Start doing this.
thefunkycomitatus
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I haven't seen it but from what I read it is a different cut than the previously released version(s) called "The Whole Bloody Affair." It's even different than the cut Tarantula showed in his own personal theater all these years. The version you posted in the second link is a fan edit, not an official release. The one out in theaters now is Tarantula's version. It will probably get a special anniversary edition physical release at some point.
Being a Charlie Kirk could, potentially, have more influence and money than being a VP.
I'm a little curious how the AI version works with much accuracy. If the context window is like 1M tokens, that sounds like a lot. But it would have to tokenize the whole book and that book gets fed into prompt behind the scenes with every question. Everytime you ask a question not only is the LLM having to process your question, but it gets fed the entire prompt + book. Plus it gets fed all your previous conversation for the session. If you're asking it questions about a Dostoevsky book, you're probably going to fill up the context window pretty fast if not immediately. Then it will just start hallucinating answers because it can't process all the context.
If they're doing something fancy with tokenization or doing some kind of memory thing, then it seems like it would be suited for a standalone program. But it also says they're using local LLMs on your computer? I mean those are going to have small context windows for sure. It seems like bloat as well. In order to run those models locally, you need to download the tensors. Those are several GB in size. I don't want my e-book library management software to do that.
I looked up her agent because I was curious. Her agent just left one talent management company for another. Like a few days ago. Sidney is keeping her agent so technically she is under a new agency. I'm curious if this is part of a new PR package the new place created for her.
She got drunk and went flag shopping with a group of marines back in 2010. They just didn't understand back then.
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From what I have read, because I will NEVER listen to the show's official podcast, Mr Diabetes was actually going to be the main character. In the earliest drafts the show centered on him. He's a guy who has gotten everything he ever wanted at the end of the world. But Vince eventually felt there wasn't enough drama with that character so he came up with Carol. The way I see it, he's a poor person who suddenly won the lottery. He's copying Carol with her avacado toast because he's never had it. He's exploring all the options he never got to try before p-day. As for the actor himself, he was cast because other actors came off too sleazy. The writers seem to acknowledge his hedonism but also want to make sure that he's seen as somewhat aloof and warm. Therefore the phone call, to me, is him genuinely sympathizing with Carol. He's talking to the plurbs like they're Carol's ex. Telling them to take it easy on her. Or he's on the phone with one of the remainders, asking to include her in the groupchat.
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I'm surprised by the reveal. I faked myself out by thinking Vince was going to do a twist and subvert our expectations of traditional invasion tropes. Also pay close attention to what the plurbs said. They said they would not take stem cells from Carol's body. However in the ice hotel flashback, Carol says she froze her eggs. The plurbs can't lie but they can still wiggle through technicalities.
It's also funny that Carol is, once again, the one catching up. The other remainders ask questions, talk, discuss, and actually engage with the plurb. Therefore they get info that Carol does not. Her personality loses once again.
I'm curious if Paraguay guy is actually immune. He seems like a shut-in. He hasn't been physically close with any plurb that we have seen. He hasn't touched anything they have touched. We know the way they spread is by exchanging fluids or aerosols. If he was never exposed to either, he would have never been infected. The plurbs didn't even know he existed until after everyone else was turned. Them sending his mom in to get physically close was a tactic to infect him. Maybe we haven't seen it but he could have killed a plurb who tried to get close at some point. I'm probably looking for a twist where there isn't one.
The farming thing is weird. They can't even harm plants by harvesting them? So they're never going to mow the grass or cut back any overgrowth? The entire world will be The Last of Us because trimming a tree is seen as harming life? Also picking apples from a tree doesn't harm it, that's why they fall off the tree in the first place. It's a reproductive thing. Why would they be unable to harvest fruit? Also they don't want to do robotic farming because the plurbs would have to do labor? I'm going to need more exposition on this because it makes little sense.
If they are then the self-loathing is off the charts. Part of their essay on feminine beauty is about what women can learn from fictional depictions of women (anime, video games) and then even saying that AI women also have something to teach. Even if you bypass the misogyny, they don't seem to have any human dignity nor are willing to see it in others.
Genuinely dumbfounded at this one. This is like one of those internet personalities you discover in 2006 and they eventually become a meme. After some digging, I'm even more bewildered. They are cited by an odd blog post on masculine beauty and are referred to as her/she. The blog on masculine beauty, not written by Senalic, sounds like a drawn out 4chan post about how men are unfairly judged by women. But back to J Senalic being a woman.
The only way J Sanilac is a woman is if she was a pick me for misogynists. I can't cant even fathom Marget Thatcher talking about women the way J does. It seems distinctly male. They used to go by "EvilVizier" and called themselves a beauty poster. However it seems that account was about something really gross and weird. They seem to like to role play as an orientalist character that enslaves women. J Senalic has a story on their blog that is a fictional memoir of someone who is a human trafficker for "the Sultan." He posts lots of nude women from old oil paintings while writing this weird fetish shit out. So this fantasy about sexual exploitation is tied into this idea of true feminine beauty. He even wrote a whole tirade on historical beauty and how no fatties were allowed in response to people posting fertility art as example of body acceptance.
"J Senalic" seems like a nome de plume based on some weird love for orientalist literature and art. They write historical fiction like a 10 year old whose favorite movie is Aladdin and that's all they know about the middle east. Just really bizarre.
He also seems to have a bit of a wry streak, like someone trying to copy Maddox but for inane boomer shit. He wrote a blog post about eliminating attached garages in the same smug, wry style that every blogger in 2004 used. Then wrote an epic rant about why low-density housing is the best. Again, just really weird stuff. Someone stuck out of time. Giving this person social media is a crime.
I would just find the books in .epub to begin with. PDF is an evil format. Just in case anyone needs book sources:
https://fmhy.net/reading