that might be fine, if disappointing—and in line with the first half of this season.

Especially since the episode was titled “Reflections”, and Rutherford was communicating with other-Rutherford via reflections.

I’m also confused by the criticism of the season to-date. Lower Decks is both an animated series and a sendup of TNG—both qualities that lend themselves to self-contained episodes and keeping characters somewhat in stasis, development-wise.

WhaWhWhat problems did people have with the politics of the plot? That the fascists were bad and should be stopped from making a super weapon?

No,I’m Wolvercus. (have faith at least someone here got it)

I also want to join the MCU by playing Wolverine.

I was just thinking that when watching the new Iron Chef series, there’s a whole lot of extra food on that platform. 

I remember as a kid sitting on the floor of my dad’s living room, the lights out, watching the original Star Wars trilogy on VHS and having my mind blown at the incredible worlds, aliens, and characters created by George Lucas and Ralph McQuarrie, among many other contributors. I remember being smitten by a princess…

The Turing test DOES NOT TEST FOR INTELLIGENCE! Literally the only thing it tests is whether or not the judges can differentiate what is on the other side of the screen is a human or an artificial construct. it’s a philosophical test meant to pose the question of if an AI is indistinguishable from a human to the point…

Doesn’t that describe a lot of conversation, especially between relative strangers?  I don’t think this chatbot has achieved sentience, but I actually think “recites learned stock phrases in response to vague conversational prompts” actually ends up being pretty common human behavior.  Like “things like hanging with…

“It’s actually the entire point of the Turing test.”

before the comments section goes completely stupid I need to point out that we have no way to measure the difference between “Real Consciousness” and “Artificial Consciousness”.

Jesus christ, a series based on a long-dead niche game franchise where all the characters are generic horror tropes. I hope everyone involved in this spends the rest of their lives bagging groceries at the local supermarket after this inevitably turns out to be a steaming pile of shit.

and how is this store halfway across the planet going to change my mind about zuckbots shitty vr second life?

He should have stayed in the pit.

Aw, I was kind of hoping the crank was like a charger. So I have something to play next time my plane goes down in the south pacific and I’m stranded on a small island.

I’m hoping he kicks someone (an alien, perhaps?) into it after screaming “THIS! IS! WYOMING!”

If Brolin doesn’t slowly saunter up to the edge of that hole, pause for a moment looking somewhat quizzical and then spit into it, I’ll be disappointed.

I don’t think there’s any reason to think that Leto’s desire to use method acting is any less genuine that Daniel Day-Lewis’s or (to put it another way) that Lewis doesn’t engage in method acting in part to generate attention.  I think the difference is that Lewis is truly an exceptional actor, so we are more willing…

When the news broke it was literally the first question that popped into my head. I assume others were wondering the same thing.