I do feel like unseriousness/unsophisticatedness is generally frowned upon here. Usually things are more debate than conversation

Idk, people just seem a lot more relaxed on like nerdy public discords for example

the main joke of the post is that the average screenwriter doesn’t realize the standard audience will fall for the coolness factor over morals. It’s also making fun of the formula being overused with these specific archetypes, the lack of morally complex heroes, etc.

Although what another commenter said stood out to me more, the fact that a lot of lower quality media will make a character with obviously good aims who also does random evil stuff for no reason just so we still know he’s supposed to be the bad guy. It’s like they’re trying to make a morally complex villain, but put in none of the effort and just create a nonsensical villain instead.

So combining those ideas, I think the situation is that writers try to create a charismatic villain to fit with the norm and maybe add complexity to the experience. Except they don’t give the villain an adequate reason to do evil things - They just come up with 1 common sense point for the villain to make and say “oh he took it too far and somehow murdering orphans is the natural result of that, don’t question it”. So in the end the audience sees a charismatic villain with a decent point who’s only flaw is the random evil stuff they do for no reason. And it comes across as a lazy bad decision because that’s what it is. People just aren’t given a reason to dislike the villain when the evil stuff seems more like something the writer made them do than something that would actually occur.

A higher effort example that doesn’t mess this up is the new superman movie as another commenter said, the villain is also charismatic and also does comically evil things but the audience is actually given an understanding of him and how he thinks, which is convincing enough for people to accept that the villain really just is that evil.

the pain of the Farseeir trilogy, or the pain of the stuff with Bee? idk what u mean

i just read the first trilogy a month or so ago tho and it’s peak, it’s incredible how much she gets you to care about the characters

this is kinda the vibe I got from the Star Wars prequels. like how tf does Anakin go to “well the sith could stop people from dying, and the jedis are kinda corrupt” to “let’s kill random children!” in literally one scene with almost no convincing?? It seems like they think because he appreciates the sith’s stated goal he’ll do something obviously evil for them because “thinking that the people we want to be evil aren’t evil == evil”. The only way I can explain that bit away is if the sith guy did some sort of evil mind control thing in his moment of shock after accidentally hurting that jedi. IDK i know there are much more direct examples of what you’re saying (like what hbomberguy was talking about in that rwby video) and this connection is kinda loose I just want to rant about that scene because I feel like I don’t often hear people specifically talking about how little sense that bit makes…

Speaking of interesting sensing capabilities there’s also the sea turtles that can detect magnetic fields, although I don’t think people understand the actual mechanical parts yet

https://uncnews.unc.edu/2025/02/13/sea-turtles-secret-gps-researchers-uncover-how-sea-turtles-learn-locations-using-earths-magnetic-field/

ollama is the usual one, they have install instructions on their GitHub i think, and a model repository, etc

You can run something on your cpu if you don’t care about speed, or on your gpu although you can’t run any more intelligent model without a decent amount of vram

For models to use, I recommend checking out the qwen distilled versions of deepseek r1

I made a little desktop app in Godot once for sorting through D&D monsters, can’t really release it tho because it requires you to have the whole official monster manual saved as jpegs for it to work

I was able to get the layout pretty nice, but it still kinda breaks with some resolutions because I didn’t write any custom layout code

I think it’s the gartner hype cycle, which usually uses the same labels as the meme

I guess it’s realizing you just want a stable “it just works” type of mainstream distro with a large community and support

for anyone wondering: hsl(38, 79%, 51%) for orange and hsl(136, 64%, 42%) for green, that’s oklch(0.7471 0.151 74.06) for orange and oklch(0.664 0.181 147.42) for green. interestingly the normal digital color model shows orange as more saturated, while a perceptual color space shows them as a little bit less

(not trying to be the sort of person the comic is making fun of, I just like color lol)

For phones Google gets to decide, as an os maker. For PCs, there are multiple OSses so hardware manufacturers get to decide.

I personally don’t see AMD or Intel doing that anytime soon, and if they do, at least Arm and Risc-V are making some good progress in the desktop space

In the US and one that I haven’t seen others mention yet is the hummingbirds

if you close all the terminal tabs and do ctrl+r on a new one it will search all of the ones you closed

Any should. Any unicode is converted to alphabetical anyways, through “xn–” + a punycode conversion. Which is actually fairly important for places that don’t use the Latin alphabet.

See http://xn-bdk.gay/, which is the same as http://ツ.gay/

(Someone set this up on 196 a while ago, they said they were using Namecheap)

The ti84 is not that high resolution

ldk, avif looks really good at the really high compression ratios. My problem with it is that usually it includes lots of details, except those details weren’t the actual details of the original image. It just kinda hallucinates them

Also ofc the unlimited layers, great lossless mode, and high color depth etc would still make jxl a better universal choice, but avif just looks better at the ultra low end

People make it sound like its some extreme time consuming task to learn rust. Rust actually gives helpful compiler errors tho and there’s a lot of resources online.

I was able to start making some basic things in rust (like an ascii-rendered brute force n-body simulation) with the help of a few google searches after just like 2 days of messing around in my free time. I’m sure reading kernel stuff requires much more advanced knowledge than what I have but it’s really not a large barrier.

variable width extrusions are great, you can get a whole lot more detail in thin areas just automatically now

There’s also tree supports (usually less material and much easier to design for and remove), lightning infill (weak infill for non-structural models)

maybe some other features that i’m forgetting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine