Shocker came to mind for me as well. Herman is a good egg

Guy Henry was already perfect for the role, all of this was pointless, but Disney NEEDED to test the ethnically dubious waters so they could go hogwild with this stuff now. And I say disney specifically because all of their film studios are using this tech now. RO was the test case.

You know what George did for EPIII? He put a guy in makeup to look like Cushing and had him out of focus. Lucas had a better case for using Cushing’s likeness on account of actually knowing him and iirc Cushing saying that he wished he had pushed for Tarkin to live cause he wanted to come back to star wars as soon as a sequel was announced. Yet Lucas has come out against digital actors, much as he loves new technology more than story or writing, he knows there are godamn lines

"A computer can duplicate Tom Hanks, for example, and we already use that technology a little for stunts and difficult scenes.

"But if you bring back Marilyn Monroe, what you would have is a caricature.

Lucas is himself a pioneer of digital special effects

"You could do it but you can’t get a perfect actor.

“Acting is a human endeavour and the amount of talent and craft that goes into it is massive - and can a composite reproduce that?”

He added: “The voice would have to be dubbed and what was produced on screen would ultimately be the work of an animator.”

The director was one of the first to make extensive use of digital technology when he used computer-generated special effects in the original Star Wars film in 1977.

But he said that recreating Hollywood greats would be a step too far.

"I can’t see any reason to recreate John Wayne or Monroe.

“People don’t want to see an imitation of someone who was a strong presence in real life,” said Lucas.

http://www.motioncapturesociety.com/resources/articles/synthespians/93-george-lucas-speaks-out-about-digital-actors

btw randomly stumbled onto the fact that today is the anniversary of Guinea-Bissau’s independence being recognized. Obligatory anthem which is one of my absolute favs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ-iCCJcl1A

They are continuing this with the goal of improving moral. They know their internal politics are even more fucked if the killing stops. So this way they can deal with the contradictions all the while the US will just pour money and weapons in and give them total support. If Israel was having this internal conflict without the war the US would probably pick a side again like when they gestured towards getting Bibi out of there a few years ago, iirc backing Bennet

Pretty sure there is a Guinea-Bissau flag in there. awesome

Also how political is anyone going to be when adapting Journey to the West? Like you can do vague theming about empires, but it is such a beloved and well known story, and one fundamentally about spirituality, not political intrigue

AC Odyssey is already such a horny game. wtf are they on about?

They have had some great guest spots the past month or two. This is utter shit, but is not standard. Honestly I am shocked Felix agreed to let this happen given how he is still PISSED at the Bernie staffers and regularly calls them incompetent. No excuse for having Sirota on the pod in general, 2020 is over

Eyup Lovely was on recently and that episode was fantastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOo23B7tACk

Einstein was a socialist and refused to support Zionism.

The implication that there are premature deaths that are not in some way political is also silly.

Are you implying that his every action in the past 30 years has been a ruse? By that standard he is actually a Ukrainian nationalist and has been working towards hurtling Russia into a nuclear war to avenge Petliura. What that is contradicted by his actions? Wow you trust a career liar?

You are trolling right? Dear god tell me you are a troll. Putin hates Communism, he blamed the war on the USSR giving autonomy to Ukraine in the first place. If you want to say he is a Tsarist that would be dumb but closer to the truth. This is just pure brainrot. Motherfucker was part of what was called the Yeltsin Family, the clique of capitalists selling out the USSR to the west. Why would he destroy the USSR only to weakly try to bring back small portions of its territory decades later?

You have no coherence, you have only knee-jerk responses based on regurgitated ideology

God the CPB PLA are real troopers. The amount of shit they have went through only to still be doing shit like stealing elephants

it is funny, they either go with an abbreviation of “[city name} sports club” or Dynamo or literally “Tractor”

I want to be able to watch KHL in the states so bad. Is there a way that is easy for someone who sucks with the internet to do so?

God I checked their last like 15 politics headlines, all are silly jokes about the dems that frame them positively and as being well-liked.

Meanwhile in Ireland

“Oh look a joke about the size of someone’s penis, how funny and enlivening,” said one attendee, whose faith in democracy has been restored in recent weeks due to the positive showing by the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz ticket which is set to take over the supplying of billions in military aid to Israel in the event of a November election win.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1915/08/wedevlin.htm

Idk it seems like people are just responding with anger at their treats being taken away. They don’t care who is actually to blame, they will always side with whoever is technically holding the treats

Well more confused politics. Other countries also have the people Felix spoke about who are 50% agreeing with Trump and 50% of the time agree with Tulsi or those old libs who want the CIA abolished but voted for Clinton

The present writer cannot ride up the Falls Road in his own motor car, the penny tram has to do him. But thank God, there are no fresh made graves in Flanders or the Dardanelles filled by the mangled corpses of men whom he coaxed or bullied into leaving their homes and families.

And that consolation counts more to the peace of his soul than would the possession of a motor car, or the companionship of grossly overfed boon companions of the bottlewasher – or of the bottle.