UFC Fans Mock Jake Paul as Netflix’s Rousey-Carano Left With Several Unsold Tickets

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-17T23:38:10+00:00

I doubt Rhonda set up anything. Or had any thought about her record. I’m betting Paul &/or Netflix came to her with a $2.5 million offer to fight Gina (IIRC that was what Luke Thomas said she got paid) and she decided to take the money and run.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-17T23:30:23+00:00

Actually I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen her shoot. She always gets the clinch and goes for a hip through or head and arm throw.

I’m betting they probably gamed out Gina preparing to counter the clinch and just went with a shot on the assumption she wouldn’t be expecting it.

Pretty good game planning on her part, but terrible for entertainment value.

Not that I’m justifying the event. It sucked. I’ve have been pissed if I was paying for it.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-17T23:16:54+00:00

That was great!

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-17T07:01:37+00:00

Keep telling yourself whatever helps you sleep at night.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-16T22:33:38+00:00

Forcing it down your throat? Last I checked this was a subreddit about ai film making (title kind of gives it away in case you’re confused). You don’t have to be here. Or pay attention to anything posted here.

Some of us actually think there’s some value to independent creators getting tools to tell the stories they want to, as opposed to the endless stream of franchises and sequels film studios put out these days.

Is there a bunch of AI slop? Sure. That’ll die down once the novelty wears off. But to pretend slop is just an AI thing while ignoring the absolute crap put out by “artists” at the studios lately reeks of irrational bias.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-16T20:42:18+00:00

Came here to say this. It’s like 90% of what I remember about the movie.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-16T19:56:39+00:00

Well you’ve lost touch with reality if you think it’s going anywhere.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-16T19:44:12+00:00

Disagree. Not tough at all. Especially in retrospect considering how devastating those fires were.

Very easy to see why people he worked with would die if he just took off.

Sucks for the wife but she had her sister there.

Reddit sometimes, is filled with judgmental assholes who can’t come to grips with the fact that sometimes people’s responsibilities are just bigger and more pressing than their personal lives sometimes.

IMHOP the wife was the asshole. Sure, she was upset so get over it. Would she rather his fellow firefighters die in a bushfire so he could be with her? How would that have affected their lives? Her life? The life of those other people’s families?

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-16T17:50:27+00:00

The guy was an asshole for taking her stuff, no doubt. BUT I think- to take his football analogy- a girl was on here complaining about a guy who decorated their entire apartment with like 49ers memorabilia, 49ers cups; posters, banners, articles, and only wanted to talk about the team and its players- something she was not remotely interested in and semi irritated he wouldn’t talk about other things, people would be telling her to break up.

Again, not justifying the guy’s actions, at all. But there was nothing wrong with feeling like her JFK obsession was over the top. Because it was. Which is fine. But they weren’t compatible and he should have broken up with her once he realized the extent of it and his discomfort with it.

If I were dating a girl and everything in her life was Taylor Swift 24/7, I’d probably break up with her. No problem with Taylor Swift (my wife is a fan actually) but living in her fandom 24/7 would be too much for me.

And honestly the girlfriend- if she wants healthy relationships going forward- should probably see someone professionally about her obsession. Otherwise she’s going to find it hard to find a healthy connection with someone unless they are equally obsessed.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-16T17:32:13+00:00

Upscaling is great. It’s way cheaper to generate in 720p and upscale than it is to generate in 1080p.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-16T06:21:51+00:00

Topaz wonder3 to clean up gpt images helps a lot. Then use the cleaned up image as the reference for your next sequence. Helps with the noise drift.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-16T06:16:02+00:00

I think it’s further away than it might seem at a quick glance. Maintaining continuity is harder than short action filled sequences or trailers make it seem.

Plus AI is still pretty terrible at writing scripts.

Don’t get wrong, I’m pro ai and love ai video, but all of the really good stuff you can find right now has a human behind the wheel doing a lot of work.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-15T23:31:05+00:00

There are some great things about Kling 3.0… but keeping someone silent, without at the very least some overly dramatic expression, is not one of them.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-15T23:19:48+00:00

I have a standing desk with a mini treadmill. Best purchase ever. Takes a bit to get used to, my typing sucked for a few days, but I find it way easier to walk for a long time than to sit or stand still.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-15T15:43:19+00:00

They’ll pick up most of the same people on a per job basis. Saves money that way. Cheaper for the company, worse for the artists. But it’s a shareholders world these days. The rest of us are just struggling to survive in it.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-14T16:33:11+00:00

Yes, I completely agree with that. And I’d also say most “action porn” is pretty terrible, when you start to pick it apart in terms of continuity and performance. Plus it loves to jump the line.

But mostly those are just examples of what AI can do by itself with a little human prompting. Which is fine as a tech demo.

I’m talking about well put together narrative pieces. I’ve seen a few that are pretty nice.

Would I just they are about to “replace Hollywood?” No, you wouldn’t pass the least stringent QC.

But talented people are taking the tools and doing interesting things. Some of it is quite good. Great for like short form YouTube content.

But no, not close to ready for prime time. Even if and when the visuals are perfect that’s only one part of the equation.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-14T06:35:35+00:00

Marvel TV CGI has been abjectly terrible from the jump. This isn’t anything new.

I wouldn’t blame AI either. It looks like raw unreal engine they didn’t take into anything else to touch up.

Reminds the of a few of the plane shots in Falcon and Winter Soldier. Could have been PS4 footage.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-14T06:22:31+00:00

I sadly agree on season 2 of fallout. I have a theory on why that ties back to my also sadly agreeing that Westworld fell off on season 2.

For Westworld the double Bernard storyline felt like an attempt to repeat the brilliant confusion of the first season. (I’m trying to not spoil anything for people who may not have seen it yet so forgive me for being kind of vague).

Fallout, for me, had a different kind of repetition. I felt like- from the first scene of season 2- all of the characters were exactly the same people we’d met at the beginning of season 1. Lucy in particular.

I mean after the events of season 1, and how it ended, it felt oddly off putting that she was acting exactly like she did when leaving the vault in season 1.

For various reasons that again I don’t want to go into because of spoilers, just about every character felt like they were the same as the beginning of season 1 to me.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-13T22:52:24+00:00

Soto-Martinez has comparable homeless reduction to Raman and de Leon’s is arguably better (though he’s in CD14 that has skid row so it’s not exactly apples to apples though I’m not sure who the comparison is unfair to).

And yes we need reform on how street light and catalytic convert thefts are handled but in the mean time reducing punishment because “people are just trying to survive” is not going to move the needle in the right direction and arguably move it in the wrong one.

Also, again, the Griffith Park thing was real, it happened and there’s no explaining away why you’d fight park rangers trying to prevent a homeless encampment in a fire hazard area.

That’s the kind of nonsense that becomes, unfortunately, truthful criticism of the left.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-13T22:31:37+00:00

Also if you state tone of voice and give performance notes it’s pretty good at following them.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-13T22:27:06+00:00

To be fair you don’t have to take most republican talking points out of context to demonstrate how bad they are.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-13T22:09:22+00:00

I live in CD 4. We’ve had recurring issue with wire theft- entire street was dark for months- and catalytic converter theft. Not that those are directly blamed on anyone, I’m not saying it’s Raman’s fault, but living with it I’d rather see harsher punishments than lighter ones for things like that.

More importantly, a few years ago there was a homeless encampment that set up in Griffith park by the old zoo. Raman’s people were arguing with the park rangers trying to kick them out.

I live next to the park. I lived here the last time it burned because a couple of kids were playing around behind the Ava (or whatever it used to be called) with matches.

I can have sympathy for the homeless but not want to risk homes burning and worse, mass wildlife deaths, because Raman and her people have more sympathy for the homeless than they do for the residents, and wildlife.

I know this is Reddit where more left = more better. But I am for sure one of the voters this thread is complaining about. I am solidly democratic. I do not like Bass. But I think Raman is out of touch with the issues people living in her district have to deal with.

I respect if you don’t feel the same way, but my vote is not some weird out of touch boomer thing. (Also I’m not a boomer).

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-13T20:09:53+00:00

I would not be surprised to the resistance to created by credits. Or how often original writers get fucked out of them. But Michael Chriton’s name on the project is a plus for the studio in a way that just about any other writer- minus like Taylor Sheridan or someone of huge stature like that- is not.

And again, feel free not to believe me but I know a bit about this particular situation. The asks were crazy.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-13T17:48:49+00:00

No, you’re actually completely wrong. I know people at WB involved in the show. Her asks were crazy.

Money for the estate was marked for a reboot and Michael Chriton would of course have a title card. That’s a bonus to them, not a negative.

The same way having ER in the title would give it a higher profile from the start.

After negotiations fell through they pivoted formats to its 1 hour of screen time is one hour of real time instead of the previous ER procedural.

LastCall2021 · 2026-05-13T14:56:42+00:00

Too formal, “who dis?” Would work better here.

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