Remember when the industry was trying to force that down our throats?

In retrospect, I'd rather have the option of 3D tech and dumb screens than the "smart" crap everywhere today.

When I visited Georgia I was amazed at how nice their Walmarts were. The cheap hotels were far superior to anything I've stayed at in CA as well.

In fact the entire experience was eye opening to me; a Central Valley native, all the dirt, trash and homelessness I just kind of assumed was "normal" ( even though I knew it wasn't ).

Seeing a clean city first hand was eye opening. Even the dirt cheap seedy motels on the side of the freeway were waaay better.

Chatbot or live human, there is no way I'd participate in such a process if my employer paid for it. That concern aside, as they touched on, they have no idea if this even works, yet they're already pushing out to folks; who's to say your goals are the same as those that are writing the chatbot?

Finally; is the chatbot subject to the same regulations that real therapists are? The details on the website are a bit thin in this regard, which immediately makes me highly suspicious.

It's...a bit more complex than that, wouldn't you say?

First of all, some comics were like that certainly. So the target audience derived from those comics would be nostalgia for adults.

Other comics were decidedly less so; Demon in a Bottle?

My point is; there's no reason why the super hero genre should be considered dead or played out; merely that hollywood's inability to tell a decent story is limiting it's evolution.

Uh...ok.

Perhaps up your meds a bit, then go watch Farscape. They really nailed a great "good" vs "evil" dynamic there, both with Crais and then 100% with Scorpious.

Just phenomenal work.

I don't know that people are tired of it, but they are tired of the lazy writing and being proselytize at.

What Marvel should be doing is really leaning into their villains, instead of killing them off every movie. Make them compelling, interesting. Make them the heroes of their own stories ( killmonger and thanos jump to mind ). Give the protagonists something meaningful to strive against.

They should also be more excited about a hero's limitations rather than what they can do. What can't their powers do is at least as interesting as what they can do. Play that angle up, show them failing, so when they succeed it actually means something...instead of the usual "plot armor" of the more recent flicks.

Personally, I'd love to see an inversion of the good vs evil formula; start it out with the hero taking what they think is the moral stance, only for them to grow and see how wrong they were over the course of the movie, until you see that the villain was right the entire time ( think: ala Farscape ).

You know, instead of relying on pretty faces, CGI and political messages, have they thought about...perhaps...you know...telling a good story well?

Crazy, I know, but they should give it a shot and see what happens.

One of the perks about living in CA is that we only have earthquakes.

I know, I know, "only". But if you're far enough away from tall buildings and common episcenters, they're hardly more than an inconvenience. I'll take that over literal hell fire ( or Fingers of God like they get elsewhere ).

...is trump in the room with us right now?

So you don't know either?

If you read the article, 35m of that 140m settlement includes paying the US treasury 35m. Why?

I love how, 5 years ago, you and those like you would have been celebrating this.

BUT, the machine told you that to be a good person, you must hate Musk, so you're hating Musk now.

Good bot.

This seems like a slam dunk for your customers; why didn't they have this policy before?

They're going to tie notepad to the store and break it like they broke the calculator, aren't they?

I can just feel it.

There's no inherent reason why a female protagonists should make something suck ( 13yo jokes and recent history notwithstanding ).

Of course, nothing can ever replace Trevor, but I'm hopeful this is a great game.