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Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread
Last post by Legend - Apr 07, 2026, 05:11 AMPi, you going to try gemma 4? How does it compare to the models you use?
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Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Humans launching to the Mo...
Last post by nnodley - Apr 07, 2026, 02:04 AMQuote from: Legend on Apr 07, 2026, 01:23 AMAt least it will, hopefully, only last a few years. Like once we have a full Artemis 4 landing in 4K with tons of footage, they'll probably accept that. Right?Nah they'll just continue to say Hollywood and Nasa are in cahoots and it's super duper amazing CGI and all the people in power are in on a massive worldwide conspiracy. Countries can't even get along, but yet they are all in on fake space.
But then they'd just say it's a waste and too expensive.
#13
Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Humans launching to the Mo...
Last post by Legend - Apr 07, 2026, 01:23 AMQuote from: nnodley on Apr 07, 2026, 01:17 AMIf only. It just seems to get worse. Probably ought to get my algo to know I'm not interested in that garbage. It's just too tempting to read all the idiot commentsAt least it will, hopefully, only last a few years. Like once we have a full Artemis 4 landing in 4K with tons of footage, they'll probably accept that. Right?
But then they'd just say it's a waste and too expensive.
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Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Humans launching to the Mo...
Last post by nnodley - Apr 07, 2026, 01:17 AMQuote from: Legend on Apr 06, 2026, 10:45 PMIt's crazy. Like i thought we were past this stuff.If only. It just seems to get worse. Probably ought to get my algo to know I'm not interested in that garbage. It's just too tempting to read all the idiot comments
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Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Humans launching to the Mo...
Last post by Legend - Apr 06, 2026, 10:45 PMQuote from: nnodley on Apr 06, 2026, 10:23 PMAny time I see a post about the firmament and the moon landing and this mission being fake, I get fudgy livid. Like how idiotic our species is is absolutely mind blowingIt's crazy. Like i thought we were past this stuff.
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Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Humans launching to the Mo...
Last post by nnodley - Apr 06, 2026, 10:23 PMAny time I see a post about the firmament and the moon landing and this mission being fake, I get fudgy livid. Like how idiotic our species is is absolutely mind blowing
#17
Off-Topic Community / Re: TV Show Thread
Last post by kitler53 - Apr 06, 2026, 08:10 PMi think in a very character driven show like breaking bad it can work to the show's advantage to not have a plan for the show.
the thing that breaking bad (and game of thrones books) do very well is create unique and deep characters and for better or worse the actions the characters take feel believable and in-character.
the thing most shows (and the game of thrones tv show's later seasons) do poorly is to build up a character only to have them do a very uncharacterized or unsubstantiated actions just because the writers wanted to take the story in another direction.
...like there are countless numbers of examples of this but the first one that comes to mind is how in GoW Ragnarak Freya hated Kratos (justified) and then half way though the game they were friends again (poorly justified).
the thing that breaking bad (and game of thrones books) do very well is create unique and deep characters and for better or worse the actions the characters take feel believable and in-character.
the thing most shows (and the game of thrones tv show's later seasons) do poorly is to build up a character only to have them do a very uncharacterized or unsubstantiated actions just because the writers wanted to take the story in another direction.
...like there are countless numbers of examples of this but the first one that comes to mind is how in GoW Ragnarak Freya hated Kratos (justified) and then half way though the game they were friends again (poorly justified).
#18
Off-Topic Community / Re: TV Show Thread
Last post by the-pi-guy - Apr 06, 2026, 07:22 PMQuote from: kitler53 on Apr 06, 2026, 07:04 PMvery very few shows likely know their end from the start. the economics of this doesn't really makes sense because there are a lot of other things that come into play like: will you even get a second season? will something about the prior season be really loved/hated? will one of your actors leave the show?
adjustments have to be made along the way.
lot's of time planning an end doesn't even really benifit a story. your story basically has to be designs with mysteries or recons in mind to really justify showing a story element early only to return to it later. maybe world building things like game of thrones benefit from it. and game of thrones has a specific element that i think helps,.. it started as a book where a single author gets to chose how the story plays out instead of a room of writers like one finds in TV.
and i know nothing about attack on titan but i'll just add this general statement. i think most of the time a late in story uses early in story "teases" i don't think it is as planned out as you think it was. i think in the early parts they just sometimes leave things open ended and decide later what they want to do with it.
Yeah it's obviously the norm for a lot of good reasons. Which is kind of why I'm bringing it up.
Like How I Met Your Mother had the ending planned, and it didn't end up working.
Attack on Titan had the benefit of having a single author figure things out where he wanted to go. And he talked about how well in advance, he knew what the story was going to be.
To add on to your story teases, Breaking Bad has a lot of notable examples:
Spoiler for Hidden:
I feel like there are some shows where the lack of planning kind of hurts it. A lot of shows that meander or take weird directions.
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Off-Topic Community / Re: TV Show Thread
Last post by kitler53 - Apr 06, 2026, 07:04 PMvery very few shows likely know their end from the start. the economics of this doesn't really makes sense because there are a lot of other things that come into play like: will you even get a second season? will something about the prior season be really loved/hated? will one of your actors leave the show?
adjustments have to be made along the way.
lot's of time planning an end doesn't even really benifit a story. your story basically has to be designs with mysteries or recons in mind to really justify showing a story element early only to return to it later. maybe world building things like game of thrones benefit from it. and game of thrones has a specific element that i think helps,.. it started as a book where a single author gets to chose how the story plays out instead of a room of writers like one finds in TV.
and i know nothing about attack on titan but i'll just add this general statement. i think most of the time a late in story uses early in story "teases" i don't think it is as planned out as you think it was. i think in the early parts they just sometimes leave things open ended and decide later what they want to do with it.
adjustments have to be made along the way.
lot's of time planning an end doesn't even really benifit a story. your story basically has to be designs with mysteries or recons in mind to really justify showing a story element early only to return to it later. maybe world building things like game of thrones benefit from it. and game of thrones has a specific element that i think helps,.. it started as a book where a single author gets to chose how the story plays out instead of a room of writers like one finds in TV.
and i know nothing about attack on titan but i'll just add this general statement. i think most of the time a late in story uses early in story "teases" i don't think it is as planned out as you think it was. i think in the early parts they just sometimes leave things open ended and decide later what they want to do with it.
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Off-Topic News Discussion / Re: Humans launching to the Mo...
Last post by Legend - Apr 06, 2026, 06:37 PMFarthest humans have ever been from Earth, ever.