My bachelors thesis was basically about recommender systems like this. Netflix truly is a sunken ship.
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Yeah, no I think you are spot on in that last sentence. We, as viewers, enthusiasts and consumers can only vote with our wallets. I have spent a lot more effort trying to bring people to independent showing and movies that aren’t the highest grossing/budget films.
But while that may be true, I definitely also went and saw Oppenheimer, Barbie and across the spider-verse.
But I think the whale, tar, Banshees of Inisherin, everything everywhere all at once, triangle of Sadness - all did fairly well at the movies, and despite being far from low budget indiemovies, I think that gives me a lot of confidence that cinema is alive and thriving!
While I don’t disagree on the main points of your post, I’d like to counter by saying I think we are back on the rise. We see eastern movies more frequently make it to our cinemas (at least where I live), and a decline in interest when it comes to superhero stuff. We had a Norwegian movie outsell Aquaman the past weekend and that’s wild. (I know, Aquaman isn’t at the top of people’s hype-list).
I myself also decided to make the choice to go and see more indepent films, attend screenings/festivals in my city and stop going to the marvel shows. It’s been a blast and I’m loving going to the movies more than ever as a result!
The more I play it, the more I enjoy it. Sure it has its flaws and definite issues, but they’ve also hit a perfect mid of systems to manage (food, temps, disease etc) where it makes sense and it’s not too overbearing. They’ve also included a hefty amount of welcome QoL changes.
Still, I can’t craft bulk cloth at once etc and some of those things irk me. The procedural (?) generation is a bit repetitive and mob spawns are a complete mess
Been playing Return to Moria with a friend and we’re having a blast! Got to do a few games of The Finals playtest and that was great fun.
Also got to test a few games of CS2 and actually enjoyed that more than expected as well.
Yeah that would be my tip. Once the seasons end in these games, they are transferred over to become non-seasonal characers so nothing is lost.
But that can be a solution for the next one! d3 is such a fun game
I changed my reddit link to lemmy but kept the snoo symbol.
I don’t really visit too much, I will sweep by a few times a week or so. Reddit I only go to when Google takes me there, which is often enough thst I had to install the official turd of an app.
But I do t have a user over there anymore, so I am not logged in.
I ordered parts and built my own, super fun hobby! The custom keyboard scene is very fun
Purely based on population I’m an exceptional climbing instructor.
Absolutely loving ours like this. But we also still use a bunch of streaming services occationally
For me it’s the gentle lullof the motor and mild sway of the plane. I just can’t stay awake if I try
Around 12 years of reddit here. Completely purged my account and then deleted it. Haven’t been back since.
Noticed that google which is basically a glorified reddit search engine, has become even worse
I miss a lot of my niche content
Parkour! I’ve been practising the sport in one way, shape or form for over half my life now!
Am I any good? No, probably not - but it’s still a lot of fun to explore the world in a new way
For bouldering all you need is a pair of shoes and a chalk-bucket! :) if there is an intro class, I would definitely recommend that, otherwise just bring some friends and have fun!
You can view it all from any of those I suppose? It’s just where its hosted from
You can certainly just join the biggest one, but if you want to catch more similar stuff, join several c/gaming across a few instances. While they are seperate, when you browse your subscribed you won’t really notice I guess.
Yes and no to an extent. I support them being able to advertise for their stuff somewhere, but subs need to take a stance on what they allow. So much you see on reddit is the same photo x-posted to 50 subs and often not “fitting” into the sub, it just becomes spammy.
Stuff like gonewild becomes wildly different if it becomes just a promotion-sub. Can’t there just be that instead?
It’s not widely available and its only in Norwegian, sadly.
However, I will second @mkengine proposal for Letterboxd, I think it is the superior site to nerd out on. Discovery can be a challenge, depending on your own level of investment into the medium. I’m a big ol movie-nerd, and I’m currently grateful to have access to most streaming services through friends/family/partner so I get to browse them if desired.
Apart from that my twitter algorithm is quite skewed towards movies, and I have a “list” on there (curated users you can browse, kind of like a community on here. That’s been great.
Other than that, I listed to podcast, sometimes check out our national newspapers reviews (but most of those reviewers are already in the aforementioned twitter-list) etc.
As for reading on recommender systems and the algorithm for netflix. My work was based around bias and “trust” when it comes to the recommender systems and how much it recommended/pushed “its own agenda” to users despite having differential tastes.
Good keywords I enjoyed was: recommender system bias I also read some good articles on the spotify recommender systems. But those mostly centered around people growing attached to their algorhitms. It was a fun read.