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2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, and was inspired by Clarke's 1951 short story "The Sentinel" and other short stories by Clarke. Clarke also published a novelisation of the film, in part written concurrently with the screenplay, after the film's release. The film stars Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Douglas Rain and follows a voyage by astronauts, scientists, and the sentient supercomputer HAL to Jupiter to investigate an alien monolith.

The film is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of space flight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous imagery. Kubrick avoided conventional cinematic and narrative techniques; dialogue is used sparingly, and there are long sequences accompanied only by music. The soundtrack incorporates numerous works of classical music, including pieces by composers such as Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss II, Aram Khachaturian, and György Ligeti.

The film received diverse critical responses, ranging from those who saw it as darkly apocalyptic to those who saw it as an optimistic reappraisal of the hopes of humanity. Critics noted its exploration of themes such as human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Kubrick the award for his direction of the visual effects. The film is now widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.

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[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

I’m going to make a crazy post tomorrow. Mods, stand back, and stand by.

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[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

He concluded that Keast – a popular teacher of German... – was “certainly not fit to take 27 boys from the school to Clapham Common, let alone on such a journey to a foreign country.” He claimed it was Keast’s “open dislike” of Germans that had probably led him to feel it would have been “degrading for him to accept a German’s word of advice.”

I sometimes cause myself psychic damage by reading the homepage articles, but this is just too funny. A dude who openly dislikes Germans to the point he got multiple children killed to spite their advice was a checks notes well-liked teacher of the language? I'll never understand the mindset that leads to this.

[-] CDommunist@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

I've hurt people,

robbed people,

killed people, I've done a lot of bad things

But you

You're a monster

Farting directly on the face of an IDF soldier

Even I have limits

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[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

Bit idea: Guys who talk about CEOs of different companies the way my friends and I talk about music and art

[-] blipblip@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

Woke up not totally exhausted wooooo

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

cw: 2001 spoilers, sad robots.

spoilerHAL's last words always make me cry. The voice actor did such a great job of conveying HAL's fear and terror and helplessness, and I think there's something incredibly tragic about HAL's inability to express that emotion due to the limits of his voice synthesizer. Dave's display of compassion as HAL is dying is so different from the usual treatment of the "Evil Robot" trope in SF. While the movie never addresses why HAL did what he did one of the books does offer an explanation. HAL was given two contradictory orders by the higher-ups running the missions, something like "Share all information with the crew and do everything you can to complete the mission" and "Don't tell the crew about the real objectives of the mission". HAL is a computer, computers do exactly what you tell them. HAL had to fulfill the order, and the unresolvable contradiction was driving him mad. His solution was that if the crew was dead he wouldn't be able to tell them everything, and could complete the mission on his own. To me it really heightens the tragedy. HAL had no malice, he wasn't an "evil robot". It was the callousness and foolishness of his handlers, giving him orders without taking his nature and his limits in to his account, that forced his hand.

Also, I just realized how closely "Blindsight" follows the overall structure and some of the themes of 2001.

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[-] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

anyone have good firsthand experiences with the fabled "cool individual DSA chapter that does good work that isn't electoral (despite central leadership being electoralist libs who suck)"? ive flirted with my local chapters on and off for a while and honestly they seem pretty deeply entrenched in electoralism, with a not insignificant undercurrent of left punching toward anyone who is more direct working class power oriented and/or more marxist than dem sosh (with even some unironic "tankie" being thrown around).

guess im looking for any evidence that this is an institution that's worth engaging at all instead of just giving up on... 

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[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago
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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

Okay so, social experiment

First, we creep on someone real hard. We figure out when they go to work, what route they take, where they park, the whole thing.

Then we get an LRAD truck and paint it up to look like an icecream van or something.

Now here's the experiment part. One day, before they go to work, we litter their path to work with like chainsaws, and random suits of body armor, and cooked dinners, and ammunition, an dstuff.

Then, when they get out of their car and start walking to work, the LRAD starts playing E1M1, real loud, focused just on them, and from a long way away so they think the music is just like, happening, for no reason.

And then we see what they do. biden-ok-smart-guy

[-] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

When I stopped drinking too much I started eating a lot of Greek yoghurt. Like, a liter of it a day easily. Often more.

And I just incidentally met someone who recently stopped drinking and they started boasting about how much Greek yoghurt they were eating.

Is this a thing?

[-] Stoatmilk@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Fermenting an idea in my mind for two years until I can drop a take about the "dual character of attractiveness" that is completely incomprehensible to anyone but me

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

I always get annoyed when people write off Haley in SDV for being initially mean to you. like part of the whole point of SDV to me is the hidden depths of these characters so i enjoy getting to know her and her later heart events are great. her 8 heart one is probably the best one in the game actually.

especially since Shane is also initially mean but is mega popular. (though to be fair my friends i played stardew with hated shane the most lmao). id call sexism but probably the LEAST popular candidate is alex lol so its probably not that.

Like admittedly i love mean girls and would love her even if she DIDNT change and stayed mean lmao. i chose her as my marriage choice from the jump lol. not after playing the field and seeing her 8 heart and going "oh ok NOW i love her". but still i dont like how the fanbase treats haley when for me it betrays part of the point of the game.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

What do you call voting on April Fool's Day?

Pranked-choice voting.

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[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Does anyone know if there's any moment where Marx touched up on the observation that without some commitment to equality, a society progressing industriously or technologically is a detriment to most people? The capitalist class just assumes people are richer and raises the price of things, making the poor poorer. Technology makes human workers more obsolete, and since education is more expensive than ever it traps people who get left behind.

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[-] blipblip@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I vaguely remember someone championing jeggings here a while back. If your reading this I have some questions:

Where'd you get them?

Do they come in khaki colors?

Not see through right?

Dick and balls, hurt? Too visible to be work appropriate?

Pockets? Gotta fit phone wallet and keys without using back pockets or my ADHD ass will be sitting on them

My journey to a healthy weight has reached a new milestone, some of my work pants are too tight. Since I've still got a ways to go weight wise I figure something with some stretch would be best so I'm not buying a bunch of pants but I'm only allowed khakis so they'd have to at least look the part, nobody is paying too close attention.

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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

So I've been watching Metallic Rouge the past couple of days and the last episode is tomorrow... Will probably post my thoughts then. Really interested how they'll end it - will this be your average white supremacist parable on slavery, or a milquetoast "happily ever after" tale that magically solves everything at the very end? curious-marx

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[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

thinking about selling my shit that's easy to move and going on one of those last-ditch benders.

what should i do besides drugs and paying someone to hold hands?

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[-] vertexarray@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

I wish I had more patience for trance it's a great genre but I'm so damn picky and it's not an easy genre to root around in. I like to listen to an album with a coherent aesthetic throughline but electronic artists seem to love dropping loosies or compilations

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