the scripts for cruella, riverdale and the powerpuff girls reboot have done an Excellent job at raising my self confidence as a writer; I rest assured in the knowledge that I Literally can’t do worse
adventure time slang is weird cuz like. when you first watch the show and hear the slang you’re like “oh this is cringy slang but its not like awful” but it gets to a point where the voice actors deliver the slang so naturally you don’t even notice it and its just. part of the world’s vernacular. I can’t think of any other show that’s done in-universe slang like this
Finn: oh man the frappin dude just ginked up and went flipoo over the junkin fence
Me, 3 seasons into this show: wow he really did huh
So the big plot twist of Cruella is the reasons she wants to kill dalmatians for a coat is because her mom was killed by dalmatians as a kid.
Oh silly, I’m not falling for another rickroll today!
I didn’t doubt that was the actual plot, but because it was called out as a Rickroll I had to click to be disappointed in the lack of Rick astley
I can’t believe I’m about to say this, on a post about dalmatians killing Cruella De Vil’s mom, but apparently… Once Upon A Time did this already and did it better so… uhh… okay…
“In 1920s England, a young Cruella De Vil is being mistreated by her mother Madeline as she instructs her Dalmatians to chase her daughter, and is locked in the attic in the same setting that resembles the novel Flowers in the Attic.”
“When Madeline returns home, Cruella was ready for her, and eventually kills her mother by controlling her Dalmatians and commanding them to attack her.”
as much as I hate on Once Upon A Time, they generally handled villains pretty well, knowing when to redeem someone, when to have a somewhat redeemed villain slip up again, and when to make you think they were doing that then pull the rug out from under you. it took literally seasons to build up various twists and moments of growth with Regina, and then she still slipped up sometimes (iirc, it’s been quite a while since I watched it), same with all of the Rumpelstiltskin arcs and episodes devoted to explaining why he was the way he was… that isn’t to say that they were the best arcs in the world, but they genuinely tried. and they knew that a twist that Cruella killed her mom, even if you sympathise with why, is better than what this film seems to be using a similar plot to do.
“they generally handled villains pretty well”
to clarify, I’m British, “pretty well” means like “eh it’s alright”, and was in comparison to the disney cinematic universe. but you’re right on this point, I think they do sometimes exhibit a baseline degree of competence in executing some of their redemption arcs, but maybe the world lowered my standards too much. this is the only valid criticism of me on this entire post. there is no discourse in ba sing se.
Not to add to the spoilers but in Cruella the dalmatians do kill her mom but she doesn’t hate them for it. She ends the movie adopting three Dalmatians (that could be the ones that killed her mom except Dalmatians don’t live for that long, so it makes more sense for them to be the next generation) as her guard dogs. So the movie does NOT explain anything about the coat and why she would want it other than the original explanation: “it would look rad”.
Cruelly in OUAT was just a crazy bitch and I loved her for it.
Ok so can someone explain to me how cryptocurrency pollutes? Like what crazy calculations are they running that they need enough brainpower to significantly effect things? Like I’m assuming what’s causing the pollution is increased electricity consumption but… how does sending lil pretend money tokens back and forth or whatever cause so much pollution?
Also, what the fuck is “mining”? How d'you mine… like bitcoin is not a naturally occurring resource, and I assume that you can’t just make it, cause that would make it instantly worthless… help?
So you get “coins” as a reward for performing the cryptographic calculations necessary to update the public ledger which is the blockchain. This is, by design, an increasingly complex and resource intensive process to slow down the collection of (intentionally finite) coins.
So every transaction with bitcoins requires the ledger to be updated with the current ownership of every already existing bitcoin, which also requires encrypting and decrypting a bunch of information and sharing it across the public ledger. So every transaction made with bitcoins increases the energy requirements of updating the ledger making it harder and harder to complete the latest version and get the coin which is a reward for doing that work.
There’s a lot I don’t fully understand myself but the long and short of it is that the actual value of any crypto currency is pretty much just what people agree on, except instead of a fiat currency where a government says it’s worth something and a mint that makes physical currency, there’s a bunch of nerds who agree that solving certain math problems is worth rewarding.
Feeling like adding on for a bit of context, I know it’s kind of hard to understand how mining for really any kind of crypto is hard to imagine, but seeing what a bitcoin mining facility looks like for the first time really helped me realize just how energy intensive it is.
See all these warehouses? They’re quite literally filled to the brim with specialized computers that do nothing but mine, each one filled with thousands of these computers, just row after row of this:
So all the power consumption winds up adding up like crazy.
Yep, that’s why cryptocurrency and NFTs are considered major contributors to pollution – because the energy needs of all those computers doing the calculation are equivalent to a medium sized country. Currently, crypto consumes more energy than Argentina.
Guess what’s inside a lot of mining rigs? Gowan, guess.
Graphics cards!
Lots and lots of these puppies side by side, spinning their little fans as fast as they can go because as it turns out: GPUs are perfect for doing the calculations required for mining cryptocurrency.
Which means amateur miners buy a lot of these things.
So many, in fact, that there is now (May 2021) a world-wide shortage of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards and building a new gaming rig is damn near impossible because of the shortage.
OR you can pay a ridiculously inflated price by GPU scalpers on eBay.
Seriously. Places that sell GPUs impose quantity limits because if they don’t… some crypto asshole will buy out their entire stock in one go.
But the “good” news is that the professional miners (like the Bitmain site up there, in the photos) use dedicated ASIC mining rigs which don’t use consumer GPUs. But (bad news) they DO use the same sort of chips that NVIDIA & AMD rely on to make their products, which just starves the supply pipeline at a different point.
Bottom line: not only does cryptocurrency mining consume terawatts of electricity, it also consumes megatons of computer hardware. Which is expensive to produce (in resource terms, like rare metals, petroleum, water, electricity, paper) and will, someday, require even MORE resources to recycle. Or else it ends up in a landfill.
Note that current dedicated mining rigs are so highly specialized they are useless for anything other than mining. They cannot be easily repurposed to (say) sequence DNA or fold proteins for miracle cures.
What a waste.
was anyone gonna tell me that some nerds peepee poopoo “currency” is the reason why graphics cards are sold out everywhere or was i supposed to find that out from comments under a screenshot from twitter user whoreganic cop puncher explaining how bitcoin is just an artificially complicated math problem
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