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  1. J

    D&D and the rising pandemic

    good point, my reply wasn't even thinking of that as I hadn't seen Danny's pretty clear post the reply I replied to was for. totally different. Sorry Danny.
  2. J

    D&D and the rising pandemic

    to add to this, there are evil people actively creating propaganda to encourage doing the wrong thing specifically to cause chaos and harm. So the "You" in your story is someone susceptible to that.
  3. J

    New Spider-man no way home trailer

    I agree. It may even stand to reason we'll see a Toby or Garfield swing in to help, which further connects that the events of the other movies DID happen, just elsewhen in the multi-verse. Heck, Miles Morales would be AWESOME to swoop in and catch a missed catch... Which would also weave...
  4. J

    I'm not allowed to watch Star Trek any more

    Well, this is terrible. I'm sorry you're being left out.
  5. J

    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    D+ released it. Finally got to see it. Nice. I think Shang Chi lied again. His mission to kill the last man who killed his mother? That was Caty's grandfather. And he'd befriended her at the time to get close or some such. Meat for future conflict between the two.
  6. J

    Babylon 5... reboot?

    whom he fired. Larry was responsible for incorporating a lot of the little detail the actors brought that filled in the characters. Like the bit of Vir and Londo singing opera because Stephen Furst wanted to sing.
  7. J

    D&D and the rising pandemic

    like, five, ten, twenty years? More? A large enough number to not mean much to our short attention spans?
  8. J

    D&D and the rising pandemic

    Huh. I been wearing my PJs for the last decade. Very comfy now.
  9. J

    DUNE Movie: Thoughts, Opinions, and Impressions

    they covered that in several ways in the new movie, I thought it was clear. It's like Tremors, but with more sand.
  10. J

    DUNE Movie: Thoughts, Opinions, and Impressions

    Meh. I hadn't read the books, but I'd seen snippets of the original movie over the years to vaguely know what "Mua Dib" means. The visuals and sound were nice. But we got sold an incomplete story with no assurance there'd be more. Bautista has been learning to act (in real life, he talks...
  11. J

    D&D and the rising pandemic

    and nobody knows that's on the ballot. Which is how they pull that crap.
  12. J

    Do robots dream of changing diapers? Yes, it seems

    like most biologicals, it would probably have no regard for its environment and consume whatever lead to the highest yield. If that turned out to be grass, it might ignore non-grass as sub-optimal.
  13. J

    Squid Game - w/ Spoilers

    Battle Royale was first, so in my circle, that is the genre that Hunger Games falls into.
  14. J

    Do robots dream of changing diapers? Yes, it seems

    it's a bit more complicated than that, I think. Spot, the Boston Dynamics dog has a number of subject specific pachinko machines trained up. walking. stair climbing. Stair recognition. etc. He does figure out optimized paths to where you want him to go as he learns the area. (see the youtube...
  15. J

    Do robots dream of changing diapers? Yes, it seems

    They can if we program them to. I know that's not what you meant, either, but consider my quip a bit farther than face value. We have biological imperatives that are "programmed" into us. Food. Sleep. Reproduction. In contrast, AIs traditionally don't want anything. They don't even know...
  16. J

    Squid Game - w/ Spoilers

    On ep1, we didn't like Gian Hu. Too impulsive and exaggerated. But ep2 kinda dialed that back and made him human. It seemed odd that an organ harvesting ring could not only operate but have some level of mechanical integration with the Games via the drop-hatch in the furnace. But then, the...
  17. J

    Squid Game - w/ Spoilers

    We finished the 9 episode season on Netflix last night and I'm surprised a thread doesn't exist already because we're slow :) Spoilers allowed. Just using the first post as advanced warning What did y'all think of it?
  18. J

    So, Wandavision?

    I don't have a Disney+ show.
  19. J

    D&D and the rising pandemic

    Could be, but that's well outside my range for safe, ignorant, speculation. Experts (people who actually work with that stuff) figured out that schedule, who am I, to question it? Such questioning, particularly during this time of lying propaganda to get folks to not vaccinate undermines the...
  20. J

    D&D and the rising pandemic

    that's part of why I assumed they'd stick to same. Though one could argue, if one brand faded off sooner than others, and the patient waited "longer", they might just reset the clock and use a different brand to start over. But that's just me speculating.
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