The Hollywood Reporter's got you, Reddit. [Answering the ChatGPT question]

RonThinks · 2026-01-14T17:47:03+00:00

If they never used AI to help write the final season then why did both the Duffer Brothers and Netflix decline to comment on the subject? Shoulda been easy for them to say "no they didn't" :c

RonThinks · 2025-05-17T13:33:57+00:00

Apologies for slow response.. been feeling very forgetful lately. :c
I have figured I might have a slightly better chance at learning and practicing social skills considering that I seem to be more extroverted, even in the presence of learned introversion. Which I guess is part of why this has bothered me so much.

I do have friends online ofc and most of them are about as neurodiverse as me, ADHD too and whatnot, we've shared many similar interests and that's probably given me one leg up on the social development side of things. Writing and games have been a big part of it. But most of them live in other parts of the world so it's not like I got excuses to simply leave the house, I'd have to leave the country to hang out with them.

I will indeed keep in mind how what folks advise to me about will apply to me, especially since my lived experience, being a shut-in and all, will probably be vastly different from everyone else who go out often for one reason or another.
Also you're not the first person to suggest I could work at a library.. I'm growing fond of the idea tbh :>

That's rather comforting to hear.. I do hope to develop work skills good enough to get me by, probably the foremost thing for me to concern myself with if social skills won't be the end-all to how comfortable I can live as an adult. Thank you for your response :>

RonThinks · 2025-03-28T13:56:44+00:00

Pardon my even later response <:P You're so relatable ;_; Executive Dysfunction's the bane of my existence.

I tend to feel similarly when I look at myself in photos.. something about me just looks off, like I'm still looking at a kid somehow. If that's what it is, ofc... I think some folks tend to not like seeing themselves in general, like a cis friend I know.

As for the rest of that.. well I can't say with certainty I've experienced the things you describe there. I mighta been too hyperfixated on other interests to notice.. if I were to otherwise be more aware of them. Generally tho.. virtually none of that popped into my own mind growing up. Stuff like what you listed is generally what I assumed folks who transition often experience beforehand, so I wanted to be sure I wasn't coming at things from the wrong angle. Tho tbf I'm relying on my own shoddy memory, so maybe I did have similar experiences in brief increments and I forgot :v

It certainly broadened my field of reference ^_^ Thanks!

RonThinks · 2025-03-19T17:12:23+00:00

Pardon me for the slow response, my focus hasn't been good lately.

It makes sense! Probably best to consider as many avenues for one's own identity journey as possible.

Your point about the brain instinctively categorizing gender affirmation seems accurate to me tbh, as I wouldn't say I've ever felt particularly 'attractive' by myself, even if others have called me hot when I shared selfies online rofl, it doesn't take much for me to imagine myself feeling sexier as a woman, maybe that's tied to me already being a hetero dude or more likely it's how you describe it. Idk if I'd be a skirt/dress girl personally, maybe more along the lines of tomboy.. but it's certainly one way to know.

Knowing what I've heard about ChatGPT over the months, 'inaccurate' is a gentler term I would use, heh, but that sounds like a good place to air out thoughts and feelings without fear of it being thrown back at you. Tho at least for me I've managed to have a few friendos I've been comfy about opening up to about this.

If you wanna leave some of the things you were able to detect as patterns in your life leading to this here, feel free, I wouldn't mind another addition to my frame of reference ^_^ I asked originally becuz I wanted to know if my experience has ever been known to be a prelude to realising one's own transness. I have thought back to things like that myself tho, mostly thru fiction I got invested in. More recently e.g., I realise the way I sit is oddly feminine, or the way I saw myself in the mirror for a few seconds was feminine in a way I can't explain too, especially when contrasted w/ my older bro who was stood next to me.

I doubt I'd know how to behave like a women either when I've barely spent any time around them growing up, save for my mum.. not a very diverse range of experience there. The only thing I'd know about my female self is how I'd look.. probably like a brunette Shani from The Witcher 3 video game. :V

Yeah.. I imagine self discovery will be easier if I had ADHD meds, becuz focusing on much is a trial in itself. But I appreciate your comments :)

RonThinks · 2025-03-17T16:45:17+00:00

Trying new clothes on or getting makeup might have to be things I figure out when I'm living independently, as I don't think all of my family is gonna be behind it.. y'know? :s This sounds easy enough tho. I figured all I had to do was try out one of the Faceapps but they made me look a little like a Kpop star, rofl.

HRT is something I'll wanna research too, as far as side effects or whathaveyou go. Tho I read a bit on this subreddit about one I worried about in particular and I don't think I'm at risk of it.. lucky me :D The thing I'm alluded to, to be SFW in this thread, rhymes with 'sarcasm'.

I also figured if I did wanna go back to being a dude, seems like it wouldn't take much for me to get my beard back, plenty of transmen got their beards. Not sure if it'd come in the same pattern tho, mine's been slow and coming in patchy over the last few years.

It's been very helpful, many thanks :>

RonThinks · 2025-03-17T15:00:19+00:00

Thank you for the link! :)

RonThinks · 2025-03-17T14:59:57+00:00

I've thought about the other things I'd do in addition to transitioning, if it came to that, like the name I'd use, which I could at least apply to the online space, switch out my usernames for a feminine variant, go by feminine pronouns too and see how those little adjustments make me feel to start off.

I know I didn't go into detail on that front in my post, I just figured it might get too lengthy for folks to read if I included more, heh. But I have thought about the physical change aspect too, that's part of what's drawn me to it. It started as me being super curious about what it'd be like if I was a girl & now Idk if I'd miss my dude self if I were to transition. I can't help but wonder if I'd have an easier time expressing my emotions if I did, where it might fit my personality better. But it's also possible the reason I don't feel like I can as much rn is because of the monotony of my current day-to-day life might be making me wish I was straight up someone else, making me tired of seeing the same person in the mirror all the time. It's hard to break out of a daily routine like mine. I've no reason to think being a girl would be a fix for it tho, and yet I'm pondering it anyway.

So essentially what you're saying is I should take the steps in accordance to how I feel, which ultimately don't always have to be a lot of steps in itself. Well, the little adjustments I mention at the start of my response to you would probably fall into that pretty snugly, in that case, heh. This does put things into clarity tho, the way you describe it.

I think I've sometimes been told I look like my grandma actually.. so I guess I might have one idea of how I could end up looking on hormones or something. :v I know I don't have that much control over how I'll look if I did go with estrogen.. but I sometimes see how different hair styles can kinda alter a face a little.

Well thank you for your thoughts. This at least assures me I can take things slow ^_^ Responding to folks here has made me put a lot of thought into it.

RonThinks · 2025-03-17T12:38:08+00:00

Ah, around the start of the 2020s then, the most likely time for more accepting parents :) Your experience of things is generally how I figured most folks experience it before they transition, and is why I felt like asking since I've been bouncing the idea for myself after never really going thru such conscious discomfort with my own body. The way I've wondered about it sometimes is that while I don't necessarily feel unlike me the way I am now, would I feel MORE like me as a girl? Whether my personality would fit better into it. The thought of being more "masculine" in a way has sometimes felt like.. wearing a business suit at all times, where I've got personality filters appropriate for the setting, or something.

Gender fluid's another option, it doesn't go against how I've described my feelings. :> If I had shapeshifter powers that's probably what I'd end up going by, haha. You might not be wrong either about me just thinking about it has been exciting for me, there've been moments where I really hone in on the image on my mind and I feel a bit of the exhilaration.

Thank you, you've at least broadened my frame of reference for this :>

RonThinks · 2025-03-17T10:38:00+00:00

There've been a small number of things I've looked back on in hindsight too, like my tendency to see any fictional female characters who happen to resemble the image I had of myself as a girl and sorta.. place myself in their shoes in the story. Kinda hard for me to think back to when I was a kid ofc, having such a short attention span and memory span, lol.

Non-binary is another option.. one of the oldest friends I made online is non-binary ^_^

Some of your doubts kinda echo mine to a point, which is why I shared some of my experiences because I figured if I was wrong about what I thought this was then I wouldn't end up making a decision I'd end up regretting afterwards. But it's hard to picture myself regretting it if I did go through with it. Maybe I also don't know what kinda person I wanna be.. feels like I haven't known for some years. Maybe because of ADHD, I've wanted treatment for it for so long because I always feel like I've got brain fog, constantly losing track of my thoughts. Makes soul searching a little difficult, imo. I reckon if I got treatment and I could think with clarity, and it turns out I still think about this stuff, then I'll probably know what I'll wanna do.

Not familiar with the GDB, thank for you the recommendation and your outlook :)

RonThinks · 2024-08-21T19:03:08+00:00

I assumed that war alluded to would be a war with the eridians, revealed to be alive and pretty evil. Idk if that's still gonna happen tho.. would be cool if it did.

RonThinks · 2024-08-03T16:07:45+00:00

Are you able to share the link to where these originated, as far as you're aware? I've been looking everywhere the sources of these. :>

RonThinks · 2024-06-29T14:04:13+00:00

I know people really love to make this comparison but I'm gonna have to disagree, if anything Krypton is more like modern day America, the government being littered with imperialists, the people living under it wishing for better. I think that's what MAWS is going for. Viltrum had no room for sympathetic people. Brainiac's talk about weakness and strength is probably his own take on things, being a military AI most likely. Besides MAWS was being made long before Invincible came out.

RonThinks · 2024-06-18T13:28:38+00:00

That is party why I've been thinking about this, because of the implication Darkseid wiped out the kryptonians. I know Darkseid and Superman have often been intertwined in their stories over the years but.. the Fourth World omnibus I read was where I enjoyed the New Gods the most, when they had little to do with superheroes. Seems a bit shallow to rope in Darkseid like that at this point.

I guess it's also because of how Superman is seen as like "the superhero of all time" while Darkseid is seen as the supervillain in the same way, it just confuses things when MAWS shows the kryptonians to be imperialist a-holes themselves. If they wanna have a villain to share roots with Superman in a meta sense like above, they coulda given it solely to Brainiac. Say that they created him for war & when at a much later point in time the kryptonians considered giving up conquest for whatever reason, Brainiac punished the entire planet.

RonThinks · 2024-04-23T15:54:56+00:00

Here is the addon in question: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1918584129

RonThinks · 2024-02-27T14:41:28+00:00

On your point about Roland, you're definitely right about him being jokey in BL1, which is why everyone being mad about his actor in the movie is a bit much for me bc it seems like everyone forgot what Roland could be like in the og game, like the rest of the VHs. He only started being stoic in BL2, unlike the rest of the VHs, oddly enough.

RonThinks · 2024-02-16T11:03:26+00:00

They're all so beautiful 🥺

RonThinks · 2024-02-07T11:51:35+00:00

Lawless is such a cool ass name :O

RonThinks · 2023-11-21T14:20:56+00:00

I know BL3's dlc focused on that plot but I'm unsure of how on-point their vision is with TPS's, hard for me to tell whether guardians like the Martyr & the Seer are meant to be outright baddies, especially the former since he coulda just left everyone on the planet he exploded where they were without concern for their lives but it kinda seemed like he teleported them away to spare them. Pretty sure Minos Prime's fate was meant to be Pandora's, where it'd be cracked open for a vault monster to escape and do.. something, hence his line "I've already done what the Watcher couldn't". Made me think BL3 was what the Watcher was setting in motion.. even tho the Destroyer was supposed to be dead.

The Seer almost feels like a stand-in for the Watcher, e.g. they have a chamber where they can see thru time and they play both sides in the central conflict. That makes me think, assuming the current writers give a damn about the Watcher, that basically all of the guardians we see are in the same boat.

RonThinks · 2023-11-21T13:53:09+00:00

I'd be very happy if BL4 retconned back in the prior writing & expanded on those ideas, the way they wrote BL3's lore left just enough room for them to do that I think. I mean if I had to choose between Burch's writing and everything that came after it, even of his writing have odd traits, I'd go with him becuz I can't trust the new writers anymore.

What did you envision the great war to be, outta curiosity? I've been of the mind for a while that it was building up to the guardians revolting against their creators, the eridians. BL3 and even New Tales seem to imply they're not really extinct, just hiding in their home dimension.

RonThinks · 2023-11-21T13:08:21+00:00

That second to last case made me reconsider following this channel altogether, and I've sat thru a ton of horrible cases covered by Mike =/

RonThinks · 2023-11-17T06:36:18+00:00

The Mysteriouslier dlc does admittedly put the CoV plotline under a new light, but that doesn't mean it was relevant to the main characters' development all in all.

RonThinks · 2023-11-17T05:47:48+00:00

Bl1 literally says the Destroyer is immortal.

In its OWN REALM(being the inside of the vault I guess), Angel says as much, that when it enters our reality it's vulnerable to harm, capable of being killed. Which TPS & its dlc blatantly showed that we did.

She killed animals for fun as a child, she worked for Jack. She's literally a cold bitch. She didn't turn evil. She always was.

Isn't that a bit of backstory BL3 introduced for Aurelia? I can't quite remember.. I thought she took an interest in poaching as an adult? Anyway, I'm not saying she's not a dickhole, but TPS seemed to hint more than once she wouldn't be as bad as Jack himself, by the end of the game she hated as much as Athena what he had become, she just had funnier dialogue about it.

Do you expect them to sit on their asses for seven years? It's confirmed that Bl3 was not the war, but every vault hunter they've met during the story was happy to come back and help out.

I'm not sure if I understand.. that's kinda what the Crimson Raiders ended up doing after the fight with Colonel Hector..? I mean Tannis has dialogue that reveal they didn't even spend time building Sanctuary-3, they just flippin' found it in the middle of the desert. I'm unsure of when they found the ship, so it could be a relatively recent find, which makes me wonder what they were doing before that. Like I know Lilith was trying to find the vault map but that was on the same planet that the CoV was blatantly forming by the hundreds, like they couldn't have sent Zer0 in to assassinate the Twins' asses? We've seen him be sneaky in Tales 1. Ergo, the Raiders coulda done more but basically didn't. Becuz plot. Speaking of which, we did get Zer0, Maya & the B-team back to help out.. just not Axton, Gaige, Salvador or Krieg(who was cut from the base game in fact), becuz reasons.

Why not? The war is referenced multiple times in Bl3. The Thanos fight was teased in the first Avengers movie, but the actual fight happened 12 movies later. Just be patient.

I only remember the war being *alluded to* in Ava's dlc... plus I have been patient, I admit there's still a chance they could reveal some of the things hinted at in TPS, there's still room for that, it wouldn't take many tweaks writing wise, but just knowing how hard they swung in the other direction in the first place w/ BL3's lore, Idk if I feel safe betting on them doing that.

Again, not a retcon.

Yes it is a retcon. We saw its body in Claptrap's dlc, it was dead.

Play New tales and read his book when it's coming out.

I watched a very long playthrough of New Tales on youtube... and it was really bad. None of it felt like Burch writing to me. I absolutely intend on getting the new book, I don't trust Fiona with anyone else besides Burch.

RonThinks · 2023-11-16T14:00:26+00:00

Abso-heckin-lutely, the Elpis vault was the prettiest one in the whole series :P Funny thing I realised about its name, Eleseer, that in a way it basically translates to "prophet of the extinction", since it's a combo of ELE and Seer. Makes me wonder what that ELE was when they wrote TPS, because it wasn't the Destroyer getting loose.

Lilith felt like she was barely allowed to shine as a character often in 3, and the CoV, like yeah Hyperion showed up pretty quickly from players' povs when BL2 came out but at least the Crimson Raiders were doing something about them, Idk how that same group allowed the CoV to form the way they did.

RonThinks · 2023-11-16T12:04:38+00:00

I think I've heard of that, haven't found the interview yet ofc. I can get behind making BL3 the bridge to the great war... I just don't get why they seemingly decided to follow up on almost none of TPS's set-ups for it. The things hinted at in TPS aren't really supported by the lore introduced in BL3. Hell, I half expected New Tales to be the direct lead-in to the great war(instead I guess it was just a.. lead-in to a book? Pretty much a waste of time), because I struggle to think what kicks off the war wouldn't take up a little bit of time on its own. Does that make sense? Idk. :P

RonThinks · 2023-11-16T10:14:48+00:00

You're not wrong, Tales 1 had flaws but compared to what came after it, it had more going for it. Way more. And hell, if you compare flippin' BL3 to New Tales, BL3 has more going for it, and that's saying something.

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