Endymion_Mallorn
@Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 day ago:
That always seems to happen. I'm too broke to buy a pitchfork, and too pyrophobic for a torch, sorry.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 day ago:
Don't worry, until Trump gets his insurance adjusted by an LLM trained on real data about him (won't happen), he'll make executive orders exempting the LLM users from legal action.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 day ago:
I'm looking out in the street. I see a lack of torches, pitchforks, or any pressure on corporate interests.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 3 days ago:
The machines make money. The people cost money.
- Comment on Things that make you go hmm... 4 days ago:
Yes, but that's really on Warren. Oz was just a breakup of a relationship that ended naturally. If Warren had put a silver bullet in Oz, he would have died just as badly.
- Comment on Things that make you go hmm... 4 days ago:
William was the worst for Buffy and Oz was the worst for Willow. Now put a picture of either the mummy woman or the mantis woman in for poor Xander.
(and don't you dare libel Anyanka).
- Comment on I wish there was an uninhabited, autonomous zone for folks who want "freedom" to play out their dangerous ideas away from the rest of society 4 days ago:
So you're saying someone would make their own country, with blackjack and hookers?
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 5 days ago:
Good for them. Just stop judging the platforms, take the payments. You're making money no matter what.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 6 days ago:
I'm glad you got all that out of it. For me, the whole value of the show was shown in what the movie delivered. I feel it was a loss that Shyalaman wasn't given the green light for the rest of the saga in the same condensed style.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
I guess that's another part of my issue - the setting really never grabbed me or seemed worth the investment that others were putting into it. So that might be why you saw world building and I just saw padding. l only saw "generic anti-authoritarian fantasypunk #367", you saw something else. Because really, that's how I see it. It's fantasypunk, bordering on religious deconstruction. Heck, it's even messianic, and the core concept is an unwilling messiah accepting his role and the chaos of the world left without a connection to the divine - a deconstruction that was already trite a century before ATLA.
The movie sticks to the beats of the core narrative and the modified Hero's Journey. The show tries to meander and present multiple heroes - but when the narrative is messianic, you have to get to the point of the messiah saving the world and then departing in some way, leaving the world secure in the knowledge that the divine presence is both with them and apart from them, giving them free will but bearing judgement.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
I didn't like the art style of the cartoon, that's a big part of it. I also appreciated the story being condensed - the movie cut out what amounts to about 11 hours of padding. The only thing I saw as being questionable was the Earthbender section (I watched that episode just for Sulu voicing the bad guy), but I think the point of their spirits being broken is even more pronounced when they're literally on ground, rather than trapped in the water.
So basically, the animation and the time.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
Oddly enough, the Shyalaman movie is my favorite version of that whole franchise.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 1 week ago:
So you're saying there's literally nothing.
- Comment on 😭😭😭😭😭 2 weeks ago:
Fair, but it's still painful.
- Comment on 😭😭😭😭😭 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn't have helped, I think. But I wish it could. Just get him to the hospital sooner and that could have helped.
- Comment on Please fix this site - Pay so the site gets fixed 2 weeks ago:
You know, the older I get, the more I'm certain that money only should be spent on physical goods.
- Comment on the elder gods 2 weeks ago:
That's specifically octopi, right? Because there were cephalopods around that lived through the Great Dying.
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
You're not wrong though, I've heard the same anecdote. But it sort of sticks by my point. It was solving problems. Radio astronomy is important, and so is someone looking at the math and the machine and saying "hey, we can do stuff that X-Rays can't with this!"
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I think it's fair to ignore it 99% of the time. Frankly, as much as I love space science and science in general, we all should have a responsibility to solve real problems here and now. That's been my issue with a lot of science, currently - we need problem solvers rather than idle explorers.
- Comment on true friend 3 weeks ago:
I wish this didn't hit so close to home.