126 - The Extra's Academy Survival Guide
This one rocks. It has like, character writing and shit. Even if it's still a lot of standard archetypes, it executes them at a high level. Even the combat doesn't feel forced because the author can actually write 'guy who gets by on tricks'.
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At no point ever do you have to hand it to Hegseth
If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.
I get not wanting to lose your job by standing up for women. I do get that.
But when Lasseter was being cancelled, any of the men who profited from the fact that the upper echelons of Pixar were all male could've safely spoken up.
I don't think a single one did. So yeah, don't respect any of them.
I just assume every man who did well at Pixar during Lasseter's tenure is a weenie. And the fact that (as far as I'm aware) none of them have even attempted to publicly reckon with what went on there or the fact that if they'd been women they wouldn't have their careers just bolsters my assumption.
Am I surprised that a man who was able to thrive at a company where women weren't allowed in the same room as the boss, because he'd grope them, appears to have no ethical backbone? Not even a little.
I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.
I'm serious, read it all please
idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet
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it's incredible that people still fall for the "now I'm not making any assertions or holding any positions here, but I bet you're not able to falsify this thing I definitely don't believe" bait
toy story becoming a sequel slop series kinda bugs me because 1-2-3 are in turn about fear of change and being abandoned, poisonous archival nostalgia, and finally having to say goodbye to your childhood for good, and...
then you just keep making more huh. about..."what if a fork was a toy?"
MANDATORY TIMELINE CLEANSE
Same way Amazon thought there was a huge market for a full loot PVP only MMO. They got feedback, but it was too late for New World, besides all the other massive issues (client side damage calculations!)
they keep thinking there's this wide, mainstream AAA audience for hardcore pvp extraction shooters and i simply do not believe it exists
Many of the people I know who know what they're talking about when it comes to AI generally have talked about animism in relation to these concepts in a lot of cool ways
and yeah, I think I agree that this is an incredibly cynical way of using animism to try and keep the money flowing
Feels a bit like some of them are doing a tolerance of intolerance with animism. The hard pivot to anything that might justify the snake oil with the littlest of thought.
It's funny to me that they think llms are conscious when in sci fi settings the thing that is so far beyond what we currently have and is so close is still contentious in setting.
an LLM is not performing a literary function in our world but it is trained on mass quantities of data that use these literary devices so yeah, it's going to say things that reflect that understanding back
The point of Adam, Data, the Geth, etc is to ask us to question what we understand as alive or conscious, that is their basic literary function
And they tend to be written in a way that leans toward an answer because of their characterization
Almost every story about a human-made synthetic consciousness being is about what kind of parent we are to that being
Usually we (including aliens) are really goddamn shitty parents because we can't deal with the responsibility
This entire "well explain human consciousness smart guy" thing is really making me take stock and realize fully how many people A) don't see other people as people and B) how badly many people understood decades of science fiction writing about synthetic consciousness
still mad at that "please scientifically define consciousness" like yes, there is no settled version of that debate, but it IS a *debate* and Claude is not fucking in it, jesus christ
the most embarrassing thing about american fascism is that the impetus-- a desire to return to a mystical lost past of wealth and pleasure and abundance-- is imaginary. we're the richest country on the planet and have been for centuries and that was never at risk. and yet.
just look up mussolini's rise to power. just that little bit of history. draw the parallels yourself. kill the dead world.
This is so fucking stupid like bro the playground still exists
if y'all've ever wondered where fascism begins, this is it. kill the dead world.
