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I think this is spot on. I just returned to college as a student after 30 years (changing careers as I could no longer find work in the movie biz post the last strike) and am finding AI to be an invaluable tool. Not to do the work, but to help me learn. For example, in my Statistics class...

Right. The Pitt is a traditional TV production, the type that used to be good for 23 episodes a year, where most streaming TV 'shows' these days are just long feature films broken into 7 or 8 parts and like a film take 2-3 years to produce. I'd guess that with the success of the Pitt we may...

Hope we have a bit of wiggle room on forum rules here but if I'm breaking any am happy to back off. This is a difficult subject to discuss without touching on some subjects. So yeah, at the same time that the 19th century increased inequalities, it also led to the biggest lifting of all boats...

That's the real question! As technology is able to produce more and more, how do we, as a society, ensure that the basic necessities of life (food, clothing, shelter, safety, health care, education) are guaranteed to all. I think that is the most important question to be answered in the next...

I think a better use of our time would be to fight for UBI than to fight against technology replacing jobs.

A lot of good food for thought. I would say that this forum's very existence is predicated on number 6. D&D wouldn't exist if it hadn't relied on the copyrighted material that informs it's core :) Again, I'm not just trying to be a devils advocate, troll, or ignorant here. I'm looking to...

Please know that I am truly interested in understanding here, and am not being obtuse. I only mentioned a calculator because it does in seconds what took a talented human a long period of time. And just as some people could never do the type of math that a calculator does, I could never do the...

Looks like an old Jedi Knight. But what is the issue? My calculator can do calculations that took humans hours to days by hand in the past. Again, if I tried to sell a collection of artwork that I made in the above style, I would run up against the copyrights that Disney owns and get shut...

I may be typing from a place of ignorance here, and am looking to understand the issue better, but as long as the output doesn't violate existing copyright law (ie the output work is significantly different from the original so as to not run afoul of copyright law) why do artists need protection...

Saw Sinners two weeks ago and it's still bouncing around in my head. Easily one of the best movies I've seen this decade. Agree with @prabe that the epilogue is good but not essential for the story, though it does put an interesting twist on the overall theme of the film and what the vampire's...

I mean, the good girl falling for the bad boy is a cliche in stories, song and in life. She's attracted to the forbidden nature of the relationship (having a secret when you live a very public life is intoxicating), the fact that he is basically a super hero (or a sports mega star in our...

I'll agree that the dialogue is poorly written by Lucas, but the motivations behind the characters are clear based on the actions each takes, and the story itself is great. He had the same problem with Jar Jar in TPM. The character is supposed to be grating and annoying to the characters...

People dying of grief is a real thing (see Carrie Fisher's mom dying a few days after she passed, and there are countless stories of spouses dying within weeks of each other). Padme isn't sad about a boy, she realizes that she made a terrible mistake in believing that if she loved Anakin...

Phantom Menace is my 2nd most rewatched film of the Saga (New Hope is first). I fought the good fight online for over a decade with the haters and am so happy to finally seeing it get the love it so deserves. Saw it about 10 times in the theatre and then when it came out on VHS I was at home...

Started the Crystal Cave adventure from QftIS last night. First 2 hours were spent exploring the city of Sybar mingling with the locals for rumors about the waring families, eventually day drinking at the Ocean's Draw tavern, getting warned off their quest by another adventuring group who just...

I'm going May 7! If any EnWorlders would like to meet at a tavern for a drink that night, DM me!

Episode 8 took out S3 with a bang. Some major changes from the books. Still seems very confident in where it's headed. At this point, I'm thinking they'll need 7 seasons to tell the full story. Hope they get picked up for the rest of it soon.

Fair enough, if we were picking favorite Superhero movies of all time, Age of Ultron and X:2 would be tops for me. I can rewatch those two flicks on endless repeat. Exactly my point, Clint, SFX and CGI aren't everything! I'm actually not a huge original Superman fan myself (I know, heresy)...

Thank you for pointing me to the Wiki, already proving immensely helpful! That's gonna be quite the rabbit hole for me.

Wait, are you arguing that Black Panther doesn’t stick the landing because of a couple of mediocre SFX? The dramatic action, characters and themes of the movie are landed perfectly at the end.