Little Little Dino the Very Big :3

Here’s a very horny variant of this idea (no idea how it counts as SFW by Youtube standards)

Ain’t is just a shifted dialectal pronunciation of aren’t

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ain't

Also relevant to the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster’s_Third_New_International_Dictionary#Treatment_of_the_contraction_'Ain’t’

It’s a name of Italian origin, shortened from a name such as Bernardino, Corradino. -ino is a diminutive suffix (Bernardino = little Bernard), so Dino is etymologically a twice-diminutive name.

Doesn’t really meet the expectations set by dino-saur :D

That doesn’t matter too much. He certainly had the intent to build the story beyond the first movie, and, putting aside these external circumstances and focusing on the movie itself, the 1st movie does not form a coherent complete narrative yet, in isolation it barely works.

Compare it with other film trilogies: clearly SW OT is more similar to LOTR and Matrix than to Godfather and Jurassic Park. In the latter cases it makes sense to speak of the original, not so much in the former.

That’s not an alteration of the original, the original (but isn’t The Empire Strikes Back a part of the original anyway?) was simply Kenobi’s retelling of what happened, not a narratively “objective” instance. Vader telling the story in a different way does not create any fundamental contradiction with the previous narrative.

Anyway, the original SW trilogy is much too homogenously constructed to warrant this sort of criticism in general. It’s like saying Sophocles “retconned” Oedipus’ story by revealing he had killed his father. A more problematic point would be e.g. the introduction of midichlorians in the prequels, which didn’t unambiguously contradict the original trilogy but it sharply differed in spirit from it and had undesirable implications (genetic superiority of the Jedis).

I grew up with this even weirder reconstruction:

You’re proving the point, though. People’s ability to write by hand has indeed deteriorated. Literacy has indeed reduced the need for and intensity of memorisation - and having stuff memorised is useful. What skill will AI cause to atrophy? Is that skill merely like handwriting, or something more?

I’ve just tried it out on “All” and basically the entire first page is filled with one user’s posts to [email protected] :/

As a Wikipedia editor I can comfirm - we regularly say that napalm sticking to objects in water is POV. I do it at least twice a week. I’ll try making a bot to do it automatically so I’ll have more time for holocaust denial.

You can check old versions of any article by clicking ‘history’. And yeah, the standards used to be pretty low.

That’s certainly one of the takes of all time.

The weak field South Atlantic Anomaly was first identified southeast of South America back in the 19th century.

How?? Wikipedia says it was discovered in 1958…

That’s assuming today’s standards for a film’s financial success are the same as in the early 80s. Were they?

Ukraine can help him solving that problem.

The problem might be that Google will argue this isn’t a downgrade at all, but an upgrade (for “security” reasons). I don’t want to be a pessimist, but the tech illiterate judges could eat that up.

Yeah, nobody in their right mind could tolerate all this pay to play bullshit.

Nonsense, everything is labelled with its original title there. If you’re looking for Russian music there you’ll probably have to use the Russian band name, but otherwise not.

:3

I mean, their state media is pretty upfront about the intents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Russia_Should_Do_with_Ukraine