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25 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
A good way to understand Dune if you haven't read the books is to think of Mentats, Bene Gesserit, and Guild Navigators as not exactly human, but more like the substitute for AIs. Thinking Machines are banned in that universe due to a past war, so they engineered replacements.
Mentats are effectively human computers. The movie shows them roll their eyes back as they do calculations and "retrieve data." Guild Navigators are like computers that can handle the calculations of space flight. Bene Gesserit do predictive social modeling and engineering.
I actually like that Villeneuve doesn't explain all this stuff in detail but enough of the information is there to not get totally lost, but I do think outside knowledge helps. Think LOTR Director's Cut. Lots of Silmarillion references in there, for instance.
There's already one crucial scene I know was cut that would make a Director's Cut better (the conversation between Yueh and Jessica).
Guess not. cinemablend.com/movies/after-j…

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Noam
24 Oct
My 5 main issues with #MetroidDread

1. The map UI is meh. Hard to filter for items to see which ones you haven't collected yet and you also can't see multiple zones at once like with other Metroidvanias. In general it felt a bit clunky compared to some others I've seen.
2. It's just a bit too linear even though it's a fantastic example of linear Metroidvania done right. Still, would have loved a couple of different branching paths, even minor ones, to let you change the order or skip certain things without have to sequence break.
3. Related to 2 - I would have loved some secret/optional content like bosses or powerups. Something not everyone would find on their first playthrough or maybe even at all. Hollow Knight set the bar very high for that kind of content.
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Noam
23 Oct
Dune was spectacular. Did it end in the middle? Yes. But whatever. The production design and especially THAT FUCKING SCORE just blew my mind. See it in IMAX.
My only advice is if you absolutely have to watch it at home, put on headphones and crank the volume to max. This movie needs to be LOUD.
And yeah if you haven't read the book a lot of this won't make much sense I think. At least not until there's a second movie.
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Noam
18 Oct
The concern trolling over how it’s supposedly just a smart business decision for Netflix to dump Chappelle has grown beyond parody.
I'll let you in on a little secret: In markets as competitive as streaming services, you sometimes "overpay" because part of the cost involves denying your competition of that content on their platform. If Netflix doesn't pay Chappelle, Hulu or Amazon or HBO or Showtime will.
It's like when people were asking why Facebook bought Oculus. You know why? So that Google or Amazon or Apple wouldn't buy them. That's why.
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Noam
14 Oct
He can do what he wants, but he’s not throwing his career away over a principle. He’s either scared of the vaccine or doesn’t believe it works or whatever. Not buying this whole “it’s simply not fair to tell me what to do” shtick.
Yes I'm sure the flat earther is sincere and not bullshitting.
Projection. I'm saying this specific bullshitter is bullshitting. Didn't say anything about anyone else.
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Noam
7 Oct
Nothing exposes complaints about wealth disparity as masked expressions of jealousy like the idea that it's unfair that the median U.S. worker makes a fraction of the wealth of the literal richest man on the planet.
Also Robert Reich is worth millions, received hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary from a public university, and charges $40,000 an hour for public speaking. Can rich people stop lecturing us on the evils of wealth?
I'm additionally confused by the notion that wealth taxes are always painted as miniscule % increases that amount to a lot of raw dollars. But if that's true, Elon Musk will still be worth hundreds of billions anyway. So what's the endgame of this complaining?
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Noam
4 Oct
Another HUGE tactical error by Fauci. The literal only attitude public health can have about Christmas is mitigation. The only people who would cancel Christmas on Fauci's word are not the people he's concerned about with regard to spreading covid. It's totally useless.
He needs to realize that it's the second Christmas under covid and people are going to do it. They should all be focused on providing tips to remain safe instead of holding the entire holiday up in the air as some sort of carrot/stick if everyone finishes their peas and carrots.
As I was saying.
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