I’m so over Netflix shows. I just watched Travelers and really loved it, but the ending was kind of terrible and abrupt. Looked it up and yep, show got canceled which is presumably why it ended the way it did. Not the first time this happened to me, but it’s going to be the last. Netflix’s IPs can burn.
Yeah but that falls firmly into the second camp of my argument. Maybe I didn’t make it super clear but I don’t think spoilers for the Matrix are a thing we should be complaining about, same for things like Star Wars and that applies doubly so to classic literature like Romeo and Juliet.
But it’s not logical to discredit somebody’s feelings for something like, and just throwing a random movie out there, Eight Below. It’s not a household title and there’s a copious amount of media out there to sift through, enough for you to be able to dedicate your life to movie watching and still not even scratch the surface.
And some people really care about their spoilers. It doesn’t really bother me, but I’ll defend those that it does; Especially when the typical argument discrediting their emotions is one grounded by emotion and not fact.
The age of something has no correlation to whether or not spoiling it for someone is valid. There’s youth being born today that obviously don’t have enough lived experience to watch every popular movie known to man. Even for an older audience, you’d have to dedicate all of your spare time watching movies just to keep up with the bare minimum of pop culture references.
I’d argue instead that the Matrix is so widely known and referred to that it’s akin to Star Wars; Someone, somewhere is going to ruin it for you eventually and we can’t stifle our own cultural spread by limiting what we make reference to.
That meme is making fun of the concept you’re pointing out.
Agreed, comments like this only function to hurt others that might look similar. Constructive criticism of their actions would be a far more productive and helpful conversation to be had.
There are definitely lines being arbitrarily drawn around AI, and there’s not a sensical flow to what any individual might believe is an acceptable AI use case. Nobody has really sat down and made a full documentation of every modern AI use and weighed the benefits and detriments they have on society. I think many of the outward haters of AI are likely just as ignorant as the blind defenders of it.
6 with potential to spiral into 7. But all I’ve ever wanted in life is 2.
Hey, at least they used something based in reality opposed to the traditional falling Matrix text… Actually, on second thought, that might be a little bit cooler.
I struggle with this every day. I have friends that are far from being the sharpest tool in the shed, but still friends. However they’re so emotionally unintelligent that they’re willing to tear apart any friendship they have over a single difference of opinion… Or by arguing against literal, undeniable facts. These relationships are exhausting to maintain.
I fear that when I was young I would have read this post and immediately committed myself in the pursuit of love.
Yeah it makes the first experience with a Meta headset extremely awkward. You boot it up they and they really want you to go into these worlds. Okay, so I did. Immediately I’m bombarded by the sound of 20 unsupervised children raiding a virtual McDonald’s. Okay, maybe I should find an 18+ world and try that. This was also a mistake.
I’m just glad my baby always used it ironically.
LinkedIn makes me sick.
I have a ten year old laptop as my NAS. It has some issues sometimes but it was a pretty cool project for tech I barely used anymore. Now I use it every day.
They taught me to write up resume using all the publicly available Harvard documentation on what makes a good resume. Since people started using AI, mine get flagged as AI and I have to dumb them down.
Mine does this, except he hides it. He’ll carry off my wallet too; I have to keep it in a drawer or money comes up missing.
Try a separate camera app. AFAIK most of the processing is done by the app itself, so if you use a FOSS camera app it will likely lack this effect.
I was just waiting to get emotional like I did with the season 3 finale, when El reads the speech that Hop wrote for her. But it never really hit that high for me. I cry at everything and I didn’t cry until the episode was over, and that was just because I didn’t want it to end.
This is genius and the only answer I will accept now.
Oh I didn’t know that, thanks for the info. Yeah they wrapped up the story I just didn’t like the lack of closure, so I assumed it was a rush job. All I did was look up Travelers and saw it was canceled at some point. I understand what they were trying to do but it just didn’t sit right with me at all.
Tap for spoiler
For example, Marcy and David ending up back with each other at the end. It was a cute sentiment on surface level but that’s not the Marcy we knew, nor the Marcy he fell in love with. I’d rather he just continue as the amazing social worker he is, and them show the impacted lives he made up to that point.
Mac totally changes the course of Kat’s life by making sure she never ended up with him. Hell, she probably ended up in an emotionally neglectful relationship, one she was obviously looking for a way out of when she met him. I guess it’s better than being manipulated by a traveler the rest of her life, but it was just an unfulfilling way to leave her.
And the rest of the cast get nothing at all. I truly do get the message, fucking with time did not help anyone and allowing the timeline to unfold naturally is a better solution than the intervention of the travelers. Its supposed to be a bit somber and sad, with a cool little twist that the director starts loading it’s contingency plan.
And Mac being able to travel before the most recent traveler felt like a huge Deus Ex Machina. This is one of the biggest things that separated Travelers apart from other time travel series, by limiting their capabilities to time travel. But suddenly we find out it has been possible the entire time? Rubbed me the wrong way and made it feel very similar to the ending of other time travel shows I’ve seen.
Of course, this is personal opinion, and I hope not to offend you in any way if you enjoyed the ending. But for me personally, they missed the mark on what could have been an emotionally wrenching finale.