任是无情也动人

(It's a pity you can't copy the AI's thought process part... some of that is pretty entertaining too.

Also, there's a dataset cutoff date for Oct 2023, so meh for asking anything that depends on more current info (like predicting if Zhou Shen will ever come back and hold a concert in CA... >.> <.<))

Q： 如果唐玄宗是被另一位历史名人给穿越夺舍了，最像的最有可能的是那些？

( Answer )

Q: 刘彻和卫青有可能作过吗？

This one took like a full minute to process before spitting out an answer that basically amounted to "there is no official historical evidence", lol.


(I also hear it's great at generating fic... >.>)

Been following the melodrama that is the CNY holiday period box office in China, and the multiple movies who are fighting tooth and nail for their piece of the pie.

There's 《深海》whose reviews are very polarized. There's 《无名》 which became target of its "流量" actor's fans & anti-fans (成也流量败也流量). There's 《熊出没》 which is running steady but whose fans are salty about the low percentage of theater sessions (is that what the term is?) and IMAX sessions.

But the fiercest fight has been the top two movies: 《满江红》vs 《流浪地球2》.

Basically the accusation from the Wandering Earth 2 supporters is that they had the highest gross & attendance on day 1 of release, but starting the 2nd day, more theater sessions were given to MJH. That MJH kept its higher share of sessions even though it's actual attendance % is one of the lowest among all the films (especially starting this week after people started working again). That MJH made under the table deal with theaters to keep more of the profits during the holiday period to ensure their # of rooms, thus squeezing the rest of the movies out of what should have been better performance. Particularly, why does a wuxia detective movie deserve the lion's share of IMAX rooms over Wandering Earth or either of the 2 animated movies. And, MJH used false advertising of the movie as a comedy and happy ending film fitting for holiday family outings, when it's really neither, and incorporates bad history besides.

The MJH supporters (and fans of its "流量" actor) insist that the movie is perfectly suited for all audiences unlike WE2, because sci-fi is too niche for the majority chinese audience to understand, and WE2 is too long and boring besides. That MJH deserves its championship in the box office and that its success does accurately reflect the public's choice.

( And then there's the water army... )

Also this week, as the government holiday period ended and people started going back to work, it looks like 央视 is leaning towards support of WE2, leading to fun articles like this one.

Me personally, I haven't seen MJH and I don't really have a stake in this fight, so I don't really have a strong opinion either way. But watching the fighting on douban, bilibili, and weibo is pretty entertaining in itself.

EDIT to add: And then there's this bit of supreme irony... This song 《明天的世界更美好》 was originally expected to be a standard tribute to Beijing Radio's 30th anniversary. But no, the important bit is that it's co-produced by CCTV6 (the movie channel), which used it for this MV tribute to all of the movies showing during this holiday period. As some fans have ironically stated, it's about the only place where you'll find these movies together in Love & Peace. XDXDXD

Robots from the 120th century reinterpreting Shakespeare. XD



I've recently got rather sucked into the story for this game, even though I'm never actually going to play it. Most likely. Probably.

... >.>

EDIT: Also finally finished my new GW2 backpiece.

Found this on the Daystrom reddit (a Star Trek reddit). A limerick that's also a math equation. Kinda neat.

Because of posts like this.

Warning: 20,000 words of mental gymnastics that actually makes a creditable case for the STXI reboot and the mainstream Trek shows/movies to actually occur in the same universe. Destruction of Vulcan and all. I am impressed.

( Summary )

TL;DR: Future!Spock lied, Past!Spock tried, Future!Kirk survived, and Romulus died.

"Essentially, Starfleet is the Jackie Chan of the Alpha Quadrant, constantly shouting 'I WANT NO TROUBLE!' while holding a shipload of civilians in one hand and an unstable superweapon in the other yet easily fight off bigger meaner aggressive thugs." -- Damar (Source)


Also, just linking this poke at STO for fun:

"Although they did also dumb down the Borg by taking away their adaptation ability in space. Not that adaptation was the most logical thing in ground combat, anyway, since the drones adapted to all non-physical/kinetic damage. Including the toxin in my Gorn's saliva... which could apparently then be 'changed to a different frequency' with the standard remodulator." -- Kavris (Source)

I found the following hilarious conversation between a couple of posters in a fic thread...

"As a cosmology/particle physics major, I can actually confirm that quantum physics is, in fact, bullshit space magic. All the complicated equations and long words like "Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle" are just window-dressing to hide the fact that it's actually bullshit magic that we control with wands and chanting in bad Latin."

-Aleph

"As a person with a masters degree in Physics, I would like to confirm this statement of Aleph's, and actually reveal that Schrödinger's Cat is not - as is publicly claimed - a thought experiment which demonstrates how cats do not act as quantum particles, but is instead a demonstration of practical necromancy usually first shown to second or third year students."

- EarthScorpion

"I'm not supposed to say this, and I'm putting my Bachelor at risk... but wave-particle duality? That's just the way we talk about ghosts. Same with quantum tunneling; what else can go through walls? It only even came up because someone botched a transfiguration from a wave into a particle and it wound up as both. Then it started making spooky noises and rattling the cutlery.

Everything went downhill from there."

- LatwPIAT

"It could be worst. We could all be a bunch of string theorists trying to make the universe work according to neo-hermetic principals, praying that our computer simulations could somehow perform the alchemy necessary to create the philosopher's universe.

But alas, I am a general physics major in the process of specializing into astrophysics. (With some geophysics on the side for the purposes of filthy lucre.)"

- fijkus

"And thus we see scientists as they truly are. Madmen clawing at the walls of reality in order to punch coffee into being without getting up to make it, or ever having to deal with the son of a bitch who took the last cup and did not refill it!"

- Talon88.1

"Makes me glad I chose to major in Marketing Practical Evil. Though I guess this explains why my friend the physics professor keeps looking at the world with a maniacal look and lots of alcohol."

-Endymion

Source

Maybe not completely *true*. But close enough for stereotypes. ^_^



Personally, I love the "what I think I do bit". XD

Insert evil laughter

(Also, recs list continues to be updated)

EDIT: More, not quite brain breaky evil laughter.

In a fab montage, the pair go on a recruiting drive, in which they perch on a strip-club bed.

"That scene got exceptionally silly at one point," says McAvoy. "I don't know if I'm even allowed to tell you what originally happened. But it got pretty f---in' kinky. I'm not joking."

Was the dashing duo's bromance, uh, consummated?

"Unfortunately no. But there was a little bit of cross-dressing going on. That's all you need to know."

(For the record, McAvoy would have preferred it if Xavier and Magneto stayed together. Like, really together. "It is a little bit of a mini-tragedy that him and Magneto don't, you know, have sex and become married and become best friends.")

EDIT2: *cracks up*
EDIT3: *squee*