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It's a viable position. but again, The Unfinished Tales are not what JRR Tolkien wrote, they were extensively edited from the original writings by Christopher Tolkien. Somewhat comparable to taking something Lucas Scribbled on a napkin about the Whills in 1965, which is then edited by somebody...

I've seen it, I just don't think a collection of random notes Tolkien neither published nor ever intended to have read by outsiders counts as "canon." Christopher Tolkien had to extensively edit them, f'rex, because the names often didn't match existing characters since they were random plot...

I don't think there's any way to know for sure, but I find it plausible the Ring wanted to stay at the bottom of a river that long. As Gandalf says, "His Orcs have multiplied; his fortress of Barad-Dur is rebuilt..." So it's possible Sauron's timeline would involve taking long enough to let...

So if you genderbend yourself, you get an extra bonus. Hmm. Aside from that Naruto is really the only interesting option because it's the only one with... options. If I go Re:Zero I'm always Echidna and have the same powerset but as Madara I can be born in another village or in another...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02669 ConceptLab actually can do that, it generates entirely new concepts and art styles that don't exist yet rather than riffing on existing datasets the way things like my civilian-grade AI does.

The Biden Administration has already sent agents to begin cutting the razor wire and escorting illegal immigrants into Texas. https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/09/20/biden-administration-cuts-razor-wire-in-texas-meant-to-stop-illegal-crossings-n2387521

Depends on the set you trained with. This specific set? Yes. F'rex suppose you train your AI on the aforementioned Boris Vallejo. If you draw a guy, he's probably going to be huge and muscled by default. If you give him horns, the AI will probably put a horned helmet on him rather than...

Environmentalism isn't actually antithetical to the right. In fact Tolkien-style environmentalism, a desire to preserve forests and support farmland and rural living, is the right-wing version of environmentalism. Given the lifestyle of the hobbits I rather suspect he'd despise 15 minute...

As you wish. Horns are a bit difficult if you're going photorealistic due to the lack of real people with horns. This was the best of six inpaints out of six attempts at drawing her, so best of twelve total. If I'd gone for a different style, like Boris Vallejo or a more typical anime, I...

Going on with this theme, it's worth noting that Ponda Baba's arm was bleeding after Obi-Wan cut it off in the Mos Eisley Cantina. So if we take earlier as better, in the OT Lightsabers aren't even necessarily hot enough to cauterize an arm. During the sail barge fight, we can also see that...

Yes. In fact, he originally planned for Maul with cybernetics to be the main separatist general in the Prequels and only changed the concept into Grievous later.

Best of four tries at drawing Shampoo in a photorealistic style. I'm on a kick of trying to make old 80s anime and cartoon people but changing their styles to see if I can do it.

That depends on what you think they said. Even fairly liberal fact-checkers like Snopes admit that Pat Robertson is misquoted and misattributed in "wrath of god" claims. If you actually believe he said them, you're clowning yourself. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gods-wrath/ And even...

As you say, the rule is to obey the earthly authorities unless and until they give orders to disobey God. So there is no need to justify things, the US is the current secular authority as allowed/placed by God so they are to be obeyed unless they start actively ordering disobedience to God. As...