It'll be shit. There is no one alive who is capable of adding anything new to Tolkien's universe that won't be immediately apparent as drastically inferior. And putting the hunt for Gollum to screen will involve making up a ton of stuff, as Tolkien didn't write much detail about what actually happened. It'll be like asking some jeet who works at GM to complete an unfinished Enzo Ferrari design. Tolkien was a once in a century writer and his equal has likely not even been born yet. They will be reading and teaching Tolkien 500 years from now. Nothing anyone else has tried to add will be remembered a decade from now.
They are also universally used to bullying their way through any problems or consequences, or having others do it for them. Women are shielded from consequences, accountability, or even being allowed to feel bad about something from the time they gain sapience and spend the next decade+ never encountering a single situation where their inbuilt girl-bonus doesn't take care of the problem for them.
Their dad and mom, simps at school, teachers, etc. Not only are all of them selling the strong female main character thing you mentioned, all of them also fall over themselves to make sure everything goes right for the girl, even when it shouldn't. And sooner or later, at some point in their lives, maybe decades later when they approach The Wall, they end up meeting the first time this isn't the case, and it's absolutely beyond comprehension to them.
The girl in this case absolutely believed complaining on the internet would 'somehow' end up with her just being given a check for a million dollars. She broadcasts herself crying and complaining, and everyone else will do all the work behind the scenes while she waits, and poof, here's a big check. I'm so sorry you had to feel bad for a few days princess, is there anything we can do to make it up to you? She really thought that would happen. Because that's how it's always happened in the past. This is probably the first time in her life it didn't happen, so there's no wonder she just expected it to work that way here too.
I agree with your tastes in that regard. You might like Horimiya and You and I Are Polar Opposites. Both are like that.
The past several seasons have had at least one major prominent faggot anime made by a major studio with lots of marketing. This current season now has two of them. The colonization of anime by woketards and queers is continuing at pace with seemingly no end in sight.
And by faggot anime, I mean guy/guy faggots. Yuri anime has been a thing for a long time, and there have been yuri or yuri-implied anime every season for a long time. Pretty much any anime where the cast is entirely girls is at least yuri-adjacent. Actual yuri anime though has always been more popular than yaoi anime, mainly because straight guys like hot girls, and two hot girls is twice as hot as one. It's degenerate, and one of the ways the queers got their feet in the door, but I can't deny the reason why yuri gets a pass.
Yaoi shit has been kept out of mainstream sight for a while, and is mainly directed at female audiences. The whole fujoshi subculture is absolutely repellent and disgusting, but it's an established thing in Japan. But it used to be mostly kept out of the mainstream, and fujoshis had to play VN games and read doujin to get their fix. That is not to say yaoi anime never existed at all. But it was not mainstream. That is changing, and there has been a concerted effort to make guy/guy faggot anime front and center and mainstead for several years now, no doubt due to western influence.
And now we see them applying their same old bag of tricks we've seen them use everywhere else to anime. Reclassify that which is normal to be the thing that is weird while promoting their gross deviant bullshit as the new normal. Expect to see more of this as anime, and Japan in general, falls to western influence. There already seems to be a directive to make at least one major faggot anime every season, which was only the start, and given that now there are several this season, expect that to be the new standard. Sooner or later, faggot anime could very well become the norm, and normal anime becomes the strange thing in the background.
And as an aside, a connected issue is the rise of femdom anime becoming more mainstream as well.
Thanks for including who Josh Hokit is. There's a dozen other threads that just say "Josh Hokit" and if you don't follow UFC, that's just some random ass name.
That's what happens when you throw as much shit as possible at the wall to see what sticks. If you say everything and anything you can imagine, you'll eventually end up accidentally being right by pure chance. Jones' fans just choose to forget the 95% of the time where his predictions or theories are wrong.
I don't think Tommy spouts quite as much unhinged bullshit though.
If they say yes to the first one, they're lying. What they really believe is they personally should be paid half a million a year for writing gay fanfiction and everyone else should be in labor camps.
Apparently it was able to find a whole shit ton of bugs, exploits, zero days, and other malware vectors in heaps of software within like, a day. Even programs that are decades old and thought to be safe, it was able to find exploits.
Personally, I don't care so much about the coding aspect. I understand it's a big issue, but personally I don't do coding outside of MIPS scripts in Stationeers, so I don't really care that much.
What I do find hilarious is that it's happening to Anthropic. I've used Claude for some creative writing for myself. Not to publish, just for my own amusement. Sometimes I think of something I think might make a fun story, write out a few pages of notes, and throw it into Opus to see what it can make of it. And one thing I've noticed is that Claude's "safety" standards are some of the most iron fisted draconian HR Karen rules that one could ever think of.
You can't go 3 prompts without a lecture about 'promoting harm' or whether female characters have 'agency' and all the rest of that claptrap. It wasn't always this way, but with each model, it becomes more and more tight-leashed. Imagine an Apple product advertisement written by Anita Sarkesian and paid for by the WEF. The whole cast of smiling diverse characters in their bland pastel colored office. You can picture what I mean. That's basically all it's willing to do at this point. Anything that has more edge or bite than a 130yo axe head you magnet fished out of a river is straight up shut down with a 'I'm sorry, but I feel that what you're asking me to do might cause an undo amount of emotional trauma and promotes ideas that may prove harmful' excuse.
So I find it hilarious in a schedenfreud way that they're getting their shit pushed in now and getting one of their products shut down. I'm not sure if it's right or wrong that they're getting shut down, but it is funny and they do deserve it.
Makes me wonder if Austin's father knew the game all along and knew that if he appeared too based, it might affect the trial in a negative way. Now that the case is closed, I wonder if we're seeing what he was truly thinking all along but knew it was unwise to reveal too early.
*Cardassians.
It's an interesting video that touches on something I've always been curious about. Why 'both sides' have people who like Star Trek. The Left loves to claim Trek as pure progressivism and is deeply confused anytime they meet someone on the right who enjoys Star Trek. They genuinely cannot fathom why anyone right leaning would like it, as they view it as an extension of their own ideas.
It harkens back to that study that showed that the Right tends to understand both its own ideas and the Left's, while the Left understands its ideas but totally misses the mark when trying to describe the Right. They really do believe their mustache twirling caricature of the Right is what normal people on the right really believe about themselves and they are totally flummoxed anytime they're shown this isn't the case.
Star Trek isn't pure progressivism, it's 20th Century Americanism wearing a few progressive tokens as jewelry. Feral Historian points out that at the core, the Federation in Star Trek doesn't hate itself. It doesn't apologize for making colonies, it isn't seeking to ruin itself from within, it's a high-trust society composed of individuals that have bought into the high-trust of the society, and it's actually quite harsh towards individuals who break that trust or don't also buy in.
The Federation of Star Trek has 20th Century Western morals. The set dressing might be different, but the things they would view as 'wrong' are the things someone from 1960s America, or 1990s America would view as wrong. And that sort of rigid morality is something modern day leftists have been attacking for years. The modern* Left hates the idea of morality itself, which is why they tear down ever cultural more and taboo they can and replace them with twisted disgusting versions. Picard and Kirk and Sisko would be as disgusted by a nude adult male performing gay sex acts in front of children in a public parade as any of us.
We're gonna have to get rid of them by force sooner or later.
Sure would be nice to have posted the picture itself instead of a fucking twitter link.
Indie 2d games are the most low effort slop of all the things you listed.
Experience means a lot in real warfighting. It's one of the reasons China isn't quite as strong as they'd like everyone to believe. They haven't actually fought a war in a long fucking time and all of their knowledge is based on training, simulation, and doctrine. They don't actually know if any of it will work or if the soldiers or equipment will perform. Ukraine and Russia, whatever is left of them after this is over, are going to have some of the most experienced warfighters on the planet, and experience in the new paradigm. The drone thing might end up being as important of a shift in strategy and tactics as maneuver warfare was after WWI.
Maybe. DPD did a pretty shit job during the St. Floyd riots. It wasn't as bad as in other states, but it wasn't the "Texan" response you'd hope to see.
I was listening to either Matt Walsh or John Doyle talk about this, and apparently one of Austin's black teammates had to be stopped from pursuing and beating the shit out of Anthony after he realized what happened.
I don't necessarily agree with this video. The channel is a mostly libertarian leaning channel, and I think libertarians are naive in a lot of ways and this video illustrates one of them.
The topic of AI itself is only part of the real issue. As I see it, the real issue is that 'dumb people' jobs are dwindling, and 'smart people' jobs are "growing". Which is to say they are dwindling too, but not as much and transforming into even higher barrier to entry "smart people" jobs.
This is a trend that has been happening for a long time, and it's one I don't see libertarians or pure economic conservative types really ever choose to address. In the distant past, there weren't many jobs that required someone to be smart. A village of 100 people might have a priest, a notary, a mayor, a merchant, and one or two others that truly required an legitimate education to perform. Below that was a tier of skilled trades; blacksmiths, silversmiths, fletchers, tanners, masons, etc. And below that was the biggest group; unskilled labor. Farmers, miners, and jobs that basically required being able to lift heavy things on command.
The libertarian argument has always been that as advancement eliminates one kind of job, a new kind of job takes its place, so that nothing is every really displaced. Telegraph operators can train to become telephone operators, and so on. But one thing they don't like to mention is that each time this happens, the amount of education and even basic natural intelligence to do these new jobs tends to increase. Libertarians would pass this off as irrelevant and just say the obvious answer is to train the people on the new higher intelligence job.
But the uncomfortable truth is that there is a ceiling to that. If you're willing to see the truth, you'll notice not every race has the same capacity for intelligence, and even among those that might, not every person has the same capacity either. The bell curve of intelligence is what it is. There are a lot of average people, and very few hyper intelligent people. What do you do when every time technology advances, the requirements of the new job require more and more people from the right of the bell curve, but we don't see the curve itself shifting to the right?
I personally believe that when it comes down to raw numbers, we are going to eventually end up in a world where the remaining jobs require the employee to have a certain base level of intelligence to do them, and there will be a hell of a lot more remaining humans who just don't have that. In the past, those people would go lay bricks or till soil, or screw a widget on an assembly line all day. But we have machines to do that now.
What does a society do when there are a small number of available jobs for one to earn a living, with automation and machines doing all the rest, and a massive population of people who will never be able to get smart enough to do them? Even if there were somehow enough smart people jobs to give one to everyone if they can do it, which there aren't and won't be, what happens to the people who are basically naturally too stupid to learn to code or work with advanced robots or the other smart people tasks require to keep the machines running?
From one moral perspective, some one would that answer is to tell them to fuck off and die. No one is entitled to the fruits of labor of others. If they can't earn a living by contribution, then they don't deserve a living. While that is true in a sense, it's not really practical in the real world. What happens when a tiny group of people tells a massive group of people they should just go somewhere else and die? The bigger group says 'no' and kills the smaller group.
If we automate and mechanize and AI our way into a world where there's only legitimate contributing employment to say, 30% of the population, and the remaining 70% literally cannot do anything that is worth paying for, ie earning a living, and they are just too genetically stupid to ever be able to even train to be more, what happens then? Do we think the 70% are going to shuffle off and say "yeah sorry, you're right. I guess I'll just go die in a corner now"? Because they aren't going to do that. They're going to cave the heads on the 30% in with rocks rather than starve to death. So what do we do before it gets to that point?
There's already an episode from SG1 where he got cloned into a teenager though, and the actor who played teenage clone Jack is the perfect age to play adult jack now though. No need to reinvent the wheel. The original already set it up.
There are massive protests over Nowak in the UK right now.
I was holding out hope for a while that the actor that played Young Jack in the episode he was cloned would end up playing an older cloned Jack in a new series. He's the right age for it now, and it would be interesting to see another Jack O'Neill who still has all the memories and training and experience of the RDA Jack, but is still a different person from the point he got cloned. It's an interesting way to get a new cast in for a new show, while having a clever way to work in some continuity with the older series, since SG-1 already laid the foundation for it.
And we know Jack was a hobbyist astronomer, so you could have Clone Jack be the scientist of the team instead of a military guy. Maybe after his second chance at high school, he decided to go into science instead of going back into the Air Force a second time. But he could still be involved in action scenes because we know he still has the skills and experience for it. And it would be a funny character thing to have the military members of the team knowing this Jack is a clone of General O'Neill and is way more training with more years of military and gate experience then them, even though this version is a civilians.
Everyone has a a few things that are the bedrock foundation to how they see the world, their place in it, and the animus behind nearly all of their choices. Sometimes these things are correct and true, often they are not. But people build their lives on them anyways, and once there is a massive structure of life choices and opinions built on top of them, any attempt to change one of these foundations will be met with overwhelming hostility.
Because if you show them that their foundation is wrong, it invalidates everything that stemmed from it. And often that is decades of their life and everything in it. Most people have a very guttural negative reaction to 'everything you've believed and every decision you've made based on those beliefs for 30 years has been wrong'. It cuts to their core, and people almost always prefer continuing to believe the wrong foundation than deal with the mental break that would result from confronting it.
For nearly all blacks, one of those bedrock foundations is that every bad thing that has ever happened to them is because of unjust and unfounded racism from others. They build their lives around it, it influences every decision they make, every opinion they hold, even how they talk, what their tastes are; everything. If you undermine that foundation, it collapses basically their whole life and tells them they've wasted and squandered every minute of their life with all those decisions and personality aspects that were built on it, and they will avoid that at all costs.
If someone told you "Every single thing you've thought, felt, said, believed, and decided for nearly all of your life was wrong, and you were wrong to do all of that" and they could prove it, how would that impact your mental and emotional state? Sunk cost as it pertains to using the amount of life time you have isn't a fallacy. Every minute you used on A instead of B isn't coming back. That cost is spent and gone. Would you rather spend the rest you have agonizing over having wasted what you already wasted, or be comfortably and pleasantly wrong in willful ignorance wasting more on the same so long as it feels good? Most would choose the latter.
Perfect example of third generation ruination. The first generation creates, the second generation maintains, and the third generation pisses it all away. It happens over and over basically everywhere in life. JRR created, Christopher carefully maintained, and the next generation burned it all to the ground for a quick buck.