StarChild413
StarChild413 t1_j49614y wrote
Reply to Is time travel going to happen yes or no? by MixOk1458
if it can, it only always will have once it does
StarChild413 t1_j20lb7u wrote
Reply to comment by Rickeyp8 in What’s a show that you want a reboot from? by LostRest
so if that's true and you really want a Small Wonder reboot of any variety, just engage in some kind of "media psyop" hyping up the original in places where sites like io9/Gizmodo will take notice so it looks like a great-enough-not-needing-to-be-rebooted show that it gets rebooted
StarChild413 t1_j20kybu wrote
Reply to comment by Bandsohard in What’s a show that you want a reboot from? by LostRest
but the problem I see (not saying that would make an X-Files reboot impossible, it's just it's something it'd have to overcome) is you'd have to overcome how politicized a lot of conspiracy-theorist stuff has become as if the big sci-fi conspiracy metaplot stayed at least the same as how the OG X-Files one was initially set up to be you could theoretically see (although not at the same time) both sides as right-wing depending on your point of view with the conspirators for obvious reasons (as making any of those characters non-white and/or non-male would be seen as unrealistic by some given their positions) and if the aforementioned fresh agents fit the same archetypes I could see whoever's the "new Mulder" accidentally becoming something of a hero within the irl QAnon community (if that movement isn't nipped in the bud before this is made) because as they'd be fighting the government and investigating conspiracies they'd be seen as fighting for what those people believe in
StarChild413 t1_j1t3g5z wrote
Reply to comment by TheRealShiftyShafts in What will cheap available AI-generated images lead to? Video? Media? Entertainment? by Hall_Pitiful
but to bring up a concept I had for a Black Mirror episode if they accepted fan pitches; if they can resurrect dead entertainers how long before they cover up entertainers' deaths if the entertainers can still be useful/make money and instead of them dying you have what really actually killed them spun into a near-death experience that supposedly traumatized them so much they're not able to make a lot of non-working public appearances (conveniently until a company's totally-unrelated invention of solid holograms) and when they do come back to public life to promote all that new content they suddenly have much less controversial views than they did before the incident
StarChild413 t1_j1t2unr wrote
Reply to comment by ory_hara in What will cheap available AI-generated images lead to? Video? Media? Entertainment? by Hall_Pitiful
if it literally becomes a documentary explain the charade of making it look like a movie with actors e.g. if we need to have an actual literal Joe Bauers/Not Sure, why other than weird bootstrap bullshit that might as well mean it's a simulation too would he need to look like Luke Wilson did in the year it supposedly came out
StarChild413 t1_j12syzc wrote
Reply to comment by 8andahalfby11 in Does anyone feel trapped here by vapournova
so should we design ourselves for greater circles, lifespans, memory and endurance
StarChild413 t1_j12sva8 wrote
Reply to comment by vapournova in Does anyone feel trapped here by vapournova
if everything were serotonin and dopamine there would be no life to experience it unless you're pulling some "and it was all my brain and I am god" mindfuck bullshit
StarChild413 t1_j12st0n wrote
Reply to comment by LongjumpingAd5317 in Does anyone feel trapped here by vapournova
> Ergo you are simply here to have non-perfect experiences.
then wouldn't that be turnable into arguing the purpose of life is to fail and never achieve anything great as if we become anything close to perfect creator god (and who did we agree with and how do we know that and that god weren't just part of something even higher) that'd defeat the purpose
StarChild413 t1_j12hx4l wrote
Reply to comment by KeithGribblesheimer in Humans could one day live in Manhattan-sized asteroid megacities by Gari_305
so if we build those things and have a way to resurrect people from the dead we'll become rational human beings? ;)
StarChild413 t1_j12hsda wrote
Reply to comment by Vaiiki in Humans could one day live in Manhattan-sized asteroid megacities by Gari_305
so your idea of a feared dystopia is Jurassic World: Dominion
StarChild413 t1_j12hnaa wrote
Reply to comment by ZoharDTeach in Humans could one day live in Manhattan-sized asteroid megacities by Gari_305
and then you'll get some protagonist role in the story with plot armor and the ability to be with your waifu
StarChild413 t1_j10zzpj wrote
Reply to comment by kayelles in Anyone miss kind of "growing up" with or experiencing characters for long periods? by Beau_bell
so how do we fix it
StarChild413 t1_j10zxqs wrote
Reply to comment by cyclone866 in Anyone miss kind of "growing up" with or experiencing characters for long periods? by Beau_bell
hopefully the new protagonists' journey lasts just as long (as I doubt they'd swap them out every season when they aren't the default game protags). Also it's been long enough that if he aged in real time and the tone (and ages of his companions) followed Ash would be 35, so yeah "your childhood" in that sense might be ending but you're not a child anymore and on a lot of levels neither is he, so don't go harshing someone else's childhood because it's not yours.
Also they probably aren't retiring Pikachu from being mascot, it's just too iconic otherwise
StarChild413 t1_j10zgb4 wrote
Reply to Anyone miss kind of "growing up" with or experiencing characters for long periods? by Beau_bell
so how do we change this back
StarChild413 t1_j088ycm wrote
Reply to comment by johnp299 in How Death Can Help Us Live: a philosophical approach to the problem of death by simsquatched
but if you should treat it as being disproven until it's proven, what incentive is there for anyone to prove it
StarChild413 t1_j088ejo wrote
Reply to comment by LORD_HOKAGE_ in How Death Can Help Us Live: a philosophical approach to the problem of death by simsquatched
are you seriously doing the fallacy of "if you don't have a solution I'm right"
StarChild413 t1_izbjkk7 wrote
Reply to comment by TampaBai in The end of ageing? The scientists behind the race to turn back time by cata890
> finally throw off the chains of organized religion, and we as a Nation can unite around a proper Transhumanist logic based religion.
A. you do see the contradiction
B. and how do you know religious veneration of science and logic wouldn't lead to things like legally forbidding relationships where attraction hasn't been proven in a controlled experiment via physical signs
StarChild413 t1_iz49e5f wrote
Reply to comment by johnp299 in How Death Can Help Us Live: a philosophical approach to the problem of death by simsquatched
do you have anything else that disproves reincarnation
StarChild413 t1_iz49cnz wrote
Reply to comment by kapaciosrota in How Death Can Help Us Live: a philosophical approach to the problem of death by simsquatched
but wouldn't that be invalid as (trying to be as vague as possible for reasons that should become clear) a. because torture can be psychological and the simulation theory isn't disproven we have no proof this isn't just a moot point and a sci-fi version of original sin instead of pascal's wager and b. smart AI would realize everyone doing the same job only means the project lasts as long as stored food supplies
StarChild413 t1_iz494t7 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in How Death Can Help Us Live: a philosophical approach to the problem of death by simsquatched
> I think the perfect situation would be like the end of The Good Place, people can stay as long as they want and do whatever but they can leave when they're ready.
I always maintain that that solution was kind of a philosophical betrayal of the rest of the series's thematic setup (I'll be happy to explain if you want)
> But also would that possibly set the world off balance? Imagine being born into a world that the same people have been in charge of for centuries before you were born. Some Altered Carbon stuff. Death is the great equalizer.
then why not just have a world where the only deaths are unnatural as people are euphemism-for-euthanized when their beliefs/ideas are proven wrong so outdated views don't hang around any longer than necessary
StarChild413 t1_iz490hw wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in How Death Can Help Us Live: a philosophical approach to the problem of death by simsquatched
yeah but lives don't have one arc you'd have to stretch over longer runtime like movies and I'm sure (if their basic needs were otherwise provided for yada yada yada) a lot of people would want to watch infinite seasons of their favorite shows or at least they're more likely than not to prefer the show get renewed unless not only is the ending satisfying but there's no more places the story could go that the ending leaves hanging
StarChild413 t1_iyerwhw wrote
Reply to People think pay-to-win video games are bad… Wait until they find out the world they’re in is pay-to-live. by PromiseMePlease
it's not the same thing, but could we leverage people into overthrowing capitalism via that using the simulation theory
StarChild413 t1_iycaon6 wrote
Reply to comment by take_five in An AI-generated cover version of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" with a deep-faked singer's voice, shows us a world of AI-generated music is coming. by lughnasadh
still based off someone existing and for an original hologram to be worth seeing they'd basically have to be a full fake-person
StarChild413 t1_iycaikx wrote
Reply to comment by WendellVaughn_Quasar in Star Trek is Motivating This Team of Scientists to Build a Working Warp Drive Spacecraft - The Debrief by Gari_305
around the same time r/collapse changed to apocalyptic power fantasy
StarChild413 t1_j4962kc wrote
Reply to comment by Freespirit2023 in Is time travel going to happen yes or no? by MixOk1458
but it only will have already happened once it happens in the future