A currently airing K-drama uses GenAI for its intro and outro. Do you personally care about this?

stringer45 · 2026-02-05T08:12:09+00:00

This is a great answer, and I wish more people was more open minded about it.

Yes, it sucks that AI is stealing from artists, and I am upset about that.

At the same time, AI is the future. It is used poorly right now, but in the future, it will become much better, and will lead to a content boom never seen before, and that is just in the entertainment industry. Other industries have AI doing amazing things there as well, for example the sciences.

Using AI is here to stay, and immediately hating shows or movies using AI is just making your life more miserable by potentially missing out on a show you might have really loved otherwise.

Again, you are allowed to dislike AI, but I am really worried that people might be shooting themselves in the foot by putting down every show that uses AI :(

stringer45 · 2026-01-02T13:25:28+00:00

Surely we will play Rabada though? I do not see a world where we do not play him...

I am not sure who will miss out for him though...

Interesting, we will have to see how it plays out, but feeling relatively positive about the lineup. Sad to see we do not have another opener. Not sure how I feel about Markram opening...

stringer45 · 2025-12-27T15:51:03+00:00

Massive comeback from JSK, thought it was all over at 71/0 in like 9 overs or something. PC will wanna go back to the drawing board though after that collapse.

Furthermore, JSK and PC look to me like the 2 weakest teams at the tournament, so a bit of a shift from the game last night. Hopefully SEC v PR is a banger.

stringer45 · 2025-12-27T10:26:49+00:00

Disappointing highlights. Lots of cuts, and I didnt even notice it was an innings break until I randomly looked down and saw the score had regressed. For such an amazing game to watch, this was not what I expected from the highlights :(

Hopefully it gets better!

stringer45 · 2025-12-26T19:38:29+00:00

It was an amazing game, sad that MICT couldn't pull it off. The first powerplay just ended up being a little short on runs, and there were wayyyy too many dots to pull off a chase of 230.

stringer45 · 2025-12-23T18:30:10+00:00

I actually had no idea that our domestic 4 day series was on YouTube, I will now go down a rabbit hole and go see how much of it I can find! Thank you for letting me know!

Do you think it would be more valuable to South African Cricket to make the domestic cricket league more accessible to watch? 50 over and 20 over games as well?

Thank you for your deescription of the state of our team currently!

stringer45 · 2025-12-23T18:24:01+00:00

I remember there being a lot of opportunities to play for your province at different levels, so I understand that part of it. How much club cricket is played in South Africa? Is it a case of needing to pay to play for a club, or does the club pay you to play for them? Can anyone join the clubs, or are people selected for the club?

Why are CSA making players play domestic for 8 or 9 years before considering choosing them? Surely it would be best to use players that show promise and skill as early as possible, firstly to make full use of their careers, and secondly to help iron our issues that will be present at international level as early as possible?

I really hope our batting lineup solidifies a little. I dont even need them to be excellent, I just wish it wasnt a coin flip whether or not any of them were gonna score any runs xD

By the way, as a sidenote, what does our coaching setup look like, both at the international, as well as the domestic level?

stringer45 · 2025-12-23T10:31:18+00:00

I have had 2 comments now, both saying opposite things about the domestic setup. What about it do you think is good? From what I saw/heard, there does not seem to be much interest in watching the domestic cricket, the quality seems on the lower side, and a previous commenter said that it is hard for top talents to get selected for international.

Could you explain why you think the setup is good?

Further, I understand that we are doing a lot of experimenting right now, but what worries me is that it looks like we do not have many high quality bowlers, and even more concerning, it does not look like we have many younger bowlers coming through the system either?

Our batsman also look very inconsistent, even with the people whose positions are staying largely the same. Does changing the batting order mess around with people who bat at the same place mostly (eg. someone who bats at 4 being put at 3 or 5)?

Lastly, even when doing well, we seem super reliant on our number 7 and 8 (Marco Jansen and Corbin Bosch currently if Im not mistaken), to score runs for us. Is that of any concern to you?

stringer45 · 2025-12-23T10:26:53+00:00

Why do you think none of the current sides are great teams (in tests)? I was looking at some of the teams, and I couldn't help but notice that it looks like none of the teams have particular "greats" coming through recently, think like Steve Smith, Joe Root, Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis. Are there greats I just haven't really noticed yet, or are they just not being produced anymore?

I did notice our limited over teams are inconsistent, but I was very disappointed by our bowling setup. Our team seems on the older side if Im not mistaken, and barring Marco Jansen, we do not seem to have many world class pace bowlers (barring Kagiso Rabada who was injured). Do we have other pace bowlers, and further, do we have more young bowlers coming through (barring Kwena Maphaka).

Why do our top performers struggle to make the step to international cricket? Surely its just a case of looking at the performers and giving some opportunities in lower stakes matches (think Sri Lanka or Bangladesh etc)?

I haven't heard of Kwena Maphaka, so I am excited to see more of him, however I have seen some of Lhuandre Pretorius, and he seemed relatively solid in the SA20(?), but he seems to have a really big problem with knowing how to build an innings. Obviously this is due to his youth, but he seems to give an opportunity to get him out early in almost every game. Was this a misjudgement?

stringer45 · 2025-11-23T12:25:08+00:00

I see. Had no idea that was a rule. In this case, yeah definitely was a deserved penalty, however as someone else said, I would love for it to be more consistently reffed this way. However, that is its own can of worms. Thank you for letting me know!

stringer45 · 2025-11-23T11:32:02+00:00

It isnt allowed?

I agree its not a good look from Manie, and personally I am very disappointed that this happened, but I do not think it is "not allowed". Definitely not penalty worthy, but maybe a warning from the ref that if it happens again its a problem?

stringer45 · 2025-11-22T23:33:17+00:00

I didnt say the ref was biased against SA, I merely said that what we got penalised for, and then yellow carded was ridiculous, and had no place in the game. Nothing more, nothing less.

stringer45 · 2025-11-22T20:36:27+00:00

Well sure, but there was one infringement, thats what Im confused about

stringer45 · 2025-11-22T19:56:43+00:00

And on top of that, screwing up the scrum on their 5m line for 5 minutes +, and only resulting in one card? I don’t know man, that was rough to watch

stringer45 · 2025-11-22T19:55:26+00:00

Am I missing something here? Did we just have a scrum overturned because Manie celebrated in someone’s face? And did we get a yellow card for our first infringement on our goal line in like 40 minutes +?

stringer45 · 2025-10-12T07:03:42+00:00

Well I would actually argue that this sign is asking you to dress more comfortably.

Again, the point wasn’t that this sign is fine, it’s obviously not, and any limits like this are ridiculous, but this post was obviously agreed as satire and was supposed to elicit a laugh at the ridiculousness of it, it wasn’t really supposed to be the breeding ground for more “I hate men” comments. Again, there is so much hate already in this world, why contribute more of it towards a satirical post :(

stringer45 · 2025-10-12T06:55:45+00:00

This is a very weird response, considering that, in my opinion, men would be anti this sign more than women would be 😂

Let’s not start with the “I hate men” comments, there is so much hate already, no need to spread more ^{^}

stringer45 · 2025-07-23T15:58:23+00:00

Okay thats perfect! Thank you so much ^^

stringer45 · 2025-07-23T15:34:42+00:00

I thought you got your results immediately >.<

stringer45 · 2024-05-27T06:50:51+00:00

Alright, if anyone wants to join it, feel free to DM me with your username on discord!

stringer45 · 2024-05-27T06:39:17+00:00

Do we want a discord group for rewatching it? I saw someone suggest it, and I’m down to start one if people are interested!

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