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amp108 commented on Museum of Bad Art   museumofbadart.org/... · Posted by u/purkka
graypegg · 10 months ago
I actually went to the penis museum 5 years ago! It was... maybe not the best thing. It's not exactly clear in a lot of the marketing materials, and even once you arrive, that it's just a single room behind the front desk. It felt a lot more like a road side attraction than anything else. The gift shop in the front was a similar size to the museum in the back.

To be fair my expectations of a penis museum weren't THAT high, and it was still funny to go and get pictures! But that's about all the experience really is.

amp108 · 9 months ago
Everyone wants it to be bigger, but we just have to work with what's there.
amp108 commented on Title drops in movies   titledrops.net/... · Posted by u/gaws
latexr · 10 months ago
> It seems to imply a concerted effort to mention the title of the movie in the script in a meta, fourth wall breaking sort of way.

It makes zero difference to the movie watching experience if the script line came from the script or the other way around. While you’re watching the movie, the effect is exactly the same. So even if you took a line of dialog to make your title, it becomes a title drop nonetheless because the audience doesn’t know (nor should they care) which came first.

amp108 · 10 months ago
> It makes zero difference to the movie watching experience if the script line came from the script or the other way around. While you’re watching the movie, the effect is exactly the same.

Certainly not true in the case of a work adapted from another source like a novel. The words "The Fellowship of the Ring" are never uttered in The Fellowship of the Ring, and Peter Jackson's ham-fisted insert there was obvious even to people who hadn't read it, but especially to those of us who have.

And, by that token, if the dialogue suddenly seems awkward and stunted for no other reason than to insert the title, most people would probably conclude that the title came first.

amp108 commented on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today   simonwillison.net/2024/Se... · Posted by u/ulrischa
amp108 · a year ago
To be fair, 10 years ago the programmer said "I'll need a research team and five years".
amp108 commented on Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today   grognardia.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/wyclif
ourmandave · 2 years ago
To me the best change they made in all that time was getting rid of the 1 gp = 1 xp mechanic. It toned down the murder hoboing a lot.
amp108 · 2 years ago
xp for gold means you get less for killing a monster than you do for robbing it, and encourages a more careful exploratory approach. Modern D&D is much more of a tactical combat game than the original, where encounter design is "balanced" based on the assumption that players will be able to kill what they run into.
amp108 commented on Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope   med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/cpncrunch
crtified · 2 years ago
Fun is arguably the best (some might say the only authentic) way to cure depression.
amp108 · 2 years ago
Dancing is arguably the best (some might say the only authentic) way to cure quadriplegia.
amp108 commented on The past is not true   sive.rs/pnt... · Posted by u/swah
metacritic12 · 2 years ago
I think misanthropes aren't being enabled by articles like the above.

Many of them honestly don't care deep down about the damage they do.

Others like Mark Wahlberg just "forgive themselves" for blinding a neighbor as a teen, even if their actual victim doesn't forgive them, so they can feel better about themselves mentally. https://time.com/3623630/mark-wahlberg-pardon/

amp108 · 2 years ago
I don't know what's inside Mark Wahlberg's heart, but let's suppose it's someone whom, for the sake of argument, we know truly regrets their actions: what are they supposed to do if another person doesn't forgive them?
amp108 commented on Failing to draw lines between ‘script’ and ‘program’   utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/ingve
amp108 · 2 years ago
This may be a definition with several edge cases, but I always thought of a program as something that was compiled and run, whereas a script was information you fed into a running program.
amp108 commented on Draculas, Ranked   vulture.com/article/dracu... · Posted by u/signor_bosco
amp108 · 2 years ago
There is no universe in which Klaus Kinski is better than either Max Schreck or Christopher Lee.

There is a universe where Lugosi is better than Lee; just not this one.

amp108 commented on Google's Bard shows incorrect information in its launch ad   twitter.com/IsabelNAngelo... · Posted by u/nofitty376
amp108 · 3 years ago
Apparently someone missed the word "experimental" in the announcement.
amp108 commented on Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit   channel101.fandom.com/wik... · Posted by u/Leftium
nmilo · 3 years ago
It's as good advice as the ABABCB song structure is for writing pop songs. As cliche as they are, you need to understand the rules to know how to break them.
amp108 · 3 years ago
But nobody claims that ABABCB is the only song structure.

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KarmaCake day210November 8, 2016View Original