I have seen 2001 and that one didn’t bother me at all.

The whole ordeal with HAL is over, the story arc has essentially closed. They just need to reveal what they find. They get to the artifact. Then… stuff happens. Nothing is explained. I always assumed it was supposed to visualise things that are beyond our comprehension, but that’s already my interpretation.

Is it a good ending? Dunno, I like it, but I can see that it’s controversial. But is it something that goes against the movie until that end? Absolutely not. The movie started with 20 minutes of monkey business.

Reading what I wrote, I guess it sounds a bit condescending. No intent to insult here, sorry if I was too harsh.

Of course I can see the appeal of the movie and I understand that of course people are free to like whatever they choose. Interstellar is still a bit special because it really has everything I usually like. I went in there with high hopes and was really happy with how much my desire to like that movie had no problems being fulfilled at all. Until that last hour. With bad movies, it’s just a bad movie for me, but this one felt like I got betrayed after having already decided to love it.

But yeah, it’s just a movie and I shouldn’t be too invested. Great for you if you like it, I really wish I did, too.

Spoilers ahead.

I didn’t like the pacing, but whatever, that’s a style decision.

But the whole twist at the end that justified anything that happened before just ruined it for me. It’s heavily suggested that it’s actually the humans from the future who try to save their own kind by opening the wormhole and giving humans a way off their doomed world. But the whole idea that there are ethereal beings from the future that can open multidimensional wormholes in the past but lack any way of then communicating with that past is just dumb. If you can send an interstellar superhighway through space and time, I’m sure you can send information.

Adding insult to injury at the end they can send information. But the best thing those hyperbeings can come up with is to just take a dude into their multidimensional superphone and let him throw books and wiggle some clock hands in his daughter’s room? Like… what? That’s their plan to save humanity? “Hey, man, now that you’ve entered the black hole, nice to have you here… you can now be a haunted spirit in your daughter’s past. For a few minutes. Do something to save your people’s future. Your time starts now.” The only explanation I have come up with so far is that future humans are sadistic fucks and that this was their equivalent of taskmaster style reality TV, with them throwing popcorn at the screen where the nasa farmer struggles to somehow try to send three words that could save all humans but has to do that with the dumbest means some asshole producer could come up with. “Aaaand he wiggles the clock!! I can’t believe it!” and the audience goes wild.

It just destroyed the movie for me. It felt like I was sitting through the last hour of that movie in utter disbelief that this was really the great explanation, the great twist the movie was gearing towards. It’s not often that I get angry at movies while I’m in the theater, but this movie started quite well imho, just to then take turns that made me so mad about having wasted all that time on a story that was so utterly nonsensical that I was in the end no longer wondering about what was going on but only why I hadn’t picked a career in writing just to prevent that kind of crap from happening.

Interstellar is a great pick here because I hate it with a passion and couldn’t have felt more called out in here with any other choice.

Every time I read stories like that I wonder if I should do more stuff with the hyphanet.

I’m not really part of this community, so bear with me, just came across this in my all-feed. But… especially this place is filled with people that already wrote why they have issues with ai generated content. If you are curious about views, just read them. If you have questions about specific views in particular it’s fair game to ask about them. But this general “I’m curious what issues you nicht have with it” comes across as a rather thinly veiled way to shift the responsibility of justifying decisions to those who refuse to consume ai generated content and possibly start a bad faith discussion.

Every seventh egg comes with one of a terrific collection of screwdrivers.

I really didn’t understand the comic until I saw this version. Thank you.

It’s in the bottom right of the screenshot that shows his complaint:

Der „Moderator" hier hat allen Ernstes diesen Post von mir gelöscht:

Ich habe gerade Leserkommentare mehrerer internationaler Medien durchforstet. Die große Mehrheit der arabischsprachigen Kommentatoren feiert den Täter von Berlin, die große Mehrheit feiert seine Tat. Und das ist ein sehr großes Problem.

Deepl translation:

The “moderator” here actually deleted this post of mine:

I just went through reader comments on several international media outlets. The vast majority of Arabic-speaking commenters are celebrating the Berlin attacker; the vast majority are celebrating his act. And that is a very big problem.

I live in one of those “never forget” nations that promised to never forget something… but it seems that we, too, managed to forget.

That’s just misdirected. The people who teach and educate, at least from what I’ve seen (and mind you, I’m from Europe from a country that doesn’t have a for-profit university system in place), are quite often just passionate about their topic. Them being part of the same messed up system as you doesn’t mean they’re the ones to blame.

So you’re arguing that capitalism and its greed are not an ideology?

Except psychologists argue that hooking kids to The Dopamine Machine ^TM it’s in fact different as it wrecks your attention span. Just as playing games or watching movies is said to be different than reading a book as the latter requires you to use your brain to imagine things whereas the former two are just passive consumption. This comic is oversimplifying.

It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.

For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, ‘I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,’ a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of a frightful interstellar battle.

The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.

A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl’hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G’Gugvuntt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and, with a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.

The creature stirred in his sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words, ‘I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle’ drifted across the conference table.

Unfortunately, in the Vl’hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.

Eventually, of course, after their galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realised that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own galaxy—now positively identified as the source of the offending remark.

For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across—which happened to be Earth—where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it.

‘It’s just life,’ they say.

Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 31.

It’s there but the instance I’m on already announced it’ll shut it off due to the whole drama. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Read the context and if anything, it made me want to use the app. Can’t find it though, links are all dead.

/edit Yeah, that was a dumb take. Just heard about the script in his farewell message that would ddos am instance. Fuck that shit.

Now do me a favour and take a look at where those 9 subs are lying around and tell me it’s just as far away from inhabited areas.

Spoiler: it’s not.

Very constructive.

Did you read the article? Once seawater enters the reactor, corrosion might affect the control rods to the point where the whole thing might spiral into criticality, maybe to the point of the reactor exploding. It’s just a bit of heat for 50 to 100 years until it suddenly might become an atom bomb.

Interestingly, seawater corrosion can actually cause criticality for nuclear reactors instead of preventing it.