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- UBo Lite pales against the original UBo, it doesn't matter if it's a cool fork.by anthk
- I don't see ads with ubo lite. From my perspective it does just as good of a job.by charcircuit
- My personal tagline, "I came here to kick ass, build web applications, and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum." came from this movie.by tlhunter
- I came here to kick ass and deploy microservices... And I'm all out of ass.by sdenton4
- I came here to drink milk and kick ass... and I've just finished my milkby ndsipa_pomu
- And Duke Nukem.by DeathArrow
- I want to see the outtake lines they didnt use. Roddy Piper had tons of one liners he would use for wrestling.by sumtechguy
- They Live was such a fun B movie. It is also kind of timeless.
It is far from a perfect or even very good movie, but the key messages are great and simple and the "chew bubblegem" scene is one very actionable scene. Long live Roddy.
by shevy-java - I never found the Matrix very impressive, because I'd been inoculated by this movie.by akkartik
- they are two very different movies, especially considering all three of the matrix movies.by fedeb95
- Did you watch The Matrix on cinema, without knowing anything about the movie?
Back when The Matrix first opened, it was still possible to go to the cinema without knowing anything about a movie. I watched it like this and my mind was blown. I thought I was about to watch a techno thriller about a hacker who resisted authority!
I don't think I would have enjoyed the movie in today's hyperconnected internet culture, where we know what every movie will be about months and sometimes years before release.
Wait, I'll make an exception: say what you will about The Force Awakens, but I totally thought -- based on the trailers -- that it was going to be about Han Solo and Chewie. When it turned out to be about a new character, Rey, I was completely and pleasantly surprised. Well done, trailer editors!
by the_af - I wasn't too impressed by Matrix as much as I was impressed by Animatrix [0].by onemoresoop
- They Live is such a good metaphor for so much of the modern world. Once you see it, cannot unsee.
- Oh the irony: "They Live", a movie famously about alienation and dehumanization, and you let AI do all the coding.by deng
- What if it wouldn't get done otherwise?
(Genuine question as we're all trying to figure this shit out)
by dang - Are you writing code in a computer instead of using pen and paper? Preposterous!by gchamonlive
- I once built a Chrome extension to play this audio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8itH10OFc8), encoded as base64 in the extension, on certain UI interactions on a sports site. I did it all by my big self. Should I be proud of that? Because I think we both know the answer is no.by tclancy
- Interacting with a computer in natural language is much more human than typing in special codes and punctuation.by xnx
- People have jobs and lives, let them make things quick with the tools available if its for fun.
- Watch it if you haven't already. I accidentally landed in the middle of it while doing some illicit late night channel surfing when I was a kid.. this left quite an impression.
I think it was a healthy formative influence for me and primed me for rejecting fads / peer pressure, distrusting authority, etc. Probably also helped me to resist the more unhealthy aspects of a religious time/place, and I was even doing light reading on Cartesian skepticism a few years later, which got me into math. Didn't figure out the name of the movie until years later when it was a big meme.
This is not advice but I definitely advise you to show your small children this movie before they are old enough to think it's corny. They may have a schizophrenic episode or descend into solipsism sure, but they may also get scared as hell by monsters and learn some mental judo, and thank you for it later.
- What do they say about those who see through ideology.by keybored
- by flomo
- "They live" was a cult classic, and great fun if you were a Roddy Piper fan.
Other entertaining films =3
"The Great Dictator" (Charlie Chaplin, 1940)
https://archive.org/details/the-great-dictator-disc-01-title...
"Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951)
https://archive.org/details/day-the-earth-stood-still-1951
"Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" (1956)
https://archive.org/details/invasionofthebodysnatchers1956_2...
"The Man in the White Suit" (1951)
https://archive.org/details/the-man-in-the-white-suit_202105
"The Twilight Zone" (1959)
https://archive.org/details/the-twilight-zone-1959-s-01-e-00...
https://archive.org/details/the-twilight-zone-1959-s-01-e-00...
https://archive.org/details/the-twilight-zone-1959-s-03-e-15...
https://archive.org/details/the-twilight-zone-1959-s-03-e-15...
by Joel_Mckay - Nice pitch. I'll stream it right away!
I've been watching Andor as a instructional manual recently and this seems like a good addition to the reality based manuals out there.
Idiocracy, War INC etc.
by shrubby - My dad pitched this movie to me when I was a kid, as he was a Carpenter fan.
Beyond the somewhat "obvious" message (for a grown up) it's just an eminently entertaining movie.
by riffraff - What I find funny (only not really) is the wildly different interpretations of this film people have, for many they seem to be primed by other things to see in it what they want.
Basically skeptical of common forms in modernity, that is very clearly the intention. However, I have also seen that in extreme far-right communities this film represents how Jewish people control the world... somehow I don't think that is what Carpenter was going for.
Alas, once your works are in the wild it is out of the creators control in how they end up being used.
by HerbManic - Cool idea!the font weight should be extra/heavy, and not true black, dark gray.by dostick
- The heavier weights of League Spartan would be a good match.by kilna
- Back in the late 90s I stood up a webserver in my office that returned fake banner ads for 404's. I used the in-house DNS server to vector "*.doubleclick.net" over to it.
We'd get amusing banner ads for things like cocaine-based nasal spray, renting pigs, and other vaguely off-color things in place of real ads. It was very, very amusing. I didn't tell anybody I was doing it and got some real laughs when people submitted helldesk tickets asking about the ads.
It got the axe when a technician printed some Mapquest directions that included off-color ads and left them laying around at a Customer site.
Aside: The fake ads came from a website called "Bannertown", (if memory serves). I believe it's long-since defunct. I'd love to find the ads today. They were very amusing.
by EvanAnderson - Cocaine nasal spray: https://web.archive.org/web/20001019042034im_/http://chicken...by arm32