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> I don't get reviews saying that TRoP, or some other new prestige TV series, is "terrible", or "a disaster", based on the first couple of episodes.

There are only eight episodes, so if two first two suck then that's a quarter of the series/seasons that sucks.

The first two episodes are also 90 minutes long, so we're three hours into the story. That's as long as the extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring movie: how much of a story were they able to tell in that? How much have they told in TRoP?

Contrast with with House of the Dragon which has also released two episodes (out of ten). What are people saying about that?

Yes, the series can be 'saved' in the remaining six episodes, but it just seems… wasteful? (of time, effort, money) … to do what they did.
it is funny how american "ally"ness with israel somehow manages to put a cover on the "western" democracy values and "freedoms"....

i am pretty sure the moment israel-usa relations turn sour, usa would wake up to the "inhuman treatment" and "apartheid"....

right now its all fair and square and under the approval of American interests so its all fine. even EU hasn't had that "woke" moment with Palestinian yet, most probably because of the same pro-israel lobby....
In the same sense that moving to PoS is 'not a big issue'. The Bitcoin protocol, using PoW and quantum-vulnerable keys, is defined in the Whitepaper and can't move anywhere. People in the Bitcoin community can move to a new protocol and try to create an air of continuity (which will likely happen, multiple times, creating questions about who the 'real' successor is).
Then why spend the money to get the rights to a known series at all? Make up a new IP in Generic Medieval Fantasy Land with lavish production values. No licensing or contract renewal fees, and you don't upset any existing audience.
> And I'm pretty sure nobody anticipated how widely deployed it would be 45+ years later.

Or maybe they thought by now we would have replaced it with something better. Spacefaring was still riding high in the '70s, the brakes were only applied after '89 (sadly one of the many indirect effects of glasnost, RIP Gorbachev).
Well by design I meant in general its shape and feel. Like the logo at the bottom of the screen, the way it's positioned little asymmetrically between the lighted and darkened area is to me a little jarring. Or why it's there in the first place. And the bevel between screen and the frame, I think it could have been done better.

So it's not really "of course, that's how it's supposed to be". I did not like the feel of some of the premium Android phones either, so I think it's just in general the vibe of the phone that I don't find that exciting.

It's a fine phone but it feels the people who made the phone were not overly passionate about making it. Which makes sense but I had hoped more distinct personality out of it. Not just another generic mid-range Android phone.
Normal, yes.

The nice thing about forgotten knowledge is that it's much easier to jog the memory and get it back than to learn it from nothing. You likely still use a lot of the fundamental concepts without realizing it.

I am someone who came from a non-traditional, self-taught path ~25 years ago. I did get some formal schooling in electronics, which you'd think was useless, but I can think of a few times solid digital logic understanding has served me well in the past, for example. On the other side of that, I designed some shitty databases early in my career! Understanding normalization could have saved me a lot of headaches when I was new.
>Based on what exactly?

Maybe you should read some negative reviews on IMDB to find out? Oh, sorry, I forgot. They all got deleted. Hence lies the problem.
Sorry, yes, it’s still running. There’s long term strategic questions over it, but those are nothing to do with the actual work product.

And I’m loving the extremely detailed Tyneside vs Sunderland debate you managed to kick off.
It's about my life, about how I choose to spend the time and if the show doesn't give me a reason from the beginning, it would be pretty optimistic to think it will at some point later. I'll rather choose another one which does it right, because there's no shortage of shows anyway. Of course I don't mean it must deliver in the first five minutes, but two episodes are plenty enough. If the director/scenarist/whatever cannot build two interesting episodes out of two, that's a pretty bad average and gives me no reason to think they will get better - except the unfounded hope and comparison with whatever unrelated series you mentioned.
The only part that seems implausible here is the recycling.
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The problem with changing the world that was created by a writer is that the world had become so popular for a good reason.

I didn't read Dune nor Brave New World, but I loved the Dune movie and didn't enjoy Brave New World series, because it just didn't make sense. I love exact book adaptations even if I hadn't read the book.
I think it very much depends on the tavern. In many places sure, it would be unknown. Could a random village have a black resident, maybe a sailor or member of a trade expedition that happened to settle there? Absolutely.

Adventure fiction is often centred on unusual characters with exceptional back stories or circumstances, and people like that did exist.
> Are there really that many people with the desperate desire to mock it?

Yes, the most thumbed down trailer of all-time and a big meme culture based on how bad it was going to be, how they ruined Tolkien completely etc. Now when the show is not the 1/10 trainwreck they expected all those memes become invalidated and this infuriates the mob.
The problem is the low effort part not the "not being true" part. If you take a result of decades of loving work of some author and give it to a committee to remake it in 6 months (and people in the committee were chosen by some random criteria like genitals or pigmentation) - you get low quality product with big budget.

Then you blame people who understand what was lost for complaining and call them racist.

Few people have problems with changes for the better. But the changes are usually for worse. In the Witcher season 1 most changes were well received (introducing Yennefer backstory for example). But removing the Ciri & Geralt scene which was the pinnacle of the 2 short stories collecting just so that they can put 30 minutes of Ciri walking with that black elf that has no influence on anything else in the story was just dumb. Pacing was awful, and they had to cut the good stuff.

The story got objectively worse, but people who didn't read the books won't complain cause they don't know what they missed.
I had a class titled "Software Engineering" that prepared me very well for software dev life cycle, maintenance etc...

It was a semester long project where the professor was the "business" person and everyone had shared roles (someone was QA for a sprint)...and we get lectures on code quality, testing, best practices.

To my surprise it doesn't exist in every college. Even though I went to a state school, not all state schools in that state required it.

I disliked the professor but am eternity grateful for the class...I would interview kids nowadays who want $100k but have no idea what Agile is.

This was in mid 2000s.
The SSRI narrative seems to be unwinding, very quickly. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0
Reducing OP’s argument of “alienating fans” to “pandering to fans” is a logically false and intellectually dishonest argument.
I happened to watch the 'Ecstacy' documentary on Prime last night. I was surprised to see the guy who brought MDMA to the world was sad that it had become a party drug as he believes it's primary purpose could have been to help people psychologically. Definitely worth a watch.
Sure, in no particular order:

* Choosing not to federate, just like choosing to federate, is a feature, not a bug;

* You no longer lose your followers during account migration on Mastodon;

* If my instance does not federate with e.g. Gab, it does not mean that my instance is an insular community disconnected from others;

* I'm not complaining about Fediverse instances being insular communities and in fact I don't experience them being that way;

* You're getting multiple posts in a row flagged off HN and there's likely a common reason for that.
I think people with legitimate criticisms are starting to get really tired being called a racist or a misogynist. 99% of the reviews aren't about wokeness at all. They're about the writing, the pacing and the how unbelievably dull the show is.
It is a bit anemic, upon reflection.

Still, I haven't heard any recent complaint on fundraising goals.
I hate to do the "pull out the dictionary" thing, but those people are precisely the core audience for LoTR media (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/core-...):

> the type of people who are most likely to buy a particular product, watch a particular TV programme, etc.

The Tolkien fans don't need a dozen Amazon Prime adverts to watch a new LoTR show, they seek out new LoTR content on their own.

To give my perspective, I also read LoTR as a teenager, but did not finish the Silmarillion, and enjoyed the Peter Jackson trilogy. It doesn't take a LoTR lore researcher fluent in Elvish to realize that Jackson set the bar high, and the new show appears to be falling significantly short. That's just the reality of trying to adapt a beloved franchise with excellent predecessors. The 1/10 reviews might be hyperbolic, but it's ridiculous for Amazon to be removing them while leaving the equally hyperbolic 10/10s.
Cargo delivery rates diminishing over time were the intended counter to this, but they were both tuned too low in the original TTD and the largest map size in original TTD is the smallest map size anyone actually plays in OpenTTD so you hit the price floor with plenty of distance still available to outweigh it.

Cargodist is one way around this as the cargo has a set destinations when generated, but for performance reasons it only considers connected industries so it still relies a bit on the player being "honest".

The FIRS newGRF industry model is another. Rather than secondary industries scaling their output infinitely with input, they have a max output reached when a threshold of different input types is provided, which encourages you to connect up other instances to get more cargo.
Getting certificates used to be annoying and cost money, so many, many websites just didn't bother. It used to be only bigger websites with multiple webmasters/ops people/developers supported https.

I don't have numbers to support this, but I think Letsencrypt and its related initiatives had an extremely significant impact on the amount of web traffic that is encrypted, resulting in a hugely safer and more secure experience for users and organizations around the world.

What a legacy. Rest in peace.
One of my most-used web-based tools. Down the bottom of the list are a lot of very useful generic file/media/string conversion tools too.
"It's ok when I can use it, I will put it to good use because I 100% know what is good for you pleb. But I cannot give it to you since you might do with it something that I don't agree with".
I highly recommend Byung-Chul Han's "The Burnout Society", which is mentioned in this article.

It provides a very lucid explanation of modern western society's obsession with achievement and self-improvement, and the harm that this can cause.

It can be a little dense if you (like me) aren't used to reading philosophy, but it's not too bad.
> Carnage of Asimov's Foundation is 7.4

The show is not faithful to the book but it has good production value, a fairly interesting story and is overall very watchable. The passing is sometimes questionable but 7.4 seems like a fair rating to me.
What structure of USA will collapse in your estimation? Since we're talking about a democratic federation and not an "empire".
Travellers turn to Bluetooth bag trackers after ‘summer of lost luggage’
Choosing not to associate with a person or a group of people is one of the most basic human rights, not dehumanization. A private Fediverse instance has the full right to invite, or uninvite, any sort of people or content; you're just seeing the effects of that right being exercised, independently, by multiple administrators of multiple instances.
<<What of these is more important?

You put me in a difficult position. I don't really watch movies anymore ( Joaquin's Joker was ok ). I rarely get into shows ( I was amused by Boys ). I still read a little. That said, I can absolutely guarantee you that never have I ever in my entire existence on this planet read something and thought to myself "If only Geralt was black, or at least a gypsy, the world would be a better place" for several different yet related reasons:

1. It is supposed to be my entertainment and not a social project ( or more accurately, it can be both, but entertainment should be the primary consideration; after all, if I pay, I expect some value )

2. I do not accept the assertion that it does make better place for underrepresented and disadvantaged people. Right now, it is actually making it worse. You may not be seeing it, but counter-culture is rejecting it pretty hard and that is with all the internet censorship in full swing ( granted, currently for corporate reasons, but censorship is censorship is censorship ). If anything, this hamfisted approach creates a whole new generation of actual racists.. I do not think that makes for a better place for "underrepresented and disadvantaged people".

I don't buy the binary framing either. To me, neither is important.
In the JS ecosystem..

TypeScript (Microsoft), React (Facebook)
I did this too, until competitor came and started taking some of the oil that was waiting on my trains to go full-circle. Which put me in red numbers.

Still, putting more trains on that same track, so oil was never waiting to be loaded, rose my ratings and rig started giving me bigger share of oil.

That and train breakdowns... Hate them :)
What do you mean by "try this"? Is "U U D D L R L R B A" some kind of shortcut combination?
And the Amazon boxes you get delivered have LOTR graphics on them
Because too much of the money goes to the intellectual property owner as rent.

And also, prequel/sequel stuff that was not originally mapped out by the author is usually crap.
> Didn’t know IMDB was owned by Amazon

Yep. That's what enables Prime Video's X-Ray where you can see details about the actors and music of a particular scene while watching, and what also makes it impossible for competitors such as Netflix to have a similar feature. If IMDB were separate, the data would probably be accessible to anyone.
My friend who isn’t really a TV guy watched it because everyone is making such a big deal about it.

He told me today it’s not bad but the main characters are just kinda boring.

I’m still on sandman so I’ll do ring next. But it seems people do are actually watching it are not too bothered by it.
From that perspective, it’s a small step to start considering anyone who doesn’t enjoy the show as “not the target audience”.

Best to just let all reviews stay, it opens up a massive can of worms if you don’t (never mind the conflict of interest in why LotT gets a different treatment than, say, HBO’s shows).
I'm split about this. Is it good or bad? Should we only read and appreciate what the masses read and appreciate? On one hand yeah it would make sense, confirmation of the masses is a thing and not everybody can be wrong. But on the other hand everybody is different and different biases make for different preferences. When I read reviews on the web I always take time to read the negatives to see what they found as negative. Many times that's just bull (valid also about the positives btw), people having beef with whatever, but sometimes they point out interesting bits. And it takes me much less time to read such reviews (and I also learn more) than by watching the entire contents.
like it or not, more than 60% of all countries in the world recognize the State of Palestine as a full sovereignty state. It is a fact, not something remain to be negotiated.
That is fair and an actual argument with your opinion and some evidence while to me the parent was more 'Author is wrong, opposite is true, and I have more authority'

Appeal to authority is usually annoying but I just meant that if you do it you should appeal to a higher authority which I didnt really recognise in this case.
Amazon's relationship with IMDB as been very fair.

They have kept their data open and downloadable https://m.imdb.com/interfaces/

They did shutdown the forums. But moderating is every companies nightmare these days.

Their reviews and ratings are world class and very accurate

(There are known issues like nationalism in certain countries, but it's easy to cope)

This is disappointing. But no other company would ever rate their own streaming with accurate ratings like Amazon do.

It must be be disappointing to spend over half a billion $ and end up with the mess they have. They do delete brigadeing like when people downvoted Godfather to get The Dark Knight to 1.

Maybe wait and see?
Oh yeah, i'm not saying that Windows 1.0 was the first, I was just giving it as an example that the title was wrong.
„New: Movie critics and fans have disagreed about blockbusters more this year than any time this century.

I went through the top 10 movies from every year for the past 22 years, and this is what I found.“

https://twitter.com/lucas_shaw/status/1564014563229515776
Most knowledge advencements come from real world, not academia.

Academia has mostly devolved to intellectual dick measurement contenst by entrenched academics/professors who cannot be fired.
It is the Konami code.
People will always ignore flaws if it’s entertaining.

The fact LOTR was boring and uneventful makes the other flaws more glaring.
The posts are [Dead], which means they're only available for the submitter or individuals with "Show Dead" available on their account.

My guess: The domain is too similar to HN itself, or the fact it's a lower-value aggregator regurgitating content from other sources, got the article killed.

The posts are [Dead], not a regex issue, nor is it an issue with administration.

From the FAQ:

>What does [dead] mean?

>The post was killed by software, user flags, or moderators.

>Dead posts aren't displayed by default, but you can see them all by turning on 'showdead' in your profile.

>If you see a [dead] post that shouldn't be dead, you can vouch for it. Click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch' at the top. When enough users do this, the post is restored. There's a small karma threshold before vouch links appear.

As for the other one and your recent comments, it's a failure to follow the guidelines[0].

>Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I have a CS bachelor + masters and the only actually real-world useful courses were on the masters levels (and only 3 courses out of many, the rest were time wasters), 99% of the other stuff before it was a total waste of my time.
Bridges also don’t have product managers who are judged solely on what new features they can add, and a business model and relatively fast iteration time that makes that possible.
That's the whole premise of Robinson's novel Ministry of the future.
It is also unlikely to be running on Windows, as Server 2003 (or perhaps 2008) would not last long connected to the internet.

Windows is also around 100x slower in in forking new processes, so CGI that requires this would not do well.
> The show covers A LOT more time than LOtR did, there's plenty of space for character development.

The first two episodes of TRoP are 90 minutes each, for a total run time of three hours.

Three hours is about the run time of the first LoTR movie (Fellowship): how much story were they able to tell in those three hours?

Further, the other epic fantasy series, House of Dragons, also has released two episodes: how much story have they been able to tell? What are the reviews of that franchise?

The TRoP series may not end up sucking after the first eight episodes, but having the first two (allegedly: haven't seen it myself) suck seems to be a waste of everyone's time/effort/money.
Bitcoin has already failed as a currency, and this is why it should be really seen as a digital collectible. Actually, it is worse than that: it can go away if the miners lose interest in keeping the chain around.

ETH is not meant to be a currency. It is meant to be a scarce resource like oil and its value is in its requirement to power the crypto economy that is based on the Ethereum blockchain. With ethereum, there will be plenty of people who might be in accepting payments (with stabletokens or other ERC20), but no interest whatsoever in holding ETH.
I am not opposed to that being her prospective character arc but she’s not portrayed that way. There’s nothing to make us like her and from the storytelling and craft perspective there should be. We should at least see her questioning herself. She’s not presented as a cautionary tale. She’s presented as a strong woman who has to deal with domineering men. Even that would be a compelling story line. But again we don’t have any way to sympathize with her. She treats every other character except her brother in the intro with contempt. All she does is try to prove to the haters that they don’t understand her and she’s gonna do what she knows is right regardless of any warnings.
> Some corners of the internet are grumpy because there are black people in middle earth.

More like this show is fan fiction level of writing and the show runners use intersectionality to deflect any sort of criticism. IF you don't like that show, you're automatically racist and sexist, it can't be because the writing itself is mediocre to bad, it has to be about identitiy politics. That's how Hollywood "creatives" excuse their failures nowadays and for the last 10 years, it's all because "MAGAs" or "Russian bots".

Meanwhile, Amazon is cracking down on unions in the real world,while being performatively woke with some garbage show they spent a billion dollar on...
They didn't seem to delete user reviews for Lightyear made by all the bigots that were offended by having two women kissing in the movie so it seems that there's some preferential treatment for Amazon properties.

And deleting negative reviews by bigots at least would be more defensible than deleting negative reviews from fans of Tolkien who take issue with the treatment of the work they love.

EDIT: I still haven't seen the show yet and I originally thought the issue with review bombing was similar to people like me hating the show foundation on Apple TV... I see now that people claim that a lot of negative reviews were due to the race of characters and people claiming the "show is too woke". In that case, it's actually more of a similar situation to Lightyear. Still, it's very interesting to see the differing treatment of Lightyear, a pixar property compared to this, an Amazon show.
I published my first book (Italian edition) I’m so exited about it
> I wonder every single time when media is reporting on the war against China and that Japan and Korea are our friends because we have the same values. Neither Korea nor Japan share most of values with us, in my opinion. Japanese and Korean friends agree.

In this context, it just says that Japan and Korea are both in western democracy camp.
I went and enjoyed it very much also.

An added bonus was that the weather was lovely and the walk up the Thames away from London was fantastic and I discovered an incredible Victorian pumping station: https://www.crossness.org.uk

How were the goggles?
IMDB is the only provider of this type of data?
When I took a trip to Canada, immigration asked the guy ahead of me where he was staying and he said “with my girlfriend” and subsequently got grilled for 10 min about the details of his relationship. And if he had refused to answer he would have been denied entry.