That one has been on my list to watch for a while. I wanted to do a big drink viewing with friends though so it’s gonna be a bit

And the Iron Sky studio collapsed. I keep my fingers crossed something will happen eventually.

Oh I love Kung Fury. And Kung Fu Hustle. And Shaolin Soccer.

I’ve just found around me more people have seen Velocipastor and Iron Sky, or are more willing to watch them, so they work better as discussion pieces with others. My real friends get introduced to everything.

Not just older generations. Current gen tech bros, current gen oil barons, everyone who voted Republican or whatever British parties are their oil lords.

Fuck ever denialist with a rusty spoon strapped to a cactus

Nothing that can’t be fixed by getting Dracula to sing

I mean I’m not pulling anything new out of it that hasn’t been done before but there’s a lot in there.

Subversion of expectations with a hooker being a good guy and Christian ninjas being the bad guys (among other things). Discussions about VFX and what’s actually needed to sell a scene. Pacing (the whole movie moves at a decent clip without feeling rushed, but still takes a moment for slower scenes). Camerawork and lighting especially for the nighttime scenes. Budgets. The acting is decently solid.

Like really there’s a lot that the movie gets right with like a $30k budget that big Hollywood movies fail at. It’s cinema stripped to some of its essential parts and it’s much better than it maybe has any right to be.

But then I’ll talk about it with people who don’t care about all that and just think a velociraptor fighting ninjas is fun and, well, they aren’t wrong.

I always pull out “Velocipastor” or “Iron Sky” for very similar reasons. There’s quite a bit you can dig into on any level with those movies.

Both a song and a dance called the same thing.

"The scene was rockin’, all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, ‘The Crypt-Kicker Five’

They played the mash, they played the monster mash
The monster mash, it was a graveyard smash
They played the mash, it caught on in a flash
They played the mash, they played the monster mash"

Factually wrong. It’s both a song and a dance

"The scene was rockin’, all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, ‘The Crypt-Kicker Five’

They played the mash, they played the monster mash
The monster mash, it was a graveyard smash
They played the mash, it caught on in a flash
They played the mash, they played the monster mash"

Star anise, cinnamon, clove, ginger, msg

They’re on .ml that usually means they’re an insane tankie and best to just ignore them

Sometimes being judgemental is okay. Calling someone out for idolizing mentally unstable murderers is justified.

And in the comic books he tried to do it to get laid. He’s really not a role model in any form

You can make baked apple fritters but this batter would likely be too wet. I’d look for one developed for baking.

Proving yet again AI bros have lost the ability to think. “many I’ve talked to” <- that literally is the data. I’m the data. It doesn’t matter what the number is.

As opposed to your comment

none of the most hardline anti-AI folks on here are

Literally me existing already disproves your comment.

Most? Where’s the data? This hard-line anti-LLM guy has a degree in computer science and has developed neural network systems for a previous company. Many on here that I’ve talked to about it fall under similar category.

As far as I know no. The plan is for the the top maintainers to gather and choose a successor. Though if you have more up to date information I’d love to see it. I could be behind the times on that.

Sort of. The plan is “convene to make a plan” 72 hours after Linus’s git stops updating. I should have been a little more clear though that people have been calling for a democratic secession plan to happen now instead of when Linus passes or steps away.

He’s a hero to a cult of tech bros. He’s never been my hero and there’s many in the Linux space who have been calling him out and asking for a democratic succession plan for ages. He’s not some all knowing perfect being.

As someone who did study computer science and has worked in embedded processor space (so one of the people who’s written assembly by hand he’s talking about).

I’ve never understood it either. People take his word as law blindly and it’s never made sense to me. Yes he has skill, but so do hundreds of others. Yes he’s opinionated, that’s certainly not a reason to hero worship him.

For ten+ years people have been pointing out he’s basically a single point of failure for Linux and begging for a succession plan and he’s been too stuck up his own ass to accept that he isn’t the only one who cares about all this.

This has lead to some extreme cult following behind him for some reason.