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You should give the old version of that one show a try now that it's been a while and we've chilled out. I'd be interested to see where you land on the better version. I'm down for a show exchange if that would make it more appealing. But yeah, people are bad at rating things. 6 is like the lowest most people go, which is dumb and wrong. It's like a 1 or 2 takes anger or disgust and that supercedes whether it's good or bad.

Most people operate on the C (70%) = average scale, despite it being a terrible rubric. Especially since the average viewer's idea of mediocre (7/10) is realistically closer to a 3/10....

I know what the argument is. I'm saying this doesn't actually learn and you have to still input in data. What was made clearly has significant human input since AI can't write a script and AI generated videos are nonsense. It's a complicated Instagram filter. Whose to say it cannot be implemented in creative, artistic ways? What about people who want to make animation but disabilities prevent it? Couldn't this help that? I'm not saying there are no valid concerns, but an algorithmic camera filter isn't one for me. You still need actors like rotoscoping, you still need to go in and change stuff. It doesn't create new work. My phone can turn photos into drawings, but if I took a cool picture and used a filter to make it look drawn, is that automatically a worse photo purely because a filter was put on it? Is it impossible for the filtered version to enhance the original in a meaningful way? What people are freaking out over would require the program to actually learn and create its own thing. Animating on its own is useless if the data being input is created poorly, or if the creator is bad at writing or choreography or directing. You have to have an original to rotoscope in the first place.

I don't know why y'all are so down on this. This isn't much, if at all, different from an algorithmic randomly generated filter for video. There's still a lot of work that would have to go into making this regardless of the use of AI. If it were just a case of AI made the animation, it would be nonsense considering our AI capacities right now are still fairly limited.

@Insipid The other day I was going to ask if you played Nirvana Initiative before realizing you have Tokiko as an avatar. I just did the thing again.

I heard from a friend that they heard from a friend that it is better than sex.

Meh. The game is probably fine but I never cared for Harry Potter. Always seemed kinda bland. Like, my Harry Potter growing up was more along the lines of A Wrinkle in Time or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so I was spoiled by authors with creativity. It's not impossible that I might play it someday on a used copy or something. But, like, probably not for multiple years.

Alice in Borderland is a good adaption for what its worth but really the wrong medium. It would've made more sense to go for a full 50-ish episode anime. They had to cut a lot of things that made the manga as good as it is to compensate for 1. Time, and 2. The fact a long-form live action drama with only 2 short seasons can't really get away with the several volumes worth of content where the protagonist kinda dips out of the story. That and the limitations of live action compared to animation generally. That said, for what they had to accomplish, the resulting show is markedly better than expected. Anyway, all this is to say go read the manga. For all the show's missteps, it was the push needed to finally get a US release and the manga is the better version by a large margin.

Hey! Hey! Hey, Morty! Check it out! I turned myself into a felon! I'M FELON RIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!!

They've announced a movie and season 4 just started in China on the 18th. No clue how long until we get those with Netflix releasing everything like jackasses.

They have 2 dumb ones. It may have been the starlight one. It was gross.

Coca-Cola released a cola that tastes like pixels. Pixels taste like ass, apparently.

@Vela Scissor Seven Once the show starts really picking up (back half of season 1), it goes hard. Just the coolest shit.

Rick and Morty nosedived remarkably fast and it's incredible how long it has taken for the bandwagon to evacuate. It was already souring in season 2. They clearly ran out of ideas for Rick and Morty stories since the only good parts were when it focused on other characters. I don’t know how people enjoyed any of season 3 onward.

Are you ever not angry?

Well ackchyually, it was Doc and Mharti.

[Adult Swim sees cartoon of Rick making Morty lick his balls in graphic detail] Adult Swim: Give this Justin Roiland guy a show! Nothing could possibly go wrong!

Honorable sudoku.

Pretty sure a quick dunk isn't the same as shouting down.

..... So you're dying on the "we should fall for Ginguy's trolling" hill? 'Cause that's quite a dumb one to die on.

And I'm saying falling for Ginguy's sorry excuse of trolling is the literal worst way to deal with it.

Scoob, what part of "I was responding to the claim that 'shouting down' was the 'best way to handle them,' " is hard to understand? Which of those words is confusing?