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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:57:41 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-11, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-01-11 04:15, RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-01-10, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-10 10:37, DFS wrote:
>>>> On 1/10/2025 9:35 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-01-10 07:55, chrisv wrote:
>>>>>> -hh wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (snip stuff from the same guy who defended censorship because it was
>>>>>>> by "private companies" who were being told to do it by the Biden
>>>>>>> administration)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some of us value freedom more than others, obviously.
>>>>>
>>>>> I had a reminder of that yesterday actually. I have a chunk of movies
>>>>> ripped from DVDs and Blu-Rays on a portable SSD, and others are
>>>>> purchased from the Microsoft Store. If I show a movie to a class from
>>>>> the former and a few students were absent, I can upload the movie to
>>>>> Teams and they can catch up at their leisure. With the latter, they're
>>>>> completely fucked. I am actually mad that I allowed myself to believe
>>>>> that it made sense to buy DRM-enabled movies.
>>>>
>>>> DRM is necessary so the production companies can recoup the $24M ($12M
>>>> each) paid to Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie for a few months work on
>>>> Barbie, which, apart from the Ahlstrom-like whining about "the
>>>> patriarchy", was a good time.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't know, I don't watch recent movies that much. I like to buy
>>> movies I liked back in the day on DVD though. I just got Old School and
>>> The Bourne Supremacy.
>> 
>> I didn't like the one Bourne movie I partially watched. That "shaky-camera"
>> crap gets on my nerves. (I think it was a Bourne movie with the
>> "shaky-camera" disease — if not, my apologies.)
>> 
>> I've been watching the Jesse Stone movies. More my speed these days.
>
> Well, I was a fan of the Bourne Identity, the Bourne Supremacy and the 
> Bourne Ultimatum. I even bought Jason Bourne on the Windows movie store 
> but have yet to watch it. I just like the action. The worst shake-camera 
> movies I've seen were Transformers and Man of Steel. There, the camera 
> shakes so much that you have no way of knowing what the heck is going 
> on. I loved Henry Cavill as Superman but I hated the movie he was in 
> because of that.

Maybe I just saw the part of the Bourne movie (whichever one it was) where 
they were doing the camera shaking. Wherever I see it, I don't like it.

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what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien