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@vo-kopen @keeper-of-the-flames @iconuk01 HOLY SHIT!!!!!!! :D

I can't believe this isn't official

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The animation and the voice acting is SO GOOD here :D

I love that the voice actors they chose made Ratchet and Swindle sound so much like their Animated! selves here, Swindle especially sounds EXACTLY as hilariously sleazy as his Animated! self :D

I really REALLY hope that they can animate the whole comics run like this

Me: I am emotionally normal about giant robots from space

Also Me, seeing Arcee tell Carly that she's always going to be there for her no matter what:

Mighty Nein is SO good

It's a fantasy/adventure series about a ragtag group who all have varying levels of darkness/drama in their pasts and who don't really fit in ending up coming together as they end up caught up in this big overarching plot. And as they band together at first just because they have to they end up genuinely coming to care about each other all while getting involved in SHENANIGANS

Kind of like a better and queerer version of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies but set in a D&D world rather than a cosmic space adventure one

President Donald Trump said on Friday night that Republicans will not lose elections for 100 years if Congress passes the SAVE America Act.

Trump delivered an Independence Day address a day early in front of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, where he railed against "the communist menace in our land."

"America will never be a communist country," he said before pivoting to the aforementioned legislation, which would require voters to provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote and present photo identification when voting.

"We can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms if we are foolish, stupid, and unwise," he continued. "But if we terminate the filibuster as we should do and immediately vote for the SAVE America Act, then we will not lose an election for a hundred years. We do that, we're not gonna lose an election for a hundred years. The communist party is made up of illegal immigrants, criminals, and everybody that doesn't want to work. Communism is a loser. It always was. And it is right now. It's a big loser. Look at the people that are promoting it. They are not the people you are going to follow."

Trump has repeatedly urged Senate Republicans to eliminate the 60-vote threshold for ending debate on a bill. The GOP controls the Senate 53-47 and can nix the rule with a simple majority vote. However,  Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has said there are not enough votes to end the practice.

The president has demanded that the Senate pass the SAVE America Act as part of his longstanding vendetta against Democrats over the 2020 election, which he falsely claims was rigged against him.

In his State of the Union Speech in February, Trump claimed of Democrats that the "only way they can get elected is to cheat."

Another reason to make sure that the worthless braindead dogshit that is the SAVE act doesn't pass

because Republicans are filthy nausetaing little cockroaches and every single last one of their repulsive worthless kind are a DISEASE upon america...and indeed upon the human species in general

Calling republican pest creatures a cancer upon the planet is only unfair because it's a little bit unfair to cancer...because cancer has done more good for the species than any oxygen thieving little republican cunt ever has

It's most accurate to refer to these "people" as parasites

Since

Because almost all of them are getting voted out.

A Florida university is threatening to withhold students' diplomas unless they record a 2-minute video apologizing for a silent protest they staged against ICE actions on campus.

Such is life in the "Free State of Florida" ....

Reminds me of the joke about Belgium from In Bruges

"What are Belgians famous for?

Chocolates and child abuse

Say it ain't so.

Diana killed herself to change fate and undo the whole timeline, where they might be forced to kill the villain as a baby to prevent it from happening?

Somehow Tom King's Wonder Woman run bugs me even more than his Batman one, as while both seem to suffer from his seemingly not planning out his story arcs in advance (with his Batman run in particular having nonsensical twists that make no actual sense, like the whole thing of Skeets being in league with Bane and somehow Booster Gold getting trapped in a dystopian timeline where he got traumatised was part of Bane's scheme?), early on there were things in Wonder Woman that had promise but were ultimately under developed.

Like the Sovereign, for example. Could have been used for a metaphor for how despite America's talk of freedom, it still remained in the control of landed gentry after the Revolution even if they didn't specifically CALL themselves that (Alexander Hamilton, for example, believed that the power in the American government should sit with the wealthy elites as he considered poor people to be too uneducated and easily swayed to vote correctly, for example), and how most of what is used to describe America are essentially advertising for an ideal version of the country that both never existed while many angrily hold onto a false version of history that is divorced from reality and actual history.

Having Wonder Woman, who represents Truth, being the character who directly comes into conflict with the contradictions and falsehoods of her adopted homeland could have been GREAT.... as a mini-series written by someone other than Tom King (maybe Simon Spurrier?).

of the kind you would expect from a talentless little cunt who used to work for the CIA really

"America isn't a garbage fire because of the brainworm dogshit that is christianity and the hatred and intolerance this fascist death cult has fostered and nurtured, the greed and cruelty of capitalism that treats human lives as secondary to profit, the systems of racism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia that are baked into politics and society at every level and the corruption and incompetence of many of the individuals working within its politics

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

It's old-fashioned. It's modern. It's butch. It's femme. It's snazzy. It's practical.

Wikipedia talks about the bloomers and the leg-o-mutton sleeves, but I'm also noticing a lot of these outfits have absolute supervillain lapels, which I also like a lot.