And what’s the experience like? One of the higher ups at my workplace has one in their office and I need to know if the risk is worth the reward

I was checking to see if Broken Earth had been mentioned! It’s the only story I’m aware of that does second person (not all chapters).

Wasn’t a huge fan of the move to 3D animation but it wasn’t all bad. Movies like The Mitchell’s VS The Machines and Klaus show that 3D animation can have a ton of soul and style. Think the problem is most corporate studios just failing at making good stories / art most of the time in pursuit of the lowest common denominator.

That said, fuck AI slop. Soulless by definition

Now I’m kinda weirded out that all the people I see in bike shorts are going commando under there…

Edit: Well there you go. Suppose its no different than skin tight swim shorts.

I imagine what you normally do to prevent poop particles should be fine. Also I believe most people wear underwear under bike shorts? I cycle almost daily but just wear regular clothes or gym clothes so not entirely sure with padded bike shorts.

Also, having grown up all my life with bidets and “bum guns”, it never hurts to clean down there with some water and soap anyway.

Would that be a disassociation?

Brain’s taking the joke too seriously and trying to imagine what divorcing yourself would entail

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True, and also more nukes in play is just bad overall

Boulder looking smooth af

“Wheely tyred” then

Pakistan is one of nine states that possess nuclear weapons. Pakistan is not party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Pakistan’s arsenal is estimated at 170 nuclear weapons as of 2025. -Wikipedia

Fun

Wait, is it inherently bad for an artist to self-insert? Isn’t that one of the key ways they share their perspective? If there’s some bizarre strawman-ing or self-aggrandizing going on it can problematic but the general idea of an artist self-inserting themselves or their ideas into their work seems fine to me.

This was the discussion on a recent post, which seems to be deleted now, about “AI” art on beer cans in the Mildly Infuriating community.

It’s really upsetting how much art is now seen as AI looking when AI art only looks that way cause it was trained on great art. Anything stylized, slightly sepia, realistically shaded, etc etc, automatically assumed to be AI when some people have trained decades to develop this style themselves, but now it’s just slop style

Looking at Gen-Z protests around the world, it’s kinda already started, though the success rate/level in each case may be an issue. But yeah, for the US specifically I’ve been amazed things haven’t really escalated to the same level yet outside of maybe Jan 6 and even that was running in the wrong direction

It sucks that so many art styles just seems AI now even though most likely AI art was trained on them to look that way. I have pictures I printed and laminated years ago for work related things and people have frequently insisted that they are AI… These give me the same vibe

Well, is it shifting left or right??

Think this is the full official winner’s gallery

One of my faves

Similar experience except it was disposable earplugs that stretched me out and left me sore after too many one night stands… Found a pair of nicely sized Loop earplug knockoffs that know how to treat me nice and gentle all night long so my hole stretching nights are happily behind me

Some kind of Indian dessert that was covered in gold leaf at a rich older family friends birthday. I had one out of curiosity but it didn’t add anything to the experience except sadness at the waste

And these scientists are sure as hell gonna work on answering them with that freaky deaky nose