Varyk

joined 1 year ago
[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago) (1 children)

preface: you know what, writing this was still fun, don't take my outrage too seriously.

no wait, don't take the outrage too personally.

take the outrage seriously, but not personally.

"Activists are always trainwrecks personally."

objectively untrue. in fact, I'm an activist and I'm killing it.

Stop making these obviously incorrect absolute statements.

absolute statements are never correct (this is a joke. notice how I made an absolute statement about absolute statements being never correct).

some people are train wrecks. some people are not.

it took you so long to write this response and you get basic facts incorrect in the second sentence.

geez.

sorry, you interrupted me in the middle of macgruber and you start off from such an indefensible, inaccurate point right off the bat.

"I don't think I was ever like that exactly"

you don't think you were exactly like an activist train wreck analogy that you just made up that nobody accused you of being?

Great. super relevant stuff you got going.

I also don't think you were ever exactly a tap-dancing hippopotamus, another thing nobody was talking about.

"We don't change things for the better perceptibly."

If you really are a volunteer and not making a difference, that sucks.

maybe try firefighting? or americorps? something that you'll be able to perceive as directly helpful with each action.

"...I'm just ignoring that now."

Great, thanks for ignoring it so much. you wrote a bunch of paragraphs about it.

"Where we can maybe exchange useful information is on optimism."

noooo thank you, we are not on the same level to be able to exchange useful information.

you're a total negative Nelly.

If you want help or a different perspective, you can ask for it, I do not need anything from your side, thank you for the oblique offer.

We aren't working together.

I am proactively pointing out that global genocide is an unreasonable punitive device, you are arguing that hey, the eldritch God advocating for genocide makes some points.

look, you're in the negotiation phase where you're trying to find common ground, but you should probably give up because none of the other phases have worked for you.

you previously thought there were arguments to be made for genocide, now you're rethinking your position.

that's great!

that's literally all I was trying to do with my comment, remind everybody who's making cynical pro-genocide comments that as practical measures or even as a "joke", none of the arguments make sense and believing that they do just shifts you further toward the authoritarian powers trying to crush your spirit and sense of community.

you eventually responded correctly by critically re-examining your beliefs.

that's great.

I'm going back to magruber.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

"you're confusing cash with assets"

you are incorrect again. I wrote assets, because I was talking about total assets(which, this sounds like it's going to blow your mind, includes cash!)

maybe you aren't reading closely enough and are conflating my comments with the one sentence in the two articles you don't like for some weird reason?

your next comment kind of explains another one of your blind spots:

"And, for pedantic ness: "what the fuck are you talking about?""

questions are not pedantic.

you can't find out what somebody else meant unless you ask them a question.

what you are doing is assuming an answer and then extrapolating off of that, which is very easy for you to attack, but is often wrong because you're making things up.

The fact that you've finally except in my tutoring and have begun asking questions is a huge step forward.

I'll go look for someone who knows how to golf clap.

"I sort of assumed that basic literacy"

that sounds like it's your problem, you should stop assuming basic literacy and practice reading.

If you're just assuming literacy, in your head it sounds good, but out here it is rough for others to deal with you.

"So again, what "mistakes" are you correcting? "

that there's no way to confuse 300 with 400.

that you can't tell the difference between an opinion and a number from financial audit.

that because of one incorrect number you're dead set that both articles are wrong, even though their numbers are from the financial audit that you originally referenced.

you mistake a statement for a question.

there are more, but four of your mistakes should be enough of a start for you to recognize a few of your errors.

don't want to move too fast for you.

ps, good work on finally asking a question!

all I had to do was teach you what a question was for half a dozen comments comments consecutively and you learned!

that's progress.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

"You seem deeply upset"

nope I forget you're here until you comment again and I have to correct you all over again.

correcting people is fun for me, so this isn't particularly upsetting.

"your opinion"

not my opinion, dozens of accurate numbers from two articles, one of those many numbers in one of those articles you have picked out to focus on.

One of the articles overestimated a budget by 100 million, four instead of three, that's not going to bother me too much.

you seem deeply upset by one source's overestimate.

"that number seems preposterous...a totally bogus number detached from reality...."

yeah who the heck could write four instead of three?

how could anyone make that mistake? they must be nuts!

adding one number in hundreds of millions of dollars of asset valuation?

how could that even happen?

guess we'll never know...

"giving some sort of response..."

you keep whining about receiving a response (desperate), but you still haven't asked a question.

do you know how responses work? (that was a question. see the curly thing at the end? there's another!)

go ahead, check your comment. not a single question, you're just rehashing you're earlier mistakes I have to correct all over again.

which is fun.

I'm down.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 18 hours ago

so they discovered that the algorithm loves one thing.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

more than? how?

The apple shape is pretty indicative for me.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago

judging by your username, you share certain similarities with Bruce Willis.

and he seems to forget who he is these days, so yeah you might actually be Bruce Willis.

no, I've never heard covid victims called "those left behind", that is a rather morbid bit of prose from your part of the world.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

"I'm honestly curious what point you think I'm responding to..."

are you? you don't sound very curious. you haven't asked a single question.

"You did actually use grossly inaccurate financial data"

your make-believe is showing.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"he means the ones just staying at home. Not the ones covid killed. "

as far as I can tell, yes.

you call people killed by covid "those left behind"?

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

you seem to be extrapolating far-off tangential after-effects of a vague dystopian future not based on the current state of travel.

yes, maybe someday everything will be worse.

but then, maybe someday everything will be better.

as for right now, travel is objectively easier for everybody than it has been in a very long time, maybe ever.

We can start with that.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

overall, it seems to be getting easier to travel, with longer-term visas being offered and most visas offered through online applications.

there are more routes for legal permanent residency in countries as well these days, although i prefer itinerance.

I think you're talking about permanent residency, which is inherently more bother than living somewhere else or traveling full-time.

 

Just curious since it seems so much easier and less stressful during any election cycle to fill out a form and mail it in during your free time.

 

there are certain things I want to be out of the loop of, anything to do with him seems good.

I'm looking for mobile solutions specifically.

thank you very much

 

does anyone have any insight into this? actual behind the scenes knowledge?

the sets either look like cheap plastic or ps3 graphics.

It's very distracting and making it almost impossible for me to immerse myself in the story.

It's very frustrating because I like the movie and the story and I think the actors are mostly doing a good job, kamala and her family are hilarious, but I can't get over how dog shit the CGI , editing and set pieces are.

did anyone else notice this?

and the budget was 220 million. it was huge, I can't understand why the effects and set pieces are so terrible.

a small example: when captain Marvel "changes" her clothes in the singing Palace, her entire wardrobe is clearly changed off screen, she's already wearing her new costume when the camera switches back to her and there are literal like 1970s cartoon Disney sparkles floating around her for a second to imply that she morphed her costume?

have Marvel movies always looked this ridiculous? I feel like 10 years ago the effects and settings were more believable, or at the very least more immersive.

All of these effects look like they were made in one frantic week.

oh, and the costumes?

Why are all the costumes baggy?

like professor Marvel's costume is baggy, everyone on Nick Fury ship is wearing baggy jumpsuits.

and it's not like cool baggy, they just didn't make costumes that fit for everybody on set?

professor's Marvel's mom's hair looks crazy, it looks like they sprayed white spray paint on her head and was like okay, she's old now.

the kittens are rough, their textures, movements and physics are absurd.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
 

What happened in the vegan community?

I hadn't heard about any of this until seeing that ToS post.

 

i like watching "making-of" or "behind-the-scenes" featurettes and documentaries about the behind the scenes machinations of movie making, but in terms of literature, I'm not sure what to look for if i want to learn about the process Martha wells went through to conceive the murderbot diaries, for example.

i can search for making-of The Matrix and find documentaries, but not making-of project hail Mary and find similar literary results.

is there a section of literature like this?

should i be reading annotated editions?

thanks

 

I used to take screenshots of the picture I wanted to use as wallpaper, but then Android stopped that from working, and now I have to manually add a giant border to make the screenshots fit the arbitrary fiant wallpaper size on the Android screen.

any normal screenshot I take is blown way oversized, is there any way to simply make a screenshot my wallpaper yet on Android?

it seems crazy that this is still so complicated years later on Android, am I missing something?

Thanks for any help

 

I remember

spoilera couple different things.

less clearly, i remember Hanks trying to kill himself, the branch breaking and then you seeing the broken tree until the scene fades to black into the next scene. but I suspect this scene was actually from another movie.

more clearly, i remember Tom hanks' character suicide-testing a wooden dummy to test the carrying capacity of the branch that is on a short but tall-enough cliff, but the dummy is too heavy and the branch breaks.

Branch can't break twice, so I'm clearly remembering something wrong, but I "know" that whatever I saw happened fairly early on in the movie and was not his description of attempted suicide near the end of the movie.

I remember a fairly lengthy (2-3 minutes) action scene of him physically testing the tree off a cliff.

other people swear that neither scene was in the movie and there's only the description of his attempted suicide at the end.

there are unsubstantiated rumors that the scene was in the theatrical version(which is the version i saw) but not in home releases.

I haven't seen the movie since I saw it in theaters when it came out.

What do you remember?

 

the car models can be whatever, I'm just curious if anyone is dressing up their cheap cars as expensive ones or if this is an industry yet?

is there a legal hurdle?

is there a limit to car decision in general?

is this sort of car case business already a thing?

 

Also, thank you for posting and commenting and making such an exciting community thrive!

 

I keep seeing him but can't figure out his role in the memes. Is it random like the orb thing?

 

Update: thank you everyone! user @Today has provided a great link of a discussion that suggests the correct answer is where being an abbreviation of, whereas as a replacement of since, hypothesized in these comments.

As I love archaic definitions, I'm more convinced to now that this is the answer!

Especially since the question originates from one weirdo using "where" instead of since.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/338694/is-it-ever-appropriate-to-use-where-instead-of-because-or-since


Like "Where we knew he was heading to Chicago tomorrow, we got on the first plane heading east to intercept."

"Where we knew where the safe was, we began to cut through the wall in the corner behind her desk."

Thanks

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