Does anyone else remember the joy of going to a state fair, or local games market/festival/convention to gave their PS/2 modded to play international games? Anyone remember region locking?

Fun times.

Wait, where is Leon Skum involved?

Good, it’s the only reliable sign of intelligent self-awareness there is, to the point that all children progress through it, starting out as bad liars, and getting better at it.

LLMs however might just be stupid, or stocasticaly incorrect.

It looks great! Don’t know why that ahole is making that face.

As long as they’re not hallucinating, which anyone (including conspiracy theorists) can ask them to do. They they turn into conspiracy confirming machines.

Renegade (old show featuring Lorenzo Lamas) or Space above and Beyond (which only ran for one season).

You should definitely rewatch that episode, he’s playing dumb to test the Captain’s ability to swindle and swindler.

Just to clarify, the majority of active pedophiles are opportunistic, they go after those they have access to.

This is why every industry that has greater access to children, also has an greater number of pedophile scandals… It’s a problem, and yeah, giving someone direct access via a computer to a child’s digital life is a form of access that might be used opportunistically by such people.

Just roll over lift the bllanket a little, and pee into the kiddie pool you keep next to your bed for late night peeing, and early morning foot baths, don’t people know it prevents athletes foot?

“AI” or Large Language Models, are designed by definition to give averaged answers. So they’re not just averaging on the text you give them, they’re averaging it with all general text of the training model, to create a probabilistically average result based on all of it.

There’s no way around this, because it’s simply how such systems work. It’s their lifeblood to produce a “best guess” across large amounts of training data …which is done by averaging out all that language. A large amount of language… Hence the name.

Yeah, you too man, have a good day.

No, he’s still a cocky privileged shit at the end, I’m saying it wasn’t a convincing arc or character development, and led no where. He was still just “fantasy rich guy” and the message was still just “wouldn’t you like his life!” - the problem is that requires the audience to be VERY immature and stupid to begin with. I never felt a desire to be him or live his life. He seems like a pathetic kind of person really. That’s honestly how I feel about Tony Stark, he seems like one of these rich guys whose not comfortable with himself and uses a cocky attitude as a defense mechanism. I just don’t find that to be a compelling character, nor did I see any real change there.

I don’t really get why you’re being down voted just for asking. I don’t get why people are like that.

It’s not a convincing change, he goes from superficial and cocky privileged billionaire to cocky privileged billionaire with extra toys.

It’s ugly both times and just seems fake. There’s no gravitas or nuance depicted.

A character (when written well) is easy to identify with because they have human and well detailed moments that almost fall out of their context and into a universal context - a shopping bag breaking, a relative or pet dying, a childhood trauma, a shoe that gets a pebble in it, a shitty boss, being dumped… Having an addiction.

Strippers on jets and being captured by terrorists?

Nah. Like I say, he ends up essentially where he started. Also, I don’t really believe that he got rid of the strippers. Like I don’t really think he stopped viewing women like that. It wouldn’t have surprised me if they were still present at the end of the film. In fact, I think it would have been more honest if they were.

Not if they the main character and they’re going to have a convincing redemption arc. I just didn’t find it to be a good movie, or a good redemption.

Who are the enemies - people? But they’re “der terrorists”.

Nah, it was a shit movie. Tony Stark remains a shitty character. It’s my opinion, not everyone agrees or likes the same things - deal with it.

Yep, if you give me a shitty person with no empathetic characteristics I’m gonna switch off a little…

… that’s why good writing and good movies ACTIVELY AVOID turning the audience off their characters.

Oh they fixed it in a follow up movie??

That’s your argument that I should have paid attention to the first movie and really liked the hateable unrelatable main character??? That there was another two hour movie I should have committed to?

Surely you see how that’s a bad argument and you’re defending a crappy movie.

Hey you should watch (and like) Terminator 5 because they really fix it up with Terminator 7 and 8.

Nah bro, that’s not a good defense. That’s a shitty argument.

Ironic that only a source of “trust me bro, this is how the NPCs work” is all that’s needed for Musk to be like: “Derp my filter says it’s true! This must be true because it’s on 4chan, no sources or further thoughts needed…”

“Well, back to my compound, security guards, and lobbyists that protect me from the majority!”

Yep, friends dragged me to the iron man 1 movie… As soon as it’s revealed that he kept strippers on his plane, I was certain I didn’t like him, and he was a douche bag.

He’s an Ayn Rand style technocrat sleaze bag. Not a good person, more of just an entitled and immature rich guy. It’s a fantasy comic for immature teenage boys.

[EDIT: ITT, people deny the premise of the comic they just read].

That’s not how knowledge works.

Automate terra forming against climate change. I want big machines and swarms of drones doing 24/7 regreening and planting forests in the desert.