I genuinely do not understand why I should be more concerned that the Chinese government has my data than I would be about like Google or Amazon or Microsoft or the U.S. Government having my data.  Like if Beijing really wants to know what kinds of raspberries I plan on planting, they could just ask.

It’s not *just* the cast.  Like the aesthetics of the original are incredible.  A weird mix of things that work together in a way you wouldn’t expect.

What gives me hope here is that if you describe 1988's Beetlejuice, it genuinely doesn’t sound like a movie that would even work. The things that make that film an all-time classic (and one of my personal favorite movie) are about the weird mix of ingredients that don’t sound like they would work well together.

“Former Transportation Secretary passes away in automobile accident exacerbated by multiple questionable design choices” is some truly on-the-nose irony.

The savory pies being take-and-bake fits with Crumbl’s sweet ethos- those cookies also come to you seriously underbaked.

Like the big difference between Harry Potter and the rest of “stories intended for a younger audience repackaged for older fans who refuse to let go of it” is that the author of Harry Potter became the spokesperson for a hate movement.  Like Walt Disney was chummy with some prominent Nazis, but he didn’t regularly…

I mean, she’s 13 in Inside Out 2. For Inside Out 3 we would probably have to have a Hornt, though “Riley doesn’t even have this emotion” could roll into an interesting way to do asexual representation.

I think a lot of people just misunderstand that how video game RPGs have in their DNA tabletop RPGs (many the devs for the former have played a lot of the latter) and in TTRPGs “choice” is often fake in the following sense. Like if the party gets the choice of “where to spend the night” between like the seedy inn, the…

I still maintain that the original ending was great, but the extended cut was terrible and basically ruined it. Like the whole “I choose not to choose, thereby killing all sapient life i the galaxy” ending was the stupidest thing in the entire franchise. Like the intention was never “you can make Shepherd into any…

See also “blockchain”. Like there were people running ads during football games about how your tomatoes are now on the blockchain, as though this is anything anybody would care about.  Tech people are always going to be pushing tech solutions, sometimes to problems that don't even exist.

Teaching a computer to understand all spoken english across all accents, regional dialects, and linguistic idiosyncrasies is basically an intractable problem. The advantage of having an actual human take your order is that their understanding of language is probably similar to yours if you’re both from the same place.

This is only acceptable if some of the time the food is less expensive than it would be normally.  Like I could see “reducing the price of some item for quick sale” on some level.

Eventually, we will always return to “inedible garnish is gauche.”

I think the only way this really makes sense is “to discount things in order to sell them before you would have to throw them away” like with day old baked goods, that sort of thing.

Right, like it feels like the job for a Hollywood Agent is “negotiate contracts for you” because they know about contracts and negotiation. Their job is not “pick opportunities” since their expertise is not art, or comedy, or things other than “negotiations and contracts.”

I think it’s just as simple as chocolate chip is similar enough to a lot of other flavors that are more beloved. Like Cookies & Cream and Cookie Dough Ice cream also have the same “Vanilla + Chocolate” thing going on and have better flavor. If the texture of chocolate chip shards is what you’re after, many people…

Tannis only becomes a Siren after the previous Siren with that power dies, based on what we know about the story I think Angel is alive at the start of the movie.

Or just remaster New Vegas, please.

I guess that this is the right set of characters for a Borderlands movie. Lilith is basically the main character of the franchise, Claptrap is the mascot. Roland and Lilith were original vault hunters, but you leave Brick out because no human looks like Brick and because you don’t have Brick you don’t get Mordecai.…

It’s still ironic that we’re channeling Heinlein’s neologism from Stranger, since a LLM does not understand *anything*, nor is the model designed to try to create any sense of meaning or truth within the algorithm.