Gradually_Adjusting

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

I hope you keep a round bomb in the glove box, for the haters

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

I've asked the skywind community for their view on it a recent Bethesda update that screwed things up for Skyrim mods, and my takeaway was that it was basically a mixed bag, some good and some unfortunately not so good. Maybe they're just in the habit of playing extra nice with Bethesda, but maybe there's nuance below the surface.

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

Lego Robot was perhaps not a "good" webcomic, but I wouldn't call it bad either. It was a seminal piece of early internet meme history that left an indelible mark on everyone's current sense of humour whether they like it or not.

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

I don't know if I could deal with this bullshit. I work at such a small office we don't do anything but calls, faxes, and shitloads of emails. The odd side text sometimes. Adding a whole chat space thing where I'm constantly on the hook for a reply would do my head in.

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

The medium is the mess.

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

I read this from bed, and I will become a literal cenobite before I return to my office desk

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

Being good at words isn't the same as having good ideas

i.e. Hollow Knight runs fine on a trash PC

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

Oh shit you're right. There's no such thing as a societal need, everything ought to be turned into for-profit endeavors that enrich private equity! Don't just defund the police, let them compete in the free market! Let's see who has the best ideas! Let's see if we can create a quadrillionaire! Because isn't the invisible hand of the market such an inherently appealing idea that we should ignore its failures? Isn't it fun to think of an economic theory as a great filter?

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

Not my tempo 🥁

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

Billionaires and destroying the value of public media, name a more iconic duo

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

It's mellow and consistent but habit forming. If you need a way to spend either 80 hours and/or eight seconds five times a week on, get into it

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

A practical demonstration may be necessary

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

I've rarely seen anyone on Lemmy get nuked this hard for a bad take. I'm in awe.

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

I was referring to the parent comment. Sorry for the ambiguity

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

Ah damn. The down chain denouement of that one hits too close to home.

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

👂?????

Gradually_Adjusting , 1 month ago

I guarantee you that's accurate

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

It kills me to mention this but... oral sex is, I am reliably informed, an act that occurs in nature among rats, fruit bats, horses, goats, dolphins, most primates, cheetahs, lions, hyenas, sheep and cattle. There's just no way rogue humans taught it to all of them, right? God taught them that.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Ragebait doesn't deserve all this spilled ink.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

The world is never right

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Gasp

Tempting but the block page is helping remind me to stay mad at Reddit

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Truly some of the legislation of all time

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Oh fuck

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

I literally left and the weirdest thing has been how familiar it all is

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

🌅 🌆

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Get grayjay Delete your history

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

This post is the thousand words. Remove the picture, it's redundant now

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Art is a key branch of human endeavour that can be described as "the study of choice". That's what so many people misunderstand in modern art, is that it's often more focused on the choices themselves rather than trying to be a skillful representation or depiction of some kind. "That's just a ___, my kid could do that."

What is missing from every conversation about AI art is what contribution to "the study of choice" can be made here. There are a thousand variables in the choices made along the way, from which AI and training data was used, to the myriad of prompts used. I am certain that if you were thoughtfully making these choices along the way with a clear idea in mind, you'd be able to make incredibly impactful art that actually enriches us in the usual sense that good art can.

My complaint about AI here, if we will set the enormous scale of theft to one side, is simply that it is being used to create art that doesn't mean anything, which is inimical to the pursuit of art itself.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Someone really smart said it to me a few months ago and it changed my world

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

A lot of the more technical art generators seem to have a lot fewer fixed parameters. The failure to put in the effort to learn about them and make those choices is what I'd argue makes most AI art inherently worthless.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Same, Mary

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Ain't no women proud of being straight. "I have to put up with dudes to get off 💪" - nobody ever

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

I wish tone carried better in text, it was not written in earnest. But if you have to explain or defend a joke it's not a good one, so I apologize.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Sometimes I forget that when I'm writing, you can't see that I'm the butt of my own jokes

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Megustalations. I like to take risks, but I try not to make it someone else's problem either

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Thanks, it's hard! 🤪

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

I don't mind my nose elbowing into the moustache party, but why is my hairline advancing? I'm going to be Cousin It in another two decades

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

You can get specific about certain articles needing improvement, but to call all of Wikipedia generally biased without any proof seems like a pretty red lil flag

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Crazy how nature do that

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Quick, do a joke about people who lack self awareness and see if she laughs

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Google doesn't want its search to be bad? News to me

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Maximum Derek

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

This might be the most elegant description of the overall Lemmy vibe I've yet seen

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

I miss the days when you just didn't see that shit around.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Depressing, isn't it? I was more talking about how prevalent "fauxcest" has become in porn more recently. I guess that's just my cross to bear as an only child 💅

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

They've worked on it plenty. There was that... Title screen thing, back when my hair wasn't visibly greying. When was that?

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Doesn't feel awesome to agree with everything said by a guy who burned himself in protest, ngl

Edit: a lot of things anyway

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Oh thank god, nah this guy was mental

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

It's unintended consequences all the way down, isn't it