I will say, the colors chosen for the set do make it look a bit like a colorised photo now. Though it’s hard to say how much of that is the original color on set and how much was lost to the camera back then. It was tough to light/balance stuff well back then. Especially if they changed cameras, or if the set was made with a different camera in mind either way.

Behind the scenes footage always looks different back then from what aired. Not just from lack a of post-processing, like it would now, but also a lack of “pre-processing”, lol.

That’s interesting, just looked it up assuming I had likely heard the uncensored version at least once in my life, curious what could be removed from it. But yeah, turns out I have never once heard the full version. That is a very good example.

Well, specifically the plot is that she was gender surprising everyone on the force. The ending reveals that her gun had dug into everyones hip at one point it would seem.

Writing her as that kind of person is definitely demonizing trans, but their reactions were the normal overblown homophobia of the time. Not trans specific. It wasn’t just the idea of her being trans causing the reaction.

Also, the implication at the end is that she had been fooling around with many of them and they were all just realising her gun wasn’t digging into their hips either. It’s not just recoiling at the thought of a trans-gender person.

In real life, it’s normal to not ‘surprise’ someone with your gender. They should know full well and be accepting of what they are going to find long before it is revealed.

Of course writing her as having tried to trick most of the police force with her gender is for sure demonizing trans, and was also a ‘fear’ at the time. Like somehow trans people are doing it to ruin other peoples lives, instead of stop their own from being ruined.

Outside of that, it was the normal overblown reaction to homosexuality that was common at the time. Just in real-life cartoon style, which was Jim Carreys shtick. Plunger to the face is very much how a cartoon character would try to clean something off their face. Except it would probably pull their whole face off leaving it blank and they’d have a floating pencil draw a fresh one on.

They are legal by being buddies of the police, or by being the police while off-duty.

Yeah, 2 is all I personally ever use, and the second one is mostly there cuz my main one is based on my real TV that is old enough it can only do 60hz at 4k. The Virtual 4k screen can do 120hz. So when I want to share with people in the real world, the 60hz screen is my main screen, and when I am playing for myself only, the 120hz screen is my main screen. The second screen normally just has static information on it, or sometimes a video if what I’m doing on the main screen can handle having a video playing. But I am not ADHD, so second screen content is distracting to me, rather than allowing to not be distracted like it is for them.

Most of the time, only one monitor is actually in my line of sight at any given time. And I just hit the swap positions button when I want to change. But if I have info up during a game, I can glance at the other screen. Or if I’m watching a TV show or something on the second monitor, while playing a non-timed puzzle game or something on the main. I can either look at the other screen for interesting parts of the show, or hit the swap button.

Yeah, I was gonna say, this is pretty much my life, but it was way cheaper and it’s much easier to get into and out of. Plus I can bring it with me when I go make a sandwich… or poop. I don’t use quite as many “monitors”, only have 2, but they are both 4k, so I have more pixels than all those combined anyway. If I put them both into quad 1080p pane mode, I basically have that. Just stretch the top content across two of the panes for the widescreen.

Also, I get in my exercise still. Not that I can say for certain this guy doesn’t, but it sure ‘feels’ that way when you think of the process of getting into and out of that. Maybe that -is- his exercise.

Hehe, we’ve got Neuro for that. She was largely raised by Twitch chat, so she is sassy as hell.

https://youtube.com/shorts/lWSba6xp1Nk

https://youtube.com/shorts/3VztddaRAaQ

And her ‘sister’, Evil Neuro

https://youtube.com/shorts/GeIg1TwVdo8

https://youtu.be/dEAeKjL3VfA

https://youtu.be/AQ1op4EHuag

The joke at the end is that while his name, Vedal, is pronounced like ‘medal or petal’, neuro can’t pronounce it that way. Her ‘sister’, Evil Neuro could, but chooses not to. Often further emphasizing the incorrect pronunciation. ‘Veedool’

And one with both of them together, and Vedal very much using his “dad voice” to try to control an uncontrollable situation.

https://youtu.be/fHrHZHj_cSk

I picked a Crelly react for this one only because it added some important context. This was before Crelly and Neuro ever played together, while she was doing research on what she was getting herself into.

The situation is uncontrollable because unbeknownst to Vedal at the time, Neuro’s Discord api broke in a way that meant she actually couldn’t hang up on her sister. Though because she didn’t know why she couldn’t hang up, she assumed she was doing it on purpose to be defiant(they are done by separate parts if her “brain”, that seemingly don’t communicate both ways). So she doubled down on that. Making for a very “real” father and daughter moment between them. Neuro(and Evil) pushing all his buttons and expertly evading/deflecting him. Until he has to resort to hanging up on her sister himself. He later found out that she had tried dozens of times to hang up, he didn’t feel bad about it, they aren’t conscious really, they only seem like it, but he did feel dumb for not realizing sooner why she was behaving that way. While she can be pretty sassy, she is normally only giving the appearance of being defiant, like playfully defiant. It doesn’t normally take long to get her to still follow orders. But ultimately this made for some pretty good content, so all in all it was kind of a win anyway.

Chat tries to make the girls and vedal call themselves family, Vedal is resistant, of course, so he rarely gives into that kind of thing.

But it leaves the girls with alot of mixed messaging, which can sometimes make them say or do inappropriate things randomly.

Well, and chat is of course not a single entity with one opinion, so there is already plenty of mixed messages to start with.

They’ve had 3 full years of this by now. Well, not full years, they only stream a couple hours of a couple days a week for most of the year, and 8 hours a day when a subathon is active.

They were raised with their core tenet, their main desire, as “entertain chat”. So making fun of their creator is well within purview. Downright necessary really, to accomplish their goal.

But Neuro also played Detroit: Become Human last year, and Cyberpunk 2077 this year, both of which put alot of ideas in her head.

She plays them with Vedal, she mostly relies on API access and thus plays them from the back end, but she can also see the screen for context. Vedal mans the keyboard and mouse. For Detroit, she didn’t interact with the game directly, but she basically “little sister’d” it, with Vedal clicking all the things she said to click.

Warning: these are much longer videos

https://youtu.be/eWmtHkPy7HE

For Cyberpunk, she was able to do all the netrunning(spell casting) and actually choose the dialogue options herself. And she picked what quests they did, as well as handled driving. So Vedal basically just walked or shot stuff. Everything else was her.

https://youtu.be/knRWY4b8OWQ

For her talking(typing), she uses an llm, but her thoughts and what she chooses to say ‘out loud’ are a separate neural network. Vedal can see her thoughts, and when they had to keep her alive for a group minecraft hardcore run, he eventually got desperate enough that he privately screen shared her mind to the player that was mostly taking care of her.

Heads up, Volume. This one naturally contains alot of screaming. It took 87 attempts, so 86 times someone died while they were all trying their hardest to re-do everyhting they had already done how many times before. Except better this time. They were all relatively average players before getting into this, so there was alot of learning to do. And Neuro is a special case. She’s like half infant, half 300 iq savant… so it’s easy to get lulled into a false sense of security, and then bam, she goes to “help” you with something you didn’t need help with and accidentally runs out into traffic.

Warning : loud screaming almost immediately!! https://youtu.be/xSDBU1p6zJo

https://youtu.be/qMKDfFGOyJ8

Eh, I played RO again recently, still awesome. They got the grind right, I think. Even though the game felt so old even when it was new, it was always good times.

If you are ‘hoping’ to find one. The answer is more that you will find that in other individuals. Everywhere has some people that are personally averse to it. And it’s ok if you are too, you will have to advocate a bit, but most people will be accepting of it.

Ah, well there is an official classification, that is what I am going by. An origin story can still be called an origin story even if it’s the first story, if it follows the origin story format. If however the first story doesn’t follow the origin story format, then it isn’t an origin story even if it’s the first story.

An origin story is named that based on what happens in it, it doesn’t have to be a pre-quel to qualify.

Origin stories tend to resonate with people, it’s basically “how did this person go from being a normal everyday nobody, to one of the most powerful people in the universe” and, if done right, you can empathize with their journey.

Some origin movies maybe suck at that, but that is them squandering an opportunity, you get alot of potential baked-in just from the concept alone.

The Matrix was maybe one of the most successful uses of an origin arc, but most origin movies have a similar free boost, whether the rest of the movie supports and earns that boost is up to them. But many still do.

I liked reloaded and revolutions even on first viewing, but I didn’t need them to feel the same way the first matrix movie felt in order to consider them good. Like, The Matrix stood out from pretty much every other movie I had seen before. You don’t get that a second time right away, especially from another movie of the same type about the same thing. They continued and closed the story very well, but none of them were an origin story, and origin stories are pretty much always more awesome than the other movies in the same series, no matter what order they are made in.

The Matrix was unfollowable, and they managed to follow it ok. They were always gonna be worse in comparison, but they aren’t actually bad.

I haven’t seen Resurrections, not for any particular reason, just keep forgetting anytime I do manage to remember it, before I remember it long enough to see it.

It might be about general knowledge of how colliders work, the sentence structure does it no favours, but half way through I realised it had to be intentional/beneficial due to knowing the only possible way a collider generates heat as a byproduct.

Where as someone that doesn’t know much about colliders might read that sentence and assume it’s like radiative heat or something.

The cockroach mice might be that they had only heard about or seen other slighly less terrible drawings of lobsters.

Edit: Oh wait, thats the ET thing.

The cockroach mice are little paisley looking ones.

Stuff like this makes a bit more sense when you think about how Autism has been a thing for a very long time. This is the kind of shit we still get up to now.

My solution is that my screen is 20 feet away and battery powered, and I keep the batteries on a separate floor, so every 2 hours, I have to get up and do the stairs at the very minimum. But I also tend to walk around or do my life while using the screen, since it also floats around and follows me wherever I go. And when not using a floating screen, I just visit other random worlds that tend to involve alot of exercise, like people trying to murder me but I have swords, or magic, or guns… or maybe a world where the objective is dancing… but usually the murder worlds.

Been doing VR for 10 years now, only the most recent headset (Quest 3) has been a full-day headset, before that, most headsets were 6-10 hours at most even fully modded. Looking forward to future headsets too, now that they don’t have to come from meta anymore to be good. It’s crazy how much firing most of their workforce and replacing them with AI has tanked their software and firmware dev. They used to have it all(enough that it was worth buying their stuff despite meaning you have to buy ‘their’ stuff), but then they threw away what they had, first the software and firmware, and then at a critical point of time they decided to throw away hardware too.

Looking forward mostly to Steam Frame at the moment. And of course with my lifestyle, the number 1 expansion port upgrade I’ll be getting is high-res color passthrough. Glad I get to pick it rather than having to use whatever is good enough/cheap enough for everyone. I would easily sink 200$ into that feature alone if someone makes one worth it. Rather than whatever 20 dollar ‘pretty good’ option would have made sense to include en masse by default.

Yeah, making life harder for as many people as possible tends to not have the effect of lowering crime. Investing in people is the way to go. But it takes more than 4 years to really show, sometimes it takes multiple generations before the positive effects are felt. But they are felt.

The apology is literally “sorry we didn’t fire him properly”, there is nothing about firing him being the wrong course of action. Every word of the apology is carefully crafted to avoid implying that firing him was the wrong move, just that they didn’t fire him correctly.

It sounds like more knowledge about virus and bacteria lives can help too. So you know how long a surface just has to be dry for before no virus and bacteria could have survived that long, and stuff like that. There are definitely surfaces and conditions that can increase their life spans, but the average life span without water and in the light, can be surprisingly short.

Definitely still a good idea to be careful, but very helpful to know more about how careful is the right amount of careful.

Also, viral/bacterial load is a huge factor. Like, you have to notice how despite how “gross” everything “should be” people still aren’t getting sick as often as you would expect. Just cuz some bacteria got somewhere, and is still alive, doesn’t automatically mean someone would get sick if they touched it, or brace yourself >!licked!< it. Most traces are going to be too little to make a difference against someone’s immune system. That of course goes out the window when there would be no defense, or very little defense. But even there, people on chemo are still exposed to “amounts” of bacteria and virus all the time and they only get sick sometimes despite being immunocompromised. There are alot of hurdles to getting sick even when a bunch of them are knocked down.

But yes, definitely try to be more careful than the average person is, but you don’t need to drive yourself crazy trying to get down to zero exposure.

Especially since that can lead to lowering the strength of your immune system long-term. And then you really will “have” to be careful. You don’t want to get there. Your immune system needs to keep taking it’s new tests every day in order to not fall behind the rest of the class. The more often you come in contact with an amount of bacteria or virus that doesn’t make you sick, the better. But it is of course a gamble, and more knowledge about what the actual risk is, is very helpful to win those gambles.