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  3. Comment on Wicked | Official trailer in ~movies

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    Desperately wish this wasn't a musical, and absolutely wish this wasn't based on that second-tier version of a musical. The book (and series!) is so good and so much better in every way.

    Desperately wish this wasn't a musical, and absolutely wish this wasn't based on that second-tier version of a musical.

    The book (and series!) is so good and so much better in every way.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Dune: Prophecy | Official teaser in ~tv

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    Welcome to... Survivor. That's all I can hear from that background music. Looks interesting, definitely happy to have more Dune, if anything it will likely inspire more people to appreciate and...

    Welcome to... Survivor. That's all I can hear from that background music.

    Looks interesting, definitely happy to have more Dune, if anything it will likely inspire more people to appreciate and check out Foundation.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015) in ~science

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    This video showing them touching the visuals is pretty cool. Long shot, but one step closer to programmable matter?

    This video showing them touching the visuals is pretty cool.

    Long shot, but one step closer to programmable matter?

  9. Comment on Megalopolis | Teaser trailer in ~movies

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    This seriously looks like it's going to be my next favorite movie.

    This seriously looks like it's going to be my next favorite movie.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Mortgage companies could intensify the next recession, US officials warn in ~finance

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    After last time, and our massive bailouts, I am sure that's exactly what they are hoping for.

    Nonbank mortgage companies have “vulnerabilities” that could cause them to “amplify and transmit the effect of a shock to the mortgage market and broader financial system,” FSOC said.

    For example, if home prices crash in a future crisis, mortgage companies could simultaneously lose money and face cash crunches that would make it hard for them to make required payments to investors on behalf of struggling borrowers, FSOC said. These challenges would be exacerbated by the relatively high amounts of debt these companies have.

    This pressure on nonbank mortgage companies would then hurt borrowers seeking mortgages and could force the federal government to assume the obligations, according to regulators.

    After last time, and our massive bailouts, I am sure that's exactly what they are hoping for.

    14 votes

  12. Comment on Please recommend me an anime to watch? in ~anime

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    +1 on DtB, one of my favorites. I would also add Ergo Proxy to that list of years, feels like a nice dark cyberpunk anime lines up fairly decent there.

    +1 on DtB, one of my favorites. I would also add Ergo Proxy to that list of years, feels like a nice dark cyberpunk anime lines up fairly decent there.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Please recommend me an anime to watch? in ~anime

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    Currently watching and enjoying Meiji Gekken 1874. I don't use CR, but it's on there. Newer anime, has a great older anime style with some of the cleanness of modern anime, sounds like it'll fit...

    Currently watching and enjoying Meiji Gekken 1874. I don't use CR, but it's on there. Newer anime, has a great older anime style with some of the cleanness of modern anime, sounds like it'll fit in well with your group there (it's a historical anime).

    Year 1874. Shizuma Origasa, once a samurai of the Aizu Domain and now working as a rickshaw puller, embarks on a quest to locate his missing fiancée, Sumie Kanomata. However, an unexpected turn of events thrusts him into the ranks of the newly established police force, entangling him in the pursuit of a conspiracy aiming to topple the government.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus, taking place in Tokyo starring Replicant detectives in ~comics

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    Really looking forward to this, a three way patent war, new synthetics, and independent replicant detectives? Tack on the fact the fact that we haven't explored very much outside of LA, this is...

    BLADE RUNNER: TOKYO NEXUS follows the sole survivors of an ill-fated Off-World military squad - Stix, a Replicant combat model, and Mead, a battle-hardened Marine - and their dogged search for an unknown traitor who lef them to die on the battlefield. After escaping back to Tokyo, the unlikely pair's quest for revenge leads to their formation of a clandestine private detective service.

    Stix and Mead stray into an even more treacherous battlefield, a three-way "patent war" between the ruthless operatives from the Tyrell Corporation and a rival tech company known as Cheshire, with its own version of synthetic humans, and powerful Yakuza clans wanting in on the action.

    Really looking forward to this, a three way patent war, new synthetics, and independent replicant detectives?

    Tack on the fact the fact that we haven't explored very much outside of LA, this is certainly going to be cool.

    9 votes

  16. Comment on Extreme G5 geomagnetic storm reaches Earth, NOAA says, following "unusual" solar event in ~space

  18. Comment on Starminer (announcement) in ~games

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    This video was released five months ago, but they also just released another trailer focused on building. Edit: Looks like it was posted back in September, but kind of hidden in the article itself...

    This video was released five months ago, but they also just released another trailer focused on building.

    Edit: Looks like it was posted back in September, but kind of hidden in the article itself about it, they just posted the new trailer which I linked above - so I'll let this stay.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Everything is Sludge, art in the post-human era in ~humanities

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    The video talks about this! Sludge isn't slop, sludge is primarily people-created videos and content that rely on placing 2+ videos on top of each other, so that you visually focus on, say,...

    The video talks about this! Sludge isn't slop, sludge is primarily people-created videos and content that rely on placing 2+ videos on top of each other, so that you visually focus on, say, someone jumping on blocks in minecraft, while listening to a podcast or a non-visually stimulating video at the top.

    Roosterteeth practically pioneered this in the early days through their "podcast as video, by using minecraft or GTA in the background" scheme of keeping listeners and people involved in their content. But, now its people repackaging content and applying a secondary visual layer to the bottom to hyper-increase mental focus.

    Slop on the otherhand, is for all the AI generated garbage that is being pushed out at a (literally) inhuman rate.

    7 votes