You’re not wrong, but anyone who leaves shit like this or the stupid church dollars as a tip is a special kind of asshole.

That was the point.

That’s actually a great movie, and it’s probably one of my most watched DVDs.

It’s some of the best early mo-cap cgi in cinema history. Photorealistic without diving into the uncanny valley.

And storyline is very engaging. It hits poignant notes about pacifism, environmentalism and reincarnation without coming off as preachy or condescending.

In the theater? Boogie Nights.

My friend and I didn’t know a goddamn thing about Paul Thomas Anderson when we went to the premiere. All we knew was that Heather Graham got naked in this movie about porn stars. We’d both had massive crushes on Heather ever since License to Drive… A crush which was only strengthened by her appearance in Swingers.

It turned out that the great nudity was only a bonus to what ended up being an amazing film with brilliant performances from everyone… INCLUDING Marky Mark. My friend and I ended up going to see Boogie Nights on the big screen close to 20 times. It helped that I had just gotten a job as an usher at a theater when the movie got it’s second run, so we could see it for free. It also became a point of local pride since PTA was North East Ohio television royalty, and my friend and I wanted to follow in his footsteps

Back in the days of 35mm film, movies were delivered to theaters in individual reels. A typical movie would be five to seven reels long.

It was my Thursday job to tape all the reels together into one long piece of film for the Friday premier. I’d also have to build the trailer packs, add cues for lights down/up… just generally make sure that the movie would work as it’s supposed to.

For reference, you see that platter of film in the OP picture? That platter was delivered in chunks, and building the print is putting all those chunks together to make a complete movie.

I’d absolutely do an AMA if there were a mechanism to do so.

They’ll do their own research and make their own well informed, reasonable conclu…

Sorry, I can’t keep that bullshit up.

Most groups will move their goalposts as far as they need to in order to make the new reality fit their narrative. They won’t actually change their minds about anything here on earth.

Other groups will start attacking the sources of the new information. The weaker will simply question the facts, like they did during the pandemic. There will also probably be a more militant arm, physically attacking telescopes and sources of extraterrestrial information like Gary Busey’s son did in Contact.

A few will embrace the knowledge that there is intelligent life outside our planet… and immediately start preparing missionary trips to spread the word of their upcoming redemption like some kind of latter day Prior of the Ori.

A very small group will see this as the truth it is… that their accepted view of reality isn’t correct, that maybe they should rethink things.

In short, we can absolutely depend on the religious to ruin things for everyone else, just like always.

But seriously, we should also be hopeful that whatever intelligent life we may possibly discover doesn’t have their own problems with religion… because that will not end well for anyone.

Directors that film on Imax generally still have a hard on for physical film.

Not that I blame them. I ran movie theaters for 20 years and while I really did appreciate how much easier my job was after we went digital, I legitimately missed working projection booth shifts when it was all film. Threading and starting two dozen projectors all day long and building prints, it was some of the most fun I ever had at a job. It was really zen, just you and the machines.

You’re not wrong.

it’s not earth that’s the trouble, it’s the people that live on it.

Good bot.

We really are just the universe experiencing itself subjectively.

So much of the dialog is Deadwood is absolutely brilliant, but one scene really stuck with me.

“Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man — and give some back.”

Ian McShane deserved an Emmy for his work as Al Swearengen. That slow stare at the end of the scene alway kills me. I know it’s supposed to be a drama, but they really go for some laughs.

There was a guy who started a personal website back in like 96 or 97. He basically posted his scans and screencaps of celebrity nudity. He also opened a celebrity nudity message board that he built from scratch. The board thrived. It became a hub for all the superstars in the “celebrity imaging” internet community. All the guys from all the best IRC channels would premier their work on this site. Eventually he expanded into a celebrity nudity database. He wrote scripts that would scrape Usenet, IRC and a slew of other resources for new pictures of famous women in various states of undress. Each image was meticulously cataloged, indexed and tagged. The entire thing was an amazing bit of engineering. He was a literal pioneer in the wild west that was late 90’s internet. Mr Skin LITERALLY got his start on this man’s board. The database was huge, and it ran smooth as butter. He eventually changed to a subscription model where you pay by the gig. I don’t know how much he charged, because he grandfathered all the regulars and old schoolers in for life.

He could have gone the Mr. Skin route and partnered up with sponsors, put banner ads on every single page, he could have asked me to actually pay for my membership… And he would have made a shit load of money in the process. But he didn’t.

For almost 25 years he ran the site, personally cataloging every new image that was added every day. He closed it down this past November. And it really hit me just how rare a place like that is these days.

That’s what I miss about the old internet, when people did things for fun, to share information, to connect… and they had integrity.

I can’t wait to be one of the “I was part of the great Reddit migration” dudes when this lemmy stuff inevitably goes tits up in 15 years.

Real Shittymorph or not, the very fact that someone is trying makes me believe that everything will be okay.

I’ve used this specific nick for 20 something years, it’s a variation on my original nick “Lingo”. The “h0e” part was from #bluelight, back when bluelight had an IRC server. One random day those of us in the channel dubbed ourselves the chat hoes. Being the l33t kids we were, it quickly became ch4th0e. We started referring to each other by adding “h0e” onto our existing nicks. I became lingh0e.

That was over two decades ago. I was an aggressive asshole when I first started using it. I keep it because I like to remind myself that I’m a better, nicer person now… but that cynical asshole is still a part of me.

Yeah, no. There’s no complex or embarrassment here. I really don’t give a shit what anyone else thinks about my pale weird legs. It’s just personal preference. I’ve never been much for short pants.

But I absolutely, unironically appreciate your word salad at the end there. Masterful writing.

I agree with your overall sentiment, but I’m good keeping my ugly knees and hairy legs covered.

That’s the beauty of most tech based work. The actual labor isn’t “real” and associated costs are whatever the market will bear.

I worked for a photography studio that did almost all of the school photography work in NE Ohio. I was paid a pittance in relation to the profits the owner was raking in.

One of my primary responsibilities was cleaning up school rosters… removing duplicate entries, spelling errors, non-printing characters etc.

They had us going through the rosters manually doing this work. I made a suite of Excel scripts and macros that automated 97% of the work. I took work that would have taken 60-120 minutes to complete and literally made it a try 2 minute job. My boss used this as an opportunity to increase his prices and fire me for an unrelated mistake that I didn’t even make.

This is the same boss who tried to give me advice when I turned 40 by saying “a man’s boat should never be less in footage than his age”. Because apparently every 40 year old has the ability to buy not only A SINGLE PLEASURE BOAT, but is able to buy a new pleasure boat every year that is a single foot longer.

This is the same boss who only hired “temporary” staff through a series of dubious sources, so he didn’t have any actual staff and never had to pay insurance or any other kind of benefits.

And yet when these greedy fucks can’t stop their turnover it’s our fault for not wanting to work for these people.

Would it help to start liking/subscribing to videos that specifically debunk those kinds of conspiracy videos? Or, at the very least, demonstrate rational concepts and critical thinking?