I don't think that's right. Movies use all sorts of devices to engage their audience. And a lot of them rely on surprise. If they tell you what they're about to do just before you see it happen "for real" - the effect is obviously compromised.
I agree 100% with the author. I've seen Alien,but I haven't watched it for a long time. So if I go to see it in the cinema now, while I technically do know what's going to happen - it isn't completely fresh in my mind. So to be shown all the suspenseful, scary bits I'm about to watch, out of context, immediately before the film, is absolutely detrimental to the experience.
That was my experience. For the recent rerelease I took my kids to see it for the first time in the theater. And we were treated to 20 minutes of spoilers before the movie started. Thanks, jerks.
France has the Académie Française. Well, no-one respects them. The first woman to enter it was Marguerite Yourcenar and she was strongly antifeminist; And they said to not use the Français.e.s spelling and rather keep the usual “Français(es)”, and suddenly all administrations started the dot-based version.
So it was a death-duty style tax - that makes more sense. For a minute I was imagining a lawyer reading a will. "And lastly, I leave my entire 7 billion dollar fortune to... the U.S. Government."
I stopped drinking years ago, and have recently tried several of the different non alcoholic beers available. However I always notice something suspiciously like a minor hangover an hour or two after drinking one, which seems odd. Has anyone else noticed anything similar?
In the USA they must be below .5% abv. Almost all are much lower as that removed alcohol can be used in other products such as hard seltzers or rtd's. (A macro light beer is around 4.1%)
Also alcohol labeling has a small wiggle room but .8 bring zero is incorrect. If it's labeled at 5%. The manufacturer can legally sell it at a .3% wiggle so 4.7% to 5.3%.
Heineken zero it doesn't happen on, nor Corona Zero (although that stuff tastes like shit anyway). Some of the craft IPA Zero beers either get me a bit drunk feeling or just give me a hangover after 2.
I notice they taste pretty sweet, especially the 0.0 ones. If you feel a crash or headache after drinking soda, then maybe it's similar for those NA beers.
Haha yeah funny you mention that. If I drink two I feel it just slightly the next day. I’m a super lightweight - don’t drink at all - and yeah definitely something there. They have 0.5% alcohol- most seem to anyway including Athletic which I’m a huge fan of. I think even that little has a small effect.
I think the internet and the general ascendancy of computer science,and algorithmic thinking has a part to play in this. There is a certain notion of efficiency (perhaps also expressable as convenience) which has become a well trodden path to success in the market. This has been widely beneficial of course, but amongst it's side effects are a marginalisation of anything other than the most focused, popular artistic offerings. (Think Mr Beast, Taylor Swift etc).
Algorithmic thinking and optimizing one's life (whether in a video game, workplace, or in a hobby) lives rent free in my mind. It's prevalence and inertia has made my life only miserable, yet it's so hard to escape when almost everything your sold on is to optimally squeeze your life.
The point is exactly that you _can't_ just analyze every single situation that ever happens and then know what to do. That there's a huge amount of life experience for which there is no analytical solution. So you can't "just analyze" every single thing. What do you do then? Dispair? Or laugh.
The ancients eventually came up with the whole God thing to explain all confusion away but i have a feeling that happened after the evolutionary push to not kill yourself the first time you see lightening
I am a counter example that rule (though perhaps it is indirectly in agreement). I grew up alone, in the middle of the UK countryside without much regular contact with other kids. My inner monologue grew constant and loud - it acted like a companion, urging me to create things and ideas.
Similar situation. The book does delineate between certain activities and how they're reinforced/guided- so I'm not sure your example is a counter-example. It actually fits the narrative of the book quite well. For example, it uses Futsol as an example of a sport that is self-reinforcing: you do the right things, you keep the ball and get a goal- if not, it gets taken from you. In contrast, a student playing the piano is much more successful with an experienced teacher to guide the rights and wrongs.
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