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Dialog also not important in books, as they are also a visual medium where you don’t hear anything, unless you are “reading” an audiobook which of course is not a real book am I doing this right

Any big-budget Wittgenstein film should be 75% Wittgenstein being an unremitting asshole to everyone he meets, with the director varying whether only we think the target deserves it, 23% him being terrible to himself, and then 2% this specific moment, which is unexpectedly the heart of the film.

Nice.

"There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible." Which film is this a dismissal of? Wrong answers only. I’m gonna say “Star Wars”.

Controversy blows up as historically accurate accents are derided as sheer parody. Actually I just started thinking of the X and Bsky versions of Discourse about a Roosevelt film and now I’m going to go for a walk instead.

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Broadcasting from the very slopes of Hell itself

Place your bets on what Immortan Bryan will claim next week. “I have 3D printed thirty copies of myself and made them all follow me on X”. “I have developed a new kind of serum based on the graphics in Laboratoire Garnier ads”. “I built a time machine and am now my own grandfather.”

Again, the most important legal and ethical issue raised by this is something like "no you didn't, that's a lie, that didn't happen"

If Fable hallucinates it starting points for a system of equations is that an ersatz ansatz

Send us your reckons

<nine months from now> Elon, raging: WHY ARE THERE STILL TRAMS IN THIS VERSION? Grok: Sorry, my bad, I will take out the trams. Elon: OK. Now, What did Odysseus have for breakfast? Grok: He ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. Elon: Well that seems like a manly diet, at least.

The Odyssey, but it’s set in like the Med or somewhere like that and in oldey times and there’s witches and magic and stuff instead of an Ad guy in a 20th century city with an electric light rail system. idk maybe too radical

Hear me out, what if Nolan tried to keep the linearity by cutting the timeline down to a day and setting it in Dublin

They’re de jure JDs

I too am in the Uni-Context rn, am I doing this right

Booooo

Is the uni-context the reason someone might end up seeing no difference between a seminar room and a singles bar?

Absolutely outstanding design work here. Amazing.