The recasting of guys with smaller faces than the previous guy serves as a great visual metaphor for how this franchise has diminished.

Hard disagreement on Age of Extinction. Not saying Revenge of the Fallen isn’t guilty of everything you wrote. But Age of Extinction was such a relentlessly unpleasant and lazy slog that it made 15 minutes of Dinobot action boring. They were the only reason I bothered to watch the movie and I found myself more drawn…

He’s playing 3 weasels in a trenchcoat. The right makeup could be terrifying and can anyone imagine imagine the kind of performance he could bring with that premise?

It’s too bad Cheetah is DC because I’m pretty sure Ryan Reynolds would have moved Heaven and Earth to have Taylor Swift play a cat-themed person in a Deadpool movie.

The internet is just a reflection of humanity. The transitive property applies.

If I understand the current life cycle of AI in the wild, it will start out solid. A small but dedicated subset of users will devote countless hours to training gamer toxicity into the AI and poisoning the well by identifying and contaminating the publicly viewable data it scrapes for answers.

The end result will be an…

Yeah, it’s an industry for scammers right now. Right now investment is pouring into AI so you see all these companies claiming any algorithm that learns even a little bit is “AI”.

The “experts” at OpenAI are the worst offenders. They just announced their “next step” as starting work on AGI. I’d love to see how…

That was everyone, not just the ensigns. I really hated how the formula for the last two seasons was spending the last 10 minutes of each episode having every character who did anything have a huge monologue about how much they learned and changed only to continue on as the same one-note character they were the whole…

I’ve been hate watching the last 2 seasons of Disco as well but it feels like a writer issue, not so much the setting.

I think it’s a good idea to explore other eras though. I feel like Disco’s early problems (and some of Picard’s) occurred because they were playing in such a crowded era with all the restrictions of…

I can’t quantify the level of pathetic that is required for someone to follow the narrow cultural path required to know about the original Red Box, want to blind buy D&D miniatures, and to get offended that one of said miniatures is a female reimagining of the back view of a picture from the front of said 40-year-old…

Hopefully the theater looks like a bunch of people making out with Wolverine because it’s the most convenient way to eat the popcorn.

AGI, huh? Going from fancy chatbot to AGI is a little like going from the Wright Flyer to Apollo, isn’t it?

The story doesn’t matter when huge portions of last season were just poorly made across the board. The horrifically bad fight in Aretuza was a travesty of choreography, cinematography, and storyboarding. Whenever a slow and clumsy fight was playing out in the foreground, you’d be too distracted by the extras in the…

I’m glad the company did the classy thing and quietly removed the product. Some would have doubled down on the publicity.

This reminds me of the proliferation of various spicy wing restaurants in the 2000s that would “require” you to sign a waiver before ordering their hottest (purely for publicity only and entirely…

Clearly you do condone derogatory or sexist comments as you seem more offended by the people who are expressing condemnation for them than the comments themselves.

If you can’t handle people being called out for saying clearly sexist things that they clearly stated are sexist before saying them, then maybe you’re…

You’re totally right about everything you said. Unfortunately the super nerds don’t control the purse strings. Otherwise Chandra wouldn’t be up for cancellation without a replacement, no matter how many nerds tell them it’s shortsighted.

I know Dubai is elsewhere. But they built that city to appeal to the elite of the region and the affluent tourism of the rest of the world, not the general populace. And they did so by hiding the literal slave labor that made it possible.

Saudi Arabia is trying to copy the idea while turning it up to 11 by appealing to…

I don’t think the first asteroid we experiment with moving should be one that passes quite so close. That feels like testing if your new gun is accurate by shooting an apple off someone’s head.

You forget how humans work, though. We won’t take the threat seriously and put real protections in place until we get smacked hard enough to panic.