So brave posting this on Lemmy.

Other than Mastodon this is the only social media presence I keep around. So I’m limited. It was either here or c/showerthoughts. Figured it fit better here since controversial is a kissing-cousin to unpopular

Maybe not in the Lemmy-verse where well all tend to lean left. But certainly in America at large.

It should be pre-emptive.

Johnny beat-cop walking the street dealing with traffic stops, vagrants, etc…; nothing that for the vast majority of times requires anything more lethal than a taser.

Suddenly they get called to attend a potentially dangerous scene with a high likelihood of violence occuring and the supervisor says “okay, based on the suspect’s history and the run down of the situation (or whatever), I’m authorizing weapons unlock for this one”.

Actually I unironically consider Arnold a good actor (In a very specific way).

If a measure of good is being able to take ownership of a role to the point where the audience can’t imagine anyone else playing it…Arnold has the presence and the charisma to do that no matter what role he plays. Sure, his english may be stilted, and he’s not going to be winning an oscar or anything.

But acting includes physicallity (IMO) and I can’t picture anyone else in a huey puffing a cigar like a badass and then accusing his buddy of pushing too many pencils in the manliest hand shake scene ever in Predator. And then telling a bunch of kindergarteners that It’s not a tumor…

Only Arnold can pull that off. He’s iconic. And THAT takes at least some ability.

He’s not bad. I mean…of course he’s not Olivier or anything. But he’s perfectly servicable.

The characters he plays are just all the same note; stoic, semi-serious tough guys who say very little.

There are a few episodes of Atlantis where he’s given the opportunity to get out of that and actually show some range, and when that happens he’s acceptable.

He’s not going to win any awards or anything. But I’ve seen far far worse.

As long as I have enough money to buy ammo, it’ll all work itself out in the end.

Tsukomogami and Patina: In Praise of Old Things

It’s the concept that old mechanical things like typewriters and camera lenses (for example) all age individually. They develop their own quirks and foibles as they are used. They almost (as in Tsukomogami) develop a soul.

We are fundamentally losing that to a society that is about consumable mass-produced trash, and on a long enough timeline, it’s going to mean losing a fundamental piece of who we are as a society.

What a fucking loser. I can’t even describe how pathetic he is when he tries to put on his tough face. Fucking cosplaying motherfucker probably got tea-bagged too often in CoD and now has to take it out on actual soldiers.

That’s the soundtrack for the game. Not the game itself.

There is nothing in this world at this moment that would make me happier than digging through that box, reading old ACTUAL paper game manuals, and falling back into my early 20s when gaming still felt magical.

I’m 50 years old and I’ve always wanted to get my PPL, and it’s always been out of reach.

There has never been a point where private piloting wasn’t limited to the wealthy (or at least the extremelly well off).

Destroy it’s value and then sell it at a firesale to his billionaire buddies.

It’s funny that if you look at the picture above, it has zero “real” context clues. No signs, no name tages, no MAGA hats. But you can still instantly tell who the MAGA asshole in it is.

I tend to think that the pro AI people are of a younger generation, because if they were closer to Gen X, they’d be feeling betrayed rather than excited.

Gen X and Millenials built the internet. We populated it with our forums, our blogs, our facbook profiles. We were the first ones sharing our photos, our very lives, with all of our friends and family. We created what it would become and we trusted that it was a community resource. Then along comes a couple of billionaires, they suck up everything that you have built and then have the balls to charge you an entry fee!

It’s like if you and your neighbourhood all got together and decided to build a playground for your kids, and when it’s done, some asshole asks the city for the right to the land and puts a toll booth up.

More than any other concern, THAT betrayal is what pisses me off the most. How fucking dare they say that I have to pay to access a system that was built on community content. They can fuck themselves sideways with a rusty sledge hammer.

Using AI to double check your code is very different from using AI to replace your skilled creative talent on a motion picture. It’s not even an accurate comparison… GL isn’t talking about coding, he’s talking about visual effects, writers, even actors…all of whom who’s careers are at risk.

You want to use AI to make sure you didn’t miss a semicolon at the end of a line, great…knock yourself out. But that has literally nothing in common with what Lucas is blathering about here.

Of course he did. He loves updating his classics every time some “new technology” comes along to let his freak-flag fly.

We’ll be seeing a re-re-re-re-release of A New Hope shortly where he uses an AI generated Boba Fett and Solo giving them a scene or two to develop a backstory.

Final report recommendation: Keep your phone at home when your blitzed, Kegsbreath…

Depends on which end got damaged the most from the truck.

I’m saying that moralilty is just another word for Empathy.