If we really want to get into what AI learning is about, why not have it figure out when speech has hate intended,

It wasn’t bullshit. But it also wasn’t clear-cut. Because life be like that.

Which sounds ridiculous and horrible when said like that. But when you consider it would save 700 lives and reduce police murders by over 70% would that really be the worst policy?

Seriously Mr. Plunkett. Stop and give this some actual thought instead of just being a reactionary pundit.

This isn’t strictly a Genshin Impact problem, in other words. Whether we’re talking Hilichurls, Bokoblins, or some other fantasy race that acts as an endlessly disposable baddy, it always comes back to that same ugly calculus. [...]
It is the latest permutation of a trope that represents a wider systemic issue in…

Amy Manson regularly gives great performances. She’s very underrated and it’s a shame she’s not more of a name, especially in nerd circles given her many genre performances.

Claymation or GTFO?

So... you’re sad a Ghostbusters movie isn’t a prestige indie drama?

Are you implying the CGI anthropomorphic marshmallows weren’t realistic?

The first trailer was mostly atmospheric set-up teasing what the film was. Likely all shots from the first half-hour.

The comics postulate that once Gozer has assumed a form, that is their form for that manifestation. Stantz locked-in the Destructor’s form for that dimension.

Q’s arrival is, as it often was, utterly unexpected. But [it] also comes at a shattering moment in the episode. And I do mean a shattering moment. Whether it’s directly connected to Q or not, I am still actually not quite sure. But there is significant trauma. And, in fact, at the moment, I am working on how the…

May or Mary. Sounds about right...

I’ve often referred to the American left/ right schism as people dehumanizing those who hold other values, and reducing them to being “the enemy.”

It’s the difference between saying “Japanese culture tends to value the concept of honor very highly,” and saying “this person must value the concept of honor very highly because they are Japanese.” The first is a statement of fact that is true at the general scale at which it’s being applied. The second is an…

Everyone says they’re right and the other side is wrong. Everyone.
Literally no one sits around thinking “boy am I on the wrong side of history and doing horrible, horrible things.”

Yeah. We really need justice for Thomas Wayne and... his wife. I’m blanking here.

Another conflict arose when the studio became insistent on Fisher saying “booyah” in the film—a catchphrase often used by Cyborg in the animated series Teen Titans.

And, logically, he’s one of the “star” characters. No one wants to play the magic student that’s flunking their classes or can only pass by cheating. Achievement and skill is expected.

One of Strixhaven’s students, Killian Lu, struggles under a domineering parent and labors to exceed the almost impossible expectations placed on him. Fans online have spoken out against Magic’s characterization of Lu, decrying the use of tired Asian stereotypes like the hyperfocus on honor and the model minority myth.…