gotta say, not a huge fan of using obvious “AI” art to promote this.

Wonderful news, the less traffic fandom gets the better.

Unfortunately i then lose that money from taking sick days off work

If that was Gandalf the White he’d know exactly how to escape and tell everyone exactly what to do every step of the way until the final puzzle, at which point he just stands to the side and stares at them solving it. When they finally succeed, in the nick of time, he yells “the door is opening!”

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Fair enough, thanks.

Is 500 really big enough to get a proper spread though? Iirc my statistics course (which i don’t all that well tbf) you need a pretty significant sample still, would think a few thousand at least

I hate when people say “people are not ready for this conversation”, it just shows they are completely uninterested in any actual discussion about the matter. If anyone responds with any criticism, even if it’s very reasonable, they’ll just say “told you people weren’t ready for it lol”.

The Hobbit does grow more serious as it goes on, the first third is… an experience to read, i agree. LOTR is much more serious, the elves are much more the wise old beings (still jovial at times, but in a less childish way).

A high effort shitpost? That’s a rare gem that is.

And yet when Netflix was good the amount of people who pirated went down a ton. I was on that train. Just give me a service that isn’t outrageously expensive, has most of the content i want, and is more convenient than pirating and I’ll do it, as long as i have an income.

Ooh a double reference, fancy!

I can imagine it might be a tad difficult to produce processors on a nanometer scale if the entire building is shaking violently.

Presumably

Absolutely, but calling it a reference implies that it was intentional by the writer, which seems unlikely considering what he’s said about such things.

Along with most of the other exec. orders he signed.

Not everything needs to have deep/real-world meaning. As i recall, Tolkien really didn’t like people ascribing such things to his writing. They’re just stories and should be treated as such.

It’s not a threat, it’s an admission of guilt.

100% agreed. It just reeks of mods thinking they own and know what’s best for the community, further exacerbated by comments like this one. They think they are the community, or at least are the reason it thrives.

I asked her about it, and she said that she won’t hijack the community from the existing team, but she’d be willing to point people to a community made alternative if it spins up. Not necessarily the decision i would have made, but i understand and respect it.