• aeharding@lemmy.world
    171·
    9 months ago

    Back in my day we couldn’t walk or bike to the grocery store because the streets were so dangerously designed

  • scorpious@lemmy.world
    154·
    9 months ago

    Hopefully, everything “identity” that has made its way into just about everything.

    I’d like to think that future kids might be amused/annoyed by parents still insisting on calling out race, gender, sexual orientation, etc., as the most meaningful aspects of Who Someone Is…or even things they, “should be proud of.”

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
      3·
      9 months ago

      I would assume a sperm to the crotch, but what do I know about humans’ reproductive strategies

  • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    9 months ago

    Not me or my kids specifically, but I think barriers between genders will break down enough that within my lifetime we might hear people wondering why we were all so cool with gender segregated bathrooms for so long. Separate but equal in the 21st century.

    For me specifically, probably my thoughts on movies. I think barely any newer movies are very good. Obviously there were plenty of bad movies “back in my day” but it truly feels like the studio executives and producers fundamentally do not give a shit about art. I could do a Ted Talk rant about this, but you guys have shit to do today so I’ll keep it light. Indiana Jones. Compare the trilogy to the new entries. Objectively speaking, as stories and character studies, looking at effects and acting and score, analyzing cinematography and lighting, if you were to score each film 1-10, the first 3 are consistently 7+ movies (1 and 3 are 9+) while the nostalgia bait sequels would get 5s at best. They would rather milk existing IPs to prey upon our nostalgia to make a buck for killing the franchise’s legacy than take a risk with new IPs. That’s why we keep getting Star Wars, super heroes, board game adaptation, toy adaptation, video game adaptation, remake, reboot, and the occasional rushed book adaptation while the book is still hot. They are all about the bottom line, and so long as we keep paying to see shitty movies, they’ll keep making shitty movies as it is a beneficial investment strategy. Boycott bad movies. Just wait for reviews.

    • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
      11·
      9 months ago

      I broadly agree with you, but it feels like cinema is shifting back to quality again. We’re all tired of shitty superhero movies and many of the recent ones have bombed at the box office. Hell, one of the biggest movies of last year was mostly about men in suits talking about science and it was great. Dune pt. II is also an incredible breath of fresh air and shows that it’s still possible to make a massive blockbuster with mass appeal but also a strong sense of style and integrity. I really hope this trend continues because I want real cinema and not mere ‘content’.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      9 months ago

      I feel like bad movies nowadays are bad for simpler reasons. Trying to pin down why some movies from the 1980s worked or didn’t, for that audience or a modern audience, was complicated and remains complicated. Nailing down the failure points of modern crap is so straightforward that it naturally becomes comedy.

      Maybe it’s a matter of proportion. There’s complex duds now, and there were blatantly atrocious movies then. But it’s like… people making movies grew up watching too many movies, and don’t recognize which parts are a choice. They know a thing is supposed to happen, but don’t recognize that it was clearly set up to appear obviously necessary, so they don’t do that setup. And then the “have I got a movie for you” guy gets to say “unclear.” The same cyclical regurgitation creates live-action adaptations of animated films, which neither build on nor live up to the originals, despite examples where stage musicals outclassed the celebrated hand-drawn films.

      The good news is that AI is going to destroy all of this by eliminating Hollywood. I mean really - if any writer who can sketch their own animatics can extract a finished scene from their computer, what is a billion-dollar studio going to offer them besides marketing?

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    At least 1 of my 300 kids is going to eventually run into some insect smut I commissioned and recognize my username.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    1210·
    9 months ago

    Growing up r***** was a pretty common phrase, that’s definitely something some millenials have had problems removing from their vocabulary.

    I also don’t think our social comprehension of gender has finished evolving yet. So everyone alive to read this comment will eventually have to revise their understanding and look back on their cringy previous views.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    23·
    9 months ago

    They just transplanted a genetically human kidney grown in a pig into a human being. Pretty sure we’re only a few decades from being able to do a lot more.

    Remember that guy from ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’? The one with two heads? That’ll be common soon enough.

        • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
          13·
          9 months ago

          “To reduce global suffering” yes that’s the eco-fascism. Population control is the eugenics equivalent of austerity. You don’t get to tell anyone for any reason if they’re allowed to have children or not. That’s not your call, that’s not anyone else’s call but the parents’.

          Not only is it deeply immoral, like all fascist pseudoscience, it also doesn’t work. Just ask China’s population control policy how that went.