AernaLingus

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Just beat the Resident Evil 3 Remake for the first time yesterday and enjoyed it! It's a bit on the short side, but I don't believe length is a virtue, and RE games have a lot of replayability. I didn't enjoy it as much as RE2R (I prefer the level design and backtracking in RE2 and the story/characters are much stronger), but it's still a solid experience, and I'm looking forward to doing some achievement hunting so I can unlock the power ups and unlimited weapons for some S Rank and challenge runs on higher difficulties. Then, next stop: RE4R! RE4 is one of my favorite games of all time (real brave opinion, I know), so I'm interested to see how they adapt the grandaddy of 3rd person over-the-shoulder shooters for the REmake style of gameplay.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

One thing I've wondered about is what role streamers would play in a socialist society. I think that there will still be people who just want to chill and watch someone prattle on while they play video games or draw or whatever, but I the growing prominence of streamers seems inextricably linked to the increasing alienation and isolation caused by capitalism. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that, for the majority of diehard streamer fans, the streamer is less an entertainer and more a surrogate friend (or even romantic partner).

A socialist society wouldn't be a utopia, of course, but integral to its success would be layers of strong communal social structures which are incompatible with the epidemic of isolation we see today. Instead of abandoning people to have nothing but their screens for company, we would do what we can to reintegrate them with their communities and build meaningful relationships.

As for the desire to be a celebrity, I think it would definitely be lower in a socialist society. There are people who do purely want fame, but I think for most celebrity is a means to an end, as you say. One streamer that I follow is an incredible vocalist and pours immense effort into making music, which they are only able to fund and find the time for thanks to their following. In a world where this person had the free time and resources (without IP law or other artificial scarcity) to just make their art with likeminded creative folks to their hearts' content, I really doubt they would have ever gotten into streaming or worried themselves about getting a huge audience. Out of all of the streamers I know, only a few seem like pure entertainers (the Jermas and Northernlions of this world)—the rest just stumbled into something that is a lot more rewarding than toiling away for wages and are riding the wave for as long as they can while funding their true passions.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (12 children)

Apparently so

According to a site admin from that forum post (which is from April 2021--who knows where things stand now):

If you use the OpenSubtitles website manually, you will have advertisements on the web site, NOT inside the subtitles.

If you use some API-software to download subtitles (Plex, Kodi, BSPlayer or whatever), you are not using the web site, so you do NOT have these web advertisements. To compensate this, ads are being added on-the-fly to the subtitles itself.

Also, from a different admin

add few words from my side - it is good you are talking about ads. They not generating a lot of revenue, but on other side we have more VIP subscriptions because of it :) We have in ads something like "Become VIP member and Remove all ads..."

Also, the ads in subtitles are always inserted on "empty" space. It is never in middle of movie. What Roozel wrote - "I think placing those ads at the beginning and end is somewhat OK but not in the middle or at random points in the film" - should not happen, if yes, send me the subtitle.

If the subtitle is from tv series, there are dialogues from beginning usually. System is finding "quiet" place where ads would fit, and yes, this can be after 3 minutes of dialogue...

This is important to know, I hope now it is more clear about subtitle ads - why we are doing this, there is possibility to remove them and how system works.

so a scenario like in the screenshot isn't supposed to happen. I guess if you really wanted to see if it happens you could grab all the English subs via the API and just do a quick grep or what-have-you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the halcyon days of DeepDream

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