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On the subject of LB - https://retro.social/@ajroach42/102560485771740015 quoting https://m.xkcd.com/2184/ - I genuinely liked "The Core" (2003).
(Technically I just turned 18 that year, but I watched it later with a group of friends and was frustrated that other people didn't enjoy it as unironically as I did.)
40% on the tomatometer. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/core
Gonna give myself a minute, see if I can come up with another.
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@packbat yeah, that one was all right. it was melodramatic and the science was bullshit but it worked as a movie OK
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@Alyx I've thought back /recently/ on that bit about the characters feeling overwhelmed at the idea of trying to save the whole world, and them reframing it as just saving a handful of people instead
as someone who has a hard time thinking of myself as important, that idea just /worked/ for me
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@packbat yeah. cos honestly the idea isn't a bad one, both from the practical dramatic standpoint of "okay how do you get your average human being even used to the idea of handling a gigantic crisis by reducing it to a few people" but also the plain truth that usually events *do* come to some kind of head where a few crucial decisions are the ones that matter the most. maybe not all in one place, in one group of people (the more the better, haha)
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@Alyx yeah, definitely
plus, like, as a matter of practicality? it doesn't matter if you can defend it philosophically - if it gets you unstuck and able to act and do good, /it worked/
they did save the whole world
even if, in the end, they did it by trying to save a few people
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@packbat well, every massive event has to start from *some* kind of inciting event, after all. that's how societies always work, how equilibrium is restored in times of great social imbalance. one spark sets a cascade of other events in motion. what in a semiconductor junction would be called "avalanche breakdown" takes place, or what in a photomultiplier is produced by "secondary emission": one event triggers so many connected ones that they build to a flood
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@Alyx *nods*
there's those, and there's moments like the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident with Stanislav Petrov deciding that this wasn't nuclear war based on nothing but his own judgment
...I'd love to see more stories about people in that moment of nucleation point, stories about the seed crystals dropping into the supersaturated solution
those'd be good stories
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@packbat with any luck, friend, we're telling one right now
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@packbat and the *hope* is...that it doesn't take MUCH to start things rolling. that's happened before in history; not *every* massive change gets set off by a murder or a riot. but...you know, whatever works ;=3