random72guy

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

I tend to agree, but there are two issues working agaonst Star Trek.

  1. Successful media appeals to broad audiences by having something to appeal to every demographic. (E.g. Don't like politics? Stay for the lasers.)
  2. Good sci-fi (arguably stories in general) gives the best representation of both sides of a conflict, and lets them compete on their merits. So it's possible to resonate with one side, then miss the critique (e.g. due to modest writing or selective hearing).

So while Star Trek tends to show progressive values winning in the end, many people can enjoy other aspects (e.g. military stories, relationships, and action) while ignoring the upshot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How about "all the things that are true and none of the things that aren't true?" (Not sure how well the latter part would go over.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Best enjoyed with... checks notes prune juice?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Reminds me of the Reboot hotel offices.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, it just goes to its extraction point! ...somehow.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

As a longtime Plex user, I also hate their lack of focus and tendancy to priorotize bad features (like paid streaming and VR). But this one feels more like a way to re-focus on video by removing photo code from the main (video) app's codebase, making it easier to maintain.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (7 children)

So basically, it's a poorly marketed $40 game facing a lot of free and popular competition.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Honk if you have ever been personally victimized by HONK!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

As a longtime Heroes of thr Storm player, it had just the level of ability and territory progression I wanted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For LLMs, I've had really good results running Llama 3 in the Open Web UI docker container on a Nvidia Titan X (12GB VRAM).

For image generation tho, I agree more VRAM is better, but the algorithms still struggle with large image dimensions, ao you wind up needing to start small and iterarively upscale, which afaik works ok on weaker GPUs, but will gake problems. (I've been using the Automatic 1111 mode of the Stable Diffusion Web UI docker project.)

I'm on thumbs so I don't have the links to the git repos atm, but you basically clone them and run the docker compose files. The readmes are pretty good!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It was branded Rockman EXE in Japan, and NT Warrior (i.e. Net Warrior) in the US anime, only. The "network" refers to the internet and the internet of things heavily featured in the games, in which you battle viruses; hence "Battle Network."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

A lot of my feelings got summed up here: basically, the episode had a lot of momentum and incoherence. Beyond that,

  • Having just watched "Pyramids of Mars," I'm puzzled Davis revived this villain, and that the impatient Sutekh acquired the patience to wait centuries (millennia?) to complete his plan.
  • I love the Memory TARDIS!
  • I thought 15 was supposed to be the "healed" doctor.
  • Davies is playing with the idea of concepts, perception, memory and faith influencing reality; but the handwavy, cursory explanations for how it all works makes it impossible to anticipate events or solutions to the challenges thr Doctor faces, which limits how the viewer can interact with the story and how engaged I feel. (E.g. when the Doctor says "there's nothing I can do" we just have to take him at his word, until it turns out all he had to do was leash Sutekh and drag him into the time vortex, and likely could have from the very start, given how Sutekh was restraining himself even before they discovered Ruby's mother. So the show becomes less of a thought exercise, more of waiting for the Doctor and plot to strikefamiliar chords.)
  • This isn't Davies' best work, but I'm hoping he's getting back into his groove. Either way, I'm hyped for Moffat's upcoming special!
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