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He also probably said movies weren't art back in the day, too!

What constitutes as art? If an AI were sentient, would its art be invalid? How do you know it will never amount to anything in the world of art? If a person sees art and it inspires their art, does that count as imitation no matter how different it may become? At what point is imitation no longer imitation? Literally the most rudimentary questions punch holes in the statement. The point you're making is about as reductive as it gets and tends to be made by people with no understabding of what it is.

I count 3 fingers and a thumb that are closed.

This is, and always will be, a very shallow sentiment. Probably not the best thread for that, though.

Most people can't draw hands. If you look closely on animation, a common practice is to have them closed or at angles with only a couple fingers visible at a time. It's why so many western cartoons have fewer fingers as a base character design, like Family Guy or The Simpsons. Not really an AI exclusive issue, it's not uncommon to see off-model hands or people with 6 fingers even when it's hand-drawn.

I don't know that I needed any individual class as much as the degree itself.

My university closed and their records are held by a different university for student access. The best case scenario for a university deciding to not safeguard student transcripts during closure would be negligence. I'd be surprised if there were no record retention regulations for education, especially when going to college is so expensive.

I only recently discovered Scrappy Doo is a very hated character. Seems weird. I never had a problem with him as a kid, and from what I've seen as an adult, he's like just another Scooby Doo cast member. Probably a little annoying for adults, but not really out of place and ultimately pretty inoffensive. He was definitely a character I had limited opinion on since his appearances are more sporadic than most of the cast and the Scooby Doo team shifting so much between incarnations was one thing about the franchise that confused the fuck out of me growing up, so I really didn't know what to make of him. Anyway, I do appreciate him getting GOATed for offing the worst version of Velma anyone has ever conceived.

No.

You know, give em the ole

But, most importantly, did anyone get/stay super hot?

[Picard looks down at his hand] Picard: I'm so fucked up...

Seething at the fact my insurance claim is being denied in literally the most blatant bad faith I've ever seen out of a supposedly legitimate company, but have reached a vote of 0 confidence any more on the possibility of a single thing relating to them EVER going my way, so as much as I've been looking forward to meeting a lawyer about it later today, my suspicion is that I'll be denied for a legal case, too.

Stop sending us so many applications!

Weird shit.

Momth on medical leave of absence + state paid leave dragging ass like it's glued to the carpet + employer short-term disability denial so absurd it is most likely criminal = negative money = 6 days without weed because they don't accept credit cards Never get disability insurance through Lincoln Financial. If the evidence I gave wasn't enough, I seriously doubt they actually provide the alleged insurance.

It's more of a discussion on why they do it and how it got to that point. So if they do something horrible, it's not without reason or ramifications. It's never forgotten and weighs on the characters. For instance, the terrorist attack I mentioned is very frankly referred to as such and it's not advocating for it. It's handled with a lot of nuance. The characters all express similar sentiment as you before deciding that it's the only viable option to save the planet. In fact, in the final book So they don't pull punches on addressing the questionable actions done by any character, even if it's the main crew. There are some of the side-story Chronicles books that can give some idea of what the series is like outside the main cast, if you want something a bit less uncomfortable to start with. The Hork-Bajir Chronicles or the Ellimist Chronicles could be good entry points. Hork-Bajir Chronicles is around the halfway point and Ellimist Chronicles is very late series, but I think they work well as standalone. The Hork-Bajir Chronicles is about a race of simple, peaceful lizard-like that was conquered by the Yeerks, being parasitic slugs that crawl into a host's ear and takes over the brain and primary alien invader of the series. It's the backstory revolving around the war resulting in their loss. It gets told from three perspectives: an observer who gets invested in defending the Hork-Bajir, a rare genetic mutation of Hork-Bajir that has superior intellectual capacity (there are a couple of them throught the series) turned warrior, and the main series antagonist pre-Earth invasion. The Ellimist Chronicles is basically like if Q had an origin story. Both are excellent reads and take place before any of the main characters are born, so the ties are relatively minimal in those. It's definitely a series that has many parts that you aren't supposed to feel comfortable with. Your concerns are understandable, but keep in mind the vast majority are handled as if it were an episode of Star Trek. They do typically lean toward the harsher moral dilemmas than TNG, though, given it is a group of young, untrained gurerrila combatants fighting a war with a pretty unflinching directness about the brutality of war. The overall thesis statement is very, very anti-war. If someone does something with serious moral problems, they books will make it known that they're doing something horrible whether they believe it to be justified or not. It's honestly one of the best depictions of how different people cope with PTSD I've seen. You should definitely give it a shot. You'll probably like them a lot more than it might seem. I wasn't sure I'd like them as an adult, but if I were to have kids, I think it's actually great introduction to developing a strong moral compass. As an adult, I felt that it was very worthwhile even though I didn't read it as a kid.

Animorphs is really good at diving into morality and making it digestible to kids, but if those same parents had read it, it would've been very controversial. Well... assuming they actually cared about violence, and weren't just mad about magic and witchcraft.

That too.

I was a little too young for them. I would've been getting old enough right around the time they ended. I remember attempting to read one, but got confused by all the sci-fi terms. The fact Animorphs wasn't very controversy compared to Pokemon and Harry Potter is remarkable and shows how little the people up in arms over those actually knew about what kids were consuming. Animorphs is much, much more violent, and graphic, than either of those. Significantly more insightful, though, given it's basically Star Trek to the point of frequent references to it but with more of a central focus on a guerrilla war and the psychological impacts. It's probably right up your alley.

Can't stop thinking about the time the Animorphs That book was wild. Probably one of the best in the series, which is actually a high bar. ........ @ghostrek You should read Animorphs. They're basically like reading Star Trek for a younger demographic, but it doesn't shy away from getting into the weeds on heavy subjects. It's darker than Star Trek by a pretty significant margin and handled maturely, so it being aimed at children shouldn't have much impact on enjoyment as long as you're okay with some goofy Saturday morning cartoon dialogue. I haven't seen DS9 yet, but I've heard it's a little more serialized than TNG and if that's true, Animorphs would probably be more like DS9 than TNG. Most books are pretty standalone in their story, but there's enough progression from one to the next that they should be read in order. Long series, fairly short books, easy reads. If you prefer audiobooks, Audible has all of them.