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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.nettoTechnology@beehaw.org•The hidden engineering of airport runways: Engineered Materials Arresting Systems
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    7 days ago

    A friend of mine reached out to a couple of Nebula creators to ask them if it was more beneficial financially for people to watch their stuff on Nebula or YT. Neither had a cut and dried answer, saying that YT views are important for long term discoverability that was hard to quantify vs getting a direct cut of the Nebula money/YT ads. So I’ll sometimes watch shorter-form videos on YT and save the deep dives/binging for Nebula.

    Edit because I forgot the point I was responding to: Grady linking to YT might be a case of needing that engagement either short or long term.

  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.nettoMeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works•Davel lemmy.ml admin: "Taiwan isn't a country, it's a part of China!"English
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    16 days ago

    That’s… what I said? Liberated. Like China did to Tibet. And Russia is doing to Ukraine. For what is liberty if not being forcibly subjected to the laws of a foreign government asserting that the land and populace is theirs by divine/historical/imagined right? Sure Hong Kong governed itself perfectly well before Britain unclenched their greedy imperialist hands. And sure, China agreed to let Hong Kong continue to govern itself afterwards. But when it comes down to it, those people belong to China. They needed to be liberated from the idea that they were independent. Had those protestors simply submitted to The Party, a lot of hubbub could have been avoided.

    Should I lay it on thicker, or would an /s suffice? My internal Poe’s Law is having a field day with this.

  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.nettoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Not over it
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    23 days ago

    IMO they did a pretty good job foreshadowing. She was absolutely brutal in Astapor (justifiably), and was on her way in Meereen before being talked down by her advisors. This becomes a recurring theme: she wants to charge in and go scorched earth, Jorah/Varys/Tyrion/etc urge caution. And at the end, none of them were there any longer. Varys and Tyrion were rejected as traitors, Jorah, Missandei, Rhaegal, and Viserion all killed in her presence. It was just Dany, Drogon, grief, and rage at the end.

    Going by the general reaction, it was probably a bit too subtle. But it’s pretty low on my list of GoT endgame sins.

  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.nettoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Not over it
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    23 days ago

    what should be a multi month voyage is reduced to days

    I think this is what got under my skin the most on the initial watch. Gendry just… running… all the way back to the wall, sending a raven for Dany, and her showing up for the rescue… what was that, like, 6 shots? It pulled me right out.

    I kept that in mind during rewatch. What I started realizing is that the early seasons were able to cover passage of time by switching locations/storylines. There was a LOT going on in a bunch of places, and for the most part it was handled well. As the end approached, there were less locations/storylines as everything converged on the North and King’s Landing. So not only did the show lose having the books to fall back on, they also lost the ability to mask time skips. And this was not handled well at all. The result was jarring cuts and a rushed pace. I don’t think stretching the end out any further just for the sake of being longer would have been a net positive, let alone adding seasons of what would have amounted to filler. But there had to have been a better way to avoid those self inflicted faceplants.