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  • I thought it was a huge disappointment, most of all due to the CG.

    • Everything looks hueless, often with only a few colors, with weird light angles and enemies often shown as a blur. As if it was made to put everyone on the same level as those who are colorblind and visiually impaired.
    • Soundtrack was a dissonance of what went on on screen.
    • The towns and villages were beautifully animated and showed wide shots of them, so one could be sure that they were missing any signs of food production or water sources.
    • The world did not just look dry in color, but also literally dry. Especially the shire which gives it a plastic feel to it.

    All of those put together made me feel it was taking place on a pre-dinosaur earth or not yet fully terraformed planet Mars, rather than a place of fantasy and wonder.

    And Saruman’s death was absent in the theatrical cut. One of the most important parts of the story was simply cut out.



  • Explain how it is reductionist to say that when there’s over 50% of a whole nation that’s in financial woes?
    If anything trying to blame the each individual’s actions is reductionist.
    It paralyzes any political discussion in order to uphold an ever fragile status quo.
    How many more people in your own country need to into debt before
    you start calling it a systemic issue? 80%? 90%? 99%? 99.9%? 99.99%?

    Whatever your solution is going to be, people’s incomes are going to go down,
    as everything is being automated.
    Grocery stores are being automated.
    Fast food chains are being automated.
    Any brick-and-mortar store is disappearing.
    Artists are being replaced

    Your personal anecdote is worthless.
    I delivered magazines, newspapers and mowed lawns when I was a kid.
    Good luck telling the Gen Z that!

    And if you don’t understand why, I’ll try be as reductionist as possible
    in how my (and your) personal anecdote doesn’t work anymore:

    Internet, AI & robots has set up the us the bomb
    All your income are belong to FAANG!!
    You have no chance to survive make your time
    Move Cap Install Com
    For great justice!










  • I would say it’s not very different, just one league above all the others that I’ve come across.

    The three things that stand out in my opinion is how much their package manager can query packages, it’s rolling release and the number of packages they have in the AUR.

    It makes Arch the most complete and up to date Linux distro,
    with the exception of a user friendly forum,
    that doesn’t look like the nazi soup kitchen from Seinfeld,
    and an installer.