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It's starting to sound more and more like he does. It would be completely understandable given what happened.

Also I'm sorry for what you went through, and I hope it gets better. My wife is infantry and I hope to God she never has to see combat.

What an absolutely fucking deranged thing to say. How do these people look at themselves and think "Yep, I'm a healthy, normal average kinda guy."

They absolutely did care. He had to walk it back. It created a lot of consternation from the alt-right and hardcore libertarian types.

It is 100% gonna turn out that they asked ChatGPT to dig up quotes for them, and it just made shit up. I guarantee it.

I taught myself Python in part by using ChatGPT. Which is to say, I coaxed it through the process of building my first app, while studying from various resources, and using the process of correcting its many mistakes as a way of guiding my studies. And I was only able to do this because I already had a decent grasp of many of the basics of coding. It was honestly an interesting learning approach; looking at bad code and figuring out why it's bad really helps you to get those little "Aha" moments that make programming fun. But at the end of the day it only serves as a learning tool because it's an engine for generating incompetent results.

ChatGPT, as a tool for creating software, absolutely sucks. It produces garbage code, and when it fails to produce something usable you need a strong understanding of what it's doing to figure out where it went wrong. An experienced Python dev could have built in a day what took me and ChatGPT a couple of weeks. My excuse is that I was learning Python from scratch, and had never used an object oriented language before. It has no excuse.

Super excited to try this out. Darktide has taken over from Vermintide for my normal play, but getting to play as a Skaven sounds fucking awesome.

Should have cut that song one word earlier.

Oh, that thing is fucked. Ain't shit all you can do about that.

If you didn't care for the first movie I don't think the second will solve any of your complaints. I say this as someone who really liked both movies. I have criticisms, and I don't think they're close to being Villeneuve's best work, but the worst Villeneuve movie is still better than most directors on their best day. But two is very definitely more of one, and if anything it amplifies the first movie's flaws rather than diminishing them, so it's very unlikely to address anything you didn't like. That said, I will throw it out there that it may be worth watching anyway just to experience Austin Butler's incredible take on Feyd Rautha, which is easily the best thing about the movie.

I think the choice to set up Aliyah but ultimately leave her arrival for another time was a smart one, just as it was smart to not introduce Feyd until the second movie. Doing so really let him arrive in a big way, like "Oh shit, this guy is important."

(Also good lord, Austin Butler steals the second movie so hard)

I think that's a significant improvement. Chani being "ride or die" in the books is an awfully charitable way of saying that she basically has no purpose to her existence outside of Paul. The movie choosing to have her really show some resistance to the shitty / crazy stuff he's doing gives her more inner life as a character. It also nicely sets up for Messiah where there's definitely some tension between her and Paul (though never sufficiently explored IMO) over his choice to make Irulan his wife.

I mean, totally crazy off the wall suggestion, but maybe Isreal could just try not doing genocide?