[Terr_]

I have a premonition of future programming despair, and I wonder if it'll be like what Ian McKellen felt: A veteran of Shakespearean plays, doing all those [correction, not LoTR] The Hobbit green-screen shots interacting with no real person...

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> McKellen said: "I felt pretty miserable … and thought perhaps, has the time come for me to stop acting altogether if I can't cope with these difficulties?" [...]

> "It was so distressing and off-putting and difficult that I thought 'I don't want to make this film if this is what I'm going to have to do'," McKellen added. "It's not what I do for a living. I act with other people, I don't act on my own."

-- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/20/the-hobbit-gand...

[Terr_]

P.S.: I want to make it clear that this isn't just about dealing with other humans. The dread I contemplate should affect even introverted shut-ins.

I want to reduce accidental complexity, discover and understand real problems, solve them well, and leave the world somehow better for it. Not just some infinitely process ping-pong of a hallucinated digital dollhouse fifteen levels removed from objective reality.

[latexr]

Moment of the breakdown (I couldn’t find a less shitty video).

https://youtu.be/CtYEm21Fhpo?t=79

[suladead]

Soul engraving video seeing him go through that

[fragmede]

Compare that to actors acting in The Volume though, instead of the greenscreen room.

[ses1984]

Being marginally better than hell is still hell.

[fragmede]

"marginally better"? What are you on about? The Volume is the opposite end of having to act in a greenscreen room!

[ses1984]

If you’re the only one in the cast who isn’t cgi, it’s basically the same.