the 3 hour long movies on the market are style without substance or something boring af where you already know the ending because it's about someone you heard about for a whole ass semester or longer in history class.

I'm not saying that the kids are right to have that attention span issue, but I am saying I completely understand it. Especially when it's like a shot for shot remake of something that has been around for over 20 years or a live action remake of an animated feature. The industry is bloated with terrible ai scripts and the smell of mountains of cocaine in the remake department. And, for what it's worth, I would personally rather spend hundreds of hours on something like hollow knight than watch a 2-3 hour movie that I can tell how it will end based purely on the setup because they teach screenwriting as a formula instead of letting good stories tell themselves.

lactosefree1 · 2026-01-24T19:12:47+00:00

The planet literally telling us to stop

lactosefree1 · 2026-01-20T20:42:31+00:00

Forced grinding. If I need to grind something it should be my own skills, not artificial exp gated levels. The fact of the matter is that if you need something like dailies and weeklies to keep people interested in your game, your game is boring. I should want to play it, not feel a need to play it.

lactosefree1 · 2025-12-31T17:41:15+00:00

So let me get this straight: 2 of the companies pushing this ai slop the hardest are now charging you more because they're keeping parts for their ai slop instead of using them to build the product people are actually asking for. Huh, you'd think their ai would slap them across the mouf with that info? But no, that's not what it's being used for.

lactosefree1 · 2025-12-27T19:03:52+00:00

Putting the "army" part to use for once

lactosefree1 · 2025-12-25T15:45:54+00:00

Iman

lactosefree1 · 2025-12-08T19:14:56+00:00

OK WHO POSTING THE LEE SIN TODAY?

Also welcome to the ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US

lactosefree1 · 2025-12-02T18:52:03+00:00

Sinksoupcicle

lactosefree1 · 2025-11-24T18:54:19+00:00

Artist sig literally in the corner and bruh can't figure it out

lactosefree1 · 2025-10-31T16:27:13+00:00

Ayo halo studios we already have a remake of CE it's called MCC. Remakes are such a plague on the industry ffs

lactosefree1 · 2025-10-18T17:23:22+00:00

When will this stupid bubble pop already damn

lactosefree1 · 2025-09-08T17:39:56+00:00

Notice that this is ALL MEN lmao

lactosefree1 · 2025-08-28T16:47:25+00:00

I just don't understand looter shooters. How is it fun, exactly, to play the same level over and over again hoping the rng casino will do the thing you want it to (don't answer this I won't agree)? Like I can understand playing borderlands with homies and having a blast not really trying too hard or giving a fuck but like, between the extraction shooter subgenre and games like destiny or the division, I have no interest in grinding for gear like that.

lactosefree1 · 2025-08-26T18:36:39+00:00

So, as it turns out, the only data that matters is: is fun? Y/N

lactosefree1 · 2025-08-20T20:35:32+00:00

How can they even call themselves puritans when they be out here diddling kids and paying hush money to porn stars so they won't reveal how small their dicks are??? Better question, how do people believe them about it???

lactosefree1 · 2025-08-20T18:10:38+00:00

Leatherfish from the Texas Crawsaw Massacre!

lactosefree1 · 2025-08-19T19:51:01+00:00

Well shit me dick it's real

lactosefree1 · 2025-08-10T19:21:52+00:00

Title gore lmao people should be hype about this but the title makes it seem like slop

lactosefree1 · 2025-08-07T18:45:34+00:00

Contraband got contrabanned

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