Interesting Links for 06-12-2022

[andrewducker]

1. The big budget French version of The Three Musketeers looks amazing

(tags:France trailer video viaSwampers )

2. Getting AI to set tests, mark them, complain about the marking, respond to the chubby, and grade the teacher

(tags:academia ai )

3. Do Games Have to be Fun?

(tags:games video )

4. Covid causes your immune system to work badly, leading to further infections from other sources

(tags:Pandemic immune_system Doom )

Comments

[alithea]

Kev showed me the trailer for The Three Muskateers this morning - Eva Green was born to play Milady!

[calimac]

1) Previous film versions of this story have always puzzled me: why, if they're called musketeers, do they always fight with swords? This version has muskets!
But man, do they ever talk fast and mumble. Even the words I knew I couldn't make out.

3) I've never heard of any of the games this guy is talking about, but evidently he's trying to counter the same tendency that makes people say "Just turn off your brain and enjoy it" when you complain about dumb movies. For my part, I've never gotten interested in gaming for the reason he's complaining about recent games: that they offer only mindless catharsis and not his other two legs of engagement. But I'm not referring to recent games, but to games of the Pacman era, which is the only time I ever got into it at all. When games with his other two legs came around, I found myself faced with a brick wall: the challenge to achieve mastery was too steep, and the context was inept: they offered no road for me to get interested in it. Seeing as these very games were highly praised by gamers (I'm thinking especially of Myst), I have never felt tempted to try anything since, especially as I gather most games are designed for people whose skills are well-honed on previous games.

[ninetydegrees]

#1 Excellent cast and the kind of period movie we know how to do. Nice to see Eva in a French-speaking one as well. Big budget French movies tend to be disappointing, so *fingers crossed*. The trailer looks very nice and you can rarely go wrong with Dumas so this is pretty low-risk to some extent. Smart choice.

[mellowtigger]

#4 I wish someone with a national platform would tell people these things. I got nowhere with my website trying to warn people. Government representatives still insist on discussing anything except "the 5 things to know". :/

[hairyears]

(2) There will be a first college, or school district, somewhere, that rolls out cheap and uninspiring teaching and testing with AI.

What a dismal prospect.

[melchar]

Another remake of 'The Three Musketeers' - and the major female villain is given black hair? Really? Milady DeWinter is described as blonde and very pale.

The 2 Richard Lester films had problems - like making D'Artagnan illiterate & rather dim [when he was a lightning calculator & multi-lingual] - but they got Milady right. That production also had -fantastic- visual casting for King, Queen, Buckingham & Cardinal Richelieu who all looked like the historical figures .... although Charlton Heston looked PERFECT for a Richelieu 20-ish years older. The costuming for both movies was SO awesomely beautiful - and visually appropriate for the era.

That production also only had the one servant, not all 4. Okay ... I totally geeked out on the book as a kid - all 712 pages of it [the 1912 penguin edition] & have always been disappointed that no one has done a more accurate version for the screen than the Lester version, which was played mostly for laughs.