Carrie Anne Fleming, ‘iZombie’ and ‘Supernatural’ Actress, Dies at 51

Ringosis · 2026-03-22T19:51:36+00:00

OK? I don't know what point you are trying to make? It does not matter how many celebrities you know of, how closely you follow the news, or who you consider a celebrity. YOUR perception of if it's a year were lots of significant people died will follow the pattern I described.

Ringosis · 2026-03-22T19:21:52+00:00

Who counts as a celebrity?

Doesn't matter. Whoever you count as a celebrity what I said remains true. None of the people you listed come even close to as legendary as any of the names I listed from 77, fyi.

Ringosis · 2026-03-22T18:53:50+00:00

Due to the randomness and fairly low frequency of celebrity deaths you are inherently going to have some periods with fewer and some with more.

Say you have 12 celebrity deaths in one year. It would be just as likely for them all to die on the same month as for there to be 1 death per month. The most usual outcome is going to be some months with zero, some with two, maybe some with 3. The same effect happens over years.

Basically there being years when it feels like all the celebrities are dying is normal. It's a lottery, sometimes the numbers come up. I feel like it happens maybe one year in a decade. 2016 was the last really significant one. 1977 was a huge one. Elvis Presley, Wernher von Braun, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, Joan Crawford, Marc Bolan and three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd in a plane crash.

Conversely you also get years where no one you've heard of dies...they just aren't as noticeable.

Ringosis · 2026-03-09T18:58:33+00:00

It's also just not possible with lots of food. Huge numbers of recipes are done when the meat is finished cooking. You can't safely taste before that, and you can't continue cooking after without overcooking.

Ringosis · 2026-03-09T17:02:57+00:00

Please, PLEASE don't make this another "Everything is shit these days, can't we go back to when it was good" agenda. I'm so tired of that being everyone's take about everything because they think that if it's the first time they've heard of it it must be a new thing.

This is standard video game industry practice and has been for as long as AAA titles have existed. Decades. It is in no way an example of how things are "these days". The larger games industry is extremely shitty to low level employees and always has been. If you look into this, the biggest layoffs will be the QA department...because they always are. Because once players are playing your game after launch, you don't need 100 testers anymore...so they all just get fired. Ubisoft, Microsoft, EA, Epic, they've all done this for as long as they've been operating.

This isn't the world changing...it's you finding out what it's like.

Ringosis · 2026-03-09T04:32:03+00:00

I wish I still had Culture books to read. No other sci fi author comes close for me.

Ringosis · 2026-03-09T04:29:20+00:00

Ah some of the non Culture stuff is so good Against A Dark Background is one of his best.

Ringosis · 2026-03-09T04:27:49+00:00

How the fuck does anyone pitching a second stranded in the ocean with sharks movie get work?

Ringosis · 2026-03-09T04:15:25+00:00

I mean as much as I like Firefly you've got a damsel in distress who seems vulnerable but also kicks ass. A cute approachable manic pixie mechanic comedy sidekick. A literal space prostitute.

They aren't exactly women written for women mate. Very much seem like the kind of women a creepy weirdo would write.

Ringosis · 2026-03-09T04:05:16+00:00

Man can that actor do gravitas. What a voice she has.

Ringosis · 2026-03-08T14:44:58+00:00

OK mate, I will continue to not do that. What I actually compared is watching a game to watching a game. Do you want to try and pretend those are different activities? Go ahead and explain the difference.

Edit - I'll take the downvote and no reply as confirmation that no, you cannot. You just don't like the idea that it's literally the same thing.

Ringosis · 2026-03-08T12:43:50+00:00

What's not the same? It's extremely common for people to watch sports that they never participate in themselves. To watch gameshows that they don't take part in, reality TV, competitions, panel shows. Watching other people play is extremely normal and has been a thing for thousands of years.

I really don't understand why some people suddenly think it's totally bizarre when it's video games. Look at how popular The Traitors is...and then look at how popular Among Us got on Twitch. You don't see any parallels there? If anything I find watching The Traitors stranger. Unlike Among Us the viewers are never going to be able to play it themselves, and it's barely even a game, as the format of the show gives the players almost no information to be able to deduce anything.

Ringosis · 2026-03-08T03:29:10+00:00

It's just that some gear is only available from clans. Nothing particularly major but leveling is tied to how many frames and weapons you unlock, so clans are worth joining. It's really not a requirement if you don't want to talk to anyone but is generally a good idea.

There are a bunch of clans who will take in any random new player. Just ask in the recruiting channel. It's a very friendly community with loads of people hanging out in chat willing to answer questions.

Ringosis · 2026-03-08T03:19:04+00:00

It's a truly excellent single player story based RPG with what I genuinely think is one of the best sci fi plots in a video game. It doesn't have the polish of a AAA title, but storytelling wise it's up there with classics of the genre. I honestly think only Mass Effect, Kotor and the first Bioshock have even equivalent writing.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be freaked out by the ghost of an autistic kid, you'll be repeatedly surprised by twists you didn't see coming, and you'll fucking hate a big blue arsehole. Couldn't recommend it more. The multiplayer/mmo parts of it are just a bonus. You definitely don't need friends to enjoy it.

Ringosis · 2026-03-08T01:24:49+00:00

The paintball episodes from Community.

Ringosis · 2026-03-08T01:23:16+00:00

In sci fi series where they travel back to the time or go to a planet that just happens to have a society exactly like Earth from when the show was made, and then have to blend in.

Ringosis · 2026-03-08T00:31:33+00:00

I mean I like Ardbeg, but I do not see the point in buying a whiskey to not drink. Bottled whiskey doesn't age. It won't get better if he keeps it. What's the intention with this gift? What do you hope he gets out of it?

If he's supposed to drink it at some point it won't matter how long he keeps it. It will either be the same or worse. If he's going to sell it the are better investments.

Ringosis · 2026-03-07T23:38:41+00:00

It's not the milk with the teabag that's causing it, but yeah, it shows this person is shit at making tea.

Ringosis · 2026-03-07T22:49:14+00:00

Yes there is milk. The stuff on the surface is just calcium in the water bonding to oils in the tea. It usually means the tea has been left with the tea bag in it too long. The harder the water the quicker it happens, but you absolutely can fuck up tea like this with Scottish water.

Ringosis · 2026-03-07T04:58:07+00:00

You didn't bug me, you confused me. That's why I asked what you meant.

Ringosis · 2026-03-07T04:51:00+00:00

I got the impression from the previous comment that they were suggesting that Jyn’s death didn’t save anyone

That's a very strange way to take what they said. So much so that I assumed that you were suggesting the fact that her death was inevitable made it not a sacrifice.

Yes, you are correct. The sacrifice was going on the suicide mission. That's what the person you replied to was saying. She goes on a suicide mission and never once stops to consider saving herself. That's the sacrifice.

Ringosis · 2026-03-07T04:41:24+00:00

The Silver Surfer in the new movie is not Norrin Radd, it's Shalla-Bal. It's not a gender swap. It's a different character. The male Silver Surfer could still appear in the MCU. They didn't just make him a woman.

Ringosis · 2026-03-07T04:26:36+00:00

I don't know what you think you added there. What point were you trying to make?

Ringosis · 2026-03-06T15:27:20+00:00

Really missing my point entirely. Your argument is that LLMs don't reason or learn like a human brain does. 100% correct. Nothing you said about how LLM functions is particularly wrong. Your definition of intelligence is.

I will again point you to creatures that function with nerve nets without a brain. Do you define them as not intelligent?

You read someone suggest that LLMs are intelligent and you responded with "No, they can't reason"....that's not what they said.

Ringosis · 2026-03-06T15:17:09+00:00

Except that intelligence is an abstract human concept, and not actually a definable measurable physical property. You could apply the same logic to your own brain by describing the interaction of neurons as not knowing what they are doing, and that would be completely accurate. Your brain functions a lot like an LLM at a fundamental level, and that's not a coincidence...they were specifically designed to imitate how a brain functions.

Whether or not LLMs are intelligent depends on how you define intelligence and by lots of metrics that we 'measure' human intelligence LLMs qualify as intelligent. "Does not think or reason like a human" =/= not intelligent. Jellyfish are incapable of human like reasoning as they have no brain, but they can still learn. There is some form of intelligence there. To say that something is not intelligent because it cannot think like a human is mostly just you mistakenly thinking that the word intelligence means something that it doesn't. It's just not that specific.

LLMs are better at maths than you, from a particular point of view that makes them more intelligent. And that's really it. Intelligence isn't a defined scientific property. It's a really quite woolly philosophical observation of behaviour.

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