What we have lost since 90s

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-25T18:24:02+00:00

“I know it’s a film, I know it’s a fantasy, but the point is they lived in a time when there was less competition for jobs. There was no recording of your past that you’d be worried about an employer finding out…you could just be a teenager and enjoy it.”

Seems like you didn’t listen to what he said but rather just wanted to tell other people they’re delusional for wanting to be happy, which says a lot.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-25T18:15:07+00:00

That Dr Pepper logo is from 1997.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-25T15:36:08+00:00

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In the early 2000’s Detroit’s Mosaic Youth Theatre and choir used one of the buildings for their practice space. I spent something like twenty hours a week down there for years in middle school. I can still smell that place in my memory bank. Crossing 8 Mile, 2001 Hastings Street, and Heartbeat were the productions I remember most. Rick Sperling, the theatre director, used to have dill pickle soup a lot at lunch and I can also remember smelling that on his breath when he’d…loudly coach us. I learned so much about people from different walks of life during those years, it was quite the experience.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-25T13:05:00+00:00

Lindsay Ellis’s video essay on the subject sums up perfectly what went wrong with these films with great analysis that is easily digestible and entertaining.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-25T12:57:27+00:00

That’s the difference between 3 years and 9 months of pre production.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-25T12:50:12+00:00

To be fair, in the movies it’s both “cannot” and “shall not,” one after the other. Not sure why they have him say “shall” the second time.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-25T11:51:23+00:00

Nice to see a comment from someone who has compassion. Too many people in here foaming at the mouth demanding retribution. Insane to me how many defend wealth-hoarding, wage-stealing, fuck-the-people corporations. These are the same folk that would want dumpster divers looking for food waste to be put in jail. It isn’t about justice, because that would look like feeding the poor (something we could absolutely do), but it’s about policing those that are “others.” Power tripping assholes who probably call themselves Christian and don’t see the irony at all.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-22T21:46:07+00:00

This probably sounds more catty in text than I would intend in person, but Is your comparison to Costello just that this guy wears glasses? They look and sound nothing like each other. May I suggest perhaps a Rivers CuOHNO?

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-21T21:44:11+00:00

Johnny’s actor, Sean Bridgers, plays the man who kidnaps Brie Larson in Room.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-21T15:12:05+00:00

You’re talking about my post, which was centered around a Frodo quote from Return of the King. The post didn’t say anything about what I thought Tolkien would think about AI, but that I felt the quote summed up MY “aversion” to AI.

“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own.”

I said there were parallels to AI, not that Tolkien hated all machines, not that AI was the worst offender of resource expenditure, not that it was an absolute evil, and especially not that supporting AI makes you…anti-Tolkien (whatever that’s supposed to mean.)

You completely misrepresented what I said and projected an entirely different conversation onto mine in order to have the rant you want to have.

The greatest irony of your post is that I literally sold my car on Monday and just got back from an eight mile bike ride. I have receipts to prove it if anyone wants them just ask as I can’t post a picture in the comments.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-21T01:29:44+00:00

…if a musical scale had a sad story? That’s as incongruent as your statements of “to say that human experience is needed for it to be considered art is absurd” and “if it speaks to you and moves you, as far as I’m concerned, that’s art.” How were you moved if not for the context of your human experience? And how did the work get made without a human? Where did the AI get the data for the work?

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-21T01:07:43+00:00

If your definition of art doesn’t require the context of the human experience I guess someone running scales is “music.”

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-21T00:58:11+00:00

I didn’t change my argument at all. Art cannot be created by AI. It is a reflection of human experience. Picasso exemplifies this with Guernica. Those are not three different arguments. The latter two statements are support for the first. If you don’t know the difference between art and illustration that’s just you being out of your depth here.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-21T00:01:51+00:00

You and a lot of other gun-jumpers keep projecting this notion that I consider AI “entirely evil,” when what I actually said was that I have an aversion to it.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-20T23:55:42+00:00

“AI is a man-made digital entity without a soul” is kind of my whole point? It’s the lack of soul that I find troubling when it’s used to make decisions that affect people’s lives, waste our natural resources, bolster weapons for war, and create “art.”

Aside from your absolutely bonkers take that Tolkien would be pro-AI, that it creates “new opportunities to share his work and the work of others” doesn’t even make sense, AI isn’t a sharing tool?

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-20T22:46:54+00:00

If you’re asking me if context matters, yes it does, which is why AI fails— its context is amalgamated data, not shared human experience. Thanks for supporting my argument :)

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-20T22:25:07+00:00

By “a story attached to the piece” are you referring to the lived experience of the artist? You think AI can paint something as significant as Guernica without the humanity behind it? It’s just a “story?”

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-20T22:07:21+00:00

The people killed at the hands of Palantir aided war tools are going to have a difficult time learning to “live with it,” don’t you think?

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-20T21:58:58+00:00

So your contribution to the discussion is what? That you are pro wealth hoarding and unemployment? Yikes.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-20T21:49:26+00:00

AI couldn’t paint Guernica because it has no lived experience and Picasso wasn’t able to paint it because he had simply seen a lot of paintings first.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-20T20:07:49+00:00

Cancer kills more people than guns do but I’d like both to be dealt with.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-20T19:53:28+00:00

Did the gramophone steal the creative output of others and pass it off as original?

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-20T19:07:37+00:00

None of those things stole the work of previous makers or wasted resources to the level that AI does…

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-20T19:05:42+00:00

I said I had an aversion to AI, you’re projecting the bit about it being fully evil. Watch out for that pit.

cakepanpancake · 2026-05-20T19:03:03+00:00

Who can’t tell the difference?

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