A meme made in response (not by me):

Just to say, I massively prefer the name ‘microblogmemes’ over ‘whitepeopletwitter’. That was always a weird one - posts didn’t always involve white people, didn’t always come from Twitter (which - technically - doesn’t even exist anymore) and seemed based on a petty misunderstanding of what Black People Twitter was.

FWIW, I agree with you about the Denny’s post. I’m also the moderator of a community that Stamets has quit, so I know that losing him is a blow, because he posts a lot of content. But I also know that he’s a complicated human.

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Rolling Stone estimated that it was 80% done before Amy Seimetz left, which is still a awful lot to just throw away. I’m not sure I’d want to watch the original version, but I’d happily watch a documentary about what went wrong.

To the extent it was ever Barbie vs. Oppenheimer, Barbie has very clearly won - by twice the revenue in whichever field you want to look in.

It’s presented in the article as such, yes. It’s the find something, literally anything, nice to say first strategy by the looks of it.

It’s maybe different for VFX, but I think for writers and actors, because the work is so erratic anyway and 'cos studios are trying to turn everything into a gig rather than a job, the WGA and SAG are ultimately the main providers.

I heard that Unions are especially important in the US because it’s how many workers get their healthcare (which is easy to overlook if you’re not from there, and aren’t really familiar with the Private system)

Fairly unusual to see a poster where the gun is pointed directly at the viewer (it’s more commonly positioned at a bit of an angle, if not completely to one of the sides.)

It looks like the director for this (Grant Singer) has ‘only’ done Music Videos before this. It’ll be interesting to see where he ends up on lists like: RANKED: MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTORS TURNED FILM DIRECTORS - David Fincher seems the undisputed winner of this, but others seem hit-or-miss (ignoring questions of metacritic’s own validity for the moment)

For the studios, eager for Box Office profits, I would’ve thought all films were equally important.
The Creator doesn’t have actors with the same promotional clout as Timothée Chalamet or Zendaya, but - as things stand - it’s still likely to end up without having received any promotion at all from its writers or its cast.
Maybe it’s just that Disney are more worried about been seen to be reacting to the strikes than Warners Bros. are.

Assumed this would be straight on Prime with it being Amazon Studios, but it’s getting a cinema release first (on October 6th)

Interesting that it’s not getting its release delayed like Dune Part 2 (both films share a cinematographer, so if Dune had always been planned for March, then they could have used Greg Frasier more on The Creator, ironically enough).

I prefer this poster to the IMAX version:

The Artifice Girl.

Accomplished debut feature from writer/actor/director Franklin Ritch - uses a bunch of filmmaking tricks to produce an engrossing sci-fi film, even though there’s zero VFX, and I didn’t even realise it’s just a few people talking in rooms until it was over.

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It doesn’t happen with posts from kbin.social, which suggests it’s a fixable issue at Project Segfault.

I know it’s a bigger problem that needs to be addressed at KBIN & Lemmy codebase level, but - until it’s resolved there - maybe there are solutions within this thread that could be implemented at your end.

I mentioned this to yesterday (on the Prime V post).

Your timestamps being off isn’t some minor thing. It’s breaking the Lemmy user experience. It’s common to sort by New, meaning that your posts (which Lemmy thinks come from the future) linger at the top of everyone’s feeds for at least 2 hours, ahead of posts submitted after them.

For example, this post, which you made at 17:20 GMT is above a post made at 18:20 GMT (and it will stay above posts made until 19:20 GMT.

Here a screenshot to demonstrate

I can see you’ve @'d your admins, but until they get around to doing something, please can you instead post from kbin.social or a Lemmy community?

I was hoping he could message his instance admins to change the time of their server.

I realise it doesn’t fix the underlying issue of Lemmy not checking if the timestamp is sane, but it would work as a short-term fix to stop his posts living at the top of a New feed for 2 hours, above everything else that’s genuinely newer.

Posts from kbin.social don’t have the problem (compare this kbin post with this lemmy post (same timestamp), so a workaround is available.

The other thing he could do in the meantime is post from a Lemmy instance, of course. His posts are all seem to be Lemmy communities anyway.

It’s all relative. This post says it was posted 44 minutes ago, but has comments from 2 hours ago. Because it was posted 2 hours ago: see here

Hi realcaseyrollins, please can you ask your server admins to look into their time settings?

Your posts always come from the future (“in 2 hours”) so they stick around at the top of everyone’s feeds until the times agree.

To illustrate

The issue

It doesn’t look like the linked github issue will get resolved any time soon, so it might be easier if Project Segfault fixes it from their end.

Thanks.

I think that’s part of it. I imagine many of those randos did actually want to make another film though.

The death of the mid-budget movie is probably a contributing factor - either you’re shooting on your phone, or suddenly you’re supposed to helm a blockbuster, with few stepping stones in between.