Pons_Aelius
@Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
- Comment on Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series 8 months ago:
We don't talk about Fight Club...
- Comment on FX Miniseries ‘Shōgun’ Is the Most Transportive TV Epic Since ‘Game of Thrones’: TV Review 8 months ago:
The author, James Clavell wrote 6 novels set in Asia that span 400-ish years. Shogun - 1600 to the last set in the 1990s.
Shogun is one of the best but they are all worth a read.
- Comment on Spartacus (1960) 8 months ago:
Watched this for Stanley Kubrick, following his filmography for a while and his ambiguous portrayal amused me.
While Kubrick directed Spartacus, Kubrick himself did not consider it was a Kubrick Movie.
He did not control the script. He had no control over the production or the final cut. The original director was fired from the production and Kubrick was brought in on the suggestion of Kirk Douglas as they had worked together three years before on Paths of Glory.
While the finished product is excellent. IIRC Kubrick hated being a gun for hire and the studio meddling in the production was a big reason that he never worked on another film without having full control of the production.
- Comment on Linda Hamilton says she wouldn't star in a 'Terminator' reboot: 'It's been done to death' 8 months ago:
Am I the only one who thinks T2 was the last good film in this series?
Since then it has disappeared up it's own arse the time lines and stories are so ridiculous.
- Comment on Denis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’ 9 months ago:
I understand not wanting to continue and how hard translating God Emperor to the screen would be but I wish he would give it a go.
As @chaogomu said, Dune Messiah completes Paul;s story arc but the comparison between Paul's unwillingness to take the golden path and Leto's acceptance of it could be a great thing to see.
Paul cling to his humanity and billions died in his name, Leto sacrificed it and changed the destiny of the humans race.
- Comment on Denis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’ 9 months ago:
a series on the Butlerian Jihad would be pretty fucken sweet I think
I thought that as well and so gave the prequels a try.
I’ve never read the prequels either,
Honestly, that was for the best. The writing was ok but a pale shadow of the original. (think the film version of LOTR vs The Hobbit...)
- Comment on Follow me for more health and fitness tips 11 months ago:
Lies: It takes at least an hour to carbonise like that...
- Comment on You'll never guess the most popular internet country code 11 months ago:
I never know (or care) because this bullshit clickbait title makes me never want to watch this.
- Comment on Could we send electric data across time? 11 months ago:
And you wouldn't have to reverse causality to travel backwards in time. You would just have to travel faster than the speed of light.
Another term for the speed of light is the speed of causality as it is the rate with which causality propagates through the universe.
Traveling faster than the speed of light is, by definition, reversing causality.
- Comment on why am I told that I'm a child on the internet?? I'm 20!! 11 months ago:
I feel that reference is older than they are and so will be lost on them.
- Comment on What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? - Minute Earth are working together with xkcd to animate "What If" questions! 11 months ago:
Did you watch the video?
The tracking problems Hubble would have imaging the earth surface are a direct guide to what differences the design would be.
- Comment on What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? - Minute Earth are working together with xkcd to animate "What If" questions! 11 months ago:
Not really. Hubble is set up to image objects light years away and moving relatively slowly.
Keyhole stats as set up to image the earth's surface that is only hundreds/thousands km away and moving quite fast.
Two different missions would lead to two different designs.
- Comment on In the last 1000 years we have not advanced as a species. We are just as tribal, dogmatic and reactionary as we always were. Given that scientists are people too, will science save us? 11 months ago:
Yes but the change is not permanent. It dies with you.
All you would need is for the change not to be passed on to the next generation and all that progress is lost.
We currently spend decades passing on that knowledge to each child.
If that ever stops, the progress disappears in one generation.
- Comment on In the last 1000 years we have not advanced as a species. We are just as tribal, dogmatic and reactionary as we always were. Given that scientists are people too, will science save us? 11 months ago:
You are not going far enough back. We are genetically the same as humans for ~75,000 years ago. To all intents and purposes we are ice age hunters with smart phones.
will science save us?
Honestly, no. We have known about climate change and the dangers it poses for at least 50 years but we have done basically nothing.
Science is just informing us how screwed modern civilisation is over the next 100 years.
- Comment on Apocalypse Then: 40 Years Ago, A TV Movie Saved the World from Nuclear Annihilation 11 months ago:
While The Day After was shocking, it stopped too soon. As bad as the few days after would be that is not the real tragedy of a full nuke exchange.
The BBC made Threads about the same time and it did not stop The Day After but continued to show the after effects for decades to come.
If you are only going to watch one of these, watch Threads but be warned, you will have trouble sleeping the night after you watch it. Not because it is gory and graphic but because its subdued documentary style makes it all too real.
Threads will stay wtih you for weeks after as you contemplate that while the cold war has been over for decades, the nukes are still in their silos ready to make Threads even today.
- Comment on Propagandists love this simple trick 11 months ago:
Who are you calling You People?...
- Comment on on youtube how do I downvote an ad? or how do i tell youtube that "hey this ad is not something I want to see?" I know ad blockers don't work on youtube anymore but how do I tweek what ads i do see? 11 months ago:
How many of these hundreds of creators do you support now?
Your patreon bill must be huge.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
As far as I understand it, the instance you are on decides the level of federation.
ie: If you post on lemmy.world ever instance it federates with will see it.
If you cannot find an instance that only federates with other instances that you want, the only way to achieve that is to create your own instance.
I may be wrong, but that is my understanding.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 11 months ago:
Machete
crossbow
body armour
night-vision.
Stealth, protection and silent defence.
- Comment on Christopher Nolan Calls Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ a Film ‘Ahead of Its Time’: It Should Have Been Released Post-‘Avengers’ 11 months ago:
How far back do you want to take it?
Lascaux paved the way for superhero movies!
- Comment on Christopher Nolan Calls Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ a Film ‘Ahead of Its Time’: It Should Have Been Released Post-‘Avengers’ 11 months ago:
No Barman (Adam West) paved the way for superhero movies.
- Comment on Are we living through the end of an empire? 11 months ago:
Christians have believed the rapture would happen in life time since the crucifixion...
It is basic narcissism.
I am so special that I cannot conceive the world will continue without me, therefore it must end in my lifetime.
- Comment on Are we living through the end of an empire? 11 months ago:
I thought the rapture was not the fall but just the beginning of a century or so of torment for those sinners left on earth.
Maybe the rapture has already happened and so few people left that nobody noticed and this is the century of torment...
- Comment on Are we living through the end of an empire? 11 months ago:
Maybe but also factor in that people have been predicting the downfall of the USA since the 1960s.
- Comment on What happens when you try to buy a $1M domain? 11 months ago:
Yep. I don't think overdrawing accounts has been possible in my country (Aus) for at least 30 years.
- Comment on Hidden comments? 11 months ago:
Have you blocked any users?
You won't see their comments
- Comment on this is a threat 11 months ago:
Good thing I am not a dog.
- Comment on Will an earlier Oscars broadcast attract more viewers? ABC plans to try the 7 p.m. slot in 2024 11 months ago:
That depends, is Will warming up his slapping hand again?
- Comment on Jingle Bells, Batman sme... 11 months ago:
Olfactory fatigue, also known as odor fatigue, olfactory adaptation, and noseblindness, is the temporary, normal inability to distinguish a particular odor after a prolonged exposure to that airborne compound
- Comment on What happens when you try to buy a $1M domain? 11 months ago:
Yes...I have some purchases I would like to make.
I am definitely good to pay you back and will not declare bankruptcy. Promise.