You could own a 555-XXXX phone number but Verizon charged you $2,500 to use it

Re:You could own a 555-XXXX phone number but Verizon charged... by throwaway290 on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:47AM (#33596860)

Ah, then there's no need to be intrigued by how WalterBright experiences films. Just remember how you experienced films before you went to film school, or remember how you experience a book or a cartoon (unless you went to book or cartoon school too I guess).

Scenes and cuts, like letters on paper, are the medium. A phone number OTOH is part of the story. Immersion is broken by a badly told story, not the medium.

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Re:You could own a 555-XXXX phone number but Verizon charged... by WalterBright on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:46PM (#33598865)

Going to film school would likely ruin movies for me, as I'd see the man behind the curtain. I used to watch the "making of ..." bonus features, until I realized they'd ruin the movie.

It's like that for video games for me. I used to program them for a job when I was in college. Ever since, when I see a video game, I don't see the game so much as how it is constructed and programmed.

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Re:You could own a 555-XXXX phone number but Verizon charged... by nopenopenopeno on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:54PM (#33598997)

Thanks. This is a good point. I don’t remember experiencing films that way. I actually struggled to even follow storylines in films when I was younger, so I don’t think I ever got immersed as described.

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