#clearing the queue

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sleeve lengths, continued. 30 August 2019

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John did not really know his own heart.

Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good (1968; Penguin edn, 1978) : 230  

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ghosts in the matrix

beach scene (kartu pos), extreme detail (levels 100 .90 255)

...his major obsession was with the idea of space... but his originality was to deepen the idea of a geometric point.

ex Pierre Cartier, "A country of which nothing is known but the name : Grothendieck and the 'motives'" earlier form, archived here, later form "Alexander Grothendieck A Country Known Only by Name" at Inference Review 1:1 (October 2014) : here

in wake of reading (and re-reading) Karen Olsson, The Weil Conjectures : On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown (2019), where, with a nod to Cartier's earlier paper, she likens Simone (and her brother André) Weil to Grothendieck

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Clearing The Queue Day 26

Previous Day

How I Chose the movie:

I made a wheel that has the queues I use, I spin the wheel to determine where the movie is coming from. From there I load that app and then roll a D20 to determine what movie in that queue I’m watching.

Tonight the wheel picked Disney+ and I rolled a 17 on my dice.

The movie for tonight is Free Guy

Movie summary from IMBD:

In the extremely popular video game, Free City, a NPC named Guy learns the true nature of his existence when he meets the girl of his dreams, a human player. This player's interactions with Guy has massive affects on him, the game, and real world as they play it.

Going into this movie I has mid expectations. I've mostly heard good things, but I'm always wary of AI movies. But I did enjoy this movie, though I don't have a whole late to say about it personally.

I thought the story was well done and good, same with the acting. The sound and editing where both okay.

I'd watch the movie again and whenever the sequel comes out on streaming I'll watch it, but I don't think I'm going to spend extra money to see it in theaters or will actively go out of my way to watch the movie again.

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Clearing The Queue Day 24

You haven't missed any days, I just am starting with today. I might go back for the missed ones, but more then likely I'm just going to just focus on the new ones.

How I Chose the movie:

I made a wheel that has the queues I use, I spin the wheel to determine where the movie is coming from. From there I load that app and then roll a D20 to determine what movie in that queue I'm watching.

Tonight the wheel picked HBOmax and I rolled a 3 on my dice.

The movie for tonight is The Purge: Anarchy

Let me first say that of The Purge franchise I've only see the original movie, which while interesting was not a movie that I liked a whole lot. I liked that this movie looks more into the socioeconomics of it all. Like it's so much more interesting and thought provoking to me. When I watched the 1st one I spent a lot of time thinking about how I am too poor to survive such a thing.

Here is my ratings for this movie:

The story/writing it did a way better job with the concept then the original. I also found myself rooting for the characters more then I thought I would. Was it cheesy, yes. Was it a great story, no. But it did good job.

The acting in my opinion wasn't good, but it wasn't bad. Like I believe the characters are real enough, but I wouldn't say anyone was good.

Sound mixing is something that I have VERY strong opinions of. I think a lot of movies rely too much on sound to make us the audience feel a certain way, particularly in horror/action/thrillers. I think this movie did a phenomenal job of using it well, but not relaying on it to make me feel a certain way. There wasn't jarring sounds at the jumps, the music wasn't even partially loud until the ending scene as we lead into credits.

The editing was okay, like nothing to write home about in my opinion.

Overall the movie was better then okay. I don't think I'll be putting it on my favorites list, but I would watch it again in the future.

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Turns out I have about 10 zillion things queued at the moment (I'm on here a lot since I've been furloughed) so I'm cranking it up a bit.

Just in case you see a zillion posts over the next 24 hours from me or whatever.

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Clearing the Queue

I'm trying to clear out my queue a bit, so there will be a slight increase in posts for the next little while. I am trying to space them out - do not be alarmed, normal queuing will return shortly!

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If this picture made your social media rounds last week, then this video will delve into the person behind it.