Centrally Unplanned

Additionally, if a vitamin supplement reduced cancer rates by 90%, people would absolutely be calling it a cure for cancer and anyone objecting would be rightly regarded as a pedant. Casual speech about concepts is largely determined by practical use, not technical categorization. Right now LLMs are not great at many things - but when you are using them in their comfort zone they are doing the exact thing you would want your theoretical, derived-from-logical-axioms thinking machine to do. Trying to definition-police speech use for debate points is not a good use of anyone's time.

RIP Kavinsky, this song is a masterpiece

mtg's the hobbit set is fucking hysterical because as it turns out there are not enough things in one very short book to make even a small magic set and so they are literally having to make cards of every ranbdom sentence that was said in the book just to fill slots

wouldn’t the Lord of the rings work better in that case?

ah, well, you see, they already made a Lord of the Rings set in 2023. it was a huge success and so they decided that clearly iut needed a sequel, and what better to form a sequel adaptation of comparable scope than the hobbit, something which has never gone wrong before,

My memory here is foggy - was that the barrier for the Rings of Power series? They have that insane "adapting the appendixes" thing going on, was that because the Tolkien estate just refused to play ball? I would believe it ofc - I am also curious if anyone was really trying, or if they viewed the Silmarillion as essentially "unfilmable".

I had heard Christopher Tolkien didn't approve of the initial trilogy, but I can't recall anyone discussing his reasons. Hobbit, I understand for the reasons provided by OP

Poking around, while it isn't anything substantial, it does seem like the above dynamic is playing out and there are Silmarillion adaptation rights being discussed. I wouldn't have Peter Jackson direct them myself; he seems a bit stuck aesthetically on the whole universe, you wouldn't want a rehashed vision for something so distinct. Fine as a producer ofc, and his involvement would probably be necessary to put all the pieces together.

mtg's the hobbit set is fucking hysterical because as it turns out there are not enough things in one very short book to make even a small magic set and so they are literally having to make cards of every ranbdom sentence that was said in the book just to fill slots

wouldn’t the Lord of the rings work better in that case?

ah, well, you see, they already made a Lord of the Rings set in 2023. it was a huge success and so they decided that clearly iut needed a sequel, and what better to form a sequel adaptation of comparable scope than the hobbit, something which has never gone wrong before,

My memory here is foggy - was that the barrier for the Rings of Power series? They have that insane "adapting the appendixes" thing going on, was that because the Tolkien estate just refused to play ball? I would believe it ofc - I am also curious if anyone was really trying, or if they viewed the Silmarillion as essentially "unfilmable".

I had heard Christopher Tolkien didn't approve of the initial trilogy, but I can't recall anyone discussing his reasons. Hobbit, I understand for the reasons provided by OP

i mean not even after mao died right? several times when he's alive he takes a step away from fully running the country and deng and chen yun are out there decollectivizing agriculture and giving surplus to households! dude really was fully surrounded by capitalist roaders on every level

"How do I permanently lock in my uniquely bad governance style even in the face of all the easy policy improvements which could be made?" is thankfully a very hard problem for rulers to solve.

mtg's the hobbit set is fucking hysterical because as it turns out there are not enough things in one very short book to make even a small magic set and so they are literally having to make cards of every ranbdom sentence that was said in the book just to fill slots

wouldn’t the Lord of the rings work better in that case?

ah, well, you see, they already made a Lord of the Rings set in 2023. it was a huge success and so they decided that clearly iut needed a sequel, and what better to form a sequel adaptation of comparable scope than the hobbit, something which has never gone wrong before,

My memory here is foggy - was that the barrier for the Rings of Power series? They have that insane "adapting the appendixes" thing going on, was that because the Tolkien estate just refused to play ball? I would believe it ofc - I am also curious if anyone was really trying, or if they viewed the Silmarillion as essentially "unfilmable".

mtg's the hobbit set is fucking hysterical because as it turns out there are not enough things in one very short book to make even a small magic set and so they are literally having to make cards of every ranbdom sentence that was said in the book just to fill slots

wouldn’t the Lord of the rings work better in that case?

ah, well, you see, they already made a Lord of the Rings set in 2023. it was a huge success and so they decided that clearly iut needed a sequel, and what better to form a sequel adaptation of comparable scope than the hobbit, something which has never gone wrong before,

join me in imagining a horrible alternate universe in which the silmarillion holds the same iron grip on national security analysts as thucidydes does today

Can't believe we didn't burn the ships after landing at D-Day; no wonder breaking out of the Normandy Pocket took over a month! No motivation, Feanor would have fixed this.

Wizard hat.

Straw hat

Robin hood style hat, which after brief googling is apparently called a "bycocket".

also a robin hood style hat!

propeller cap

Hipster fleece beanie - obviously made from the goat's own fleece.

Honestly I have a lot of...concerns about how a post scarcity society would work in relation to the things that I love. But I hope having to give up things like tv and pop culture and toys makes them happier

why would a post-scarcity society have to give up those things? what do you think post-scarcity means?

i think you're imagining 'nobody needs a job to survive' but 'post scarcity' is a stronger postulate than that, and implies something like e.g. if i have an idea for a doll or a tv show it can trivially be mass produced (generally under the assumption that we can automate almost all things that nowadays require human labour)

we've been doing the automation thing for centuries and I would describe the results as nothing short of amazing.