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Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 30 minutes ago
Replies: 541
MoFo Fantasy Baseball - 2024 Season
Posted By Yoda
Re: MoFo Fantasy Baseball - 2024 Season

I was surprised by the offer but can't pass on the upside, even though I love Maikel and think he'll probably end up being my best waiver gem. I do worry that something's just suddenly messed up in...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 hour ago
Replies: 18
Sony Pictures CEO Says Studio Will Use AI To Make Movies In "MoreWays"
Posted By Yoda
Re: Sony Pictures CEO Says Studio Will Use AI To Make Movies In "MoreW

I was wondering when someone would broach the idea of accelerationism for art.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 4 hours ago
Replies: 18
Sony Pictures CEO Says Studio Will Use AI To Make Movies In "MoreWays"
Posted By Yoda
Good clarification, thank you. I think this is a...

Good clarification, thank you. I think this is a reasonable position. To whatever degree I am less worried than you, then, is the degree to which I think this (the latter scenario) is less likely to...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 hours ago
Replies: 18
Sony Pictures CEO Says Studio Will Use AI To Make Movies In "MoreWays"
Posted By Yoda
The way these tools are trained raises serious...

The way these tools are trained raises serious ethical questions, to be sure. But that's not germane to what I'm saying.

Given that most of your post is describing all the things about generative...
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
Re: Do you often feel nostalgic?

Plot twist: Steel's the one who's married, and this guy is just saying it's him again.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 8 hours ago
Replies: 18
Sony Pictures CEO Says Studio Will Use AI To Make Movies In "MoreWays"
Posted By Yoda
Re: Sony Pictures CEO Says Studio Will Use AI To Make Movies In "MoreW

If it actually works and is "good" the industry will reshape itself around this, spending more time and resources on the things AI isn't good for/affordable for/whatever. I'm not saying this will be...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 8 hours ago
Replies: 18
Sony Pictures CEO Says Studio Will Use AI To Make Movies In "MoreWays"
Posted By Yoda
Re: Sony Pictures CEO Says Studio Will Use AI To Make Movies In "MoreW

I make, and will continue to make, a massive distinction between cinema as it exists in its best forms and cinema in aggregate, because the latter is a meaningless average weighed down by a whole lot...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 8 hours ago
Replies: 8
Which character introductions do you identify with?
Posted By Yoda
Re: Which character introductions do you identify with?

It's a little glib but I think there's an interesting idea there. Hopefully. :)
Forum: General Movie Discussion 9 hours ago
Replies: 8
Which character introductions do you identify with?
Posted By Yoda
Re: Which character introductions do you identify with?

If the filmmaker does their job: all of them.
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 10 hours ago
Replies: 142
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Posted By Yoda
My man David Hume already figured this out for...

My man David Hume already figured this out for us. Google "is-ought problem."


You're switching back and forth between arguing from the perspective of the viewer, which is how this started, and...
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 10 hours ago
Replies: 142
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Posted By Yoda
Re: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

When someone spends more time talking about how wrong something is than they do actually explaining why it's wrong, I think of that as a red flag.
Forum: Birthdays and Introductions 1 day ago
Replies: 3
Happy Anniversary MonnoM!
Posted By Yoda
Happy Anniversary. :)

Happy Anniversary. :)
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
This coincidentally popped up in one of my feeds...

This coincidentally popped up in one of my feeds just now:

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Summary: the time people think is the best, in aggregate, is generally whatever year they were between 11-16. Which I think fits...
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
Re: Do you often feel nostalgic?

I really wanna dig into that but it's the kind of statement nobody can reply to without breaking the rules, so I guess I won't/can't.

If anybody fancies a private conversation about metaphysics...
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
Yeah, it gets thorny when it's a really big...

Yeah, it gets thorny when it's a really big thing. Not remembering which person in your family said or did something (particularly if you were all kids) is one thing. Misremembering whether you...
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
I actually have a specific story relating to this...

I actually have a specific story relating to this I can share.

Years ago I was playing a board game, a word guessing kind of game, with some friends. Me and my teammate had a particularly good...
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
Yep, people will sometimes hear a story and years...

Yep, people will sometimes hear a story and years later act like it happened to them. And it's not always dishonest, sometimes they really think it did. Usually nothing quite that dramatic, of...
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
Just making sure! Yes, it is observably true...

Just making sure!

Yes, it is observably true in many anecdotal cases. People remember playing such-and-such game with their family and it hadn't even come out yet, people remember something about...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 2 days ago
Replies: 223
Poll: Next countdown vote (May '24)
Posted By Yoda
Re: Next countdown vote (May '24)

Thursday and I need to work out a few things, figure out if there's going to be a co-host, etc. Though obviously you guys can start watching musicals whenever you want.
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
I'm confused by this question because it sounds...

I'm confused by this question because it sounds like a response to the other stuff I said, in this post (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=2463490#post2463490) about false...
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
Yeah, I think the degree to which people are...

Yeah, I think the degree to which people are freaked is largely the degree to which they obsess over fuzzy notions of identity as a thing that just exists in the ether, instead of a simple accounting...
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
Re: Do you often feel nostalgic?

There's some similarity, though the key difference is that the Mandela effect is about shared false memories and not personal formative ones. And it's usually incidental changes rather than ones...
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
Re: Do you often feel nostalgic?

Yeah at this point it's well understood that people's memories are a mix of actual memories and things they've heard describe to them, or things they think they would have thought/done based on their...
Replies: 51
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Yoda
Re: Do you often feel nostalgic?

One of the defining characteristics of nostalgia is that it is, to some degree, false. It remembers certain things and not others, or, if based in youth, is specifically remembering a time where we...
Forum: Birthdays and Introductions 2 days ago
Replies: 16
Happy Birthday Cricket!
Posted By Yoda
Happy Birthday. :)

Happy Birthday. :)

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