@compfu@mograph.socialFound on my "watch later" list: a very interesting video from 7 years ago that compares the Zelda game "Breath of the Wild" with Studio Ghibli. And the similarities are striking - especially when you look at Princess Mononoke. I haven't played a Zelda game since the SNES but I think the narrator is right: Zelda's 2017 adventure is an homage to Ghibli's work, both in terms of its look as well as its themes.
@aardrian@toot.cafe
@bourgwick@heads.socialenjoying my semi-regular mindblow that ken burns's main narrator, peter coyote, was one of the radical haight-ashbury diggers.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSo I was doing some reorg on my home media server and I realized I have my copy of The Matrix Reloaded [hacked] by Doctor M on there but I don’t have Revolutions [hacked] and have NO ideas where it would be.
I’m sure it’ll be easy to find (Narrator: it will not be)
GDI!
😭😭😭
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialHere’s a link to a sales pitch/demo of a sling, one of the oldest weapons known to us bipedal apes, slightly newer than just throwing rocks. There’s a link to a web site at the end. I have to say, the accent of the demonstrator/narrator is, I will say interesting. Remove the spaces in the following url if you’re curious.
https: //youtu.be/ F7N3MgAkb-k?si=sNldR-3BcqvO3fN9
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@Xexyz@mastodon.me.ukThe Stanley Parable: completed!
The Stanley Parable is an odd narrative game, where you are effectively given instructions by the narrator. As an office worker, you suddenly realise that everyone else has disappeared, and it feels that the point of the game is to understand why. If it were a traditional game, that would be the case. The game is most fun, or rather funny, when not following instructions.
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialWorker 1 (to colleague A): I use AI to turn these bullet points into a long professional e-mail.
Elsewhere, worker 2 (to colleague B): I use AI to turn this tediously long e-mail into a set of bullet points.
Narrator: the bullet points aren't the same.
@nitpicking@mstdn.partyI'm listening to the audiobook of *Vaccines: Are They Worth a Shot* by Andrea Grignolio. The book is ... fine, but the translation from Italian was either by a non-fluent speaker or a bad AI. The wrong word or phrase is often used, and it's jarring. For instance, the narrator says "exasperate" for "exacerbate," and "... attributed this cause to the deaths ..." when English would say, "... attributed the deaths to this cause ..."
@aardrian@toot.cafeFutzing around with Narrator (because of its new Braille viewer, which I am working on testing) and reminded of the new speech log (“Speech Recap”):
Narrator Key Alt X
Wanted to confirm this is also true with Narrator:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caNarrator: it took less than 25 years for nobel winner Svante Arrhenius (ancestor of Greta Thunberg) to suggest CO2 emissions could disrupt the planet.
#endfossilfuels #climateCatastrophe #climatechange #AGW
https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/115869314003078622
@markhburton@mstdn.socialBollocks.
"The BBC committed a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the narrator of a documentary about Gaza was the son of a Hamas official, UK media regulator Ofcom has ruled."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c629j5m2n01o…
@compfu@mograph.socialWTF this straight to VHS B-movie I've just found on Amazon starts out pretty awesome:
1. narrator introduces a backstory that is blatantly ripped from Mad Max (1979)
2. this shot
#MovieNight
@aardrian@toot.cafeI finally got around to adding the Narrator speech recap feature to my 2020 post “Speech Viewer Logs of Lies”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech-viewer-logs-of-lies.html#Update07
Video! We like video! 323kb of video! Big fat video!
