>extremely intelligent and powerful android's best way of killing someone is a rolled up magazine shoved in their mouthwhat the FUCK were they thinking
>>217397463I just want to say that Ripley is my mommy.
>>217397463he was glitching out
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>>217397484Shut up Amanda, nobody likes you
>>217397463That whole scene was sex symbolism you fuckin retard. Do they not teach media literacy anymore? Do you idiots just assume the world is flat and everything is to be taken at face value?
>>217397533RELEASE THE BUSH CUT NOW
>>217397555>media literacy
>>217397463Androids in the Alien franchise aren't that much more powerful than regular humans. Also this scene is supposed to represent an android without a penis trying to deal with rape desires.
>>217397555Reminds me of in Confederacy of Dunces when Ignatius watches children's programs and seethes at them because the songs they sing and dance to all very vaguely allude to penis worship and having sex
>>217397555Also he's mouthfucking her with a porn magazine.
>>217397463>magazines still exist in the future >no phonesFake.
>>217397533>>217397565Imagine. Being the director in this scene and having to ignore the untamed wiry mane of Siggy's bush. Like this is totally fine both for myself as a director for the studio and me as an artist. Now i have to go to wine mixers with spielberg and coppala and be like "oh yeah the bush short? That represents the uhhhh, feral nature of the human condition". All because Sigourney refused to shave her stinky fucking bush.
>>217397555>>217399280Classic example of overconceptualisation.Its an ok idea but the execution throws up more questions than the whoa mind blown androids envy sexual reproduction implication is worth.A better explanation would be ash trying to kill ripley in a way that doesnt announce he killed her, if parker hadnt walked in on them ash could have just claimed he found her with injuries to her mouth/throat, like perhaps the ayy did it.
>>217397533ive never found sigourney weaver as hot, even in wispy cotton panties during some of her best years.
I'm not saying he should've done it, but I understand.
>>217399370I love Siggy but shes never been an attractive woman. The only time i found her hot was in Galaxy quest
ChatGPT will be one of the final nails in the coffin of current undergraduate education. I have students who clearly use it for a lot of things, most harmlessly talking to it as a kind of virtual TA or interactive Wikipedia, least harmlessly writing and structuring their entire papers. Collectively however their use of it "tinges" the entire traditional process of essay-writing with fakeness, and demonstrates their lack of digestion of any material. All this does is accentuate existing problems though. All they did before this was use Google and Wikipedia, and occasionally cheat by asking friends or paying for essay-writing services online. It was a different form of undigested crap but it was still undigested crap.
(cont)Undergrad education is at a crossroads. There are two possible ways forward: place the stress on quality control, or place the stress on "degrees as commodities (degrees as finishing school for the upper class and thus status symbols)." Quality control only really works if profit is not your main motive, and thus any university that focuses on it will be outcompeted by those that don't. This is exactly what happened over the past 70 years since a university education gradually became like it is in Europe: a guarantee of status, because now you qualify for government jobs. David Lebedoff does a good job covering the rise of this "new elite" (technocrats) in America, people whose real ethno-cultural identity is "I went to Harvard and now I am upwardly mobile enough to live in a trendy coastal city."But this has watered it down so much that with each passing decade they have to find new ways to make it palatable. Now we're at a breaking point where the decision really has to be made: what are these places? Are they autonomous elite intellectual centers (non-profit model that only really survives in a state that subsidizes a non-technocrat aristocracy), or are they technocrat training centers / finishing schools (profit model)? The reason we're at a breaking point is that this question is suggesting itself to students and to the public. For the first time in a long time, students KNOW they are not getting a "real" experience, and they can't be bought off with "just suppress those doubts and you can still brag you went to Harvard!" Standards for basic conduct and basic merit are so low at the Harvards that even people who want to believe the lies still can't quite do it. Their fellow students are all dumb parvenu airheads, every school feels like a party school now, the teachers are dumb hipsters with no gravitas.
(cont)ChatGPT use is going to force the institution to either drop standards even further, making them even more nominal and farcical, OR to decide on being an aristocratic intellectual center, which is impossible, so the only option is #1. Now, what has ALREADY been happening for a long long time (students at Harvard tier schools being literally illiterate and unable to think or complete simple tasks) will be out in the open
>>217399754man i have students that literally download pdf of another students work and tell GPT to make my work the same but for this and this task.
>>217399354It was the 70s. Everyone had a bush. It wasn't anything you'd think twice about.
>>217399810they even dont bother to remove the chat fluff text like @yes user here is my interpretation of your task@ etc.
>>217399754Back when I went to college I immediately realized that people were just going through the motions in higher education to get their degree so they could get whatever job they were trying tk get and then I dropped outGlad to see its only accelerated and gotten worse
>>217397463It's simple, he wants to rape her but has no penis. There's a similar scene with David in Covenant.
>>217397463Most likely they did not equip him with a penis and this was his way to cope.
>>217399876>>217399916Roboincel rage
>>217399754>>217399766>>217399787No idea what the fuck this has to do with the thread, but it's a lot more interesting, so I appreciate you dumping it in here. Sounds like what you're saying is that higher-tier schools will eventually lose their prestige, which, considering the direction things are headed, doesn't sound so bad. If they're faking their merit, then losing it is justified. Simple as.
>>217399861This has been the case for like the last 50+ years.
>mfw in my uni midterms were handwritten during class and final exams were all oral
>>217398689Even dumbass Ridley forgot that part. And they can't help but powercreep the androids up to Terminator levels so now it's ridiculous that Ash couldn't have killed the whole crew by himself
>>217400508>being an android somehow allows you to defy the laws of physicsCan't believe I looked forward to that show initially.
>>217400582We wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt. We wanted to let them try something different and not always be immediately negative about things. They showed us how wrong we were to trust them.
>>217400582I warned you all. I said it would be bad. Disney only produces product now.
>>217400640Yeah, but you say that about everything. Not like you have any actual clue.
>extremely intelligent and powerfulhe wasn't either of those things
>>217400682To be fair, everything is kinda garbage nowadays.
>>217400682>Yeah, but you say that about everything.I want to disagree, but almost everything is shit now. So I could say it about something I haven't even see the trailer for and I'd be right.Though to be fair, I mostly warned people against watch Alien Earth because I don't want Disney thinking the franchise is viable. Do you really want Alien to go the way of Star Wars or Marvel? The fact that it's their first shot at a TV show and they immediately pumped out something Acolyte tier doesn't bode well.
>>217397555Apparently you have yet to learn how to not sound like a twat yet because you use the term "media literacy". It's fiction, get a grip on yourself.
>>217397463it was a veiled reference to scott's earlier work in advertising and a commentary on shoving advertising down people's throats
>hey Siggy, Ridley said sex is free-use in the space future heh heh>oh really? well, go ahead then>oh damn alright!
>>217397463>GO GO GO GO GO
