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  • Re: Friends in the Time of Mamdani

    From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Sun Feb 15 16:32:20 2026
    On 2/14/2026 11:50 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jan 19, 2026 at 8:51:13 AM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 1/18/2026 10:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jan 17, 2026 at 7:45:55 AM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 1/17/2026 1:25 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jan 15, 2026 at 8:19:44 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 1/15/2026 6:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jan 15, 2026 at 2:50:16 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 1/15/2026 2:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jan 15, 2026 at 7:46:06 AM PST, "Rhino"
    <no_offline_contact@example.com>
    wrote:

    An interesting look at how the beloved comedy Friends might look if it
    had taken place during a Mamdani administration:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a0yY9GufnE [10 minutes] >>>>>>>>>
    They did one for Jurassic Park-grad also.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlpE4s8JQ5A

    Jeezus, those look expensive. I wonder who funds them.

    They're actually not as good as the STAR WARS short fan films that have
    been
    flooding YouTube lately, filling in the gaps between the official >>>>>>> movies.
    The
    voices, the likeness, the movement, the starships and battle effects,
    all of
    it, looks very realistic. Not 100%, but it'll be there in the next five
    years
    or so. And it's all being done for pennies using publicly available AI
    packages.

    Do they all preach the evils of Russian communism? It seems like >>>>>> overkill, in the U.S. anyway.

    Here's one example.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieFu5Edp8VA

    Remarkable. On many fronts.

    This one's even better. Natalie Portman's likeness and voice are close to >>> 100%. As you can see, they're much more well done than the Soviet FRIENDS >>> video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f5wuvFDz6Y

    Closer and closer. I wonder if the pursuit is asymptotic. Also whether
    every individual's countenance is automatically copyrighted.

    Best one yet. A mashup between MISSION IMPOSSIBLE and JOHN WICK, created by some random Joe Citizen and a commercially available software package.

    https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUttfVrgBFc/

    It's all action, no dialog, which is where the AI usually fails, but it looks like high-grade major motion picture quality to me.

    Alas, I'm not on Instagram...





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