They don’t think we’re incompetent cats. They know we’re incompetent humans.

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…this could literally be a shot from a holodeck scene

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Congratulations! Seems like you’re well on course to getting your grandfathers license, but if I may offer some minor critique, you didn’t comment on how much I’ve grown and I believe taffy should be involved somewhere along the line. Other than that, excellent grandfathering!

Totally agree. I like this thread, I think I’ve found my people.

OMG thank you, I hate them and get so vilified for it. I might have deemed them mediocre had each one been at least half an hour shorter but as it is they’re just a Peter Jackson wankathon.

Full disclosure fwiw:

• I’m generally not into fantasy
• I (almost but not quite) equally hate action films / sequences
• More of a hard sci-fi fan, though I’ll generally enjoy anything harder than Star Wars (also hate)

Came to comment exactly this! Although I was tempted by:

“This review has only one line, it says ‘Shit Sandwich.’”

TIL! Appreciate the somewhat scary education.

I was meaning in relation to the average turtle but I take your point and appreciate the info. What’s the book out of interest?

Yeah I’ve looked a bit harder and I see the spider shape a bit better now (from underneath), the slight motion blur in places would suggest not AI but I’m not totally convinced. From a quick search these spiders aren’t that big so that must be a very baby turtle, and I don’t know what’s going on around the mouth but it doesn’t look right, nor does the interference pattern of the ripples.

Agreeing with me would make a lot of people a lot more comfortable 😅

This is AI right?

Right?!

…it is though - the ripples make no sense, nor does the ant-spider in size or shape.

Damn asset creators and their three figure salaries

Dax wax crew rise up

Well that depends on where you look at the earth from doesn’t it. It’s like saying ‘righty righty, lefty loosey’ which only holds true as long as you’re thinking about the top edge of the screw head.

Instructions unclear, now I’m wet and sticky and banned from the gym

If you’re in the mood for something not trip hop but with a similar vocal style you might enjoy Lamb - later stuff is probably most similar, earlier stuff is a bit more esoteric.

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That is not a question, it’s a correlative conjunction

Not more specific I’m just correcting the inaccuracy - it’s a quote from your source :) I had a look around for a more specific figure too though out of interest and I’m really surprised that particular statistic isn’t easier to find given how shocking the numbers are. I’m not in the US so this subject always seems mad any way you look at it.

Edit: This site seems to have good data but you’d have to analyze it to come up with figures. The charts are very disturbing.