The Screening Room

> A cowboy rode into town and stopped at a saloon for a drink.
Unfortunately, the locals always had a habit of picking on strangers, which he was. When he finished his drink, he found his horse had been stolen. He went back into the bar, handily flipped his gun into the air, caught it above his head without even looking and fired a shot into the ceiling.
"Which one of you stole my horse?!" he yelled with surprising forcefulness. No one answered.
"Alright, I'm gonna have another beer, and if my horse ain't back outside by the time I finish, I'm gonna do what I done in Texas! And I don't lik…

Napoleon Wilson

8:43 AM

@174140 15%? That's not really much. When some of these MCU things come out about 90% of the questions are about them.

174140

Ankit Sharma

9:11 AM

@AJ too long

Nog Shine

@AnkitSharma what's that about?

Ankit Sharma

@NogShine about coming out of closet

If a LGBT person living in secret than it's closet, coming out means he publicly acknowledge it

Nog Shine

You are stealing my job :| @AnkitSharma

Ankit Sharma

9:27 AM

@NogShine :D

Nog Shine

I missed the new CoC in gender pronouns.

Ankit Sharma

Is it live already

Nog Shine

Yeah.

Favorite questions post is blocking it to be featured on our site.

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Might have missed the MSE question because it might have just closely slipped under the -8 frontpage threshold.

Ankit Sharma

10:00 AM

Too much to read, later than

Nog Shine

lol

Ankit Sharma

Meta have a lot to read lately

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma On the bottom line, just "be nice" as we always ought to be. That's...pretty much about it. The rest is common sense and mutual respect.

Memor-X

@AnkitSharma possibly if they have a unified name

Nog Shine

If you know someone's preferred pronouns, use them or use a gender neuter language which doesn't offend or alienate the person. That is all about it.

Memor-X

10:06 AM

@AJ i love that end

Ankit Sharma

@NogShine so why DV?

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma You...might have missed a few meta events in between. ;-)

Memor-X

ie. the mods resigning and such

Nog Shine

@NapoleonWilson Obviously, too long to read ;-)

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson so now everything is downvoted in past backlash or something wrong with current one

@Memor-X that part we all know I guess

A J

10:08 AM

@Memor-X Thanks!

Ankit Sharma

I thought after apology post things will get calmer

But too much to wish for

@AJ I think I heard it before

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma If you conflate the CoC with the one single example of its "enforcement" people have, then yes, it's...kinda problematic and confusing.

Memor-X

@AnkitSharma it's the internet, since when has an apology post ever made things calmer

Napoleon Wilson

Unfortunately, it isn't as easy as "don't misgender people", apparently.

Ankit Sharma

Also I wished Aza will join back but seems not possible now :(

Napoleon Wilson

10:11 AM

That whole mess has taken quite a few tolls indeed.

Nog Shine

10:23 AM

Q: Why are the Code of Conduct changes received so negatively, and what can / could have been done to change that?

The announcement of the Code of Conduct changes is less than a day old and is sitting (as I write this) on a score of -340 (with 500 downvotes). I can't remember a change announcement being received so negatively (this post isn't really an announcement). Other announcements like We're testing adv...

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson agreed

Movie Reel

11:02 AM

Q: Are movies shot in higher resolution than the planned broadcasting?

Apparently The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit are going to be released in 4K (link in German). The Fellowship of the Ring is from 2001 when the 4K technology was not generally available. Does that mean that movies are shot in a higher resolution than the one which will be used during broadcast...

cinematography

Ankit Sharma

11:49 AM

So The End of the F***ing World 2nd season is coming

Napoleon Wilson

Woot! \o/

Ankit Sharma

I thought book story was over

Ok so I was right, 2nd season will be expanding more outside books

Movie Reel

12:23 PM

Q: How true to reality is the film Queen of the Desert?

Queen of the Desert is a 2015 biographical film about Gertrude Bell, an Englishwoman who spent most of her life in the Middle East and played a part in the establishment of some Arab states in the early 20th century: more or less a "female Lawrence of Arabia". From Wikipedia it seems that the fil...

realism historical-accuracy queen-of-the-desert

Movie Reel

12:44 PM

Q: What does the scene (where Walter White and Jesse Pinkman meet in a cafe) in El Camino: A Breaking Bad movie mean?

In that scene Walter White and Jesse Pinkman are having a discussion where walt asks Jesse about his plans. Jesse was seen wearing a cap that Skinny gave him. Is that scene linked to his present?

breaking-bad sequels

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Movie Reel

2:26 PM

Q: Was the slightly shaky camera effect done "In the edit" of the Kingsman movies?

The fight scenes in the Kingsman movies, as well as being fairly brutal, are amazing bit of cinema - long shots following through the action, with a mostly steady camera taking in all the detail. I say mostly, because there is still a small but perceptible shake in there - which accentuates the i...

cinematography kingsman-the-secret-service kingsman-the-golden-circle

Nog Shine

Which ads are you seeing on SE?

Napoleon Wilson

3:04 PM

All kinds of shit.

Nog Shine

I am only seeing grammarly ad.

Napoleon Wilson

Lately, all the gambling is gone, fortutately, at least on Movies.

Currently it's primarily Adobe and various mobile providers.

Nog Shine

Are the ads based on our web activity or just random?

Napoleon Wilson

3:20 PM

They sure are tracked to some degree. I mean, I get stuff that's literally in my city.

And I get stuff that's in the city where I work on my home computer. So there's definitely cross-machine tracking, likely because I use my Google account to connect to both.

And if you got my Google account, you basically got...everything.

2 hours later…

ankii

5:43 PM

Idk what degree of paranoia I am at, but I use bing, ublock origin on all sites, youtube only in Firefox separately.

A complete browser for YouTube. FB in private mode, drive, mail etc logged out.

infact I dont even use gmail web. Native mail app on both phone and Mac.

2 hours later…

Movie Reel

7:31 PM

Q: Why its not revealed what Jesse wrote in the letter addressed to Brock in the El Camino: A Breaking Bad movie?

After landing in Alaska Jesse hands over a letter to the vaccum cleaner guy which was addressed to Brock. Why its not revealed what he wrote in that letter? Does anyone have a clue what he might have wrote?

plot-explanation breaking-bad el-camino-a-breaking-bad-movie

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Movie Reel

8:32 PM

Q: Why didn't Jesse kill Todd in El Camino?

Spoilers alert. When Todd takes Jesse out from his cage to 'help' him dispose the dead body of his cleaning lady out in the desert, Jesse gets a golden opportunity to kill Todd when he gets hold of his gun. Jesse always hated Todd right from the point when he shot the kid in the desert to him be...

el-camino-a-breaking-bad-movie

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Movie Reel

10:35 PM

Q: What happened in the ending of Silent Hill?

At the end of Silent Hill the girls Sharon and Rose have left the town but they are in a different dimension. I have no clue what happened! Can you tell me?