ThaOGDreamWeaver

With the original article not having a piccy, I'm not sure. I can't find a robot that does it. But if you want a vehicle / self-transporting luggage... (....that doesn't attempt to eat people, but is likely lethal in many other ways...) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smart-Rideable-Suitcase-Batteries-Removable/ Though if you want something small, portable and less likely to, y'know, explode, how about the Honda MotoCompacto? ...which, to be fair, is a long way from being the most ridiculous piece of ebike/scooter kit I've ever seen a commuter lugging around. https://motocompacto.honda.com/

What's Up Doc? (1972) An incredibly young Barbara Streisand and Robert-Redford-if-you-ordered-off-Shein Ryan O'Neal run into each other. Love and hilarity ensues. Also, general chaos, pie fights, jewel thievery, bike thievery, and one of the best damn car chases in cinema history. The credits also have the magic words "and introducing Madeline Kahn"... but if you were expecting Lili Von Shtupp, I'm afraid Eunice Burrrrns isn't quite the same seductive siren. More a San Francisco foghorn.

Ep4 thoughts...

James Hetfield & The News - Hip To Be Sandman

Unlimited Touch - I Hear Music In The Streers

New teaser: Doesn’t give us much more plot wise but does give us a little more flavour. Gotham gangland played more-or-less straight.

David Bowie - Underground

Ep3:

🥪🧡🇵🇪 EDIT: Iconic blue and red outfit ✅ Adopted by local family after being orphaned and sent away for their own safety ✅ Embodies the ideals of their adopted culture... ✅ ...despite being an illegal alien, and also not the same species. Not that anyone seems to mind. ✅ Tries to do the right thing regardless of personal cost ✅ Sometimes misinterprets what the right thing may be ✅ Foils villains with ingenuity as much or more than personal strength ✅ Apparently indestructible ✅ Conclusion: Paddington is Britain's answer to Superman. Thank you for coming to my TED Bear talk.

Different Goliath: the OG one for Thunderbolts was one of Zemo's sidekicks called Erik Josten. I got that slightly wrong - the OG Goliath renamed himself Atlas when they formed the Thunderbolts team. If you're not familiar with the comics...

/em holdtorch

Roberta. I'm not that cruel. Also, Taskmaster would not have made the cut on my team - and ten seems excessive anyway. Seven is a good number: (Baron) Zemo as permanently masked hero Citizen John Walker as US Agent Red Guardian as Goliath Yelena as the new Widow Bucky as himself, given he's a known Avenger, and also an innately suspicious git Jolt (from the original comics - a wide-eyed ingenue and our "way in" to the story) Techno/Fixer

This is also where it diverges from the Thunderbolts comic arc, which I was really hoping they were going to do justice to - because done straight and done right, it could have been the Marvel answer to Usual Suspects. Given that the arc would be spoilered by a thousand nerd sites, I would have gone for a little more summer-friendly version, in which they accidentally save the day in pursuit of a different mission / heist, and become as famous and popular as the now retired Avengers. Each member reacts differently to that - some don't want redemption, because it's somewhere they don't want to go back to given what they've done. Too many questions to answer. (More common than you'd think.) Some are HYPERFOCUSED ON THE MISSION. Some realise they can be good and want to take that path. And a genderflipped Techno (because you have to these days, and also Norbert is a terrible character name anyway) is still 100% out for herself, but goes through the whole "what was thaaat? That was FAAAAAAAMME..." thing.

As someone who works a lot with voice tech, generally available pure-AI voicing has a looooooong way to go - call it an uncanny echo valley. The best stuff out there is from that clever Ukrainian bunch ReSpeecher. But that depends on having an actor's take to model on first, which the AI then rebuilds in the voice of, say, James Earl Jones or Peter Cushing. So you still get the human part of performance, the range, the music, the pacing, without those tiny odd drops or run-ons that give the computers away. For the same reason, language dubbing studios for movies aren't going away any time soon. Auto AI translation is getting better - and can even voiceclone and translate the original performers - but still sounds slightly like a 90s Roxette or current Ghost song. The words make sense, but they aren't what you'd say, and feel mangled together in unnatural ways.

I'd prefer nobody reminded me how long that was ago, when I could wear New Rocks without ankles cracking... [le sigh] If Ross is the dramatic core of this movie, you need a Proper Actor to do it, and in the absence of Bill Hurt, he's a solid but one-shot choice. If you needed Ross around for a series, I would have gone for Skårsgard, Cranston, or a lesser known but solid character actor like Bruce Greenwood or Chris McDonald. About the flicks generally: I read an article recently that said Marvel were trying too hard to make tentpole movies, when what they need to do is to cut the budget and get back to where they were in the early days. The original Iron Man is an indie director - Favreau - who's just got hold of the big budget toybox and is messing around with it. And sure, he's got some big fight scenes and spectacle as expected, but the dialogue snaps around, there's a bit of a redemption arc, and there's plenty of very personal scenes. Cap is a Boy's Own war movie that just happens to have a supe landed in the middle of it. (Well, two if you count Peggy. Which I do.) Winter Soldier is a proper conspiracy movie... with flying aircraft carriers, but nonetheless retains that feel. I am kinda sad that Thunderbolts is going to be just another teamup movie. I had a whole other script idea for that, which went close to the original comics, but wrapped in the modern obsessions with media and social media imaging, and the idea that bad guys could be tempted to the good side rather than vice versa.

Only real ones remember.✌

So the first two episodes have dropped... SPOILERS AHEAD!

Oh, sweet Freya in Asgard - thanks to all the devs for all their thoughts and memories, which I'm spending far too long reading. stunned_pikachu.gif That... is... genius. Proper MHD stuff. I'm gonna have to go take another look. ...I'm not sure anyone'd notice, but...

Joeyy - Gout 🕶️🧙🏽‍♀️💷✌🏻

Good stuff. And, yes, Dune II was a very beautiful and satisfying movie, with the possible exception of...

Sharing a recent discovery from the Temple of Pharaoh Ui'wakframhoom...