This sounds dumb as all heck but a Fediverse equivalent of LinkedIn. Not some corporate hellscape, but something geared towards semi-pro or hobbyists who are looking for collaborative projects. It would serve as a portfolio and a way to group up and network.

So for example, you’re a YouTuber who is looking for an editor. Its not career pay but its a paid side gig. Or maybe you’re an audio guy and are looking to get into the film industry, and want to see if there are local indie films looking for your skills.

There are ‘services’ for these but they’re either adapted from something else (like Reddit or Facebook) or they have some aggressive middleman monetization. And many basically require you to host your portfolio elsewhere, which is sometimes funky to run your own hosting.

How are you going to acquire the voices? By recording other media? Most media has some sort of license attached, and recording it (for movies and shows or music) isn’t usually something allowed.

I know a guy that took a security camera and hooked it up to watch his lawnmower, which is set to automatically mow a certain area as guided by the camera.

So he just hits a button and watches his lawn get mowed.

I would likely have different thoughts on it if I (and others) was able to consent my data into training it, or consent to even have it rather than it just showing up in an unwanted update.

There’s a story about a man (Hennig Brand) who figured since pee was yellow, and gold was yellow, maybe if you boil urine down enough you can get the ‘gold’ out of it and make lots of stacks of cash.

Unfortunately this didn’t work, but it did yield a process to create phosphorous which ended up being a valuable chemical process, of which he sold to other alchemists at the time (Who in turn tried to figure out how to turn the new found phosphorous to gold).

As I recall, Will Wright’s inspiration for the Sims was watching his daughter play with dolls in a dollhouse.

When viewed through that lens, yeah I can see how that formula works.

Patience.

I’ve taken up several hobbies (game dev, gardening, woodworking, etc) where results aren’t always well seen until weeks, months or even years after starting a project.

Everyone seems too interested in getting results fast and now, and the world seems all too keen to sell you something to try and make that happen.

I don’t keep checking to see if I’m being followed, but assessing people nearby seems to be practical awareness.

Its probably some baked in survival skills.

So actually to add onto this, this was bothering me so I had to look into it further:

I was very incorrect - Hyperspace isn’t a pocket dimension per se and you can hit things while moving through hyperspace. The reason they ‘sometimes’ get past shields is because shields have a refresh rate so it may be able to phase through if you get it just right.

I’m more with you on this now, its a little ridiculous that no ones really tried to weaponize hyperdrive engines.

As far as I know all droids in Star Wars have free will.

Han Solo gambled and won the Falcon from Lando (who appears well off), it was definitely too expensive for him to have bought normally.

I think the hyperspace battering ram is funky, but I believe it was less that it was a good tactical idea and more of the First Order being extremely arrogant by not having their shields up, not using a tractor beam, and not just sending a smaller ship forward to close the gap and blowing it up.

I think the movie wanted to show that they were savoring the victory and were willing to draw it out as they believed the rebels were drowning in hopelessness.

As I recall, hyperspace is like a pocket dimension. They just speed up a whole lot to enter hyperspace. So you can’t collide with things ‘in hyperspace’, but only as you’re going really fast while transitioning to hyperspace, which is quite a bit more limited in capability.

Hyperspace drives are expensive, and droids are sentient (so its still suicidal). Using it as a weapon would be like having an shotgun in an fps game, where the first 5 feet is extremely lethal to really big targets, whereas anything after that is a waste of time. Also each shot is $10k.

The real question would be why didn’t she just splat against the cruiser’s shields as they established that was a problem in the previous movie (when they need to hyperspace through the shielding of that planet), unless they had a Galaxy Quest moment where they forgot to flip the shields on.