uralsolo [he/him]

Crackle is owned by Sony and ad-supported, I assume that the bot just saw the word "free" all over the website and assumed that made it "relatede enough to piracy to place on the list.

Maybe astroturfing, but most likely just people trying to be morally superior to one another.

We can get a computer to tag the birds, answer questions about them, and generate new pictures of them.

Sometimes

I understand this conceptually, but there’s also a gremlin in my brain that wants me to make every line as short as possible.

I feel the same way. I think it’s just because the TNG films wanted to turn Picard into Kirk and frankly Patrick Stewart can’t carry an action scene (neither can any of the rest of the TNG crew tbh). The TNG cast would have been perfect to do a plot about space whales or a dangerous anomaly flying towards Earth, but they kept trying to do The Wrath of Khan instead.

Also a pox on everyone who says that Motion Picture or The Search for Spock are bad.

That was Legends: Arceus. But it still didn’t sell nearly as well as Sword+Shield or Scarlet+Violet did.

tbh the Pokemon Company could probably not change a thing and keep churning out the same slop for fifty more years and still be the largest franchise on the planet.