Not A Pony

"I drew an internet once" Bi, Biracial furry trash artist

[bogleech]

The degree to which modern fans deliberately project their personal psychological issues onto fictional characters is alarming.

You are expected to "relate" to some characters and stories. Yes. That is not the same thing I keep witnessing, where people will decide a given character is literally everything they are the very instant they have anything in common, or an antagonist is exactly like a real person who hurt them, and emotionally invest SO much into this that they can feel actually betrayed when the events deviate from exactly the catharsis they hoped for.

This seems so normalized by some people, I suspect they assume by default that this is basically what fiction is "for" and it never even crossed their minds that you're supposed to enjoy most stories as an outside observer rather than as some sort of guided roleplay session.

This is why creators get harassed and abused more than ever by entitled fandoms.

No, it's not normal, you are not supposed to think of it that way, fictional characters are separate beings from you.

[violentoffender]

[donutdrawsthings]

I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.

but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs

[sunset-sunbun]

@otiksimr

you and your beasts.

[otiksimr]

me and my beasts.

[garnetgoddess]

@cinemamind

[cinemamind]

[fipindustries]

ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten

[mint-corset]

Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.

[such-justice-wow]

Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch

[lectorel]

Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are

[domina-honoribila]

I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.

[teaboot]

"Is this what you want? Is this ugly stupid bullcrap what you want??" the biggest loudest idiot in the room asks, holding up a picture of the hottest looking shit I've ever seen

[maculategiraffe]

it is very instructive to play both silent hill and resident evil videogames because they are very similar except for how silent hill is good and resident evil is stupid. it helps you figure out what is stupid in a video game and what is good

for example, in silent hill games, you are confronted with many weird baroque puzzles you have to solve to proceed, because that is the dark and creepy and confrontational nature of the world you are in. in resident evil games, you are confronted with weird baroque puzzles you have to solve because apparently, separate from and unrelated to the ongoing zombie apocalypse, the raccoon city designers designed the subway station map so that if you insert a red jewel into the correct diamond shaped recess, a drawer opens that contains a live hand grenade

[bogleech]

In the novelizations of the original two Resident Evil games, which came out before the series left Raccoon City or Umbrella corp, the author's own justification for all this was that the puzzles were commissioned by the same paranoid rich CEO who gave bored company engineers and scientists limitless budget and creative control to protect his evil secrets as obtusely as possible. So basically a delusional billionaire gathered a bunch of amoral computer nerds and told them "while you're farming artisinal lizard demons for the army, I need you to make it as confusing and difficult as you possibly can for anyone to get in and out of my office alive" and I guess their autism lit up like a blazing star with a free ticket to design a real world lucasarts adventure game. This is implied later in the book to be exactly the reason why none of them made it out alive.

[cinemamind]

Killer Klowns From Outer Space✨💫

[afloweroutofstone]

This is the first time in my life when it's actually fair to criticize the President for gas prices. I've spent so many years explaining to people that Presidents have pretty limited influence over the price of oil and that they do not have a magical lower-gas-prices button on their desk, I almost forgot that the President does actually have a raise-gas-prices button on their desk called "start a war with Iran for no reason"

[doubleca5t]

I would argue that the two most perfect critiques of Harry Potter come from a pair of 4chan posts, which take opposite approaches to their critique but reach equally damning conclusions

[bogleech]

What fucking happened that the post 2000s internet generation is Like That about breasts now. I've seen animations criticized as gratuitous and objectifying because a boob bounced about 10% as much as a real one would. "Back breaking impossible anatomy" accusations over breasts smaller than those of half the people I know. The word "goonerbait" thrown at a character design having any cleavage line present at all.

And I've seen the same shit thrown at real people for how they dress or move in videos.

Pure spite is tempting me to start being as much a boobies artist as a creatures artist. Well, pure spite and the fact that boobs are awesome and great, that too.

[shamebats]

Cats getting caught doing crimes

[flipocrite]

it takes quite a bit of social intelligence for a creature to understand:

I know what I am doing is wrong

I know there is an activity that looks similar that is not wrong

If I am quick I can plausibly pass one off as the other

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

these cats are displaying remarkable theory of mind skills by not only registering that the humans can perceive them but actively trying to manipulate that perception! that requires one to be aware that other individuals have complicated interior thoughts of their own, to know that those thoughts are not always based on truth, and to quickly decide on the best possible “lie” for the situation. this is why I despise animal intelligence tasks based on obedience— some of the most clever moments stem from intelligent disobedience.

[roisheep]

[bogleech]

[bogleech]

[bogleech]

"you only deserve food and shelter if you contribute to society" says people living in countries where nobody's labor actually feeds or benefits their neighbors anymore but exclusively benefits the companies keeping the food and shelter behind the artificial paywalls

You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts

And even the oldest societies on earth all took care of the elderly or sick anyway

[caroline-vibecheck]

dudes will be like "if you don't Contribute To Society you don't get to live, that's the simple facts" meanwhile their job is like Marketing and Brand Development Specialist

[kat4884]

the gooners

they’re everywhere

[felixcloud6288]

Dat's right boss. Now just tell us what ya need and we'll get it done boss.

[quadtator-lawful-evil]

who needs ta sleep with da fishes boss

[bananapudding752]

sorry bawss, I was too busy searchin up da anime girls boss. real pretty.

[felixcloud6288]

Forget dem anime goils. Dere only temporary. But da boss is forever. Right boss?

[hellsitegenetics]

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[felixcloud6288]

Da boss got turned into a butterfly!!

[pfaugh]

Wadda bea-utiful transformation, boss. goes to show youse gotta preciate the lil things in life

[hraeiou]

ay boss congrats on da metamoiphosis

[shencomix]

[c-rowlesdraws]

I've been playing Silksong and my love for Hornet burns brighter day by day. She'll meet a stranger on the road, politely introduce herself, and tell them gravely and sincerely that she's concerned for their safety in this dangerous land, and that she hopes they keep well. And then she'll take out a fantasy 4Loko from under her cloak, chug the whole thing, crush the can against her forehead, and fling herself off of a cliff into the subterranean lair of Mother Fucker Unlimited, a monster six times her size, slaughter him and a dozen of his most annoying friends, black out, wake up an hour later on the cold ground, drag herself back up onto her feet, and do it all again.

[bogleech]

The same kind of algorithms that let "AI" bots respond so convincingly and simulate another person can still run off a set of data that would fit in one single computer, rather than constantly communicating in the background with a giant baby-eating water-poisoning monstrosity. It would just limit that single bot's pool of knowledge and memory, you know, like how a brain actually works anyway. If you just want a simulation of one fictional character, it does not need access to the entire internet's sum of knowledge every 15 seconds. It doesn't need to also know everything ever written about geopolitics or space engineering. It would in fact be super fun to suddenly be surrounded by machines that can simulate chit-chat like the fun sci-fi space computers can, if they weren't forced to operate as global spyware hiveminds. I would not mind a little robot that just contains the basics of conversation and 10 terabytes of knowledge on one singular topic. That's what we should be making. That's how you avert Terminator 2 Judgment Day. Lots of little hyperfocus robots instead of one big hitlerfocus robot.

[bogleech]

Arbitrarily adding a "smart device" to every household appliance SHOULD mean that a cheap $60 off brand roomba with no wi fi can, if prompted, tell you all about your floor dirt and critical floor dirt facts and how maybe you could do my part to keep so much floor dirt from accumulating in the first place in a cute little robot voice, which I bet would actually help people remember to take care of things they purchase and be more mindful of how they live anyway.

But if someone asks it about the stock market or business advice or to write them a book report it should say something "buddy I'm the vacuum cleaner."

That's the future I was promised by the Jetsons and it is not only already possible, but technically a more limited "downgrade" of nonsense like chatgpt so where the hell is it. Where's my lamp that can hold a simple conversation as long as it is about being a lamp.