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Heat ( 1995 ) Bank Shootout Scene . . . . . #Heat #Heat1995 #Valkilmer #colt #ar #militaryart #digitalart

@LowresWB Do you have any real criticism for it? So far you've just said "it's bad" and "you need to watch more movies." Generally, people who appreciate art try to talk about things more substantively.

People online will straight up tell you Michael Clayton is a good movie and it's not

@ejhchess @ATRightMovies What a nuanced take. I am stunned by your intelligence.

@ATRightMovies Just a load of macho shouting that other films and actors have done a great deal better

Alec Baldwin as Blake in GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (1992) - one of the great cameos.

@GoodWillsmith Awesome choice!

the track was “Regret” btw dds-label.bandcamp.com/track/regret

dude came up to the booth & asked me if i could play some house music for him because it's his birthday so i put on Shinichi Atobe & now he's standing there like this. it worked

I saw this movie recently, well into my cinema watching “career.” I’m glad I put it off so long, as a younger man I would have definitely been inclined towards contra-reputational contrarianism. The style of this picture is off the charts. It's crazy in comparison to what was coming out at the time and crazy now. There's a huge amount of chiaroscuro lighting, the camera is daring in its movements. It can look dreamy at points, Kane's Floridian estate looks positively gothic—those doors? As for the story, it's interesting in that it shows just how much mystery a man can hold to the people around him. Even the people closest to Kane aren't completely knowledgeable on the sentiments that drove him, and these sentiments can be completely lost on others. The writing is fantastic. You get a really interesting portrait of a man betraying himself. Regardless if it’s “the greatest movie of all time” or whatever labels people want to stamp it with, it’s just an immensely creative piece of art that was a privilege to experience.

Citizen Kane has officially joined the Letterboxd One Million Watched Club 🗞️

The pigs are coming

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3) A bunch of AI bullshit that doesn't work. Storygraph offers a variety of tags, mostly based on mood. If you thought you might be able to click on these tags to look at similarly tagged books, you would be incorrect. These tags are how Storygraph is able to generate its recommendations, but the recommendations are completely nonsensical. I put in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and the top result was a young adult novel. Since this feature is advertised on every page, I'm inclined to think it's one of the main draws of the website. To recap: Storygraph's community is identical to Goodreads. Storygraph is a slush pile with no real options to sort through it. Storygraph is centered around AI recommendations as opposed to user-to-user connection, and its AI recommendations are stupid.

Storygraph users, has the situation improved since I wrote this comparison with Goodreads last year? Warning, long: I checked out Storygraph and I would recommend sticking to Goodreads if your primary use case is discovering new books. I have several reasons for this: 1) If you are switching to Storygraph from Goodreads because you don't like the userbase, you should know that the Storygraph userbase is basically identical. Herman Melville - Moby-Dick: 3.56/5. 562,745 ratings on Goodreads Herman Melville - Moby-Dick: 3.39/5. 30,292 ratings on Storygraph Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games: 4.34/5. 9,299,971 ratings on Goodreads Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games: 4.33/5. 462,851 ratings on Storygraph J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: 4.62/5. 3,933,648 ratings on Goodreads J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: 4.63/5. 302,638 ratings on Storygraph David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest: 4.25/5. 96,789 ratings on Goodreads David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest: 4.19/5. 9,011 ratings on Storygraph Neither Goodreads nor Storygraph allow you to make a ranked chart of the site's aggregate "best books." Goodreads allows users to make lists that other people can vote on, including lists of the Best Books Ever, but it should be noted that these lists are only representative of the people who vote on them. Storygraph does not allow for user-generated lists of any kind. Despite this, I spent a decent amount of time on Storygraph and found very few books that outranked the Harry Potter volumes. 2) Storygraph does not have useful sorting options. If I am looking at the Goodreads page for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, I can click the name J.K. Rowling near the top and be taken to an author page in which all of her books are listed, sorted by popularity. On Storygraph, I can click J.K. Rowling's author page, but the books are not sorted by chronology, popularity, or logic, and there's no way to change how they are sorted. J.K. Rowling's top book is Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing up Female by Willa Shalit, who, notably, is not J.K. Rowling. The following are the only sorting or filter options on Storygraph available on the "Explore" page: Last updated (useless.) Popular this week Pages: Low to High (useless. Literally everything says "missing page info.") Pages: High to Low (useless.) Pub Date: Earliest first (useless.) Pub Date: Latest first You cannot select for a greater range of popularity than the current week, nor sort by score. The user review page also has limited sorting options—or option, I should say. You can't choose to only see reviews of a certain star count, language, or simply read the most liked reviews like you can on Goodreads, but you can check a box to say "Only show reviews with written explanations." I clicked this box and read some reviews. A representative screenshot of Storygraph user reviews, for Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punshiment, is attached. If you're a person who likes to find people you share opinions with, and potentially find some new things to try from them, you are going to have to work exponentially harder to comb through the endless deluge on Storygraph than on Goodreads, and if you do finally connect with someone else there is far less information available on Storygraph. Clicking on a user's profile, I can see what they are currently reading, "read recently," plan to read, and their 5 star reads. If you want to see all the books a user has rated, you have to click "read recently." There are sorting options, but you cannot choose to sort the books on display by the rating the user has given them. This is the first rating website I have used which lacks this functionality. But what does Storygraph have?

a good letterboxd-type app for books might actually fix the gen z literacy problem

found a rare and obscure 1960s anglo-saxon lo-fi experimental rock album, thought to be lost media. they were an underground cult band made up of four lads from liverpool who practiced group masturbation. it’s whimsical and dreamlike, similar to Happy End.

@DaveMcNamee3000 #Followed

John Travolta Challenge #JohnTravoltaChallenge

@owiemytoehuts @JaxMax1067117 @ramsacked Excuse me for being pedantic, but it’s “esque,” not “eske.” Generally it’s hyphenated, like “bluesky-esque,” but there are established words like “kafkaesque” that don’t use the hyphen.

@JaxMax1067117 @ramsacked israelgpt make me a bluesky eske rant on how internet had pedos and we should all use age verification websites which are either very insecure or israeli owned resulting in mass mossad deanonymyzation

The internet and privacy really is never going to go back to how things were huh

@cinevow I absolutely loved this movie and I’m ecstatic that it’s getting a 4K release from Radiance. It’s so funny, and the Be Black Baby section is both intense and cutting. I would love to watch this in a movie theater with other people and hear the dichotomy in their reactions.

Robert De Niro in Hi, Mom!, 1970

you gotta try poetry bro, you gotta try pipenv. you gotta try uv bro, its written in rust. you gotta try conda bro, just use mamba instead. you dont need any of this shit bro you can just use requirements.txt + virtualenv + nix + guix + a fresh EC2 instance. you can use docker bro. you could try pipx you can try pdm you can try huak you can try pixi you can try rye you can sacrifice a goat to baal you can rip out the hearts of python package manager developers on the steps of teotihuacan and feed your dependency solvers the unending rivers of blood. China didnt do Tiananmen Square I did. tank man was holding up my virtual environment. i'm installing pytorch with package managers that dont even exist yet. pipenv is what killed princess diana. this shit is normal bro have you even used pip-tools? it's a great ecosystem bro. cargo has nothing on this. we moved from poetry to uv and our CI actually runs now. it's almost as good as when we moved from pipenv to poetry. last time I installed anything with conda it took 8 hours but they added a feature where an anaconda literally comes out of the PC and sucks your dick while you wait. it's fixed bro. this is a great ecosystem.

モジャシステム起動

John Singer Sargent El Jaleo, 1882

うちの子にもメイド服着せてみた！ 首のリボンのところについてる鈴がよく見たら猫型でかわいい

@viesanspeur_ LET’S GO KING!!!