The point is that people are investing vast sums of money to create elaborately-packaged boxed sets that are simply too vast to be actually enjoyed (apparently, the new boxed set Thunderbirds will include heavily restored footage that simply wasn't capable of being included in earlier releases), and upscaling a puppet show to 4K and still have it watchable is far from trivial -- those puppets were never made to be seen on such large screens at such high resolution. The scale of investment into making this publicity stunt and boxed set is incredible, the cost of the set isn't low, and the value of the material that's in the set - even to die-hard fans - isn't nearly as great.

Goblin/Guardian: The Lonely and Great God is an even more extreme example and includes 270 minutes of backstage footage, a large pack of publicity photos, scripts, and a tacky plastic sword. It's an extremely limited edition special collector's edition and the resale market is pricing it as though it includes a couple of solid gold ingots. People will certainly binge-watch the episodes once or twice, which will undoubtedly be in much higher resolution than the rare streamed versions, but not even the afficados will be watching all the making-of footage and the scripts will doubtless be on the Internet somewhere. Unlike high-end sci-fi, though, the storyline is simple so the difference between the scripts and fan-produced transcripts won't be vast. (It was a very good storyline, I was impressed, but it was hardly a case where the tiny nuances matter.) But K-Drama is milled in unimaginable quantities, so much so that many series just can't pick up any kind of audience and are abandoned. It's not produced for repeated watching and the odds of any show, however good, being repeatedly watched (the way fans repeatedly watch LoTR or SW) is essentially zero. But someone had to trawl through all the footage to put together the set, make the booklets, etc, and that wasn't cheap. The boxing is elaborate.

The importance of storytelling is high, but none of these are sophisticated stories. They're all pretty much on-par with Smith of Wooton Major - a great little read, but not one I'd pay £500 for, even if they did throw in a plastic sword. I'm not convinced anyone is buying these sets for the content, even though the content is enjoyable.

The degree of investment is phenomenal, the sophistication of presentation is exceptional, and the fans are buying in quantity. I'm just not sure what the benefit is, on either side.

Fun fact: MAGA and "Fundamentalist Muslim" are no different. They're both rapey shit-eating satanic death cults that should be removed from humanity for the good of actual people.

Everything in Rand "The Klan Lying Shitrag" Seed's post here is a lie. Nothing they said is real and if you look at their posts they have NO experience in medical practice.

Congratulations you toddler-raping subhuman fuck, you've proven what a ChatGPT-written garbage screed is like.

Now kill yourself you worthless fucking toddler-raping sack of shit. NOBODY wants you disgracing our species any more "Randseed." You need to stop fucking breathing NOW you fucking disgusting childraper and grandparent-murderer.

And if you raise the Jolly Roger you have a permanent file and can watch it later, even if they take it OFF their "streaming service."

combined with Sinclair media

Sinclair Media is literally Klan Media (John Oliver Expose' Link).

Fuck that whole White-Supremacist Garbage Shitbag Company and every Fucking Klan Subhuman who works for them.

Keep on lying "sinij" you disgusting Subhuman Toddler-Raping White-Supremacist Klan Shitrag. We all know what you Fucking Toddler-Raping Nazi Shitbags are good for - FERTILIZER.

There you MAGA toddler-raping fucks go lying again. No surprise, all of you should be rounded up and Kirked for raping children.

Hey "iamthecheese" nothing is worse than an antivaxer. Just stick a gun in your mouth and end yourself you babyraping fucking inhuman.

Jimmy Kimmel just got pulled off the air for saying something TRUTHFUL

There. Fixed that for you, you Klan Fuck Retard from Ku Klux Kirk's Terrorist Shitbags Bowel Movement. Terrorist Satan Worshiping Shitrag Charlie Kirk crowed and laughed and made jokes when one of his Shitbag Terrorist followers assassinated Melissa Hortman and three other people.

Nobody should be shot for their speech, and at the same time Satanic Shitbag Charlie Kirk PROMOTED assassinations. And that's the TRUTH.

I have an idea. Maybe we shouldn't let science-denying Fucking Inbred Retards like "DaHat" decide what's misinformation.

I currently work hybrid. It reduces my effective pay by around 10%, which is a hell of a cut. It gains me nothing, since all meetings - even when we're all in the same room - are via teams, because company policy.

I see no added value from visiting the office.

Ish.

I would not trust C++ for safety-critical work as MISRA can only limit features, it can't add support for contracts.

There have been other dialects of C++ - Aspect-Oriented C++ and Feature-Oriented C++ being the two that I monitored closely. You can't really do either by using subsetting, regardless of mechanism.

IMHO, it might be easier to reverse the problem. Instead of having specific subsets for specific tasks, where you drill down to the subset you want, have specific subsets for specific mechanisms where you build up to the feature set you need.

Oh, absolutely. These days, I spend so much time checking the output from computers, it would normally have been quicker to do searches by hand. This is... not useful.

I can fully understand that.