Anyone whose copyrighted work is used in a database to train an LLM program should be able to sue over it. Yes, that won’t solve the problem, but it might help. Especially if the courts correctly put the onus on the AI developers to prove that they have usage rights to everything involved in their creation.

I have no problem with the plot being that he's a thoughtless doofus. Could have maybe used another line of dialogue, but it was mostly good.

It’s a mode that was perhaps best executed by Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China: The hypothetical White Savior who’s actually a dingus, but stays likeable

So they’re probably already hating the peasant food in this village, and now they’ve got this insane foreigner to deal with.

I don’t get how he could have made the stew so bad that they wouldn’t touch it. But I guess Mariko and Fuji are supposed to be somewhat reduced in status, but originally raised in court maybe? So a delicate sensibility could come with that.

Thank you for this! I was confused at what he was doing, but I hadn’t heard of doing that for birds. That article makes it sound like if there’s decomposition and flies that he’s definitely doing it wrong.

Ishido: “I hate getting packages from Hed-Ex”

And Fuji had to order it. Theirs is a harsh village (though Yabushige seems to encourage that in his holding)

Or, like Hannah Montana, all three.

It’s totally possible that the Portuguese hate natto. But it just has the feeling of an instance where the show is taking a modern stereotype and lazily applying it to a historical setting where it may not be at all sensical.

This guy’s supposed to be a sailor who’s lived through a round the world trip and starvation. He should have eaten rats and weevils for weeks and whatever they could find anywhere they made port.

Good thing Melissa Benoist got lots of practice carrying the weight of ham-fisted journalism plots on Supergirl.

A crossover of the two would send us over the event horizon of shoddy speechifying and into a smug black hole of ponderous sanctimony

Plus they fed him like two really good meals in the Kyoto palace.

You changed my life, baby velociraptor. You thought I was teaching you to hunt, when it was really you who was teaching me all along.

That show was such a mess after the first few episodes but the intro song was so amazing

There’s also the fact that someone could watch Rebel Moon twice

He’s probably so tired of people requesting The Devil Went Down to Georgia

I thought it was Grand Fenwick

Which is very good news, since Kingdom Come is the “Get off my lawn!”of Superman stories