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  • It was fine when rendering (esp. text) was server side and not client side like it is now. At least LAN (10MB ethernet) was basically transparent. Internet was shit mainly because everyone was on 56k modems.

    GTK and Qt do all their rendering client side and transfer bitmaps to the server requiring much more bandwidth.



  • You know theatre existed, right? That was the predominate medium for fiction before the explosion of published literature in the 18th/19th century. Publishing became a business. Big business. Some of the richest people around were publishers. “Financial ghouls” filtering what was produced.

    Film/TV is the dominant narrative art form of our age. Print was the dominant narrative art form in that time. Hence my comparison.







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    Not watching TV and Film is the equivalent of saying “I don’t read” in the Victorian era. Good fiction explores the human condition. It poses questions to the reader / viewer to consider. It uses alternative settings to reframe real world events and forces you to re-evaluate things from different perspectives. It can break you out of rutted thinking.

    Now there’s an awful lot of shit out there too, but not watching Schindler’s List because Love Island is crap is ludicrous.