CeruleanRuin

joined 1 year ago
[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Cool. Cool cool cool.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

It's an influence game like anything else online now that the Internet is commoditized. Corporations and political influence campaigns can and do pay for control of high-traffic accounts and communities to nudge discussions to benefit whatever they're selling.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've never encountered that myself. What communities are you commenting in that you're getting banned elsewhere for it?

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hooray, ten minutes of new Groot content incoming. (Seriously though, I'll take it.)

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly it's a problem with binary ranking systems across the board. Maybe if there were additional axes you could vote on, like "agree/disagree", "quality/low effort", "nuanced/trite", etc. I don't know how one would go about implementing such a thing, but until someone does, we're stuck with having a simplistic system that doesn't adequately reflect the complicated responses real people have to content.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

I spent over a decade on reddit, and I learned that whenever someone did stuff like that, it was because I had struck a chord. And they usually got bored of their harassment pretty quickly when I ignored them.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Give him some slack, he's young. At least I assume so.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A) There is no hive mind. That's just you perceiving a bunch of people who happen to hold a similar opinion as a monolith, and that's an illusion. You have no data whatsoever to support the idea that they're thinking in concert or even have the same reasons for their reactions.

  1. Don't take it so personally. They don't know you, and they're not attacking you by downvoting you. They're simply expressing "I want to see less of this."

d) Instead of having a kneejerk reaction when you get this kind of response and immediately being defensive, step back and use it as a reflective moment. Maybe you misjudged the room, misinterpreted the potential impact of what you posted, or are simply on a different track from those who downvoted. What can you learn from it? Do you need to change your own approach, or do you need to reevaluate your audience?

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong, but think of the number of people this brought joy to.

Is it wasteful? Sure. Is it a bit of a face slap to people living paycheck to paycheck, assuming they're even that well off? Sure. But is it a net negative? Who can say? Unlike most fuck-you-money splurges, this one probably at least lightened some people's days for a moment, and that's not nothing.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idunno about you, but I'm going to continue calling it twitter whenever I derisively refer to it or think of it at all. If only because it would make the manbaby angry/sad.

 

Highly recommended podcast for anyone who loves film scores or music in general. The host is a sound designer & editor for Skywalker Sound, has done extensive sound work for Lucasfilm and Lucasarts games, and is also a prolific voice actor appearing in dozens of animated series and video games. He brings his sonic expertise to bear in analyzing the great scores of cinema and other media, from Jaws to Tron to Super Mario Bros. & Zelda. It's an incredibly well-produced show that sounds great and will always leave you feeling enriched and entertained.

In these two latest episodes, he takes a great deep dive into the music of Star Trek, the original series. It's a detailed look at an underappreciated aspect of the franchise, with archive interviews from people like Nimoy and Roddenberry, many many sound clips, and lots of insightful commentary.

One fun tidbit from this episode: Alexander Courage himself made the sound of the Enterprise whooshing past during the opening credits.

 

Can't stand to run myself, but I love a good running scene in a movie, and I can't think of anyone who has more of them than Tom Cruise -- except for Buster Keaton. He's got such an incredible clumsy grace to him, if that makes any sense. Who's your favorite film runner or favorite running scene?

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