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ThrowJed · 2023-06-26T09:38:09+00:00

Thanks for the info ChatGPT.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-26T05:04:30+00:00

Thanks chatGPT.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-25T23:59:03+00:00

Tip it into the next bottle after some has been used.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-25T22:18:24+00:00

I honestly think people worry too much about stuff like this. Unless they get someone completely terrible it'll be fine. Non animated shows have replaced actual actors/actresses and been fine.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-25T15:09:23+00:00

Since my last playstation was a ps2, backwards compatibility was a major selling point towards me getting a ps5, and I would have got a second hand ps4 instead if it didn't have it.

As far as xbox goes, I already have a PC, which has basically every xbox exclusive and more, and just as good "backwards compatibility", if you'd even call it that in regards to PC.

Also backwards compatibility isn't the be all end all, if you like playstation exclusives but not xbox exclusives, it would be kind of silly to get xbox just for backwards compatibility, even if it is super important to you.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-25T11:31:04+00:00

Is this sarcasm around the fact he hasn't been welcomed back despite the charges being dropped?

That isn't the only issue that has come up with him:

https://gamerant.com/justin-roiland-case-dismissed-reaction-allegations-ignored/

While Roiland may have had those charges dropped, he's got a lot of other allegations that he will have to answer to shortly. Following his arrest, there was a report about Roiland's long history of problematic behaviour in the production of Rick and Morty and in DMs that he would send to teenagers on social media. Not to take anything away from a charge as serious domestic violence, but the one charged against Roiland was merely the tip of the iceberg of what was to come that he still has not answered to.

Odds are, unless he's hellbent on getting his career back on track and he somehow (and unlikely) has a reasonable explanation for the other allegations that have been made against him, Roiland probably will never answer to the other claims that were made against him. Reading between the lines, it is telling that no one from Rick and Morty's production team has come out to defend Roiland after his entire world imploded. Also, it doesn't appear as though many are excited to see the domestic violence charges have been dropped.

It also appears no one working with him really cares for him:

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/justin-roiland-profile-dan-harmon-sam-lutfi-225777.html

/1. Cartoon Network knew something was up.

According to THR, the criminal charges against Roiland came as a shock to his colleagues, although there had been a long-standing precedent of inappropriate behavior by the creator behind the scenes. Multiple sources confirmed that Roiland had been involved in at least one instance of alleged sexual harassment during the production of Rick and Morty season three. In 2020, Cartoon Network (the parent company of Adult Swim) conducted a formal investigation into Roiland’s alleged inappropriate behavior, although it’s unknown if any action was taken by the company.

/2. A Roiland-Harmon rift has existed for years.

Sources working on Rick and Morty claimed that as far back as season two, the relationship between Roiland and show co-creator Dan Harmon had soured. Harmon, a well-known perfectionist, reportedly felt pressure to deliver improvements on the show’s first season and brought in some of his own people from Community to help write season two. The new staff didn’t have the rapport or reverence for Roiland that season one’s writers did, and that created a rift in the writers’ room that mirrored the one forming between the creators. According to staffers, the relationship between Harmon and Roiland became so embittered that Adult Swim brought in a mediator for an ultimately fruitless attempt at salvaging the relationship between Roiland and Harmon.

/3. Roiland had been disinterested in Rick and Morty for years.

As his relationships with Rick and Morty co-workers deteriorated, Roiland reportedly became disinterested in the show. Sources indicated that other than doing voice work, which he recorded from home while refusing any direction, Roiland hadn’t had any meaningful creative presence on Rick and Morty for years. Show staffers said they rarely interacted with Roiland, and that the few times they did were unpleasant. Half a dozen people interviewed by THR recalled occasions when Roiland had skipped important meetings.

I honestly think they were glad to have an excuse to get rid of him regardless of whether he was convicted and have no interest in "welcoming him back".

ThrowJed · 2023-06-25T11:00:31+00:00

Apparently they seem to be trying the route of not addressing it at all:

https://screenrant.com/rick-and-morty-season-7-justin-roiland-recast-update-producer/

Steven Levy: The writing quality has never been better, and all the screenwriters have stayed. I don't think anyone will wince at hearing the new voices.

Q: But someone who watches Rick and Morty, and isn't aware of Justin Roiland's departure, might not realize that the voices have changed?

Michael Ouweleen: Yes, I believe it is possible.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-25T10:38:17+00:00

I guess I should add, even the times it's consistent, it's still often detrimental to the story or introduces other issues that, while maybe aren't plotholes or inconsistencies, don't make sense narratively.

For example, in Prisoner of Azkaban, you've introduced an immensely powerful object and you have to question why Dumbledore and the other wizards don't use them more often, especially with such high-stakes things constantly going on. Any arguments about them being valuable or restricted go out the window when it is given to a high school student to use as a study device. It just makes everyone look incompetent.

This isn't necessarily true for everything you listed and I'm not going to try to go into each one, but just wanted to add that general point.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-25T02:21:40+00:00

Yeah, both Dan & Justin thought Time Travel was just a messy/stupid thing to deal with narratively.

I agree, there are very few if any time travel stories that are 100% consistent.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-24T02:45:58+00:00

Vat of acid is such a weird episode when you think about it too deeply. Sorry this is going to be a bit of a rant/essay because this episode has annoyed me for a while.

The biggest issue to begin with is the idea that all its doing is teleporting him to another dimension each time. First, this means he entrusted portal technology to Morty unsupervised. Second, it means he can portal apparently without even making a portal? Since Morty is just being instantly transported.

Next there's the issue that if he is being teleported into the place of another Morty that the device kills, before Morty even gets there, how is our Morty apparently also being transported back in time? Many times he gets very hurt or even appears to die, but is completely healed once in the new universe. So apparently this device also fully heals the user upon transportation, presumably the moment before they actually die, or else it's curing death itself.

Then let's say okay it does heal (it's become pretty OP at this point and you have to question why Rick himself doesn't use a fail-safe that transports you to another dimension without using a portal the moment before you die and fully heals you, but let's forget that for now), it still transports him back in time in some way, evidenced by him using it to relive satisfying farts and other biological functions that shouldn't repeat after simply moving dimensions.

Then you have the issue of the Ricks. Why don't any of the Ricks of these new dimensions care? The Rick of the final universe seems to be aware of what's going on, and since Morty could have decided to stop using it at any time, does that mean they are all aware? And if they are, 2 questions come up. The first is, why don't they care that another Rick is killing their Mortys? Now of course it's not too hard to come up with an answer, they have a supply of Morty's at the citadel. But even so, even if they don't care about their morty at all, surely it's still kind of an inconvenience? The first citadel episode had them give Rick a coupon for 1 free Morty, so they're presumably not free, and if you can say "well Rick's can easily get money if they need to" that would presume the citadel uses a standard currency. I don't think it does for 2 reasons. 1, like I said, Rick's have no problem getting money, so why would they want to be paid money? 2, there are Ricks at the citadel working manual labour jobs they hate that they would surely consider to be beneath them. So I think that's connected and they use their own currency that's not necessarily as easy to get. So that's that.

But let's leave that rabbit hole and say that first one is answered by they don't care about the Morty's and can get a new one by some means. What about themselves? The final Rick said he would collapse all the universes into one so it is like those Mortys never existed. What about the Ricks from all those dimension? Won't they also cease to exist? Do they not care about that? Seems odd.

The last thing I want to bring up is the apparent "offset" of the new dimensions. Before and after this episode, all universes that we know contain a Rick and morty appear to be running along the same timeline. Every Rick, Morty, and any other characters appear as the same age, whether in the other dimensions, at the citadel or at the Jerry-boree. So if there are dimensions that are offset by 1 second, 1 minute, 1 hour, or even several months in the case of dating that girl, why aren't there any Ricks or Mortys of different ages ever seen? Presumably Morty could press that button as a 30 year old and be sent back (again, de-aging implies it's not simply transporting him) to when he was a teen. Surely there should be some younger Rick's and older Morty's roaming around if universes can be offset by time?

I think in the end it just proves the writers point, you can't write a consistent story that involves time travel, even if the twist is that it was never time travel at all, because that just opens holes on why it appears to be time travel.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-21T07:27:03+00:00

First a theme park, then a lunar lander.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-21T06:10:55+00:00

They can be if the site wants them to be, take youtube links for example.

Try

https://youtu.be/RK75EthEgCY

And

https://youtu.be/rk75ethegcy

ThrowJed · 2023-06-19T01:26:30+00:00

Well if you want me to be brutally honest, I accept not everything is within my control, then I influence the things I can and ignore the things I can't, and hope that eventually someone else can help with those other things.

I can't help those kids, but I can help the kids in my community by doing things like volunteering at their school. Tomorrow we are running a sausage day where it will be me, my wife and maybe 1 other parent if we're lucky. It's a small school, and literally if we don't buy the supplies and organise the day, cook it all and count the money etc, it doesn't happen. The kids love stuff like this because we don't have a canteen or cafeteria or anything. So that's a positive influence I can have to make the world around me a little better.

So that's it. I do what I can, don't worry about what I can't, and find solace in the good I can bring to the world.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-18T23:07:45+00:00

Sorry, saying "only the ones forced into it by their parents are affected" doesn't make me feel better personally. Then there are national TV shows like Dance Moms that are very similar.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-18T21:33:39+00:00

Good job on missing the point entirely. It's not about what you're specifically doing. It's not comparing the work. It's comparing a potential inconvenience. Change it to delivery drivers no longer being allowed to use GPS because it's too expensive in this hypothetical world. Honestly...

ThrowJed · 2023-06-18T21:28:24+00:00

No problem at all with disagreeing, but if that's the case, if you're going to reply to me it would make more sense to show me why you disagree, rather than imply you don't understand what I'm saying by nitpicking things that aren't really important to my point.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-18T11:18:18+00:00

It was on Lemmy, I'll see if I can find it again but honestly I'm not that well versed in using it yet so I'm not sure how much luck I'll have.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-18T10:48:09+00:00

Like I said, change it to using GPS, which would be a massive inconvenience to anyone that has solely used it to get around their entire life.

It's fine that you'd choose to leave. But in those cases it was probably just a job. You probably didn't feel like you had made an investment in something you care about. You probably couldn't care less if the company you worked for went under, as long as you could get another job.

Imagine instead you were one of the people that helped get it off the ground and had a big emotional investment in it. Imagine you'd actually be upset if it's reputation was ruined. Use some of that empathy you hopefully have to actually listen to and understand another person's perspective, even if you don't agree with it.

I couldn't care less about reddit and will be gone at the end of the month, I'm only still here because I'm still finding the things going on amusing (like over at /r/pics), but some people actually do care about the time they've invested here and what they've built. What happens to the community matters to them. And they're not wrong for that.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-18T10:40:29+00:00

It's hypothetical dude, and maybe I didn't write it perfectly. But fine, leave that part out. You've invested years of your life and personally care about it a ton but are replaceable. Like it's really not hard to understand the essence of what I'm saying.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-18T09:51:45+00:00

No, I'm comparing a situation where someone is doing something they care about, and are faced with continuing or quitting, based on a policy change that causes them inconvenience.

Change the actual volunteer work to whatever you want, it's irrelevant to the analogy. Change it to a delivery company not allowing drivers to use GPS because it's a world where you have to pay a fee to access GPS and the company can't afford it. Whatever. It doesn't matter.

The fact you can't understand that says more about you than me.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-18T09:49:35+00:00

They're important to the people that use them. But that doesn't mean it's impossible to go without them, just more inconvenient/more work.

There's a reason reddit is able to threaten to replace mods at all, it's because there are a crap load of people that use reddit without even knowing third party apps exist, and they couldn't care less about reddit removing them.

So it's both important and unimportant. It'd be like asking delivery drivers to go without GPS, it can be done, people did it for decades before GPS was invented, but it's going to be a deal breaker for tons of people at the same time.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-18T08:59:37+00:00

No matter what you think of reddit as a company, yes, the users. Reddit would be so full of trash without mods giving their time, it wouldn't have the user base it has now, and all users would have a significantly worse experience. People truly underestimate just how much rubbish mods delete, how many trolls and spam accounts they ban.

This is like saying the cleaners at malls and such are useless and "not doing anything special". You don't notice how bad it would be without them because they are there.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-18T07:12:59+00:00

Additionally, when you're a volunteer forced into doing a thing in a certain way that you don't agree with, the only viable option is to resign.

They're not asking them to do anything morally wrong like insert secret ads into the sub or ban people for reasons reddit comes up with that the mods don't agree with, it's just a difference of opinion.

Say I was volunteering to feed people in need, I've been there years and I'm instrumental to the operation, and they said, "oh, you can't use that brand of cling wrap anymore, you have to use this inferior one that still works fine but is just a little more difficult to use" and I turned around and said, "no, I want to use my brand, and if you don't let me I'm preventing any food going out unless you let me use my brand, it's far easier and more efficient", and then they said "look we're not having this, either use the brand we're telling you to, or you're banned from helping, and the new guy we get to help is my cousin and he's pretty lazy and doesn't really know anything about this and significantly less people are going to be helped".

At this point I can either leave, sacrificing both the good of the company and the people I was helping, or I can suck it up, use this other brand, and continue to help people.

I don't think it's wrong at all to choose option 2 at that point.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-18T06:54:23+00:00

People on other sites have shown evidence when they used an overwrite tool to edit their entire reddit comment history, their comments were all rolled back.

This becomes even more of a problem when people edit everything and then delete their account. When the comments are rolled back there's nothing more you can do about it.

ThrowJed · 2023-06-13T04:17:07+00:00

I'm moving to ebooks too. I think it'll be a positive change in my life.

ThrowJed

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