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SomeMockodile OP t1_jegq887 wrote

I really like this movie and even though I feel like it's overhated, I get why people don't like it, but the reasoning why is mostly in how the final act wasn't handled too well. I get in the writing room they were probably like "Great, lets get our leads in the city with this T.Rex for a thrilling climax." But there's probably ways they could have handled it better.

The boat sequence was the biggest plot hole in this entire IP before the later World films happened, but at least for those plot holes they aren't core to the overall plot or narrative and are just background details that don't add up. In the Lost World it hurts the ability to immerse yourself in the film if you think about it at all.

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defmain t1_jegq7zb wrote

There's also a train from Jim Thorpe to Pittston (near Scranton), at least for the spring and summer.

Edit: I actually looked into this a bit more. The train ride is more "something you do" more than something you take. It's $50 round trip and only runs once per day, and is designed to be taken from Pittston. You have to buy tickets two weeks in advance. Definitely more of a private touristy thing. And it takes over 2 hours. You can do it by car in 1.

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spisHjerner t1_jegq6ra wrote

LaMDA + Google Conversations was "it." They quite literally had developed the cutting edge tech already. It's really astonishing to see that Conversations team was unilaterally fired. Same with Robotics.

My only thought is that the US Government gave them an ultimatum, e.g., either you develop AGI robots for us to use as military merchants, or you shut it down. And Google chose to shut it down. This is the only way I can see this happening. (Similar to Microsoft suddenly ditching VR).

Truly a WTF moment in history.

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