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  • It’s not about the story, it’s about the sfx.

    Watch James Cameron’s movies like the abyss, Terminator2 and Titanic. (There’s others as well if you want to put in more effort)

    He’s a visionary director and I just mean his own vision, Avatar was an idea he wanted to see on screen but was unhappy with the technology until he felt it was ready to tell the idea he had.

    Like some other things, by today’s standards everyone else who saw what he did have been able to refine and expand on what he did so it may seem in unremarkable, but he finally decided to do the biggie when he felt the tech had come far enough for him to do his vision and it made Bank. So. Much. Bank

    Again not because it’s an amazing original story, comparisons to fern gully were immediate even when it was new, but it was something that sits in a divide of how sfx can be used to tell a story in a way that people hadn’t otherwise shown. Even with a really unremarkable plot



  • Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”),

    So after reading this linked wiki article I find a couple interesting points of the above description.

    1 relentless requests

    2 pretense of civility and sincerity

    So I’ll ask you a couple questions, if you don’t mind answering (and much thanks to you if you do answer them)

    As I don’t observe either of the points in your comment in this thread, if I were to go look at your comment history, and I wont because I don’t care to spend any effort to do so, will I find a history of you asking for evidence on this specific topic, as if you were looking for opportunities to do so, Cherry picking as one might call it?

    And also how often would you say someone accuses you of sea lioning beer on Lemmy?

    I’m asking because I’m betting the answers are no and hardly ever

    It’s frustrating when people try to eject to from a discussion because they ascribe motives you don’t possess, at least in my experience if it does