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ok so clearly we still have the ability to make great looking shows and movies either in stark black and white or vivid color, and they are just choosing not to do that

>>47846
this is just a regular film with a greyscale filter slapped on it instead of a film actually working around the limitations of not having color

Currently watching Person of Interest tv-series. First two seasons are kinda meh but it gets better in season 3 when a competing AI comes online.

>>47847
It's a series (this is the TV thread lol), and they shot it in black and white then did a color conversion. They used old school hard lighting and actual lenses vintage lenses.

I'm watching the three body problem (chinese) and it's kind of funny that the question that is making all these people lose their minds is basically "but what if science… wasn't real?"

just watched badlands starring martin sheen. pretty good movie, martin sheen's character is a very cool guy and i hope i can be more like him someday.

I really enjoyed Buddy, but that’s because I had edibles and drank a decent amount of liquor before watching

Watched the Irish horror movie The Hallow the other night. *nglish couple move to the Irish countryside because the husband is some kind of botanist or something surveying this Irish forest the government wants to sell off. The locals are against it for what seem like superstitious reasons and are generally vaguely hostile to the couple.

The movie's messages seem a little confused but it's fun and genuinely scary in parts. I'd give it a solid B rating I suppose, where it's not mind blowing or anything but if you're looking for something scary to watch for spooky season you probably won't be disappointed.

The new resident evil movie was pretty good.

>>48059
watch it you might be seeing the next big adult swim IP since smiling friends

>>48103
Subscribed

Slow runneth the course of time
Which in this our hour of fall
Leaves little but dread decay.
The youth decry its passage
Whilst infirm age meets it
With well seasoned glee.
Is this our purpose?
This our fate?
That the old shall wither
And by kin youth create?

>>48056
>>48055
A character I'm working on

Feedback appreciated

Are there repository websites less infested with AI than others?
Lately it feels like I'm reading the same thing over and over again, the same fucking expressions, the same OOC non sequitur banter disregarding the situation at hand. And the thing that actually hurts si following fics for a while and noticing the exact moment the author gives up and tasks the bot to keep the story running.

>>48054
>>48055
>>48056
This is magnificent. I was filled with envy in my simplicity when I first read it.
I'll post some of my writing here when my website host is setup.

>>48098
I only have one small and simple short story posted so far. A longer short story is currently in the works.

https://the-flower-is-awaring.statichost.page/

Worf is a really interesting character. He's a Klingon that knows nothing about Klingons except what he learns through the lens of the federation. So on the one hand, he learns all the rules to being a klingon, but none of the exceptions to the rules, and he ends up becoming the most Klingon Klingon.

What I mean is his main narrative arc in TNG involves him colliding head on with the contradictions of Klingon society. He's internalized a rigid, highly inflexible code of honor that other Klingons kind of respect but also find pretty bewildering. He's willing to take discommendation in service of the empire when it's strongly implied that no other Klingon would be willing to. At the same thing, it's recognized that this honorable act is in service of covering up another house's dishonor. Eventually it all leads to a civil war, which instead of purifying the empire only solidifies these contradictions, which Worf also finds incomprehensible, as highlighted by the scene when he's in a bar with his brother Kern, whose busy drinking with warriors from the enemy faction.

It's also pretty interesting how Worf ends up becoming what is probably the most important Klingon of the century. He participates and ends up deciding two separate succession crises by killing corrupt chancellors and even restores the office of the emperor, before putting his own adoptive house in the position of the chancellorship.

It's a shame that none of this was really followed up on post ds9. Worf single handedly positioned himself to rejuvenate the dying Klingon empire, and all that was killed in its crib by the tng movies and abramslop.

>>48033
Jj abrams doesn't get enough hate

The fat men are back to talk about TOS.

So what's going on lately in the world of marvel and dc

>>47110
Marvel - Hiterlite cringe stuff in cap book as usual

Spider-man #1000 coming up, MJ is Venom

Thor is a mortal again with amensia and uses a sling and hammer as his weapons (Peak by Ewing)

X-Men, same old same old

DC is killing it with Absolute line
Marvel's Ultimate line is coming to an end, other than Ultimates, nothing has been consistently good

>>47110
Absolute is okay-to-good, everything else is crap.
Begging people to read non-Big 2 stuff, the medium needs to be set free.

>>33534
I'm only three years late to this post so allow me to shed some timely light because I thought this was an interesting question that I'm somewhat prepared to give an answer to. The more complex answer than just "psychedelics" is that 50s-70s comics artists were part of a much broader cultural shift that involved modernist art trends seeping into popular culture. Artists who reached their artistic maturation in this period were studying art in a world where cubism, futurism, abstractionism, etc. were no longer controversial new waves but well-established languages, and the new guys weren't just going on to become gallery painters but a lot of them became designers, commercial illustrators, etc. And then pop art did a lot to accelerate this shift. Those guys weren't necessarily the ones who became comic artists, but they helped diffuse these ideas into the mainstream. And this was also happening at a time where nuclear physics, computers, SETI, the space race, etc. created a real "wonders of science" zeitgeist that also begged for new ways to visualize it in a way that properly conveyed its power, strangeness and excitement. I think this is what makes Kirby a truly epochal artist: he more than the writers he worked with turned superhero comics into a reflection of this zeitgeist.
I'll also note that comic artists have always been on the lookout for formal ways to communicate movement and power on the page instead of just drawing things as they would "seem". For a long time this was the influence of cinema, and before that it was Art Nouveau. So the necessary pull towards "weird" non-literal visually challenging art was always part of the medium.
All of this harmonizes very well with psychedelic culture and in Ditko's case there's the explicit influence of mysticism and such as well, but it's more of a shared heritage that was affecting everything, rather than direct influence of LSD. This is why the intuition that something must have been "in the water" was partly correct and the answers saying "they just imagined it duh" are kind of misleading. But I don't think any of the important 60s Marvel artists took psychedelics or cared about counterculture. Stan did later make an infamous attempt to cash in on underground comix, and the people who came after were a lot more hip to new trends and probably brought in some deliberate influence from psyPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

How do you go through life hearing people speak and not develop the ear for AI voices? i'm no musician, it's just painfully obvious When A Voice Is Stilted And Has The Cadence Of A Cardboard Standee

>>48092
no, sometimes it's nice to listen to someone talk about something boring. like that popular guy who makes videos about the infrastructure in open world games. is this a subject anyone actually particularly cares about? would you think it's riveting conversation if one of your friends started talking to you about night city's power grid? no, but that's not the point.
also, if the interest is in the subject and not the form, why not listen to someone who actually knows their shit instead of random online fucks? you could download an audiobook of a single good classic on criticism or aesthetics and become way more educated about media than you would from every video essay you've ever watched.

>>48094
Sometimes it's nice to listen to someone talk about something interesting.

>>48091
>they're just a really basic, streamlined form of entertainment that asks nothing of the viewer

i don't understand people's sense of self-importance these days. on one hand they think that watching a movie or an episode of a tv show is way too much to ask of them, like as if they are the president of the world bank or something and their time is just far too valuable to risk wasting on such a risky endeavor, but they also think that listening to someone bloviate about a movie or tv show on a youtube video for an hour while they play videogames is a worthwhile use of their time.

something tells me it's not really about the movie or the tv show asking too much of the viewer, it's more about the viewer having some extremely compulsive consumptive habits that they can't abide deviating from. it's like a heroin addict not being able to watch a long movie in a theater because it asks too much of him, he can't sit in a theater for 3 hours without shitting his pants or throwing up or running off to the restroom to get high and then nodding off and missing the rest of the movie.

>>48093
What if it's an AI script read by a human

>>48076
That’s why 40K is an irrelevant series. military shooters like CoD/Battlefield/MoH and even Helldivers are even more irrelevant.

>>48072
The real answer is that most authors are hacks and don't really think about this shit, they're just copying Star Wars.

>>48082
This is the same retardation as >>48076 but in the other direction. If le epic male warrior psychology was the way it's described here the rebels wouldn't be nearly as popular as they factually are. Instead of trying to understand human behavior by overanalyzing 21st century pop culture maybe go read actual history.

>>48083
>rebels wouldn't be nearly as popular as they factually are
except they aren't, not even 1/10th popular as the stormtropppers.

None of those forces are historically progressive, but the setting itself is possessed by the Spirit of Historical Progress which is acting through them.

The maesters. They orchestrated both the Dance and Robert's Rebellion. Wake up sheeple!