Ah, but ICBMs have a response time of 25 to 30 minutes. So we simply need to remove the warheads and replace them with horny people. This would have the additional benefit of advancing nuclear disarmament.
Of course there would need to be a way to safely decelerate the payload and land at the destination, but that’s just details.
Some sodium ion batteries use an aqueous electrolyte, meaning they’re full of water.
I guess it must depend on what model hardware you’re running.
Seeing as how I’ve worked with thick pieces of wood every time I’ve built a fire, I’ve “tried it” thousands of times.
You can’t light thick wood on fire with a match.
I wouldn’t say it was “fundamentally” founded in democracy when originally only white property owning men could vote.
Even with bad actors, you can still usually appreciate the stories.
True, but not what the conversation was about.
For most of human history, plays were performed by hundreds, maybe thousands of different actors across centuries. How many different men have played Romeo or Hamlet?
I would have absolutely no problem with replacing James Earl Jones with another actor in a remake.
Characters get re-cast quite often as their actors age out or die
All three of these situations are different than dubs. In the first two cases you have people using an existing work to realize a unique artistic vision, combining what was already there with their own perspective and self expression. A remake (and another instance of a play performance) doesn’t replace the original, as its an entirely separate work. In the last case you have the original creators of something working around a fact of life, and still doing their best to realize their own vision.
In the case of a dub you have a localization company contracted by a publishing company to produce a product. Their objective isn’t to create a new work of art, which is why its very rare for someone to say “you should watch the original first then the dub for the best experience”, like they do for, say, Suspiria (1977) and Suspiria (2018).
The desired outcome of a dub is to provide as close to the same experience as possible to the original, but in a different language. So essentially the producers of the dub are trying to do the same job as the original director. The thing is that almost everything about the quality of a movie performance is attributed to the dynamic between director and actor. People literally write books about how a specific performance came to be, specific things that a director said to an actor, specific events that happened to take place on set. If I said “give me access to the same actors and cameras and hand me a script and I could do as good of a job as Steven Spielberg” people would think I was insane.
So why is it SUCH a controversial statement to say that maybe Bobson Dugnut at a random localization company may have done a worse job than someone like Yoko Taro or Hayao Miyazaki?
A lot of cheaply made anime in the 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s had terrible Japanese voice acting too. However, if you don’t know much Japanese and are just reading the subtitles, you are not really in as good of a position to evaluate it.
I used to think this until I watched one of those “[sentence] in 50 languages” videos, and then, surprised by what I heard, I listened to longer things dubbed in languages other than English. It turns out not being able to understand the language doesn’t brainwash you into thinking the performance is compelling.
And, TBH, I’ve come to consider this attitude, that voice actors can just be swapped out like mechanical components, to be disrespectful to them and the art of voice acting. What we have with American dubs is like taking Star Wars and swapping out James Earl Jones for Dwayne Johnson doing the same voice he does in Moana, with zero direction from any of the creatives that originally made the Darth Vader character. Note that I chose Star Wars as an example and not something like Citizen Kane or Schindler’s List. I’m not trying to argue that all Japanese media is some kind of high art that can never be equaled. But something doesn’t need to be high art to be butchered.
Yeah, where’s the version of this comic with a boomer sitting on a recliner for 12 hours straight drifting in and out of consciousness while a news channel drones on a TV?
The world wide web runs on top of the internet, but its not the same thing as the internet.
In the 1980s the internet existed, with forum-like things running on top it, but access to it wasn’t widely distributed.
BBSes just used the preexisting telephone network. (Which, yes, dial up internet access later did too, but in the case of dial up you’d be calling the number of an ISP, and afterward your connection would run over net infrastructure. In the case of a BBS you’d be dialing the person running the server directly.)
EDIT: you probably already know this, but just clarifying for others.
It was like that for billions of years and it didn’t bother me in the least.
This is kind of how DynamicLand is. They use a system of projectors to create images next to objects, and color patterns to track object position and identity with cameras:
So, for example, you can place a keyboard next to a block of text to edit it.
There’s more to DynamicLand than that, but that’s what I’m reminded of.
For some things you do have to multitask and keep the plates spinning, so to speak. For example making sure something doesn’t burn while you’re cleaning the last mess.
And that is something that a lot of people need to acclimate to I think. If anyone reading this is one of those people then I’d suggest focusing on reducing the mess as much as possible while you’re cooking, even if you aren’t perfect. Then try to take care of whatever’s left after you finish cooking but before you actually eat. One or two dirty implements is a lot less daunting to take care of than a sink full of stuff.
Another thing I’d suggest is trying to reduce the amount of stuff you dirty in the first place by focusing on single pot recipes or modifying a recipe to be single pot. Frying meat and onions in the bottom of a soup pot before deglazing and adding the rest of the ingredients, for example. This isn’t always possible to do of course, especially if you’re doing something big and fancy, but you should save those kinds of recipes for times when you have all day to dedicate to them.
The usage rates in Japanese cities are among the highest in the world, as are the punctuality and reliability of the intercity trains.
Could the system be less convoluted? Absolutely. But IMO most European countries aren’t in much of a position to criticize given that they aren’t even willing to step up to the plate to anywhere near the same degree, to say nothing of North America.
Now, one might argue that this has more to do with city form than it does with the quality of the PT infrastructure, but that is infrastructure too, and those two types of infra are two sides of the same coin. And yeah, the city form isn’t completely perfect either, but when it comes to moving a greater proportion of people in the safest and most energy and space efficient way, the numbers are just higher than most other places.
Their public transportation and a lot of their other infrastructure is advanced, their IT infrastructure is not.
Linux didn’t exist until 1991. Though there may have been some people in the 80s who were used to Unixes running on workstations that thought that MS DOS and the Windows software was stupid. But who knows.
I’ve made a simple historically verifiable statement,
Can you provide a source then?
UK is US-lite.