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MimicJar

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  • [Discussion] Stranger Things Season 5 Vol 2 & 3 - Series Finale

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  • Re Nancy Wheeler.

    During the epilogue I believe all of these young adults have moved on. I believe Johnathan is an awkward filmmaker. I believe Steve coaches children. I believe Robin is just vibin in life. But I don't believe Nancy.

    Nancy started this series as the "preppy" girl and ended it as Ripley/Rambo. Leaving college made sense. She obviously wanted to be a reporter, so jumping right into reporting makes sense. But even as she says she's happy about it... She isn't. And maybe that's part of her story. Maybe her story isn't over.

    I think we needed something more of Nancy. Maybe we see her trying school and trying reporting, but she doesn't really feel at ease until discussing monsters with her friends, who seemingly have moved on.

  • [Discussion] Stranger Things Season 5 Vol 2 & 3 - Series Finale

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  • Re Kali/Eight/Eleven's magic power sister.

    I thought it was a bold choice to bring back Kali as part of this season. It was one of the big cliffhanger moments of season 5 volume 1. But... I don't think it worked.

    If you work backwards from the ending, it makes sense why you have Kali. She has illusion powers so Eleven's fake out "I believe" ending can work. I like that ending. But what did Kali do during the series?

    Well she convinces El the only way to end the cycle of monsters and torture is for them to die. And if you work backwards from that, that's why Hopper has his "the only solution is to die" moment earlier in the series. It's a parallel.

    So Kali has a key purpose... But what does SHE actually do? They have another super powered person and she just wanders around until she dies.

    I know she was a bit of a nihilist at that point on her life, but even as they're putting together the final plan, she doesn't have a part in that plan. Her death just doesn't matter.

  • [Discussion] Stranger Things Season 5 Vol 2 & 3 - Series Finale

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  • Re Will.

    So the obvious point of discussion, Will coming out. I've seen a lot of hate online about this. I'm assuming the issue is that we didn't need a coming out scene in the middle of the world coming to an end story. Which I understand.

    That being said I think it was a great scene, well told and well acted. We've had hints about it for at least a season or two, so it showing up in the finale made sense. Plus for Will's character it was a great way to show his continued growth.

    I do think it would have been great to have Will be a super sorcerer as part of the finale. I really think Vecna should have had Demogorgons and Demodogs attacking the party, only for Will to take them over. It would have made the fight cooler. It would have made the fight more believable. And it would have really shown how much stronger Will had become.

    Second, I think they should have done something more with Will and Mike's relationship. Previously Mike said, "It's not my fault you don't like girls", which I really thought meant that he already knew and took their argument too far. Add to that Will basically confessing how much he loves Mike, but understanding that Mike will never love him the same way, but also Mike was completely oblivious. I'm glad they got a little extra heart to heart moment, but it probably could have been told a bit better to have it feel more realistic. I'm glad that Will came out and everyone's reaction was supportive, that's how it should be, but it just could have used a little more to feel more realistic.

  • A group of crows is a murder. A group of apes is a shrewdness. What's a group of you called?

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  • Mirrors!

  • 'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthy Development

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  • I don't think it's so much Nintendo in this case as Retro Studios.

    Nintendo EPD co-developed "Metroid Dread" with MercurySteam and they fucking nailed it. Retro Studios developed the original Prime trilogy, so in theory they should have been able to figure out Prime 4. Maybe there is backroom drama, but Nintendo gave the original developer of the three original games the go ahead for a forth in the series and they ultimately delivered what they did.

    Sometimes studios just change too much.

  • It's about communities instead of attention marketplaces

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  • So I agree with the overall sentiment, but I feel like the reason I dislike "microblogging", which is to say Mastodon, Threads, Twitter, etc is highlighted as a positive in the first post.

    something that signals “I am more than just a content creation machine for a corporation!”

    It could be a status symbol for all the right reasons.

    I care about talking to people, not a person. The Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/Reddit style of conversation (forum?) is just a better way to get people together to talk about things. You don't have to be someone special with a "status symbol", you don't have to be "content creation machine" for anyone.

    I say this because while conceptually I'm glad that the whole Fediverse and ActivityPub can talk to each other, we're just not having the same conversation.

  • No contest

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  • Wouldn't the Enterprise just beam them directly to the brig?

  • Is Slow Horses worth a watch? Even though I know jack shit about it?

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  • Other than knowing Gary Oldman was in it I went in knowing nothing. I really enjoyed it. It's a quick watch of a show, so I'd say watch the first episode or two and you'll know quickly if it's the show for you.

  • AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3)

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  • It's possibly from people trying to help, but don't understand AI hallucinations.

    For example a Wikipedia article might say, "John Smith spent a year Oxford University before moving to London.[Citation Needed]" So the article already contains information, but lacks proper citation.

    Someone comes along and says, "Ah ha! AI can solve this and asks AI, 'Did John Smith spend a year at Oxford before moving to London, please provide citations.' and the AI returns, "Yes of course he did according to the book 'John Smith: Biography of a Man' ISBN 123456789"

    So someone adds that as a citation and now Wikipedia has been improved.

    Or... has it? The ISBN 123456789 is invalid. No book could possibly have that number. If the ISBN is invalid, then the book is also likely invalid, and the citation is also invalid.

    So the satisfaction was someone who couldn't previously help Wikipedia, now thinking they can help Wikipedia. At face value that's a good thing, someone who wants to help Wikipedia. The problem is that they think they're helping, but they're actually harming.

  • "i can hear the difference"

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  • The cable is fiber optic, which is to say light. Light don't care about gold and silver. The highly polished lens bit is probably also bullshit, but at least light cares about lenses.

  • I got socks for Christmas. The packaging is awful AI slop.

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  • Some people do. There are endless little language tricks that some people will catch and others won't. Similarly there are endless visual tricks that some people will catch and others won't.

    If you're looking for a trick, it'll be easier to spot. Any image posted to the "Fuck AI" community is going to have people looking at it. But put this online with 20 other socks for sale or at the checkout of a store and no one (realistically almost no one) is going to catch it.

  • Who is an artist or public figure you still enjoy despite them being cancelled for bad behaviour?

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  • Genuine question, has your opinion changed now that the singer has died? In no way, shape or form is the person who sang the music benefiting in any way from you listening to it.

    People often say to separate the art from the artist. In an acting role I kinda get it, because an actor is playing a different character. For music, it's kinda the same. The music is its own thing separate from the person. Maybe?

  • Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI

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  • I completely agree that LLMs are the solution in search of a problem. I'm just trying to explain why someone might look at it and think it's worth something.

    The biggest reason really is just that a bunch of money is involved. The first entity to find a way to make money is going to Maya killing. The problem of course is that day may never come.

  • I got socks for Christmas. The packaging is awful AI slop.

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  • The answer is anybody because no one is looking at the box art. People but things online all the time just to find out it's the wrong size or the wrong color or doesn't have the feature they thought.

    Nobody sees this and immediately thinks AI photo. They think, I want to see the socks, which they do and buy it. Maybe they see this AI logo, but it doesn't register consciously.

     
        
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the trick with language

    Where you only read "the" once.

  • I got socks for Christmas. The packaging is awful AI slop.

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  • Zero people. The product being sold is themed socks. How do we sell more themed socks? Smash together words, generate an image, see if that sells. Yes? Great. No? Smash together words, generate an image, see if that sells. Repeat again and again.

    It doesn't matter what the image is, if it sells it's successful.

  • Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI

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  • Maybe. If a task takes 8 hours, and you have to do that task weekly, how much time should you invest to make that task take less time? What if it's once a month instead? What if it's once a year? What if you can reduce it by an hour? What if you can eliminate the work completely?

    Ignoring AI for a moment you could probably find someone who could estimate using current tools and answer the question as above. If you invest 20 hours to eliminate an 8 hour task once a week, that quickly pays for itself. If you invest 200 hours to reduce an 8 hour task once a year to 4 hours, that will likely never pay for itself by the time the requirements change.

    But AI is a new tool. With any new tool you have to figure it out before you can make a good estimate and figure out what is worth it. But even worse AI isn't getting estimated, it's just being thrown into existing tasks.

    Now IF AI were truly magical and had amazing task reduction then just throwing it at things isn't a terrible idea. IF AI can just immediately improve 10 things, even if it fails at a few others, it might be worth it.

    AI also has a shitton of money riding on it, so the first entity to figure out how to make money with it also wins big.

  • Stranger Things

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  • I have to disagree that the stakes are never raised. Season 1 the big bad is a Demogorgon who is just a scary monster. Then we add multiple Demodogs to the Demogorgon. Then we add an intelligent creature with the Mind Flayer who controls the above creatures, but he still mostly a monster. Then we add an intelligent human who does all of the above, but hunts children. And now finally in the finale it's all of the above trying to bring the upside down into the real world (technically the plan for season 4, but he won and then "died", so he's doing it again but properly.)

    So Demogorgons go from the big bad to just bring minions in the current season. Our main characters are fighting off a dozen whereas one used to be impossible.

  • Stranger Things

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  • I can't think of any terribly done characters either

    I would say Johnathan is underwhelming. He had character in season 1, but after that it's been pretty sparse. I wouldn't get rid of him because I think it's interesting in the context of other characters... But in terms of what he wants, I don't really know.

    He has a ring and is probably going to ask Nancy to marry him, but what makes that interesting is what will Nancy say? How will Steve react? I don't really care if Johnathan gets married because I don't know if he wants that.

    It's possible season 5 volume 2 will give him more to do, so I won't say he's a complete waste, but even looking at previous seasons it's been little for his character.

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  • Based on the junk emails I get the same is true of most places. The number of random emails I get in my birthday month or birthday week from random companies that somehow have my birthday, they just want you to come in.

  • Silo Discussion - Does it get better?

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  • I don't know how many seasons are planned, but I assume the past scene was just a small tease. Assuming 4 seasons as a complete guess, would think season 3 will have 2-3 past scenes right after a character learns something, then season 4 would have an episode of parallel scenes or one full past episode.

    Ultimately leading to a past scene that says "And hopefully, years from now, the human race can rebuild, having learned to treat Mother Nature more kindly", jump to Solo people starting a new world and the the audience, knowing why, but the Solo people not, if they can rebuild.