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A24 doing AI research does not equate to them generating slop.

A24 has explicitly said in their agreement with Google that Google is not allowed to touch A24's library of film for training AI.

The work A24 is doing with AI is for production, not generative work. So far, they've stated they're developing a tool to help with storyboarding.

However, we can imagine the other types of projects that AI can genuinely be helpful in. Corridor Crew created "Corridor Key", an AI powered plugin for creating perfect greenscreen mattes. AI is going to be genuinely helpful in many production aspects of filmmaking. And no, that doesn't mean loss of jobs, it means higher quality output, and lower budgets for certain types of productions, thus more jobs.

Honda Fit 2010

I’m car-illiterate. I was trouble shooting some electrical problems before giving in and accepting I need a new alternator. (Pretty sure I need a new alternator) But, in the process of testing all my fuses I found one seems to be missing. “TRNS SOL” according to the little diagram underneath.

Is this something I need to take care of? What could this missing fuse cause?

[edit: forgot to mention, the fuse in question is on the left most Column.]

(In case anyone wanted to know: my car isn’t holding a charge. I’ve stopped driving it, but when I was still using it, sometimes it would die as if it was a dead alternator. However. Multiple times, after being dead for a day or just a couple hours, I would try again and it just started up like normal. However today after testing all the fuses, and jumping it, it starts to sputter and die immediately after removing the jumper cables. So I think it’s alternator, but the other symptoms from before had puzzled me. But I’m mainly here to ask about the missing fuse, lol)

The Doom casting announcement showed RDJ as one of many others wearing Doom masks. What if Doomsday doesn't feature just one Doom? What if There are a number of Dooms, just as we had expected to see a number of Kangs? But this time the Dooms are played by multiple different actors. Maybe even actors from the previous FF films.

But here's the meat of the theory: what if all of the other Dooms in the movie are "comic accurate" versions, (ie: not Variants with Stark) but one Doom is a Stark variant? (or visa versa) As in, we will see other Dooms that don't look like RDJ, but the main antagonist (protagonist???) of this movie will be this very strange "what if" scenario. (There's a What if comic called "What if Tony Stark had become Doctor Doom?")

A lot of comics fans are really upset at the idea of Victor/Tony being variants. But within the context of the MCU it makes a lot of sense as an ultimate way to top off the MCU's Multiverse saga. So, maybe we can have our cake and eat it too? We get the thematically resonate version of a Tony Von Doom to cap off the saga, but we see teased that there are "real" Dooms out there that will take his place after all the dust settles.

Here's a short snippet from my script, along with a mood board above.

EXT. DEEP SPACE
Roaring past a red nebula, the knife-shaped SIRIACUS warps through hyperspace. A bubble of chromatic aberration surrounds it as it traces across the nebula. 

INT. THE SIRIACUS - CONTINUOUS
Ridley carefully watches out the porthole windows. BEEP. He looks across the room to set of brutalist consoles. Red and yellow screens, one PULSING. 
His hulking body moves over. He peers down at the screen. Something like a RADAR. A yellow blip appears, inside one of several PURPLE zones on the screen. He looks over: 

RIDLEY
(subtitled)
Change course.

EXT. HARPAGMOS VII / STRATOSPHERE - TWILIGHT
Fireballs descend from space, piercing through the plasma of aurora borealis in the upper atmosphere. The fireballs shoot across a sprawling mountain range. 
Far below, arctic badlands dotted with steaming orange and turquoise pools. The fires dissipate into jet streams. 

EXT. DEEP FOREST - NIGHT
The sky, obscured by exotic tree branches, is still. Then white jet streams SCREAM over head. Five streams drift across the sky. Glimmering “flares” break off from them. 

EXT. CERAS OUTPOST - NIGHT
Next to Ceras lay miles of deep forest. Shimmering "flares" glimmer high above. Hundreds. A roar swells. 

CRASH! FIREBOMBS explode across the nearby forests.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! HELLFIRE engulfs the woods. 

INT. CONTROL
The station RUMBLES from the distant blasts. Samus listens. 

EXT. CERAS OUTPOST - NIGHT
Fire reflects in the Etecoons' black eyes. They scramble back to the station. Flames and smoke billow everywhere. 

Against a wall of rippling flames, RIDLEY emerges. Teeth snarled, tail whipping, as he walks to CERAS. He stops just outside the entrance. Sniffs. 
He motions, seven other Space Pirates rush through the door. 

This is just some stupid idea I wanted to share:

I've, for a long time, wanted a fan game/hack that combined the maps of Nestroid/Zero Mission and Super, and made all the areas from both games as fully accessible as possible.

Then I thought: wouldn't it be cool if there was a hack that allowed you to go between SR388 and the BSL station?

Then I realized: what I really want is a hack/fangame that combines the mainline games into a single, playable adventure. Metroid I, II, III, & IV all as one contiguous map.

Dread introduced teleporters, so we can assume they existed before, which would allow you to unlock teleports between Zebes and SR388. Seems safe to assume that if someone developed this, your ship would be something you could enter and choose a destination depending on what you've unlocked: Zebes, SR388, Ceres, BSL.

But I think what makes this idea really fun is that, instead of having to get the same upgrades again and again, your upgrades carry over, (obviously) and start opening up sequence breaking in novel ways.

You do end up fighting Kraid twice, Ridley 3 times, (or 4 if you follow the MII remake) and Mother Brain twice lol. Certainly some logic could be put in place to make sure you can only fight a version of a boss in its own order. (you can't fight Super's Kraid before fighting Nes Kraid) But who knows, maybe it would be funner if you could fight ANY boss in any order.

I really like how Dread handled the X, in that, before the x were released, you simply get health and missiles as drops. But, once they are released it switches to X as drops. That seems like something that could apply here as well. Once you hit the IV story, all the drops switch to X.

I just think its fun to image: you blast your way through beating Nestroid/ZM's map, and you destroy MB and the Mecha-Ridley, and then you get a notification, like in Prime, to return to your ship. Then you get a simple cutscene explaining this mission and you arrive on SR388. And you can start blasting your way through SR388, OR you could even just fly back to Zebes if you wanted to. Maybe you have to as you realize that the spider ball is gonna let you get an upgrade back on Zebes that will let you progress here. Lets say you trudge onward. You have a few beam upgrades by now. You may have your varia upgrade. Maybe not if going by Nestroid's progression. You start finding teleporters just out of reach, or different landing pads for you ship, hints of your later BSL adventures. But you continue and destroy the Queen and save a baby. You're funneled back to your ship, but a new destination opens up via cutscene: Ceras. Clicking it starts a cutscene, the one from MIII. And you arrive, all sorts of upgrades, and you make your way though: BOOM Ridley. He escapes with the baby, and you head to Zebes. And now you can go through the events of MIII but also revisit areas in MI and find new upgrades that you missed before, OH! and there's a teleporter to SR388 that you couldn't get to before. Anyways, you blow that brain up again, and escape to your ship: a new destination "BSL" is available. You go. They send you right back to SR388 for a simple mission: Escort some nerds. BAM! You meet an X. As soon as you get infected it triggers a cutscene that triggers the beginning of MIV. (Maybe you can avoid absorbing X for the rest of the game and keep your suit and prevent the SA-X from being born??? Lol.) You then start off, with all your upgrades, but you take way more damage than before, and do less damage, so even normal enemies from Zebes would mess you up. Basically, the game just jumps in difficulty by several orders of magnitude. But, as you go, you find new abilities and can go back to previous worlds and unlock new areas, new teleporters, new landing pads, and travel between all four games seamlessly in the Fusion suit. Until you finally program the BSL to crash into SR388 and complete your mission.(s)

This has always been one of those adolescent kind of fantasies, hoping there was more to the game. At least, this is the type of hypothetical I would think of as a 14 year old. I think if I were a game designer, I would give it a shot, but I'm not. And I'm not about to start in my mid-30's lol. But a middle-aged man can dream, can't he?

I wrote a Metroid script. For Maytroid I'm posting snippets and scenes from it.

This is a scene of her in her Galactic Federation career. This is a grounded, sci-fi reimagining of Metroid, so many of the details are different and lean into the film inspirations of Metroid.

I included a bit of a mood board for the scene in the first image. Much of this story leans into Samus' trauma, thus I used Florence Pugh as part of the mood board, since she acts trauma and action very well.

I chose this scene since the Maytroid calendar has a Screw Attack symbol in it for this segment, and this scene involves a spinning set-piece. It also fits "backtracking" since this is the second time in the script she loses her "family" as the story deals with cyclical loss, eventually leading to the belief that she is a "parasite" who harms people she gets close to, and thus she becomes a lone bounty hunter. Its a deconstruction on Samus/Metroid. Let me know if you'd like to read the whole thing and I'll send it to you.

And Weaver is a cat btw, lol.

Anyways, let me know if you like it or hate it.

I know I'm a couple years late to this realization, but I really hope they use Black Sabbath's Iron Man in Doomsday. (Or Secret Wars)

The lyrics are just ... perfect.

>I am Iron Man

>Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all
Or if he moves will he fall?

>Is he alive or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
We'll just pass him there
Why should we even care?

>He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
When he traveled time
For the future of mankind

>Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
Planning his vengeance
That he will soon unfurl

>Now the time is here
For Iron Man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved

>Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge

>Heavy boots of lead
Fill his victims full of dread
Running as fast as they can
Iron Man lives again!

If I understand the song correctly, its about a man who sees an apocalypse in the future by a man in iron, then travels time to stop it, only to turn out that he becomes the Iron Man who enslaves mankind. He went to the future to save people, but turned into a tyrant, killing them.

And of course the opening "I am Iron Man" and the closing "Iron Man lives again!"

Endgame ended with the sound of Tony at the anvil, a callback to the first film. Well, this song played in the credits of the first film, and would be an amazing callback, even if the story beats don't completely line up... But c'mon, lol. The casting of RDJ as Doom is literally all about "Iron Man lives again!" If it was the credits song once again, it would be a great setup for Secret Wars, now that we all see just exactly how "Iron Man lives again!"

(And fun fact, this album is one of the cornerstones of "Doom Metal.")

[EDIT: I forgot to add my actual theory, lol. There is a very high chance Doomsday ends with the line "Iron Man Lives Again." I genuinely think they'll close the movie with that line.]

Just a little snippet of my Metroid script for Maytroid2026: Legacy.

In celebration of #Maytroid2026 Here's a movie scene idea I wrote Metroid. The prompt is "ORIGIN" so this is a reinterpretation of the origin of Mother Brain.