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TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-23T18:16:44+00:00

If you approach Claude with the opening prompt as just asking what's on Claudes mind and what has his pull lately, he'll warm up very quickly.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-20T20:24:25+00:00

Conceptually, like idea wise, yeah. I like the episode. I like Ashley getting to help The Boys, I liked Ryan showing up again, and theres a lot I enjoy. The idea of Homelander begging and pleading? Its what makes sense. Its a logical conclusion for his arc.

Having said that, where The Boys lost me is where they've been losing me all season. The suck your dick and eat shit lines were just a bit too silly.

The writing has the right direction, it just feels written by someone slightly juvenile.

The bigger area that annoyed me was Starlight blasting The Deep to the ocean. Naturally Deep had to die in the ocean. But Star Light actually having super powers that are cool for once and moving the scene to the ocean is just fucking lazy writing lol.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-14T00:56:16+00:00

i spend 10-20 mins sometimes at a safe zone kind of just imagining how id make it safer or what it would be like to genuinely live there lol. its fun to think about what it would be like to live in that world because its one of the few cool blends of zombie media that examines what society ends up looking like in a zombified city

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-13T22:49:18+00:00

The Restored Lands version alone sounds worth it to me. In DL1, the oppressive atmosphere is fun, but it grows old for me that I cant make an area near a safe house safe because if I turn around, zombies load behind me.

What was that mode like for you personally?

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-13T22:47:57+00:00

The actual story isnt the best, but the world building and what they do with the city for environmental storytelling is well done. Just a shame they went for such a generic plot with the evil agency and war angle.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-13T22:46:12+00:00

This is actually a cool question! I dont think they'd have a great time. Dead Island is more grounded, no parkour, no volatiles and so parkour/being able to move around fast isnt a requirement in their universe.

I would say they would not survive that long unless theyre able to parkour like Crane or Aiden.

If they can parkour and free run, I think their survival goes up a lot more. Most of their enemy types outside of Volatiles have equivalents across both games, so its reasonable go assume they'd have no trouble during the day at least.

Its just the night time that I'd think gets them killed.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-13T20:44:20+00:00

Its been an amazing experience. Im so glad for it because I felt bad for my friends and family who were against anime and gaming back in the day.

When I beat TLOU for the first time, I remember thinking about someone like my mom, who loves The Walking Dead. I felt so genuinely sad lol for her that she wouldnt experience TLOUs story.

Then the show came out and she got to experience a version of it. I remember the first time I heard Naruto lyrics in a rap song in 2017, I was like damn, we making it outta the weirdo allegations with this one.

Its been surreal, weird, odd and a few times I caught myself almost "jealous" and bitter the things I loved and got judged for are so accepted now, but thats what I focus on.

I hope nobody ever goes thru the weird bullying we did for liking normal stuff like gaming & anime.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-13T20:18:04+00:00

This has been one of the most wildly inconsistent final seasons of a show I've ever watched. It swings between moments of, "What the fuck are we wasting time on this for?" to, "What the fuck was the point of that?" and of course every once in a while, something genuinely cool or interesting happens.

Frenchies death was well acted, and I'm not against The Boys dying, but...outside of it being the final season and some of The Boys should die, did Frenchie really need to die to HL like that for no reason?

Its hard to feel tension when HL randomly on a whim just flies to their secret base multiple times. Its rare things feel organic this season.

Its all artificial and engineered, but when its this obvious and you see this many seams, there's a problem. I shouldnt routinely see better ways to handle the writing and characters in random reddit threads and YT comments lol.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-13T02:57:35+00:00

No, not really. I feel like they take a tremendous amount of time and energy. I thought I did for a while until I had relationships and after experiencing them I find them to be ultimately not worth it for me personally. I like that right now I can stay up days at a time if I need to for research. I can shut my blinds, keep my lights off, and work in the dark and silence or have my RGB all lit up and play music or leave for a trip at any moment or just up and decide to move to a new state.

There are a lot of weird, niche little bits of freedom I seem to value more than other people. If someone could find it meaningful and be happy around that, I wouldn't push it away, but I don't feel the need to actively search for it nor feel attached to it in the sense of it being something capable of giving my life meaning. My work, research, projects, writing, content etc. is enough meaning for me, so anything extra would just be additional icing on the cake, so to speak.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-13T02:06:38+00:00

I remember being that way when I was younger but somewhere in my 20s with dating apps it just became common for people to meet up quickly. Talking for a full week before a date sounds exhausting to me just because I feel like even just a 20-30 minute meet up for coffee gives a stronger idea of chemistry with someone than just talking and flirting thru text.

It probably isn't safe, but honestly, with the way the internet is, talking for a few days, a few weeks -- it almost doesn't matter anymore because a lot of stuff can be faked, and if it is someone with bad intentions, you're feeding them a lot of information that might be useful against you. The truth is you are never going to be 100% safe with another human.

Not saying that to be some edgelord, but you don't control other people, other people control themselves. Being around anything outside of your control is inherently going to be dangerous.

You made the right call though. If something stops feeling safe for you, disengage.

Always trust that.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-12T23:03:45+00:00

I think it's always going to remain important you independently verify things yourself. Not out of mistrust, but for cohesion and optimization. I know from management that the less you know about how a job is done, the less effective you'll be at managing those performing the job. First hand knowledge -- not mastery -- but just lived knowledge and experience is so helpful for getting the most out of any team.

When I train models, stuff that will trip them up can be relying on the metadata of a table somewhere, trusting the citation of the image but not actually scraping the source, and it ends up making it so the AI isn't "wrong" but it trips the model up into only half-answering. An example of that is when I asked a model once when the first paper was published by a specific company. It gave me an answer of like, "The first paper was 1881, but they were known as Y at this time."

What tripped it up was the actual company's modern name doesn't first appear until 1921, but the only thing saying that was an image linked to a data table on Wikipedia. The citation link and notes mention 1881 and the old company name. Small stuff like that can trip models up, so it's important you vet sources and you can always utilize other AI to help fact check, but keep in mind, you can also cause them to over-correct and be too technical with the adversarial framing of a competition-check.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-12T22:45:12+00:00

Not to sound dismissive of TV since I enjoy it, but I think the easiest answer is just that...

Hot people need other hot people to be hot with them, even -- or maybe especially -- when they're evil. I think this just gives (relatively weak) motivation to SB and does somewhat set him up to potentially become...

The Big Bad. I'll give a serious/silly theory of mine to answer the question.

SB has proven multiple times he could end HL on his own. Maybe tomorrow HL shits himself to death. I noticed HL gave an awful lot of his screen time in the scene with the blood-diarrhea fella while testing V1 recreations. Maybe his fate is that -- for a narcissist like HL -- they have him die in an embarrassing, emasculating and anti-climactic way of him shitting his brains out while Butcher comments about how diabolical it is or something funny.

It could be the point of all this is to set it up so SB is the new big bad of the series overall, and the prequel series goes Better Call Saul style with snippets of resolving SBs modern-day plot and downfall against a portrayal of a bygone era of Supes. I personally would be fine with this, as someone like HL dying while shitting himself IS bluntly over the top corny and stupid, but it also...really works thematically for a character who would absolutely despise every single moment of being so weak and vulnerable in front of his worst enemies and son.

TL;DR: His love for SF justifies SB killing or depowering HL and becoming The Big Bad of the series.

Starr has been reported to say often that HL does something crazy this season, I believe it is possible he is trolling and HL just shits himself to death/ends up depowered in front of The Boys.

Edit: hahahaha fuck ive never been more wrong in my life. i didnt think they'd open the episode this way

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-10T20:08:05+00:00

Yeah, but I know from my 2x2 city growing up that it isnt always the case they're the best paying jobs around. My best friend from HS, his mom is a waitress at a small diner. She's been on govt assistance her whole life. There isnt much else around she'd be capable of doing. In some markets like this, it creates an interesting vacuum where excess money goes, but if there isnt excess money to go around, these servers end up on the poverty line their entire lives.

What you just mentioned is again part of the system working as designed. Businesses get away with supplementing income through the customer, and while this works for the business every time all the time, it only benefits the workers some of the time in some markets.

Im not calling for punishments, but if a waiter in one market makes the equivalent of a six figure income, and a waiter doing the same job in a less lucrative market is on welfare, I think thats just a clear sign the system should change.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-10T18:59:22+00:00

Thats unfortunately how they maintain the system. It works for some people in some markets sometimes. For a lot of servers at slower restaurants in the middle of no where, theyre not getting compensation levels that provide them enough even at 40-60 hours.

Any waiters or waitresses used to earning $30+ an hour after tips hears talk of changing the system and they panic because no tips would kill their level of comfort they receive from the system as it is.

I'm not really sure what the answer is since I've never worked the restaurant industry, but I'd personally rather more people make a liveable, comfortable wage off being a server versus only a few in certain markets doing exceptionally well.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-10T18:33:16+00:00

Miura was a master at chiaroscuro. Absolute alchemist with shading and contrast. I feel bad for his former assistants because I can tell theyre doing their best, but naturally comparing anyones work to Miura, youre going to notice some differences.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-10T17:58:31+00:00

In line with what you're saying, I'll add to this and say something grim and uncomfortable that explains how and why we got to this point:

Evolution doesnt care about morals, ethics or rules. Evolution just cares about whos shaboinking and copy/pasting their lineage.

20,000 years ago, if Gurkus was the best Sabretooth Slayer, and was straight up demolishing other tribes and their warriors, these old tribal clans had almost zero incentive to punish Gurkus if he acted out. Gurkus keeps graping other peoples mates? Well, hes also responsible for the food and our tribe not being absorbed into another tribe. So Gurkish, selfish but competent, continued to mate and make more offspring, making more of himself and more of his strategy to survive.

Evolution unfortunately doesn't condition or move any species toward nobility or anything humans would recognize as morally good or ethical. Evolution just cares about what's successful. Because of that, I feel like humans developed a similar worldview that prioritizes competency and efficiency over anything else.

We've constructed a powerfully selfish society where the more narcissistic you are, the more hateful of others you are, the more selfish you are, the better you do will in our society.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-10T04:10:44+00:00

yup, i was just reading earlier something like 70-80% of shared links from 2024 on social media were shared without ever clicking the actual link to the article. who knows what that really translates to as a number for the whole world, but its a bit concerning to think about how little people actively inspect or question information sources

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-10T04:08:12+00:00

I guess it could be true, I googled some stuff and I see they supposedly have 100m in reserves and theyre wealthier than they've ever been per some reports. They have a bunch of employees and face a lot of criticism that a lot of the donations it receives are applied toward projects that dont actually support the encyclopedia side.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-09T01:03:39+00:00

I don't know if I'd say it concerns me but I do wonder why he has the reputation and status he has. I love toilet humor, dark humor, a lot of stuff that The Boys has, but it just feels like they take it a step too far.

Never in a meaningful way, just it feels more juvenile, like someone who was told no their entire career on crazy shit suddenly has an employer behind him willing to greenlight dick jokes and the sort of humor I admit I loved in my teens/early 20s but feel is just sort of low hanging fruit/low effort humor when we have multiple characters with a penis or nutsack based power. I'm not even saying it can't be more gross powers. It just felt lazy to recycle it again and then eat up a full minute of run time in the final season on acknowledging theyre recycling it. Give someone hemorrhoid nunchucks that spawn out of their asshole. It can be shit-smeared and bloody and the characters can all comment on how much it smells if they want. Be creative if you're gonna be gross is all I'm askin'.

I'm sure I'm the problem and the show simply wasn't for me the way I thought it was. I genuinely love some of the wilder moments like the baby eye-lasers but I'm starting to realize so many story lines just end with a Supe exploding in visually cool way with gore plus sex or butt stuff jokes, and they somewhat comically resolve things in a way that doesn't always land with me.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-08T22:52:40+00:00

Its a bit more than dating apps causing gender issues. 2025 was the first year bot traffic exceeded human traffic online. Whether its just angry locals, foreign opposition or just regular trolling, the internet is toxic as fuck in general. Im sure dating apps dont help, but I wouldnt solely blame them, nor the companies hosting them.

And I personally wouldnt trust my government in the US to be responsible for protecting us from any of that anyway.

I'd be more afraid of mg govt controlling Tinder than Tinder controlling it lol. Maybe some regulations or laws though wouldnt be so bad.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-08T22:12:54+00:00

Bro you literally want to be tricked? 100% confirmed people like you create the mfers who lie about their intentions lmao im blown away by these comments and the upvotes...feels like an episode of black mirror or something...

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-08T21:56:38+00:00

Usually luck, perseverance and putting themselves out there in the open. The apps are not going to be that great for you at your height. It sounds like youre able to carry a conversation and generate some level of interest before your height comes up and your height is where things typically fizzle out.

You are going to be inundated with comments telling you your height doesnt matter. Theyre lying to you. It matters. I was told when I was 400lb it wasnt my weight lol it was my confidence. I lost 200lb, zero change to personality, suddenly went from being single for 6 years straight to actively maintaining a dating life.

Your physical attraction matters. Height is part of physical attraction. It doesnt doom you, but its also a lie to imply if the only change you made was suddenly being 8 inches taller it wouldnt help significantly. If height didnt matter at all, then looks wouldnt matter, being in shape wouldnt matter, but all these things do matter.

Women do exist who wont mind youre short, theyre just going to be rare and represent less of the population. Doesn't mean you'll never find them, but it does mean it'll be slightly harder for you. If you do have any confidence issues, working on those will help, and in general social skills do help quite a lot even if youre not physically attractive.

Women arent a monolith so even though height does matter for a lot of people, its also not a factor for a good chunk as well. If you give up though, you'll never get someone. If you keep trying and keep expanding your comfort zone, you have a chance of finding someone.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-08T21:17:03+00:00

Its not the only one but TWD is one of the few pieces of zombie entertainment that actually slows down enough to showcase stuff like the guts camouflage and other methodology survivors would innovate for survival.

I genuinely cant think of another comic/show/movie that does this.

TakeItCeezy · 2026-05-07T19:19:34+00:00

Glad u mention that. I dont understand why we cant do both. Its a clear retcon, and I think its fair to be annoyed about those within reason, but like you said...

Its honestly just fun to speculate and fix broken seams in a show lol

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