ThunderPeel2001

Doh. Really obvious in hindsight 🤦‍♂️ 👕 I beat #MojoleXtreme #486 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 💛💛💛💚💚🖤 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 🖤🖤💛🖤🖤💛 🖤💛🖤🖤🖤💛 💚💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

Hmm. Sometimes you can't win, no matter what you do: Monkey Island Heardle #303 🔇🟥🟥🟥⬛️⬛️⬛️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle https://monkey-island-heardle.glitch.me/

Eep ook ack! I failed at #Mojole #485. 💛🖤🖤🖤🖤💛 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 🖤🖤🖤💛🖤🖤 💚💚💚🖤🖤🖤 💚💚💚💛🖤🖤 💚💚💚🖤💛💛 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

Like the improvements to the interface! With the extra tabs for each title. (Not sure when they were done). Not sure if there's anything that can be done about this, but I'm still getting tearing on my MacBook Pro M1 (Ventura 13.4). Thanks!

Another Amiga player. I recognised the song... but couldn't remember where and gave up. Monkey Island Heardle #301 🔇🟥🟥🟥⬛️⬛️⬛️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle https://monkey-island-heardle.glitch.me/

The problem of skipping days... dammit. 👕 I beat #MojoleXtreme #484 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤💚 💚💚🖤🖤🖤🖤 🖤🖤💛🖤🖤🖤 🖤🖤🖤💛🖤🖤 💚💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

The SCUMMVM forums might help you?

Yeah, it’s definitely interesting watching with the balance of time. It’s almost a really good movie. And watching the extras I get why they added aliens, too: By the 1950s the serials of the time had shifted to aliens. It actually made a lot of sense… except they couldn’t let go of the 40s. Even the poster could have been made to look more like a 50s b-movie and help the audience make the mental shift. Except the film still would have failed because they got so much wrong. Sigh. Oh, and the extras reminded me that Spielberg never would have directed Dial while there was Nazis in it.

As I say in my post, I thoroughly believe ChatGPT will be the butt of jokes soon enough (I saw a news article only yesterday indicating usage has recently dropped because people are unhappy with the answers they're getting). I'm hopeful that people will see sense, and it will be a shared learning experience for us all. Personally I think the only thing we're on the brink of is a spam and misinformation tsunami. (The next major election is going to be a fucking shitshow.) Time will tell, I'm crap at predicting the future.

Yep, nice rant. I was biting my tongue. Allow me offer my own rant, mirroring just about everything you've said (although in a less learned manner), that I wrote yesterday... https://thunderpeel2001.blogspot.com/2023/07/why-ai-is-bad-joke-or-why-i-think-bill.html

Ok, well damnit, let's do this: I'm throwing my fedora into the ring and declaring that Kingdom of the Crystal Skull IS NOT THAT BAD. I've just re-watched it for the first time in 15 years, and well, fuck. It didn't bother me nearly half as much as the first time I watched it. And the things that did bother me, weren't the same things as in 2008. Gophers? Didn't give a fuck. Monkeys? Didn't give a fuck. Ants? Didn't give a fuck. Been caught in a test site (and yes, they really did make a model street filled with houses and dummies and blew it up just to see what the US family unit would look like after a nuclear megaton was dropped on them). It was tense! They even telegraphed that aliens were real in this story in the first scene, so I don't know why I was so surprised at the end, the first time around. None of that bothered me at all. Watching Dial of Destiny (which I also enjoyed) the one thing I really missed was this (Spielberg's beautiful direction). And the first half of Skull has a ton of Spielbergian flair. He knows how to let the quiet moments breathe, and still be interesting. He knows how to make the camera be a funny participant in the storytelling. The guy truly is a master (the older I get, the more I appreciate him). The bad parts of Skull this time around? Well the second half of the movie is quite dull. The CGI smothers the world and makes it feel less exciting. Although Dial was riddled with CGI, too, there's something about Skull's world that just feels... dull. It might not even be the CGI. It just feels as though we move from one sound stage to another. And if the world isn't interesting, then the inter-character drama had better be... but it isn't. Despite there being the opportunity for some fantastic Connery/Ford style banter, it falls flat. Harrison Ford is the only person truly in the movie. And, I have to say, Shia LaBouf, too. Whatever you think LaBouf as a person, he easily gave the second best performance in Crystal Skull. He fully commits to every scene, and makes it work... unlike (astonishingly) John Hurt, Ray Winston and Karen Allen. The three of them all look like they're on a film set. It's so weird (although Hurt improves). Ray Winston's character, "Mac", is unbelievably uninteresting. He is such a lazy writing device for why Indy is in Location A and then Location B. "Cor blimey, I'm a traitorous scamp!" then "Just kidding, let me give you a reason to go over here instead" then "Nah, I really was! Tee hee!". Easily the worst character in the film. Karen Allen's Marion is just... off, too. She doesn't seem like the angry, strong-willed woman we all know and love. She should be looking out for her son, and angry with Jones for the fact that he abandoned her. But she looks like Karen Allen, happy to be working on an Indiana Jones movie again. She's having far too much fun. Watch the scene where Mutt finally sees the fractured mental state of Oxley. He can't believe how much his father-figure has lost his mind. Watch Marion... she just looks lost in the background. As if it's the first day on set and Karen Allen hasn't figured out who Marion is yet. Shouldn't she be comforting her son?? (One of the reasons why I loved the final scene in Dial was that Karen Allen knocked it out of the park -- Marion was truly back. Even in that tiny moment, she was there again. It was glorious.) And Cate Blanchett is utterly wasted... no threat, no charm, no sex. Her character an accent in a wig. The secondary characters seem like they're in a cartoon. Ford must have noticed it! Why was it allowed to continue? When Karen Allen was working on Raiders, she talks about how she did her best to ensure Marion was real in every scene. Not just a helpless damsel in the background. She suggested things to Spielberg and he went with them. The best example of this is the fact that, in the original Raiders script there's no scene in the tent with Marion and Belloq. She's just captured. Belloq says a line or two, she puts on a dress, and Toht turns up. Allen didn't think it felt real -- and why did she put on the dress? Her co-star, Paul Freeman, agreed. So they both went off and wrote a scene together. They gave it to Spielberg, he loved it and added it. It's one of my favourite scenes in the film. Everyone (except Ford and LaBouf) on Skull seems like they just turned up to work and expected Lucas and Spielberg to have figured everything out. Like they're not invested and phoning it in. Or maybe there was behind the scenes problems that I don't know about. Either way, the difference is stark. And the ending... sigh. Ok, so the ending isn't shit because there's a UFO in it. The ending is shit because I didn't care about any of it. I didn't care about the MacGuffin. I didn't care about the aliens. I didn't care what happened to Mac or Oxley. I didn't care what happened to Cate Blandchette. I barely cared about what happened to Marion and Mutt. It was boring as fuck. So rant, over. Yes, Skull isn't great, but... it's also not terrible. The first hour is actually pretty good. The major problems only really rear their head in the second half. And it's still fairly enjoyable until the damn ending. Oh, and one final thought: Unlike in 2008, Harrison Ford looks young in Crystal Skull now 😅 For any nerdy Indy scholars, here's the original tent scene from Raiders as scripted -- what a difference Allen and Freeman made! INT. MARION’S TENT Belloq has been talking to the still-bound Marion. He has removed her gag. He is impatient, angry, uncomfortable. Caught between two forces. BELLOQ Believe me, you made a mistake. If you would just give me something to placate them. Some bit of information. MARION I swear to you, I know nothing more. I have no loyalty to Jones. He’s brought me only trouble. He wants to believe her. BELLOQ I cannot control them. Marion’s frightened look shifts suddenly to the entrance of the tent. There are a few new arrivals there -- Shliemann, Govler and Belzig. Belzig carries a black leather case. He steps forward and smiles at Marion. BELZIG We meet again, Fraulein.

My baby-like understanding says that ChatGPT has zero knowledge of any subject. It's auto-complete on steroids. It literally knows nothing at all about anything. (And there's quite a few AI researchers and linguists saying this, including Noam Chomsky, but they're getting drowned out by the hype machine.) That is interesting. (Of course, if you have the walkthrough already... I digress.) When you say "open a new chat session and paste in a walkthrough for the game" -- what exactly do you mean?

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I paid for a ChatGPT 4 subscription to see if it got any better... nope. And yet people I know are using ChatGPT in their daily jobs. WTF?!? It's interesting how close it gets sometimes: Ghost beard...

Booyah 😎 👕 I beat #MojoleXtreme #481 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 3/6 💛💛💛💛💚🖤 💛💛🖤🖤🖤💛 💚💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

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👕 I beat #MojoleXtreme #480 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 💚💚💚🖤🖤🖤 💚💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

Almost! Monkey Island Heardle #297 🔉⬛️🟥🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle https://monkey-island-heardle.glitch.me/

I don't think Ford would have let them remove any wrinkles. He's quite happy with his age. Even when they did Crystal Skull, he didn't want them to change him in any way: "This is how I look" is what he's reported to have said (or maybe I heard that through someone who worked on it, I forget). Agreed.

👕 I beat #MojoleXtreme #479 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6 🖤🖤🖤🖤💛🖤 🖤💛🖤🖤🖤💚 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤💚 💚🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 💚💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

Monkey Island Heardle #296 🔇🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 #MonkeyIslandHeardle https://monkey-island-heardle.glitch.me/

I agree. Listening to every track until you find a match IS cheating! Just because you know which one of the four titles it is... come on. Love this track. Totally failed again 😎 Monkey Island Heardle #294 🔇🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 #MonkeyIslandHeardle https://monkey-island-heardle.glitch.me/

Curses... again immediately recognised, but no idea what it was called. Monkey Island Heardle #293 🔉🟥🟥🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ #MonkeyIslandHeardle https://monkey-island-heardle.glitch.me/

👕 I beat #MojoleXtreme #475 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 6/6 💛🖤🖤🖤🖤💛 🖤💚🖤🖤🖤🖤 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 🖤💚💚💚🖤💚 🖤💚💚💚💚💚 💚💚💚💚💚💚 https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

Dammit. Immediately recognisable... but what it's called? Monkey Island Heardle #292 🔇🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 #MonkeyIslandHeardle https://monkey-island-heardle.glitch.me/