Life and Times of a Biology Major and Duran Duran fan

The Round of 32 in the Football (Soccer 😒) World Cup, versus Bosnia and Herzegovina.

#football

zessdeluxe

That's almost it for this Pride Month. Before we go, there's one more thing we'd like to show you. Please take a look:

femmenietzsche

Considerably more than I would've guessed

For too long the academic world has overlooked the contributions to geometry made by me, Steven Equilateral,

The latest Questionable Content arc to speak of is that a robot woman got drunk, and her drunk software told her a very unremarkable man was actually the hottest boy band member she's ever seen. So while still drunk, she bought herself a new body which was 2 feet taller, straighter (blonde) hair, and breasts 5x as large.

This is just the latest obnoxious chapter in the gradual bimbofication of every female character Jeph Jacques has in his repertoire. Man's mental model of femininity seems to be "has big boobs and the mental maturity of a teenager."

#questionable content

#fuckin.#another hit post from argumate #as in another post from argumate that personally hit me in the face

instead of "people pleaser" it might be better to think "disapproval fearer" if that's the emotional stick that's motivating action; important to consider at least three reasons to do something:

it's a good thing to do

I want to do the thing

people will be mad if I don't do the thing

and if 3. is the most weighty reason then that's a potential problem.

a slight variation on the "it's not X -- it's Y" construction they love so much.

AI Progress is just starting to foom so human poasters are still better than the bots for now, but weapons grade deepity porn is only a matter of months away. Maybe weeks. And people will absolutely slurp that slop until the heat death of their amygdalas, despite the fact that it contains no human wisdom at all. Because the feeling of having had an insight was always the point. The actual insight was just keeping it company.

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#I'm positive I was hearing these exact genres of Fake Deep Poasting from humans #long before I was hearing it from AI #well now the AI has learned from it #not surprising it would see that Fake Deep generates Much Engagement

AI continues to hold up a mirror to our worst poasting habits.

ambiguouspuzuma

This mindset is utterly foreign to me.

I have read both A Song of Ice and Fire and The Kingkiller Chronicle, such as they are, and am glad to have done so. It's not like they're all set-up and zero payoff. A lot happens in the books that exist. The plot covers a lot of ground, and various arcs begin and end. There's plenty of storytelling to enjoy, even without a big ending to the whole series.

The idea that you might deprive yourself a book you would otherwise enjoy, just because it doesn't have a sequel, does not make sense in my mind.

The idea that you would stop reading a series you have already started upon learning it is missing the final book, thus depriving yourself of even more sequels that already exist, makes even less sense.

The idea that you would then avoid series from an entire genre that you otherwise love, out of the fear that the sequels will stop coming, simply because they are the same genre as two series where that happened, makes even less sense.

The idea that this is such a widespread attitude that publishers are following suit and not accepting books from the same genre out of the fear that the same thing will happen? Even though in both cases the series were still a massive success and continue to sell plenty of copies?

I would rather a brilliant story not finished than a completed story which is boring. A lot of the other comments are boasting about finishing series or pointing to authors who have finished series as superior options and I just don't think that's necessarily the case. Martin and Rothfuss only frustrate readers because we want the sequels, because the other books were so enjoyable and we want more of the same, not because sequels are inherently good in themselves. It's nice to have an ending, but the rest of the story is important too.

Sorry, pause for a second,

"I got that habit after getting burned by The Wheel of Time series??"

The one that, out of all long running and highly anticipated fantasy series, famously managed to have an ending thanks to the efforts of one Brandon Q. Sanderson??

Have they missed like fifteen years' worth of memos??

It wasn't even a particularly long gap between releases! Knife of Dreams was published in 2005, Robert Jordan died in 2007, and The Gathering Storm was published in 2009! and sure, Sanderson still had two books to go after that, but it's not like anyone thought TGS would be the last one at that point, right?

#The Wheel of Time

laserwalnut

Strong as fuck ice piggy

incubator-zero

@such-justice-wow @knightoflodis

Mamaswine

#Mamaswine

emil

y'all have got to let people who did dumb bad shit learn from it and move on with their lives

emil

keeping track of one random furry's online identity because of obsessing over the shit they were involved with as a teenager is pathetic behavior and i can't believe so many people do this, like, religiously

emil

are you comfortable walking up to strangers and saying this? this is not a normal thing to add to posts.

#this is not a hypothetical example

it's perfectly on topic for this post about bad shit furries have done. This is not a hypothetical example.

superbeans89

Larry the cat has outlasted four UK prime ministers so far. We stan Larry

superbeans89

UPDATE: He’s done it everyone!

superbeans89

And again!

sighinastorm

Anyone got a current photo of the lettuce?

#He sure did turn out to be riskier than expected

Riskier Sstarmer.

blog-made-at-3am

Don't you think he looks tired.

the main thing I've learned from Taskmaster Aus is that "acting camp gay" is still novel enough to build entire comedy careers

Dare I ask which Australian comedians you were subjected to?

Joel Creasey and Josh Thomas

#also damnit I should have just called that shot at the time #something like #“garmbreak coming for Josh Thomas's entire career”#without you ever mentioning him #I would have looked so cool on the internet

How did I know with near 100% certainty you were going to say Josh Thomas?

the main thing I've learned from Taskmaster Aus is that "acting camp gay" is still novel enough to build entire comedy careers

Dare I ask which Australian comedians you were subjected to?

animalphotorefs

Species Update: Capybara!

That's right folks, it's the photos from Operation Babybara are now live.

There are now a few hundred photos of adorable baby capybara on the repository page for the species! But I can't just say they're up and not show you immediately...

For those just tuning in, the trip to photograph the cute potatoes was completely funded by the site's incredibly dedicated - and apparently capybara obsessed - supporters.

See the rest here:

The Animal Photo Reference Repository is an independent, permanently open-access project and funded entirely by donations. Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use all photos in the repository as references.

**Patreon** -- **Ko-Fi**

#cute animals

a nil-all draw? don't you mean "as it didn't happen"

Some nil-nil draws are more exciting than others.

ouroborosorder

i love reddit so fucking much