Do you think they meant for this to look like a scorpion about to fuck shit up

Went to see Unicorn just as it came out - purely by chance, I was in town and needed to kill a couple of hours.

You’ll find this out if you look at most reviews, but it’s a solid 6/10 movie. It’s competent and has an interesting premise, but it doesn’t do anything terribly original with it. The “scare” moments were predictable to even a passive fan of horror, though not unearned.

What brings it out of mediocrity are the performances; the whole cast is bringing their A game. Even if the characters never really surprise you, they’re still somehow believable and it’s easy to root for (or against) them.

Mixed results…?

I don’t have any interesting secrets or facts from my current ex-jobs, so I’ll share an interesting fact from a buddy’s. It’s one of those companies that offers automated phone systems (and chats, nowadays) that listen to your options rather than taking number inputs.

This may no longer be the case, but these systems were not actually automated. There are entire call centers dedicated to these phone systems, whereby an operator listens to your call snippet and manually selects the next option in the phone tree, or transcribes your input.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if advances in AI have made this whole song and dance less in need of human intervention, but once upon a time, your call wasn’t truly automated - it was federated.