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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman)

@sonofkaras.bsky.social

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Existential brooding ape. I riff with love, always. • Godzilla • Spectreman • Tokusatsu • Horror • Comics • MST3K Trans rights. Reproductive rights. Human rights. Free Palestine. Host of #GHWP, #SpaceApeCinema, #Cinemon. https://linktr.ee/sonofkaras

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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · Nov 10

I dunno, man. It's all just... so... I dunno.

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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 9h

It just gets worse the more I think of it. An Outer Limits episode from 1995 but dialogue from this moment in time. He's very plain about AI being this milky white teat we're all supposed to be able to suck from, a villain saying he's playing hero by turning us into the people in WALL-E. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

The way he describes creating his AI program makes it sound like he has a mommy fetish. Not that there's anything wrong with that. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

"People aren't going to be able to tell." In a few years when some of the Chinese knockoffs can run on more modern software, it probably is over, but Tilly looks like a different person in every shot. Her bone structure keeps changing. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

I'm sorry, Megan. Super Nintendo and Genesis are over. I've moved up to Playstation now. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

"This isn't about taking over. That is old thinking, tired thinking."

This is maybe the most accurate description of things happening now and why some others push back so hard at comparisons to the past. It's because the methods of fascism have evolved. #Cinemon

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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

The way he describes creating his AI program makes it sound like he has a mommy fetish. Not that there's anything wrong with that. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

I'd just like to state for the record that I'm not particularly pleased that putting this playlist together caused YouTube to flood my recommendations with garbage bot channels plugging a fake AI-generated I, ROBOT sequel trailer. Everything is broken. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

Trapped in a real-life version of Robotron. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

I can do late 90s computer jokes all night. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

The year is 1995. GeoCities has become self-aware. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

State of the art VR and it runs on only 700MB of hard drive space. #Cinemon

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 11h

david warner is one of those guys who in a just world would've started getting prestige roles and oscar nominations in his old age. did a lot of fun stuff and a lot of schlock and elevated everything he was in

alt.tv.pink-opaque @maxrebosroadie.bsky.social · 11h

last week of TNG prep before DS9, getting spoiled with both Ronny Cox AND David Warner kicking ass

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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

True story: college years in an office job at the height of Napster. Computer a bunch of other interns and I use stops working. No one knows the problem. We're young and don't know computers.

IT guy comes in and the hard drive is completely full of Napster downloads. Oops. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

I was noticing last night that ELECTRIC DREAMS and THE DEMON SEED have almost the exact same plot. We almost put some material from the latter in there, but it was really a bit much. It's very hard to get under my skin the way that movie did. Epitome of AI horror stories. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

Wow. Outer Limits was ahead of its time in 1995. You look at this guy and immediately think techbro. #Cinemon

Techbro from Tipping Point episode of The Outer Limits 1995. Smug face and spiky blonde hair.

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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, Jack. How's Dawson doing? #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

Early attempts at going after people for using Napster. #Cinemon

a computer monitor with the words " do n't copy that floppy " written on it

Alt: Don't Copy That Floppy

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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

I've never seen the Will Smith version of I, ROBOT. Maybe I should. It does look fun. #Cinemon

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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 11h

There's about an 80% chance I watched this exact HBO broadcast of ELECTRIC DREAMS when I was six years old. I must have watched it a dozen times. #Cinemon

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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 12h

Dave's not here, man. #Cinemon

a red light is coming out of the center of a circle that says mil-6000

Alt: Close-up of the eye light of the artificial intelligence computer Hal9000 from 2001 A Space Odyssey.

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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 12h

Happened to me Saturday night, too. Lasted about ten minutes or so. #Cinemon

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 12h

#Cinemon starts now! But don't let tonight instill any undue prejudice against the good AI out there.

a close up of a robot 's head with a red light on it .

Alt: a close up of a Alpha Five's head, an oval-shaped head with a strip of moving red lights across the center .

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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 1d

#Cinemon Monday night at 10E, are we prepared for the rise of the machines? Progress and profit have not changed the answer. We aren't ready for that world, but--

--announcement protocol intercepted. Security deactivated... Phase One of Earthcleanse initiating. sifxeddsyk 0010010100010101101.

Supernatural #Cinemon - YouTube

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Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 2d

And if you want to damage your brain even more like I did watching TRIANGLE the first time, watch COHERENCE right afterward. Equal levels of time loop crazy. #SpaceApeCinema

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 2d

Wyoming. #SpaceApeCinema

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 2d

I forgot to mention I snapped up Umbrella's blu-ray for TRIANGLE as soon as it was announced. Never has a looping blu-ray menu felt so natural and appropriate. It can just keep going and going. #SpaceApeCinema

Blu-ray screen menu for TRIANGLE. Star Melissa George hides behind a corridor, looking exhausted and frightened as a past version of herself and her friends by, an experience she's already had from the other side.

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