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Wanted
2008 · Film · 110 min
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.
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complete coding noob here.
if I want to throw a shuriken abiding to some artificial, magic Magnus force like in the movie wanted, both chatGpt and Claude let me down, using pygame. what if I wanted c-level performance or if I wanted to use zig? burp.
It works like the average Microsoft employee, like some doped version of an orange wig wearer who gets votes because his daddys kept the population as dumb as it gets after the dotcom x Facebook era. in essence, the ones to be disappointed by are the Chan-Zuckerbergs of our time. there was a chance, but there also was what they were primed for
Reminded me of "Wanted" (2008)[0]
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493464/
Comics! I recently finished Wanted (which made for a shitty movie, but a decent comic) and Watchmen (I despair I hadn't gotten around to it sooner).
Now I'm planning to read V for Vendetta, The Killing Joke, Batman: Year One, and some more. I've finally come around to comics as an art form, and I couldn't be happier!
I used to think the movie “Wanted” was pure science fiction. Not anymore. It’s feasible someone could be sniped out from miles away. Must be a nightmare for security logistics of VIPs.
The difference is, Superman has a long internal struggle between his desire to do right and his desire to give up in the face of so many people suffering, he may be America’s Boy Scout but he works hard and he keeps a low profile and he is modern day Sisyphus - skipping out on his everyday life to go to unpleasant places alone and deal with unpleasant people, save lives, and come back to .. a journalist notepad and a story about some trivia and no amazing rewards.
Neo on the other hand is a modern day superhero exactly, he’s like the Wanted film main character - he did nothing, doesn’t work hard, doesn’t train at anything, and then sometime while he’s working a drudge job and slacking off, the universe dumps hero on him because of someone he innately is, and then everyone loves him for this thing he didn’t do, but instead is a thing he is.
The equivalent in real life might be considering Dr Jonny Kim, graduated high school, joined the navy, became a Navy SEAL, became a combat medic, sniper, navigator, went on 100 combat missions, graduated with a math degree, went to Harvard med school and became a doctor, and is now a NASA astronaut selected as a possible mars mission candidate, navy reservist, husband, father, decorated combat vet, and 35 years old; and then imagining NASA deselecting him and replacing him with a 35 year old you know who “thought about being the first man on Mars since childhood” and whose favourite film is “The Martian”, and is just waiting for NASA to find him because he’d be the perfect candidate, he could “learn any of that stuff but won’t waste his time until they choose him” [hey that too much describes me!]. Sure maybe Jonny Kim always dreamed of going to Mars and loves The Martian, but he also did things.
Batman went to be Far East and trained hard in martial arts for years, Neo waited for someone else to load martial arts skill into his brain in a safe virtual environment which he could control so he never lost.
Heroes in the past did hard heroic things, rather than dreamed of being called upon to do easy heroic things they could innately magically do. Heroes of the past wanted to win a war, action movie heroes play to a viewer who wants to be seen as a hero and doesn’t care how the saving of people (or whatever) is irrelevant and secondary.
Heh, I'm sure it did.
I worked at a few VFX studios, and everyone has deleted large swathes of shit by accident.
My favourite was when an rsync script went rogue and started deleted the entire /job directory in reverse alphabet order. Mama-mia[1] was totally wiped out, as was Wanted (that was missing some backups, so some poor fucker had to go round fishing assets out of /tmp, from around 2000 machines.)
From what I recall (this was ~2008) There was some confusion as to what was doing the deleting. Because we had at the time a large(100 or 300tb[2]) lustre file system, it didn't really give you that many clues. They had to wait till it went on a plain old NFS box before they could figure out what was causing it.
Another time honoured classic is matte painters on OSX boxes accidentally dragging whole film directories into random places.
[1]some films have code names, hence why this was first
[2]That lustre was big, physically and IO, it could sustain something like 2-5 gigabytes a second, It had at least 12 racks of disks. Now a 4u disk shelf and one server can do ~2gigabyes sustained
Wanted is a terrible example because it's a terrible movie. All that proves is that you have bad taste in cinema.
At least go with an example like... Wedding Crashers or Old School, or Bad Boys if it has to be an action movie.
ANYWAY, games are not a geek exclusive thing anymore (at least not if all of the frat bros I used to know in college are any indication). Comic books still are somewhat, but there is an ever growing independent movement that's causing the interested parties to become more diverse. Science Fiction is clearly no longer niche since like, 9 out of 10 of the top earning films are Science Fiction or Fantasy.
Wanted is a terrible example, since it's a comic-book movie. :)
This was wonderful. I'm a guy but I can definitely relate to never fitting in with the typical CS-crowd. I don't game, I don't play D&D or any RPGs, and I don't watch/read Sci-Fi. All of this is completely orthogonal to my skills/knowledge. I like reading celebrity gossip and watch cheesy movies that geeks despise. Sure, I watched and liked Primer but I also liked Wanted. People need to stop stereotyping. That's also kinda why I like HN and reddit because there is such a huge amount of diversity on these sites that transcending past stereotypes is an everyday occurrence.