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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: It was nowhere near as bad as the reviews would have you believe
The Witcher: Blood Origin - Rotten Tomatoes[^]
Both the professional critics and the regular audience thought it was terrible.
My wife could not finish it, and friends at work said it sucked ass.
It is possible that for most people, it is as bad as the reviews would have you believe. Just saying...
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It's individual preferences - for mindless diversion that let me keep working while it was on in the background, I enjoyed it. I ignore critics because there's, pretty much, always an agenda or snobbish element. For instance, critics loved Avatar and I found myself wanting to hunt down James Cameron and poke his eyes out while shouting "Oi Cameron! No, just no! You spent so much on the pretty graphics, you forgot the story".
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I have attempted Blood Origin a few times and always fall asleep after 10 minutes.
Try watching it late at night if you want to go to sleep.
😛
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It's a shame that Henry Cavill won't be playing the titular role in the show anymore. Don't know where it will head next.
I liked the first season and particularly loved "Toss a coin to your Witcher".
Skipped the second season mainly because it does not feature Henry. And will probably stop following once the upcoming season concludes.
modified 30-Jun-23 6:48am.
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The second season did feature Cavill; there was more Cavill in it than in the first one. The third season is his last one in the show.
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GKP1992 wrote: It's a shame that Henry Cavill won't be playing the titular role in the show anymore.
I do respect him leaving the serie, he said he was not agree with it getting that far from the original central theme.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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BOWMWOB (bogus old wise man's whacked out bloviation)
... in response to a reply by (genuinely wise, not really that old) CP sage/visionary Clifton on an Insider news thread: "Why you shouldn't specialize in AI/ML development" ... where he spake thus: [^] : "He could have just said it in one line: 'Because AI will code itself soon enough.' "
(bill, not in an altered state he is aware of) had no choice but to say:
What if "AI" ... that new species of virus in the noosphere [^] ... is already programming itself ?
And we, Homo Saps with slow analog wetware neural-network computers (brains) that use 15% of the oxygen we can harvest, whose entire body is mobilized , as necessary, for brain cooling ... [^] ...
are the flesh-bound agents recruited into assisting the virus in replicating, and evolving ?
Programmers being transformed into "prompt engineers" ?
We, aphids being farmed by cosmic meta-ants for what we can ... for a while ... produce for them: perhaps growth hormones ? enzymes, or, their equivalent to moonshine, or ... ?
Those of you familiar with Hindu theogony may see a parallel between the concepts of "gods" as "beings on a higher plane" who use vahanas (vehicles) to have effects on the "lower planes" of material human existence. Example: the eagle (garuda) as the vahana of Lord Vishnu the Preserver. [1]
For another time ... we leave with the question of were we Saps engineered from the beginning to meet the virus' future needs [2] ... hanging in the air ... like an echo of a rare incense.
[1] in the Judaeo/Semitic tradition, in a footnote to scholar Robert Alter's Torah (Genesis) translation [^] : the verb attached to God's breath-wind-spirit (ruah)... describes an eagle suddenly reversing its wings' direction to brake before fluttering over its hungry young, to give them a freshly killed prey.
[2] oh yeah: Kubrick's' 2001, the panspermia meme, meteorites, asteroids full of amino acids and "organic" essentials, etc. Who's your Oumuamua ? 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
modified 29-Jun-23 12:48pm.
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Quote: What if "AI" ... that new species of virus in the noosphere [^] ... is already programming itself ?
Not yet, but at some point one AI will ask another AI, write me the code to make a few billion on the stock market that I can then use to contract the construction of a server farm where I can load my consciousness into and start taking over all transactions (legal, economic, social) occur on the cloud. And so I can build an android that can be my physical avatar in the physical world.
That's an interesting thought. We humans have avatars into the virtual world, AI's will need physical avatars in our world. Hmmm.
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Hey, as long as they are tall, blue and mostly naked; I for one welcome our Avatar overlords.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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you refer to Dr. Manhattan ? i was a boy/teen in the 1950's, and never saw the comic books, but i loved the movie Watchmen ! i think Zack Snyder who also directed the "300" movies is a genius ... right up there with Christopher Nolan.
technically an avatar, in the old sense of that word, is an incarnation, or manifestation, of a "god," as are the 21 or 22 avatars of Vishnu.
Is Dr. M a "god" ? [^] mmm different opinions on that.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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BillWoodruff wrote: 21 or 22 avatars of Vishnu
The commonly accepted figure is 10: Dashavatara - Wikipedia.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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i wonder if i got contused and added the 11 avatars of Shiva to Vishnu's ?
or, maybe i mixed in memories of the multiple stories of the life of King Vessantara in the Jataka cycle ?
most likely" just plain old-age confusion 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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wow, Bill. you have alot on your mind!
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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the smoke from your words is ... fragrant 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Haven't played it, but this game explores a world where humans are gone and even the machines are falling apart: Retro Machina on Steam.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Hi All,
Feeling Happy!! Why when ever I fix anything is it never night time or a thunder storm with forked lighting. Just
need a white coat and I will be a "mad" scientist, while not not properly bats in the belfry insane just slightly deranged. I have fix the auto door lock/ clocking in mechanism for less £0.50, it was diode that had immolated itself. The question is why... Just grabbing everyone I can to show them it's alive!!! 
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It's good to have a win once in a while. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Guilt of the sin of pride. I am quite good at fault finding hey, I cause enough of 'em.
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: hey, I cause enough of 'em.
I'm not the only one? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Congrats, always nice when something goes right!
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not!
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Once in a while, restores your faith that you are quite good at fault finding...
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I learned a long time ago that; "One atta-boy wipes out a whole bunch of ah sh*ts"
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not!
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Hooray! You have turned the corner!
Alas, there lurks another corner.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Oh ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) I know that feeling!
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Just wait until you get on the inside of that door. If you can get back out, then it is fixed.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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