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> Bot
Sure, but operated by who, and why? Just why?
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> weird is going to be a pass for the people that are still on X
Curious to know why you think so. If they coped with Dr Strange (both of them, but especially Multivitamin of Mudness), AntMan (1 and 2), the Guardians (all 3), WandaVision, Loki, and No Way Home, what's so weird about Quantumania that it finally pushed the weirdometer beyond acceptable limits?
Like yak-shaving and dogfooding among software developers circles, cat-herding is a colourful idiom common in community development circles.
Consider that we're all fiercely independent beings. Like cats! So in the absence of a formal decision-making structure that everyone has agreed to follow, trying to get people to all pull in the same direction, to achieve shared goals, can be like herding cats.
No offence is meant to any human beings (or cats!)
#CatHerding #YakShaving #DogFooding
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> big thanks to nostr:npub1trdnqrfstufc45awha43p6xy2n0v6czuhapzh4r09hap08dg0c6s9gussx for putting the effort into this initiative
Aww, it's great to be recognized 😁
Disclaimer: Snikket is an important Free Code business project, which I'd happily support as a volunteer while it gets underway. But I was
paid for some work like this in 2020, and due to... well... 2020, and the years that followed, I'm only just getting around to finishing that work. Huge thanks to Matt for his patience, and trusting that I'd get there in the end.
nostr:npub1trdnqrfstufc45awha43p6xy2n0v6czuhapzh4r09hap08dg0c6s9gussx Discovery is already in the bin.
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> Discovery is already in the bin
Really? I quite liked seasons 3-4, quite looking forward to season 5.
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> really didn't like Guardians 3?
Hell no, I loved it! Thanks for pointing out the ambiguity in my post. Let me know if I've successfully fixed it.
OMG is this a real brand account in the verse?!? I assumed it was a parody, but if it is, it's too subtle for my tired brain...
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> Loki is a 92% on rotten tomatoes, so you are way in the minority there
There's no accounting for taste...
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> quantumania is weird as hell
Weird is not the problem. Embarrassing self-parody is the problem. TBH the only thing I needed to see in the trailer to know this wasn't for me was what they did to MODOK. Oh the humanity! Hard pass.
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> I stopped caring around No Way Home
Same, for reasons summed up here:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/110857186978070291
No idea why the Critical Drinker loves it so much. His taste is normally excellent...
The Eternals had enough story and characters to fill out a trilogy of great films. Instead, the creative geniuses at Marvel Studios tried to do the equivalent of cramming the events and characters of all three Guardians of the Galaxy movies into 2 1/2 hours. Which is about as watchable as you might imagine.
If you're lucky enough not to have seen this already, do yourself a favour. Skip it.
#movies #MCU #MarvelStudios #TheEternals
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> Secret Invasion is likely to have huge implications.
I watched the Honest Trailer today. Hard pass. Honestly, I'm done. The Infinity Saga was enough for me. I'm superheroed out for at least a decade (except for The Boys of course ; )
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> The idea that marvel needs to answer to any DC at this point
That's my point. From the trailer and what I've heard and read, The Flash looks like an utter trashfire of bad ideas, fan service, and half-finished effects. Exactly the impression I get of Quantumania.
In fact, just like the theatrical release of the Justice League. For the record, the Snyder cut is still a flawed film and way too long, but still sooo much better.
> you won't miss much
MCU in general now.
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> the ending could have been better
True of WandaVision too. It started out so strong. Then it all just fell into a puddle at the end : (
> just watch Loki
Yeah I did. It had some funny moments and some good ideas, and it could have been trimmed down into a long but good movie. But as a series it was so padded with cruft, and ill-thought-out "subverting expectations" that it ended up as unwatchable as The Last Jedi : (
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> The idea that marvel needs to answer to any DC at this point
That's my point. From the trailer and what I've heard and read, The Flash looks like an utter trashfire of bad ideas, fan service, and half-finished effects. Exactly the impression I get of Quantumania.
In fact, just like the theatrical release of the Justice League. For the record, the Snyder cut is still a flawed film and way too long, but still sooo much better.
> you won't miss much
MCU in general now.
Same with Star Wars, and Doctor Who. If CBS, doesn't pull its pants up soon, Star Trek will be go in the same bin.
I'm done with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I followed it loyally since the first Iron Man, but Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was the last hurrah for me.
Following the continuity any further will force me to watch Quantumania, and I'm just not going to do it. The Eternals was bad enough. Those wankers are never getting to abuse my eyeballs or intelligence again.
#movies #MCU #GOTG3
I'm done with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I followed it loyally since the first Iron Man, but Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was the last hurrah for me.
#movies #MCU #GOTG3
"... the disintermediation of social media didn’t really put the power in the hands of individuals. Instead, it replaced the old intermediaries with new ones: Google, Facebook, Twitter, many others."
#IanBogost, 2021
So it wasn't... actually... disintermediation, was it Ian. Which completely blows your while thesis out of the water.
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>vThere are more options than than whatever two are presented
As Hakim Hey put it in Temporary Autonomous Zone, paraphrasing an old Jewish proverb, "given two options, I take the third":
Reading TAZ had a huge impact on me in the late 90s, especially that bit.
Incidentally it's funny watching the scene that quote came from again, and being reminded of the absurdly sectarian ideology Morpheus evangelises in it:
"If you're not one of us, you're one of them."
https://piped.video/watch?v=6T_Rj47nm0Q
The later movies show us how he's wrong about a bunch of what he says here. It's a shame the subtly of the sequel scripts - and the ways they were butchered to satisfy the studio - meant that most people just didn't get the larger story arc of The Matrix.
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