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  • ShadowRam@fedia.iotoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Alien (1979) predates Predator (1987)
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    2 months ago

    The popularity of Predator is both the premise, and not assuming the audience are complete idiots, and providing them just enough information for the audience to figure it all out, without the movie explicitly spelling it out.

    Going into the movie, audience isn’t sure if what was killing the commandos was some kind of ‘monster’, magical entity, etc.

    The suspense and trying to piece together “Just wtf is it that’s hunting them an why” is the entire point of the movie.

    As the information slowly trickles in, we find out that it is an alien species on a safari hunt. Because why not? It makes perfect sense that we drop into a different world ‘jungle’ and hunt big dangerous game. Why couldn’t an alien species want to do the same?

    Why wouldn’t an alien species want ‘sport’ in that manner and only hunt the armed males.

    And the movie explained all of this, without some random character just saying all of that information out loud to explain it to the audience. We piece that together ourselves.

    This is why Predator movies as of late fall flat on their face.

    We already know what it is, and why its there. So everything after that is pointless.

    Predator 2 was ‘slightly’ interesting, as it filled in some gaps on the species itself.

    • is there more than 1
    • do they hunt other things?
    • what kind of other technology do they have?

    But beyond that, any Predator movie afterwards is a complete waste of time, unless it’s an audience member going into something like “Prey” completely blind to what a Predator even is, and/or has never seen any previous movie.

    Once you see the first movie and know the premise (or know the premise before ever going into it), the magic of it is already gone.

  • ShadowRam@fedia.iotoNews@lemmy.world•Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine - BBC News
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    2 months ago

    My conspiracy theory.

    All that ‘kompromat’ that exists out there,

    1 - They are pushing massive $$$ into AI to get it good enough that the old kompromat is meaningless, because you wouldn’t be able to prove its AI or not

    2 - Putting in the foundation of censorship, so when that kompromat gets released, they can have the legal framework already in place to remove it as much as possible.

    After all that kompromat is rendered meaningless, who knows which way the world will go then. We basically return back to the days the world ran uninfluenced by pictures/video because either pictures/video didn’t exist back then, or the means to distribute it to the general populace to make that kompromat effective didn’t exist.

  • ShadowRam@fedia.iotoCanada@lemmy.ca•Canada Post’s Moment Of Reckoning May Finally Be Here
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    3 months ago

    Mail services are, in my opinion, a worthwhile endeavour. People in remote parts of the country deserve to be able to get their bills on paper too.

    I really liked the idea I saw in some interview where Mail Services could be switched up to being ‘Federal Services’ or Community Services…

    We have all these buildings,

    Why can’t they be Passport Services, Taxes Services,… I even liked the idea that Mail Carriers could be wellness checkers.

    Need something notarized? Need to do a proof of identity? Photo taken, Etc. Pay them well, Train them well, Make them more than just dropping of a letter. Expand them to be more than that.

    Keep the hard earned infrastructure, and adapt it.