ADHDefy @ ADHDefy @kbin.social

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I wonder if they would have saved a ton of money getting it closer to this product prior to release, or if it would have taken the same amount of time and money regardless and just maybe saved their reputation a bit?

I'd argue that the prequels were excellent, Shakespearian-level stories that pioneered the VFX of their time, but suffered from sometimes ridiculous dialogue and a director that wasn't good at working with actors (especially inexperienced actors).

If George had a writing/directing partner to help smooth stuff out and still had his ex-wife in the editing room, the prequels would probably have been damn near masterpieces.

lol I kept being like, "oh, there was..." and then remembering that it was an indie game.

God of War: Ragnarok was pretty polished at launch. There was also LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga that launched in really good shape, IIRC. Tears of The Kingdom wasn't too bad either. Those are the only AAA games that I can think of from the last couple of years that weren't shitshows.

IIRC, he did intend to make 3 trilogies, but after making the prequels, he wanted to actually spend time with his kids and knew that making a sequel trilogy would consume another decade of his life.

He did "consult" on episode VII, but apparently he only had like one or two meetings and they used basically none of his ideas and didn't take any more input from him.

There's a bunch of info out there about what his trilogy would have been, and it's a shame because it actually sounds so much cooler than what we got. If George had helmed the next trilogy but had maybe a co-writer/co-director to reign him in a bit like he had on the OG trilogy, we might have had something truly wild.

EDIT: This video has some really interesting details about what could have been.

Same. lol As a kid, the first 3 movies were hilarious to me. Now, not so much. But I really appreciate them for what they were back in the day.

Alan Tudyk is a remarkably underrated actor. lol That movie is hilarious.

Just finished it tonight, it was really excellent. My only complaint was that Kumail Nanjiani didn't return as Prismo because of a stupid communication error with his management team. :(

With that heartbreak aside, it was a truly great watch.

Zuko's a prince! He's not an awesome role model, but he's an outstanding character and there are some great lessons to be learned from watching him over the course of the whole series.

A lot of it is.

I've been using it for a long time. I've personally found that there is essentially no impact on gaming performance--or if there is, it's so slight that it's totally negligible on midrange hardware, especially with feral gamemode. It might be more impactful on low spec PCs, I would assume, but I'm not sure of that. In my case, it's plenty lightweight and offers lots of customizability.

Day 1 buy, easy.

It was great! Very funny, lots of heart, gorgeously animated.

Newpipe + Sponsorblock is a really good option.

I agree that it is, but I also love that this headline basically reads, "guy who makes thing says the thing he makes is the best thing."

I agree. For now, you can get the Anti-Fake News International and Medical Pseudoscience block lists for uBlock Origin, they do a really good job of blocking that stuff.

But yeah, it would be sweet if Kbin/Lemmy allowed you to block links to certain domains.

There's an app on F-Droid simply called Video Transcoder that should be able to do this for you. You can trim clips, change resolution/bitrate, change file formats/containers, and other simple things like that.

I have it on PS4 and I've been itching to replay it, but I've been (foolishly) waiting on a PC release to replay. At this point, I think I'm just gonna go for it and play on PS4 again, cause I don't think it's happening any time soon. lol

I am not disputing the fact that there is a ton of misinformation about Autism on TikTok (and the internet as a whole), because there absolutely is and it's dangerous. But it gives me pause that the researcher behind this study developed and promotes a treatment method that is essentially a cousin of ABA. That makes me incredibly skeptical of what his rubric might be for filtering the claims as factual or not.

ABA, for those that don't know, is based on Skinner's operant conditioning and was created by the man who developed "gay conversion therapy." He once said this:

“You see, you start pretty much from scratch when you work with an autistic child. You have a person in the physical sense – they have hair, a nose and a mouth – but they are not people in the psychological sense. One way to look at the job of helping autistic kids is to see it as a matter of constructing a person. You have the raw materials, but you have to build the person.”

If "operant conditioning" makes you think of dog training, you're right. ABA is dog training for Autistic people. It is conversion therapy. It does not "intervene" in their Autism so much as it forces them to appear more neurotypical, and a study from 2018 suggests that it actually creates PTSD symptoms in the patients--that it is traumatic--which is in-line with many firsthand accounts of people that have been through ABA.

So the guy behind this analysis developed his own practice which is rooted in ABA and centers around operant conditioning. I'm sure a lot of what he finds to be false is probably false and not scientifically-supported, but I would def be skeptical of what he considers to be misinformation in some instances since ABA is technically scientifically-supported for autism intervention, due to it's effectiveness in making Autistic people appear more neurotypical (without regard for their psychological wellbeing in many cases).

But with that said, I'm just some schmuck on the internet. I highly recommend reading Autistic people's perspectives on it and seeing what verified smart people have to say.

Here are some pieces I find enlightening:

• https://fortune.com/2022/05/13/autistic-community-reckoning-aba-therapy-rights-autism-insurance-private-equity-ariana-cernius/
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/nurturing-self-esteem-in-autistic-children/202209/does-applied-behavior-analysis-aba-cause
• https://whyy.org/segments/how-a-therapy-once-seen-as-a-victory-for-autistic-kids-has-come-under-fire-as-abuse/

If you're cool with emulation, the PS2 had a game called Gregory Horror Show.