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>To say "good riddance" to Hollywood scares me
It should only scare you if you are ignorant.
>very few mediums have thusly pierced through across cultures and societies quite like Hollywood
This is laughable if you look at video games and music EVEN if you ignore everything american. Not mention Asia from Bollywood to Kpop to anime to HK cinema.
I watch a film every single day since Covid. There are great films everywhere every year. I'm not american but the sooner you ignore the american cultural imperialism is the better (or at least the films that don't premiere at competition festivals). There is a whole world outside of America.
I follow a lot of japanese accounts on Twitter. Idols, vtubers, actors, sport teams, sumo news, pro mahjong scene, artists, mangaka, streamers, goverment agencies etc. They don't use anything else but Twitter, maybe Facebook. I can move away but what I _want to_ follow is still there.
Maybe we need regional microblogging services so people would be incentivized to use them, maybe China was right all along
I'm not sure and that's a good question but after a point it was a principle of saving them rather than caring them about. Probably a digital hoarding attitude.
No! It would be easier but I burned myself so many times with removed videos that I do it on my own basically asap manually. Not a big deal once you have yt-dlp properly
I actually do! I have a perpetual VLC playlist which plays those videos randomly if I need some background noise.
I use yt-dlp (and back then youtube-dl) all the time to archive my liked videos. Started back in around 2010, now I have tens of thousands of videos saved. Storage is cheap and a huge percent of them are not available anymore on the site.
I also save temporary videos removed after a time for example NHK honbasho sumo highlights which are only available for a month or so then they permanently remove them.
Honestly there are just too many good ones, I could give a list of at least 50 films I'd recommend without any hesitation at all. But I try to watch as little Hollywood as possible, mostly asian and european cinema.
Right now I'd say Tokyo Story (1953) is the best film I've ever seen.
Yeah I could never really get into any TV show at all for this very reason
>so many films, so little time
I've started watching one film every day 3 years ago. Much less time investment than one would imagine. It all comes down to finding a good system to plan what to watch not just sit down and have an analysis paralysis. Once (after a few months) I’ve figured out my current plan where I _have to_ watch certain films it became incredibly easy to keep up.
I’m on liraglutide (Saxenda) for more than a year now. I lost 68kg (150lbs) and incredibly easy to maintain my weight. I’m doing OMAD (1/23 intermittent fasting) and for me it’s pretty much the perfect meal plan. Not even a diet because I eat whatever I want, just roughly counting calories. My daily exercise is 1 hour walking in the morning and the evening too (~20k steps combined)
£350, I just realized I'm poor
Can’t wait to watch anime with AI generated subs, it will be a beautiful trainwreck.
Watched it for the first time today.
Horny men + women being the butt of every single joke. As if it was written by a horny teenage boy. Sure it’s the product of its time but it’s for the good “they don't make films like that anymore”
I'm on Saxenda for 3 months now (basically Gen 1 of the same GLP-1 drug, Ozempic being the Gen 2, both made by Novo Nordisk).
The hunger suppression is real and what's intersting that this is the first time I've felt that I'm "not in control of my thoughts". Of course it's my own decision to take the drug is not about that. But I'm not hungry anymore, I don't binge eat anymore, and I generally don't enjoy food as before. Like even if I have my favorite foods it's just an OK experience. It's like I'm eating because I know I need energy to live but otherwise it's totally gone as the "main focus" from my daily life (which was my main eating disorder)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Nemā-ye nazdīk [Close-up] (1990)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Kimi no Na wa. (2016)
Contrary to everyone I think it was pretty mediocre. The significance of the book is barely covered and the contents of it are not mentioned at all. The story itself is dancing around the “message of the book” and how it prevails over everything (see the allegory with the abbey’s wall) but somehow they just never say it’s the four Gospels of the New Testament which are the most important texts of Christianity. If you don’t know what the Book of Kells _really is_ then what’s left from the film itself? Not so much just a generic fantasy story.
>Two previous games, Divinity: Original Sin and Original Sin II, “worth of tech and institutional knowledge to draw from”
I wish there were more games like the 1st Divinity Original Sin. Personally one of the best humour and writing in a game I'v ever played. Very laid back and down to earth, and not taking itself very seriously (considering the fantasy cRPG genre)
Original Sin 2 is good, actually better, but it's more mature and more dark, totally changed the tone from the first game
Desktop: Windows 10 LTSC (honestly people should use this if Windows, it's perfect)
Laptop: Debian
Since about 2005 only listen to mix shows because to me that became the best way to find new music in a curated way. Radio 1's Essential Mix just perfect in every single way for example
Meanwhile there are countless games from AAAs to indies that are Steam or Epic Games exclusives but I guess that's also okay for whatever reason. Just because I can install multiple stores on my PC that doesn't make it better when it's locked in to one store.
Eh as a gamer I don't like this. Unlike the majority of HN I don't hate MS, they have quality stuff as far as gaming goes. Blizzard on the other hand sucks so much nowadays, they ruined Overwatch, the whole Diablo Immortal fiasco, what they did with WoW Classic etc. And not even talking about the whole employee harassment scandal. They lost their ways long time ago. If anything I'd rather see them under MS.
Posted by
bdz on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:03PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I play an online mahjong game where users doesn't have passwords. You only need an email account and whenever you want to login you get a one-time code to your email address https://i.imgur.com/RI0PqP3.pngThe whole thing... just make more sense? This is nothing special though, just a regular site but not having a password feels more straightforward.
+1 for Riichi mahjong. My favorite one.
On the other hand when I tell to asian people that I play mahjong some of them are hmm looking me at like some lunatic because they instantly think about gambling. Like "hey that's a gambler's game you shouldn't play that" etc. But I never did purely picked up as a board game and I love it.
No but you can't compare it.
Tomb Raider loads a pre-rendered scene that is the same every single time you start the benchmark thus you can compare it across systems. That's the point of it and hence became a staple alongside with other games (some games are even notorious about it because that's their only use case [0])
WoW doesn't have anything like that. And everything can affect the frame rate from the mobs in the zone, the weather, the unique players with unique transmog, the raids are different every single time etc.
It's not just loading the game and there you have X framerate and that's the score, that's not a benchmark.
0, https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/01/the-game-thats-more-known-...
Tomb Raider is only relevant in this discussion because it has a very detailed and fine built-in benchmark system. Not every game does have that (like neither WoW or Baldur's Gate 3)
It's not about PC gaming though, more like the consoles. Apple can absolutely disrupt the market of Sony and MS (not so much of Nintendo). The MSRP of PS5 and Xbox are $399/$499, if Apple can target this segment they would have a field day. The Apple TV already exist and maybe not now but 1-2-3 years down the line they can fit the next generation M1 Ultra there.
BUT you need a very strong game back catalog (see the PS exclusive games and the GamePass on Xbox which is a killer deal). I'm not sure Apple is willing to go that far, just by judging their Apple TV exclusive line up for example compared to Netflix and Amazon. To me it seems they rather have the iOS games on the Mac than have actual AAA games on the Mac. But that might change in the future, who knows.
In the end it's all wishful thinking (or not) but I'm pretty sure competition is only good for the consumer market.