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  • I don't believe I've ever let an RT score sway my decision to watch something. I sometimes forget RT exists until someone else brings it up.

    If RT had any sway on me I wouldn't have watched and loved Arena (1989), American Ninja (1975), Screamers (1995), Chopping Mall (1986), or Dead Heat (1988) just to name a few excellent viewing experiences.

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  • Indeed. The RT scoring favors inoffensive, wide appeal over interesting but not-for-everyone movies.

    People act like it's some kind of dunk when a movie/show they like gets high rating, despite the often useless nature of critics and/or audiences at large to reflect individual taste.

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  • First, we have to agree on what a plot hole is.

    My definition of a plot hole in a story is something that simply can not happen given the existing rules of the story, or something which could only happen in an unexplained and if not literally impossible than at least so unlikely it is practically impossible way that defies everything else we know about the story.

    This would be an item inexplicably jumping locations, a character having knowledge they could not possibly have, or a character or item being in two places at once. Things like that which gnarl the story.

    What it isn't: A character making a bad decision, a character acting unusual (even to the point of acting out of character- that can be bad writing, but not a plot hole), a character forgetting something, a plot contrivance, an unlikely coincidence, something being unrealistic but consistent within the context of the story.

    I commonly see poorly written scenes, or scenes where someone thinks a character was acting irrationally, or scientific or legal or other plot points that are intentionally written to serve the story described as plot holes.

    With that description, I'd say quite a great number of works of fiction don't have plot holes.

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  • I like the convenience of being shown all my subscriptions, and with a trained algorithm actually being shown suggestions I'd be interested in. I think with an account used just for YouTube and nothing else the value to Google is minimal. It's the last thing I have left from de-googling everywhere else.

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  • from other users.

    Can you elaborate? Using a compartmentalized account just to watch videos seems it shouldn't draw any attention unless you're getting into fights in the comments.

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  • I have a Google account specifically for logging into YouTube. I've aggressively used the like/hide channel/not interested in this video options to force it to actually show me what I want. It took quite a while to train it, but my YouTube homepage is actually nice right now.

    But every so often I'll go on YouTube logged out and it's like staring into the sun. The top videos that it pushes seem like brain melting garbage.

    Strangely I haven't had any issues with Firefox+Ublock+Sponsorblock. The way YouTube interacts with seemingly the same sets of software for different people is baffling.

  • I think Andor forgot somebody (trivial spoilers)

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  • Nah, I just don't feel like typing out a thesis to defend what started out as an offhand joke under a meme post.

  • I think Andor forgot somebody (trivial spoilers)

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  • But also Gollum.

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  • I'm pretty sure being stuck in space prison with Gollum was a factor.

  • If my county passes a new tax for um lets say a new jail. They staff it and build it and everything with the tax money. How come it seems the tax is there forever? Why not get rid of it when built?

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  • People are giving answers to your specific hypothetical, but on a higher level, the answer is simple. The government likes having more money. Once a tax is in place, it becomes the new normal. It can be like pulling teeth to make a government roll back a tax. Groups in my local area have tried numerous times to roll back a specific tax where a government spokesperson has even said the tax is no longer fulfilling the original purpose, but removing the tax would now affect the overall budget. That has become the reason they refuse to remove it, and because neither party cares much about removing it, there's no political leverage by the voters who care about it.

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  • I can't believe it turned out the Kleya was the secret Jedi and Luthen was the original Palpatine who got usurped by one of his early clones. Bravo, Gilroy.

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  • Star Wars has a tradition.

  • [SPOILERS for Andor finale] You know what, I'll just email you a pdf or something

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  • I know what you mean by "another Andor" but your comment reminded my of the RLM pitch for a post-Rogue One Andor season where every episode is just a charred body floating in space.

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  • What was Cassin supposed to do regarding Maarva? Fistfight time?

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    [Spoiler for Andor S2E10] That hospital got

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  • There was an alien (mon calamari, I think) briefly shown in a bacta tank.

    Best I could tell with Luthen is that he needed the external ventilator to keep breathing, which might not have been compatible with a bacta tank. Tanks are always shown with much simpler respirator setups. It may have been the plan to stabilize Luthen on the ventilator to a point where he could be transferred to a bacta tank.

  • POV: You slept in and now it's 9am and you still haven't made breakfast yet

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  • Furious and shyly worried.

  • If I cut up pictures to arrange things in a way that when traced over create something "new," is that a copyright violation?

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  • The OP is asking about using portions of copy written works. Therefore if those works were used or not wouldn't be at issue. What would be issue is if the use is fair use. Which again, goes back to the balancing test which would be decided in court if the rights holder pursues it.

  • If I cut up pictures to arrange things in a way that when traced over create something "new," is that a copyright violation?

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  • From what I have gathered of the Lemmy zeitgeist, intellectual property doesn't exist except if AI uses it.

  • If I cut up pictures to arrange things in a way that when traced over create something "new," is that a copyright violation?

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  • you can in some situations argue that the way you infringed on their copyright should be allowed

    That would be an argument made in court, pursuant to the balancing test. You would be arguing that the use wasn't actually infringement. Thats how fair use is determined.

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  • People can give you their best guesses, but without a court case and a ruling it is impossible to say what the answer will be with iron certainty.

    My guess, for US law, would be based of the four factor balancing test used in determining fair use. The four factors are the nature of the use, the nature of the copyrighted material, the amount of the copyrighted material used, and the effect of the use on the value of the material.

    If you are using the copyrighted works for a non-profit purpose that helps, if you are remixing them that helps, if you are using works that are not violating right of first publishing that helps.

    Importantly copyright does not have to be enforced by the holder for them to retain full legal protection. What that means is even if the holder somehow became aware (which honestly is pretty doubtful for such a small individual use), they can simply choose not to pursue the matter. The resources that could go into pursuing a copyright case for such a use are probably going to be a lot more than any gain they'd get. Big IP holders have endless waves of people using their material, and their resources are better spent going after uses that are clearly trying to make or making a profit or distributing their copyrighted works.

    The TLDR is yeah sure, it's probably fine. If you somehow got the evil eye on you, in practical reality the first thing you'd get would be a C&D letter anyway.

    Edit: Here is the relevant text in 17 U.S. Code § 107

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    Doodling some wacky scifi camouflages

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    [Various mechanical noises]

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    Loadout of a colonial defense trooper late in the war

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    "0451 is a good soldier."

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    He took it in that split second Kalashnikov let his guard down. And he'd do it again.

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    You did it. You broke the conditioning.

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