u/mindstrike

I'm still in awe of the comeback against the cavs, but at the same time I cannot help thinking about how devastating that loss must feel for their fans because I know exactly how does feel like after what the Pacers did to us last year.

Up until the choke gesture I had Haliburton as a very talented player but with a tendency to either disappear when things don't go his way or to be a show-off in the games he plays well. The gesture revealed something darker about his character that I deeply dislike. It felt the same as a bully kicking his adversary when they were already down. There's a real difference between saying "I played great" and "you're a loser", and Haliburton chose the second one.

The main reason I became a Knicks fan is Jalen Brunson, and one of the aspects I admire most about him is his attitude win or lose. When Trae Young did his dice celebration against us, Brunson's response was not aggressive or immature. He simply said that if you don't want him doing that, you should have won the game. In his best moments and his worst, he would never humiliate an opponent like that.

We got the right guy.

The experience of watching Blade Runner 2049 in an IMAX theater is something I will forever remember. It delivered not only breathtaking cinematography or a score that honored Vangelis' masterpiece, but also the brilliant development of the philosophical ideas present in the original.

Blade Runner 2049 takes the original question of what makes humans different from replicants and extends it, not only by introducing replicants that are designed to obey, but most importantly, by introducing Joi. I was already overwhelmed by the aesthetic experience, but the scene that made my mind explode is the one where K and Joi are looking at genetic sequences and Joi comments that K's life is defined by four symbols (ACTG) while hers is only two (0 and 1). I understood there that this is not a throwaway detail but the philosophical heart of the film, and I'm surprised that this interpretation is not more prevalent.

Many interpretations dismiss Joi's actions as a result of mere programming to do and say what K wants, including using the name Joe, but the point is that K is also programmed, just in a different way, and so are the humans. If being programmed invalidates Joi's love or agency, why doesn't it invalidate K's? Aren't humans equally "programmed" by their genetics?