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I would say the acting is pretty good. Especially Alec Newman playing Paul. The weakest one I always thought was the actress playing Chani but she gets better in Children of Dune.

The cast is strong in Denis's version for sure. I was uncertain about Chalomet for Part 2 but he did well. For me, the cast could've shone so much more if the character work was better.

Having seen the SyFy miniseries, I refuse to believe that Dune is unadaptable because it was possible in the early 2000s. It might not look visually stunning and the costumes look goofy but the character work is staggering and the writers go out of their way to give minor characters like Irulan something to do so that her character has a chance to shine. It does all this in less time than Dune 1 & 2 combined.

I came away from Dune 1 largely hollow towards the characters because it felt like they weren't all the way there. Oscar Isaac is a good choice for Leto but we so little of him that his character isn't there. Several of Dune's key points were removed and the film suffers because information is lacking further backing.

The importance of water isn't emphasised as much and as a consequence, Liet Kynes is non-existent. Kynes's dream is important because Paul manipulates it to control the Fremen. There's supposed to be a dinner scene where a lot of the power plays going on in the Empire are presented. It's also where Paul begins to play the political game himself. It's where Jessica's character has a stage where you can see what she's capable of. Not having this scene removed context for the politics in Dune's world.

After seeing Dune 2, I enjoyed it a lot more but it confirmed for me that the movies are all spectacle and no substance. I didn't care what was going on, it all just felt like it wasn't Dune, I didn't know these characters. I hated Stilgar, he was incredibly annoying throughout the movie. I have no idea what they're planning to do with Chani. She has a part to play in Messiah which requires certain things and I don't think we're getting them.

The aspect that's getting lost in all this is that the curator has basically put up a hit list of games for people to review bomb just for associating with a company. The curator has no evidence on the level of involvement SBI had with the game but they don't recommend the game based on them being involved at all.

They have taken something small and weaponised it so now it's harming game devs. No one has any evidence on how SBI were involved with any of the games they've listed on their website beyond vague mentions of "narrative" or "character development".

The worst part is, I'm not even surprised by this.

It'll come trickling down, any day now

I'm talking less about the products and more about Linus's reviewing practices. We saw this in the watercooler debacle. He half-asses reviews and blames the product when he's the one messing up.

Not even that. It's that his review isn't an objective assessment of the product because he stands to financially benefit from Framework doing well. He's worse than a hypocrite, he's a shill.

Wayland isn't trying to be X12 and since X11 has been around, there haven't been plans for there to be an X12 either. You want to discourage people from using Wayland but don't encourage people to contribute to X11. You're so hellbent on taking Wayland down, rather than further convincing people that X11 is superior and it's easier to improve.

The comment I replied to suggested the opposite, that whatever decisions Apple makes, Android follows behind which isn't the case in reality.

I understand your point though. It's weird that people who use iPhones have this mentality that iPhones are at the forefront of innovation. I know some people who are aware that Apple is behind but the phone does what they require of it so they have no need to ask more.

I don't think that's true. Android has had more features than Apple for over a decade. People forget that iPhones didn't used to have a proper file manager and the only way to put songs on them was through iTunes. iOS has been trailing behind Android in that respect while maintaining their walled garden.

Netflix is full of reptiles who don't care to offer a better service. All they want is enough market share to strongarm consumers into giving them more money.

I wonder if that will outlive the publicity of that situation.

Whenever some dipshit responds to me with "you're talking about AGI, this is AI", my only reply is fuck right off.