On the bright side, within 10 years we will probably advance the point where AI can just generate a movie by pointing it to the text of the books and telling it the length you want the movie to be.
Why would anyone put the Willow series on their resume? The show was so bad that Disney removed it from the service.
Them: "we don't want your money, asshole. Go spend it somewhere else"
So you do.
Also them: "our video game flopped because of all the evil racists and bigots who refused to buy it."
You know, I just scanned the first three episodes again looking for it and couldn't find it. I was driving myself crazy trying to figure out where I got this, because I distinctly remember rolling my eyes at it.
Turns out it was not a lecture from Mariko in the show, but from a marketing campaign post I saw around the time the first episode aired: https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/fx-networks/5-stories-of-the-samurai-class.html?smid=url-share#/daughters-of-samurai
One girl power scene, where the main actress starts fighting with a naginata (spear) which isn't necessarily unrealistic but they portrayed it a bit too girlpowerly to be entirely believable.
This is my only real beef so far as well. I think Mariko did take up a weapon at some point in the book in an act of desperation, but they portrayed her as a skilled fighter in the show and I believe she actually killed one or two people in the scene you're talking about.
They also had her lecture Blackthorne on how women were samurai too. This concept is present in the book, but in the sense of samurai being the noble class versus women being warriors. I felt they were twisting the concept to fit modern ideals about "equality".
Other than that, I think it's pretty good. I also enjoyed the original despite its limitations of being an early 1980s made for TV mini-series.
Only the government could pass a law granting a subsidy that nobody wants because it costs too much to jump through the hoops to get it.
in order to cover any disputes or unforseen refunds on your account, we will also hold 100% of your account balance and future transactions in reserve for 90 days.
The fuck you will. There is nothing in Stripe's United States Services Agreement that authorizes them to hold funds past the termination of an account.
I can guarantee the same thing is going to happen to them that happened to GoFundMe when they tried to take donations to the Canadian truckers and give them to other charities. A bunch of people are going to start talking lawsuits, and right leaning states will talk about criminal investigations. Stripe will then talk to their own attorneys who will tell them they are fucking idiots and to knock it off or they're going to get ass raped in court.
Wow, tell me you live alone with an army of cats and drink a lot of wine without directly saying it.
Yes. You watch those old movies and the men would slap women when they became hysterical. They were onto something.
soul-crushing levels of harassment that were perfectly legal.
Wasn't filing false liens on houses a militia thing back in the 1990's? What happened?
Vexatious litigation, especially for things said/done not "in the line of duty" to sidestep immunity laws, is one of the worst things you can do to someone.
I think when (not if) the country comes apart it won't be a 21st century replay of the Civil War. More likely, it will be the withdrawal by right leaning states from polite discourse with the federal government.
We've already seen this on both sides of the political spectrum with the left refusing to enforce immigration law and the right beginning to refuse to enforce federal gun laws. People don't realize that everything from the momentous to the mundane relies on the willing cooperation of the states with the federal government.
Did you know that the states actually have a formal agreement with the federal government to tell them when people are born and die? There is no federal database of this information, so they have no idea to turn off the Social Security benefits of a dead person unless the state they die in shares that information.
This is already been litigated many times in the Supreme court. There is no federal authority to compel states to enforce federal law. Simply refusing to play along will cripple the federal government and leave them with little recourse. They can cut off the flow of federal dollars, but hopefully the states have established a degree of financial Independence before opting out of playing with the feds.
The only other choice would be an armed intervention, which violates the constitution, and provides the casus belli for the states to actually fight back. Forcing the feds to fire first strips them of their moral superiority and brings more people over to the cause.
"But bro, Strange New Worlds is better. It's got Spock and Capt Pike."
And it's got a bull dike steering the ship. I didn't make it through the first episode.
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Named Michael no less. I really think they had some old script where originally the main character was supposed to be a male and they just dusted it off, shrugged their shoulders and recast the part as a female.
I stuck with Discovery until Captain Lorca was revealed to be some evil duplicate from the mirror universe, and then I noped out. It was painful lasting as long as I did.
Holy fuck, the chick that plays Tilly completely let herself go.
Isn't killing people inconsistent with pretty much all value systems? They should probably take down any military pictures, since we wouldn't want to glorify violence.
You know, come to think of it, they should probably just disband themselves, since giving medical care to disabled soldiers just encourages the cycle of violence.
Fucking retards.
They're just trying to avoid second and third order effects.
The states removing Trump from the ballot advanced the theory that he need not be convicted of a crime, if they felt that the evidence met the criteria of the crime they could remove him on that basis alone.
That means other states could, for example, remove Joe Biden from the ballot for taking money from the Chinese simply by asserting that they felt there is enough evidence that it happened. Repeat ad infinitum for both sides for every candidate they don't like, forever.
It wasn't that they cared about Trump, so much as they probably recognized that the ramifications of the opposite decision would be a complete breakdown in the American election system when state authorities begin to simply disqualify anyone they want from their ballot using simple accusations because they don't like their politics.
no one is discussing strategies for actually solving the problem.
Because the only real solution is violence. When the people that keep the state-sponsored extortion racket going are afraid it will cost them their lives, they will stop.
However, simply discussing it will get your posts deleted and you banned. And anyone that discusses/encourages it online is as likely to be a glowie as a real person.
I can't disagree with his politics more. Trigger warnings with timestamps to skip to if you can't bear to see real life, whining about "inclusivity", etc., but his conclusions about the art aren't wrong:
- trying to appeal to everyone ends up appealing to no one
- we can sense insincerity, and corporations using this art style to pretend that they care about minorities or social issues is easily sniff out and repulses us
I think the weight of the female vote has a greater impact than the natural shift towards conservativism.
If it were as simple as "today's Democrats are tomorrow's Republicans", we would be seeing a steady and gradual increase in people supporting the right/Republicans that matches the steady and gradual aging of populations.
The women I know are perfect voters for the left: they worry about feelings instead of facts, they tend to be less affluent (less to lose when voting for giveaway programs), they seem more trusting of authority, they exhibit cognitive dissonance (if ACAB, why do you only want cops to have guns?). The government standing in for their husband, and every whiny special interest group standing in for their children, pretty much explains their voting habits.
It's called 'Enterprise' but the ship is a rust bucket with pea shooters. It's unimpressive in every conceivable way and most of the ship-to-ship conflicts become exercises in teeth-gritting
That's part of the core concept of the show though: this isn't the mighty Federation, a powerful political entity with an armada of top of the line spacecraft. It's earth, a relatively unimportant planet taking its first steps into the universe
If you're familiar with aviation history, the US didn't build a single fighter plane in World War 1, and all of its fighters were borrowed from France (like how the Vulcans are the keepers of knowledge and technology in Enterprise).
Contrast that with the Korean War-era and later where the US is now the undisputed master of military aviation, with the exception of the mysterious and inscrutable Soviets (a role filled by the Klingons in TOS).
I'll grant you that the execution was somewhat lacking, but I found the concept interesting, with enough historical analogs that it was believable.
Picard Season 3 is supposed to be better, but I couldn't even work up the energy to watch it after the absolute train wrecks that constituted the first two seasons.
Star Trek and Star Wars have both been ruined by current day production teams that don't understand the charm of the original at all and probably hate it if they do.
I'd rate TOS higher than DS9 if there were a full AI remaster or overhaul or something to make it less dated looking.
No thank you. They redid all of the exterior shots with CGI for the Blu-ray release, and it's jarring when compared to the scenes with actors. At least they had the decency to give you the choice between watching that version or the one filmed with little models.
I think we have to accept media as a product of its time, especially science fiction. There's really no way to "modernize" a show where they are feeding physical cards into a computer to program it without reshooting the whole thing, and then it wouldn't be TOS anymore.
Man, what a great character. The slow shift from "foe but sometimes uneasy ally" to pawn of the Dominion ala Vichy France and then crazy cult leader was quite a ride. I thought it was unintentional, but I always kind of felt sorry for him.
He and Garak were the best parts of the show. I also liked what they did with Nog; pivoting from a stereotypical greedy and shitty little ferengi into a Starfleet officer was great. Especially given how boring Jake's growth into a "journalist" was.
Unfortunately, I never felt that Benjamin Sisko was very interesting. He had pretty much none of the gravitas that Picard had. Even Janeway pulled off being a commander and authority figure better than he did.
When I was younger I avoided it because I thought the starting theme music was too gay.
I have heard that people literally hate the theme song, and by extension the entire series. It seems strange to judge an entire show on something so trivial, but it's a complaint I see often when the show is brought up. That and how much people hated the final episode- which seems to be something so many shows get wrong.
I think it started out slowly and didn't find its groove till the end, but if you watch the first couple seasons of TNG or DS9, you'll see the same thing. The first season of TNG is a excruciating, as you can almost feel them stumbling while trying to figure out what each character's personality should be.
I think the show suffered from a form of fan service: "we've got to show the Borg", Let's find a way to work in Data's creator", etc., but at the same time, those were some interesting and fun episodes.
Given the prequel setting and how they worked in so many references to the previous shows, it almost feels like some sort of retrospective send off to Star Trek, which now seems appropriate as pretty much everything in the franchise since then has been trash.
In warfare, there's a term "co-belligerent", which is distinct from "ally". Two people can fight the same enemy at the same time for completely different reasons. That doesn't make them friends or allies.