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    Films Recently Watched

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    Mirrors - what the fuck am I doing with my life/10

    hahahaha, I've got that in a folder of films to watch somewhere. I put it off every time I browse in there.

    It was on Netflix so my girlfriend and I thought "fuckit" and put it on. I regret it. I need a good horror movie.

    If you find one let me know, watched A Lonely Place To Die, it closed Frightfest film festival but isn't a horror at all, just Deliverance without the hilarious rape.

     

    The Other Side Of The Door isn't good and is probably a bit racist but has a couple of fun jump scares.

    There's a Belgian film you might be interested in then... It's not horror either but it's kinda fucked.

    Calvaire

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407621/

     

     

    I'm a big fan of Calvaire, two friends went to a ghastly nightclub in Magaluf and recreated the dance the locals in the pub do.

    Films Recently Watched

    in General Banter

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    Mirrors - what the fuck am I doing with my life/10

     

    hahahaha, I've got that in a folder of films to watch somewhere. I put it off every time I browse in there.

     

     

    It was on Netflix so my girlfriend and I thought "fuckit" and put it on. I regret it. I need a good horror movie.

     

     

    If you find one let me know, watched A Lonely Place To Die, it closed Frightfest film festival but isn't a horror at all, just Deliverance without the hilarious rape.

     

    The Other Side Of The Door isn't good and is probably a bit racist but has a couple of fun jump scares.

    Now Reading

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    QM is probably the weirdest thing we've ever learned about the universe

    There's really no way to have a perfectly intuitive grasp of it

     

    I spent a lot of time reading about the Delayed-Choice Quantum Eraser experiment

    It's like a QM 'greatest hits' compilation

    If you can wrap your head around that, then you're stylin'

    But yeah... I literally thought it was a joke at first

    The punchline is that even if you wait until AFTER shooting particles through the slits (lol)

    To (indirectly) observe what happened...whether you look or not will determine how the particles acted....in the fucking past

     

    Now, apparently there's not an actual causal relationship between the later observation and the earlier action...but the actual (proposed) explanation is almost as weird as retrocausality: so you don't need observers to get QM weirdness...it could happen without anyone looking....what causes the weirdness is whether 'which path' (i.e. which slit) information exists or not...like, this doesn't make any sense based on how we think the universe works...like so the analogy with Shrodinger's Cat...it's not that the cat is just both alive and dead until someone looks at it...it's that IF (and only if) there exists information in the universe regarding the cat's status (looking inside the box is just one example)...then the cat will have always been either alive or dead, never having been in some hypothetical superposition of both

     

    IMO this detail of QM is the strangest thing humanity has ever discovered

     

     

    Totally, it's nuts. Sadly even some of what you posted gets a bit lost on me, almost like my brain just freezes and says "you fucking what mate?". There's a book called How to Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog which I'm going to pick up soon.

    Now Reading

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    Haha I've read that too, quite fun but even simple speak can't help me with quantum physics.

    What aspects of QM did you have problems understanding?

    (Just curious)

     

     

    Basically all of it. I typed some stuff that was going to go here but I'm not even sure that was right. Observable particles acting differently when they are unobserved, all that, the book does a good job of explaining Schrodinger's Cat but science was never my strong point despite a love of space and the universe. It is a frustrating combination.

    Now Reading

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    Finished the first of the dark is rising sequence, I know it's for young adults but it kept being referenced in folklore books so thought I'd give it a go. Very enjoyable, but not sure if it's enjoyable enough to read the other four that follow. Anyone delved further?

    Films Recently Watched

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    this seemed (at many times) like a shot for shot remake of the original- but it lacked the mystery and freshness (obviously) that the original had so what was the point? to add a few scenes where the older sister walks around with a cell phone that keeps glitching?

     

    Aye, just reinforces how bland a lot of these films are now too. So many neat little character quirks have vanished, watching it back seeing the parents get stoned is great.

    Now Reading

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    ^ I always felt like I came to that too late, in my teens I would have been all over it but in my mid-20's I was a jaded motherfucker and thought it was quite irritating.

    Now Reading

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    I got a second-hand copy of Electric Eden, described as new on eBay but it appears to have been thrown down multiple stairs and the spine has a few cracks so I'll probably get it from a shop, getting bad vibes from this one.

     

    I don't speak to many people.

    Now Reading

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    Hearing that it's a good book if you wish to learn about how to tie a knot is quite off-putting but then Leviathan by Mastodon is great so I don't know who to believe, one day I'll get round to it.

    Now Reading

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    Electric Eden/Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young - same author who nailed the history of Warp Records works similar magic from folkier realms, bought for reading more on The Incredible String Band's back story. Still 1 of the best bands to emerge from these islands.

     

    Sweet, some author mentioned this on her reading list at the AV Club recently and sung its praises too, do you need to know much about folk? I have a fairly decent knowledge but fear this may be too niche.

     

    link http://www.avclub.com/article/elizabeth-hand-her-5-favorite-books-about-music-234658

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