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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 41m

The TVTropes method of reducing every story down to a series of reusable modular tropes was actually a necessary precursor to and handmaiden of the concept that stories can be built by LLMs

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Old Man Uzi @daviduzumeri.bsky.social · 43m

A) Rest in piss, the way this website tried to factor down narrative like math caused incalculable damage to media literacy for a generation
B) Enshittification is my favorite TV Trope

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 10h

TV Tropes is blocking access to the site not only if you have ad blockers on but location tracking off unless you want to subscribe to their $5 a month/$25 a year subscription plan. Even people who have turned their ad blockers off are reporting the site isn’t working. This all seems like a bad idea

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 17h

At the end of the series, I read Memories Legion with all of them. So I don't do those in chronological order. Some of them I don't love as much as the others, but I like the flavor they all add to the world.

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 17h

Similarly, I'm re-reading the Foundation books and likely to hit the Expanse novels YET AGAIN soon. (it would be my 4th or 5th read through? I've lost track...)

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, no, Jodie, this IS RAD AS HELL

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

The wild thing is these people keep painting this picture like he's a damn kid.

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

You'll be there with many cats who committed the same crime, so the company will be nice

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

God, there has to be some 501st dude sitting in a Dem seat somewhere sweating right now

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Even the character stuff works! It’s light, sure, but it does what it needs to and fits the genre perfectly

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

“Is it a perfect movie? No, but—“

“Fuck you, yes it is.”

Sums up my feelings on it entirely. Influences and all, it’s just rad as hell and a great time.

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Oh hell YEAH Erica

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

And he still has the tattoo, right? That's not a phase if you still have it! You can maybe argue to have grown if you've DONE SOMETHING ABOUT IT and have that conversation

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 3d

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to immediately lock onto her

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

So you were right.

Godspeed.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 7d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 7d

I Don't Go Here, as it were, but this is wild shit. Non-competes, alone, are crazy, but this is on another level. Which isn't shocking considering the source, but still

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 7d

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

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Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 8d

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 8d

TRON will never be the "franchise" they want it to be, as much as I love it. But this one even turned off TRON fans with Leto!

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

In this constant weird place where I know I’m uniquely extremely good at what I do, yet still constantly surprised when others tell me as much.

Probably helps keep the ego in check a bit, but I should be better with compliments/support at this point, I’d have thought.

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Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 10d

Drew Struzan's Indiana Jones book covers. Need to work harder on tracking these down.

Compilation image of 12 Drew Struzan-painted Indiana Jones book covers.

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

i.e. at least half relatable!

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

I'm just sad you haven't seen these before. And also, apparently I need to send you a bunch of clips from him in the 70s because that is an extremely accurate representation of the man.

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

I got REALLY close to this after my Starfield deep dive recently. It's a constant temptation.

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Graham Johnson @gjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

Oh, I see why it went that angle but in the overall narrative it was just a huge dissonance. Which pretty much all the companion stories had to a larger degree than previous games, though Inquisition was pointing that way.

A lot of wonderful writing that failed because of the larger context, for me