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Ansiktsburk wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2024 8:12 am The Aeroplane Scene from Out of Africa
https://youtu.be/KDogVwHqixQ?si=MFCgWyXEitaY-bzk

I clicked on that link in VR the other night, bloody awesome scene. I've never watched the film but it's been on my to do list for ages.

promethean75 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 10:30 pm I just watched The Bikeriders and Jodie Marie Comer is an outstanding actress. Man did she nail the part. The dialect and accent is flawless.

https://youtu.be/dCqOliuq8NU

Too hot to do much today, I try not to contribute to the cause of these excessive heat waves by running my air con all the time.

So prom cheers, feel like watching that type of film..

I didn't even know the movie Cloud Atlas existed until last night. As much as I am a fan of the Eternal Recurrence and all this time none of you even informed me of this movie. Unbelievable.

https://youtu.be/-UtKxVxd2K8

What a fucking fantastic movie. Beau Is Afraid with J. Phoenix.

https://youtu.be/PuiWDn976Ek

I wanted to post a clip, but the scene isn't on youtube.

At one point he ends up in a forest and finds a hidden commune of people who do dramatic stage plays all the time that are supposed to break the barrier between actors and audience. Some real greek theater type shit. Bohemian grove stage in the middle of the woods stuff, but they're good guys, not evil guys.

What a great movie. The surreal blended with the real. For instance, there's a naked homeless man who wanders up and down the street in front of Beau's apartment all day, stabbing people to death in broad daylight. That this guy hasn't yet been arrested is impossible, so his presence is illogical and surreal.

Another scene where all at once all the wandering crazy people on the street suddenly lock their attention on Beau's apartment and begin walking toward it like zombies under hypnosis as Beau watches from the store window across the street.

There's a feel to the movie that a lot of this is an enormous hallucination and what Beau experiences are grossly exaggerated fears playing out in any given situation.

Revolver - The Formula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWj7oWlVtag

One layer of the story:
“So the opponent simply distracts their victim by keeping them consumed with their own consumption.”

Comment: Sounds like an AI strategy to control humans.

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:40 pm Revolver - The Formula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWj7oWlVtag

One layer of the story:
“So the opponent simply distracts their victim by keeping them consumed with their own consumption.”

Comment: Sounds like an AI strategy to control humans.

So are you suggesting that AI is trying to control humans? Or is it humans creating AI that are trying to control other humans?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 6:31 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:40 pm Revolver - The Formula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWj7oWlVtag

One layer of the story:
“So the opponent simply distracts their victim by keeping them consumed with their own consumption.”

Comment: Sounds like an AI strategy to control humans.

So are you suggesting that AI is trying to control humans? Or is it humans creating AI that are trying to control other humans?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 6:31 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:40 pm Revolver - The Formula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWj7oWlVtag

One layer of the story:
“So the opponent simply distracts their victim by keeping them consumed with their own consumption.”

Comment: Sounds like an AI strategy to control humans.

So are you suggesting that AI is trying to control humans? Or is it humans creating AI that are trying to control other humans?

Within the scope of your question, there exists in the universe as surely as gravity exists, a human penchant to segregate into classes, no matter the number of individuals in the society. AI will someday become the legal, and thus justified, efficacy for judgments of all kinds, from fashion to morality to philosophy, and those judgments will become the final word for those who copy AI thinking, rather than the final word being insights from human contemplation, that become insults to some and thus illegal in some countries that don't enjoy legally protected freedom of speech, which does not grant immunity from response.

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“The art is for me to feed pieces to you and make you believe you took those pieces because you’re smarter, and I’m dumber.”

Comment: Not too many folks are calling Trump dumb anymore, not like they used to.

A government worker explaining to Trump and his assistant why he gets a fat paycheck and benefits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmuI5W694o

U must under_stand that we all have a craving occasionally for sumfin..sometimes it's violence

Trainspotting (1996) Begbie's Bar Brawl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBiwIFYK4eY

McMurphy: "...every damn bit. Probably that chain didn't help it any either. You didn't weigh the chain did ya, doc?"

https://youtu.be/BvjTeWn0Uac

You can't know how great this is until you've actually done it with a doctor. I've been in that office more times than I can count.

It's a fantastically awkward situation that both men do battle to hold the upper hand in. The official roles they are placed in as doctor/patient is immediately at odds with the two men who must first, before the doc earns his authority, establish each other as real men. This is a ritual that is happening. Once McMurphy knows that the doc knows McMurphy is suspicious about him lying about the weight of the fish, he can relax and let the doc with authority play his role. But it's too late. McMurphy has already made the Doc his equal and smashed the artificial hierarchy that structures their relationship. The Doc is just another guy hanging out with McMurphy talking like guys do and is no longer the enemy.

"Iddint that a dandy"

McMurphy immediately seizes the opportunity and starts taunting him. And look at the feigned interest: must be a 40 pounder!

I know what this is like! Mindless small talk as he goes through your file hearing only half of anything you say.

Such a great fuckin scene.

Life Of Brian by Monty Python - Random Aliens Save Brian Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slSb72vwaBc

..is he really lucky? I'd rather die falling from an unfinished spiral staircase or crashing in an alien spacecraft than end up crucified!

the whistle solo is divine...

always look on the bright side of life...

-Imp

Really, all monty python is so good that even the most boring and unimpressive skits are still clever, still well written. You say "ah... haha i see what they did there", despite how they did it.

Impenitent wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:22 pm the whistle solo is divine...

always look on the bright side of life...

-Imp

Absolutely, and so bloody wise for an outlook to have on life.