Forcing everything in your life into binary “good” and “monstrous evil” isn’t going to help anything. You’re just adding more hatred into the world, and there’s plenty enough of that as is.

Considering it sounds like they couldn’t get work anywhere else, can you really blame them for working for the only group that gave them a chance? And the situation you described is already preying on those crushed under student debt and out of work. Are you really going to say everyone taking the only opportunity they’re given are equally as bad as the fuckers calling the shots and doing the deeds? It doesn’t make the actions ok, but not everyone up and down the chain deserves a death sentence. You can have and show compassion to those that deserve it and still hold people accountable to the degree that they deserve it.

So all the accusations against them were rumors (surely not at all influenced by them being gay or (likely) trans 🙄), and they were murdered by a militia that had no qualms murdering children, but they’re the monster here?

And personification of natural phenomena is also a problem. It undercuts the fundamental causes of things when we shortcut that by saying a thing or force “wants” to do something, especially while teaching. It can be useful at a very basic level (like, kindergarten/children’s television), but only to a point. After that it is misleading and inefficient for actual education.

Same goes here. When we’re discussing the problems of people treating algorithms as thinking, acting beings, referring to the output as a “choice” or “claim” is the very last thing we should do, let alone using it as evidence of anything. There is no memory there - it’s fabricating a response based on the input, and the input directs the response. If I input a question like, “Why did you eat my pizza?”, it would output text fitting the context of my question, probably something akin to “Because pizza is delicious” or something. That doesn’t prove it at my pizza, it just shows the malleability of the algorithm.

I believe that would only encompass his time in Middle Earth, but someone more knowledgeable would likely be able to clarify if/why that’s different.

It’s so fucking annoying >.<

Since I bothered looking it up, I might as well share:

Boromir - 41

• Gandalf - We’ll just go with ageless
• Legolas - ~3000 (Immortal lifespan)
• Gimli - 140 (Dwarf lifespan ~300 years)
• Aragorn - 87 (Dunedain lifespan ~200 years)
• Frodo - 50 (Hobbit lifespan ~95 years)
• Samwise - 38
• Merry - 36
• Pippen - 28

Stating their personal preference isn’t a “reasoning”. Do you also think someone that wears a blue shirt is “reasoning” that everyone should wear blue shirts forever?

It’s not “striking”, it’s antithetical.

Way to undercut your own message.

“You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!”

But you brought up the reasoning yourself

Where? Their whole post is just “let people say what they want to say”. You’re the one trying to force them to justify it or fit your weird rubric.

Ok, I was gonna reply bemoaning us never getting more seasons of The Dragon Prince after their post-season 3 hype, but I just went to double check and found there’s four more seasons?! Just under a different name?? How did I miss this? Time to catch up, I guess.

Not a huge fan of movies riding the coat-tails of famous producers, but this seems like it could be interesting. Feels like a Peele-esque version of Whiplash/Ex Machina.

Why do people use a single work of fiction as “proof” of anything? Same with all the idiots yelling “Idiocracy!!11!” nowadays. Shit is so annoying.

How so?

I’d put yt under ph, but only just. Everything else, ph paved the way. And tbf, another porn site probably cleared the way for yt, though I couldn’t tell you which one.

Roger roger

Someone never watched Star Wars.

Across from where?