@berkberkman there's a (black) guy on YouTube who has built his channel out of making "explainers" for the Three Body Problem. His rationalization of the race swaps, gender swaps, character composites were so lame. Just a big giant shrug and reminded everyone that the individual characters of Three Body Problem don't actually matter because it's not a character-driven book (true). Well if that's true why are they trying to turn it into a character-centric story?
Just a total betrayal of the source material. I can't get over it, it's not a gender swap. It's an entire socio-political swap. A country swap. The foreignness of the book is something that should be celebrated, not "fixed". They totally swapped out characters for people totally unrelated. But the YouTuber is like "well they hit the beats right", fuck that.
@berkberkman I watched the first few episodes and I'm 99% they replaced the crotchety old man in the basement with a crotchety old woman so I noped the fuck out.
The book already has a TON of female characters, the main character is female. Why did they have to genderswap that guy? All adaptations are terrible, big shocker. I have absolutely zero interest in any video game TV adaptations as well.
@Saxophone3784 just normal sha256sum. Additionally you may be interested in creating parity files (PAR2) and burning it to the same disc in case the disc in damaged in a way where there's only partial corruption. PAR2 files function as checksums as well.
>Yeah I know Three-Body Problem is literally the best selling Chinese sci-fi book of all time but couldn't we just make the main character black? They actually fucking did it. They literally deleted the main character from the book and replaced him with a black guy. They replaced the second main character (at least during the first book) with a composite, like every other character. They couldn't handle casting 90% Asians for the first season. It was impossible for them.
>I know this takes place in China during the cultural revolution but can't we just make some of the radar station guards black? This is what white people actually say to each other.
@Forestofenchantment I don't care. Everything is falling apart anyways. Governments refuse to admit the housing crisis is largely artificial, not just due to mass immigration but the fact boomers have no retirements.
It is generational warfare and the boomers leeching from all generations after. Governments refuse to simply just put them into concentration work camps like they deserve.
Anyways watch these bizarre seemingly AI generated videos. I can't tell if it's actually supposed to be funny, or like some Indians/Chinese wageslaves have accidentally created comedy through a LLM reusing the same tropes over and over because LLM: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uyOMSCNPxz0