Daredevil’s Powers Are More Realistic Than You Think

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by dnetesn • 11 years ago

48 13 11 years ago

Is it just me or has there been a tremendous influx in nautil.us posts making it to the top of the front page with few votes?

ddorian43• 11 years ago

I think I've read an identical copy of your comment on other threads from this domain.

ChuckMcM• 11 years ago

Are they uninteresting irrelevant posts? The weekend sees a lot of NYT posts but they are really one of the few places publishing new stuff on the weekends. Are you reading posts from the newest page and seeing interesting stuff that isn't making it to the front page?

So meta discussion aside, there is a difference between 'seeing' and 'perceiving' and one of my great uncles who was blind was much better at perceiving what was going on around him than sighted people. It really amazed me the first time he asked me why some topic was making me uncomfortable (I had no idea he could perceive that)

anonbanker• 11 years ago

it's alarming that your comment was buried.

icebraining• 11 years ago

Kish was featured in a TAL episode this year, dubbed "Batman": http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/544/b...

They go into more length about his abilities and his views on the culture, which (in his opinion) holds back the blind from being more independent individuals.

emeraldd• 11 years ago

Those are some interesting:

   "When Amargan sketched these images—as opposed to shapeless scribbles—the researchers saw activity in brain areas typically associated with vision, including the striate cortex and the frontal and parietal regions of the visual cortex."

That reminds me of a virtual frame buffer where off screen rendering happens. I wonder what the differences are between someone who lost vision due to damage to the visual cortex in the brain version issues that prevent visual information from reaching the brain.

alwaysdoit• 11 years ago

I actually really like what they've done to make Daredevil more "realistic" in a lot of different ways:

- Characters who speak other languages don't speak English for no reason, they just use subtitles.

- The villain is actually portrayed with a lot of positive human emotions and motivations.

- The struggles the characters are often grappling with are familiar every day things, like how do I prioritize work vs. family?

sosborn2• 11 years ago

Characters who speak other languages

The sections where they spoke Japanese really took me out of the world they created. It was so poorly executed.

Having said that, I LOVED the series as a whole. Very well done.

ajford• 11 years ago

Can you elaborate? I'm only a few episodes in, so perhaps it's obvious when you get there. Is it the Japanese that's wrong, or something else?

wlesieutre• 11 years ago

A Russian speaking friend of mine was really happy with the language. Apparently they nailed the "Russian thug" sound, unlike a lot of shows/movies that cop out with "eh, as long as it's in Russian it sounds like a bad guy."

copsarebastards• 11 years ago

I'm adding "Assumptions about what I think/believe" to my list of things in news titles that annoy me, along with "Yes no questions where the answer is no".

futuretext• 11 years ago

It's awesome that Netflix finally released this in braille (it took some fan outrage). Seems sadly ironic they didn't do it when they first released the series...

Daredevil’s Powers Are More Realistic Than You Think

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