KITTY RESCUE UPDATE: ADOPTED
Over the last 11 days, we worked tirelessly with the amazing vet clinic 'RayVet' to help a homeless female kitten, who had severe mouth necrosis. She was underfed and refusing to eat and was almost unresponsive. To top it all, there was an eye infection and we feared she was going to lose it.
Fate, fortunately, was good and with extensive medication and care, kitty is now fully healed.
What's more, SHE WAS ADOPTED and already living in her new home. After these 11 days and €250 Kitty is now purring in the laps of her new owner, in a loving home, and not on the cold streets, or worse.
All of this was possible because of YOU. The support, donations, memberships and your desire to help me help animals made this adoption happen.
I just want to say a huge THANK YOU, YOU ABSOLUTE LEGENDS!
This is the second successfully fascilitated adoption, and two street kittens are now living better lives.
Here are some photos of sweet Kari and her progress. ( More in comments)
Tencent has developed an AI gaming companion that watches your gameplay and gives you advice while you play.
Called Eciyuan, the app has AI girls that can follow your gaming sessions, talk to you through voice conversations and offer tips based on what’s happening on screen.
One of its characters is Shen Lubai, a 24-year-old aspiring esports commentator who specialises in League of Legends, Valorant and Counter-Strike.
The companions can also chat about everyday topics and appear as virtual characters on your desktop.
Here is my answer as someone who has read the whole of Tolkien's works, and watched the two seasons.
This show is an abhorrent abomination and an insult to creativity, film-making, adaptation and respect for the world and lore of what is considered by millions as the best among all.
The ONLY thing this show got right, is the names. And when I say it got that right, I mean that they pronounce them correctly. More than half the characters presented should not be there during that time period, or act the way they do(Galadriel, Sauron, Isildur to name but just a few)
Adding diversity elves, when the entirety of the Silmarillion is so full of outstandingly well written characters, is an abomination and an insult.
About 1% of what is presented as a storyline, actually happened the way it did in the lore (Sauron helping forge the rings of power, and they botched that as well).
The Balrog should not be awake.
Gandalf should not be there.
Harfoots - not there
Evil wizard - not there
Barrow-wights - nope. Completely wrong.
Galadriel being a warrior - absolutely, completely wrong.
Galadriel/Sauron romance - N-O-P-E.
The things I just mentioned are not even scratching the surface of everything wrong with this show.
Yeah, sure, you can like it all you want. One thing I'll give it, is that the absurd amount of money poured into this festering pile of lobotimized perversion, is that it does have some nice shots and they used 'orks' with costumes did not go CGI.
But saying it's good, when it is spitting and defecating on Tolkien's work in such a blatantly obscene way, can only be brought up by sheer ignorance, which was proved when you said that you have not read the books.
My suggestion? Do so. Read the Silmarillion, read Lord Of The Rings, read The Children Of Hurin.
If this show actually captures you with some level of complexity, worldbuilding and stuff like that and you are fascinated by this, then experiencing the proper world of Tolkien is going to be like you're riding through the night skies and being on top of the world, while your brain is experiencing the biggest high of its life.
Alyssa Mercante's latest addition to her "team" of ambulance chaser activist lawyers is none other than He/Him @Videogamep3 out of Redondo Beach, California - a "journo" for Crunchyroll and The Fandom Post, who apparently moonlights as a lolyer.
I swear to god the legal system needs to get more serious. This is a fking joke.
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I woke up feeling a bit under the weather.
This is the first thing that I see.
So I was right. The fight choreography is still abysmal. Also, Galadriel getting btfo by a Nazgu.....sorry.....nAsnOlguL. Man, I should take my wife's advice. This looks just as terrible (if not worse) than the previous seasons.
Giant UFO with dangling tentacles hovers near US military base before vanishing: 'Only God and the government know what it is'
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Listen, I'll be the first to tell you: The writing in this show is retarded beyond belief. Completely nonsensical, utterly anti-canon.
There is no way that they wrote something THIS stupid. I refuse to believe they wrote this, filmed it and said "Ya, this works".
Holy shit.
Then I'm glad you gave me attention instead @alyssa_merc. Because if you're going to be talking about restraining orders. I'm surprised @smashjt's wife hasn't put a restraining order on you in all honesty.
With your friend Airbagged (Who is your mod right?) who has a history of commenting her figure, who she married, her body size etc... It's not like he's been banned on X for no reason 5+ times that anyone can count.
Not like you dmed her for no reason, or that you even care that you upset her...
(nothing has ever implied that you ever cared)
And btw, for someone who says that they're a feminist... You seem to really love crossing boundaries... By dming wives that have nothing to do with your own personal beefs. Because wow... what a low... Champion of women's choice... hates... choice... huh..
Then complaining when others get in your personal beef... Some might call that person a hypocrite...
Today is a dark day for Bulgaria.
Our deepest condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the tragic accidents on the Trakiya Motorway. We stand with the injured and with everyone who is grieving tonight.
Tomorrow, 11 November, has been declared a day of national mourning. The nation pauses in sorrow and solidarity.
May the souls of the departed rest in peace.
If you were wondering about how society would survive on three day work week, or less, this is it. You would just have to contribute your data, your GPU and any privacy you have hoped to have.
With such a patent, AI would literally be everywhere. You'd have to have your PC on 24/7 and you'll get credits for being a good provider of power.
Naturally, anything you say, do, or any game you play, will be reviewed and assessed, whether it is allowed or not.
The Data center next to your house will be fed, it will shit out virtual money for you to buy your groceries and exist another day in a perpetual cycle, while it fuels the worker robots, field machines, package drones, infrastructure bots and all, making them learn faster and faster.
It's basically Wall-E, but even more dystopian.
Microsoft filed a patent to let PC gamers earn money by sharing their unused GPU power with AI companies.
Users could earn credits for contributing their GPU power, potentially exchangeable for money, software or access to AI models.
The system would monitor GPU temperature, power consumption and memory usage, pausing workloads whenever the PC is needed for gaming.