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'Blade Runner 2049' Isn't the Movie Denis Villeneuve Wanted to Make (vice.com)
Readers share a Motherboard article: There are seemingly two inescapable realities for big-budget filmmakers in 2017: you have to use existing intellectual property and you must provide spectacle that can lure massive domestic and foreign audiences to the the theater. It seemed that Denis Villeneuve chose wisely when he selected the IP that he would ride into the mainstream. [...] There is much to admire, but as a whole, Blade Runner 2049 works best as a case for why filmmakers like Villeneuve should be given big budgets to try out new concepts rather than retread what's come before them. Just like Arrival was at its best when we saw the elegance of how the space ship and the aliens within it actually functioned, this version of Blade Runner shines when we get to watch how Villeneuve's dystopia operates. Moments of technical brilliance small and large are at the soul of this film. Whether you're watching the creation of robot memories, the execution of an air strike from an effortless, detached distance, or even something as simple as a stroll through a hall of records, the mechanics of this world are jaw-dropping. Ryan Gosling (K) wisely opts for a muted, brooding performance, allowing the world to steal the show while still illustrating the burden of living in it. Even with all of this technical brilliance on display (the costumes, sound, and special effects are brilliant), the baggage of the original film's mythology weighs down Blade Runner 2049. The most burdensome baggage for Villeneuve to carry, sadly, is the Blade Runner story itself.
quote: The problem "Blade runner 2049" ran into is clear from opening-weekend data. The audience was overwhelmingly male (71 percent) and over the age of 25 (86 percent).
Even with all of this technical brilliance on display (the costumes, sound, and special effects are brilliant), the baggage of the original film's mythology weighs down Blade Runner 2049. The most burdensome baggage for Villeneuve to carry, sadly, is the Blade Runner story itself.
If the story's the biggest issue, couldn't you take the movie, recut the visuals, and redub it? Getting some scenes to match the dialogue would be a problem, but between narration, voiceover, and dubbing, could you insinuate a wholly different story into the filmed material?
Until the following starts. Its clearly a brilliant piece of work. Regardless of the complications of following the cannon. Many of the films of today are NOT following the established universe that made us love them to begin with. STRONG deviations, work 10-20% of the time from what I have seen. Sticking to cannon, and/or at least making an attempt to tie in, while making something totally NEW in that universe... THATS what we really want to see. If you can still be creative from within the box, and when there is no box at all, you'll have forever fans...
What are we supposed to be unhappy about? That it wasn't another baygasm?
I've never been so spellbound by a 2+ hour movie ..
you must provide spectacle that can lure massive domestic and foreign audiences to the the theater
That explains why there are so many terrible movies these days.
No. No. No.
It's a good sequel. Better than anyone could have asked for.
The Hollywood grassfuckers couldn't come up with an original idea if it crawled up their toilet and bit them in their itty-bitty balls.
This sequel was a slow rolling dramatic tale and I will say.. IT WORKED.
SPOILERS ahead.
I mean it!! Spoilers ahead!!
Seriously.. SPOILERS.
I have to say.. Spoilers cause spaces are removed.
Yes.. SPOILERs..
1. I loved that every Replicant felt that they were the "One"
2. The death scene at the end was just.. perfect. The falling Snow.
3. Everyone wanted a piece of the Child.. and yet... that is the real human condition... everyone wants to use you.
4. In the end, this is a story about a Dad and a daughter. What they represent, does not matter.
I wanted to cheer the ending as it was.. just perfect.
I can program myself out of a Hello World Contest!!
He wanted to do a remake of Frozen!
The most burdensome baggage for Villeneuve to carry, sadly, is the Blade Runner story itself?
Boohoo, I wanna ride on the coattails but have it be so different as to be unrelated.
Then write your own damn story and world from start to finish and call it something else.
And there was much rejoicing!
I've read most of Phillip K. Dicks' works including "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" I have to say that the original Blade Runner was the very definition of "adaptation" when compared with the book that inspired it. The narrative is different on so many levels. They hardly resemble each other. The way the megacorporations are described in the book is much different than the way they are portrayed in the film. There are a large number of missing characters etc... All that aside, I liked both. They were both interesting to me. So is Blade Runner 2049, too. Just judge it on it's own merits. Don't worry about the problems the producers, directors, writers, and actors had. Screw them. They get enough undeserved attention already and will whine about their jobs just like anyone given the chance. I care about the story and the escapism. Don't bring me down telling me what a hard time the poor director had. Cry me a freakin' river. The guy is rich and probably getting laid right now.
A bit off topic but I was a tad disappointed that Sean Young wasn't used (I think I would have heard if she was) to play the head of Tyrell Corporation. As the replicant in the original we know she was modeled on Tryrell's niece. His doing that is sketchy to start with, and it's not hard to imagine even more sketchiness like genetic material being used from the niece, and her having a non-conventional relationship with her uncle. Anyway, it would have been neat to see today's Sean Young, as the head of Tyrell, pinning Harrison Ford to a wall and demanding to know if he'd treated Rachel well, and had never been mean to her. Sean Young claims that she accidentally did get roughed up more than necessary in the scene in Deckard's apartment with Harrison Ford, so that would have been a nice call back. Seeing her with "more than human" strength due to Tyrell Corporation advance technology, and actually lifting him up, with one hand, off the floor, would have explored the concept of when humans become more like replicants, to go along with when replicants become more like humans. Lol, and it would have looked so very cool.
I'm a huge Blade Runner fan. One could say it's seminal to my movie-going experience: I'm 50, so from the audience that snuck into theaters to see it (I was 15-16 when it released).
I found BR2049 merely ok. I think there was in fact a good film somewhere in there, but it takes a lot of work to sift it from the dross.
I'm not buying the OP's point that the 'tired old story' was what dragged this down. All of the things that really hurt this film were ALL directorial choices.
- pacing: Villaneuve is suffering George Lucas disease. He needs more people to stop telling him how brilliant he is and give him solid criticism. At 2:40 this thing could have easily been an HOUR shorter. Long, drawn out, frankly dull establishing shots were self-indulgent and just felt like you're watching someone show you the 100th slide of their family vacation. It's interesting at first, but ultimately you just DON'T CARE ANYMORE. It's not THAT cool.
- focus: part of the above, partly its own thing. Don't get me wrong, I've long since gotten past my Ridley Scott fandom (Prometheus? Fuck you Ridley I want my $ back), but a terrific choice he made in the first film is to spend relatively little focus on the tech of the era. Sure it's there, and he can't help but notice, but he's not obsessing over the flying cars, etc like BR2049 did.
- product placement: I don't give a shit if Peugot dumped a pile of $ at you. Stop shoving brands in my face. Better that they'd stuck with the Pan Ams and ATARI of the first film.
- the deafening soundscape: Jesus Christ my ears were nearly bleeding after that. Fire your sound man, immediately.
- pointless plots and characters: Why was Leto even IN this film? As a foil, he did literally nothing except kick a dog (a dog we didn't care at all about, btw, so pointless).
- enormous plot holes - the murder in the police station went rather more smoothly than I'd imagine it would; if replicants reproducing is such a earth-shattering thing why build them with ovaries, or even functional uteruses? I have to imagine engineering OUT the 'rag once a month' would (have been) advantageous to the utility of replicants generally?
- the flying car dogfight? Jesus. I don't know where they were going with Deckard (or why?), but if you're fleeing pursuit, here's hint: turn off the 100k-watt cabin lights that make you a lighthouse? Guns on police flying cars?
The Economist nails it https://www.economist.com/blog... - I'd have used the word ponderous, but bombastic works just as well.
-Styopa
So... did Mr. Villeneuve actually say this wasn't the movie he wanted to make? Am I going crazy or is the author of this rant putting words in Villeneuve's mouth to back up their own opinion about the movie? Their arguments don't even make sense.
I actually read something before where Villeneuve specifically said that there won't be a director's cut, final cut, or any other versions of this movie. We got the exact version he intended us to see, and at nearly 3 hours, that's not hard to believe. The author of this article thinks the movie should have been much shorter (which is obviously what the movie studios and theaters would prefer) while simultaneously suggesting that Villeneuve wasn't in complete creative control here. Again, am I going out of my mind here? What the hell? This should have been titled "'Blade Runner 2049' Isn't the Movie I Wanted Denis Villeneuve to Make".
I think the movie's great. For whatever reason, the author of this didn't agree. Fine. But they're taking what is clearly an opinion piece about them not liking the movie and disguising it as some kind of fact-based informative news article where they present some kind of insight into the director's thinking process. There are no hard facts in this story, just speculation. That is extremely misleading.
And yeah, I think the film is excellent and way better than we had any right to expect. To be brutally honest, given the complete dearth of creativity in Hollywood today, and given the kind of movies and properties that usually find success, and keeping in mind that just a few months ago the same studio released the fucking Emoji Movie... this is a much better film than we deserved. The only thing worth regretting here is that there won't be a third movie given how few tickets were sold (a combination of many factors including long runtime/fewer showings, vague advertising, R rating, older franchise, etc.). That's what we should be mourning here. This movie was great and deserves a followup as it's fairly open-ended and there are clearly more stories to be told about the emancipation movement or Niander Wallace, who didn't get nearly enough screentime. The clueless writer of this article doesn't even mention that in passing -- understandable if it was written last week before the box office returns came in, but it looks like it was published today. Talk about missing the point.
a tad disappointed that Sean Young wasn't used
She was. Also Edward James Olmos (Gaff).
All those Googles will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
Have gnu, will travel.
A bit off topic but I was a tad disappointed that Sean Young wasn't used (I think I would have heard if she was) to play the head of Tyrell Corporation.
The Tyrell Corporation went bankrupt, after the global blackout caused by an EMP detonation (presumably done by replicants), and the remains of the company were bought by the Wallace Corporation.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Am I missing some subtle connection between the headline and the summary?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Was there a voice over narration explaining things?
I gotta have the voice over!
And goddamn it! Why didn't you warn us that there were spoilers in your post!!!
Kidding! Spoilers don't bother me. When there is a good story, spoilers make no difference. The Sixth sense still holds up even knowing how it ends.
There's an official short amine film on YouTube that explains the blackout.
I disagree with all of these points, and several of them aren't even true.
You need to re-watch the movie. Perhaps it was beyond your attention threshold and you missed much that was in the movie or injected things that weren't there when your attention was drifting.
Regarding the pacing you are correct. They could have edited out at least 30 minutes of some of the scenes.
I also agree on the audio during the film. Too loud, too "ponderous" and too much like Arrival.
Also, about plot holes, I have a question:
If K was discussing all sorts of personal and interesting things with his virtual girlfriend("How do you like our product?"), wouldn't the bad girl with the knife have access to that? I mean, look at what Google and FB know about people, even just from inferences made on how people browse and post... Heck, K was telling his virtual GF all sorts of things. Did I miss something?
To be honest compared to the usual themes of modern "mass market" films, Blade Runner 1982 or 2017 is probably too deep for a mass audience. Seriously comic books are considered deep these days.
Most people is prime movie going age don't even know about the original movie, don't know who Harrison Ford is, or know about Philip K. Dick. The 50+ crowd for home the original was canon, probably aren't making a huge effort to see the move opening weekend, and are likely to wait for it to stream.
Arrival was indeed a big piece of shit. I posted about it in detail in the past.
Arrival was fucking stupid. We start with aliens and some interesting premise about communicating with them, but we end up with political bullshit that gets solved with time travel, telepathy, and essentially magic. The whole premise is shot when that shit happens because: Why couldn't the aliens use their time travel telepathy bullshit to help themselves? Why couldn't the aliens see / prevent the bomb? Or even more to the point, why couldn't the aliens see learning our language and then just communicate with us in out language? The whole fucking time they're sitting behind their glass barrier and watching Pam from The Office (I know it's not her) pantomime shit. The only thing missing was a Speak and Say toy. The aliens didn't do a damned thing to communicate with us, despite it being revealed that they'll need our help one day.
I also shat on Intershttps://slashdot.org/story/17/10/09/1836234/blade-runner-2049-isnt-the-movie-denis-villeneuve-wanted-to-make#tellar and Passengers in that post ( https://entertainment.slashdot... ).
I kind of want to see Blade Runner 2049, but I also don't trust any of the people involved. As far as I'm concerned, the movie doesn't need to exist and Ridley Scott needs to fucking stop. I fucking sat through both Prometheus and Alien Covenant. So Blade Runner 2049 will be a RedBox rental, at best.
Also, science fiction and cyberpunk are dead because the dystopia they predicted is already here. More importantly, all the popular kids who laughed at us for reading SF in our teens are now the biggest fanboys of movie adaptations of the same books, so to hell with them.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Sean Young is a notorious _crazy_ coked up actor. The kind that will repeatedly no show and leave an entire production company sucking air.
It's amazing she can get any work. Must be able to suck a golfball through a garden hose. Also it's been a _hard_ few decades...not 'panty soup' gorgeous anymore.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Better that they'd stuck with the Pan Ams and ATARI of the first film.
I do not think you saw the film I saw.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
is reviewer is Millenial or something? It's like he watched a completely different movie. Even goes on to insult Harrison Ford's acting ability - "so committed to phoning it in that the Verizon "Can You Hear Me Now?" guy should fear for his job." :)
If you loved the first movie, you will like this one as well. This movie may not do well because of R rating. They could have easily made PG-13 version, like what we saw in 1990s on regular tv. Regardless, it was worth the 20+ year wait (for me) and hopefully, there will be a third film to wrap things up.
Only negative thing about the movie was how loud the "noise" was - not sure if it's my local theater or if it's designed to make your ears bleed
That's a shame, because while it is a damn good movie, it's also an audiovisual spectacle. You really should see it on a big screen (or at least a serious home cinema).
Eat the rich.
So kids like you actually existed? I read all kinds of shit but never got picked on for it probably because I wasn't stupid enough to interact with the "popular" kids and stoners don't give a shit what you are reading.
Only I can judge you.
There are seemingly two inescapable realities for big-budget filmmakers in 2017: you have to use existing intellectual property and you must provide spectacle that can lure massive domestic and foreign audiences to the the theater.
Honestly, if that's their take-away they're pretty fucking dumb. Nobody wants to go to theaters, they are filled with loud obnoxious jackasses and plague-ridden children, sometimes also loud obnoxious plague-ridden children. I've been waiting for months to watch some of the movies I actually want to see like Blade Runner and the new Planet of the Apes movie because they'd have to pay me something on the order of 6 figures per movie to sit through one of them in a theater.
There's little more obnoxious than listening to some fat slob laughing or shudder clapping during the fucking movie, even the cell phone chatter isn't as bad as being sucked out of the narrative the movie is meant to let you escape to - except of course maybe inevitably getting the fucking flu because the aforementioned fat slobs live like, well fat fucking slobs, and are effectively little more than disease vectors.
"Blade Runner 2049 disappoints at box office .. taking just $31.5m (£24.1m) over the weekend"
Blade Runner has been out only two days and already it 'disappoints at box office'. A more valid metric would be how much does it take over twelve months.
Ryan Gosling isn't going to fuck you, APK.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
as he would have been a N7 model
What, like Rachael? She had a special mod, maybe he did too. She didn't know she was a replicant until he told her. There was that scene where Leto made the obvious suggestion that Deckard was called to Tyrell specifically to meet Rachael. He also obviously wouldn't be the only replicant blade runner. Then there's the question of whether a human/machine hybrid would even be viable (seriously, how would that even work - would the machine just supply the missing chromosomes and let humanity do the rest? Kind of defeats the "uprising" point of it all), versus 2 replicants reproducing (replicants can obviously age/grow hair/etc).
I'll wait for Blade Runner 3: Rise Of The Machines for the answers to my questions.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
I heard K was a bit of a Dick in this one.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
After seeing Villeneuve's brilliant "Arrival" and having enjoyed the original Blade Runner, I had high hopes. They were dashed. Blade Runner 2049 is just too long. Hollywood, get over yourself. Very few stories are important enough to take 2h40m to tell. If your movie is longer than. 1h40m, you need to cut. Blade Runner 2049 was tedious as hell with completely undeveloped one-dimensional characters and unrelenting darkness without even a bit of humourous relief. Very disappointed.
pacing: Villaneuve is suffering George Lucas disease. He needs more people to stop telling him how brilliant he is and give him solid criticism. At 2:40 this thing could have easily been an HOUR shorter.
The pacing is okay, but the total was too much. Around the two hour mark I got into the "can we please wrap this up" mode. Some scenes that weren't so relevant to the plot could have been made much shorter, like the "only one place this radiated" scene, could have been cut 90% or even just a flashback while he's driving out there. Same with the archive, accessing an old file triggers an alert but 90% of the scene is redundant. When he passed the two hour mark he really should have started to look harder at what scenes are vital to the main story and which are just filler.
I think it's a very good movie, but it should have been half an hour shorter by losing a few scenes entirely. Including maybe the whole "car down" scene, after all we know she's watching him, maybe a two second cut scene of yet another warning like at the archive would have sufficed. It's not like we learned anything or care about the people who downed him. And yeah, I too noticed the "and now for a word from our sponsors" scene that lingered on the Peugeot wreck. If it's subtle it's okay, for me this was way too blatant and spoiling the movie is a great way to make me not like your product.
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"Ryan Gosling (K) wisely opts for a muted, brooding performance..."
Opts? Isn't that the only thing he can do?
I haven't seen either Prometheus or Alien Covenant but I have seen Blade Runner 2049. It's absolutely superb. Do yourself a favour and watch it on a big screen with an awesome sound system.
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
Having sat through Prometheus, why the hell did you bother with Alien Covenant? Reviews were unanimously derisive from the very start.
Blade Runner 2049, however. Is superb. Don't sell yourself short by watching it on a 28" tube. It deserves IMAX. and immersive sound.
j'ai découvert une démonstration vraiment admirable (de ce théorème général) que cette si
I really do appreciate it. I always enjoy her performances, so now I'm extra pumped to see this. She was a nerd girl before that was a common thing, and really studied up for her role as Chani in Dune, and for her role in Blade Runner. Imo she helped set the noirish tone for the film in a big way. In my earlier post I incorrectly said I'd see it on the weekend. I'll probably try to to get to the theater during the week.
Why do we train dogs to learn commands in English, but we don't try to learn Dog?
I don't know the answer to that, but sometimes it's easier for the "lesser" creature to learn words than for the "superior" organism to learn. And the multi-time isn't a form of life-omniscience, but a form of moving a single consciousness through the life of that consciousness. The future may be unknowable until it's set, or something like that. It wasn't until after he told her what she said that she remembered saying it. Or something like that, it was a plot advancement device, not good science. The deliberate obfuscation of the present and "time travel" was the point. The director wanted us as confused as the character, so makes it deliberately obtuse to try and confuse the audience.
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Having not watched the anime I went into the film not knowing about the blackout. At the end of the film I had no queries regarding the blackout; it was relevant to aspects of the plot but its cause wasn't.
Remembers this universe was created in the 60's after all. Back then there was no concept of perfect surveillance in western consumerism-driven societies.
Really? Remind me, when was 1984 written?
Man I'm so glad I read a reply like yours among all the others, because it so perfectly mirrors my own views on BR2049. I saw it last Thursday when it opened in the UK, being fully aware of the long running time and yet still excited and in anticipation of a defining cinema experience. I was too young to see the original in theatres, but it's still one of my favourite ever films. I even loved the PC game because I felt it managed to capture some of the magic of the film. My biggest criticism, like you, is the running time. It simply did not need to be THAT long to tell its story. Within the first 90 minutes, at least 30 could've been cut and still retained some atmosphere. It felt like for every line of dialogue there had to be two minutes of slow camera panning shots. For me the movie only really wakes up when Deckard makes an entrance and actually the last hour I really enjoyed, but by then I already had a sense of disappointment (and a sore ass) which wasn't going to go away. Visually it's stunning, and I didn't mind the sound (maybe I sat far enough back that the volume was tolerable), though I missed the Vangelis score - impossible to eclipse - but I just wished it could have been edited a bit more aggressively. I'll definitely watch it again when it's available on-demand. I suspect in the comfort of my living room with a pause button for rest breaks it may actually be more enjoyable.
-- Will.
the deafening soundscape: Jesus Christ my ears were nearly bleeding after that. Fire your sound man, immediately.
Must've been your cinema screwing the volume up, I thought Hans Zimmer's soundtrack was the best bit.
So kids like you actually existed? I read all kinds of shit but never got picked on for it probably because I wasn't stupid enough to interact with the "popular" kids and stoners don't give a shit what you are reading.
Good point. I guess my school was small enough at a couple of hundred kids, that everyone knew a bit about everyone without actively engaging with each other. Plus, I was in a tight group studying German language with a handful of popular girls -- who were probably there more to maintain some group identity rather than actually study.
I guess it was not SF books per se, but generally being geeky, with things like social awkwardness. It's hard to shun somebody simply for doing smart (and potentially "cool") things, but it's easy to point out deficiencies. (Of course, even the part about awkward style was turned into "geek pride" by the cool kids some years later.)
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Blade Runner 2049 is like Prometheus in the respect that it was created so there can be sequels. It is a money grab. That being said, I liked it, but it was a poor imitation of the original. People who are saying it is a "masterpiece" are delusional.
You have to understand the sole reason of this movie was so that they could create four more sequels. Even Ridley Scott admitted it. That is why there were pointless characters - they will be in the sequels in more prominent roles.
Spot on. Arrival was a steaming pile of feces.
I should have listened to this review... saw it last night and I can't get that ~3 hours of my life back. I feel ripped off and deceived.
It felt like how a teenager would make a Bladerunner movie.
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I was surprised to go to a 12 noon showing on Saturday and there were around 20 people or so. Not the makings of a blockbuster attendance.
A few random thoughts:
The first time K walked slowly toward something, I felt tension.
The second time he did, slowly looking around like a stoned hippy, I felt a little less tension...
The third time, I started to question these directorial choices.
By the 10th time a character slowly walked (the part of K picking up his foot and putting it down in the hotel nearly had me laugh out loud) I'd written this movie off.
The script is hilarious at times. "We're all looking for meaning" was a complete blunder of script and direction; SHOW but never TELL. That's Film 101.
The same for Jared Leto. He tells tells tells but doesn't really show very much. That could have been powerful, but is wasted amongst a lack of coherence in the film.
The movie tries so hard to be dramatic... it's like Villaneuve learned his storytelling from video games (beat the user over the head with Important Things till they feel something).
Plot holes, plot holes plot holes plot holes! How could Deckard have lived in a place (Vegas) that was highly irradiated? Are replicants therefore totally immune to high radiation levels? Tritium has a half-life of 12 years... are they saying that a place (which everyone seems to know of) renowned for its radiation levels is at a safe level 30 years (2.5 half-lives) later? seems unlikely... moreover, if the place ISN'T deadly to live in, why aren't there tons of people living in Vegas, with all those provisions (or why haven't they been taken back to humanity by all the replicant slaves, if resources are so scarce? All that whiskey would fetch a very high price and there were clearly tons of scavengers in San Diego...)
The art direction was neat enough, but still felt very disconnected...
Robin Wright's character felt useless, badly-directed.
There was very little chemistry between the actors (though de Armas seemed warm, ephemeral, and fun, the way she ought to have as a "fictional" AI companion in a world of deadpan people)
The scenes of violence went on too long and had no emotional heft to them; they were violence just for the sake of violence. Rachel getting shot in the head SHOULD have felt gut-wrenching, but I hardly blinked. I should have felt relief when the Big Bad Lady finally died, but I actually just felt kind of sick at watching a loooong drawn-out sequence of someone getting drowned. It puts the audience on the same level as the killer, that we should be forced to watch someone drown and apparently enjoy that? In the original that probably would have been an amazing moment, but with no character underneath Luv for the audience to care about, no driving force behind her cold and vicious actions, there was no reason to care about her dying; she dies for no reason at the movie level, not the in-story level; this could have been a powerful moment, that she'd had a choice to stop killing and decided not to, as counterpoint to what the Rebels and K espoused.
Hilarious lines: "Everyone's looking for something real", "It's ok, you can trust us","I'm going to tell Wallace you tried to shoot me first"
I don't know how he VillaManeuvered into making this movie, but I'm never seeing another one of his, and I most certainly will NOT see the sequel (if there is one, which it was completely set up for).
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Having sat through Prometheus, why the hell did you bother with Alien Covenant? Reviews were unanimously derisive from the very start.
Blade Runner 2049, however. Is superb. Don't sell yourself short by watching it on a 28" tube. It deserves IMAX. and immersive sound.
I got it at RedBox for like 56 cents (free DVD rental, paid for the BluRay upcharge). Still not worth it.
Not sure what the enrollment was when I was there, it was 3,200 in 2008, so I'll guess 2,200 in 1989 when I graduated high school. My group of friends and I had thrown down against the blacks in jr high (middle school now), more for fun than some race war. It was latinos vs blacks. So we all knew each other... Nobody picked on anyone, it wasn't that it was a tinder-box or anything more that everyone had an alignment and there was cross-over people in the groups. Our dealers (small time kids) were part of the cross-over group. The popular kids (who were they?), the smart kids, the jocks, the bangers, the stoners, the normals, the goths, all kept to themselves in their self-designated areas. So, nothing big ever happened. The only ones that got picked on to any noticeable extent were the two gay boys and even then it never escalated to violence. ;-). I don't even know what cool kids are nowadays, are they the VPs where I work?
I guess it is easier to hide social awkwardness by putting a nice thick coating of cool slightly criminal element over it. Dressing up your geekiness in "look what I'm reading", probably not a good way to go
Only I can judge you.
No, it's dumb. We as humans absolutely try to learn to communicate with other species at both ends.
We teach apes sign language and we study their own natural behaviors and sounds.
We teach parrots to converse with us and we watch how they interact with other parrots.
We teach dogs commands and we learn what their different barks, growls, etc. mean.
We learned the language of whales and dolphins and even the dancing language of bees in order to communicate with them.
We, as the "superior" species, go to great efforts to learn to communicate with other species. We use our tools and technology to help.
The aliens in Arrival showed up and sat behind a glass partition while the humans did all the work. Despite the aliens being able to see the future, use telepathic abilities, etc. You can't deny the aliens had those abilities. They directly used them in the final act. It's a shitty, contrived "twist" for the plot and a cop out for the ending.
APK, it's pathetic that you link to that thread in an attempt to show anything positive about yourself. After I exposed your "achievements" as the bullshit they are I didn't hear another word out of you for nearly a year. Yeah, bring that shit up again man, let's show everyone how you got paid $100 for a forum post that one time in 2008, that was a major achievement. Or, hey, how about you bring up the time where you suggested some Win32 API calls to another project, and they thanked you for your suggestion. But then they ended up not implementing it because of the possible negative effects on performance? How about you call that an "achievement" of yours? Oooh, or how about the time you "contributed" (if you use a very loose definition) to some software project that you weren't actually a team member of, which almost won an award, but didn't? Yeah man, all that shit makes you look really super. I'm glad that you still have that link sitting around in a text document that you've dedicated to me, it saves me the trouble of trying to find it to show how ridiculous you are.
Yeah man, you really "ran me off", didn't you? You're still so pathetic that, even today, you pose as someone other than yourself and refer to yourself in the third person. If you don't have any friends, shit, might as well just act like you're your own friend, right? Pathetic. Keep it up.
Sorry I couldn't get back to you last night, I've actually got things going on in my life. We're launching the next major version of our software for the entire state. No, not in the late 90s, not that one time in 2000, not in 2008, like today, right now. And if I'm not doing that I'm at home with my wife, not arguing on the internet about that time I got $100 for a forum post. But hey, you do you APK.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
The film stated that Tyrell went bankrupt because the manufacture of replicants was outlawed.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
thinking I wouldn't see it?
Um. I was hoping you would, actually. Glad you did. Turns out that when people write messages online, they actually intend for other people to see it. I know, it's weird, but it's true. If you don't want someone to see something, best thing to do is not post it online. Take my name, for example.
you were BOILING over it
Yep, this is me, super pissed. Just sitting here totally steaming. Just angry as hell. Yep, that's me. You can tell by all of the exclamation points and use of ALL CAPS just how much you got to me. Oh wait, that's not me, that's you.
heck, we all do
"We", is that you and the turd in your pocket that you call a friend? Is that who you think writes those other posts, your pocket turd?
APK, you're a joke. You always have been. You have no accomplishments to speak of. The reason I know that is because you've tried. You know nothing about me, and the reason I know that is because I've never given any information.
I also enjoy the irony of you continuing attempting to get me to tell you who I am, in the exact same thread where you actually linked to the post where I tried to get it through your thick skull why I'm still anonymous here. I just want you to know that I see the irony, I see what you did there. It's kind of funny, in your special retarded way.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
The film stated that Tyrell went bankrupt because the manufacture of replicants was outlawed.
Yup, remember that, but wasn't that outlawed because of "the blackout"?
Maybe I'll have to see the film again...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Yeah I'm with you. Gorgeous movie, brilliantly shot (tho as you say at times it feels indulgent), and a wonderful exercise in futurism, bursting with interesting ideas.
But ultimately, the story itself just felt... lifeless.
Oh and btw the Economist does use the word "ponderous", just not in the title:
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
Ahh, the classics. Well, since we've already had these arguments, if you're going to pull out the same bullshit list of achievements, then I'll just post my same response to it. I'll just change the quote from you, and it also looks like I need to change some year references because, and this is a little embarrassing, but it's been a year since I last posted this and you still don't have any noteworthy achievements. Anyway, here you go:
You're illustrating what I find so funny about you, APK. Look at that list, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001. The only thing you cite since 2001 is a forum post that you got paid $100 for. That's still 8 years ago, you're citing a $100 forum post from 8 years ago, you think that's noteworthy enough to include on your resume. Due to how many times you bring it up, clearly your most valued achievement happened in 2000. That's 17 years ago.
And, are you even going to those links you post, or do you just hope no one will click on them? The first one goes to a page which shows your $100 award, and links to a protected page. Your "article" isn't publicly viewable. Your second link goes to a page asking if I want to buy the domain. Yeah, great reference, man. Make sure you hang onto that one.
UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead dev
Yeah, it's so good that they haven't implemented it, and a follow-up later said that they will never implement it ("The process priority change will never be implemented due to risking an unstable software."). Another great item for your resume, a suggestion you made 7 years ago that got turned down. What was your amazing suggestion? How to make a few Win32 API calls. Truly, that's groundbreaking work.
You apparently have some shareware that got occasionally mentioned in the late 90s, you once wrote a forum post that you got paid $100 for, you made some suggestions which got turned down (and an icon, I don't want to forget the icon and rob you of one of your "achievements"!), and then you wrote a glorified text sorting program which you decided to spam endlessly for some reason. This is your contribution to computing which you think is so shit-hot, you love talking about what a great programmer you are but your achievements over the past decade apparently amount to making HTTP requests, getting a response, sorting some text, and writing a file. This is year 1 computer science work, but that doesn't stop you from repeating over and over how this one time in 2000 you made a contribution to someone else's product which almost won an award at a Microsoft conference. Not your work that almost but didn't win, but their program which you probably contributed to by showing them how to make a few API calls. And you use all of this crap to portray yourself as some genius programmer. It's a giant shit facade APK. You're not fooling anyone other than yourself. Meanwhile, in that time the projects I've worked on have also been submitted for awards. We submitted in a smaller custom software category, and the judges decided to move it into the largest general technology category and then award us a gold. They awarded multiple golds, but we got one of them, and companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Intel, Cisco, etc got silvers and bronzes. But you don't see me shitting all over Slashdot trying to point out stuff like that, and you know why? Because that happened 11 years ago, I've done a lot of stuff since then and I'm not dwelling on all these old awards or whatever focusing on how great I think I am. I'm worried about the work I'm doing now, not what all I've done in the past. But hey man, you keep telling everyone about that time you got paid $100 for a forum post, because that's totally impressive to people who definitely aren't first-year computer science students. Seriously though, if you want to find people who are impressed by your "achievements" then you should really consider becoming a teacher at your local community college. You may actually be able to impress the people who show up for their intr
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
But wait, there's more! Since you also want to rehash the old "prove it" discussion, well, again, let me just paste the exact same response the last time you tried to make literally the exact same argument. Here you go buddy:
I've never avoided the question, you just ignore my answer. You're avoiding me, though:
So, to test my theory: do you know what my answer is and always has been? You're either ignorant or stupid
The answer is apparently both. I wasn't expecting that, I thought you were just ignorant.
I am, and will remain, anonymous because I have always meant this account to be anonymous. I have said things under the cover of anonymity which I did not intend to be traced to me personally, in fact that's probably the biggest benefit of anonymity. I'm not going to throw away that protection just for your little pissing contest. I don't have any other accounts here, this is the account where I have posted 100% of my posts. Many of those included information that I do not want to be traced to me, so therefore you're going to have to keep pissing and acting like you're winning some contest. I CAN prove anything I want to you, but I WON'T prove anything. My anonymity is more valuable to me than any stupid contest with you. And it always will be. But, why stop now APK? Go ahead and continue to prove that you are both ignorant as well as stupid and try to get me to prove who I am again, like I ever will. If I would have engaged with you using a different account than my own, then I would have no problem telling you who I am. I don't want various things that I've said to be identified with me though, so that's not going to happen.
your name on it + SOLELY YOUR WORK too!
Oh, really? You mean you don't want me to list an "achievement" where I suggested a few Win32 API calls to someone else's project, but they ended up rejecting my suggestions? Or if I make some efficiency improvements to someone else's project, which then almost wins an award but doesn't, I shouldn't list that either? Because it's not solely my own work, right?
As for all of your other shit, it's ridiculous that you don't think I earn what I earn. Literally ridiculous, as in worthy of ridicule. You are worthy of ridicule. If I showed you what my house or car looked like, you would probably also not believe they're mine. Face it man, I have an education in computer science and I've used it to bring in a steady 6-figure income with full benefits by my mid 30s. I've been contributing to a 401k since my early 20s, you want to guess where that is now? I wrote the software which literally runs the company that I work for (and that was as an intern for them 14 years ago, but it's still running the company today). After the original programmer left I redesigned and rewrote the core customer-facing application from scratch, by myself, and worked on it by myself for at least 3 or 4 years before I got another programmer to help me (this is a completely separate application from the one running the company; this is the one we sell). At this point, as the CTO, that situation is better but my stamp is still on that application and I still work on it, I just have a team to help me now. And there you are approaching your mid 50s, not believing that anything that I have actually done is possible, crowing about all of these stupid little achievements like suggesting Win32 API calls and earning $100 for a forum post like you're some big shot. It's ridiculous. Worthy of ridicule. You are ridiculous. Stop being ridiculous. It's gotten very old and tiresome. I'm sorry if you're not happy with your life, but that isn't going to change by claiming that all of these little stupid things are somehow major meaningful accomplishments. Focus on doing things that will actually make you happy instead of trying to pull up some bullshit list of stupid crap and act like it's made of gold. Make yourself happy, man. I have, that's why I decided to get a degree in computer science and then prog
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
It's good to see that you haven't changed at all, APK. You're still a sad old man. I guess you want to suck off Ryan Gosling now, so maybe that's a change for you. Good job over the last year, buddy. In my case, I got married, in a few weeks my wife will have her green card and it's back to traveling, my investment account is making a few thousand per month now, things are going well. Sorry you're still the sad old man you've always been. You should really find yourself a friend to go see the movie with, maybe ask your pocket turd if it wants to pay. If you're waiting on a few more $100 forum posts before you can spring for tickets, you know no rush or anything, but you should go check it out, it's a good movie.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Oh, really? IF I am such a 'joke' then WHY can I show I've done FAR MORE than you ever have or will here
Well, first, that list is far less than I've done. And, second, the reason why you're a joke is because that is your list of "accomplishments". Rejected changes, out-of-print magazines, $100 forum posts. That's your life's work, APK, and it's a joke. Just like you.
3 posts of MORE BULLSHIT from you too & STILL NOTHING TO SHOW FOR YOURSELF
It's good to see that your reading comprehension has also not improved at all.
You brought it on yourself starting up with me
Oooh, and look at me, shaking in my little space boots. You're so scary, APK.
keep projecting you're nothing more than a LYING grimy little PIMP
I love your unintentionally funny "insults". I literally laughed at loud at that one.
IF they want to compete w/ the bigboys, they'll need it for background operations
Well, then either they don't want to compete with the big boys, or they just don't like your change. Either way, you should definitely keep that one on your resume, because either of those outcomes totally make you look good. After all, apparently that's the only thing you've done since that $100 forum post in 2008. Yeah way to be current there big guy.
Thanks for all the laughs, APK. It's always funny seeing you thrash around like this.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Did you really just copy and paste the post you made 7 minutes earlier, just to add a few more insult lines? And you're accusing me of a foaming-at-the-mouth reacion? You're a funny guy, APK.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
OK, now you're pasting the same thing three times because you've thought of one more amazing thing to say. And now you're going to insult my wife? Like you know anything about her? You're a classless piece of shit, APK, you know that? You know nothing about me or my wife, and you're going to try to trash her? You think that makes you look good? She's in the country on an H-1B visa while she's working on her masters in molecular biology, she's working translating medical documents to and from her native language. I met her in the country. She works harder than you ever will, and you want to trash her? That's really sad for you, it's sad that you have to try to bring down people like that who you know nothing about. It shows what kind of person you are. You have no class, at all.
I doubt you have anymore than WELFARE to your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIFE lol!
Doubt all you want, you no-friend, no-class, piece of shit. My wife and I are doing just fine, I already had to prove to the country that I make enough money that my wife won't be a financial burden on the country if she lives here even if she doesn't work, I don't have to prove it to you, you are nobody. You have no accomplishments, you have no friends, and you prove your piece-of-shit character by trying to trash good people you don't even know. I know who you are because you put your worthless name out there at any opportunity, you don't know shit about me or my wife. You're a piece of shit. Go ahead, copy and paste that post one more time and add the next foaming-at-the-mouth insult that shits out of your brain.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
That cunt's USING YOU STUPID to stay in the US
If it wasn't for me, she would have already left. She doesn't like it here. Everyone is a dick (much like yourself), the government is fucked up, and corruption isn't very obvious but where it is, it's huge and it's systemic. She doesn't like the industry that's her passion, not like it exists here. I'm the only reason she's here, and once we can travel again we will. She's lived in several other countries, she wants to go see her friends in Finland after she goes home first. But, no, keep talking like you know anything at all APK. You're just proving one thing. The only cunt here, is you. You're calling my wife, who you don't know and will never meet in your sad, lonely life, a hooker. Yeah, that's great, APK. Keep proving that you're a cunt. A no-class, no-friends, no-sex-life frustrated old cunt.
Keep following me around too, so that everyone knows you're also severely unstable. That's what all well-adjusted definitely-not-old-and-creepy people do, they cyber-stalk others.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
her limited stay visa would have expired you STUPID CHUMP
It did expire, in September, and her work renewed it.
yes, I am being nice telling you how bitches work
That must be why you're single, because you know so much. As for me, you don't need to worry about me, I'm protected. We have a pre-nup, because it made sense to get married sooner rather than later because of the immigration issues. Myself and my assets are protected, you don't have to worry about me. It turns out that doesn't matter though, because we're going to move to a place where both of us feel welcome.
You will be thinking of ME who tried to WARN YOUR CHUMP STUPID ASS of what you've walked into dumb fuck
When am I going to be thinking about you, when we're traveling the world, when we're living in another country? You're not worth any thought old man.
APK, I know how you completely lack absolutely any form of self-realization, so let me point something out: you making fun of my wife is pathetic, and creepy as fuck. You're going to be stroking your dick later thinking about Ryan Gosling while I'm with my wife, you keep that in mind.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
So much these days, Hollywood has forgotten the purpose of a movie. The purpose is to tell a decent story in an interesting way. No one gives a flying flip for your fancy cinematography and high dollar special effects if you aren't telling an interesting story with them.
The original Bladerunner was innovative on several levels. Not the least of which was being one of the first full budget treatments of serious science fiction. A reboot will most likely be a sFx movie missing the point of the original by several orders of magnitude. And if Social Justice Jerkism takes over the script; it may very well end up full of tired stereotypes and unwatchable.. like Ghostbusters 2016.
NRRPT/RCT
I absolutely KNOW you're being played.
Based on what, the fact that you know completely nothing about me or my wife? It's always the same shit with you man, you think you know everything, but you're nothing but a dumb cunt. You know fuck-all about either of us. You know what, that she's here on a non-immigrant visa? And you deduce everything else? You're in the wrong line of work man, you fucking suck at programming, you should have been a detective. You glean this wealth of knowledge about the most mundane details.
It's just like everything you know about me. Oh shit, but wait. Literally everything you think about me is wrong. Obviously everything you think about my wife is wrong. Shit man, your detective skills are no better than your programming skills after all, I guess I don't have any advice for you.
No matter WHERE you go? People, are people. You're too fucking stupid to know it
You don't understand, APK. People treat you like a cunt because you act like a cunt. That doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else. She's lived in 5 countries, how many have you lived in? I've traveled to over a dozen. People aren't cunts like you everywhere man, they just treat you like one because you act like one.
I mean seriously, you think that people in, say, Japan, have the same cultural attitude towards foreigners as people in the US? What about Finland? What about Brazil? What about Iceland? You have no clue man, you're an ignorant cunt traveling around acting like a cunt, who gets treated like a cunt. It's not the other peoples' fault man. The only constant factor between all of the people who have treated you like a cunt, is you. It's you, you're the problem, not everyone else.
remember YOU started it, I am only finishing it
You're not "finishing" anything, you're just being a cunt.
you'll never EVER trust her now
It's hilarious that you think you have any effect like that. I trust my wife, I know my wife. I also know you, and I know you're a cunt. I also know that you don't know the first thing about me or my wife. But, what, I'm going to take what you say as anything other than the sad ramblings of a creepy, lonely old cunt? Sorry to disappoint you pal.
Have a great night. Say hi to your hand for me.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
That's the demographic that is seeing the movie; From this link is an exact quote;
But the audience poll mostly consists of older male audiences who likely saw the original film in theaters. Opening night demographics were 71 percent male and 63 percent above the age of 35
Truly a movie for the "patriarchy."
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
No, it's dumb. We as humans absolutely try to learn to communicate with other species at both ends.
When's the last time you've seen someone bark at a dog to communicate? Yes, I know, the yelp/howl of a stepped on foot is different than the bark/growl at a stranger/sound. But learning what they are saying isn't the same as communicating in their language. Like the Arrival aliens learn at least a few words of English, but never speak it. Like us with dogs.
They directly used them in the final act. It's a shitty, contrived "twist" for the plot and a cop out for the ending.
So you are really angry at the ending, so you justify hating the rest of it, or you really hated all of it before you ever got to the ending?
Either way, one could argue that they were using their telepathic abilities and future vision the whole time, you just didn't like/recognize it. How did she learn their language? Was it her hard study, or was it telepathic guidance? Maybe they knew English the whole time, after all, if they learn it in the future, they always knew it, and they also knew that they needed to teach her the language slowly and help guide her dreams to give her the dedication and mindset to open her mind to their language. That's implied multiple times in the movie. All our "suspense" is fake, because the Aliens knew the ending before it started, but needed to guide it to reality, even if it makes them look like dicks to sexconker.
Learn to love Alaska
You have no credibility APK, sorry. You continue to show examples as to why. I tell you a few basic facts about my wife, and you think you can extrapolate all of her motivations and plans? It's absurd. It's absurd to the point of comedy. My wife pays her way, even though the mortgage is in my name she insists on paying part, she bought her own old used car instead of asking me to buy her something better, she doesn't like accepting gifts from anyone because she wasn't raised like that, and she doesn't even want to stay in the country. You have no information at all about how we met, why we're together, where we've been, what we've talked about, our plans for the future, etc. But you're going to assume all of this random shit about her just based on the fact she's an immigrant. I assume you also think her family is in on it, maybe she's just "biding her time" until she takes everything from me, right? No man, you're just wrong on all counts, like everything you've claimed about me, and it just goes to prove that you have no idea what you're talking about. You have no credibility. You can talk about programming all you want, but you have absolutely zero credibility. Your word means absolutely nothing because of how loosely you use it. You use it to the point that it is worthless, like a prostitute who stops asking for money and eventually wonders why no one takes her out or spends money or time on her. You don't think about anything you say, you just vomit up some nasty word salad and want everyone to think you know what you're talking about. But you don't. And you probably never will. And you've made this bed for yourself, so now you get to lie in it (with an emphasis on "lie", spammer).
You have no credibility, you continue to prove that you'll say anything, make any claim, without any evidence whatsoever, so why would that not also apply to the claims you make about yourself? If you'll assert things about people that you know nothing about, such as me or my wife, then why would you all of a sudden stick to truth in other areas? That doesn't make sense. You'll lie about anything and everything in your egotistical quest to convince people you're right.
I'm sorry that you hate women, or hate immigrants, or whatever group hurt you in the past. I'm sorry if the mean nasty women saw a weak mark and took advantage of you. Maybe that's when the voices started, the voices which tell you you're right about everything, and you're such a great person, and you're such a great programmer, the same voices who post messages praising you and attacking your enemies. Your pocket turd voice. I'm sorry if you were hurt in the past, but it's not my problem.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
APK, being able to write a year-1 program that can send HTTP requests, sort text, and write to a file, does not make you a superstar. For some reason though, you did decide to become a spammer. Again, not exactly the mark of a well-respected professional. More like a year-1 student.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
You continue to miss the point. It's not about me, APK. It's about you. You're the obvious bullshitter. You're the one making assertions about me, my wife, anything else that you know nothing about. You're the one who is continuously wrong. It's not about me. The only relevance I have to this is that I'm someone that you talk streams of bullshit about without knowing anything about me. It's just more proof that you'll spew anything and everything without any evidence to back it up. And if you're willing to do that at all, then why should anyone believe anything you say? It's that simple. It's not about me, it's about you. It's about you continuing to prove that you are nothing but a lying bullshit artist. And every claim you make about me or my wife is more evidence of that.
You talk this huge game about "finishing" things and "starting up" and whatever else, and it's all bullshit too, just like everything else about you. You live in a life of bullshit. You're not finishing anything, you're thrashing around in a pool of bullshit throwing it everywhere and acting like you're winning something. That's what you've always done, it's what you're doing now, and it's what you'll keep doing. And you know that what I'm saying is right, that's why you have no response other than to post some stupid link to a bullshit list of non-accomplishments and then claiming victory. I don't know what game you think you're playing, but that's not what victory looks like.
How many times have you made claims about "finishing" me or whatever? Have I gone anywhere? Have I backed down? No, because your claims are bullshit, just like you are, and you're not winning anything. You'll never win anything. That's why you're old and alone. I've known people like you, I can tell exactly what kind of person you are by what you write, I've known those people. Nobody likes them. That's why you're alone, APK. It's because of you, you're the problem. You can make yourself seem as great as you want, your pocket turd voices do that all the time, but it's all a facade to hide your sad, lonely life. You can talk about how you work for yourself, but we both know that you have the attitude and personality that companies do not want, that other people do not want to be around.
You've been fired from every job and don't have any references because you've burned those bridges on your way out, but you're going to try to make that sound like a positive by claiming you work for yourself. Great job, no one wants to be around you. You're not fooling anyone, and you're definitely not beating me at anything. Literally anything. You're losing, that's what you do, that's what you are. A loser. But I know that's not going to stop you from trying to post another link to another pointless post full of bullshit and then claiming victory again. Go ahead pocket turd, let us know what you think too.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
What a sad legacy. It's like you got mentioned in a few magazines in the 90s, decide that you've succeeded at that point, and then stopped trying for anything else. You forgot to actually succeed. That's what the early work of someone who goes on to do great things looks like, except you forgot to then actually go and do great things. You just kind of stopped. It's just stupid. Look at that shit, you're still trying to push this UltraDefrag64 thing when you literally have no contribution at all in the code. Literally nothing! You made a suggestion that got turned down, and you're using that as a reference because they put your name in the credits before deciding to not implement your suggestion! That's how pathetic this list is, you're listing other peoples projects, riding on their coat-tails, for software that you have literally no contribution towards. That's your bullshit life and achievements summed up in one perfect example if I've ever seen one.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Oh, by the way APK, I made a post to someone else in an unrelated topic. You better hustle over there and stalk me! Write something in the third person about how you finished me or something. Or, better yet, it's a topic about Facebook and sex workers, it's a perfect opportunity to go make a joke about my wife! That will be totally original, and definitely funny. But make sure to *NOT* post as yourself! You must use your pocket turd voice, so that it sounds like other people support you. And make sure that you include a link to one of your posts in this topic, even though all of the posts in this topic show you making yourself look like an idiot. No one else will realize that, trust me. Get out your stalking pocket turd and go! You know how to find my posts, you always do. Get to it!
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
It's just absurd. You're not destroying me, publicly or otherwise. You're not doing anything to me at all. What exactly do you think you're doing that's "destroying" me, posting your bullshit list of non-accomplishments? How exactly do you think that "destroys" me? As far as I can tell it has absolutely no discernible effect on me at all, it just makes you look absurd because you think it's such a great list.
But, whatever man, like I've said:
But I know that's not going to stop you from trying to post another link to another pointless post full of bullshit and then claiming victory again.
And look, that's exactly what you did. Literally, you did exactly that. You're easier to play than a kazoo, you know that? Look at that post, all of that bullshit "I know you can't" and "I love it" and "I finish it", you do exactly what I tell you to do. You're like Pavlov's dog, if the dog was a pocket turd. You are Pavlov's pocket turd, APK.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
I'm not crying about anything, I'm just pointing out how you cyber-stalk people and then accuse them of foaming at the mouth. It's the classic tactic, you do one thing and then accuse your opponent of exactly what you just did. I get under your skin and you go around stalking me, so you turn around and claim that you're getting under my skin and that I'm "foaming at the mouth." You have all of the intellectual ability of Donald Trump when it comes to arguing with people. "I know you are, but what am I?" Yeah man, accuse everyone of what you know you're doing and maybe they won't notice that you're doing it. It's fantastic you've kept up with the latest grade school argument techniques, pocket turd.
Hey, APK. Maybe you should make some more claims about my life and what I do and don't do. Since you know nothing about me, that will totally prove that you know what you're talking about and that you're definitely not a grade A bullshit artist. Say some more stuff about my wife. You don't know anything about her at all, so that will definitely show people what a fantastic intellect you are and, again, definitely not a grade A bullshit artist. Go ahead, tell people how I can't possibly make as much money as I do. Since you have absolutely no way of verifying anything about me, making specific claims will totally show everyone how they should pay attention to absolutely anything you say.
Go ahead pocket turd, destroy me.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
IF you were John Carmack, then, I'd concede defeat
See, but that's the thing. You have no idea who I am. I could be John Carmack or anyone else, you don't know. I could be someone you've worked with. I could have any number of accomplishments under my belt, and you have Absolutely. No. Fucking. Clue. You're going to claim whatever you want with zero evidence, and that is why you have no credibility, you are not winning anything, and you never will. You're a loser, my boy.
I like how you keep accusing me of running. That's another fantastic example of your grasp on reality. Where am I going, APK? I'm right here, take your shots.
I'm going to repeat this, because it bears repeating:
How many times have you made claims about "finishing" me or whatever? Have I gone anywhere? Have I backed down? No, because your claims are bullshit, just like you are, and you're not winning anything. You'll never win anything. That's why you're old and alone. I've known people like you, I can tell exactly what kind of person you are by what you write, I've known those people. Nobody likes them. That's why you're alone, APK. It's because of you, you're the problem. You can make yourself seem as great as you want, your pocket turd voices do that all the time, but it's all a facade to hide your sad, lonely life. You can talk about how you work for yourself, but we both know that you have the attitude and personality that companies do not want, that other people do not want to be around. You've been fired from every job and don't have any references because you've burned those bridges on your way out, but you're going to try to make that sound like a positive by claiming you work for yourself. Great job, no one wants to be around you. You're not fooling anyone, and you're definitely not beating me at anything. Literally anything. You're losing, that's what you do, that's what you are. A loser. But I know that's not going to stop you from trying to post another link to another pointless post full of bullshit and then claiming victory again. Go ahead pocket turd, let us know what you think too.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
I'm genuinely at a loss as to why you think I'm "crying". But, I realize that you live in your own little reality. And you're damn right I started it, I have no problems starting shit with a piece of shit. Poking holes in your bullshit claims is easy, I have no problem doing it. I also have no problem pointing out that all of your claims about me are bullshit, that's also easy to do. Maybe you interpret that as me "crying", I really don't know, but all I ever do is point out that you're a bullshit artist, and you gleefully provide example after example. At this point you're not even trying to refute my claims, you're just sitting there accusing me of running because you want to get the last word in. I understand that, APK. I just want you know that I realize what you're doing.
IF what I say about your alleged wife isn't true then WHY DOES IT BUG YOU SO MUCH?
It doesn't bug me, you're not understanding me correctly (I know, major fucking shocker there). All I'm doing is pointing out that you are completely wrong and that you know nothing, but you still make your bullshit claims. Again, example after example of your bullshit. You have no effect on me man, I just enjoy calling a piece of shit a piece of shit.
As far as that MY MONEY WORKS FOR ME
I.E. "nobody wants to work with me, nobody likes me." I have an investment account too, APK. I also have a 401K. I also have real estate. I also pull in a good salary with plenty of benefits. It's funny that you try to make all of that sound like a negative, but it's not. That's the way I want it, I like what I do and it pays well. You take a negative like the fact that no one wants to be around you, and try to spin it into a positive. It's another example of your bullshit artist skills. Again, you know nothing about me, but you're trying to paint a picture that I'm some sort of slave. I'm a CTO man, I started as an intern, that's not slavery. We're a small company, I know everyone who works here, I've had a relationship with the owner since I started. We help each other succeed, and we do it well. You wouldn't know anything about that though, because no one wants to work with you, because you're an asshole. But, go ahead if it makes you feel better, try to spin it into a positive for you. We both know it's not, we both know you work alone out of necessity, but you do your bullshit thing anyway.
ALLOW YOU TO SHOW THINGS YOU INDIVIDUALLY HAVE DONE THAT DID WELL IN THE EYES OF OTHERS TO DEFEND YOURSELF
You don't "allow" me to do anything, APK, you are nothing to me. I don't need your permission for a single thing. You are a piece of shit with a sad list of achievements and no friends, if I wanted to list my accomplishments I would do it without needing a single fucking thing from you. I've explained over and over why I refuse to do that, and if you're too goddamn stupid to get the point after extensive, repeated explanation then that's your problem, not mine.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
You're just sucking your own dick at this point, this thread has clearly run its course. I like how you think I apparently do nothing of value (and, again, let's all remind ourselves that you have not a single piece of evidence or proof about anything I do). My house, my bank accounts, my real estate, my Mercedes - all of it, just out of thin air. I don't do anything, but man somehow I've convinced people to pay me 6 figures for years without them ever catching on that I don't actually do anything. This is how you think, isn't it APK? No one wants to work with you, your achievement list is about as much of a piece of shit as you are, but you're still going to make a bunch of claims with zero evidence. That's the standard for you, zero. You have no standards, and you have no credibility. Shit, your standard for an "achievement" is 1) suggest some Win32 API calls to someone else's project, 2) get all changes rejected, 3) PUT THAT SHIT ON THE FUCKIN RESUME! Those are your standards, trying to grab onto someone else's nutsack and attach your name to their project when you've literally done not a single thing to contribute to it. That's what you're so proud of. Like I've said, it's pathetic. You're pathetic. Your standard for "destroying me" is equally impressive.
I'm done watching you try to suck your own dick, so unless you've got anything new or novel to say then that's it for this thread. Don't worry though, the next time I see you pop up to make some bullshit claim I'll be there to call you out on it.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
That's funny how you insist "on your own", while you're taking credit for projects that you've literally contributed nothing to. The repo for our major application has tens of thousands of files spread over several hundred MB, and you're going to try to suggest that the fact that I have a team working with me is a negative. You can't maintain an application like that by yourself, and believe me, I've tried, for years when I was the sole designer and developer. People had to wait several months to even have me start on their changes. Now I have a team and my personal work load still goes out 60 days for any new changes. This isn't some cheesy little text utility man, this is the real world. This is working with a team under me, to reach success, which again, you know nothing about. This isn't some project you can suggest a change to, get it rejected, and then act like you've contributed something to it. Don't come at me with that bullshit, you're not proving anything other than that you have no accomplishments to be proud of. You are incapable of working in a team, people don't want to work with you, don't make it sound like it's anything else. Your major contribution to the world is a text sorting program. That's a joke. You're a joke. You're right that you and I are not in the same league, but not for the reason you think.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
proving you are NOTHING minus some GRIMY LIL' PIMP that rides on the sweat of others work/backs
Once again, this is coming from someone who literally takes credit for other peoples' work. Your standard of proof is abysmally low, by the way. The fact that I have a team to help me, and the fact that I point out you have no friends, is "proof" to you? That's your standard of proof, for anything? You continue to show how low your standards are. Again, that doesn't make you look like a qualified professional. Qualified professionals do not have low standards. I do not have low standards in my own, I know how that goes. I know it when I see it, and I see that you have none of it.
nothing to SHOW FOR YOURSELF done by YOU, not a 'team', lol!
Right, because if I show you the application which I originally designed and developed by myself for over 2 years, the fact that I have a team working at my direction on the same application now somehow negates that as being my achievement. And, again, you're still trying to claim an "achievement" of suggesting a change and getting it rejected. APK, why would you list that UltraDefrag BS as your own personal achievement? I'll tell you exactly why. Because you have nothing. You have nothing to show, so you pull out whatever you can. You'll pad your bullshit resume with rejected suggestions because that's literally all you have to show. It's fuckin stupid, man. Move on, get over it, you're too old, let it go. Your legacy is shit, face it. And you know it, which is why you include rejected suggestions on your resume. People with a decent resume don't list rejected suggestions. There's no reason, because the rest of the resume speaks for itself. You're so insecure about your work and your life that you have to pad your resume with that stupid bullshit. And the fact which you include that stuff just goes to prove that you are aware of it, and you STILL do it. That's how pathetic your work is.
IF you're referring to UltraDefrag? You aren't reading those links
Oh, I'm not? OK, then let's review. This is the extent of what he said:
Process Explorer ... already has discussed feature implemented providing a good workaround for setting the UltraDefrag priority.
He's saying there's already a workaround, namely that any power user will know how to change the priority manually. That's ALL HE SAID, unless you want to also include the line rejecting your icon because it looks like shit, in which case that's 2 rejections. This rejection was further clarified:
The process priority change will never be implemented due to risking an unstable software.
Those who know what they do can use Task Manager or Process Explorer to change the priority.
Again, a clear workaround for power users and a clear ruling that the change will never be implemented. BUT YOU STILL INCLUDE IT ON YOUR RESUME! Because all you have is shit, so you include stuff like that hoping that people won't look into it and realize that it's nothing but bullshit. Like the rest of your life's work. You give your program a stupid name like "APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-5 32/64-bit" to try to distract people from the fact that it's a fucking text sorting/de-dupe program that can send HTTP requests. This is your legacy man, a bunch of pieces of shit, sprinkled with as much glitter and bullshit as you can possibly manage to distract people from the fact that the entire thing is crap. What, you're going to pull out quotes from people saying your text handling program does its job? Big fucking deal! It's a fucking text handling program! It's not complicated, it doesn't do anything revolutionary! You're riding on the shoulders of giants and acting like you're that tall. You haven't done shit, and you know it's true because you add bullshit non-achievements to your resume and try to pad out your program's
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
I never EVER once said I was a "great programmer" here
Is that because you know you're not?
I have however said "I can get the job done" & WELL ENOUGH
The APK motto: "well enough." Except when it's not, then just cover it with bullshit and glitter and act like it's awesome.
our /. peers LIKE & USE MY WORK (not yours)
You sure about that, pocket turd? You sure that no one here uses my software? Is that a claim you really want to assert? I'm not going to prove it either way, don't get me wrong, but since you don't even know what my software is do you really think you can assert that no one here uses it?
complementing it even
APK, it's SO GREAT that you got compliments on your text sort/de-dupe program. Really. SO GREAT.
I love putting a little fuck like YOU in your place. It's too easy.You make it so for me!
Then why have you been so inept at actually doing it? Do you think you've "put me in my place" now, APK? Because I don't feel like you have, in fact I don't feel like you've done anything to me at all. Go ahead pocket turd, put me in my place. You haven't managed to do it so far, maybe you need one more try.
Lastly I never SAID UltraDefrag is "mine" but YOU have
No, I did not. I'm saying you're taking some sort of credit for something that they rejected. None of your contributions are in their code base at all, but you've got that software listed on your Wall Of Bullshit. I'm pretty sure that's the definition of a non-achievement.
I only noted I contributed good things to it which ARE noted in their program's credits & their website.
Awww, look at that. He's still trying to say he contributed something to it. But he didn't. Poor little guy, he's so delusional, you almost feel sorry for him until you realize he's a dumb cunt.
Is THAT bullshit the "best ya got" attempting to 'cut me down' when YOU cannot demonstrate a pot to piss in yourself?
But pocket turd, I don't have to cut you down. You cut you down. I just point it out.
By the way - I don't put ANY of that on my resume
Call it whatever you want. When you try to show your achievements, that's what you come up with. Rejected suggestions and icons that look like shit, even though you decided to use the icon for your own program. Well, there's nothing like a dressed-up piece of shit to represent the majesty that is APK.
Good to see I've got you RUNNING like the hamster you ARE on MY wheel (manipulating you into your rage, lol).
Yeah, OK Pavlov's pocket turd. You're really a puppet master.
YOU KEEP COMING BACK FOR MORE PUNISHMENT!
Man, and I feel so bad. You're just... you're just punishing me so bad pocket turd, I can't take it any more. I mean, it just hurts so much. It's hurts to see you act so stupid.
Look @ your "ReAcTiOn"
your RAGE @ being MY INFERIOR has you FoAmInG @ Teh MoUtH
Seriously, who types like that? In one sentence you're accusing me of some off-the-handle reaction while actually demonstrating that you're doing the same. You're a funny guy.
I have PROVEN that you are DEMONSTRATABLY MY INFERIOR
No, you haven't. Step 1, if you want to: show my work. Then show your work. You can't show my work though, because I'm not going to identify myself, which means that you've proven nothing other than the fact that you make demonstrably false claims about anything and everything. You've proven, again, rule #1 when dealing with a spammer: spammers lie.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
APK, you're still too stupid to understand the game. I don't have to prove anything to you to win, you are not the judge. You don't know me, you can't judge me. I know that I've done far more already at 38 than you obviously ever will, and I don't care if you know that or not. It is not important to me that you should understand anything about me or my life. You have no importance.
I think I understand why you have such a hard-on for me though. Your continued insistence that you don't believe whatever I claim about myself, saying "fake life" and crap like that, you don't believe that I could have achieved what I have. You don't even seem to think it's possible. I think the reason you have such a hard-on for me is because people in my position or on my level don't often engage with you, at least not to the extent that I have. You've got some sort of obsession with me. You keep a file dedicated to me with links and whatever else. I make a stupid joke and you launch into another attack against me. You respond to anything and everything. You stalk my posts and leave responses there too. It's weird behavior for anyone, but for someone so old it's just creepy and sad. You see someone younger than you who has already done more with their life and you get obsessed, you can't let anything go. There's probably some jealousy there, hell you're probably jealous of anyone who can manage a large or complex project (as opposed to a glorified text sorter now in its 9th major version).
And it would never stop, either. What would happen if I actually identified myself, showed you the application, showed all the awards, etc? You wouldn't give up, you'd keep pushing. You'd want to see my computer science degree. You'd want to see my tax returns to verify my income. You'd want to see investment account balances. You'd want to see proof of real estate ownership, the receipt for my Mercedes, whatever else. It would never end, you would never be satisfied because you're so consumed with me. I'm not going to dump my entire life online, that's an incredibly stupid thing to do, much less to appease some old jealous underachiever who I don't even care about.
It's kind of flattering that you don't believe that I have everything which I do, but I even feel like I should be doing better with my skills. I think that's a common trait of intelligent people, they're a little unsure of their abilities. As opposed to... whatever you are, completely confident in your abilities but with nothing to show except 9 versions of a text sorter.
Anyway, I hope you find help, and hopefully you find some sort of fulfillment and happiness in life before it's all over. Wasting your time here isn't going to help you achieve that.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
& 2 puny browser extensions for an extinct browser
I don't know what that's referring to, I don't even know which browser you're talking about. I've never written a browser extension at all. I've also never claimed to have written one, there's no reason I would make that claim. I think you're off your medication again.
you're even too ashamed to admit to them Arizona boy
Wow, do you know that because I've mentioned that multiple times? Your grasp of the obvious is truly impressive.
You came here starting w/ me & have to hide in shame
I'm not hiding, I'm right here.
but you're welcome to PROVE otherwise
Why? Why would I do that, what, to get your respect? What's that worth to me? I already have professional respect. I already have people who love me, and plenty of friends. What exactly do I gain by proving anything to you? As far as I see it, I lose my anonymity, now my name is connected to everything I've said on this site, and I risk having a mentally unbalanced and unstable man-child calling and harassing my office and clients. There is no positive to that, I do not gain anything by "winning" the game that only you are playing. If I expose myself there's no up-side, all I see are negatives. What do I get out of that, your respect? I do not need nor want that. You can keep it.
Obviously you WISH you were me
APK, if that were true it wouldn't be difficult. I would have to create a text sorting program, but not get it right the first time and have to end up releasing 9 major versions of it. Then I would have to spam it everywhere I can until entire communities revolt against me in disgust at my behavior. Then I would have to make unsolicited suggestions to various projects, and get them rejected. I also have to transform into a horrible person with a terrible attitude and alienate everyone in my life. And I only have about 18 years to do that. Yeah, I think those goals are obtainable. But I think I'll just continue on my own path, there's no reason to go backwards after I've done all this work to get where I'm at.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
I was driving and listening to the radio, and they were talking about Trump. A former presidential speechwriter had this to say:
They reveal a president raging against enemies, obsessed by slights, deeply uninformed and incurious, unable to focus, and subject to destructive whims.
That sounds like you, that describes my view of you pretty well. You're like Trump, but without the money, success, or power.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
I don't remember them saying anything that specifically tied the blackout to replicants... but it's entirely possible (likely, even) that I missed something.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
So you can't even show that?
Show what? What the hell are you even talking about? Are we having the same conversation here?
APK, listen man, a single person saying that he likes your spam, and notice that he calls it spam, does not excuse a lifetime of spamming. It does not excuse your behavior in any way, shape, or form. You are a spammer, that's the bottom line. And no, I don't want to be you. I'd sooner shoot myself if I ever found myself in your position. And are you really trying to disparage Arizona? Do us both a favor and stay out of the state. People with your attitude have a bad habit of getting shot here.
It's late on Friday. I have shit to finish and get posted before I leave for the weekend, I don't have time to mess around with your bullshit right now.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
do they yours?
Why would they, fool? Have I shown my work? Have I explained to you over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over why I'm never going to show my work here? Are you too fucking dumb to understand that it is a net negative for me to do that? Is this the last stupid argument you possibly have so you just keep shitting it up again and again and again and again and again and again and again? Talk about a one-trick pony, Jesus Fucking Christ. You are stupidity and willful ignorance distilled into human form.
IF THAT IS "GETTING SHOT"? I'll take it...
Uh, OK. My guns are always ready, come on down to Arizona and I'll be happy to stand my ground. My wife knows how to shoot her own gun too, in case you'd like to visit when I'm not home.
My changes are committed, pushed, and posted for review, in half the estimated time. I've got friends coming over tonight, so I'm punching out early. You take care, have a fantastic weekend with your anime body pillow.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
It's good to see that you and your pocket turd are having a great love fest posting messages to each other, but now you're going off on Jews? Fuck man, you're even lower than I thought, and that's saying a lot. I guess I can add racism or ethno-hatred to your list of contemptible traits, which is rather long at this point. I suppose I'm not really all that surprised to see that come from you though, my opinion of you was already so low that it's really not a huge shocker to find out that you're a racist shitbag also. You've got a lot of hate in you. It was already clear that you hate anyone who's good at anything, because you're not, but apparently you don't stop there and you'll add their ethnicity to the list as well. It's just sad to see, there's nothing good in any of these posts by you. Everything is just venom, toxic, and doesn't belong in any decent society. I don't want to be associated with you in any way at this point, so I'll let you continue this conversation with yourself and decline to participate any further.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black