Sophie
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There's never any group of people who automatically deserve to die. Period.
Yes, that includes pedophiles. Yes, that includes rapists. Yes, that includes billionaires. Yes, that includes would leaders.
If you're willing to say "here's a group of people that it is morally okay to kill," you are arguing that killing certain people will fix everything. It doesn't work.
It didn't work when Hitler tried it. It didn't work when Mao tried it. It didn't work when Lenin and Stalin tried it. It didn't work when Pol Pot tried it. It didn't work when Idi Amin tried it.
You cannot just kill a bunch of people and make things better. You can't kill your way to a better world. The world doesn't work like that.
Sometimes the best fic you’ve ever written isn’t on ao3. It’s in 50 frenetic discord messages sent over a fifteen minute span where you and your friend yes and each other into a perfect story that will never actually be written.
Sometimes you cautiously crack open the door for a second and watch alien conspiracy theorists talk and they’re like “this ancient drawing is a diagram of DNA” and then they show the drawing and it’s of two snakes fucking
There’s drawings all over the world of snakes doing a fuck because fertility symbolism and whatnot and a spiral makes for a good design but alien obsessed grandpas who have never seen snakes having sex before in their lives will point very hard at the snake sex and say it’s a double helix or whatever it must be aliens.
No my friend. You just need to get out more. Maybe you’ll see some snakes in the wild making some sweet twisty snake love and get some perspective on the world.
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Megamorphs 2: In the Time of Dinosaurs thoughts (pt. 1):
Our childhood copy of this book started on this page (it was missing its front cover and first 6 pages) so I never did find out how Marco got that blowhole. Not until I was an adult and finally read the ebook, that is. Also, I had no idea why the Animorphs were in the ocean looking for a submarine in the first place.
"Tobias said, «Those fissures are as big as small valleys.»" (p. 11)
Uh, Tobias... what the hell does that even mean?
"I winced... «Actually, Ax, it's a military submarine. See the rows of hatches along the back? It's a nuclear missile sub.»
...«Ah. I see.»
«It's deterrence. You know, in case the enemy uses nukes on us, we have those safe on our subs,» Marco explained.
«What enemy?»
«Well... okay, we don't exactly have one right now,» I said, feeling fairly idiotic. «But we used to. And we may get one again.»
«We're shopping all the sales,» Marco said brightly. «Enemies'R'Us, EnemyMart, J.C. Enemy. Don't worry, we'll find one.»" (p. 17)
This series pulls no punches. At all. And anyone who thinks it'd be written much differently post-War on Terror was not paying enough attention.
Rachel confidently asserting that volcanoes take thousands of years to form, Jake asking her how she knows, and her mumbling out the shameful confession she got it from Magic School Bus... how are these the realest kids ever written?
Also, Ax repeatedly trying to ask them what the hell those bizarre giant Earth creatures are, only to be told it's just whales, and then having everyone spot "those Loch Ness Monster" (p. 24) followed by:
«As I said,» Ax said smugly, «not whales.»
Sir, I love him.
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In time travel movies, when the time traveler asks 'What year is this?!?' they're always treated like they're being weird for asking.
When in reality, if you go 'What year is this?!?' people will just say '2024. Crazy huh.' and you go 'Wtf where has my youth gone.'
And if you ask 'And what month??' people won't judge you, they'll just go like 'SEPTEMBER!!! Can you believe it?!?!' and you go 'WHAT?!? Last time I checked we were in May?!?'
Stumbling into a diner and asking "What town is this" isn't weird, the workers will think you're on a road trip
If you ask them "Where's the nearest Nano Deck?" they'll assume it's a shop they've never heard of and say "Sorry, I don't know where any of those are"
Going into a store and telling a cashier "I need pods for my comm device" will just get you a "Never heard of those, maybe try Radio Shack?"
I think the problem is that people who create sci-fi movies have never had to work customer service jobs
I've been thinking about this scene in Artificial Condition where MB meets ART for the first time. ART threatens MB to make sure MB doesn't attempt to hurt it.
Then Murderbot shows it what punishment from a governor module feels like.
ART can't feel pain. It can't understand human physical pain any more than it can understand human media. Murderbot has to help it translate these things into data.
This is ART's first experience of pain. It goes silent for three whole minutes and then it immediately apologizes to MB.
Later Rapport (short story) shows us how ART is suddenly more gentle towards human trauma. This moment must have been so pivotal for it.
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One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was “why don’t they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why aren’t more people addicted to the holodeck?”
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.
And that’s the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.
I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.
Types of Board Game [Explained]
Transcript Under the Cut
Types of Board Game
[Under this header text, the comic contains 8 panels. Each of them is labeled at the top with a short description of the board game being played and features (from left to right) Cueball, Ponytail, Megan, and White Hat sitting on chairs around a table trying to play it.]
Boring
Megan: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we get bored and go home.
Abstract
Cueball: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a...
Hyperspecific Theme
Ponytail: It's October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations...
Overcomplicated
White Hat: It's a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshire,* but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and...
Cooperative
Megan: We're working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we'll silently organize my junk drawer.
Branded
Cueball: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku.
Party
Ponytail: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the...
Social Deduction
Megan: Remember, per our *Find the Secret Murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player had committed a real-life murder does *not* count.
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