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Thoughtful Sloth

@thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social

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Enjoyer of film, TV, books, comics, video games, sumo, science, streaming, scifi, fantasy, anime, manga, crosswords, mysteries, city pop, electronica, and other slothy things.

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 4h

Case in point:

A photo of the Plex UI on the Home screen on the Recommended for You list. The film "Evilspeak" (1981) is selected. It's description reads, "The clumsy military cadet Stanley Coopersmith is orphan and completely outcast in the West Andover Academy. He is frequently..." The image to the right depicts an airbrushed looking man as he flies through what looks like cyberspace, his blonde hair is blown back I'm the wind, and his arms hang down below him. He has a look of surprise or amazement with his mouth open in a near grin and his eyes open wide below his raised eyebrows. Behind him are blue squars laid out like a crossword grid at an angle, but the squares are dark and light blue. Dissolved in with these squares are a pair of menacing eyes of red and orange that appear to be getting brighter colors of orange light, as if the eyes were about to shoot lasers. We can see the outline edges of a mouth on either side of the man as if he was blocking a scowl or howl. The eyes peer down at the man locked straight ahead at the face's center. It looks as though the eyes are after him in the grid of cyberspace. The genres of the movie are listed as horror and science fiction. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes long. It stars Clint Howard, R.G. Armstrong, Joe Cortese, and Claude Earl Jones. Who are these people? Oh, "who are these people?" is not text on the screen. I'm just asking you, person reading this alt text if you're out there, do you know these people? I've never heard of them or this film. Hope you're having a good day. Rock on.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 5h

I have not used Plex in a while. I started it up and saw this. I have no idea what this means. What has changed? Why is marketing writing the release notes? Just tell me what you changed like I'm a human, please. I just want to watch trashy movies.

#filmsky 🎥 #uidesign #plex

A photo of Plex's update screen on a television. The background is a gradient from the upper left corner in blue and the lower right in purple. In the center of the screen are two lines of white text, an image underneath, five blue dots beneath that image showing what number screen you are on, and a white "continue" button that says continue but you can't see the text in the image because of the photo quality and the white is too bright. The middle image is another photo of the new interface with a "Favorites" window selected. The favorites window shows a menu bar at the top where favorites is selected, the title of the selected movie, an image from the movie to the right, a description under the title of the left, followed by a line of movie and TV show box art at the bottom. The movie "Halloween" and the TV show "Mad Men" are among seven. "Out of the Furnace" is the movie selected. The image at the center of the UI has another small icon over it on its top left corner. Only the "Continue" button is selectable, you cannot click the center image to get more details on what has changed.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 8h

Reminded me of this:

Source www.buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/t...

A comic strip with four horizontal panels. Panel one shows a demon towering over a small stick figure. The demon says, "You should not have come here, human. Why do you cross through my domain?" The next frame is a close up of the stick figure in a light teal blue shirt, they say, "I was on my way to the kitchen for a snack and I got lost." The next panel is a closeup of the demon's eye, it says, "You ended up in the twelfth plane of torment on your way to the kitchen?" The next panel is of the stick figure again, they say, "I am not a clever man."

Source is https://www.buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/the-detour/

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 8h

"Low energy" is a very ironic phrase given Trump's own public naps.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 8h

I imagine because of the nature of social media these videos rely on people quickly scrolling past them. Media literacy is sadly very lacking as well, especially for both younger and elder folks.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 8h

I wish we had viewed the initial (and ongoing) disinformation campaigns as a more serious threat to bring to the attention of the general population as well. I think historically it will be viewed as one of the greatest successful psyops in a cyberwar. The damage is already monumental and ongoing.

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 8h

Not directed by him, but I just watched Mikey and Nicky the other day and it's worth adding to your list. Peter Falk is a nice bonus.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 11h

Ending spoilers:
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It was really bizarre to me that they spend the whole game giving these characters depth then at the end they're like, "Nah, just erase them & move on." I at first chose Maelle's ending & thought it pretty terrible, tho Verso's was no better. Whole thing felt misogynistic to me.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 15h

It's on my Kanopy list! Will boost it and watch soon. Seems like such a wild weird ride.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 15h

Important note: they also crashed into another vehicle, ripping off its bumper, while fleeing the scene of the accident in their rented van. The agents should be arrested for multiple violations here.

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 1d

We are so passively aggressive that our aggression is impossible to detect.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 1d

Would love it if a journalist actually tried to answer the question of why trans women in sports became such a focus. Not like the mental reason, but who first started publishing the stories and who pushed them to do so. Follow the money, so to speak. More investigating of such "journalism."

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 1d

Please don't be (though obviously the choice is up to you). This is a *striking* use of color. Play on!

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has always basically been a "human" LLM, taking the work of others and slapping his name on it.

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, the admin is lying bitches and every news organization reporting on Portland should have a reporter showing live video of the city whenever a story comes up. Show your reporters going to brunch, vintage stores, drinking kombucha, eating ice cream, walking in the park. The city is fine.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 1d

Dicks out for Kennedy?

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

This is literally the plot of 'You've Got Mail' but with "mechanic shop" instead of "book shop."

I will not be watching it.

#filmsky #films #movies 🎥

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Napster in shambles watching this era.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Holy hell. When the diagram breakdown is longer than some short stories, it's a problem.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

I'll believe it when it happens. Not playing Charlie Brown and Lucy football games.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Shame he's leaving, season 3 was pretty great. Hopefully whomever leads the series next can keep up the quality.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

One would hope these efforts would not hold up in court based on current laws and constitution, but who knows given SCOTUS.

Two points I think are worth mentioning: 1) Oregon voters are registered when they get state IDs, so, technically, already verified. 2) Plenty of Republicans vote by mail too.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting, thank you for the explanation!

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 3d

Shouldn't a business focus on catering to the larger percentage of people who would buy the game rather than the smaller percentage?

If 14% of my customers are willing to pay $3.50 for my lemonade, but everyone else will only pay $.50, why sell at higher cost and lose sales?

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 3d

I saw the Eurogamer article on this too and neither specify if this is console games or PC games. Anyone know?

Also, I'm no economist but this seems like a bad way of doing business, "14% of players are less likely to worry about the cost of games, meaning most pricing is focused on them." ...