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"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'Thank you,' it will be enough.” So said Meister Eckhart, medieval mystic. Gratitude is everything.

@MasSplinterrat @Daily_SWGames Yeah and he’s saying it’s a terrible tool. With CGI you have total control. You can get extremely granular. You can collaborate with a team. That is useful. With Gen AI you can, with much prompting, get a model to produce something that *resembles* your idea. That is useless.

@Daily_SWGames What is the difference between CGI & AI?.....it's not good or bad.....it's a tool nothing else.

Arcanaut Studios will not use AI to make Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic. Director Casey Hudson calls AI “creatively soulless” and “really unimpressed with it”. "It's hard to imagine where it is actually helpful" says the original KOTOR director.

@scottdomes Great notes. I would add: Pay attention to setting. I think Hillman said that settings that have archetypal resonance beyond surface meaning. Eg if you often dream of being in your grandmother’s house, consider that the you may be in the territory of the archetypal Great Mother.

1. don’t use a dream dictionary - yes there are some common symbols which have cultural meaning. but the personal meaning always matters more - what YOUR subconscious associates with a symbol. reflect on what stood out to you in the dream, and what you associate with that piece 2. assume the dream is telling something you don’t already know - very easy to go “ah this dream is confirming ”. much more valuable to assume there’s something here that is *trying* to move into consciousness, something that you aren’t already consciously aware of. this takes time to surface! 3. notice the transitions - IIRC there’s a quote from Jung saying that the last sentence of the dream is the key to unlock it. failing that, notice when the scene changes: what happened before the transition? why would that be significant? 4. reflect on the protagonist - you usually experience a dream from a particular POV. don’t assume that POV is “correct”; evaluate their actions impartially. was the “you” in the dream doing the right thing? what does the dream seem to suggest? dream interpretation isn’t a science ofc but it is a valuable practice of understanding what’s present within your psyche - especially what’s trying to emerge into awareness

highly recommend this a few notes on dream interpretation:

@shinobi602 Hudson unexpectedly based about AI

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is being funded by new holding company investing in revered video-game creators, including ex-Mass Effect director Casey Hudson Details: ▪️Funded by new 'GreaterThan Group' (G2G), led by former NetEase veteran Simon Zhu ▪️Zhu wasn't happy and left NetEase after it canceled multiple titles and slashed investments in new studios that he personally helped build up ▪️G2G has raised $100M so far ▪️Zhu thinks the industry has overcorrected in the last few years by piling into trendier sectors, tech, AI, etc, and sees now as an opportunity to scoop up top, undervalued talent to build something new ▪️FOTOR won't take hundreds of hours to play, "bigger isn't necessarily better" ▪️Like many branching RPGs, players can replay FOTOR and discover other storylines ▪️Casey Hudson doesn't plan to use AI in FOTOR, "I just find AI to be creatively soulless", "I'm just really unimpressed with it" ▪️Simon Zhu: "You can have player satisfaction," -- "You can have commercial success. You can have the achievement of art. You don’t need to compromise or sacrifice one thing for the other. Let’s give the best creator the opportunity to work on a dream project" ▪️Simon Zhu: "It’s not about commercial success alone," -- "It’s about making a good case that we can make good money and provide good entertainment to people in a decent and honest way." Full Article ➡️ bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #StarWars #StarWarsFateoftheOldRepublic #PlayStation #Xbox #Steam

@Faj1791 The worst Prime Minister of modern times, and by some distance.

Fuck I miss him so bad

@Display86671504 @FilmUpdates That’s one way to do it. If you read the article, he uses gongs and lyres among other instruments.

@RaithwallRover @FilmUpdates You know how you do that? With an orchestra.

Christopher Nolan instructed Ludwig Göransson not to use an orchestra for ‘THE ODYSSEY’ score. “It’s not like the orchestra existed back then. It was a challenge and also an opening to try to make something unique,” says Göransson. (Source: time.com/article/2026/0…)

@mxddxm_ @PopBase I’m under the impression that even in the twin scenario, Zeus is only father of Helen. Tyndareus is father of the other egg. (Though yes, these would be non-identical twins, so some license is being taken.)

@RaithwallRover @PopBase Zeus is the father of both though, more so if they were twins. I dont' know... it seems like every creative decision goes to diminish the magic.

Lupita Nyong’o will play both Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra, in Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY.’ (time.com/article/2026/0…)

@mxddxm_ @PopBase It’s kind of an interesting interpretation though. Suggests there was an unseen dimension to Helen’s beauty that transcended the merely physical, and distinguished her from her twin. Which makes sense as her father is Zeus.

@PopBase They were twins but not identical, making them identical would defeat the principle that she was the most beautiful woman on earth

@Robbie_OR What Alonso did at Leverkusen is lightyears ahead of what AVB did at Porto.

Alonso is basically what Villas Boas was after Chelsea. Did well, did the step up and was sacked after 6 months. It could go either way.

Said this when he was sacked by Real Madrid but the idea he is a guaranteed success is mental. Good manager but he's had two seasons as a manager and never really had a bad spell the same as Slot.

@AnfieldRd96 There will be other good managers. I suspect Nagelsmann will be available. The big vacancies are looking to fill before the WC so he won’t be in for any of them.

• Chelsea appoint Alonso. • Liverpool stick with Slot. • Liverpool are no different. • Liverpool sack Slot in October. • No good managers out there. • Another wasted season. This is how it'll go.

@UrgentWonder Thank you for this!! I was literally just searching for Spectrum of Ecstasy to see if anyone had engaged with in this way.

As part of my reading and practicing Roaring Silence and Spectrum of Ecstasy I made this wiki with Claude: petrelaskov.xyz/dzogchen-tantr…

@BoringBiz_ ARKK is all the proof you need that wealth has very little correlation to intelligence.

We have probably the biggest innovation boom in recent history over the last five years and ARKK is down 22% over that same time period Living proof that just picking stocks with no valuation discipline is a recipe for disaster

@GagsTandon I thought you were talking about Starmer at first, and it’s funny how you only need to change a few words for this to fit him too.

I reckon he resigns, you know. The lack of contract extension is enough of a slap in the face after winning the title. The toxicity around the club is at a decade high and things just look bleak. I'm sure he can feel it too. IMO he may just go this route to save face.

@DGretta_Author Their moat is their brand and their data. And the brand is not really that strong imo.

My tiny brain can't process why what $HIMS does can just be easily replicated by Amazon. No position in either stock.

@_TheSmartAlec1 The only thing I do like about the First Order - only truly explored in TROS - was that they were occultic, extremist sickos who were an even worse version of the Empire. The EU got this badly wrong with its heavily romanticised Imperial Remnant.

As someone who loves Force Awakens I genuinely think the First Order wiping out the New Republic is the most creatively bankrupt part of the movie because a New Empire fighting against a fully formed New Republic has so many possibilities and they were all wasted

@LondonMoneyFS Honestly, it sounds crazy but renting is the more financially sound move in many cases. There’s just this immense stigma attached to it.

Another uncomfortable client call looms where I have to inform them that they need to secure a £60k per annum pay rise before October in order to absorb the upcoming increase in their mortgage rate

@AnfieldSector This is exactly it. Must suck for Slot, that he won the league and now fans are looking adoringly at this handsome Spaniard who was a playing legend and has an invincible Bundesliga title. But that’s football. Slot will go on to a job he’s better suited for.

Jamie Carragher on Xabi Alonso: "I always felt Xabi would manager Liverpool at some stage. When you manage one of Liverpool's rivals, which Chelsea are, it makes it a little bit more difficult. "I don't see how you go from Chelsea to Liverpool, maybe a little bit down the road. But he has to do what's best for him right now. "There will be Liverpool supporters looking at the situation and saying he's the one they want. It's not a 50-50 split on Arne Slot any more. "People outside the club may look at that and not understand when he won the league last season and looks like he's going to get Champions League this season. "But the drop-off has been so stark, and hasn't improved all season.  "My worry with Liverpool and Arne Slot is whether he's going to be a bit like Erik ten Hag, have a great first season, a really poor second and then keep their job based on that first season. "Then you get to October or November and it's continued poorly, and you have to change the manager. "That's a fear with Liverpool supporters, but it looks from what we're hearing that Arne Slot will be given another opportunity next season. "But there will be a feeling from a lot of Liverpool fans that Alonso is there, and if they wanted him he would come. "But it seems the club have made the decision on Slot, and it says a lot that Alonso is having talks with Chelsea because I think if he had an inkling that there might be a managerial change at Liverpool, I think he'd go there."

@Roddygra @davidlynchlfc We’ll see but I think psychologically they’re different from Madrid’s squad. Most of this lot have never won anything.

@RaithwallRover @davidlynchlfc problem is who the kids look up to. They appear to follow the More senior players in the dressing room. Alonso commands respect for his playing career but maybe not yet for his managerial. Klopp had not real playing career but commanded respect because of his managerial career

Liverpool are prepared to let Chelsea have a free run at Xabi Alonso in order to stick with Arne Slot. It is a massive gamble. davidlynchlfc.co.uk/p/liverpool-ar…

@AllahPeno @CarlosAlonzoM This is the core of the issue and it was such an obvious missed opportunity. You just flip the roles. You have Leia trying to run a sprawling, messy democracy while her own son is leading a tiny fascist insurgency.

@CarlosAlonzoM JJ: "I want to remake the OT and the Empire/Rebels dynamic, but that doesn't really make sense based on how it ended. I'll just rename them The First Order and The Resistance and not really explain how or why any of it works. Problem solved."

It is actually crazy that Force Awakens never clarifies anything about the power structure of the New Republic, First Order, or the Resistance. There's just another galactic war going on and we have no idea how big any of the organizations involved are

@davidlynchlfc I think they’re gambling that other managers will be available anyway next season if they drop Slot. Nagelsmann comes to mind.