Look, if you invited me for a film where random lemmy-users read constitutions, I would fucking memorize that shit so that I could do it with my eyes closed. Old cursive sucks to read, and I definitely can’t read it as fast as I can talk… but come on.
but 36 seems like such a big age; I remember him turning 30 & now he’s almost 40 years old. Time flies by too fast.
I’m in this post and I really don’t like it
I have a completely different view on this.
I HATE when we take a “camera perspective” instead of an “eye perspective”. I don’t like exaggerated contrast, because that’s what cameras do, not what eyes do. The world doesn’t look like that, unless you view it through a camera. For the same reason, I can’t stand lens-flares and I’m really not a fan of focus-shifts unless they’re natural. I don’t like abberation, because my eyes don’t do that. Motion blur is even worse, and having it absolutely minimized is preferable. It’s especially bad when first-person videogames do it, and then add film-grain on top. I don’t understand why films are still mostly shot at 24fps, I love the rare few films that are shown at 60fps. It’s basically the only redeeming feature of the new Avatar movie.
I don’t want to see someone work a camera, I want to see the scene. That doesn’t mean I like grey, because the world has a TON of colour, but it also doesn’t mean I like the unrealistically high contrasts.
The reverse isn’t much better. I’m Dutch, and if you go to Indonesia, outside the cities there will often be people pointing out what awesome things the Dutch built “for them”. It’s super weird when the people your country exploited and abused start thanking you.
Indonesian person: "Oh, the town well, yeah the Dutch built that for us, but we can’t maintain it, so now we walk down to the other well to get water. The Dutch were so nice to us. "
My brain: “Yeah, I can see how that totally makes up for a century and a half of murderously harsh exploitation and killing 200.000 indonesians when you tried to be independant”
My mouth: “Oh, that’s… nice?”
Now, I get that everything the Dutch did kinda gets snowed under compared to what the Japanese and the Americans did in the span of a few decades, but I grew up when our history books moved from a half-page “And then there were some police actions in the East Indies, and suddenly there was Indonesia” and towards a somewhat more realistic picture.
I’ve had missing children reports at large fantasy events and they would be 40% “Bobby is wearing a black shirt with a knight costume and plastic sword”, 40% Anna is wearing a pink dress and scarf, with a magic wand".
Reeeeeally narrows it down!
The other ones would be hyper specific outfits and only the fans know, like “Joey is dressed like Flognip the Enmagicer from Flognip visits the Elves”.
Shitty people raise shitty dogs. Other shitty people see this and want a dog that “looks badass” and proceed to raise more shitty dogs. Of course, nobody will step forward and tell you that they raised a shitty dog, so you really can’t properly study this in a large group experiment.