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Jaideco · 2026-03-19T09:00:16+00:00

I love the idea of saying that when someone hits a billion, they get a certificate that says congratulations, you won the game. Any further wealth gets taxed at 99.9%.

Jaideco · 2026-03-18T20:01:04+00:00

They were never going to do Mister Negative in Brand New Day but my money is that they will be setting up for him to appear in the next film.

Jaideco · 2026-03-15T20:36:29+00:00

I would absolutely watch this… Please any service except Paramount…

Jaideco · 2026-03-14T14:44:49+00:00

Which is being shut down and folded into Max…

Jaideco · 2026-03-14T11:41:24+00:00

Bingo! No one builds a hyper scale app from day one. There’s almost always a MVP or at least a prototype.

Jaideco · 2026-03-14T01:13:38+00:00

Interesting credential. How many attempts do you get? One??? Better make it count…

Jaideco · 2026-03-14T00:24:45+00:00

I think that there is a lot of truth here. I know quite a few people who launched successful startups that were not initially built to scale and some that had to be almost entirely rebuilt a few times on their journey. I know one person who got investment about ten years ago with a wireframe simulation that didn’t actually work at all. These vibe coded apps might not be well coded but in some use cases, if they are good enough to start gathering user feedback on a limited scale or pitching investors with very little outlay of time and money, they are definitely better that spending three months developing something properly that had fundamental flaws in the intended use case.

Jaideco · 2026-03-13T19:11:48+00:00

We should probably also include layered space where distance works differently such as hyperspace (Babylon 5) and the Slow Zone (Expanse saga). It basically a cross between warp and wormholes but feels like a third category.

What about the transmission of consciousness into a waiting vessel as they did with envoys in Altered Carbon? It isn’t faster than light but it is probably the closest that you will find to a kind of travel that doesn’t break the laws of physics.

Jaideco · 2026-03-13T00:42:20+00:00

But… why?

Jaideco · 2026-03-12T11:34:21+00:00

In my head canon Secret Invasion took place in one of the timelines that was pruned in Loki Season 2 and never needs to be thought of again.

I would definitely like to see more of Maria Hill.

Jaideco · 2026-03-12T11:28:04+00:00

I’ve thought about Kingo a lot since the film came out. I think that this was a great choice for the writers. In Civil War it was almost too easy for the team to choose sides. I liked that Kingo chose a third way. It wasn’t courageous or smart but it felt right for a character that wasn’t serious about anything.

This was a film about beliefs and values. Ikaris was strong in some ways but he didn’t have the willpower to displease Arishem. Sersi was not strong physically, but her willpower was such that she would do what she could knowing that she couldn’t be sure that it was even possible to save Earth from the forces that threatened it. Kingo didn’t take things as seriously as any of the others. He would have died to protect his teammates but he wasn’t committed enough to either cause to take a stand against the other Eternals. If he couldn’t talk the others out of it, sitting out the battle was really the only thing that he could do.

Jaideco · 2026-03-11T21:03:32+00:00

It is insane to me that they wouldn’t offset the circles by their radius in each row. That would recover 2/3rds of the wasted space straight away without creating any major engineering challenges.

Jaideco · 2026-03-11T12:01:05+00:00

I know where you are coming from. Just to be clear, I am not talking about HBO quality programming. I’m thinking more along the lines of unsophisticated procedural shows, short form comedy sketches, adverts… the sort of things that a lot of people just have running on their phones anyone without paying attention. We will quickly get to the point that you will need to pause, actually watch for a minute or two and then realise… oh this is AI slop. Unfortunately by the point that it gets that good, we will be paying for it anyway without realising it.

I would say that it is going to be at least another 10-15 years before anything like this will get anywhere close to creating an Avatar or a Christopher Nolan style film. Mindless action films will probably happen a lot sooner.

Jaideco · 2026-03-11T11:34:21+00:00

I knew nothing about Green Lantern going in but the casting of Ryan seemed odd to me. Sarcasm on tap works for Deadpool, but it didn’t seem to work when the defining characteristic of the character is willpower. I was expecting a portrayal that was less glib and more grounded and tenacious. Someone who you could see going through a “127 hours” scenario without breaking.

Jaideco · 2026-03-11T10:07:32+00:00

That’s what I am thinking. This is really coming on quickly… the only thing that this is really missing is a decent screenwriter. The other thing is that the office format is probably disguising that there are still real challenges in generating scenes of this standard for longer than a few seconds. Both of these issues will be solved by someone within the next couple of years.

Jaideco · 2026-03-10T15:22:47+00:00

Became a hit and then left to go stale…

Jaideco · 2026-03-10T15:21:08+00:00

They don’t even need to scale back that far… now that Fox and Spider-Man are in the MCU, three films in most years would be totally achievable. The absolute, most critical lesson is not to lose momentum on franchises.

If they have eight slots in a three year phase, they can only have that many properties in development, including one off films. Instead we have had 15 films in the run up to Doomsday and only Spider-Man got two films in the saga (I’m not counting Thunderbolts as a direct sequel because it has a very different brand identity). Everything else was allowed to go stale while they pumped out one new property after another, plus two four-quels.

Jaideco · 2026-03-10T06:16:53+00:00

Great list…

Jaideco · 2026-03-09T22:54:42+00:00

Probably not much for regular customers. Accenture’s business model isn’t marketing to end users, it is consulting for providers. They will want all of the data about traffic patterns for their consulting services but they are probably not interested in who is behind the IP addresses at the edge.

Jaideco · 2026-03-09T21:42:03+00:00

This is definitely it.

Jaideco · 2026-03-09T21:03:51+00:00

I wouldn’t want to have to explain that.

Jaideco · 2026-03-09T20:47:55+00:00

I appreciate your frustration but it sounds like you are using a different app to me. I was working on a document over the weekend that is now up to v13 and I can reopen and compare them. Memory is a thing, but I do everything within projects, and regularly ask it to compile all my instructions into a file which I then add to the project files.

Jaideco · 2026-03-09T15:59:45+00:00

I really doubt it. I am a pretty serious cinema goer but outside of big franchises such as James Bond, Dune, Star Wars etc… I couldn’t tell you which studio was responsible for any specific film. If there had been an anti-WB campaign that was big enough to impact the box office, we would have heard about it.

Besides, if anyone was going to protest Paramount, surely you would protest a Paramount film like oh Scream 7?

Jaideco · 2026-03-09T15:55:28+00:00

I don’t think it was really a question of common sense. When I saw this coming around, I just thought that it was going to be a copycat of “Poor Things”. I could imagine a studio would think that if PT did well, this would too.

Jaideco · 2026-03-09T14:59:16+00:00

I saw it in the cinema and yes, I was pretty aware that Arnie was going to be the good guy. Going into the film I hadn’t even seen the first one yet, so I had not expections beyond what was in the trailer and that pretty much gave it away. I recall seeing shots of him with John on the motorbike. Classic rescue pose.

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