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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2023.10.13

I watch a fair number of movies, and I have definitely noticed a long degradation in quality and some really mystifying incidents where the CGI was clearly worse than it was twenty years ago. At the same time, I was aware of the strike in Hollywood but didn't know its causes. Then I happened on this video on Youtube. And now I know why these two things are happening and how they are related.

Damn that late-stage capitalism.

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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

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