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[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 99 points 8 months ago

so they pay their writers much better than the Hollywood.

got it.

[-] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 76 points 8 months ago

Or they just LET THEM WRITE instead of running everything through some asshole with an MBA

[-] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 66 points 8 months ago

can we have good writing become commonplace in porn pls & thank

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 42 points 8 months ago

It never works out. You get the occasional gem but the "Step sibling gets stuck in a doorway" model gets all the views.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If not overused, that premise would make for a good porn comedy.

"Help! I'm stuck [add scenario here]."

Somewhere in another room, a game controller/remote/book gets tossed aside with a huff.

"What did that little bitch do know?"

[-] 1847953620@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

help me, stepdoor

[-] 1847953620@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

yeah, why not. This isn't good writing, though.

[-] PotatoKat@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

It's like a scene right out of good will hunting

Good willy hunting

[-] 1847953620@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

ok concept for a movie, the dialogue, though: 💥🤯🔫

[-] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 8 months ago

i mean compared to your average porn it's award-winning lol

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

No. I'd just skip to the action regardless.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

When I was a teenager, I'd stay up late and watch soft porn movies on Cinemax with the sound off so my parents wouldn't hear. I wasn't really concerned that I was missing out on the plot.

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 36 points 8 months ago

Wait, this isn’t Moneyball?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago
[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Best sequel ever

[-] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago
[-] amio@kbin.social 30 points 8 months ago

Baseball is just applied maths, really.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 months ago
[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 22 points 8 months ago
[-] Crul@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I missed that version on the last compilation:

Extended version 1 (legible): http://i.imgur.com/WVGF9.jpg

Arranged by complexity: http://i.imgur.com/hDa0P5M.png

Extendend version 2: https://i.imgur.com/POrlDF4.png

Source:

Found via reverse image search:

[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

People who are good at math love baseball because they spend so much time on the bleachers waiting their turn to hit a ball. Baseball is also great for people who love knitting, mobile games, and queuing in lines!

[-] Vendul@feddit.de 18 points 8 months ago
[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

MONEYBALL: The statistical analysis... My god, IT'S BEAUTIFUL

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

90 miles an hour is overly generous.

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

And here I was, total baseball noob, thinking they went on and off the field-... Never mind.

[-] rob64@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

Not for the pitches...

[-] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I know it's a lot to ask people understand baseball on a place dedicated to Tumblr of all things, and on Lemmy to boot (not imagining FOSS nerds and sabermetrics nerds are huge in overlap). Math legit is a huge part of baseball strategy.

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Umm well, maybe they like to be ....uh. You know. Sideways. Unparallel to the world...or something. Whatever floats someone's perpendicular boat.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

It's not? 😔

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social -1 points 8 months ago

Actually what I said was, I was unusually good at math, not that it was something I really enjoyed. And, actually, my strongest subject was English, not math which is why I became an English major. Even if chess is logic and presupposition, those skills are highly mathematical like music or spatial recognition. The math isn't always blatant or apparent but there is some math involved. And anyway I was only making a point about a talent in one area not necessarily defining talent in another. All this argument over supposition of preference vs capacity is WAY overthinking what I was saying.

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social -1 points 8 months ago

Hmm, VELLY interesting - but odd dialogue for a gay film. I'm gay and I was amazing good at math in school - I don't know why, I don't think one has anything to do with the other. And I'm not good at chess at all. Yet I'm pretty talented as a musician and painter. We all have unique traits. I think a person's sexuality is just the icing on the cake of life. And not a definition of who they are as a person. You really can't tell anything about someone just because they are gay, or straight - or sideways as the case may be.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

I don't think one has anything to do with the other

I'm pretty sure he was saying he liked math because he plays chess, not because he's gay

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Which makes no sense because chess is a logic and presupposition game, not mathematical. And someone's capacity for logic doesn't determine their ability to translate that between mathematical logic and positional logic.

I get that it's just a lead in to a gay porn, but they could at least have their basic understanding of logical deduction and individual capacity correct.

[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I would fundamentally disagree that being good at chess doesn't help you with being good at maths.

Maths is an incredibly broad field, and a lot of the skills necessary for being good at maths at a higher level (visualisation, pattern recognition, mental stamina, etc.) are developed in chess.

This is only considering causation, but in the original meme all that's required to explain the assumption being made is correlation, which there absolutely is. I ran a chess club when I was at university studying maths, and the vast majority of attendees were STEM students.

If I can put this in terms you'll be happy with: the conditional probability that someone's favourite subject is maths given they enjoy chess is much higher than the unconditional probability that someone's favourite subject is maths.

As such, the remark made in the meme is entirely sensible, and thus the validity of the plot stands. The defense rests.

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They said maths was their strongest subject not their favourite. Supposition of preference due to capacity is a mistake. Also you've fallen into the trap of conflating correlation and causation you even noted you had to for your point to be relevant. Capacity for mathematics doesn't presuppose either a capacity or preference for chess, but for logic.

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social -2 points 8 months ago

Actually I didn't even really like math, I was just oddly good at it. And I really don't play chess because I'm embarrassingly bad at it. My point was just that it's unusual to find anything of a scholastic nature in gay movies - unless you look at them as an education unto themselves (i.e., don't look at naked men unless you wanna get an education).

[-] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Wha...what does it mean when someone's sideways??? O_O

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago
[-] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Well, duh. XD

[-] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The fact that this can be a post about something baseball themed and we aren't using the phrase "switch hitter", which is how ive referred to myself for a decade, is a shame.

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