Hey yeah in the midst of all the hype and the strikes, can we PLEASE fucking talk about this
“Whilst it’s true that there is no computer-generated imagery (CGI) in the movie, visual effects will have been used to digitally alter several images through the use of compositing.
In the case of Oppenheimer, it was the British visual design company DNEG who helped bring the movie to life, yet it has come to light that the majority of the effects crew were not credited for their work. Only 26 names have been listed in the film’s credits, yet it is thought that this number should have been around 125.”
icant even explain why i feel this way about it but this meme, this specific version, just makes me so emotional i love it so so much. its very heartwarming. peace n love on planet earth
Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?
They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.
Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?
So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.
And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn’t compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn’t sell.
And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at… putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.
If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn’t have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that’s what they did.
I don’t know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.
It’s an old observation but the secret sauce that makes JJBA work is that a guy can show up with a stand that has the power to sever their opponents’ legs at 100 yards and the protagonists will just cobble together new legs out of bicycle parts and athletic tape and kick the guy’s ass immediately, whereas the guy whose stand power is causing toilets to flush clockwise is an existential threat to all human life and defeating him might take up years’ worth of the manga
“Because what makes toilets drain clockwise is the coriolis effect caused by the rotation of the planet. And the power of the stand "Around the World” increases by proximity to the center of the axis of rotation. So once they get to the rotational pole of the planet they’ll be able to reverse the rotation of the entire planet, destroying all life on the planet.“~ JJBA protagonist #16
‘why are actors striking aren’t they all millionaires’ here’s a paywall free link to an article that mentions how most of the cast of one of netflix’s biggest shows had day jobs bc they couldn’t afford rent
remember that actors are usually not well off at all. forget the big screen famous guys, they’re the very few ones. this strike is for all the other ones, that deserve to have a livable paycheck for their job.
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it’s part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
