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Are they already sentient before they are even built or do they work on Forky logic where they come to life when they are finished? Or do they come to life halfway? But when though?

Magic the Gatherer.

I am inquiring being a Catholic, and when I tell this to my father he obviously had resistance to it and we chatted about theology through phone, and I found out many interesting counters to Catholicism that I've never heard, some agreements, and some wildly misunderstood Catholic doctrines from him. And we plan in the future to discuss theology again, and I ask, is it proper to bring my father and I to a priest or at least a representative of one? I am afraid it would get ugly.

He said the Catholics were the ones who puts the Deuterocanon lower in authority, not Luther, you should understand the rest of scripture before you can cross reference the Deuterocanon. Is this true or a misconception?

We insist that a movie should have a number attached to them to judge their quality. One problem with this, every system we use sucks in one way or another, and the best one is Rotten Tomatoes.

IMDb is easilly review bombed, Letterboxd lets anyone make reviews.

Rotten Tomatoes aggregate how much critics think it is a thumbs up or a thumbs down. At first that seems terrible as it doesn't uses averages so a 6/10 can also be counted as a thumbs up, but keep in mind many critics uses different metrics, some uses 1-4, some 1-5, some 1-10, some F-A, some uses whatever Jeremy Jahns uses, and making an average out of those are impossible, so counting how many critics thinks it's a thumbs up is the better way of dealing with it. And as a backup they also have the audience score which is now verified through tickets bought using fandango, which removes the majority of botting or fake reviews or review bombing.

The problem is not the Rotten Tomatoes review scoring system, it's us, we insist we need a score but we're too lazy to assess all the critic and audience reviews ourselves so we turn to averages and aggregates, and Rotten Tomatoes is the best one there is. But we need to also keep in mind that critics and audiences are different too, which spiraled into a tirade every time a clash happens. What fans want and what critics want are different, and that's another point to Rotten Tomatoes for giving different scores, one for people whose jobs it is to review things, and one for the audience which can include fans of a certain franchise or genre.

And I know what you're thinking, what about [creepy predatory movie which shall not be named]? What about it? Critics who object to that movie never review them, and the ones who does are pretentious in its defense. Go watch someone's video of, "I watched [creepy predatory movie which shall not be named] so you don't have to," and you'll find the message of the movie to be good, the pressure of living in a sexualized society as a little girl and rejecting it, it's just a terrible, horrible, and exploitative presentation, maybe not even fit to be in live action. And you can see how little critic reviews there are in the site, meaning not a lot of critics actually watched it, and the ones who does are weirdoes, and people jumped at this and lumped all critics into this box of, "Haha you are a predator," when really they didn't review the movie to begin with, probably because they also object to the movie being made.

And to end this, I am not saying Rotten Tomatoes is good, I am saying it's the best quick movie quality assessment tool we have.

I thought it was good! It's a fun swashbuckling and silly adventure with a heart. Rotta was the surprising standout of the film, and I hope we get to see him more in the future. It's deeper than say a Godzilla X Kong but not at all a dense movie, it's good old fun at the theatres.

My worries of how it wouldn't look like an actual movie was unfounded. After the cold opening which looked just okay, the movie looked good, it's weird that all the footage shown so far online were parts where the CGI was kinda off or the set looks fake because as a whole its effects are better than anything you'll see in any modern film. I genuinely cannot tell which is real which is CGI half the time.

Does it feel like two episodes stitched together? Yes, and it is one of the downsides of the movie, it felt like Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom the whiplash from how the movie ends in the middle and has another one hour movie afterwards. But I don't mind it after a while, however it is true that the first half was significantly better.

And as for the theatre experience itself, I saw a woman bring her BB-8 pop corn bucket, a child playing with his lightsaber toy, some clapped after the showing, and a teen said it was the best thing he ever saw after we walked out the cinemas. It's a really hopeful experience seeing a new generation introduced to this franchise.