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I said that after watching it.

The sci-fi element really didn't add anything to the story it could have just been a fun blockbuster action flick and it would have worked fine.

So it is a claim then. Because there's no actual evidence that the scenario being suggested is happening. Sure it's possible it's happening but no actual evidence. Therefore the best it can be is a claim.

Like words have meaning you know. You can't just decide they don't because it's inconvenient for your particular narrative.

Nope because only you would be so stupid as to think of people playing games as some kind of class.

One of my managers is like that, I've known him for about 5 years and he's been the biggest idiot I've ever met the entire time. But ever since AI came out he's turned it up to 11.

Fortunately my other manager can't stand him, and they have blazing arguments, so generally speaking if he tells me to do something I don't like / want to do, I go and tattle tell.

I still think it's hilarious as it's named after the road.

Writing it as G*mers just makes you look like a total pillock.

I used to work for a company that made blinds that people could order online and would then have to put up themselves and one person left a negative review because they dropped the set of blinds on their head while trying to install it.

The owner was delighted because it was such a stupid 1 star review. Anyone reading it would just laugh at the person leaving the review and wouldn't think negatively of the company.

Yeah I do sort of wonder what the point of his channel is. Every now and then one of his videos will be recommended and I'll watch it, but I've learnt that there is absolutely no point because they're all exactly the same. He always picks every lock within about 4 seconds.

I'm not really interested in knowing which locks I shouldn't buy. I want to know which locks I should.

All the lock picking channels are like that though, I think they feel that if they upload video where they can't get into a lock, that means that in some way they've failed. So they don't do it.

I just find Lewis Rossman to be an incredibly irritating person. I appreciate what he's doing but at a personal level I can't stand him. He's just very whiny.

Well we are woke Arabic numbers.

Quite frankly it's disgusting. That's why I only eat food that has lots of healthy e numbers, MSG, and added sugar. As God intended.

Yeah but it's also the daily mail who are reporting this so default assumptions.

It might be possible to get into output wirelessly, it has a dedicated radio for video output so presumably if you just stuck an adaptor into your TV you could just cast to it. Could be quite a nice setup if you wanted it to be able to connect to both your computer in the study and your TV in the living room.

Oh yeah, and and they would mostly be terrible, except one brand no one has ever heard of but, it's apparently a big name in China, and called something like Zloks would inexplicably be the king of that particular niche product.

I hate the Wi-Fi remote thing. My TV has a Wi-Fi remote and it runs off of AA battery and they last about 4 days and then run out. If I hadn't replaced them with rechargeable ones they would have probably had to open a new landfill site just for my old batteries.

As much as I agree I think it would have been a bad move for them to do that. The devices success is already highly dependant on its price, which is still in flux as far as I understand, there is no reason for them to make the decision even more difficult.

It's got DP as well though so it's not all that bad. We really should be pushing manufacturers over to DP anyway.

It's literally the same feature set.

Well I used to go to Vegas quite often for conferences and now that's stopped because apparently no one else wants to go either. I think they are having it in Leeds this year, which is quite the downgrade let me tell you.

Better food though.

I do not understand how people at these advertising agencies are so bad at their actual jobs.

I used to work in an advertising agency, the job is done by humans who go home and watch TV and play video games and generally interact with the rest of the human race on a fairly regular basis. There's no way in hell that they failed to register the public's dissatisfaction with AI. So how do they then sit in a pitch meeting and recommend its use?

I guarantee what happened here is that McDonald's wanted things to be cheap and so wanted to use AI, and the advertising agency just wanted to get McDonald's business so didn't push back on it as hard as they should have done. And look it's now done damage to their brand. They better come out with a statement real quick to clarify that it was McDonald's decision and not theirs, otherwise clients are going to be concerned that they're trying to cut corners.

Part of the job is to tell clients when they're being unreasonable. There was a property developer that we worked with a lot and he was always trying to get us to do deceptive things such as using CGI shots of his housing estate rather than the actual shots because the properties didn't look anything like what was being depicted in the CGI shots. I'm sure if we were doing it today he would be trying to use AI as well. Fortunately my boss was always able to talk him out of these decisions pointing out that it would simply result in him getting a reputation for dishonesty, and would in the long term hurt him.

Time travel movies either need to be not really about the time travel. Or all about the time travel.

In the first instance the time machine is basically just a plot device. So you can have the story set in mediaeval Europe or 5,000 years in the future or whatever. E.g. The Time Machine, Doctor Who, Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. This is the most common depiction of time travel.

In the second case the time machine is almost a character, e.g. Primer, and the plot of the game Quantum Break. It allows people to have access to abilities that other people in the story do not have, and fundamentally changes what is possible for those characters.

But Tenant isn't either of those two, it's a third option which I don't think I've ever seen before where the time machine basically just rewrites the rules of the universe. Everyone knows about the pseudo time travel, but not really time travel technology and so no one really has any advantage over anyone else. So it ends up just being a John Wick style action movie where everyone has access to time travel, so it kind of cancels itself out. It's really unclear why the technology even needs to be in the story, or what it adds to the story.

Christopher Nolan has a bit of a tendency to make complicated movies, and he seems to think that that's the same thing as making good movies. Sometimes that works like in Inception, and other times you get just a weird complicated mess that doesn't really have anything to say for itself.