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  1. Ryujin

    Violence and (Geek) Entertainment

    As a director friend is fond of quoting, "The secret ingredient is crime."
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    Violence and (Geek) Entertainment

    Yup, a chase definitely hits differently when there are human obstacles.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    It's gotten even worse lately. "You enjoyed this reading of an original SciFi story? OK, here's 50 suggestions for AI written slop, stolen off Reddit, and read by an AI generated voice-over patterned on someone whose content we strip-mined to create it."
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    Today I learned +

    If he's anything like my mother's father it was likely, "You need to get checked for Alzheimer's." They lived in Dorchester, NB, and he would routinely be found having walked halfway to Sackville.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Increasingly so. My web searches have been flagged as "possible bot activity" multiple times, over the last month. OK, I don't really show a lot of emotion most of the time and have RBF, but BOT?!
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    It's also shown on the big screen, on the bridge, heading towards the wormhole as it heads away from Enterprise.
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    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Iconic hockey player, lawyer, author, and member of Canadian Parliament Ken Dryden died on Friday, of cancer, at the age of 78. I will always remember his performance in the 1972 Canada-Russia hockey series. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/ken-dryden-obit-1.7627028
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    The same type of person who aspires to be a Prefect in high school. I wanted to help out at dances and plays, and such. The Head Prefect stole $100 that was meant for new sweaters and used it to look like a big man, buying pizza at the end of the year. Went on to become an RCMP officer.
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    Star Trek United

    That first generation making a conscious choice is a big step, if it happens that quickly. Likely more a multi-generational thing. Or perhaps the final big war with the augments, and the following decimation of society, left people who all needed to cooperate or die.
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    Spoilers Wednesday S2

    It came out last season, when Morticia was explaining her power to Wednesday. I can't remember which episode.
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    Judge Rules That AI Training Doesn't Violate Copyright

    That's great as long as it goes to the creatives, not the publishers, but...
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    Spoilers Wednesday S2

    Morticia commented that it ran in the females of her line.
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    Doug Jones is always excellent. You should see him as the cringe-worthy mayor in the webseries "Fallout: Nuka Break", based on the video game.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Give away $1.690B and retire to a quiet little compound in the woods, with a helipad for one of those drone cars.
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    Spoilers Wednesday S2

    I loved Gomez's take-down, with Spanish :ROFLMAO:
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    Violence and (Geek) Entertainment

    Even worse when you consider that the majority of car chases, in movies, are mostly filmed at something south of 40 MPH. I remember one motorcycle chase that I saw in a movie, that had to be at maybe 25 MPH. It culminated with a bike launching maybe 50 feet off a cliffside section of PCH, in...
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    Spoilers Wednesday S2

    More anti-Outcast bigotry, I imagine. There's a reason they're called Outcasts.
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    Spoilers Wednesday S2

    I'd like to call it "toxic competence." I've met people who act like that. EDIT - Now that I've thought of it, I looked that term up and apparently that's a thing. Who knew?
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    They all took levels of "Xeno Technology" during character development.
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