pieman70.bsky.social
Mildly bemused engineer, also husband, father, railwayman. Definitely liberal and drifting leftward on a daily basis. He/Him
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I suppose it fits the way people like to think of the Roman Empire. They came and built infrastructure which did help people and ok, they may have brutally suppressed dissent but you got all the things from the “what have the romans ever done for us” bit
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Wasn’t This was sort of what Earth: Final Conflict was about. Aliens arrive in peace and share lots of tech but are subtly taking over by “advising” government but with their own agenda. I don’t remember because it was an ok series that went off the rails really quickly.
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As always, highlights the weakness of automated moderation “we will ban a video if it mentions killing” users make up another term to say the same thing. So all it does is make the majority of video output sound vaguely infantilised
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I thought a lot of those things were because of what gets you demonetised, thrown off or otherwise disadvantaged on other other platforms like Tik Tok and if people post videos on that, YouTube and instagram they have to use verbal workarounds to go through different moderation algorithms.
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It definitely works better in print because you also get flashes of other adventures while flipping to the correct page. I’ve not got to the end yet but not decided to make a flowchart. I think some of the OTT endings should have had something other than end to make them a bit less bleak
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Also this might be a very subtle swipe at another well known SF franchise
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Agree, you monitor what you kids look at, they know I can look at their phone at any time. It’s called parenting.
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It has also become the latest buzzword to make your product seem more high tech (I remember about 7 years ago everything was machine learning)
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A big annoyance for me is analytical AI is actually useful and something that could improve how many fields work but it is being discredited by the useless boondoggle that is generative AI.
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And it is very much asking us “is this right” and erring towards false positives. I would also say we perhaps get a more realistic description of a system’s abilities because our first question is “are you confident to accept liability if it gets things wrong.
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Similarly in my job we are investigating using analytical AI to find defects and analyse trends in track recoding data and it is really just an extension of the algorithms we have used for years. Thing is it is a tool to assist a person in prioritising work.
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I also shudder at the thought of people who are no-doubt hoping for a comedy that isn’t “woke” because obviously anything they found funny when they were 9 can’t have been woke.
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So yeah, equally bemused about the sudden enthusiasm for this. The best joke about the sequel (we will all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The search for more money) 2 was made in spaceballs.
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I’m hoping we get a few good observations about modern Hollywood and the money men being in charge with no imagination without it sounding like old man shouts at clouds, but in the end I reckon every cast member joking about coming back for the money will get old.
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Spaceballs is funny because Brooks is very talented but the jokes that do make fun of Star Wars or SF are fairly obvious. The sequel to me is something I am not looking forward to because he still won’t be parodying from a place of affection
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Watching it with more films behind me and, while I still have fun with it Spaceballs always lacked the love of the subject matter that Saddles and Frankenstein had. More like someone said “do Star Wars now” and he eventually gave in to pressure.
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A very well put argument. And yes, when I was 9 I preferred spaceballs because I’d seen more Star Wars and SF than old westerns or horror. In short, I knew what it was lampooning
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Indeed, there would have been some mock confusion and offence before he popped a bottle of champagne and suggested they try backgammon.
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Oh yeah, he must be a romance option “Cocky: Hold on tight sweet cheeks, I’ll handle this”
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It is frustrating because they got the basic whimsical underpinnings right but then ruined them with the actual execution. For starters watching old steed and peel episodes neither of them is frosty or aloof. They are work and avuncular.
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Also I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if some people who were slightly well known and perhaps favoured by other algorithms are annoyed that they don’t get any special promotion.
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I wonder how many went out to deliberately provoke people and are surprised when people just block and move on. No wonder they think it is dead here
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Loved the idea they brought in later that the future had been changed and some people from the future remembered a different future to Derek
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Just finished andromeda and actually really liked it. Kind of annoyed we don’t seem to be getting a continuation
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The enemy of my enemy might also be my enemy but hopefully they knacker each other fighting so neither can make my life more unpleasant
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I’m going to market the dumb fridge. You want a fridge but want to look at the internet on it I’ll take any fridge you want and gaffer tape one of those free tablets off of Temu to the door.
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I can definitely recommend K.B Wagers. Their Indranan/Farian series and the NeoG books are well worth your time. Will also definitely recommend Becky Chambers’ wayfarer series as well.
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It could even shout “there is nothing you want in here” when I wander in outside of mealtimes and I’d still check in the fridge because it doesn’t know me.
My fridge doesn’t need to connect to the internet, there are no advantages to having it become a security nightmare.
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Don’t say that. It’s a sure fire way for you to become embroiled in a wacky adventure. We may as well smash cut to you running away from an exploding car holding some valuable item shouting “this was meant to be relaxing”
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I’m sure they will say some form of entrenched interests rather than basic reality stopped them making it a utopia. “We couldn’t find any of the hugely wasteful things we were told were here so they must be really good at hiding it”
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The problem is it is people who believe that the reason public services are a mess is “woke” or unions or “gold plated” council jobs and not that the money behind the party refuses to pay taxes for said services.
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He got Wanted published and still got work after it. It is for adults if you take what a 13yo boy thinks is grown up as adults.
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If I have time and I can find it I can send you some photos of some of the character sheets, cards etc
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It was very paired down so probably too simple for your uses and it was limited to 4 players (although each player also DMd on different turns so they would get a go at that) but it was quite fun for a first principles go at D&D