The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing

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• kodablah 1 hour ago
  Also touched on at https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/ (and the book)
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  • alexpotato 27 minutes ago
    Came here to say the same thing.

    I think the Alien one is even better: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/alien/
• schoen 1 hour ago
  With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title cards were written by an LLM.
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  • rafram 52 minutes ago
    You're not wrong, but part of the core problem with LLMs is that they write every blog post and README like they're writing the opening titles for Blade Runner.
  • nphardon 55 minutes ago
    There's a lot of em dashes in the article as well, along with some phrasing that is very LLM. I think this was written with a mix of LLM and human.
  • hcs 46 minutes ago
    I would expect the LLM-ese to not repeat "called" like that.
  • jameshart 37 minutes ago
    Thematically appropriate for it to be difficult to tell something human-created from something generated by a computer.

    Almost a bit too on the nose.

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    • cgorlla 3 minutes ago
      A typographic Voight-Kampff test is pretty awesome.
  • warmjets222 17 minutes ago
    Pretty much anything professionally typeset will use the appropriate dashes.
  • ProllyInfamous 29 minutes ago
    Can we get off with "the em dashes" – I've been using them for years (checks post history:), decades.
• freetime2 19 minutes ago
  As someone who isn't a type nerd, I think a more apt title would be "The Title Cards in Blade Runner are Thoughtfully Executed."
• lilboo 6 minutes ago
  Wow interesting read — I like his point… LLMs can get us 90% of the way there but it’s the human touch that makes us memorable

  Haven’t read the alien article yet
• Computer0 32 minutes ago
  I found this site [https://fontsinuse.com/] mentioned in the article to be quite interesting to browse through.