Ancestors

Toot

Written by Tim Bray on 2025-01-11 at 01:44

Stuck my head into IMDB for the first time in a while and maybe I'm just paranoid but I think there's a pervasive LLM stench in the reviews.

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Descendants

Written by GeePawHill on 2025-01-11 at 01:45

@timbray Interesting. And, of course, deeply troubling. I don't read a lot of IMDB reviews, I use it mostly for cast lookups, but still.

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Written by illtud on 2025-01-11 at 02:07

@timbray I'm still grieving for when it was the Cardiff Internet Movie Database run from the dept I was an undergrad at!

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Written by jwz on 2025-01-11 at 04:20

@timbray It's been years since IMDB had any information I wanted that wasn't easier to get from Wikipedia. I use the uBlacklist extension to block IMDB from my search results. https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs

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Written by PG&E Delenda Est on 2025-01-11 at 04:26

@jwz @timbray I like themoviedb.org. They seem to be the closest that tv and movies have to a musicbrainz (though I will keep hollering that metabrainz needs a "screenbrainz" for movies tv and games.

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Written by Patrick Berry on 2025-01-11 at 19:00

@xarph @jwz @timbray Callsheet is a nice app built on top of their API https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callsheet-find-cast-crew/id1672356376

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Written by rk: could be an enum on 2025-01-11 at 04:34

@jwz @timbray

Many, many years ago you could download the Internet Movie Database to your local #Amiga from Aminet. They would post regular diffs to keep you up to date.

(IIRC this was culled from rec.movies or whatever, but it’s been a while.)

I never had a big enough HDD to make it feasible (nor a fast enough connection), but so long as you don’t need any movie newer than ~2003, you can still download everything: https://www.aminet.net/misc/imdb

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Written by Chris Petrilli on 2025-01-11 at 05:03

@timbray FWIW if you’re on iOS in this case, there’s an app called Callsheet that is free, insanely fast, and doesn’t have all the IMDB nonsense. Oh and it helps navigate the streaming nightmare ecosystem.

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Written by Jamie McCarthy on 2025-01-11 at 14:27

@petrillic Oh cool, hadn’t heard of it. It looks good. Thanks

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