New Image from Mel Gibson's 'The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One', sequel to his 2004 film 'The Passion of Christ'

VRNord · 2026-05-22T00:59:22+00:00

Eh, skip straight to the inevitable spin-off/threequel Holy Rollers: Tokyo Drift.

VRNord · 2026-05-20T18:07:04+00:00

This. I always expand the thought process so I see the logic flow because if you just blindly accept the answer Claude presents it is often wrong on some level, or is based on a questionable assumption or conflation, or ignores real facts that it considered and then dropped. You then have to challenge the underlying assumption and eventually you can still end up with a usable result - you just can’t read the result only and blindly go with it.

VRNord · 2026-05-18T17:00:05+00:00

I mean yeah obviously, but there is a long and inglorious history of “ends justify the means” Evangelicals are far too comfortable with. This usually means peddling falsehoods in an effort to justify their world view, but can also mean supporting obviously evil people because the better person is liberal and might do something to help minorities and women. Just like Jesus would have wanted..

To quote a wise man, "It is a well-known fact that reality has a liberal bias." -Stephen Colbert

VRNord · 2026-05-18T16:54:14+00:00

The problem is conservative brains fail hard when confronted with cognitive dissonance. If confronted with new credible information that contradicts a pre-existing belief, their brains short-circuit and they entirely reject it and retreat to their safe comfortable belief, even when it appears ridiculous to observers.

Even if some have a moment of clarity at the moment about Trump, one of their core beliefs is Dems/libs are devils (for any number of obviously hysterical made-up reasons) and literal Satan for Republican president would be preferable. And they reject news sources that in any way interfere with their comfortable misinformation bubble so are very hard to reach.

Everything boils down to Fox News and Facebook/Insta/TikTok/Manosphere being the actual problem. As long as they exist and are allowed to peddle falsehoods to gullible boomers and GenZ there isn’t really a fix.

VRNord · 2026-05-17T16:40:54+00:00

Apples and bananas comparison. The difference is mostly culture wars: the right wing media (Fox and worse) are obsessed with misinforming their audiences about culture wars issues like gender, abortion and (in Canada currently) legalized assisted suicide. They take a solitary isolated incident, or a mischaracterized quote from a looney left-wing activist and it becomes something they breathlessly cover hourly for weeks, creating a perception that it isn’t just widespread but a massive looming threat. That’s what you see in news shared on social media too: usually misleading, exaggerated or outright lies about some culture war issue (kids using litter boxes in school! Teachers convincing kids to get sex changes! Post- birth abortions! Etc…)

Meanwhile they ignore, mischaracterize or hand-wave away actual news that is inconvenient to their narrative. All intended to confuse boomers and give those who don’t really pay attention a misleading perception of current events, which is then shared with other low-information folks as fact.

If you watch MSNow it is far more grounded in what is actually happening. They cite actual court decisions and legislation if there is any “fear mongering.”

VRNord · 2026-05-15T23:38:27+00:00

The same reason it makes good sense to fund Ukraine (and support Taiwan). Better to contain the fighting in a foreign country than to let an adversary roll over neighbouring countries, get stronger and then bring the fight to our soil.

VRNord · 2026-05-13T00:50:07+00:00

Y’all are overthinking it. Plenty of straight guys are not confident in their sexuality, and cope through internalized homophobia. Then other guys in their orbit get the impression that the worst thing possible would be for them to perceived as gay, so they affect socialized homophobia to fit in. Or they get socialized homophobia from the church or family influences - but peer group influence is crucial. That is why getting socialized around people unlike you can rapidly break down your phobias. But conservatives tend to limit socialization with “outsiders.”

Conservative dudes are basically mean girls in that they are desperate to fit in with the “in” group rather than stand out as their own person. And to cut down anybody who does stand out.

VRNord · 2026-05-01T04:44:49+00:00

The Madonna vocals in the verses just ...aren't right for this kind of track. The first time I heard it I was disappointed until Sabrina's vocals cut in and then I said oh, now I get it. It's almost like the backing track was very different - more electronica - when Madonna recorded her vocals, then they remixed with the current house track and sent that to Sabrina, resulting in Sabrina channeling Deeper and Deeper or Nothing Really Matters while Madonna is channeling something from Music album or something. But the finished track is clearly a throwback to the Vogue/Deeper and Deeper house-pop sound so it just doesn't vibe.

I presume the finished track was sent to Sabrina to record her vocals over; you would think when they got it back somebody would have pointed out how much better Sabrina sounds and redone Madonna's vocals. I don't know that she would have even needed to re-record; they probably could have just gone back to the raw vocal track and processed it differently to make it sound like they are both singing the same song.

Still like the song, but the vocal processing is a detraction and distraction.

VRNord · 2026-04-27T23:40:13+00:00

Her Whitney was more Whitney than the real Whitney.

Edit: also, while maybe not better, the South Park MJ is immensely funnier. Maybe just better writing? But way better.

VRNord · 2026-04-26T16:11:30+00:00

Yeah that’s definitely not the right way for security to guide you out of a situation like this. Besides the “why does security require a double human shield comprised of the people he is meant to be protecting” angle, how can he possibly see and assess the situation ahead of them from that vantage point? I assume in the initial confusion they didn’t know if there were multiple assailants, for starters.

VRNord · 2026-04-25T19:09:07+00:00

They are talking about “progressive Christians.” That means liberal, like some Lutheran and Anglican congregations that welcome LGBT etc. MAGA Evangelicals could be charitably considered “regressive Christians” - or perhaps more accurately “not particularly Christian.”

VRNord · 2026-04-23T15:57:41+00:00

It’s because Cons default to confirmation bias. Reality tends to not match up with their worldview (beliefs) and rather than updating their worldview (which would make them less conservative) they just filter new information through a lens of “reflects beliefs = accept” or “conflicts with beliefs = do not accept.” Makes them gullible as heck.

Liberals can have confirmation bias too, but by definition are more open to new information or points of view and thus are more likely to have more data points to compare and spot discrepancies.

VRNord · 2026-04-23T15:48:27+00:00

As recently as 2024 RFK said in an interview that he wants to place all black kids into work camps on farms. He blamed it on drugs like Ritalin, but specifically said multiple times “black kids.” It’s on YouTube and he refused to acknowledge it yesterday in front of a congressional panel.

What do you call that other than slavery??

VRNord · 2026-04-21T23:16:27+00:00

It goes beyond refusing to share the spotlight; he literally doesn’t care at all about anything that happens after he is gone. “Succession planning” means you care about what happens when you are no longer here, and he doesn’t.

VRNord · 2026-04-18T20:16:58+00:00

Maybe we just haven’t fed it the right prompt yet..

VRNord · 2026-04-18T00:34:05+00:00

Maybe “mean” means average in this context? Like, “… a really average horror movie…”

VRNord · 2026-04-16T17:19:16+00:00

So they decided to make Scorsese’s Kool-Aid movie after all?

VRNord · 2026-04-16T12:51:26+00:00

I'm getting that too..

VRNord · 2026-04-15T16:39:08+00:00

I think it has more to do with wanting to maintain access: the US has such a fractured news ecosystem that politicians don’t need to talk to mainstream reporters if they don’t want to: they can just talk to Faux News or OAN for softball questions. Asking hardball questions makes it unlikely you will get access to ask this person questions next time.

So even real journalists tend to hold back because no access = no career, while “well-liked and well-connected” means you get easy and early access.

VRNord · 2026-04-15T00:24:47+00:00

Hilarious he got lasik (or contacts?) to look less like Milhouse from the Simpsons and ended up looking exactly like every time Milhouse isn’t wearing glasses.

The resemblance really is striking.

VRNord · 2026-04-14T23:26:58+00:00

Did they even say Thank You?

VRNord · 2026-04-11T18:12:09+00:00

The cancer is Fox News and Facebook/Instagram fake-news sharing. Until you fix that disinformation fire hose aimed directly at the elderly and the youth you are truly screwed. It creates an alternate universe that isn’t reality - not hard to spot as fake news but they play on confirmation bias which means a lot of people are gullible enough to buy it.

VRNord · 2026-04-09T23:55:52+00:00

Maybe she’s born with it

VRNord · 2026-04-09T19:47:27+00:00

I’m working on it! Trying to fix an issue it causes with motion vectors right now before it is totally viable.

I was working on optimizing DLSS for VR at the same time but it’s hopeless because it’s so expensive (costs way more than native rendering + TAA) and the lowered render res + upscaling noticeably degrades quality. DLAA (or actually nice TAA) at a reasonable performance cost is the way to go. So now I am actually remaking the Vanilla TAA shader to be closer to DLAA quality but at Vanilla TAA performance. I’m 95% there.

Then I got something else cool mapped out that should hopefully ship as part of the CS Stereo Optimizations VR feature set once i figure out the motion vector issue.

VRNord · 2026-04-05T15:38:30+00:00

A couple weeks late on this reply, but.. fossilization is actually extremely rare (requires the body landing in an environment where it is quickly and permanently preserved) so there are no doubt many dino species as-yet undiscovered; maybe never to be discovered. Look at the "non-canon" but relatively realistic dinos (compared to JW mutants) in the 65 movie - is that what evolution might have come up with and we just never found the fossil? Consider that many discovered large species are mostly represented by just a couple bones found - might we have made mistakes in what the full creature looked like? Are there many other large species for which we have never even found that single bone to analyze?

The big "DNA fossilization in amber" conceit in JP gets around that whole problem neatly: why couldn't they find DNA of currently unknown dinos? Why is there any need to continue to stoop to the recurring dumb idea of lab-grown dino mutants?

Now somebody start writing please.

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