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On reviews > Baby Driver

  alkyilcycloalke


One of the more thoughtful elements in the movie that I appreciated was that it ended on a more realistic note than would be expected from seeing other films in Baby Driver's ostensible genre.

This film also has the best use of rain that I have ever seen. It merely freezes the tone of that scene for the shooting of the police officer, and never tries to be cinematic, and in the way.

On forum > How Can I Improve The Website

  alkyilcycloalke


Improve the contrast

On articles > Entropy Is Freedom And It Increases

  alkyilcycloalke


I don't think we will get to true freedom through chaos. Chaos of ideas will result from true freedom in this world. People unintentionally arriving at different opinions or decisions. Bloody chaos (like war or fighting) would happen because people don't want other people to have a different opinion or decision.

On articles > The Danger Of Good Intentions

  alkyilcycloalke


Freedom is the ability to direct yourself with no actual intentional interference from other sentient beings. This, by definition, requires a sense of self. Since children have a limited degree of self, but increases as they age, they should have paternalism (from their parents) that lessens by degree until they are of an age of sufficient reason and self. The true problem is when authority figures can lessen their guidance when the person is gaining reason. Civil authorities are notoriously terrible at this, which is why it usually is best to keep this guidance of youngsters to the family unit, since that is where they are best known and evaluated by the parent(s).

This could be interpreted as why a family takes the responsibility of a child's actions. "He or she raised their child terribly, thats why he curses so much in school." They generally don't blame the child as much when they are younger, like 4 to 8. The parents are responsible, since they are the ones shouldering the child's freedom till he is sentient enough.

That being said, once a person has reached an age of sufficient reason to operate normally and safely in society, they should have reached freedom.

On reviews > Baby Driver

  blenderdumbass



Well @alkyilcycloalke , it's plenty cinematic. Edgar Wright knows how to be very cinematic. He just doesn't misuse it.

If you want something very un-cinematic, you need to look at the Dogme 95 movement. It's rules are literally designed to make the movie less cinematic.

On forum > How Can I Improve The Website

  blenderdumbass


@alkyilcycloalke lol after all this time I ended up actually making a login system. Though I had to hack it into existence since I didn't plan for it at all. But it seems like it works.

  blenderdumbass


@alkyilcycloalke you mean like the visibility of the text? Because the point is, those are the Blender Dumbass colors. The background is this washed out greyish bluesh thing. And the foreground it yellow. Why text looks quite good on this background. I can try black text. But I believe it will look crappy.

On articles > The Danger Of Good Intentions

  blenderdumbass


@alkyilcycloalke I strongly disagree. If freedom was not important for children as young as new born babies, we wouldn't have laws prohibiting hitting children. An act of violence is an act of control over the other person's body. And therefor is not good. Countries without freedom like Russia have no such laws, since the country doesn't know what freedom is. Look at the other freedom, privacy! Child pornography is not good since it's a violation of a child's privacy. And therefor child's freedom. In such countries as Russia, storing such privacy violating material is not illegal. But in democracies you cannot be a dictator to the child in your house. Because the child should have the freedom!