ddugue

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[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Oh no synth is because computers are readily available and anybody can make music. Before you had to be more dedicated.

There still exists good musicians and productions, but they are not backed by big studios...

Which lead to your point. Big studios don't like risks. They don't want to be creative. Fine! No more big budget movies.

But a movie production is still expansive. Even low and good indie movies sometimes have a million dollar budget. That's way more than the budget for a hobby for most people!

So how do we finance it? Governments, non profits? Sure... But still that is possible today and it is done, but it's far from being a source of constant good movies.

And finally sure the diaspora of piracy is wide and large. Some are activists and do really important work such as scihub and libgen, but most people just pirate the latest marvel movie

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I understand the points and while I don't like the rampant corporate greed, you wouldn't have billion dollar movie projects (or series) if piracy was entirely legal and encouraged.

I think it's mostly that the current copyright laws and patents are unfair.

Let's take a big IP such as star wars, wouldn't it be more logical if it were in the public domain? It's almost de facto in the public domain. I can refer to it and almost anybody gets what I'm talking about. It's already a staple of our hegemonic culture. Nobody should own it.

But you know, to get those movies, I wouldn't mind if there was let's say a 1-2 year copyright on the movie. You don't want to wait a year? Pay. Simple as that.

Same for patents. Ad long as we are a capitalistic society, it's desired that research makes profit, so put a patent for a few years and voila!

In the end you are going to stimulate more research. First by sharing knowledge and second by encouraging new research which can be patented. No sitting on a patent for years doing nothing.

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Damn, it could work.

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

We forego all notions of hunting, rations, weight, in the end unless you aim for hyper realistic, common sense is good enough (hunting in a desert might be hard, transporting cargo is heavy.)

We modified a bit the rests mechanics: Short rest is short (like 5-10min) work as usual.

Full rest needs to be done in a safe camp or safe place, it means putting up a big fire and not having 2 persons on guard. Which means more dangers, (doing that near a bad guys place = fight for sure)

So we normally sleep without fires and it does replenish exhaustion, but no spell for the wizard (or all abilities that require full rest)

In the end it forces us to have the more balanced 4-6 encounter between long rest upon which d&d is built.

Works really well!

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does liability work in your niche?

From what I understand if you make a mistake, it could cost your clients irreparable damage. How are you insured for this?

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

The soundtrack was amazing... Ooof the chills.it gave me!

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Sometimes, I think I understand their place too. We're talking about really big budgets here, and while I agree that it's better to take risks so we can get amazing movies, I must imagine the dread the exec that greenlighted taika waititi thor love and thunder to do w/e he wanted.

In the end they let the director loose and still got a mediocre movie. (Maybe it was $$ successful? Somebody know?)

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I think the issue is mostly about what is art?

Some of the big budget movies feel devoid of creativity and are more a product than a work of art. While I do agree with you that there is some art in those big budget, I think the issue lies in how we communicate a movie.

What is a "good" movie? That's entirely subjective! A better approach would be to explain what you liked (or disliked) about it. Then we can have more productive conversations about it ahah

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Dune was incredible in theaters. I'm scared of watching it again at home (in prep for the 2nd part) since I'm probably going to be disappointed

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congrats! Will you put some legs underneath it? I've noticed that flat furniture sometimes end up unbalanced since the floor is often uneven

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

No days off for childless orphans then, they must work the hardware stores and the flowers shop!

I'm just joking, I'm honestly favorable to more holidays, a bit like in ancient times with all the holidays for each and every gods. We should celebrate more our culture(s)

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have a good way to find rss feeds? I'm looking to emulate my own hacker news in terms of non-tech interesting articles, and sometimes I feel lost trying to find feeds to subscribe to

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