Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Accents. Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:56:34 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: <20251031085634.000078aa@gmail.com> References: <68eb8c02$0$24822$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10d0f0e$1u8bd$1@dont-email.me> <68f40083$0$28050$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <20251020092029.000020b3@gmail.com> <68fcc773$0$417$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <10djhg8$3kg9d$5@dont-email.me> <10donsh$17dho$6@dont-email.me> <10dp2m1$1ctkt$1@dont-email.me> <7jtMQ.876831$7Ika.50088@fx17.iad> <5quctlxlmi.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10e1fn8$7gc2$4@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:56:38 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b1e19c3f80b247275e94efce5b2c527d"; logging-data="521188"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+heBwpEk5AzAlbvwdr+FwEX+mka25e7/s=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:CJyeccxyJBWp01ulwU7NXdAna9s= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76867 On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:41:19 +0100 "Carlos E.R." wrote: > > There are things you could complain about in =E2=80=9CBlade Runner=E2= =80=9D > > (gratuitous violence), but surely not that: the look of the film, > > conceived by Syd Mead and Ridley Scott, with advanced yet shabby > > and well-used technology, the vast, towering, dirty city, the > > melding of Eastern and Western cultures ... that had a major > > influence on other aspiring sci-fi moviemakers, I would say on a > > par with =E2=80=9C2001: A Space Odyssey=E2=80=9D. > >=20 > > RIP Philip K Dick, SF novelist who wrote--and lived--right on the > > edge of sanity a lot of the time, and who died before production > > was completed. > >=20 > > Also RIP Rutger Hauer, who died in 2019, the year the movie was set > > in. =20 >=20 > I know all that, but I do complain. I can accept the city being dark,=20 > but interiors being dark, no way. Heck, we invented the LED. my=20 > interiors are brighter than they ever were. BR is best understood not as a literal prediction of the future, but as a fable about what it means to be human in an increasingly dehumanizing society, wrapped up in a big ol' film-noir mood piece. In that respect, it's more prescient than anybody would've liked to think back in '82 - the Corporate Overlords of the 21st century have just engineered their disposable labor force by economic and sociological means rather than genetic/robotic ones, and it's telling that two major threads in the appalling "generative 'AI'" saga are *A.* the increasing difficulty of telling fact from manufactured narrative and *B.* the reliance of emotionally-stunted and desperately lonely people on invented memories and artificial companionship. 2025 looks a lot more like the film's 2019 than I ever thought it would back when I first watched it :/