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Normally 'super powered beings can't come up with anything better than punching for a fight' is a lame cliche, but that opening uppercut gets a pass from me ;p

That's probably actually a best case for a show like this - don't have to run the line between having no content if you are renewed and spinning wheels going nowhere in the current season. 'You've got a season to wrap it up' is pretty generous.

Sure, you can dislike stuff for whatever reason, I think Seananigan's point was more that it's not always obvious if something you don't like makes a story worse or not, even for you. Like compare the 'I read this story but character x fucking sucked, I hated everything about them' and 'I...

People can mean different things when talking about animation quality, sometimes it's just about whether it looks good, sometimes it is about appreciation of the amount of work that something took to do, or of clever tricks that people hadn't done before - it's kind of like cinematography...

It's been like 20 years, but I remember liking it. Obviously don't expect modern animation standards.

Fucking around with the timeline like they wanted to be Westworld was certainly a choice. It's probably money though - the anime financing world seems murky and incomprehensible even by hollywood accounting standards, and how good something was/how many people watched it don't seem to have any...

but the feeeeeeels ! This was mawkish self-indulgent rubbish, if they just left it at the end of the previous episode that would have been fine.

I don't do audiobooks, but that sounds like a great idea. Particularly for chrysalis actually, author made the rookie mistake of using adjectives instead of numbers in mutations, so it gets increasingly ridiculous as the MC picks between things glowing-hyper-dense-ultra-compact-compound-plating...

S2 seems pretty on par with S1 - spots of amazing giant monsters and interesting story, interspersed with painfully pointless family drama. It did set a new low bar for unintentionally hilarious casting though when their 'elite hacker' wasn't able to use an ipad because her fingernails were too...

That bugged the shit out of me. Not to mention what the fuck the reactor cooling towers had to do with the main doors being open or closed. The 'oh if there's low O2 then the doors will automatically open' I can buy sort of ( though this 'feature' is pretty pants on head in a sealed bunker...

They did, but they never successfully sued anyone over it. Although I guess 'success' there should be 'patent was challenged and upheld' rather than 'opponent ran out of money defending against our lawsuits'. The latter they managed pretty effectively.

You can't patent game rules and mechanics - adding 'on a computer' shouldn't make any difference. That's one thing going for US patent law I guess. I'll agree that changing that is stupid, and will end up in disaster when no-one can make anything without getting 300 separate licenses from...

I have no clue what's going on with Daemons of the Shadow Realm, but I am all in. I am a big fan of the apparent genre (spoilered in case you were like me and had no idea what it was about going in) and the execution seems pretty good.

In fairness, 'start with something simple then scale it up a lot' is the leading explanation for human intelligence. I agree it is unlikely though, but despite grandiose claims from Altman, I doubt anyone is seriously expecting or wanting AGI out of the LLMs. 'Why should I do anything for you...

No, the approach for coding tools has changed quite a lot - they don't work the same way that the chatbots do anymore. Individual steps do, but there's a much larger shift in terms of orchestration and mixed-in non-llm tools, as well as changing ways that context inputs work to avoid the...