It's funny with the gas leak ... I remember not really minding it at the time ... but I'm not sure I can remember any of it!
Interestingly, Harmon would probably agree.
Like I said, I probably would have thought the same ... but I'm no longer sure.
Like reflecting on all the meta things Community did, which I think count as "jokes", are pretty good and the sort of thing 30 Rock never really touched. The whole Law and Order episode, EG, was ridiculously good! Now maybe that doesn't count as a joke ... but it's certainly a form humour that I personally found epic and masterful ... a parody that is so heartfelt and accurate that you could be convinced you're watching the original except for how absurd it is to be embedded in a college context. Again, probably not what you meant by "jokes", but I don't think it's just about the character-driven writing ... there was an approach to humour in Community that tried to go beyond "jokes" in a way that maybe has more mileage over time than 30 Rock's more jokey style.
Just speculation of course ... I haven't rewatched these recently at all ... in fact the point is to reflect on the impression left over time rather than their actual real-time qualities.
Hmmm ... seems my response from mastodon didn't federate (sighs) ...
copy-pasted (sorry, for whoever federation did work, this is likely making things worse):
Personally, I’m there with you I think. I only use default web-UIs on all fediverse platforms I’ve used, and advocate for that.
But should multi-protocol systems and multi-platform clients become normalised, I think this goes beyond “to app or not to app”. What I’m talking about could likely just be a web-app.
The issue is more around aggregation and creating something “greater than the sum of its parts” out of open alt-social.
A useful lens I find is whether a social media system is good at creating, facilitating and hosting genuine communities.
Alt-social right now is struggling with this I think and, IMO, has plenty of room to grow in this regard.
The difficulty though is that it requires more features in our platforms, some likely non-trivial. That’s a big ask for an open non-profit ecosystem.
An effective means of aggregating multiple parts into a unified view could alleviate this.
To go on about it ... I don't think the browser does much at all. Unified feeds and notifications, with helpful filtering, sorting and organisation? Helpful account management? Making it easy to cross-post or copy across platforms or protocols?
Why have an RSS Feed reader if you could just visit each of the web pages individually? Obviously one can, but the feed reader is still useful.
While I think I understand where you're coming from, I fear it's coming from a position of habit and app fatigue rather than from a general consideration of what could work well on alt-social (where my position is that it isn't really working well enough (yet)).
Not trying to say it's a competition ... I'm more reflecting on what they've meant to me over time and how I didn't really see it coming. Of course everyone is encouraged to enjoy both and more as much as they want.
Otherwise ... yea, what you describe is also a big part of it.
Yea, 4 hours is obviously quite long. But the theatrical release wasn't "tight" IMO. I personally felt the plot holes and narrative jumps very strongly and it turned me off of the film as I was watching it. Though I've only seen it once, I think it hurt the characterisation of Napoleon too. Whether a longer cut helps that, I'm not sure ... but it seems more than plausible.
My experience with long films like this is to watch them in split sessions, even on adjacent days.
I once watched Barry Lyndon in 3 split sittings on 3 separate days and really enjoyed it. It's basically like watching a short TV series.
Well as someone who was there on IMDB forums way back ... I had no idea ... thanks!
Given the vexed ownership situation anything like this (or rotten tomatoes or similar) is vulnerable to ... a fediverse version makes more and more sense as time goes by! 🤔
Big Trouble in Little China
it’s a classic, and I’ve never seen it!
“Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves” (2023)
This movie sadly bombed at the box office, but is in my opinion a near-perfect fantasy adventure flick that strikes a really good balance of narrative and comedy, and respects the source material without making it a prerequisite for enjoyment. I’d put it up there with “The Princess Bride” and I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets a similar cult appreciation in the future.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Just because I realised my partner has never seen it, and it’s a banger, and about AI, and has a strong female character, it seemed interesting to revisit some 30 odd years later
The automatic hashtags in lemmy since v 19.4 makes it much easier.
See a quick post from me on it here: https://lemmy.ml/post/17563476
I think it’s entirely on mastodon.
They don’t have a “subscribe” mechanism. Only following. And so everything coming from a group like a lemmy community looks like it’s coming from someone you follow, so you see all of their posts.
The alternative, which is also a general problem on mastodon, is that you wouldn’t be able to see any of the comments at all, because you’re not following the users making them.
Yea, I hear you (I don't use bookmarks either) ... but I don't think this is the average user.
This sounds to me like a design issue. In fact, this is kinda my point ... better interaction here, which is the "promise" of the fediverse, may be best addressed with good aggregating clients rather than relying on too platforms to work out their historical differences over the protocol.