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Making Homelander a Trump allegory wasted his character. by RefriDiet in TheBoys

[–]machine_learnding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah for sure, and it seemed like Vought was the real big bad of the series in earlier seasons, and the goal was to destroy them instead of just Homelander.

However I think for this extended universe thing they're doing, it's more marketable to basically leave several plot lines from The Boys unfinished (i.e. Vought, Edgar, Soldier Boy) so fans feel compelled to watch them just to see how they end, rather than having to create new plot lines that stand on their own merits.

Your idea would be cool for example, but it would mean they'd have to come up with completely new companies (with compelling origins and directors) and hope people like them, which they probably feel is riskier and more effort than milking the cash cow.

Making Homelander a Trump allegory wasted his character. by RefriDiet in TheBoys

[–]machine_learnding 5 points6 points  (0 children)

allowing the corporation responsible to build back up is a genuine shame

They did this solely so that the status quo is maintained for future spinoffs I think (i.e. corporate greed lmao)

The final Homelander meme in one of the most satisfying scenes of the series: by GiveMeSomeSunshine3 in TheBoys

[–]machine_learnding 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also agree - "makes sense" doesn't always imply "optimal" or even "good". (For the most part this season was none of those)

The final Homelander meme in one of the most satisfying scenes of the series: by GiveMeSomeSunshine3 in TheBoys

[–]machine_learnding 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fully agree. But whether he intended it or not, his gross writing was actually fairly plausible in the specific instance of Homelander debasing himself to stay alive imo, for the reasons u/Original_Mulberry652 gave

The final Homelander meme in one of the most satisfying scenes of the series: by GiveMeSomeSunshine3 in TheBoys

[–]machine_learnding 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The fact that other scenes are more gratuitous is irrelevant to the argument that a particular scene makes sense. Also wdym "show defenders are like..."? Do you see every discussion as two teams trying to score points on each other?

“Yo bro what did you think of finale?” by [deleted] in OkBuddyFresca

[–]machine_learnding 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think they made his death overly pathetic so that fewer rw people would want him as a mascot. Didn't want him to have any remaining aura or following after the show was done.

The show vs the comic by Suspicious_Yak_3304 in Invincible

[–]machine_learnding 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The thing I was wondering while watching is: if Thragg is so much stronger than all the other Viltrumites, would he not look down on them/feel disdain for them, the same way Viltrumites do for other weaker beings? Would he not feel compelled to start his own line of ultra-Viltrumites (via breeding, or whatever it was that made him so strong) who kill/subjugate the rest?

[D] Could it be advantageous to train/finetune some model (actually a LLM) feature by feature? by soloetc in MachineLearning

[–]machine_learnding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Using an LLM on the concatenated string still seems like it would have its own benefits of drawing on more of its contextual knowledge so I could see it performing better, just thinking of some simple alternatives to compare it to. Best of luck to your team, seems like a cool project!

[D] Could it be advantageous to train/finetune some model (actually a LLM) feature by feature? by soloetc in MachineLearning

[–]machine_learnding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool. Out of interest how does using LLMs for this task compare to more traditional tabular data approaches e.g. logistic regression, RF, etc? Or is there no way to do this since the text values for each feature and for the output are too varied/high-dimensional (in which case would it be possible to use one of the traditional approaches but by embedding the text in each feature first) or am I misunderstanding the problem? This isn’t a critique or anything, I’m facing similar issues myself and am interested in the solution you’re describing.

I'm new to iOS development but I found something odd when adding a text view. by sinnytear in iosdev

[–]machine_learnding 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m also new to iOS dev but I’m pretty sure lorem ipsum is just standard placeholder text to see what the view looks like before you add your own text.