01/01 - Two Tuesdays for TurkerHubView

I'm still semi-disappointed that having 50k+ post doesn't give you the Turkerhub Masters title.

 

5k reviews doesn't either

 

All time great whats? Try so hard at what? I'm not really trying one way or t'other.

Well there is a post history you can look at, and apparently you blacked-out? tsk tsk.

 

i've been sitting here trying to think of the first time i was sour over an adaptation and how it numbed me into feeling the way i do now, but i really think it comes back to the phantom menace. i made so many excuses for that damn movie, i talked myself into liking it. i started seeing things at a product of their time regarding technical and special effects, zeitgeists regarding culture and social commentary, adaptations for a new audience, reinvigorating an old audience, interpretations from a new perspective, whatever. i really wish it was a better slap in the face, but i really think it's to blame for me being all "whatever man" about adaptations, reboots, and sequels/prequels

 

Title: Answer 25-30 minute survey about your past life experiences and trauma for psychological research [ $ | $ ] PANDA
Requester: Taylor [A16HL3T1R7SER8]
TurkerView: [ $ / hour ]
Description: The purpose of the study is to gain a deeper understanding of the resiliency of survivors of adult sexual assault, and to improve therapeutic treatment for survivors.
Duration: 00:00:00
Available: 1
Reward: $1.00
Qualifications:

• Location EqualTo US,

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Title: Quality evaluation of line drawing image [ $ | $ ] PANDA
Requester: Toshihiko Yamasaki [A3N8X8NWH3UZDE]
TurkerView: [ $20.64 / hour ]
Description: Please choose the image that is most similar to clean and expressive line drawing. (clean: lines with the same thickness and intensity, no noise, blur, and texture-like edges, expressive: Expressive: preserving enough details to identify object and sce)
Duration: 01:00:00
Available: 0
Reward: $0.50
Qualifications:

• HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 97,
• Total approved HITs GreaterThan 5000,
• Location EqualTo US,

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Yep, that's much more like A6. That cake hater.

 

i read "past life" as in reincarnation. i should probably get more coffee.

 

Yeah, but that doesn't tell me how you felt about it. hah

 

I read it that way too.

Have you read/watched this yet? There's a book version that I have that's essentially a transcript of the entire interview that I like more because I'm too impatient to listen to people talk.

 

oohh, no i haven't. where can one acquire said book version because i suffer the same affliction

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385418868/?tag=thtv02-20

 

Star Wars basically ended after the Hoth scene in Epire strikes back. That was the sum total of the magic of the entire thing, and they've been milking that exhausted cow for decades.
I blame merchandising. They make so much from the shirts and action figures they can just keep forcing people to be excited about it and keep going to see the movies.

Stwar wars will be what Westerns are today. Nobody cares a galoot about Gene Autrey. And soon, no one will care about Dark Sith or whatever that guy is.

 

oh right, that one website that sells books sometimes. sorry, thank you

 

Also, George Lucas was highly influenced by an earlier book of Joseph Campbell's when he was making Star Wars, he even invited the guy to watch the movie at his private ranch. It's called The Hero With A Thousand Faces. I have that one too, but it's a more more dense and academic style read than The Power of Myth.

 

Is this broken? I get a weird message, but am not sure if I am just missing something or it is actually broken.

 

thanks, that'll go on my list too

 

"I read this book so that makes my movie high art."

Star Wars is about middling as a pulp Space Opera. Battlefield Earth is much, much better in every single way. Out of Golden Age scifi, Star Wars is about bottom third I'd say. I'm not even a nerd of the Big 3, some people are gaga over Hine Line, say, but at least I can see he's so much better than SW. It's so... thin and unrewarding.