Gregg R Thomas

AI’s can give bad answers. For example, I asked ChatGPT for a baguette recipe to use up 4 cups of flour and it did give me a recipe which lacked any salt. I pointed out that bread without salt would be unappetizing and the AI admitted the error and modified the recipe to include salt.

So, placing too much trust in an answer that you can’t verify…[Read more]

What characterizes mature cosmic horror from its predecessors/progenitors is the impersonal and amorphous nature of the threat. Rather than being a monster, as in the movie Alien (yes, a cosmic horror) or invaders, as in The War of the Worlds, in mature cosmic horror the threat simply is there as a fact, not because it wants to be there or has…[Read more]

Nvidia should go up again. I am getting some monopoly money out.

Threatening Columbia with tariffs was not a very good idea.

In case anyone wants to know what happened in a nutshell. American tech giants have been working on AI in the hopes of monetizing it and dominating the market, generating monstrous amounts of money. I’m talking about Google (Gemini AI) , ChatGPT (OpenAI backed by Musk and others), plus several other major players and numerous minor ones. You can…[Read more]

I think Annihilation, which didn’t do well at the box office will go down in history as a landmark in cinematic history like Blade Runner, which also didn’t knock it out of the park in terms of box office on its initial release, but now is recognized as a one of a small handful of classics.

While the roots of cyberpunk easily go back at least as…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Looks like it may be a good one. I like the genre to a point. Movies that are so relentless with dread, terror, violence, horror, _______, just desensitize me and I don’t care what happens at some point. This is typically what happens in sequels.

It has a couple jump scares but it’s more about weirdness than scares and gore. W…[Read more]

That therapist looks like she is going to need some therapy.

PopeBeanie wrote:
I think I watched the trailer before because of Natalie being in it, but didn’t follow through. The audio effects alone were “manipulative”, and I mean it sets people up for dread. Very effectively, IMO.

Fiction minus manipulation. Gee… I wonder how that would work(?).

Having written some fiction, I can tell you it’s all a…[Read more]

BTW, in case you’re clueless as to what Annihilation is all about, here is a trailer. It is based on a best-selling novel of the same name. It is sci fi, but it is very intelligent sci fi.

PopeBeanie wrote:
I was never into horror flicks, unless it had lots of boobs.

Well, Natalie Portman, one of my very favorite actresses (and for me, a sex symbol as well), doesn’t deliver in that department.