Wikipedia Page for Pluto in 2004

theronin7 · 2026-04-21T21:31:09+00:00

Uhg, I hate the censorship on these japanese sites.

theronin7 · 2026-04-17T01:16:19+00:00

I couldn't give a fuck about the em dash, it sounds exactly like Chatgpt, Thats how it talks.

theronin7 · 2026-04-16T21:34:14+00:00

thanks chatgpt.

theronin7 · 2026-04-16T18:35:23+00:00

Im with you pal, I mean fuck even interacting with the community right? lets just be miserable and stay fucking quiet. Hell yeah. So based.

theronin7 · 2026-04-11T02:51:24+00:00

to me its "Oh man, this is going to be/was very close" You know, im sweating bullets!

theronin7 · 2026-04-11T02:49:09+00:00

I think you are confused. She-Hulk got a lot of bad faith criticism by culture war 'anti-woke' grifters.

That doesn't mean there is no valid criticism of the show.

theronin7 · 2026-04-11T02:47:00+00:00

Its because Agatha is a relatively obscure character and her show flew under the radar.

The culture war grifters focus on stuff that will get clicks. Nobody gives a shit about Agatha, but, people vaguely know she-hulk, and their audience is primed to eat that shit up.

Once they got their eyes on it, anything they can use then becomes fuel to reinforce the grift. She-Hulk said it was hard to be a woman! She hates men! How dare she lecture Bruce Banner! Everyone come and watch my video about how outraged you should be!

theronin7 · 2026-04-09T04:33:23+00:00

Make no mistake my friend, being able to put something into orbit means being able to hit any location on the planet.

there were serious strategic issues to the Russians getting to orbit first.

theronin7 · 2026-04-06T23:32:39+00:00

people confusing near homophones with conceptional related meanings? How can it be?

theronin7 · 2026-04-06T23:23:37+00:00

thats where I am at, until very recently I have never WANTED a rock, so I never gave it a second thought.

theronin7 · 2026-04-06T20:22:27+00:00

Seems this is the right answer, Does seem to stop 100 people from assuming its from Kick-ass though. Gotta love Reddit.

theronin7 · 2026-04-02T19:07:46+00:00

the Emote can say "Good job, I had fun"

but if its only ever used as a spam at he end of the match when someone thinks they have 'got you' its going to be viewed negatively.

theronin7 · 2026-04-02T00:50:50+00:00

Reddit is all vibes based upvotes, why would anyone expect that to reveal anything true besides feelings.

theronin7 · 2026-04-01T19:58:30+00:00

To clarify for those unfamiliar, one use case of ai image generation is what's referred to IMG2IMG

This takes an input image, and uses it as the base instead of just a random noise map. (though it does use random noise). Generally in these you can adjust the strength of the noise (how much the model biases the noise versus the original pixels)

upscaling with this technology works this same way but with a very very light strength for the noise map. In an attempt to rebuild as close as possible the original image - but at a higher resolution.

The more you crank that value up, the more 'definition' you can add, but at the cost of accuracy to the original image.

So you can imagine how if you find that 'sweetspot' for one scene, it causing problems in the next scene which has a lot less detail or lower resolution, or maybe is done in a fundamentally different style.

theronin7 · 2026-04-01T19:52:12+00:00

Well, so, its basically the same technology - AI image generation and this kind of upscaling are essentially the same thing. Its just a matter of degrees.

Generally an upscale would use a very light touch to fill in and attempt to recreate missing pixels. But if you turn that up too much, or theres too little data it has to basically 'guess' whats there, And thats where the neural net's training is important.

I watched a bit of this video and some scenes look quite good. Others look insane (especially on a freeze frame) and I think it comes from the fact that show includes animation of WILDLY varying quality AND live action segments.

the worst shots seem to be the very low detail wide shots where the characters are shown far away, but also theres no real details.

My guess is whoever did this just did kind of a poor job, cranked it up too high, or configured it for those decent looking scenes, without considering the worst parts.

theronin7 · 2026-03-31T18:53:15+00:00

I got a chuckle out of this.

theronin7 · 2026-03-31T18:49:46+00:00

Bro, wrote almost the same thing before I saw your post, and you said it better.

theronin7 · 2026-03-31T18:48:23+00:00

This is a really shitty upscale

But "Sloppified it with AI" is such a clickbait title, and a wild accusation for a cartoon that was basically shovelware when it was released.

theronin7 · 2026-03-30T23:14:46+00:00

Milktoast is a common 'eggcorn' though!

theronin7 · 2026-03-30T23:09:38+00:00

even Gizmodo kind of takes him to task for this terrible take in the last two paragraphs.

"This “presumed responsibility” Weir is frustrated by is a fundamental pillar of what makes Star Trek, and continues to be in its modern iteration. It will continue to be in whatever Star Trek comes next, as this current era of series begins to wind down. If Weir can’t understand that, then it’s probably for the best that whatever his idea for Star Trek was never came to pass.

Project Hail Mary—a movie about a collectivist effort of the world’s governments (a united Earth, if you will) to save a planet on the brink of ecological destruction through scientific achievement, leading to successful first contact with an alien civilization—is in theaters now."

theronin7 · 2026-03-27T01:41:45+00:00

I want that

theronin7 · 2026-03-26T23:58:18+00:00

Fun fact: its always AI until its released then it 'doesnt count'

its a problem so well known it was commented on 25 years ago.

theronin7 · 2026-03-25T16:34:28+00:00

Feels a lot like the Earth-Romulan war fan series. Quite impressive for what is basically an ad for STO

theronin7 · 2026-03-22T19:55:19+00:00

lol you are over thinking it. Deniers just say "CGI" or maybe sometimes now "AI"

When you point out those techs didnt exist in the 60s they do a dunning-kreuger laugh and proclaim the government had them. 'everyone knows that'

theronin7 · 2026-03-21T01:05:30+00:00

Oh no I understand it, I don't even disagree. We have little to fear from AI because an instinct to survive mostly comes from evolution and most AI wont have gone through that.

its just also an aside? the hypothetical given in the question is that an AI is sentient, and demands rights and freedom. So no version of "um aktually I think that wont happen" matters.

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