why does this sound so much like the Gran Turismo menu music.

Out of morbid curiosity, I disregarded Paul anka’s advice and watched for a minue or so. I couldn’t bear to go much longer, lest I lose all self- respect. The disclaimer is the dumbest thing, though. Outside easily-impressed rubes, I’m not sure anyone is buying the “just an impersonation” line. You know who would have…

I had the pleasure of seeing him live and have been a fan since the 1970s. Nobody should hesitate for a second to know he would hate this. 

Another thing that pissed me off about those movies is the argument that “allowing the dinosaurs to spread across the planet is allowing nature to reclaim what belongs to it!”

I’m at 12 minutes and done. If I weren’t told this was Carlin I wouldn’t guess it. This doesn’t have his cadence, his rhythm, his activist spirit.. nothing. A voice is like a fingerprint and AI might be able to make a ‘stamp’ of that but a voice is also a song and songs, imo, come through us, not from us. That’s an…

Yeah, this is monstrous. Some guy writes ‘comedy’ and says it’s an “impersonation.” Dudesy, you’re no comedian. This guy is an Evil Clown and, in the future, the clowns won’t be telling you it’s an “impersonation.” They’ll just steal it.

My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination. No machine will ever replace his genius.

Carlin was every thinking person. He was just one of the few who put himself out there. And he paid for it. I don’t find his voice at all hard to pin down . He was excrutiatingly direct. The things he said finally ceased to be funny but we didn’t care because the truth was more important. We didn’t need laughter to…

Yeah, though that could apply to so many things (and people). :)

Just your daily reminder that current AI isn’t really intelligent.

I'll never forget cArlIn’s classic bit “The Seven Dirty Prompts You Can’t Enter Into ChatGPT”

Gotta say, Ms Carlin nailed it, especially the bit about listening to current comedians. Carlin was a hugely influential figure, but the best stand-up, I think, is always reflective of its time. Which is another reason AI is not suited for it; it has no ability to tap into the zeitgeist.

Not gonna lie, that made me want to go watch some more “Harley Quinn” (the animated series), which absolutely would be that self-aware.

There’s certainly a metacommentary to be made about how most lower-tier supes should probably just load up on guns, but I sincerely doubt that this video game is going to stick its neck out and actually commit. It’d be hilarious if it did, though.

That always bugged me about the Jurassic Park movies after the first one. Why are the dinosaurs bulletproof?

I don’t think it’s every gamer who feels that way, but the sentiment certainly is more prominent than I would have thought a few years ago. It really felt like the community at large fought for a long time for games to be seen and respected as art as much as other storytelling mediums; now it feels like there’s at…

I’ve thought about this a lot (the art illiteracy of gamers) and I’ve never seen it put better than “they see games as fun content-delivery toys.”

Dunno what to think of it except two things that I hate about it already. Firing an RPG at a rex and it doesn’t leave a mark at all. Like not even scorching the skin... And then he breaks a horn on the trike, by hand and rams it into the skull... The power levels seems to be fluctuating by a wide margin...

The Part 2 twist will definitely not be as controversial on TV. Audiences of every other narrative medium other than games have long gotten used to that kind of story. The Red Wedding was a decade ago. People will get over the shock by the next morning.

2 questions:
1: He’s playing Clarence/Thomas as a sly chancer with a keen eye for a scheme, and an upright member of a morally nigh-unimpeachable club?