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FMguru posted:i love that they make a lot of original properties they're original, they're poorly executed and very very stupid, but they're original. idk that having original bad ideas is much of a selling point, but i guess that's the 21st century for you.
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that’s exactly my thought on them. new sci-fi is a good thing it’s precisely why I liked Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. was it the best sci fi movie ever? no. was it another avengers movie? also no.
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Remulak posted:Lol, applies to every single Keanu franchise. it applies to the genre as a whole, really - part of what makes Neuromancer, or things by Dick, so appealing is that what's going on makes sense to the characters, is cool, and we're not having to slog through a contrived explanation that the characters don't need Visions of Valerie fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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Beve Stuscemi posted:it’s precisely why I liked Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. was it the best sci fi movie ever? no. was it another avengers movie? also no. plus that opening sequence set to space oddity was great
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Visions of Valerie posted:it applies to the genre as a whole, really - part of what makes Neuromancer, or things by Dick, so appealing is that what's going on makes sense to the characters, is cool, and we're not having to slog through a contrived explanation that the characters don't need Agreed, except for star trek which thrives on its setting imo
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ADINSX posted:Agreed, except for star trek which thrives on its setting imo star trek, in a way, carved out a niche where explaining the technobabble-laden world works and usually serves the story of an episode in some way. they don’t really explain how the transporter or the holodeck or replicators work until they need to explain it to move the story forward
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Visions of Valerie posted:it applies to the genre as a whole, really - part of what makes Neuromancer, or things by Dick, so appealing is that what's going on makes sense to the characters, is cool, and we're not having to slog through a contrived explanation that the characters don't need 
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Chris Knight posted:that does remind me I should watch Valerian at some point its a perfectly good movie, as is jupiter rising. Theyre just not Amazing Works of Art is all.
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Dress for the Job you Want (Bullet Hell Final Boss) https://i.imgur.com/HRf5xBj.mp4
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Beve Stuscemi posted:I genuinely hope that making a series of extremely high profile, very expensive flops doesn’t hurt the watchowskis ability to make future movies, because even if I don’t love all of their movies, I love that they’re putting the work in to tell these kind of stories. 1 did great, 2 did well, 3 broke evenish, 4 flopped
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Alan Smithee posted:more matrices where it's no longer an epic struggle of mankind vs machine but a hijinks fueled odd couple coexistence blues brothers remake but it's neo and smith
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It’s been said before and it’s worth saying again: world building is not storytelling
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i definitely agree with that - a lot of stuff, especially genre stuff, really gets burdened by its own lore. i just finished season 3 of "what we do in the shadows" while the first 2 seasons were a lot of vampire tropes put forward to support character comedy, now it's all vampiric councils and deep exploration of the rules of how all the vampire poo poo works that was only introduced for a laugh.
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ADINSX posted:agreed, the movie's strength was the aesthetic and the fact that the kung fu effects and vibe it heavily borrows from was so unique at the time in America I remember getting in a huge argument with this guy who didn't believe me that it was just some dudes pulling on ropes to do the fight scenes he finally shut up about it when the dvd came out and half the bonus feature material showed a bunch of dudes pulling on ropes
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what did he think it was? 100% cgi? or that the actors trained up to a six foot vertical leap?
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yeah, what was it like working with dwight schrute?
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haveblue posted:what did he think it was? 100% cgi? or that the actors trained up to a six foot vertical leap? it was the first time that kind of budget had been used to do wuxia moves so it does look a lot better than hk movies of the previous decade
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gibson and leary's interviews have held up from what i remember but the editor should have been laughed out of the industry. some of the cg intended to obscure faces is so poorly aligned that there are several frames with clear face shots in them. then they waste two minutes on some foppish lad in red vinyl smoking a cigarette, real cyber poo poo.
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2077 is the year of Linux on the Cyber Visor
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i don't know how usable it is, but this AR laptop admittedly has a pretty futuristic feel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSBESw3a_tc
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HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:i don't know how usable it is, but this AR laptop admittedly has a pretty futuristic feel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSBESw3a_tc i refuse to click that thumbnail. also i want you to be banned for posting it.
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HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:i don't know how usable it is, but this AR laptop admittedly has a pretty futuristic feel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSBESw3a_tc looks better than the apple igoggles but still incredibly shameful
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looks neat but there is no way those goggles produce that mockup
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NoneMoreNegative posted:2077 is the year of Linux on the Cyber Visor haveblue posted:looks neat but there is no way those goggles produce that mockup
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HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:i don't know how usable it is, but this AR laptop admittedly has a pretty futuristic feel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSBESw3a_tc lmao. i built that as a (functional) cyberdeck prop for a halloween costume last year    
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infernal machines posted:lmao. Dang that’s cool
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happy 25th anniversary!  
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Chris Knight posted:happy 25th anniversary!
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Beve Stuscemi posted:what are those glasses? gutted and rebuilt virtual io i-glasses   they're normally 320x200 w/composite input (3d was done by alternating scanlines). the display controller died, so i pulled the guts and replaced them with a couple 1080p oled panels and a controller off aliexpress.  the optics are cheap and they were designed for 320p, so getting 1080p dialed in and legible was fun. it's not perfect. they need about 1.2x scaling for text to be legible and anything at the edges is rough, but it works.  
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that’s awesome!
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thanks! i enjoyed the project. i guess i could have just bought a set of nreal air or whatever, but that wasn't quite the look i was going for. plus this meant i had to buy a 3d printer and re-learn cad, so you know, way more work.
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