This feels like an internal app that somehow got a public URL. It has neat features like being able to make the same departure board they have in their stations, and it has a departure view that shows how many people are on the train: https://radar.mta.info/countdown/GCT
For the affordable gold nibs, "Lamy 2000" is generally the biggest competitor to Pilot Capless / Vanishing point. Same price, very similar nib quality, different esthetics / use case.
For the cheap, the aliexpress classics "Jinhao x750" is another gateway drug. It's under $10 and gives an almost infinite ability for tinkering further down the line when the fountain pen bug bites (#6 size nibs that are easy to find / replace and standard cartridge / converter size for easy ink availability).
Out of the box midjourneyv5 generates great images but SD has controlnet, plethora of custom models to pick from, can run locally on most machines gives it an edge in my opinion.
I find most of the community models for Stable Diffusion to be pretty poor. A lot of models made from merges, waifu only models, models made from very small training datasets, and still stuck on 1.5 while 2.1 is much better overall.
However you have the amazing LoRas for 2.1 that are very powerful. The community is a bit ignoring them, but I think the potential is great.
But MidJourney is a lot better at text to image and image to image for now.
I don't actually like The Wheel of Time, so my reactions to the show are about whether it's good television: I think it was.
Rings of Power was unwatchable, I gave up.
I never really liked Foundation (although I read all the books when I was too young to realize Asimov was incapable of portraying characters that weren't paper thin). I found some of the changes obnoxious but comprehensible for building a show, but found it also to be watchable TV.
I'm pretty confident the people producing these shows care more about whether people think it's watchable TV than whether big fans of the original agree their conversion is faithful, which sounds like your complaint, here.
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