Notices by Matt (zeldatra), page 57

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But just so we’re clear: an older boy told me to say it. Yes, even all those times I said the f-slur when I was a teenager.

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one day all of my most offensive jokes will catch up to me and Donald Trump will no longer be President so I can’t even say an older boy told me to say it

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anyway here's a comic http://rainbowdash.net/url/875766

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should i just skip to the most recent Doctor Who series? I tried getting back into the show right from where i left off (the start of series 9) but i just really, really, really, really, really hate it so far

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Jimmy Carter is so universally beloved among my generation that it’s weird to go back and watch The Simpsons where he was so frequently derided as history’s greatest monster.

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Despite feeling less and less like Futurama, this WAS also the season that reunited nearly every Futurama cast member, Katey Sagal excluded - Lauren Tom joins the recurring cast this season, which I thought was pretty cool.

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Still, some parts meander, like they were trying to fill a ten episode order with only seven scripts, and yet other parts feel like they could have been expounded upon more - the sixth episode, which is about Bean's struggles with men, casually drops the bomb that Bean is bisexual with a supposed romantic preference for women, which was an interesting development, but following that episode that particular plot point is dropped and wasn't referenced again for the rest of the season - Bean's angst about romance becomes an "act one escapade" in the seventh episode and the rest of the season is about something else entirely.

Overall, I think season 3 is where the show - which I already enjoyed quite a lot - is starting to grow its beard, and I can't wait for the fourth season when it comes out during Mitt Romney's presidency in 2025.

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Sometimes it's frustrating how slow the story moves, but that's a problem that was thankfully significantly improved upon with this new season, as unlike the last two, each of the season's ten episodes leads into the next one and develops the overall story or the characters in some way. Every episode feels relevant to what's going on and even the sillier, less plot-heavy episodes - like the eighth episode, "Hey Pig Spender", in which the cast heads to the neighboring kingdom to secure an army from Prince Merkimer's parents - are driven in some way by what's happening in the overall plot arc. This is a very welcome change from the last two seasons.

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Disenchantment's third season is its best yet, not perfect, but it was definitely a lot more focused than the previous two seasons were and by bringing in a lot more of the drama and character development it's starting to feel less like "Futurama but with magic" and more like its own thing. Sometimes it still kind of feels like it's a little afraid to break away from the Matt Groening formula (main character does X activity for five minutes which leads to the tangentially related main conflict during the remaining twenty) but they've at least finally realized that they're not doing a weekly show on Fox anymore and are starting to take advantage of that.

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Gonna have to ask customers to stop calling the grapeing police on the autistic cart attendant who shouts in the parking lot sometimes, your sheltered ass isn’t in any danger because you saw a guy making noises

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It basically involves generating as noisy an image as possible so that the built-in denoiser will attempt to “correct” it in a certain way that it makes “mistakes” in color value and blending.

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So, the good news - I figured out how to reliably generate painted backgrounds with 3D models. The bad news - you’re not supposed to be able to do that and so nothing about the technique is optimized in any way. Could still be useful, though!

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this frame took five minutes to render and it ain’t even from a finished environment, that’s two hours a second, can you believe it? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875749

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(The real reason for the made-up names is that it gives you an out for when the nerds in the audience are like “now hold on, the real FBI doesn’t do that!” There’s your explanation. It’s not the FBI, dummy, it’s this totally different organization.)

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Did you know that the federal government cooperated with filmmakers doing research about the operation of federal agencies, but only if you’re really really nice to them in your film? Anyway the FBI doesn’t exist in Swole Foods. Totally unrelated. Instead we have the “Investigation Bureau of America”, which is so very corrupt, unlike the swell fellows at the real DOJ.

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From the pilot: http://rainbowdash.net/url/875748

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I have questions for the kind of guy that's afraid that the government's gonna track them through a microchip injected into them via covid vaccine, but then brings their iPhone to an insurrection

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Saw waves are the best musical instrument, change my mind

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Michael Bay’s new movie is about a bizarro alternate universe where the US government is mishandling a pandemic, but I did the math and I’m 95% certain the virus would have died out by killing all of its hosts too fast to find new ones under the conditions portrayed in the film.

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Also Chris Krebs accidentally said “erection” on national television instead of “election” and that’s inspired me to write a cartoon about “erection fraud”

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Trump’s bullkiwi was pretty successful honestly. He didn’t steal the election, but that probably wasn’t the aim. The aim was to convince people that BIDEN stole the election, and there will now forever be a not-insignificant number of people who believe the President was illegitimately elected

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. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875745

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“But”, not “so”

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Like, “whoops, two of those guys turned out to be white supremacists, but I really didn’t know that at the time” isn’t very convincing, is it?

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One day I’ll have to answer for a few of the people I used to associate with and I can’t really think of anything better than “I had bad character judgement skills when I was 19”

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You wouldn’t find a more ridiculous scenario in a Grand Theft Auto game: Trump’s personal Twitter account getting banned means that his official business account, @POTUS, has lost about half of its tweets to the point where the last thing on its page now is a White House retweet from last month and the most recent tweet from Trump himself is from July... of *2017*.