[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If violence doesn’t further the plot then it shouldn’t be in there either.

A lot of action movies would be very short. My poor kung fu movies would need to be cut down to about 15 minutes. Why can't we sometimes just have gratuitous things for the fun of it? Not everything needs to be high art.

We’re just tired of stupid shit like the mid-life threatening event romance scene. The timer on the bomb is literally counting down and they take the time to profess their love and it’s not a comedy so I’m the asshole for laughing in the theater.

I don't think that's an inherent problem with sex/nudity/romance, the problem is just bad filmmaking. With good writing/acting/directing/editing that exact cliche' scenario you describe could be done in such a way as to be genuinely funny, or touching, or sexy.

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 9 points 3 weeks ago

"He was a guest on the February 7, 2011 show"

Surely BTN or some other torrent tracker has that episode. I'll look it up after work and report back.

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 8 points 1 month ago

Setting up a matrix server was a god damn nightmare for me. I eventually got it working but I hit pretty much every conceivable obstacle along the way. Getting the config file just right, the networking, the federation, the coturn server, getting end users to understand they need to backup their keys....

I'm sure it'd be easier for a Linux pro but I was in way over my head. Only got it working through stubbornness and help from the community.

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Does its job well. I would be pretty goddamn intimidated if I was facing someone wearing this in battle.

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 8 points 6 months ago

Ranked voting should really be at the top of our priority list. Would allow more than 2 parties to be viable and give progressives a real chance to distinguish themselves from the neolibs.

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 11 points 7 months ago

That's a high quality gif

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 6 points 1 year ago

It's been satisfying watching my configuration.yaml file shrink over the years as more and more things get handled by the UI.

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't want porn. I want art to stop awkwardly excluding a major part of life.

"Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny." It's like movies these days are all set in this weird Twilight Zone world where sexuality just isn't a thing. I find this far creepier than the gratuitous sex scenes of the 80s.

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 9 points 1 year ago

Always bugged the shit out of me that he actually says "mother freaking" in that scene

Completely ruined my suspension of disbelief and I still cringe when remembering it.

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 11 points 1 year ago

"As far as you are concerned"

Correction: "as far as anyone else is concerned."

Consciousness IS continuity. If you are disentigrated and a perfect clone pops up somewhere to replace you... you died. Your current stream of consciousness ended and a perfect copy replaced you.

As far as all external observers are concerned it's still you. But from your own perspective? Well you won't have one anymore, you'll be dead.

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 7 points 1 year ago

Yes we do. Carbon tax.

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 11 points 1 year ago

No shit it's not private. This is the digital equivalent of shouting on a soapbox in public and then getting pissed if someone records or remembers it.

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