I think the main difference between me and most modern people is that my goal is not to minimize risk and never has been.

My goal is to maximize optionality while achieving the biggest gains (in time, enjoyment, money, etc). This looks reckless to many people but isn’t. When your goal is not to make the risk as small as possible, but to achieve the maximum gains while preserving choice with the smallest risk within those parameters, your behavior become much different.

More people used to behave more like I do — I wonder why it’s seen as next door to crazytown now?

Terminator: Dark Fate was not a very good movie. It shouldn’t have been made; that story has been told and thus it was pointless.

Linda Hamilton, though, was great even in the face of lots of bad writing. How rare is it that an actress is actually allowed to look her age? Pretty damn uncommon.

And Mackenzie Davis is pretty good too, and has facial scarring as a “good guy” character and a woman. That’s pretty rare. Movies always seem to use facial scarring as a sign of a definite baddie. Yeah, it’s not much scarring, and tellingly it’s been airbrushed out of all the press stuff, but I liked it.

Other than that, not much to say about this fairly-boring film.

The scenes where Grace is using the chain are pretty great, though. The only parts of the film that felt visceral and real:

(She’s human, but augmented, so that’s why she can move it so quickly. So short but really well-done. The rest is CGI crap.)