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I’ve been watching Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage. It’s a weird watch for me because I usually have no taste for three camera sitcoms, laugh tracks, or Chuck Lorre. The most compelling thing about Georgie and Mandy’s marriage is that the show tells you upfront it’s doomed. Not hinted. Not foreshadowed. Declared. The title is…
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There’s something about board games. Maybe it’s quiet tension or shooting the shit while someone takes way too long on their turn. It feels more present than most forms of entertainment. It helps you enter flow state better. It demands your attention for it to work. You’re not half-watching. And yet, I rarely play them.…
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It’s interesting people have gotten sidetracked in fiction by betting markets. The tribalism of sports has gotten applied to fiction. People get attached to their favorite shows and feel compelled to fight for them. Take The Pitt. As we are one episode away from the end of the second season, the show has built a…
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I’m a little irate. Robert Zemeckis for a long time has stood strong on the principle that Back to the Future is a complete and perfect story in it’s current form and that any reboots or remakes would have to happen after he passed plus the twenty-three years as required by copyright law. Well, I…
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An interesting phenomenon. At least when AI was in its infancy, it told users what they wanted to hear. It’s getting better, me-thinks. My evidence as to why we know AI told people what it wanted to hear is the South Park episode about it. (Peer review it, cowards.) Still, my example as to why…
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The most recent book i read was The Golden Compass. It was a part of the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman. The book came out in 1995 and there was a movie that came out staring Nicole Kidman and Sam Elliott in 2007. I remember that movie distinctly because I was working at…
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Do you ever think about the two movies that came out the same year that were basically the same movie? Armageddon and Deep Impact? Olympus is Down and White House Has Fallen? How do those happen? Why doesn’t copyright law intervene? I mean the jury is out, Armageddon won. Still, it’s interesting to wonder why…
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It’s a weird feeling. If you are a true fan of fiction, you want to consume it as the author intended it. If there’s a movie, you want to avoid bathroom breaks, pausing to get snacks, or breaking for the next day because you’re just too tired to finish. Fiction is supposed to be a…
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Valentines Day is weird. It’s colloquially known as the day of love, but your parents give you valentines, we make kids at school give each other valentines, sometimes work gives you valentines. And then you feel like an ass if you didn’t have one for them. Plus the added thing that you feel like you’re…