[HN Gopher] Memento Movi
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       Memento Movi
        
       Author : wallflower
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2024-11-26 13:31 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | bdjsiqoocwk wrote:
       | FYI "memento movi" is a pun
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
        
         | bestouff wrote:
         | Oh, I thought it was about Memento the movie
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_(film)
        
       | yapyap wrote:
       | what? I get the memento mori pun but I'm rather confused by whats
       | going on on the website
        
         | gorjusborg wrote:
         | It's very simple, but not obvious at first.
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         | You enter the age you expect to live, your birthdate, and a
         | movie (pick something you are very familiar with). Upon
         | submission, a single frame of the movie is shown representing
         | today in your life if the runtime of the movie spanned your
         | entire predicted lifespan.
        
         | eej71 wrote:
         | By entering your birthdate and your expected life span, it
         | projects how far you are into your life by display an image
         | from a movie at that same point as you are at your life today.
         | So if you are 50% through your life, it will pick the 50% point
         | of a movie. Ideally its a movie you know very well otherwise it
         | won't make as much sense.
        
       | gorjusborg wrote:
       | I love this.
       | 
       | I'll admit that it wasn't immediately obvious what it was, but
       | after filling in the form and picking a movie I was very familiar
       | with, it really gave an idea of 'where in the movie' I currently
       | am.
       | 
       | Kudos to whoever created it. Very creative and interesting.
        
       | oatsandsugar wrote:
       | I'm at a very explosive part of Akira in my life. Feels right.
        
         | KineticLensman wrote:
         | I got Mark Watney putting on a space suit
        
       | _ZeD_ wrote:
       | > You are 101.38% through A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965).
       | 
       | well, that's a percentage!
        
       | SebFender wrote:
       | No "The Matrix" no deal. This is a great way to harvest
       | birthdays.
        
         | ErikAugust wrote:
         | I know them all. I'll sell you the list.
        
       | Amorymeltzer wrote:
       | Fun!
       | 
       | Amusing little occurrence: playing around with different dates
       | and movies, I got one where the still (from _Love Actually_ ) was
       | of a different movie the characters were watching in-universe (
       | _Titanic_ ).
        
       | dfex wrote:
       | I've just arrived at the walk-off scene in Zoolander and have a
       | still frame of Derek Zoolander's crotch to measure my life's
       | progress.
       | 
       | Sounds about right.
        
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