One of the few bright sides to catastrophic climate change is knowing that sci fi horror bullshit like this will never come to fruition as much as techbros will crow and bleat about it
Time to teach kids the biblical defenses of slavery and its use during the founding of the nation 
They'll crack open one of the same brand of birthing vats that Buttigieg squelched out of, this time less gay and more boring looking. This procedurally generated and Langley gestated homunculus will be the only available option
damn I guess I'll just have to actually commit to downloading and watching pirated TV shows and movies instead of endlessly grazing on video essays while I'm working on stuff
Is that diagram AI generated? That's not how the human tailbone works. That's not how how tail bones in general work
You just can't. There's too many of them. And they keep making more of them! When will the suffering end?
They should stop making games for at least a year so I can catch up.
ah yes
modded minecraft
"White man bad game" and its the Bioshock game where the group of black revolutionaries turn into a pillaging horde as soon as they lose their single authority figure so you are obliged to shoot them in the face through the rest of the game
Later DLC would ""reveal"" that the black revolutionary leader only pretended to want to kill a child so the white main female character would grow as a person by killing her.
bioshock infinite bad
The problem is that AI image models aren't dynamic like that. The AI groups already successfully pulled off the heist of the internet and went home with their image data sets with billions of images. The infinitely expanding google images AI slop isn't getting fed back into the model the same way Chat GPT is auto-lobotimizing itself by looking up autogenerated articles on the web.
In fact, at the moment newer AI image models are being refined not by being fed more images but by going back and adding more refined captions to their existing hoard, since the more descriptive the captions the more capable the resulting model tends to be. But hey, they're generating most of the captions with Chat GPT and at least that's fucking them over a bit I guess
dew it. make an enemy of the youth vote. make the 2024 the funniest election in American history
Countdown until inaccurate AI images start appearing in American school textbooks because some shits in Texas wanted to save a few bucks on stock art
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
In my defense I picked up a cheap used VR headset and playing Skyrim in VR and holding all the sparkly spells in your hands is genuinely a pretty novel and magical experience
Him releasing Death Stranding before the covid outbreaks is still one of the wildest things in retrospect lmao
I have really mixed feelings about this film because it's a robot emancipation film that feels like it was written by a leftist but at the same time it has some really serious issues as a film that holds it back from being an outright good movie
The Good
This is like, one of the only modern+mainstream man vs machine narratives I can think of that is explicitly sympathetic to oppressed humans hand in hand with the sympathy towards robots. In this film, the robots are in solidarity with the humans they are living together with (robots protect human civilians and vice versa, humans attend robot funerals, they're seen cohabitating together, etc) and they fight together against the NATO coded invasion forces.
In fact, there's even a scene at the beginning that, although brief, shows that working class western citizens are very sympathetic to the robots, and have to be conditioned and propagandized into dehumanizing them.
It's a very pretty film. The sets and sci fi designs look really good and the robots have some cool designs among them, humanoid and less humanoid. ....Wait it only had an $80 million budget? God damn
In addition to the more overt anti-imperialist themes of the film I feel like there's a lot of room for a Marxist interpretation of the film, that the robots could represent leftist groups in Southeast Asia, with the fear of use of nuclear weapons being one of the main propaganda pieces used by the West against them, the West's fear of the robots disrupting capitalist markets, the fact that the main goal of the film is to destroy a physical representation of Western military power and how that representation allows the West to invade and bomb countries with impunity, and so on.
The Bad
The first half is a fucking mess, both pacing and writing-wise. There's a lot of narrative choices that are inconsistent with the second half of the film to the point that it's a detriment to the story. In a film with a focus on robot sapience and compassion, we get a Star Wars-esq scene where a grenade thrown by a robot soldier is rolled back into a crowd of robots, and the following shot of their maimed bodies flailing around is instead played for laughs. The discrepancy in the two halves is VERY noticeable, it feels like some sort of editing fuckery happened.
It somehow manages to fumble 3/4 emotional beats that happen in the film. This is arguably the big issue here. Like it is genuinely impressive how consistently it missed the mark when attempting to pull off scenes that should have had emotional impacts. Like, my guys, you are writing a narrative about a grizzled reluctant father and an odd troubled daughter figure. This shit should be color by the numbers by now. I don't even think its the main actor's fault here because the scenes that do work, work fine. Like, the turning point when the lead starts seeing the robot child as a person? Skimmed over, no impact. Choosing to side against the West? Skimmed over, no impact. A sort of reunion with his dead wife? They bungled that scene so badly.
The worldbuilding can kind of get wishy-washy. I feel like the story suffers for not having a human voice on the side of the New Asia coalition. It didn't even necessarily have to be a big role either, just a named human character to be all 'hey I'm from Bhutan and robots are people too and we want to build a new future together'. There is technically a character who fills that role but it's the fridged dead wife character so her voice only exists in retrospect and in the lead's memories in relation to himself. Without that presence existing in the story, what the (human) people of the New Asia coalition feel about anything goes kind of unspoken when it should have been a bigger aspect of the story.
Anyways it's not a good good film but it's a fun enough watch and you can watch it here lol
Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.
I can't help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.
Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright 
The funny thing is that elder dragons are canonically as likely to have no sexes/alien sexes as they are to have more familiar sex based reproduction. You have Lunastra and Teostra's collective species and possibly Ahta-kal's, but then you have Nergigante (explicitly monogendered with asexual budding based reproduction), the Magala family (parasitic impregnation based reproduction with two distinct species of symbiotic virus).
Unless we're given lore from the writers, any given elder dragon could be male, female, monogendered or something yet unknown. Stinky here could reproduce with the weird lifesteal effluvium and be part fungus, and that's its own can of worms.
also it's just using the same skeleton and animations as Kushala so like lol
EDIT: I also forgot about Fatalis, who is implied to be biologically immortal and able to replicate by regenerating from shed body parts, as well as Xeno'Jiiva and Safi'Jiiva who also possibly reproduce parasitically (there was a Xeno'jiiva egg inside the body of MSQ Zorah Magdaros) and Safi'Jiiva even does some really weird shit where it seems to molt into a form that resembles other elder dragons as a form of predatory mimicry, possibly as its method to get close and implant eggs in powerful elder dragons.
Okay that last part isn't explicitly canon but so many things line up for it not to be intentional, especially since the species does canonically use pheromones to attract other elder dragons.