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I found myself shouting at the screen, at home, when watching it as I expected so much from it and it delivered so little.
The visuals were great but there were some parts where I had to watch the same scene several times as the edits did not make sense - when Deckard shoots the chap, I was thinking "Why the hell did he do that?" and even after several times watching it I could not figure out his motives for the shot.
I did not watch it all and was surprised at it's high rating amongst critics.
I watch a movie for the story not for the visuals - the visuals are there to supplement the story, which is why Kubrick's films are so fantastic.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Quote: Kubrick's films are so fantastic.
Sadly: "Kubrick's films were so fantastic", any one who go from satire (Dr. Stanglove) to Hard Sci-Fi (2001) to war movie (Full Metal Jacket) to...the list goes on.
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I heard a story that the guys developing the set for Dr Strangelove did not know what the inside of a B-52 looked like. So they spoke to some airforce people and managed to get a rough idea of what the inside looked like.
When the film was released there was something of a panic from some in the airforce as the interior of of the B-52, in the film, was so similar to the reality that there was concern that the plans of the communications system had been leaked.
I can't end the post without a quote from the film - "Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Never imagined they would make that many remakes. I have already seen the first one, 2048 to go... 
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Best of luck with that!
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I'm used to seeing spam for Vi*gra, bitcoins, lonely Russian girls, Nigerian princes etc, but to day I received the weirdest spam email I've ever had!
A Turkish company is offering to sell me walnut seedlings and apparently they have all of the sertificates needed!
What's the weirdest thing you've been offered?
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Dunno - I don't read it any further than to identify it as spam.
That's assuming it gets through my spam filters, which doesn't happen much these days.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Boob implants.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I've heard about that one bouncing around the internet.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Bloody Sheep Escorts from Cwmni Griffin.
veni bibi saltavi
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That was because you signed up for the "Gin for Ewe" site.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Political parties to vote for.
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xkcd: 2018 CVE List[^]
"Under rare circumstances, a flaw in some versions of Windows could allow Flash to be installed." 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I wonder... where do this guy has the ideas?
in other words... I want a bit of what he smokes 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Damn the hyperlink at the bottom is broken .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Some of them are more subtle than the others - I particularly note
"numpy 1.8.9 can factor primes in =(log N) time and must be quietly deprecated before anyone notices"
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1.8.0 ?
I guess the 1.8.9 version is the one without that feature anymore...
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There are some really funny ones in there, like the one you noted.
I also like, "MySQL server v5.4.55 secretly runs two parallel databases for people who say "S-Q-L" and "Sequel."
What does it do for people who say it, "squeal", like I do? 
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Didier Lockwood died at only 63.
I'm shocked; I have seen him on stage a couple of times, his enthousiasm was really forthcoming. He's been involved in a lot of collaborations with other musicians, and also tried to make things better regarding the teaching of music to children.
I'll miss him, definitely.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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Even after reading the Wikipedia bio, I still don't know who this guy is.
Sorry for your loss. 
-- rants are the vehicle of the lazy and uninspired - JSOP 2/2018
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Well, he's known to have played with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Michel Pettrucciani, and this list is far from complete.
Thanks anyway but I'm afraid this loss is not only mine, really.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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Quote: This system is extremely flexible and powerful as it provides the ability for designers to use virtually the full range of concepts and tools generally only available to programmers.
Introduction to Blueprints | Unreal Engine[^]
Personally, I believe that visual scripting is truly beneficial and worths a try. In the example I mentioned I above, I referred to the blueprints system of unreal engine which gives game developers the ability to work on their projects without the need to write a single line of code.
So what do you think, folks?
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I think this smells of spam is what I think.
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Spam? Well, not really- I am not advertising nor anything. Unreal Engine a well-known game development engine that is considered as the most powerful real time rendering tool.
So back to the subject, what does a software engineer/developer think of visual scripting environment? 
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