• finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Fucking slop images contributed less than nothing to the article.

    /etc/init.d, uh, finds a way

    Logged logs logging loggily

    Go off, king. Great points. I can’t bring myself to give a shit about anything this person has to say if they feel the need to interject Marvel quips into their own article.

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      4 days ago

      Jurassic Park.

      Not sure about the other one, but I don’t shun people for having their fun. Technical articles can be quite dry.

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        4 days ago

        I recognize the reference, and am also not actually against people having joy in their lives.

        My problem is with the use of a tool that is built on a corpus of unlicensed works (regardless of how you feel about the current copyright system, which imo is broken af) and has caused significant environmental and economic damage to the world.

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          3 days ago

          Oh, there is no defense for sending out slop for a image. I would have rather seen them take a picture and put text on the cards. My concern was that you were against people interjecting Marvel quips.

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            3 days ago

            Yeah I’m not actually against marvel quips, though I definitely feel they became detrimental to the writing style of their films over time. When I complain about it, I’m really complaining about interruptions where they aren’t warranted and don’t contribute to the narrative.

            A good quip isn’t just funny- it can contribute to audience understanding, help with pacing, and fits naturally into the narrative. A bad quip interrupts the narrative for no reason other than to interrupt. I don’t really have a good example for this, it’s more of a ‘know it when you see it’ situation. It was definitely better in the early marvel films.

            As much as I love witty characters like Spider-Man, not everyone needs to be comic relief and sometimes it just doesn’t jibe with the story being told.