Musing Posts

ajorundon (61) · 6 years ago

All a future thing...but I like the hustle on steemit so far

adamada (63) · 6 years ago

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upvotenev (62) · 6 years ago

rok-sivante (75) · 6 years ago

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iamthegray (62) · 6 years ago

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osint (41) · 6 years ago

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ohmygoodness (64) · 6 years ago

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cairi (42) · 6 years ago

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sellergenius (59) · 6 years ago

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iamthegray (62) · 6 years ago

rok-sivante (75) · 6 years ago

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ohmygoodness (64) · 6 years ago

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reewritesthings (57) · 6 years ago

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dmilliz (68) · 6 years ago

glenalbrethsen (68) · 6 years ago (edited)

From what I can tell, the falling out stems from George Lucas believing that Disney would use his ideas for the third Star Wars trilogy as part of their $4 billion deal to buy out LucasFilms.

Instead, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Disney decided to give a nod to the classic Star Wars and make a movie that fans wanted. Lucas didn't think doing something that had more or less been done before was the best thing to do. He told an interviewer that he always tried to do something new, and felt that's what Disney should have done.

As for Disney's part in this, they would probably prefer Lucas not do those kinds of interviews. Especially when he's using phrasing like selling out to white slave traders, and the like. He has since apologized for those remarks.

I'm not sure just how much involvement he has with the current movies, which probably doesn't sit well since they would not exist if it weren't for him. He has become the movie maker that everyone loves to hate. I for one believe that's a disservice to what he has been able to accomplish, which is to be among the very few who were able to bring Science Fiction movies into the mainstream.

There is plenty of info regarding how bad a dialogue writer Lucas is, how bad a director he is, and how bad the prequel trilogy was. You can see that when he is left alone without a lot of collaboration that the resultant work does suffer. For the original trilogy, there were other directors, and other writers. For the prequels, it was basically all him, and CGI.

That said, Star Wars is still among the most beloved movie franchises of all time. Fans don't always get what they want, and that will go for Disney, too, but hopefully, there will still be enough compelling stories and characters to keep Star Wars moving forward for another generation of fans.

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akdx (66) · 6 years ago

glenalbrethsen (68) · 6 years ago (edited)

I don't know if anyone knows for sure, outside of Musing founder jonching. The last public update I'm aware of he gave was in the general area of the Musing Discord channel on January 26. This is what he said:

"Sorry for the lack of updates. I know a lot of you guys put your hearts into Musing, so I understand the frustration. At least for now, it doesn't seem like we'll get the delegation back. To be honest, it's not a sustainable model and I'm pretty sure you guys can see that as well. Another problem with that was that I was paying curators out of pocket with the last of my savings, which is why for the last 2 weeks, we haven't been curating, because it's just not worth it right now.

I can provide more info. later, but I can say that when the time comes that we can launch our own token, it will have solved all these issues. We keep track of our users' reputations in the database. I can't say for sure what the future is, but when there's an opportunity to launch a token, everyone who made contributions will be compensated on the new platform."

From that I take it Musing will not be actively seeking to get major delegation, nor do much if any upvoting on any questions or answers that continue to appear on the platform. Nor does it look like they will seeking for any form of beneficiary funding as other dApps have done.

Rather, they will wait until such time they are able to create their own token and go from there. When that will be, and who else that might be dependent on doing something (like Steemit Inc and SMTs, or some other community-based developer doing something, like STEEM Engine), one's guess is as good as mine.

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augis (16) · 6 years ago

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ohmygoodness (64) · 6 years ago

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augis (16) · 6 years ago

Thank you for your reply. Be proud of your choice.

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libert (63) · 6 years ago (edited)

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augis (16) · 6 years ago

Thank you for your reply.

Yes genes - but in it so much a mystery.

About ten years ago, it was said that the genes of one person occupied so much space that they would not fit on the computers of the entire world together.

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glenalbrethsen (68) · 6 years ago (edited)

I think people are trying to take what they can perceive, and then come up with answers based on those perceptions. As science takes on different questions and gets better at answering them, and as technology improves in unrelated fields, it becomes easy to take one thing and extrapolate it as an answer to something else.

So, be it aliens seeding planet earth, or we're all in the Matrix, or we sprung from apes/chimpanzees/monkeys, the theories will keep flying as long as people are searching for answers using the observable physical evidence around them.

Lately, however, I think there's more wishful thinking than science being introduced in some of these theories. If everything is programmed, then the burden of choice and being accountable for decisions is essentially lifted. It becomes fate, the way things are, rather than something that can be controlled or changed. In other words, it becomes an easy way to get rid of blame for one's wrong actions.

When we look around and see order on a magnitude that makes it difficult to believe that we came from a cosmic accident or chaos, that there must be some kind of intelligence behind it, but we prefer to believe in aliens from a distant planet being responsible for it, rather than, say, a God who is our Father and is proving us so we can return to His presence, we're still believing in something that we have not seen, have no actual proof of existence or means to verify, other than ambiguous sightings and dubious testimonies.

I don't think we're programmed virtual avatars running around in a digital world. I think we do have free will. I do think we are as real as real gets, in whatever capacity such a definition allows us to be unique, responsible beings with the ability to overcome and change, improve, and collectively make things better.

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augis (16) · 6 years ago

Thank you for your reply.

I fully agree with your vision of thinking.

Really childishly looks like all theories of science.

In the last decades, we have discovered that science has made just preconditions until today, without any proof, and most of it is not even a scientific fantasy. This is completely absurd.

But we have time when children learn from the already destroyed theory and that is like self-destruction.

The most important thing we move away from nature, from a normal different gender family to where we can still find the answer.

cairi (42) · 6 years ago

glenalbrethsen (68) · 6 years ago (edited)

There definitely was a project on the STEEM blockchain called dBooks, and it's still listed at steemprojects.com, but the website dbooks.org appears to be down.

The last update from the founder was over seven months ago, when he talked about taking dbooks to the next level, after having 72 books printed there and over 1,000 reads.

That, however, seems to be the last of the posts. The time period corresponds with the beginning of the bear market, so maybe that contributed to a stoppage of things.

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cairi (42) · 6 years ago

I knew it! It did exist. But its sad knowing its still unavailable. Its one of the reason why my dad listed me here. Thanks for the info.