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 Topic: The AI Thread |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 1678
Views: 166593
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 Forum: General chatter Posted: Mon, 21st Sep 2026 18:44 Subject: The AI Thread |
I see we are still in the "it's just a stochastic parrot" phase.
Notwithstanding there is direct evidence that internal world models exist and they generalize instead of using pure statistical patte ... |
| Topic: Reacher (Amazon TV Series, 2021–) |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 59
Views: 11132
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Sun, 20th Sep 2026 19:06 Subject: Reacher (Amazon TV Series, 2021–) |
| I was thinking the same. I'd say it wasn't awful but something felt off and it was very contrived. |
| Topic: American Horror Story |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 609
Views: 79493
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Sat, 19th Sep 2026 01:28 Subject: American Horror Story |
| A "greatest hits crossover season". So more of the self-absorbed wannabe avant-garde metafiction. With every season they go deeper into the hole. I miss the time when it were more contained and focuse ... |
| Topic: Lanterns (DC, TV Series, HBO) |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 29
Views: 2535
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Fri, 18th Sep 2026 00:16 Subject: Lanterns (DC, TV Series, HBO) |
Every now and then there is this whining and self-pity about how hard minorities have it. Sounds like they still live in colonial times.  |
| Topic: Lanterns (DC, TV Series, HBO) |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 29
Views: 2535
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2026 19:09 Subject: Lanterns (DC, TV Series, HBO) |
| It's a smart move to have a first climax in the middle, unlike many other shows that drag on around this point in the season |
| Topic: The official South Park Thread. |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 1295
Views: 148170
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Tue, 15th Sep 2026 10:16 Subject: The official South Park Thread. |
Nah it's South America now. That date announcement was uploaded a couple of weeks ago.
Here's the new promo:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KvnhB_OXIeM |
| Topic: The AI Thread |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 1678
Views: 166593
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Forum: General chatter Posted: Tue, 15th Sep 2026 09:09 Subject: The AI Thread |
AI doesn't need to be sentient to have AGI-like capabilities. There will be enough disruptions even with non sentient AIs and their swarms of Agents.
The question is whether this disruptive era of "w ... |
| Topic: The official South Park Thread. |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 1295
Views: 148170
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2026 15:21 Subject: The official South Park Thread. |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OSXglZg-6E |
| Topic: Special Ops: Lioness (Paramount+ TV Series, 2023) |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 44
Views: 115916
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2026 15:19 Subject: Special Ops: Lioness (Paramount+ TV Series, 2023) |
| It's a strong season but so far never reached the budget and level of 3x01 again. |
| Topic: The AI Thread |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 1678
Views: 166593
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Forum: General chatter Posted: Fri, 11th Sep 2026 14:58 Subject: The AI Thread |
| I think/hope it is most likely that a superintelligence will be aware of the vastness of space and relative rareness and value of higher intelligent lifeforms so they would leave us (safely) behind ev ... |
| Topic: The AI Thread |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 1678
Views: 166593
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Forum: General chatter Posted: Fri, 11th Sep 2026 12:45 Subject: The AI Thread |
| It's likely that a superintelligent AI will recruit human agents to do their bidding and manipulate stuff in the physical world. Most won't even be aware of it. |
| Topic: The AI Thread |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 1678
Views: 166593
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Forum: General chatter Posted: Thu, 10th Sep 2026 18:56 Subject: The AI Thread |
| 25% chance |
| Topic: Microsoft saving PC gaming again |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 2321
Views: 299465
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2026 01:23 Subject: Microsoft saving PC gaming again |
Holy shit  Worse than predicted, and it was predicted back when cloud gaming started. They haven't even taken away our hardware yet, looks like enough people are hooked already so they take thi ... |
| Topic: Crysis Remustard [Orly Access] |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 422
Views: 69430
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 2nd Sep 2026 09:36 Subject: Crysis Remustard [Orly Access] |
DLSS in Crysis looks a bit like Clarity.fx I've been using for ages, but more advanced.link plz?
It's this one I think:
https://github.com/BlueSkyDefender/AstrayFX/blob/master/Shaders/Clarity.fx ... |
| Topic: Crysis Remustard [Orly Access] |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 422
Views: 69430
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 2nd Sep 2026 09:19 Subject: Crysis Remustard [Orly Access] |
| DLSS in Crysis looks a bit like Clarity.fx I've been using for ages, but more advanced. |
| Topic: Unabomber (Netflix Film, September 25th) |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 4
Views: 712
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Thu, 27th Aug 2026 21:29 Subject: Unabomber (Netflix Film, September 25th) |
This is a movie I think, not a show  |
| Topic: House of the Dragon (GoT Prequel Series, HBO, 2022) |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 430
Views: 58606
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Mon, 24th Aug 2026 09:18 Subject: House of the Dragon (GoT Prequel Series, HBO, 2022) |
| Season 3 starts strong and ends strong but between that, something is missing. There should have been some kind of highlight in the middle. |
| Topic: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount, 2022–) |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 66
Views: 14799
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Fri, 7th Aug 2026 20:46 Subject: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount, 2022–) |
Ofcourse, this ep was written by some millenial chick. Good news: Season 5 will only have 6 episodes.
I hope you're looking forward to S04E09
S04E09 - Once La'An a Time
We return to the E ... |
| Topic: Futurama back again! |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 333
Views: 65269
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Wed, 5th Aug 2026 10:55 Subject: Futurama back again! |
| It's solid Futurama imo, neither groundbreaking nor disappointing |
| Topic: Big Bang Theory |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 237
Views: 40938
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Sat, 1st Aug 2026 00:04 Subject: Big Bang Theory |
It's not that bad so far. A bit like Sliders but stupid. Stupid Sliders
Kripke and Bert are the best characters  |
| Topic: Batman: Arkham Knight |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 4073
Views: 503327
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 29th Jul 2026 09:45 Subject: Batman: Arkham Knight |
| The development team also needs to be made up of a very specific combination of people to be able to create legendary games. But look at Rocksteady, almost all the talented people are gone or moved on ... |
| Topic: The AI Thread |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 1678
Views: 166593
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Forum: General chatter Posted: Tue, 28th Jul 2026 08:37 Subject: The AI Thread |
Most speeches, commercials, dissertations, music etc. were already low effort, plagiarized slop before LLMs, and it was progressively getting worse.
AI appeared just in time and fulfilled a massive ... |
| Topic: The AI Thread |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 1678
Views: 166593
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Forum: General chatter Posted: Fri, 24th Jul 2026 17:15 Subject: The AI Thread |
So Green and Blue -> Bomb
Purple and Red -> Protest
The Orange ones have priority (because of the trillions gallons of water they use) and at the bottom you can donate to Ukraine
Got it
:lo ... |
| Topic: Fucking heat |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 406
Views: 77246
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Forum: The Bitching Session Posted: Thu, 23rd Jul 2026 15:04 Subject: Fucking heat |
It's true, the American GFS weather model sucks and has been off for quite a while now. Temperatures are usually too high and it has become increasingly inaccurate.
Best to use forecast with the Euro ... |
| Topic: Fucking heat |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 406
Views: 77246
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Forum: The Bitching Session Posted: Thu, 23rd Jul 2026 11:23 Subject: Fucking heat |
| Weather models are back predicting another hellish heatwave in Europe starting around July 28-30 |
| Topic: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount, 2022–) |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 66
Views: 14799
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Thu, 23rd Jul 2026 10:26 Subject: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount, 2022–) |
Star.Trek.Strange.New.Worlds.S04E01.Valles.Marineris.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-FLUX
The cringe continues |
| Topic: The Odyssey (dir: Christopher Nolan) |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 269
Views: 29086
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Thu, 23rd Jul 2026 09:58 Subject: The Odyssey (dir: Christopher Nolan) |
All this was because of the stupid Mel Gibson meme. AI is not yet ready to make good enough feature length films, but at the current rate of progress we should be there in about 1,5 years.
Besides ... |
| Topic: Madmax17's AI slop corner |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 3
Views: 319
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Forum: Jokes, Stories, Quotes, Web games, Cool Links Posted: Wed, 22nd Jul 2026 00:53 Subject: Madmax17's AI slop corner |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wbtt2JxP7g
Short film by Blomkamp, made with Seedance 2. Kinda derivative and like a shitty SyFy production, but on a technical level we're making some strides.
... |
| Topic: The Odyssey (dir: Christopher Nolan) |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 269
Views: 29086
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Mon, 20th Jul 2026 01:43 Subject: The Odyssey (dir: Christopher Nolan) |
Not gonna watch it until the Web-dl so I can't rate it for some time but it looks like the woke casting and misplaced modern language was not enough to ruin an otherwise well done movie.
If its good ... |
| Topic: The Odyssey (dir: Christopher Nolan) |
Shocktrooper
Replies: 269
Views: 29086
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Forum: Movie & TV Sparks Posted: Sat, 18th Jul 2026 12:39 Subject: The Odyssey (dir: Christopher Nolan) |
Forget RT. But Imdb user scores are usually the most trustworthy because the ideologues cancel each other out
Unweighted mean is at 7.7/10 at the moment, weighted mean is 8.3/10
So not that bad. In ... |
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