In San Francisco, we had to increase the fines for this stuff to something like $1,000+ per tree because businesses kept hiring “arborists” who would prune the trees to death and go, “Oh, I didn’t know this would hurt them,” because they wanted to get the tree out and away from their sign.

agreed, and the original was just a cash grab from the start, it was never good.

The best things DC has ever put out (other than the Peacemaker TV show which, IMO, is the best superhero media ever) are their animated offerings.

We’ve had plenty of standalone Superman movies. But as far as seeing him interact with other superheroes we had him and Batman beating on each other — then dying so sad ending — then spending half of Justice League dead.

When they were casting based on big name actors instead of character fit you could already tell it was a bad idea.

Keep in mind that this movie is primarily based on the original Borderlands game, which doesn’t have the most complex or hard-to-tell story.

I knew this was going to be terrible the moment they announced they got Kevin Hart as Roland.

Goddamn that sounds terrible.

This movie’s plot as released lionsgate:

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move” - Douglas Adams

The internet is just an enhanced humanity delivery system. One giant neural network of our uncensored thoughts and emotions. It’s all the grossness of knowing people completely without the filter of self-denial.

Getting rid of the internet to solve the problem is like avoiding an oncoming train by closing your eyes.

I thought this would be a “face reveal” about the artist behind the Vtuber being revealed IRL, but it’s just...the animated hair is slightly not over their animated eyes for a moment?

Threads, just like its parent app, is nothing more than a place for brands and vapid influencers to get as many parasocial relationships spun up as possible so they can fleece the rubes.

But, again, they could have done this differently. For example, charging a reasonable fee and requiring ads to be served.

It’s more accurate to say that they are trying to charge an exorbitant fee for API access that makes said access untenable for 3rd parties. And they are doing this before going public. It’s a pretty blatant attempt to drive out all 3rd parties.

Scraping was once a black hat seo technique, now it’s a common practice powering the biggest tech companies. If search engines are providing “answers” instead of sending users to the source who actually wrote the answer, this could spell a death sentence to much of the web.

Seems like a better fix would be to bring back the utility of indexed search results in Google instead of functionally outsourcing it to Reddit.

Uh no...Google has done that themselves.

It says a lot about our fucked up tax laws that it is cheaper for companies to make a show like this or Snowpiercer or Batwoman and never release it than it is to just release it. Especially when we are in the middle of a writers strike and the pool of new content has to be drying up.