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New comment by bdz in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

bdz — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:13:58 +0000

>To say "good riddance" to Hollywood scares me

It should only scare you if you are ignorant.

>very few mediums have thusly pierced through across cultures and societies quite like Hollywood

This is laughable if you look at video games and music EVEN if you ignore everything american. Not mention Asia from Bollywood to Kpop to anime to HK cinema.

New comment by bdz in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

bdz — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:12:46 +0000

I watch a film every single day since Covid. There are great films everywhere every year. I'm not american but the sooner you ignore the american cultural imperialism is the better (or at least the films that don't premiere at competition festivals). There is a whole world outside of America.

New comment by bdz in "Refusing to Use Twitter"

bdz — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:31:56 +0000

I follow a lot of japanese accounts on Twitter. Idols, vtubers, actors, sport teams, sumo news, pro mahjong scene, artists, mangaka, streamers, goverment agencies etc. They don't use anything else but Twitter, maybe Facebook. I can move away but what I _want to_ follow is still there.

Maybe we need regional microblogging services so people would be incentivized to use them, maybe China was right all along

New comment by bdz in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

bdz — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:26:47 +0000

I'm not sure and that's a good question but after a point it was a principle of saving them rather than caring them about. Probably a digital hoarding attitude.

New comment by bdz in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

bdz — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:25:46 +0000

Archive.org has it at least, everything from 2009 until 2023. But that's also need to be mirrored because can be taken down https://archive.org/download/jasons-all-sumo-channel-archive...

New comment by bdz in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

bdz — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:56:43 +0000

No! It would be easier but I burned myself so many times with removed videos that I do it on my own basically asap manually. Not a big deal once you have yt-dlp properly

New comment by bdz in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

bdz — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:54:43 +0000

I actually do! I have a perpetual VLC playlist which plays those videos randomly if I need some background noise.

New comment by bdz in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

bdz — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:17:44 +0000

I use yt-dlp (and back then youtube-dl) all the time to archive my liked videos. Started back in around 2010, now I have tens of thousands of videos saved. Storage is cheap and a huge percent of them are not available anymore on the site.

I also save temporary videos removed after a time for example NHK honbasho sumo highlights which are only available for a month or so then they permanently remove them.

New comment by bdz in "Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s"

bdz — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:16:53 +0000

Honestly there are just too many good ones, I could give a list of at least 50 films I'd recommend without any hesitation at all. But I try to watch as little Hollywood as possible, mostly asian and european cinema.

Right now I'd say Tokyo Story (1953) is the best film I've ever seen.

New comment by bdz in "Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s"

bdz — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:05:34 +0000

Yeah I could never really get into any TV show at all for this very reason

New comment by bdz in "Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s"

bdz — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:38:13 +0000

>so many films, so little time

I've started watching one film every day 3 years ago. Much less time investment than one would imagine. It all comes down to finding a good system to plan what to watch not just sit down and have an analysis paralysis. Once (after a few months) I’ve figured out my current plan where I _have to_ watch certain films it became incredibly easy to keep up.

New comment by bdz in "Maintaining weight loss"

bdz — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:51:40 +0000

I’m on liraglutide (Saxenda) for more than a year now. I lost 68kg (150lbs) and incredibly easy to maintain my weight. I’m doing OMAD (1/23 intermittent fasting) and for me it’s pretty much the perfect meal plan. Not even a diet because I eat whatever I want, just roughly counting calories. My daily exercise is 1 hour walking in the morning and the evening too (~20k steps combined)

New comment by bdz in "Precision Clock Mk IV"

bdz — Sat, 31 May 2025 19:15:44 +0000

£350, I just realized I'm poor

New comment by bdz in "VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles"

bdz — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:03:37 +0000

Can’t wait to watch anime with AI generated subs, it will be a beautiful trainwreck.

New comment by bdz in "Dinner for One: British comedy Germans have been laughing at for years (2018)"

bdz — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:37:27 +0000

Watched it for the first time today.

Horny men + women being the butt of every single joke. As if it was written by a horny teenage boy. Sure it’s the product of its time but it’s for the good “they don't make films like that anymore”

New comment by bdz in "It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world"

bdz — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:37:03 +0000

I'm on Saxenda for 3 months now (basically Gen 1 of the same GLP-1 drug, Ozempic being the Gen 2, both made by Novo Nordisk).

The hunger suppression is real and what's intersting that this is the first time I've felt that I'm "not in control of my thoughts". Of course it's my own decision to take the drug is not about that. But I'm not hungry anymore, I don't binge eat anymore, and I generally don't enjoy food as before. Like even if I have my favorite foods it's just an OK experience. It's like I'm eating because I know I need energy to live but otherwise it's totally gone as the "main focus" from my daily life (which was my main eating disorder)

New comment by bdz in "Ask HN: What's the "best" movie you've ever seen?"

bdz — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:28:17 +0000

Tokyo Story (1953)

Nemā-ye nazdīk [Close-up] (1990)

Cloud Atlas (2012)

Kimi no Na wa. (2016)

New comment by bdz in "The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online"

bdz — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 17:30:37 +0000

Contrary to everyone I think it was pretty mediocre. The significance of the book is barely covered and the contents of it are not mentioned at all. The story itself is dancing around the “message of the book” and how it prevails over everything (see the allegory with the abbey’s wall) but somehow they just never say it’s the four Gospels of the New Testament which are the most important texts of Christianity. If you don’t know what the Book of Kells _really is_ then what’s left from the film itself? Not so much just a generic fantasy story.

New comment by bdz in "Ask HN: What are your hobbies?"

bdz — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:39:10 +0000

hiking, cooking, mahjong

New comment by bdz in "Baldur's Gate 3: New Standard for the RPG Genre?"

bdz — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:41:36 +0000

>Two previous games, Divinity: Original Sin and Original Sin II, “worth of tech and institutional knowledge to draw from”

I wish there were more games like the 1st Divinity Original Sin. Personally one of the best humour and writing in a game I'v ever played. Very laid back and down to earth, and not taking itself very seriously (considering the fantasy cRPG genre)

Original Sin 2 is good, actually better, but it's more mature and more dark, totally changed the tone from the first game