The Hall of Fire

Is it related to Maeglin and Areðel leaving home?

There's more - their money was seized when they arrived, so they can't leave, even though apparently they want to.

I feel sorry for the kids, they didn't choose to have idiot parents.

What's causing that row of blue trees in the background? Is that caused by the shadow of a cloud?

You know what would be a really cool experiment? Take a picture of you, ask AI to age it five or ten years, hang on to it, and see if it's accurate when the time comes.

Or, take a picture of you from ten years ago, ask AI to age it ten years and see how it did.

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Much more satisfying than yesterday

Is it something to do with Lúthien leaving Doriath without permission?

I’m stumped.

Were they discussing leaving Valinor and heading back across the sea?

I did worse.

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You'll never look at eggs the same way again...

Hang on, you can ask it to make a Far Side cartoon? Is there a way to get it to draw images?

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Hey ho, back to the rut I go

I just had a long debate with it about changes made to The Silmarillion. I find that when challenged on things, it tends to make shit up in order to agree with you. Not impressed! Based on this and some of Dave's interactions, I wonder if the First Law of Robotics is actually "Never disagree w...

Okay, I just signed up too. I asked it what language it was programmed in (mostly Python), then asked about online resources for learning Gaelic. I got some info that may be useful, and will follow up. Then I asked "How are you?" in Gaelic, and it responded with "Fine thanks, and how ...

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Whew... close one.

Can you ask it where I can get good-quality mithril nowadays?

Also, is there some way to determine whether the mithril has been sustainably sourced?

I was about to post that I was impressed that it could re-check and correct itself when prompted. But then I read the last update - I would be more impressed with it if it had pushed back and reposted the correct quote.

Were the speaker and the addressee of the same race?

Here is a music video from my oldest niece and her band:



This is not my usual type of music, and I may be prejudiced, but I think this is pretty good!

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*is winning*

Something along the lines of "I like you", or "I approve of you", or something?

Or, "I like what you did"?