thats the thing about the “authentic” strider. im a bit older and watched the original animated lord of the rings bakshi cartoons. and strider then looked closer to a common portrayal of a native American, darker skin color and straight black hair. vigo was not bad, but he looked like a Swedish grunge singer. no…

First thing I thought of too, except this asshole doesn’t have 1/100th of Tom Skerritt’s charisma. Also, when Mitch Fucking McConnell tells you to back your conservative bullshit down...

when you’re what? you mean when you buy all your competition that has any real chance of competing against you, or collude with them to control market prices to ensure profitability to satisfy shareholders?

I’m not from Alabama, but I am from a football state, and I could feel that from here.

“Nobody WANTS to lower their prices.”

Then they’re doing living wrong, humans are a cancer. 

“Jeff Bezos says “Your margin is my opportunity””

The world would be a better place without him.

The insufferable AIbros - the mutant evolution of cryptobros - will become incessant and insist that you should pay more for AI-devved games because it’s cooler.*

We’ll all be out of the job replaced by AI so who’s going to have money to buy anything?

They’ll do online only games, even for single player so they can hook into some crazy data center to pull the real time stuff. Regardless it isn’t a future I want to see.

gotta pay for all that R&D that’s paid off in the first 10 minutes of sales...forever!

And then I think about what IF they actually pulled it off - so you end up with games that absolutely require the latest/greatest/most-expensive Nvidia AI card, or not only do they look worse but none of the NPCs can talk to you correctly (plus whatever else the AI is driving)? The actual gameplay experience (not just…

“Hey NPC, can you tell me where to find the Sword of Radiant Light?”

And of course developers that slash their staff sizes and replace them with AI will pass the savings on to consumers!

“in-game character responding in real-time to words the player says out loud”

At some point karma will catch up to this clown. I look forward to reading all about it. 

Did Tommy watch “Constituency of One” episode of The West Wing and think he could pull this off?

Are we still doing the “these cartoons are aimed at children“ line of thinking? 

Are we still doing the “aimed at children” therefore it doesn’t matter if it sucks line of criticism?

This seems like the kind of movie that, were it released in 2021, would be debuting exclusively on Disney+.

Is this the film festival who love to do 10 minutes long standing ovation for the simplest thing?

Luck felt like a movie written by an AI with the parameters “Pixar movie, tik tok, plays well in China”