Recent content by Ryujin

Of he listed films I've only seen "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and my film buff friends would likely disown me, if that ever came to be known. TGWTDT has the distinction of being the only film that has ever made me want to off every male character.

Friends trying to set me up on a date. "Dude, she's way too young for me." "How old is she?" "40."

The only thing that I'm denying is that my inability to grow an epic long white beard makes me a Warlock, not a Wizard.

It's been throwing Spanish and Hindi at me, randomly.

And, if I remember correctly from what I've read elsewhere on that case, the judge even mentioned in his decision that the plaintiffs likely should have tried a different angle, perhaps like addressing the output as in the Midjourney case.

Photocopiers don't inherently contain the infringed works, by design. Printing presses also aren't illegal, but they can be used to infringe upon copyright. I certainly hope so. And they could always use the "educational/research purposes" argument when they were initially training LLMs but...

I saw GATTACA in a theatre, the first time around. I really enjoyed it but, given the current public need for 'splosions and spectacle, I can understand why so many don't like it. Slow burn dramatic stories only seem to get critical love these days.

Also spoken here starting at 9:31. We spent hours, on the old ZOE forums, translating this short interaction. (A few of us original backers have words in there too ;) )

Let me introduce you to my friend Matt Vancil: https://www.amazon.com/Orcish-English-Dictionary-Reference-Travelers-Merchants/dp/1982991283 A complete language, as spoken by the Orc characters in his films, including verb conjugations, syntax, and the whole schpiel.

The absolute genius of making the horn in the music spell out MI in Morse Code. I didn't get that until maybe 5 years ago. Flew right past me.

1. Seems that they succeeded and that resulted in an ongoing payday, from what Hood was saying. EDIT - Sorry, I guess I'm thinking about Ep2. Ep1 was pre-Riri joining, wasn't it? 2. As far as I know, as of Ep3, he's dead. 3. Riri didn't really have any trouble with the suit hardware. It was the...

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The more that I see of that retro-future "Gernsback Continuum" Earth, the more I'm liking it.

The hood and boots don't come from Mephisto, but I suspect it'll be used to bring him in.

On another forum: Half the membership reads newspaper hit piece. Swallows it hook, line, and sinker, and start going off about the injustice. Me, after 30 seconds of research, "Yeah, that's a bunch of inflated garbage. Here's why..."