The shows don’t need to be most violent or more sexual to be serious adult shows.

Yeah, he’ll promise 10x the performance and storage abilities of any IOS/Android currently available, and that it will come to market by September. Everybody put down your deposits now!

There's a mix of cortisol, Axe body spray, and skunkiness that only wafts from large groups of boys between ~17 and 20.

So, one season per body, then?

“When he finally crosses paths with the Stranger, you could say he has a desire to try to keep the destruction that has happened there from spreading to his beloved lands in the West. He nudges the Stranger along his journey, which he knows will eventually protect the larger natural world that he cares about.”

man i can’t wait for youtube to recommend me all the usual suspects having their toddler meltdowns over this.

That’s cool! I heard about the Alphafold one a while back, glad to hear it’s still going strong. I remain skeptical that AI will make any significant headway in anything that involves actual communication (ie, the language part of an LLM).

There are lots of uses in scientific fields. Alphafold (based on the same deep learning technology as LLMs) has revolutionized protein structure prediction. Protein structure prediction used to be crap — and I say that as someone who wrote and published a protein structure prediction program in grad school. It used to…

Beyond Thunderdome’s ending made it clear that Miller is engaged in some post-apocalyptic myth-making. These stories are the result of oral traditions by the civilization that eventually rose up out of the ashes.

There was a study done that said that regardless of the political party, a bill had less than a 50% chance of getting passed, even if that party’s people overwhelmingly supported it. It is actually closer to 30%, which is pretty miserable considering it has support by the population and their party. This was done when…

“Spared no expense...”

The people who built the Portal: “We certainly expected more decency, morality and self control from the residents of (looks at notes) Downtown Manhattan and Dublin.”

This. Every day I am just amazed at the unkindness on display by so many people that consider themselves on the moral high ground. 

No matter what you think of the truck or anyone who buys them, yelling profanities at him, giving the guy the finger and spitting on/scratching his property makes you as bad if not worse of a person.

I will say that Rise of Skywalker is the worst of the nine episodes in a walk, and is still a better-looking and more entertaining movie than its reputation suggests. But it really isn’t built for repeat viewings and it’s so self-sabotaging. It just feels like it’s written in such a panic. I really wonder what would…

Ordinarily I would agree but Hassenger has been an engaged prequel apologist for some time.  I actually do think his take, whatever you think of it, is a labor of love.  

Original vs Prequels vs Disney. Can we all just agree that Rise of Skywalker is the fucking worst.

people REALLY need to realize avatar connects with normal people who have healthy relationships with art, which is exactly why so many freaks who don’t are turned off by its success and don’t see it as authentic.

I couldn’t disagree with you more, but I enjoy your passion for the subject and willingness to articulate the strengths of something you love. The prequels are terrible and that will never change, but you shouldn’t either.