the old woke is dying, and the new woke struggles to be born; now is the time of posters

no matter how low you get in your life, at least you can take comfort in knowing that a judge has never ordered you to declare, under penalty of perjury, whether your mom won't stop doing your legal homework for you

my partner is showing me Treasure Planet for the first time (yes, somehow I haven't seen it) and right as we start, they drop this fucking BOMB on me: "This is what Titan A.E. wanted to be" chat???? chat is this true?????????????

boy i hope that *'s not an E

lol man, no it fucking did not

i'm...not complaining. i'm just kind of in shock?? season 2 of a genuinely good Marvel show? that's ABOUT something?? damn!

he’s still the best in the biz

i have never felt compelled to play any Dark Souls title, or any other game that has a reputation for being punishing or mean to its players because in my childhood i beat 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵. youtu.be/RjKLiXdOkpY?... an absolute marathon of cruelty

i think i am bad at coding and more drawn to writing because i have an overdeveloped sense of "oh come the fuck on, you 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 what i 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯!"

Moana 2 came out in November 2024, and teased a Thanos-ish villain that would come back for, one must assume, Moana 3 i cannot for the life of me figure out why there is a live action reboot of a trilogy that is not even done yet

at this point, you could convince me that they are specifically engineering scenarios just to get people online to post "this would be too on the nose, even for a movie!!" it wouldn't even be a hard sell

you know what makes me a superhuman writer? when you fucking pay me

I know it's stiff competition on this app, but the sheer divorced energy radiating off of "yeah, I'm doing good, I occasionally meet 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴 for 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬" is off the charts especially when, and I cannot emphasize this enough, no one asked lol

while everything Mehotra is saying here is utter horse shit, i gotta say i'm a big fan of making executives explain, directly to the faces of the people they're ripping off, why actually it's good to rip them off great genre, let's do it more

LFG

genuinely, if you think your project is better for using gAI rather than not...don't bother apologizing for it. just do it! i don't think you should. but you clearly do! either stand by the choice, or second guess it enough to not do it at all. just don't do this smol bean routine about it

men, if your dating profile photos look like this, hmu i'm not even great at this but i promise i can help

my father had a system for refilling a 20oz Pepsi bottle with Big K brand diet cherry cola every morning before work it involved a 2 liter in the kitchen, 5 more in a second fridge in the basement, and 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 of 2 liters on standby any hiccup in this system resulted in a screaming breakdown

this is what keeps getting me about these gAI asset scandals if your goal is "type in words, get image you can use" Pixabay is better if your goal is "get asset you won't be embarrassed to ship" fucking MS Paint is better and if your goal is to iterate on ideas, thinking for yourself is better

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Everyone else is posting hilarious temp textures found in games, so here's the one we kept seeing in Starfield for a bit (due to a rendering bug, not shipped like this, but still!). Very obviously not a shippable asset!

I can't stress enough that ATL is, under normal circumstances, easily one of the most insanely efficient high-traffic hubs in the fucking world. I've flown out of there countless times and never spent more than 60m from parking lot to gate you have to fuck up so bad to get a picture like this

no yeah when I'm walking down the sidewalk, I'm definitely more terrified of the barely-covered human on a flimsy piece of aluminum, than I am the phalanx of two-ton tanks that are actively hostile to my existence

if your goal is to create a sustainable business making art, you'll pay artists and allow for some inefficiency. simple as if your goal is to get rich quick, you'll gamble on trendy, unreliable tech like gAI. and everyone suffers

half star reviews of my lboxd top 4

Also this

they love it when Americans die for oil

it's funny how often these apologies for using gAI boil down to "yeah, we use it, we're just sorry that we let you see it"

i remain eternally fascinated by the compulsion for grifters to cosplay the aesthetics of respectable people the actual text here is rambling, incoherent blogspam but it has to be shoved into an academic paper format because that doesn't telegraph that it's worthless garbage as clearly

based on the responses they give here, it increasingly seems to me that Nvidia 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 they (tried to) use input data to train its model to recognize the difference between geometry/textures/etc in a 2D image but that is 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 from using geometry/textures as input data for a filter

once again thinking about how many Nintendo games (like DK Bananza) are built on features/systems developed in previous games (like Odyssey) and how much of that institutional knowledge is lost every time a studio lays off all their devs as soon as a game is released constant own-foot-shooting

you are not the economy, to the people who cover it you are its fuel

i dont play fortnite, but based on the recent string of crossovers, i am assuming its primary demographic is 40 year olds

"i was really inspired by the timeless works of Vincent Van Gogh. that's why i invented Quibi"

for the last several years, we were told the incalculable value of chatting with coworkers at the water cooler was worth millions in office space, hours of commute time, and tons of gas and emissions but oh, btw, an AI that can't count the Rs in strawberry can replace you now, suddenly

mr. senator, please interview bonzi buddy next, i beg u

"damn, this thing that happened is awful and bad and sucks :(" ↪ "you rube, you fucking idiot. everything always sucked forever. what kind of piece of shit ever thought anything was good in the first place? i hope your pets burn in hell"

Chuck Norris is dead. He was really shitty but Conan playing this clip from Walker Texas Ranger lives rent free in my head forever tbh so there's that.

jesus fucking christ Google has essentially declared itself Editor-in-Chief of the internet, with final editorial say over what you read online

as someone whose bread and butter comes from writing How Tos, I've been getting a lot less freelance work from simple tips that can be summarized by AIO. they don't do well anymore we need bigger, more complex guides that can't be easily scraped to be worth it I don't see this going well long term

If you've got work on @medium.com go check and be sure to not allow AI to be trained on your stories. I need the AI bubble to burst, expeditiously. medium.com/me/settings/...

it really can't be stressed enough how much taking this shit seriously boiled down to a communal peer pressure to avoid being too "cynical" or "closed-minded" about things they were observably under-informed about insecurity drove a lot of credulous coverage and investment

LACK OF AWARENESS FOR A CONDITION THAT AFFECTS ~190 MILLION PEOPLE

so many folks I follow on here have such interesting and thoughtful things to say about Pathologic 3's themes and story and I'm still just sitting over here thinking about how much the "kick a trash can because talking to a child made you sad" mechanic has altered my brain chemistry

Freelancer, here: DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

every tech company is now a training data Galactus, ravenously hungry and unable to be sated they have no ideology or principles, no objectives or aims, even they simply must feed

anyway

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