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attackradish
memecucker

So i guess Capcom said Dragons Dogma 2 will have improved AI to ‘give the world life’ and people are freaking out because “AI” and even putting aside the fact that “video game AI” is a very very very very established concept its kinda funny seeing people freak out and at the same time admitting to not knowing exactly what they’re upset about

onion-souls

Video game AI is taking away jobs from the tiny people who live in the TV

attackradish

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#tangential but its kinda sad how ai stuff fucked over institutions that were already using ai in ethical ways#like. vocal synths. the latest vocal synths use ai based tuning#meaning they recorded someone singing and paid them for it#and then used those recordings to train an ai to replicate human singing and then created a separate character based off that voice#everyone involved was paid. the voice is clearly stated as not being human. its totally ethical#but now that ai art is a thing i feel like any time i talk about vocal synths i have to explain that theyre not the bad kind of AI#and thats sad to me

ai talk i burned out of an AI job when the war started — the way it blew up in the meanwhile is insane its so boring on the backend its so so so boring and banal. its just another tool
dingdongyouarewrong
honeyymistt

i’ve heard a lot of people say “don’t reach out to your friends first and see how many people will remain in your life. those are your true friends” and i get it. it sucks and it’s tiring constantly being the one to message first, to initiate hang outs but don’t take this so literally. some friendships require initiation. i have lost touch with so many people who genuinely cared about me and wanted me in their life because i stopped reaching out. it’s a hard pill to swallow but honestly some people just suck at it and it doesn’t mean they don’t love and value you. i’ve reconnected with some people over the past few months and it’s crazy how genuinely happy they are to see me and how engaged they are in the conversation. i just think sometimes we’re too harsh on each other & too quick to emphasize other peoples flaws and remove them from our lives but then we’ll all be alone and what’s the point of life then!!!!

bogleech
bogleech

Some of you have seen Junk Head at least one of the times I've streamed it but if you haven't watched Junk Head please do so one day. Not to be confused with the more recent and more grotesque (but also good) Mad God.

Yes this is what all of this movie's dialog sounds like.

bogleech

I also want everyone to know that Takehide Hori, the creator of this award winning film, was almost forty years old when he FIRST decided he wanted to be a filmmaker and became interested in stop motion, which he taught himself over the course of a couple years, then modeled and animated most of this movie with little to no help...at twice the frames per second used by any other stop motion production, because he just wanted to.

I’m not saying you should aspire to this however because he did say he spent most of that period living off vitamins and noodles while sleeping in the studio instead of ever going home, so it’s kind of a miracle he’s alive, but thanks to the film’s success as far as I know he has a whole lot more help for the sequel.

This was going to be an inspiring addition about how he tried something brand new and accomplished so much at 40 but I guess now I’m just hoping he has a production staff willing to drag him away, feed him and tuck him into bed if they have to.

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dingdongyouarewrong
huffylemon

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triviallytrue

aren't gorillas gentle giants or something. i stay out of his way, he doesn't maul me, we have a nice time picking out clothes together in opposite sides of the mall

friendshapedhole

Male gorillas are super aggressive and territorial. Also they interpret nearly every human mannerism as a sign of aggression or a challenge. Smiling and eye contact are both things that zookeepers have to be taught to suppress when they’re in the vicinity of gorillas.

triviallytrue

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Well unless the mall is his native territory I think I'm fine, I wasn't planning on smiling at him

max1461

This is all irrelevant because the obvious answer is five black mambas. I mean, that’s not actually very many snakes, and malls are fucking huge. And unlike a gorilla you can definitely outrun a snake if it does show up. Find an open space in the mall where you can see any snake coming and just hangout out there. Fucking easy.

triviallytrue

Misguided! I would much rather have a mallmate I can easily see and hear coming. I'm confident I can stay out of the gorilla's way, but if I step on a snake or one otherwise gets the jump on me, it's all over.

It's not just about the physical danger either, it's about my mental health. One gorilla, unless he's actively mad at me, I just keep a healthy distance between us and make sure I never get trapped. With the snakes, it requires a lot more constant vigilance

ghostpalmtechnique

They should substitute "chimpanzee" for "gorilla" in this hypothetical.

triviallytrue

if it was a chimp i'm taking the fucking snakes

notwiselybuttoowell

Black mambas have a reputation build on being very venomous and very fast. I'm not sure why you would think you could outrun one (or five) in an enclosed space like a mall.

chaumas-deactivated20230115

Malls usually have pretty slick floors, and escalators. I’d choose the gorilla simply because I think that would make an more interesting story (and a better-selling autobiography, I Survived the Mall Gorilla) but I think I’d stand a pretty good chance at avoiding the mamba. They’re fast and aggressive and will chase you but unless we started immediately beside each other I think my sneakers would have the terrain advantage over scutes.

nightingalesoul

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this is too good to leave hidden in the replies

bermuda-n-drangle

fucking enamored with the implication that this gorilla is fully intelligent but is trying to manufacture plausible deniability like the movie barnyard

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dingdongyouarewrong
crimeronan

once when i was ten, so seventeen years ago, i was on one of the neopets forums that was in 2006 frequented mostly by edgy teenagers with pete wentz urls who wanted to get around the ban on romance and gay talk to discuss mcr members making out. and it was well past midnight and i was secretly on an extremely clunky laptop the size of a modern desktop, sitting on my top bunk in the tiny room i shared with my sister. and i do not remember the forum topic at all but at some point one of the participants politely asked me, "hey, how old are you, anyway? twelve?" and when i honestly replied "ten," he responded:

"WOAH. Kid, you'd better get off the boards. Wandering the Neoboards at 2 AM is like walking nekkid through the Bronx with your wallet dangling from your nipplz."

and this frightened me so much i slammed the computer shut and went to bed immediately. seventeen years later i still remember this message word for word. including the filter-avoidance misspellings. i need everyone to know about this formative childhood memory. bronx wallet nipplz guy if you're out there hmu and tell me what ur deal was

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switchelsweets
pikestaff

"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

themythicalcodfish

To wit:

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switchelsweets

I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕

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dingdongyouarewrong
rustpuppy

How long would it take you to walk from your home to the nearest grocery store?

≤15 minutes

≤30 minutes

≤45 minutes

≤1 hour

≤2 hours

≤3 hours

≤6 hours

≤12 hours

>12 hours

*If you can't walk that far or the roads to the store aren't safe to walk just pretend you can and they are for the purposes of this poll.

headspace-hotel

LMAO i just looked up how long it would have taken to walk to Walmart when we lived in rural Tennessee. 14 fucking hours

(these days is 58 minutes, and it's honestly GREAT proximity to grocery store for rural USA, but the road is utterly unwalkable (no shoulder and overhangs a drainage ditch) 🙃

arborealgargoyle

yeah it's like three and half hours for me but there aren't sidewalks so it'd be super dangerous unless you were walking through peoples yards and as far from traffic in the roadside ditch as possible (even then there are parts of the road where you can't avoid crossing or being near the road which is incredibly dangerous). and i'd definitely need to use a wheelchair so??? rip. the closest grocery store is also in a food desert and price gouges accordingly too. so even if i was abled the best case scenario without a car would still be to walk on foot for almost four hours risking literal death to get to a store where i couldn't afford to actually buy very much at all. 'MURICA!

20 minutes to a pricey middleeastern grocery or 30 to a very asian supermarket (affectionate) beyond that it's another halfhour to a big-ass plaza (with a 15 minute trek across parking lots between any 2 stores) but that's my specific proximity (it's my luck to have a varied plaza an hour's walk away you see) - most people arent even within 1h walk anyway i hate it here take me back to bread & cheese store next to the bus stop under my window in kyiv