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Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
cyber year

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Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

haveblue posted:

owning a tesla should raise your insurance if it doesn't already, I don't know how car insurance works

I think they're already really expensive to insure

shouldn't be insurable if you have access to their self driving garbage imho

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
it's a kiosk with an alexa innit

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

graph posted:

alcoholic kcups were advertised p hard in lockdown, idk how they do that tho

Powered drink mix plus a small amount of liquid booze inside maybe?

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Jonny 290 posted:

Can we all shut the gently caress up about our particular micro sliver of maoism and all just hate the worker abusing for tiktok likes family for thirty loving seconds jesus christ

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

rotor posted:

i think gauss rifles are limited by the fact that magnets dont just turn off instantly so they're good at chucking heavy things slowly.

like maybe a gauss mortar could be a thing, idk

Time for the Davey Crockett 2022

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Flip em over

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Alan Smithee posted:

I mean the Star Wars hotel thing isnt even panning out well because of what a fyre fest it's turning out to be

though idk if not living up to simulation standards makes it more or less dystopian

i want deets, this sounds funny

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
lmao

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Achmed Jones posted:

i'm quasimodo at work but it's unrelated to by job duties

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

duz posted:

look, we have to start the universal century somehow

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
i believe all these old fucks in government literally want to take thr world with them when they die

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

chaosbreather posted:

imagine bragging that you're friends with a repo agent

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
plate o shrimp

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fujifilm-and-ibm-set-world-record-with-580tb-magnetic-tapes

i dunno, something about 500 TB on a tape medium strikes me as cyberpunk... "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE" making a comeback?

the casette future is back babey

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
big ps2 hands

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
Research Grade Gak, yes

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

BWEWEWEWEWE

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
is it because of the behavior of Eliza, one of the earliest chatbots, which was intended to imitate the behavior of a therapist, and would take things the user said previously and format them into new questions in exactly that fashion.
?

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
https://twitter.com/Science_Release/status/1530811882000777216

https://twitter.com/Science_Release/status/1530811898962522112

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Midjack posted:

i love these things but am currently too big of an idiot to make one myself.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

i'd drive it

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

ADINSX posted:

probably giving cops too much credit as they seem perfectly happy bumbling around, maybe get the wrong house, find the right house then make sure its clear: shoot your dog, horrify your children, etc.

Just because they wouldn't use it doesn't mean they won't buy it

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
regardless of what it would be used for we shouldn't be letting companies capture more data on us

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:

i heard her on conan o'brien needs a friend and after a brief technical interview she decided she didn't want him as a friend due to his various neuroses and death fixation

fair call imo

conan is a yosposter????

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

these losers managed to reinvent cults

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
there was a twitter thread about those nutjobs posted in the elon musk mockthread, long story short but they've convinced themselves that hypothetical digital minds are more important than currently living people

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

electronic old men and their flexibility

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Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

Chris Knight posted:

pretty excellent look at the behind the scenes of the T2 nuke scene
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/making-nuclear-apocalypse-iconic-sequence-terminator-2-created-141209.html

This is how it worked: The camera would be aimed at the matte painting of the undestroyed city. 4Ward employed a beam splitter which reflected a rear-projection image of the CG footage that had been scanned onto film. Then they wiped, with a blade that was moving across in front of the camera lens, that silhouette—effectively ‘wiping in’ the matte painting of the destroyed LA using the CG silhouettes as a transitional zone.

The final part of the effect was an additional matte painting with a previously shot miniature of a house on the hill being blown up (done with an air cannon). “What our final compositing camera was getting,” explained Skotak, “was the original photograph of the city, a beam split image of the CG of the buildings being destroyed, a blade moving across to make a split screen to wipe in the destroyed city, and then a separate projection that was done in the lower left corner of a previously shot miniature house being blown apart. And then we took that film and wound it back one more time and shot an air cannon at the camera to blow out that image.”

The one-take in-camera exposure was filmed on a hushed darkened stage, where nobody talked above a whisper. Soft ambient music was even piped in to aid in concentration. The team could not afford to make a mistake and re-shoot it. “It took hours to shoot it frame by frame to get the correct exposure,” said Skotak, “and then to wind the film back and then add that air cannon footage on top of that. So it was kind of a nerves of steel situation.”





i think that movie miniatures are what made me fall in love with minis

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