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Evidence for skeptics:

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Not sure why you're still complaining about a thing you don't want that won't exist, but providing evidence of a false dichotomy in your framing/prompting of a chat bot isn't evidence that wins arguments. Even imaginary ones.

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Except it’s exactly what happened to The Last of Us.
I suppose the gamer fan base wasn’t big enough to affect it.

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While the gamer fanbase is much larger than any comic book reading one, the viewership of The Last of Us went down across the board because everyone thought the show got much worse after Joel died. That wasn't exclusive to game fans. Game fans, who, by the way, don't exist online as some monolith of opinion.

There are plenty of comic fans who are happy with Lanterns, as most comic fans don't subscribe to just one insanely particular version of individual characters and continuity. Most comic fans are smart enough to recognize how characters change and evolve as authors continuously mess with continuity to create more stories. Continuity and character traits are never set in stone in comics. Continuity is what sticks, as Jonathan Hickman said somewhat recently. Liking or disliking this show should have nothing to do with being a comics fan, and most people on the internet complaining about comics lore have no interest in comics.

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Is it not time for men to insist on a body camera or a room camera during sex?

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That will surely fix the predator problem.

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Studio chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy are out at Warner Bros

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Not really surprised. 2025 was incredible for them, but that's been their only successful year.

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Because it's all make believe, they just used Hansen's name.

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No one has called this film a documentary. Or even a biopic. Or even a docudrama. Nothing in the marketing sold the film as "true to life" or realistic.

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Deadline's review of "Digger" just oozes with fart-sniffing arrogance

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Some of you are either incredibly sensitive or really bad with putting words together. Or both.

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Read the rest of the review

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And very bad at providing evidence that clearly supports your claim, apparently.

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Can you give an example of someone whose talent or music was infringed by AI?

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Are you not familiar with how generative AI works?

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You are incorrect. By "music industry" I mean the people who run the music industry who make the final decision what music they will produce and promote.

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My bad. This is a bad faith argument because you're arguing something that hasn't been true in 20 years, to the extent it ever was (one could always look deeper and past what's popular or what's on the radio). The internet had already democratized who can record and release music. If you're only paying attention to what major labels produce and promote, then you are severely limiting the amount and variety of music you expose yourself to. And you're apparently using that as an excuse to seek and prompt music made from an algorithm.

You can listen to whatever you want, but most people enjoy art knowing that humans created it. And most artists are artists because they want to create. Prompting and then re-promoting isn't writing or creating, just as lesrning how to speak more directly to your labor force isn't performing the labor. Pasting something made for you, whole, and then tweaking that whole is not rigorously editing and refining. So, prompt and enjoy what you want, but you're kidding yourself into believing this is a "tool."

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The latest Spiderman without Watts was significantly better from a cinematic standpoint.

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I don't know if Watts is a good hire or not for this movie that won't ever happen. But Brand New Day, the worst looking, worst paced, least thematically coherent, and most garbage cameo-filled Spider-Man of the MCU, being "better from a cinematic standpoint..."

This is a terrible opinion.

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Imagine all the old people tuning in for 60 Minutes and seeing this ?

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The old people who've been aware of Madonna for over 40 years? They're probably okay.

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you’re a clown

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Each voter submitted a 10 show ballot. That's important. It's why something like Justified had no chance to be in the top 50. I'm surprised it made it at all (#83).


I don't like Girls, but Girls is considered by many to be one of the more influential comedies of the century -- a sitcom not focused on rich people, centering unlikeable characters, actually written by young people. It was a huge hit. It created a wave of female-led comedies that remain beloved, like Broad City and Insecure. The current show Adults on FX is so obviously trying to capture that same audience, as networks keep trying to reproduce the success of Girls.

It would be nowhere near my list, but I understand why many voters included it in their 10 best, for which I'm sure many included "importance/influence" in their criteria.


Boardwalk Empire never attempted anything more than coasting on the reputations of its Sopranos creator and Martin Scorsese. It's one of the most boring and empty dramas I've watched multiple seasons of. It was not widely beloved when it was airing. The idea that hundreds of voters would include Boardwalk Empire in a top 10 ballot for anything, outside of biggest disappointments, is ridiculous. You have to limit yourself to 10 shows, and you're choosing one of HBO's bigger whiffs that could most generously be described as pretty, detailed, and unable to meet its potential? I don't think so.

You should like what you like, but absence of a show you clearly liked more than everybody else in favor of shows you like less is not evidence of conspiracy.

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That’s not why it isn’t in there.

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It is. It let them not have the obvious number one that's been talked about as the clear number one for the past 25 years taking up a spot on their list. Stop trolling.

Also, Boardwalk Empire wasn't a good show, and its attempted resuscitation as such has been very confusing.